ALICE IN CHAINS YOUR DECISION MAKING OF

Thought you might enjoy checking this out. I've been enjoying the crap out of JSE playing No decsion and I figured you'd be into this video of Alice In Chains talking about the new song

Freebird WITH COWBELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/23/will-ferrell-free-bird-vi_n_433975.html

Jay Leno's an asshole and it's a no brainer that America rallied behind Conan for
this late night war. We love an underdog right? Well so does Will Ferrell, Beck, Ben Harper, and Billy Gibbons from ZZ TOP. They tore through Freebird, and it was amazing. I mean, Will Ferrell can't sing, but it didn't matter. it was fitting, emotional, and at the end, there was even a little COWBELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I gotta have more cowbell

Dick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andy Dick is in trouble again. Remember a few years ago when he got his ass kicked by Jon Lovits?




HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Actor and comedian Andy Dick has been charged with two felony counts of sexual abuse in West Virginia.

Dick was arraigned Saturday afternoon in Cabell County Magistrate Court. Court documents say he's accused of grabbing a bouncer's crotch and groping and kissing a male patron earlier in the morning at a bar in Huntington. Magistrate Patty Verbage Spence set bail at $60,000.

"Andy is stunned by these allegations and we are strongly denying any criminal conduct," Dick's attorney, Jeff Rubenstein, said in a statement.

Spence set a Feb. 2 hearing for the 44-year-old Dick, who was in Huntington to perform at the Funny Bone Comedy Club. Funny Bone managing partner Tom Schaefer posted Dick's bail and said Dick is "absolutely still on the schedule for Saturday and Sunday."

The Purple Reign Is Over

Even though Prince did the half time show at Superbowl 41, he just doesn't seem like a big football fan. He was in Minnesota for the Vikings big win over the Cowboys but looking like I do at family dinners. Turns out he was so moved by the Vikings win, he went home and wrote Purple and Gold. Too bad the song had only one week before it turned sour. The Vikings season ended last night thanks to a loss to the New Orleans Saints

Freedom of Speech?

A few weeks ago I said that only the Papparazzi can make me root for Axl Rose. At this point, I'd hold someones camera while they stomped the snot out of the red headed step child. Read below


According to TMZ, GUNS N' ROSES fans were forced to take sides in the legendary war between Axl Rose and Slash - after security at a recent GNR show banned fans from wearing Slash gear inside the show.

It all went down at the GNR show in Canada last Wednesday - concert security informed fans that they were required to turn their Slash t-shirts inside out .... and leave their top hats outside.

TMZ spoke with a member of the concert security team who confirmed the marching orders - and told us the instructions were passed down from a producer for the band.

We're told a few fans took the high road and went home ... but most just sucked it up and did what they were told.

It's All About The Name

DONT SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU ABOUT THE VIDEO


When I first heard about Ozzy calling his album Soul Sucka, I was immediately struck with flashbacks to that horrendous period of time when the metal god sang with both Busta Ryhmes and the Wu Tang Clan. Now there's no evidence that Ozzy's going urban, but now at least there's nothing to make you think that way


Ozzy Osbourne may not be planning a Black Sabbath reunion, but he is in the final stages of recording his next solo album. The disc was originally titled Soul Sucka, but Ozzy recently changed his mind about that. “When we put that on the Internet none of my fan base liked the title,” says Osbourne. “They were like, ‘I can’t imagine me walking around the fucking house with the words ‘Soul Sucka’ on my T-shirt.’ So I was like, ‘Fuck it. I’ve got to come up with something else!’ ” The now untitled set is due out in July, the same month Osbourne says that Ozzfest will return after a one-year break. “After Ozzfest I’m doing the most extensive tour of my life,” he says. “It’ll be something like, 3,025 dates.”

WTF Billy Corgan?????????????????

http://www.myspace.com/smashingpumpkins


This is the new Smashing Pumpkins single. All I'll say is that a Smashing Pumpkins with only Billy Corgan is pretty much the same as Axl Rose being the only guy in "Guns and Roses"

NEW STP ALBUM DONE

Below is an article with the DeLeo brothers about the new STP album. That is a beautiful fucking thing to type


In 2008, San Diego alt-rockers Stone Temple Pilots ended a five-year split and reunited for a massive U.S. tour, kicking off with a rockin' extravaganza at Harry Houdini's old Hollywood mansion. And then the magic really started to happen: the quartet began jamming during sound checks and soon had an album's worth of demos.

This May, STP -- singer Scott Weiland, bassist Robert DeLeo, guitarist Dean DeLeo, and drummer Eric Kretz -- will return with a new yet-to-be titled album, their first since 2001's Shangri-La Dee Da. To get the 411 on how the recording process was coming, we rang up the main songwriting force behind the band: the DeLeo Bros.

