Rancid News!!!!
Just premiered today on the MySpace is a video for ” Last One To Die”, a song off Rancid’s upcoming album titled Let The Dominoes Fall that drops June 2nd on Hellcat Records.
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Manchester Orchestra Video Chapters
I have seen the band name Manchester Orchestra popping up all over the place as of late and really had not checked them out until recently. For some reason I thought they were more of a rock jam project but was corrected by a friend and learned that in fact they are an indie rock band.
With a new album coming out on 04/21/09 titled Mean Everything To Nothing the band is promoting their CD with a full-album collection of videos that have been popping up on the internet. Have you seen them yet? Well you are in luck as I have included the first three on this blog. Word is the band will have videos for all of the songs on the album. I think it is a great idea.
Additional info about the videos from a recent email I received from SonyMusic.com:
The full-album series concept was conceived by the Emmy Award winning directing team of Clay Lipsky and Jason Bognacki of Destroy Rock Music Inc., whom also directed “I Can Barely Breathe” from the band’s debut I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child.
Lipsky notes that the vision behind the videos are to “create a cinematic collage of decaying film and lost memories intertwined with a loose narrative about a young woman on a surreal journey to find what she is missing.” The videos to follow will continue to discover the many layers hiding within the new record.
Chapter One featured on AbsolutePunk:
Manchester Orchestra – “The Only One”
Chapter Two featured on Spin.com:
Manchester Orchestra -“Shake It Out”
Chapter Three featured on MySpace:
Manchester Orchestra – “I’ve Got Friends”
AVD
AVD = Anti-Valentine’s Day.
(here comes a rant…)
I really was not going to post anything about a holiday today that generally is about false hopes and weight gain. Why should most folk express their love more so on one day a year with cheesy cards and expensive chocolates? Recession my ass, people look for reasons to spend, I’m sorry, WASTE, money and Valentine’s Day is one of them.
I am not against love. I am in love. I am married and love my wife to death. I love my friends and my family and even my spoiled rotten dogs. I am so lucky to be in love.
I hate days where people try to be one step better then they already are and V-Day is one of them. I don’t know about you but I try every day to be a better person to my wife. I don’t use balloons and stuffed teddy bear bribes on Feb. 14th to show my wife how much I love her. In fact, I am working all day today and will not be seeing her until tomorrow.
I should put my foot in my mouth right at this moment though because I did buy my wife a massage yesterday but it was not for V-Day at all. I took her to the massage place on Friday The 13th… It was for her because I felt it was time to buy her another one. She was stressed with school and needed a healthy dose of relax. I do things like this because I love her. It just so happened to be the day before V-Day….honest.
I did not buy her candy or flowers. No cards or cute little knick knacks were left on the counter for her when she woke up this morning. I did not dress up like cupid and shoot arrows at her either. (That would be a scary sight!!!)
I just do what I do all the time, love her.
I hate the idea of a holiday that makes love seem that much important one day out of the year. Then again if it can make someone who generally is not that nice one bit nicer to the person they claim to love… Damn, I feel sorry for them.
So why am I ranting anyways?
Well Matt over at AddictedToVinyl.com posted his first ever Valentine’s Day blog. He thanks me along with a few others for “connecting” with him and keeping him sane while he enjoys solo (relationship-free) time off.
While reading his blog I started thinking about another reason why I hate V-Day. It was a reason I have forgotten about long ago. It just clicked in my head and the second I thought of it I laughed.
Well of course I am going to share it with you…did you even have to think of asking???
When I was in second grade I got in trouble on Valentine’s Day. In the tradition of putting Valentine’s Day cards in specially designed shoe boxes full of hearts and the colors red & pink I dropped a rather inappropriate card into one classmate’s box.
It read: “You Are Ugly”
I meant it too. I thought the girl was ugly as hell and I guess Valentine’s Day was my confession day to her.
Of course my bold statement made her cry out loud and run to my teacher. Immediately I was repromanded for my actions seeing how I signed my name on the card and I was promptly taken to the corner of the classroom where I was forced to think alone about what I just did as well as write an apology letter to said ugly girl. I did what I was told and pretty much filled the paper with lies and other false hope.
I admit…that was a crappy thing to do. I do not remember if I did it as a dare to impress friends or if I was just being an a-hole at a very young age. I am not even sure my teacher shared my actions with my parents. I just knew I got yelled at for telling someone how I really felt and I hated the holiday for getting in trouble for it. I never favored the day since…
AVD = Anti-Valentine’s Day. That is where I stand. Maybe because I know what love really is an cherish it, or maybe because I have just been an a-hole all my life since that once forgotten day in second grade.
Love on the other hand is a wonderful thing. It may not be for everyone, but for those who crave it and those who experience it…you know what I mean.
Here’s two videos that help define the love between my wife and I… Nothing too mushy I promise:
Ex-Korn Releases Solo CD
Remember a few years back when the guitarist from Korn up and left the band due to his own personal beliefs? Everyone thought either Head went crazy or was just pulling a huge publicity stunt.
I thought it was a big joke at first. Slowly I forgot about it.
Today I found out he has released his solo CD three years after he departed from the nu-metal rock band Korn. I honestly thought he just fell off the face of the earth. Then again I really was not looking for updates on him. I respected his decision at the time and left it at that.
There was a lot more to the story though.
Truth be told; him leaving the band was not a stunt at all. Brian “Head” Welch left the band to focus on more important things in life like being a father and following his belief as a born again Christian. The guitarist fought a terrible battle with drugs throughout his rock star years and once he departed from the band he soon weened himself from his addiction. After being baptized in front of the world, he began a new life. He started traveling to other countries to help the poor and while doing so wrote material for himself.
Last year Brian “Head” Welch released a book titled Save Me From Myself: How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, And Lived To Tell My Story. The memoir is all about the rock star’s lifestyle he had, didn’t want, and how he changed it. I have not had the chance to check it out just yet, but from what I hear it is a good read.
His new solo album titled the same as his book, Save Me From Myself, dropped yesterday in many stores. I have not had a chance yet to check it out but I did find this video he just released as well of the song “Flush”.
This video is proof he has not completely lost it…or has he? You can be the judge.
FLUSH – BRIAN HEAD WELCH — THE OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
Note: To each their own on beliefs upon religion. I request that no one discuss religion on this site. I respect your opinion and all, but there are plenty of other forums and blog-sites that cater to religion discussion. This blog was about a musician and even if I did include his choice in religion, that is as far as I am taking it. If you do, I’ll be sure to delete it.
Bjork Video Strange? Indeed.
Bjork released a video today for a remixed version of one of her songs before the actual single has been released. The original version of “The Dull Flame of Desire” can be found on Bjork’s latest release Volta. The song takes a huge twist in this version making for a very interesting listen. Leave it up to one of the most unique artists to continue her originality.
The remixed version of the song “The Dull Flame of Desire” features Björk with dual vocals from Antony Hegarty from Antony & The Johnsons. The song is full of lyrics that are actually translated lines taken from a poem written by Fyodor Tyutchev.
If you have a moment check out the video.
WARNING: It is strange as hell and I kind of got freaked out towards the end….
So? Did it scare you at all or make you wish you never experimented with LSD?
I’ll be honest. The video sucked. The song is amazing. The concept of how the video was created though was interesting. Bjork held a contest on her website for new directors giving them the chance to work with her. Bjork chose 3 winners were chosen to collaborate together. The result is one wierd a** video.
I could not help but think the middle part of that video looked familiar….where did I see that before???
Oh yeah:
haha….. yeah. I went there.