The Weakerthans have posted the new video from their acclaimed 2007 album, Reunion Tour.
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Category: Music
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The Weakerthans: "Tournament of Hearts"
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Metallica Kills Early Reviews of Upcoming Album
Oh, Metallica, why can’t you get it right? The band seemed to have learned somewhat from the dark days of the Napster debacle by offering fans online access to pre-release material and in-studio video footage, but now it has apparently unleashed another potentially damaging fiasco upon itself by forcing bloggers to take down reviews of their upcoming album.
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Emo kids are under attack. Are they scapegoats or sinners?
Should we be scared of emo? The Daily Mail says so. After the suicide of the 13-year-old emo schoolgirl Hannah Bond, who hanged herself in her bedroom in Essex last September, a series of headlines have screamed: “Why no child is safe from the sinister cult of emo”, while accusing the American emo band My Chemical Romance of encouraging suicide. Across Latin America it’s even worse. Emo kids are subject to violent attacks, prejudice and media abuse. This gloomy, gothic teenage rock cult, which began 20 years ago in America, has never been so controversial.
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Music For Maniacs
The Web’s longest-running strange-music blog! Dedicated to extremes in music and utterly unique sounds.
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Punknews.org | Ian Mackaye, Mike Watt, Legs McNeil in "I Need That Record" documentary
I Need That Record, a new documentary aims to look at the problems facing independent record stores throughout North America. The film focuses on why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the U.S. in the past decade. The film uses found footage, expository voice over, talking head interviews with artists, musicians, retail owners, and animation to tell the story.
The film also features commentary from many notable figures including Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth/ Ecstatic Peace! Label, Ian Mackaye of Dischord Records Fugazi/Minor Threat/Teen Idles, Chris Frantz of the Talking Heads, Pat Carney of the Black Keys, Mike Watt of the Minutemen/reunited Stooges, Patterson Hood of The Drive By Truckers, Noam Chomsky, guitar composer Glenn Branca, punk author Legs McNeil, rock photographer Bob Gruen, Bryan Poole guitarist of Of Montreal, Numero Records, Rhino Records, Bloodshot Records, United Record Press (the largest vinyl plant in the U.S.),
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Alkaline Trio: "In Vain"
Alkaline Trio have posted the first song from their upcoming Epic debut. The record is due out July 01, 2008 follows 2005’s Crimson.
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Mexico Declares War On Emo – Exclaim News
Chances are if you aren’t emo, you hate emo. But you likely don’t hate this straight-haired, massacre-lined subculture as much as the Mexicans do. In recent weeks, a wave of emo bashings has swept across Mexico, several news agencies have reported, fuelled by punks, rockabillies, goths, metalheads and basically anyone who’s not emo.
According to Daniel Hernandez, who’s been covering the anti-emo riots on his blog Intersections, the violence began March 7, when an estimated 800 young people poured into the Mexican city of Queretaro’s main plaza “hunting” for emo kids to pummel. Then the following weekend similar violence occurred in Mexico City at the Glorieta de Insurgents, a central gathering space for emos. Hernandez also reports that several anti-emo riots have now also spread to various other Mexican cities. Via the Austin American Statesmen, several postings on Mexican social-networking sites, primarily organising spot for these “emo hunts,” have been dug up and translated. One states: “I HATE EMOS!!! They are not even people, they are so stupid, they cry over meaningless things… My school is infested with them, I want to kill them all!”
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Beck and Chris Jordan – Time Bomb – Horses Think
Beck and Chris Jordan have collaborated on a music video using still images from Jordan’s Running the Numbers series.
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Russian Arms Dealer Arrested in Thailand – washingtonpost.com
U.S. officials said today they will seek extradition of an infamous Russian arms dealer known as the “merchant of death” who was lured out of hiding and arrested in Thailand in an intricate sting by the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Viktor Bout, a former Soviet air force officer who has multiple aliases, has been hit with numerous international and U.S. financial sanctions for his longtime role as a suspected arms dealer to some of the world’s most notorious terrorist and insurgency groups, including al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Good Morning, Mr. Kokomo (mp3s)
At exactly three forty-five on September 19, 1957, unemployed organ grinder Bob Hannon entered RCA Studio 4 and made monkey history with this two-sided tribute to Today Show Animal Editor Kokomo, Jr. the Talking Chimpanzee.
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Guitar Hero: Aerosmith – The Head of Alfredo Garcia » Revolution $
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Guitar Hero: Aerosmith has just been announced. I am currently experiencing a wide range of emotions about this, from pensive ambivalence to mild curiosity.
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Anvil: Lick My Love Pump, eh?