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..Here the siblings discuss the hardships and awards of reuniting, Wii bowling, Weiland's sobriety, and the '60s vibe of STP's upcoming album. "If [fans] are expecting another 'Plush,' they are going to be let down," says Dean DeLeo.

Where are you guys in the recording process now?
Dean DeLeo: We're done recording and will start mixing Monday.

Robert DeLeo: Yep, we just finished the last two songs at my home studio, and we're going through the editing process and getting everything sounding tasty. A gentleman by the name of Chris Lord-Alge, who actually mixed a song of ours back in early 2000 called "All in the Suit That You Wear," will mix the new album.

What should fans expect from this record?
Robert: Fans are going get a great STP record. We know what STP sounds like -- we have a sonic blueprint. It's always worked for me to put myself in the ears of the listener. I ask myself, "What kind of STP record would I want to hear?" The answer is a really cohesive record with songs that are going to be lasting. Fans don't necessarily want to hear songs from me being the best person I can be. Those songs are for a solo record. STP fans don't want that side of me. This band is attractive because we bring it to the edge of a cliff and write songs that have attitude.

Can you tell me about a few songs from the album?
Robert: There's a song called "Between the Lines," which musically is like Paul Revere and the Raiders, with that '60s sound that I've always been a fan of. It's a '60s rockin' basher! There's another song called "Huckleberry Crumble." It's funny: these were actually working titles from when Dean, Eric [Kretz], and I were writing the music at Eric's studio. Scott has gravitated toward them and we're officially using those titles, "Huckleberry Crumble" included. [Faux British accent]: "And it's another good rocker baby!"

Does STP have traditions or pastimes in the studio? Or is there anything you can't live without while recording?
Robert: If you have your laptop you're set. We have a good work ethic in the studio -- and it's a lot of work. You're writing, arranging, producing, and paying attention to the tones and sounds, and making the best record you can.

Dean: We've made a few records in houses and there's usually a tennis court or a pool. One time we filled up a pool with lime jello and jumped in naked. Another time we played tennis on horseback. This time we got really into Wii bowling! Eric's studio is in the dregs of downtown Los Angeles, and there were three things to pass the time when we weren't working: a pool table, a ping-pong table, or Wii bowling. And the Wii bowling really grabbed us, man.

SOUNDGARDEN Getting closer

Below is an article about what might become the biggest tour of 2010


Soundgarden for Sonisphere?
By Alan Davies
Sunday, 17 January, 2010
12:45 PM

REFORMED rock band Soundgarden are rumoured for this year’s Sonisphere Festival at Knebworth House.


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Sonisphere Festival at KnebworthThe Seattle grunge legends – contemporaries of Nirvana and Pearl Jam in the 90s – got back together on New Year’s Day after a 12-year hiatus.

And this week’s NME says Chris Cornell and Co are talking to Sonisphere organisers.

Soundgarden are also rumoured for the touring festival on website www.efestivals.co.uk, along with Megadeth.

Best known for Grammy Award-winning single Black Hole Sun, the American quartet went their separate ways in 1997.

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Lead singer Cornell later formed Audioslave and then embarked on a solo career, with mixed results.

However, his solo effort You Know My Name was used in the James Bond film Casino Royale, Daniel Craig’s first outing as 007.

Cornell announced on January 1 that he was getting back together with lead guitarist Kim Thayil, drummer Matt Cameron and bassist Ben Shepherd and there would be a Soundgarden reunion this year, although no firm details of where they will be playing have been revealed yet.

Cameron is also the permanent drummer for alternative rockers Pearl Jam, who are playing Hard Rock Calling in London’s Hyde Park on June 25 and a string of dates across Europe in early July.

British heavy metal giants Iron Maiden and German band Rammstein have already been confirmed as headliners for the three-day Sonisphere Festival taking place within Knebworth’s grounds from July 30 to August 1.

Others on the bill include the legendary Alice Cooper, who will close the Saturn stage on the Friday night, British alt-rockers Placebo, thrash metal acts Slayer and Anthrax, Papa Roach, The Cult, Mötley Crüe and Iggy & The Stooges.

Last year’s inaugural Sonisphere Festival at Knebworth saw the likes of Metallica, Linkin Park, Nine Inch Nails, Heaven &

A Sneak Peak At Serj Tankian's New Album

Is It Just Me Or...................

