Silly me never posted about it, but I’ve been looking forward to TV on the Radio’s arrival for months!!! They’ll be here May 11th for a show at Mr. Smalls. If you haven’t gotten your tix yet, what are you waiting for?!
The show falls on a Monday, but who cares? I will gladly go out on a “school” night to see them!
Click here to get to TicketWeb and order yours…hopefully they’re not sold out!
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The beginning of Calvin Harris’ song “I’m Not Alone” caught me off guard with it’s s l o w n e s s. I thought Calvin had decided to go another way in his music and was confused. But, then after some saddening scenes of a little boy and his teddy bear, out pops the Calvin we know and love. The beat comes in, finding it’s niche. And Calvin’s got on some goofy glasses again!
I’m not exactly sure what the video is telling a story of, but whatever. I just wanted to dance, anyways.
I was amused with Stereogum‘s post on the subject:
The first time we heard Calvin Harris’ “I’m Not Alone” was a couple months ago when, in an attempt to avoid piracy, he gave it a somewhat annoying “I’m Your Nan” remix. With his second album ostensibly closer to its release date — but no actually release date or album title yet — Harris deleted the extraneous insertions and created a proper video for the single. He notes at MySpace, “It’s a bit weird.” The clip features Harris as a knife-wielding mad scientist, a bunch of female dancers/test subjects, and a kid with his teddy bear.
P.S. I just watched a couple other video’s of Calvin’s on YouTube. I might’ve developed a small crush on him. Though, I’m not sure what his obsession with acting like a crazy scientist is…(see above video and “It Was Acceptable in the 80s” video).
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Last month I wrote about Guitar Center’s annual drum contest that was held in LA this year. Well, 22 year old Jerome Flood II defeated the rest and was crowned winner after competing with 5 other finalists.
What a feat, too, since the finalists were being judged by today’s drummer greats. The judges included past title holder Thomas Pridgen from Mars Volta, Danny Carey from Tool, Alan White from Yes, Taylor Hawkins and Drew Hester from Foo Fighters, Kenny Aronoff, The Rev from Avenged Sevenfold, Snoop Dogg’s drummer Trevor Lawrence Jr., Angels and Airwaves’ Atom Willard, and Street Drum Corps’ Frank Zummo.
The five rounds of competition took FOUR months, with Flood ultimately beating around 5,000 other contestants.
On January 14th, he also was able to make his TV debut on Last Call with Carson Daly. The Atlanta resident says, “The world is going to know about me thanks to this. I’m really thankful to Guitar Center for this opportunity, because it’s really changed my life.”
If you’d like to see the winning video of Jerome rocking the house, click here. If you want to see him on TV, click here.
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Ha! Well, silly you…if you don’t — it’s right underneath of this one!
Anyways, I wrote a bit more about Empire of the Sun on Pop Damage’s website. You can check it out here!
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For the last 20 years, guitar giant Guitar World has hosted an annual drum contest. It’s the world’s largest drum competition. And this year they’re holding their 20th anniversary for Drum-Off.
The Grand Finals for Drum-Off ’08 is January 10th in Hollywood. There’s six finalists:
Juan Carlos Mendoza from E. Brunswick, NJ
Jerome Flood II from Lawrenceville, GA
Anthony Burns from Saginaw, MI
Ramon Sampson from Memphis, TN
Sherman Arnold from Englewoodm CO
Timm Newton from La Mesa, CA
After numerous competitions thoughout the entire country (held at every single of the the 214 stores in America), six undiscovered drummers were chosen. A huge feat to accomplish, going through almost 5,000 contestants, these six musicians relish in nervous excitement. The six finalists will go head to head on Saturday, January 10th, 2009 at Guitar Center’s Drum-Off Grand finals in Los Angeles for a prize package worth over $45,000. They will be performing at the historic Music Box at Fonda Theater in front of a capacity crowd. The show will also feature performances from drumming greats Nicko McBrain of Iron Maiden, Jason Bittner from Shadows Fall, an exclusive collaboration by Thomas Pridgen (Mars Volta) and Thomas Lang. Lastly (but not least!), a headlining performance by Papa Roach. The evening’s hosted by Stephen Perkins of Jane’s Addiction.
If you just happen to be in that area, definitely check it out. Let me know if ya do! This competition is huge; Guitar Center’s annual Drum-Off has been recognized by the music community as one of the most important platforms for unsigned talent, and an awesome start-off point for many seriously talented young drummers. Tickets can be bought here from TicketWeb. It’s $15 a ticket, and all-ages…so don’t let your “sobriety”, “underage-ness”, “lack of sobriety”, “ummm…whatever” stop you!
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“Gimme that thing/Give it, my friend/Give me good, good times around the bend”
I’m sure you’ve heard the tune from the Apple Ipod Touch commercial. I mean, that’s where I heard it…no reason to lie.
And once I heard it, I was instantly on a mad quest to find out who it was. Finally, one day last week that quest came to an end. Ladies and gentlemen, here we have The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, from Denmark.
In September, their first single “The Sun Ain’t Shining No More” was released. That’s the same time that “Around the Bend” was heard on the Ipod commercials. Now, they have an EP available (check eMusic here), that’s where I got it. The EP has 4 tracks:
1. Around the Bend
2. The Sun Ain’t Shining No More
3. Push the Envelope
4. The Sun Ain’t Shining No More (Bruce Aisher Mix)
Their debut album is scheduled to come out the beginning of the New Year!
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Musically Amusing 