So What Do You Love About Music?

As I sit here and reflect on my life… mostly my college life and how many people have come and gone and how many have stayed in my life. You start to realize how much someone can feel hate, love, lust, or dislike to people they haven’t even met before.

I’m going to be completely honest in saying that throughout High School and College there were alot of guys I liked or ‘thought’ I liked. And any girl that had a closer relationship with him then I did I automatically disliked. Facebook stalking them and making nasty comments about their pictures and status`.

Now that I am 24 and in a loving and committed relationship I am completely happy with who I am and I present myself. I am me, and he loves me for that. Which is the best feeling world. But knowing me growing up you`d know that with my personality I had alot of guy friends and I was pretty close with these guy friends. SO I think to myself…. How many girls have creeped my Facebook pictures and status` and cursed me out because of my friendship with the guy they liked. It`s kinda scary to think about.

So my advice to every single girl out there is; Don`t try to fit the mold of his perfect girl. You shouldn`t have to change yourself to make someone like you. One day you`ll come across the one who loves you for you. So if he chooses someone else over you, don`t judge her be happy for them, If you get close with her and they end up breaking up you can curse him out with her which is even better then stalking someone you`ve never met.

So here is my long awaited update. I’ll try and make this a weekly Wednesday Friday thing since those are the days I have off.

It turns out this is a week full of Canadian Indie Artists releases. Broken Social Scene with “Forgiveness Rock Record” and The New Pornographers with “Together” are both being released today. Stars will be out on June 22nd. If any of you are interested Alan Cross got a chance to listen to the Stars’ fifth full length album today and here’s what he thought about it. http://www.exploremusic.com/essential-reading/2010-05-04/Stars-Five-Ghosts-Track-by-Track

Trent Reznor has released new music since his parting with Nine Inch Nails with How to Destroy Angels, which I guess you could say is his follow-up band with his wife and front women of the band, Mariqueen Maandig. The full length EP will be out this summer but they’ve released a track “A Drowning”, which has me reminiscent on Nine Inch Nails in a softer, less grunge rock, raunchy feel. Hear it for yourself here. http://pitchfork.com/news/38686-how-to-destroy-angels-a-drowning/

Rumour has it that the Guitar Hero Franchise has its sights set on the Chili Peppers as their next victim. Game publisher Activision is looking to expand its franchise to a Red Hot Chili Peppers based Guitar Hero game that like many other games alike will highlight the band’s greatest moments and include unlockable features such as interviews, retrospectives, concert footage, and other commentary. The Chili Peppers also hope to have released their 10th studio album by 2011 since production started last fall.

Many have confirmed for the up and coming Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival which will kick off August 17th in Minneapolis and finish on October 4th in Madison, Wisconsin. Disturbed and Avenged Sevenfold will headline the tour along with Stone Sour, Halestorm, Hellyeah, Hail The Villain, and New Medicine. This tour will also feature a second stage which will be occupied by a Battle of the bands winner in each city. Many of the artist’s on this bill have albums being released this summer, Disturbed with “Asylum”, and Hellyeah with “Stampede”. Avenged Sevenfold will also be releasing their first album since the death of drummer James “The Rev” Sullivan, and has yet to be titled.

Dead Weather, led by Jack White has a announced a North American tour to support its second album “Sea of Cowards” to be released May 11th. Jack White has also reported that he would like to reunite with Meg White to create the next White Stripes album.

Brandon Flowers, lead singer of The Killers, has decided to take things into his own hands and produce a solo album. Alan Cross has some funny interpretations of what might be going on between the “Killers” here. http://www.exploremusic.com/essential-reading/2010-05-03/Not-Sure-This-is-Necessary-But-Brandon-Flowers-Goes-Solo

And last but not least a band I think you all should check out. The Narrative http://www.purevolume.com/thenarrative

OK OK so I know I’ve kinda ignored this blog. I’ve been super busy with school… I’m done in two weeks so I promise I WILL be back…. but this news was so important I couldn’t contain myself.

SOUNDGARDEN REUNION AT LOLLAPALOOZA this summer! This makes me super happy… The end. bai

Hey all. Hope your holiday’s were happy and joyous and the new decade seems prosperous for you all.

The first thing I want to mention is the talk of a Soundgarden reunion! Yea, you heard right. For those who may not know Soundgarden was Chris Cornell’s old band before Audioslave and going solo. Possibly one of his best bands, though I do really like certain Audioslave tracks. I am still super stoked about the possibility of a Soundgarden Reunion. Sources seem to be pretty legit, and the idea of a Pearl Jam/Soundgarden tour sounds utterly A-MAZING! Now I’m just waiting to hear the de-Timberlandized version of Chris Cornell’s latest album “Scream”. For sources and junket on the Soundgarden hype, click here.

Other then that I don’t have much to say other than the new 30 Seconds To Mars CD is great! definitely worth picking up, anddd why would people do this? This is not epic in any proportion. It be quite frank, it fails miserably.

pce! Teenage.Dirtbag

Hello all again…

I figure on my ridiculous three-hour break I’d drop you guys a line and update you on some new rock news!

A small update on the Oasis story. It seems as though Liam has finally become fed up with his brother Noel. He has stated that he doesn’t expect to work or speak with his brother for the remainder of his life. The rest of the members of Oasis have been in the process of songwriting and are expected to start studio recording in early 2010. If by the time the album is completed and the remainder members of Oasis have not thought up a separate name  for their collaboration they will continue on using the name Oasis. Though they will not be using performing any Oasis songs written by Noel when they begin to perform live in 2010. More information Here and Here.

