Watch This!

This is a really cool documentary put together by Heartless Creativity about a group of people putting on for the 757 (that is the Hampton Roads area in Southeast Virginia for those of you who aren't down with the area code lingo, proceed) musically. I am honored to know the guys of A New Born Thriller, they were guests a couple of times for the Urban Metal Music Festival shows that I used to put on in Radford. And I also remember going to one of the "Beechmont" rehersals waaay back in the day. And the guys of Teleport Team [they will ALWAYS be Frontside to me, sorry guys :)] are a couple of my really really good friends from high school. The other artists featured are BEEF and the Dope Dreamerz whom my brother and myself had the pleasure to see perform and was really in awe of them. In this doc they talk about things like how they all came to know each other and the struggles of trying to get noticed outside of the 757. It is a really good watch, please enjoy!

Download This!

You should download Theophilus London's I Want You. Theophilus is from Brooklyn and he blends elements of hip-hop, pop, R&B and electronic music seamlessly. Its very polished, sophisticated and sexy. It makes you want to sip wine outside during sunset or take a ride with all your windows down at dusk. Plus it's 'hosted' by Va$htie who's pretty much the coolest chick ever with the coolest life. Yeah I hate her too. Anyways check it out its good stuff. Download "I Want You"
Here is my favorite song on the record (so far) "Accept the New"

Theophilus London - ACCEPT THE NEW from Theophilus London on Vimeo.

I guess they were no longer a burden in each other's hands *golf claps*

Like my joke huh? huh? Anyways dude I just read some of the best news ever. My favorite favorite 'grunge' band Soundgarden is getting back together!!! Chris Cornell reporteldly made the annoucement via his twitter and also providing a link to the new band website. Now although this is very exciting news for me this whole situation could be REALLY good or REALLY bad like Van Halen with David Lee Roth and Sammy Haggar together bad. I dont know we would have to wait and see. Get the full scoop over at Pitchfork

Today is a great day for Music

That's right kids. I have not been excited about a tuesday...possibly ever. So for starters my new obsession Chester French's long awaited debut album Love the Future is being released today. Because I have pre-ordered it, I already I gots that joint in the iPodage. Can't wait to go home and give it a good listen. I will give my critique sometime in the near future.



Second up we have the living legends Depeche Mode with Sounds of the Universe so excited to go to my local record store conglomerate aka FYE and cop that.

Also the DVD release of Notorious is today as well.


AANND a new Kid Cudi mixtape has been released.

Today is a GREAT day for music.

And im done

If it aint broke dont fix it.

Eminem - New Music - More Music Videos

So its actually happening kids, the return of Marshall Mathers, Eminem, Slim Shady. This is his new single by the name of "We Made You" or is it "Without Me" or is it "The Real Slim Shady"? Hopefully you can figure out where im getting at. Eminem follows the same formula everytime he comes out with an album. Every first single he has ever had has been the borderline cheesy, easy accesible, pop culture bullying song. Then the second single is like the serious confessional single, and the third single is more than likely political or social in some way, like stop the violence or open your eyes type deal. But as I said in the title if it aint broke dont fix it. This same exact formula has sold millions of albums worldwide, no bump that, I know my cousin on Mars still bumping the Marshal Mathers LP, real talk. Ok so getting to this new single. While I was driving home from work yesterday the top 40 station was premiering the song and they gave their opinions on it and the listeners did as well and the general vote was 'eh'. The video is entertaining of course cause that's what Em does and he is looking GOOD. Thank goodness he's off the bleach blonde stuff and he is just, he looks GOOD. That is the only thing that makes this video tolerable.

Blogging for the sake of blogging.

You know sometimes you just aren't motivated to do what you have to do. But you have to do it for the sake of the people (or person in my case hi Rachahd!) that follow you and what you do. Blogging is something that I do for fun and that fun is sparked by pop culture events happening around me. There really isnt anything that inspirational in my world at the current time but here are some music tid-bits that almost peaked my interest.
Youtube will be taking off all "premium videos" from their site. What does "premium videos" mean exactly I dont know. Apparently there is some dispute over money which is surprising between the tubes of you and the Performing Rights Society. Whatever as long as they have old episodes of Martin and Wishbone I could care less.

Depeche Mode has announced that Peter, Bjorn and John will be opening up for them on their summer north american tour, that is pretty exciting.

Nine Inch Nails will be in Charlotte, NC on june 12, guess who's going to (try to) see them! This chica lawd willing.

And im done.

Oh Snap

The Prodigy is fire starting (haha get!? no? moving on) once again and topping the UK charts with their new release Invaders Must Die. Let's celebrate with some old Prodigy shall we? Here's "Breathe" this video is ingraied in my brain from youth, that would explain a lot.

Here's some music news!

Calvin Harris has been forced to cut out parts of his new video for the single "Im not Alone" because he is holding a knife oh no! Apparently these days there are a lot of restrictions for artists when it come to videos. I mean its not like anyone plays videos anyway, but whatever, that's booty.

No Doubt tour dates have been announced but they are not recording anything just yet. Gwen says

"We're not even going to do a record. We're just going to go right on tour and have fun. We know that if we get to see you guys, we're going to get really inspired to make music,"

. They are going to be in Va Beach June 10th!!! I bet the tickets are kind of expensive though.

And im done.

