School for the Dead – Disgruntled Lover
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A brilliant DIY video made with just a sketch book, pen, and some toys.
School for the Dead present their latest video, “Disgruntled Lover”, from A Telephone Built for Two. Get the song from itunes now: tinyurl.com or visit www.rubwrongways.com for more info and full albums.
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August Burns Red “Marianas Trench” (Dir. Robby Starbuck)
Animated by Mr. Tobias Stretch.
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These New Puritans – “Attack Music” / Director: Matthew Stone
These New Puritans ‘Attack Music’, the second single from the album ‘Hidden’.
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Paris Hilton Reminds You She’s Still Alive With A New Song
Apparently, Paris Hilton still thinks of herself as something other than tabloid fodder. (Actually, she’s not much of that anymore, either.) The heiress recently uploaded a snippet of a song called “I Need You,” which means she’s either bored enough to leak leftovers from her self-titled debut album, or — worse — she’s managed to find the motivation to record another one. Satisfy your curiosity over just how wrecked the Hilton train is after the jump.
Paris Hilton – “I Need You”
“I Need You” was written and produced by Paris Hilton, Scott Green, and Simon Wilcox, which means it took three people to create a song so boring, we’ve already forgotten what it even sounds like and we just listened to it ourselves. Do we even need to point out how weak and nondescript Paris’ voice sounds on this bland track? We’re not surprised “I Need You” isn’t the next #1 hit, but if the undeniably catchy “Stars Are Blind” is any indication, it proves that not everything Paris touches is an automatic fail.
Hey, at least she seems to have the eensiest bit more dignity and grace than other blonde bubblehead Heidi Pratt, who is going to continue being a recording artist even if it leads her to the poor house.
’80s stars Hall & Oates back in spotlight (Reuters)
Reuters – When Greg Kurstin, half of esoteric Los Angeles pop duo the Bird and the Bee, speaks of Hall & Oates, it’s in a reverent tone usually reserved for devout believers meeting a major religious figure.
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Bamboozle Left fans see lots of smoke but little musical fire
Just after commenting on the profligacy of marijuana smoke in the audience at Bamboozle Left festival on Saturday, Circa Survive singer Anthony Green had a stoner revelation of his own.
“Look over there, it’s the moon and the sun, both up there at once,” he said, to the general bemusement of the experimental rock band’s fans. “It’s a battle, and the darkness is winning.”
The encroaching bleakness of night seemed an apt descriptor of the state of emo at Bamboozle Left. The genre has, in recent years, become shorthand for pretty much any kind of earnest, fashion-addled rock music made for teenagers (heck, even the rapper 50 Cent headlined last year’s installment).
But with a few exceptions, the first night of the weekend-long sugar rush at Angel Stadium felt wearily monochromatic. Anaheim fans might have reason to feel especially begrudged. The version of the festival hitting New Jersey in May has, quite simply, a vastly more interesting lineup, with headliners including Paramore, the rapper Drake, prog-synth weirdos MGMT and bespangled pop tart Ke$ha. As fan-beloved as veterans like the operatically self-loathing Say Anything and glam-goth stalwarts AFI are, the Anaheim edition felt like it was curated by an emo algorithm. And a seriously uninspiring undercard left little reason to show up before sundown, save for the ever-peppy street punk of the Bouncing Souls.
But once Bamboozle turned itself over to wanton arena-rock impulses, things got a bit better. Circa Survive was the find of the festival, and its forthcoming major-label debut “Blue Sky Noise” feels like a crossover hit. Even if Green vastly overestimates the appeal of his falsetto, his band plays a fanged and freaky take on hardcore that pulls from prog-rock, metalcore, early D.C. punk and a dozen other micro-niches to be fought over on message boards. They lack the acidic sex appeal of the Blood Brothers, but they share an omnivorousness and attention to detail.
Noel Gallagher Goes Solo, Suede Reunite For Teenage Cancer Trust 2010
Oasis is over (again), we paid our respects in a dignified manner, that brings us to the next chapter in the Brothers Gallagher. Last night at the Royal Albert Hall the spotlight was on Noel alone, though I’m sure he allowed a little to shine on former Oasis guitarist Gem Archer and the 50-plus Crouch End Choir, all of whom pitched into the elder Gallagher’s big solo reveal. Not that there were any new solo songs revealed, mind — according to the BBC Noel said “this was not the right time or place.”. He did promise that new songs are on the way and that they are “brilliant,” which, of course he did. Those attending heard a 17-song Oasis setlist, all but one from the ’90s. According to the BBC the crowd ate up every note, citing middle-aged women and men with paunches swaying in drunken reverie, singing each word, giving an affectionate stroke to an ego that’s doing fine on its own. But the man has written some jams, many of which he played last night, listed here sequentially:
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