Does Mickey Morandini look exactley like Glass Joe. Saw him the other night on MLB TV and then played Punch Out. Got Me Thinking

A sneak peak at the Gracious Few

If Candlebox lead singer Kevin Martin's voice was a vagina, I would sleep with it. I'm in love with the way this guy sings and I'm straight, I think. Anywayn the fact that teh last Candlebox album Into the Sun from 2008 didnt get any airplay is a disgrace but the music machine seems to be behind Martin's super group the Gracious few, which is basically him with live behind him

A little taste of Aaron Lewis Solo

Korn doing Radioheads Creep

Well I'm thinking you'll either love this or listen once and never forgive me

Two amazing voices

I spent my senior year of high school at the corner deli playing Hacky Sack to Life of Agony's River runs Red album. Keith Caputo has one of the best voices in metal and singing next to Corey Taylor from Slipknot/Stone Sour it sound amazing.

Lemonheads Evan Dando Solo A Tour

Evan Dando, singer, songwriter, and guitarist of The Lemonheads, will be setting out on a solo tour in early 2010 that begins January 29 at Maxwell's in Hoboken and wraps up March 6 back in New York at Mercury Lounge. See all current dates below.

Evan will be performing an intimate set featuring songs from his solo album and plenty of classic Lemonheads tunes along with several inspired covers, including some from his most recent covers album, Varshons (06/09, The End Records).

Produced by Butthole Surfers ringleader Gibby Haynes, Varshons was inspired by mix tapes that Gibby used to send to Evan. The collection is filled with strange bedfellows - from G.G. Allin to Texas troubadour Townes Van Zandt and garage rockers The Green Fuz. The Lemonheads make each track their own, with help from actress Liv Tyler, singing back up on Leonard Cohen's "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye," and Kate Moss, who sings over the dance groove of Arling & Cameron's "Dirty Robot," which also features lead guitar by John Perry on loan from The Only Ones.

Supporting Evan will be The Candles, the first solo project from Josh Lattanzi, encapsulating the varied styles and influences he's picked up while recording and touring with the likes of Ben Kweller, Albert Hammond, Jr. (The Strokes) and the Lemonheads. With the first significant free time he had in years, Lattanzi began the process of crafting his debut in June 2008, writing and recording demos in his New York City apartment. The recording process then moved to a studio in Celeste, TX and the album was finished in NYC this past Spring. The west coast sounds of the seventies that snaked like a vine from Gram Parsons through Evan Dando and Ryan Adams nestle up nicely to Lattanzi on such tunes as "Let Me Down Easy" and "Between The Sounds" while "Here Or Gone" finds the singer delivering a big "roll down the car windows" chorus that would make Tom Petty smile. Between the Sounds, the debut album from The Candles, will be available in Spring 2010.

Evan Dando on tour (with The Candles):

Jan 29 – Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwell's
Jan 30 – New York, NY @ Joe's Pub
Jan 31 – Bordentown, NJ @ The Record Collector Store
Feb 03 – Allston, MA @ Great Scott
Feb 04 – Northampton, MA @ Iron Horse Music Hall
Feb 05 – Philadelphia, PA @ M Room
Feb 06 – Arlington, VA @ IOTA Club & Café
Feb 09 – Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall
Feb 10 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt
Feb 11 – Gainesville, FL @ Common Grounds
Feb 12 – Tampa, FL @ Crowbar
Feb 13 – Orlando, FL @ The Backbooth
Feb 16 – St. Louis, MO @ Old Rock House
Feb 17 – Indianapolis, IN @ Radio Radio
Feb 18 – Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre
Feb 19 – Chicago, IL @ Double Door
Feb 20 – Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar
Feb 21 – Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
Feb 23 – Dallas, TX @ The Prophet Bar
Feb 24 – Austin, TX @ Emo's Alternative Lounging (Outdoor)
Feb 27 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hotel Café
Feb 28 – San Francisco, CA @ Café Du Nord
Mar 03 – Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
Mar 06 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge

Yet Another Supergroup. Not Exactley Velvet Revolver

Snow Patrol and REM??????????????????????

A new phenomenon has hit Scotland as of late — frontmen of high-profile outfits collaborating with members of other equally high-profile outfits for new solo albums and side-projects. After all, fresh off the news that that Travis frontman Fran Healy had rounded up Paul McCartney and Neko Case for his forthcoming solo debut, comes words of a new project started by Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody.

As Paste explains, Lightbody has teamed up with R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, Belle and Sebastian drummer Richard Coburn, Iain Archer and his wife, singer Miriam Kaufman for a brand “country-tinged” new band called Tired Pony.

The group is currently recording in a studio in Portland, Oregon with acclaimed producer Garret “Jacknife” Lee. What’s more, according to Lightbody’s blog on the Snow Patrol website, one more unannounced musical superstar is slated to appear on the record. However, no specific details have been finalized.