:Last week at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the surprise hit was a music documentary called ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL, the story of which can be summed up as “Spinal Tap in Real Life” (Stonehenge even makes an appearance). Anvil, who die-hard late-80s metal fans (and possibly no one else) will recall as precursors to Megadeth and Slayer (and contemporaries of the Scorpions and Whitesnake), never “made it” like many of their peers and acolytes- yet they have soldiered on, playing the rawk for 35 years.
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WFMU's Beware of the Blog: Tony Rettman on Detroit Hardcore
WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: Tony Rettman on Detroit Hardcore: “And, after educating yourself on the impressive history of Touch and Go Magazine, the Necros and Negative Approach, be sure to peep Elisa’s list for yourself. Not only does the Magik Markers guitarist-vocalist give mention to one of my favorite novels (the gleaming tale of suburban disquiet, Revolutionary Road), she rustles up a fine collection of personal and cultural touchstones for your mind before you peace-out ‘07 for good.”
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larrylivermore.com: At Gilman Street
larrylivermore.com: At Gilman Street: “The MTX song pokes gentle fun at the Gilman purists, of whom I was undeniably one. ‘And if you’ve got nothing better to do, there’s a meeting every Sunday afternoon, you can talk about skinheads at the show, you can vote on whether you’re gonna vote, and you can make a speech, you can rant, you can rave, you can preach…’ Anyone who ever sat through one of those seemingly interminable meetings – sometimes they’d have to postpone the show for an hour because we were still voting on whether we were gonna vote’ – will recognize that picture.
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Punknews.org | H2O signs to Bridge 9
Punknews.org | H2O signs to Bridge 9: I always have to link to posts about the hardcore band H2O, because the reader comments under the article are always so vicious.
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Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Heavy Metal in Baghdad: “A Fundraiser For The Iraqi Band Acrassicauda”
(Via Very Young Millionaire.)
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Maiden India
From The Observer:
When Britain’s hardiest metal band played their first Indian gig, Ed Vulliamy joined them and their fans for a frank discussion of war, economics – and music
Whereas a Maiden audience in Europe tends to be what Valerie Potter of Metal Hammer magazine calls ‘a family outing, father and son perhaps’, the crowd tonight are almost all in their twenties and there are more girls than there would be in the West. It becomes clear that in India it is frowned upon for a Maiden fan to like any other band. There is particular loathing for Ozzy Osbourne, regarded by Payal Bal as ‘a sell-out. Nothing to do with metal. It’s got to be Maiden and only Maiden.’
‘We may listen to other music, and we all fall in love, but that’s not the point,’ says Alidya Hara. ‘We can get our love songs from any of the others. From Maiden we can get what we really feel – pent-up aggression, the right questions.’
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MP3 Truffles: Hurt Me Hurt Me But the Pants Stay On
WFMU’s Beware the Blog:
This week’s favorite find is Teezar. Who are Teezar? Well, if you take Joe Stumble’s word for it, they are the best hard rock band you never heard of, a pair of trailer-living nerds from Missouri whose album “Bakkstage Pass” not only invented the L.A. glam scene, but hip-hop as well. Or they could be a totally invented band formed with the good old punk ethos of “leave ’em laughing”. I’m going with number two, but read the elaborate backstory and live the lie if you like. It’s frankly more fun, and either way the music…well, it rocks. It rocks in that “sucks so bad it can’t possibly rock” way. Yeah, it rocks.
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Van Halen: 'My Rehab Needs Have Scuppered Reunion Tour'
SF Gate Daily Dish:
Rocker Eddie Van Halen has revealed his supergroup’s reunion plans have stalled because he needs to check into rehab.
In a message to fans, the rocker admits he put a planned reunion tour on hold because he felt he wouldn’t be able to perform at his best until he sorted out a few personal demons.
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From Subculture to Major Industry: Mike Warnke and The Roots of Christian Stand-Up Comedy
WFMU’s Beware the Blog:
Mike Warnke is one of the most famous figures in American Christianity. However, unless you’re a Christian, a Satanist, a scandal fiend, obsessive internet troll, or a vinyl collector, there is still a good chance you don’t know his tale. Mike Warnke is a stand-up comedian. A Christian stand-up comedian. And despite a scandal-ridden career that would put Jim Bakker to shame, Warnke alone is responsible for what has turned into an enormous multi-million dollar industry – Christian stand-up comedy. Kinda nutty, ain’t it?
In reality the Mike Warnke story has been recounted several times over the past decade and, yes, we’re about to go through it again. This piece is more than that, however. It is a history of Christian stand-up comedy, from its roots in ventriloquism to its modern day standing as perhaps the wealthiest of all weirdo subcultures.
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