Today in 'AHAHAHA' news

Your favorite rapper of all time 50 Cent's album Before I Self Destruct is getting pushed back AGAIN. Ahahahaha. The excuse he gives is Eminem's album needs to come out first, Dr Dre is still working on that album blah blah blah. Yeah bullsh!t. The REAL reason his album is getting pushed back is because nobody cares about his music, sad but true. All the bs beefs he has tried to conjure up is not getting people interested in anything he has to offer, music, movies, video games, boogers, nothing. Its a shame that someone's career can just slip away like that. I almost kind of feel sorry for him. Almost.

New Depeche Mode!

Ladies and Genitals this is a new song off of Depeche Mode's upcoming album Sounds of the Universe here is "Wrong". Your Welcome.


Also DM will be going on north american tour soon for more info on that go here

Oh Snap

So I was over at missinfo's blog and posted on it was a blog entry from Nas revealing that him and Kelis will be having a son. Again a pregnancy that I am excited about like I know them or something. An interesting point that he made in his blog post that he and Damien Marley are doing a project together which is pretty amazing.

Owkwerd

ON the hoofs of the whole Joaquin Phoenix on the David Letterman show confusion (which David handled comically brilliantly) our friends(not really) over at NME has compiled some of the most awkward interviews to take place between musicians and interviewers. Enjoy.

Music News

Marilyn Manson will name his next album The High End of Low....well okay then, I know your excited.

Christian Bale's tirade has been turned into a couple of remixes. And they're pretty awesome. At the end of the day Christian Bale is still uber hot.

Bestie Boys remasters Paul's Boutique, go cop that.

Danny Johnson is my guitar hero. This kid get busy.

Are you ready for the comeback?

So today a solid article about Eminem was published on the Independent website. It talks about how Eminem is bracing himself for a comeback. The song "crack a bottle" is in pretty heavy rotation on the top 40 station round these parts but will he churn numbers like he's supposed to? There is no doubt about Em's wizardry with words and flow but will the public still react to him like they once did so long ago? Personally I stopped paying attention to his music after the Marshall Mathers LP that album was pretty brutal and his debut album? Pfft forget about that one was savage! But in the music climate of today where the attention span of the audience shortens by the months I dont think he will churn out the numbers he once used to because nobody is! But I do believe that his fans believe in him so much that he will get a warm welcome back. Check out the article here

The Day the 'Music Died'

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly(22), the Bip Bopper(29) and Richie Valens(17). On Feb 3 1959 these musicians decided to charter a filght in a small one engine craft to their next destination on "The Winter Dance Party" tour. Shortly after flight the plane crashed about 5 miles away. Holly, Bopper, Valens and the pilot all died on impact. The crash is said to be the cause of bad weather and inexperience on the part of the pilot. The term "The Day the Music Died" was coined by Don Mclean on his song "American Pie."
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Hey! Here's some Music and Entertainment News!

Music mogal and hip-hop and R&B pioneer threw himself a party after being released from the hospital from a quadruple bypass. Cause that's what anyone would do.

From the maker's of Guitar Hero there's going to be a DJ Hero, yeah I'd smash that.

After all of Lil Kim's biatching about the biggie movie hopefully she will STFU'd after this.

Spin has posted they're Nine artists to watch out for this year, unfortunately for me Ron Browz did not make the cut. Damn.

That's all I could find that was interesting. And im done.

Im Seriously Looking Forward To This.

The Lonely Island dudes' album Incredibad release date is quickly coming upon us. I am genuinely excited to hear this project. Andy, Jorma and Akiva have been doing their thing for a bit now and have been talking about this album and now its really coming to light. They say the next single from the album will feature T-Pain which should really be good cause T-Pain is a funny dude. Read more about this at MTV news.

Heeeere's 3 music stories! Kinda.

Dead Memories? Ok no time for jokes. A fan collapsed from a heart attack and passed away after attending a slipknot concert. Just a warning a Slipknot show is pretty fuggin intense. If you have any pending medical issues, I suggest you stay away. Besides I damn near had a heartattack myself when Corey Taylor walked out on stage, what a man. Sorry Sidetracked. My heart goes out to this young man's fam.

Radiohead will be performing at the Grammy's. Sweet, still not watching the Grammy's.

Lady Gaga is still #1 , okay we get it, Just Dance, woo.

And im done.

Ya know the post with the stuff in it.

Brandy regrets her tattoos cause they'll get all wrinkly and stuff. Does anybody remember when she got that tattoo of her now ex-fiance'...yeah ill regret that too.
Katy Perry vows celibacy this year, the world rolls their eyes.
Lily Allen once shagged lesbian twins, the world wonders why she's still relevant then gags.
No Doubt is going on tour this summer(yay!) with Paramore(eh)
Tommy Lee is making another Methods of Mayhem album, ummm no.

And Im done

Stuff about Stuff.

After trading in the "brown sugar" for the "booger suga"(haha im so clever) a while ago it seems the D'angelo is ready for a comeback and asking Prince, Cee-Lo Raphael Sadiq and Mark Ronson for some help. With all these great musicians surrounding him this can turn out to be quite good...hopefully.

-The Ting-Tings can't use strobe lights in their shows anymore cause the drummer dude gets epilectic like seizures. During my last year of school a taught these class of dudes a workshop at the radio station i work studied at. Well Flavor of Love style I had to give everyone a nickname. At first I gave this one kid the name "specs" cause he wears glasses. He didn't like that too much so he was all like well if your going to name me after the fact I wear glasses I have epilepsy. Then people started to yell out seizure, thus DJ Seizure being his name. Yes it's a horrible nickname but it's also awesome at the same time. Where was I going with this story, I don't remember.