And if that wasn’t enough, Paste also notes that Lightbody has already made plans for another side-project with Lee, this one an electronic project called Listen…Tanks!. A sample of what Lightbody describes as “Russian submarine music” can be heard here.

Whoooooo Are Yoooooooooouuuuuuuu

Alice In Wonderland Soundtrack Full Of Pop-Punk Like Avril, All-American Rejects,

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland is usually associated with psychotropic drugs and psychedelic rock, not pop punk. But that looks like it could change with the soundtrack to Tim Burton's upcoming film adaptation of Alice In Wonderland.

It's only appropriate that Burton — whose films are pretty trippy —will direct a film version of Alice In Wonderland. But things get curiouser and curiouser when you consider that the soundtrack, which will be released as Almost Alice, features original tunes performed by Avril Lavigne, Franz Ferdinand, Wolfmother, Mark Hoppus and Pete Wentz.

To be sure, there's a version of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" by Vermont's Grace Potter And The Nocturnals, but for the most part the entire thing is pop punk.

The soundtrack is out March 2, two days before the film hits theatres. Burton's movie features an interesting cast comprised of Mia Wasikowska (Amelia, Defiance) as Alice, Johnny Depp (Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Edward Scissorhands) as the Mad Hatter, Burton's girlfriend Helena Bonham Carter (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, Fight Club) as the Red Queen, Anne Hathaway (The Princess Diaries, Rachel Getting Married) as the White Queen, Alan Rickman (Harry Potter, Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves) as the Caterpillar and Stephen Fry (A Fish Called Wanda, V For Vendetta) as the Cheshire Cat.

Here are the artists and songs on Almost Alice, the Alice In Wonderland soundtrack:

Avril Lavigne — "Alice (Underground)"
The All-American Rejects — "The Poison"
Owl City — "The Technicolor Phase"
Shinedown — "Her Name Is Alice"
All Time Low — "Painting Flowers"
Metro Station — "Where's My Angel"
Tokio Hotel And Kerli — "Strange"
3OH!3 featuring Neon Hitch — "Follow Me Down"
Robert Smith — "Very Good Advice"
Mark Hoppus And Pete Wentz — "Welcome To Mystery"
Kerli — "Tea Party"
Franz Ferdinand — "The Lobster Quadrille"
Motion City Soundtrack — "Running Out Of Time"
Wolfmother — "Fell Down A Hole"
Grace Potter And The Nocturnals — "White Rabbit"

System of A Down Reunion?

System Of A Down bassist Shavo Odadjia has hinted that the rockers may be reuniting this year.

The band have not been active since 2006 – but Odadjia posted a message on his Twitter page, Twitter.com/officialshavo, suggesting that a comeback may be on the cards.

"Are u guys ready for System???" he wrote.

Rumours of a System Of A Down reunion have abound at various points since they went on hiatus. Frontman Serj Tankian embarked on a solo career, while last November three of the band members joined Deftones on stage together in Hollywood for a benefit gig for Deftones bassist Chi Cheng, who is currently hospitalised.

Big Mac? Big Deal

Mark McGuire saved baseball. That's not my opinion. He saved the game by breaking the most beloved record in the history of the sport. The Homerun saved baseball in 1920 when the White Sox scandal ruined the games reputation. When greed and corruption became so bad in baseball in 1994, the sport suffered it's biggest indignity by seeing it's World Series cancelled. In 1998, Mark McGuire did not look like a regular guy. He had veins sticking out of his skin, biceps bulging through his uniform, and a superhuman frame. We watched anyway. Bud Selig saw the same thing we did. Nobody said anything. Sure the media tried. Mac said the word Androsteen and we all swallowed it and rushed back to the T. V. so we wouldn't miss number 62. The public needed Mark McGuire to help them believe in baseball again. Now the public is shocked? Either everybody is seeing impaired, mildly retarded, or full of crap. Mark McGuire looked like he could hoolah hoop through a cheerio in his rookie season. He also hit 49 home runs in that season for all of those who scoff that at the statement that he didn't help him that much. I believe that Mac and Sosa saw a lot of meatballs in 98. The home runs brought interest back into the game . People are so pathetic when it comes to this subject. Gaylord Perry bragged about scuffing the ball and how it got him into the Hall Of Fame? Why is there no outrage? Because anybody can scuff the ball. To a 300 lb slob who's wolfing down a chili cheese dog during the night shift in his taxi cab, hearing that Mac did steroids is his justification as to why it was McGuire and not HIM that hit 70 home runs. Mark McGuire is the biggest reason many of us even watch baseball again. We all suspended disbelief so we could enjoy what he did. To say you are shocked? Come on. Thanks Mac. What you did for this sport was huge. Too bad memories are so short and convoluted