If your into the whole Pop/Rock Pop/Punk feel. You might want to check out Show Me The Skyline on PureVolume.

It looks like long time genuine band Live’s hiatus has turned into a break-up. Fans of Live that were part of the “Friends of Live” Fan Club each received a message regarding the break-up from Live’s guitarist Chad Taylor speaking on behalf of Chad Gracey and Patrick Dahlheimer. Live’s break-up seems to have a similar feel then that of Oasis. The working relationship with Ed just wasn’t working out. Then when the contract ended in 2005 it seems ed was hesitate to sign on again. You can read the full letter to fans here.

Theory of a Deadman just can’t stop touring can they? They’ve set up a new palette of tour dates alongside with Halestorm and Adelita’s Way. So far only six shows have been announced for the tour including shows in Minneapolis, Chicago, Toledo, Milwaukee, Austintown, and Allentown. If your able to make it out to any of these shows I HIGHLY suggest it. Theory of a Deadman put on a really intense show. Link for more information about the tour.

Disturbed has found a band with similar work ethic then that of their own. So rightfully they signed the band to their own record label Intoxication Records. The band is called Art Of Dying and is now recording in L.A for their debut album. Hooray for Canadian talent!

Are you a festival junkie!? Well some of the major performances have been announced for the Hullabaloufest, a three-day festival that takes place at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.Some of the big names slated to perform include Dave Matthews band, Bon Jovi, and Black Crowes. Tickets go on sale tommorow!

Rob Zombie played a show in my hometown over the weekend. unfortunately I was unable to attend the event but a local radio station has posted some photos from the event. You can find those here.

Also a high school friend of mine has started his own recording studio called Audio Shop Studios. If there’s anyone in the Toronto or surrounding area that are interested in getting some of your stuff recorded by trained professionals check them out here. They have a special going on right now so hurry up quick!

Signing out. Teenage.Dirtbag89

Well as you all hopefully know by now. I’m huge on the whole live music shows thing. Recently I’ve been to one AMAZING show and one… not so good show.

On December 12th I attended the Die Mannequin show at The Sound Academy [which this being my first time attending a show in the area, is A BEAUTIFUL place to have a show. It is SO nice.] The show was amazing as well. The opening bands were good, Die Mannequin was good. It was a good ol’ jolly fun time all around. I have videos and such that you can view on my youtube channel. Located here. I also got to meet Care from Die Mannequin which was pretty cool, along with the guys from Outspoken while waiting outside in line for a hot dog.

The second show that I attended was this past weekend December 19th. It was the Stereos/Midway State show at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, which isn’t the best venue for a concert in my personally opinion, but it did the trick for what they needed. The opening band, The Artist Life, seemed to try too hard to be hardcore rock stars. They did a cover of Hey Ho, Let’s Go by The Ramones and pretty much ruined the song for me, and I don’t even think 85% of the prepubescent audience knew the song. The Midway State did a good job on their set. My favourite part was when they covered Tiny Dancer in hopes to recreate this moment from Almost Famous. Which is by far my favourite part of the movie so I was glad to be a part of that, but again, the target audience was not in the right age frame for something like this. Rewatching that clip still gives me chills.  Now I feel bad picking on the Stereos as the lead singer had a sore throat or some sort of sickness that affected his singing abilities. But for truth’s sake, he wasn’t all that good. Videos of that show will be posted on my Youtube Channel shortly.

In news, “Nowhere Boy” is a film based on the life of John Lennon, a film I am quite excited to see myself. A writer from Uncut Magazine wrote a review on it a few days ago. You can find the review here. And the Trailer.

With the decade nearing an end, hundreds of music enthusiast’s are creating their best of the millenium decade list’s. According to Billboard’s decade-ending rock chart, Linkin Park and Nickelback are reigning high spots on their list’s. What’s on yours? Let me know. You can find out more about Linkin Park and Nickelback’s success through the millenium here

Radiohead has decided to return to the studio in January to complete working on their 7th studio album. The last album they produced was released in 2007 called “In Rainbows”. Work on the 7th album began last summer say Yorke and O’brien. You can read up on it here.

Welcome back. Sorry it took awhile for a second update. I’ve been crazy busy with school work. I will be for the next 4 weeks. So my updates will be short and sweet for the time being.

First on my palette of things to mention. Steven Tyler is on the fence on whether or not he should leave Aerosmith. Yes I know it’s probably slightly old news by now. But it’s big news to me. Aerosmith being one of my favourite bands on earth and Steven Tyler being possibly my only favourite performer EVER!

Here’s a link for some more information.

Now the thing that irks me about this sitituation is attempting to find a replacement for Tyler. That is within itself impossible to do and completely stupid to do so. You can’t have Aerosmith without the Tyler. It’s the whole band chemistry that makes Aerosmith, well Aerosmith. Oh and Steven… trust me you don’t need time off… we need you belting out on stage. Done and done. Case closed.

Now as we all know, Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis never got along. they made great music, but they just didn’t hit it off. Finally Noel decided to depart from Oasis. Currently Oasis is still split. But Liam and other fellow Oasis memebers continue to create music together.

More information located here.

Hole’s back but with only one member? Courtney Love has decided to release her most recent album under the band name of her previous band ‘Hole’ but none of the original Hole members are on the album. Now for me this seems a tad selfish on Courtney’s part. The name ‘Hole’ was created to represent a band of members creating music not just one. I wonder if any of the Hole members will receive any money from Love’s album sales?

More Information along with Courtney Love’s statement’s here.

30 Seconds to Mars is releasing their new album This is War on Dec 8th. Here’s their first single Kings & Queens along with the video.

Later taters; Rag.Doll

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