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Drink Up Me Hearties, Yo Ho

By TK & Felicia | Posted Under Music | Comments (11)

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timf09_logo.gifMGMT and The Flaming Lips will be headlining the Treasure Island Festival in San Francisco on October 17th and 18th. Other acts for the two-day festival in the bay include Girl Talk, The Decemberists and Murs. Same shit different day, right? Single day tickets are selling for $65.00 and two-day tickets are $115.00.


mgmtmm.jpgMuse will be debuting their new single “Uprising” on MTV’s Video Music Awards on September 13th. According to lead singer Matt Bellamy it will be their first U.S. television appearance. I was surprised to hear that considering they have been making albums for a good ten years now. Their new album, The Resistance, comes out on September 25th. This will be the follow-up to their 2006 album Black Holes and Revelations. I am hoping they will announce a U.S. tour that includes Minneapolis to support the new album since I chose to see a slightly disappointing Interpol at Lollapalooza a few years ago over Muse. My bad.


soundgahden.jpgAlthough Chris Cornell is probably not ready to reunite with Soundgarden, he is talking about releasing a B-sides album and box set. The old band has been talking about releasing these items for about ten years now, and it seems like it may come to fruition sometime in the near future. Cornell hopes to cement the band’s legacy with these releases, and try to appeal to fans both old and new.


pandora.jpgWeb radio has struck a royalty deal with copyright holders after a long battle over free web services like Pandora, which I’m sure has saved many a day at work for most of you. There was a time a few years ago where it looked like free web radio was going to be a thing of the past. However, sites like Pandora will now pay higher royalty fees yet still offer the free service. The only caveat with Pandora is that the amount of free listening per month will be limited to 40 hours. After the 40 hours users will be given the option to pay a small fee of 99 cents. This is a win for all us cubicle drones around the world! Well, except for me who is cursed with a work computer from 1920 with no sound or speakers.


Unfortunately, we have no Playlist this week because Grooveshark is being a bastard. Instead, here’s Coldplay covering “Billie Jean.”

OK, OK. I’m sorry about that. Hopefully this makes up for it — Lamb of God meets smooth jazz:


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Comments

This is a win for all us cubicle drones around the world!

Last I checked (2 minutes ago), Pandora still only worked inside the US. So not a win for everyone unfortunately.

Posted by: Chugga at July 20, 2009 12:39 PM

I remember Soundgarden. I remember that they were good. I remember Chris Cornell. I remember that he was good. I recall hearing about an album released by Cornell with Timbaland producing.....I remembered that Soundgarden was good.

By the way TK, I went out and picked up Wrath based on the recommendations from both you and boo. I'd just like to say thank you, I'm enjoying it ever so much. However, should you ever meet my wife, you may want to defend your groinal region.

Posted by: admin at July 20, 2009 12:57 PM

Interpol makes some fantastic music, but they are an inexcusably underwhelming live band. I have been burned THREE TIMES now, each time making up excuses for the poor performance, but enough is enough. You know how people accuse them of all their songs sounding the same? This is ten times more apparent live.

Now Muse on the other hand...I saw them on a whim and within two months I was flying to London to see them again. That's how fucking good they are.

Posted by: Pigwidgeon at July 20, 2009 1:00 PM

By the way TK or Felica, whichever one of you wrote that pharagraph, I finally checked out Muse's Origin of Symmetry, it was an excelent album. I hope you enjoy yourself at the concert.

Posted by: George at July 20, 2009 1:09 PM

Fucking Coldplay.

Let's all go listen to Chris Cornell's version of "Billie Jean" from Carry On, shall we?

Ah, much better.

Posted by: Sean at July 20, 2009 1:13 PM

God, I love that jazzy version with screaming. It's like both sides of my gemini moon meeting in perfect harmony.

Posted by: boo at July 20, 2009 1:35 PM

It's still a wonder to me that Muse can make that much sound with just three people. And dude is Wailing while he's playing.

Also, "Bliss" has one of my top 10 melodic hooks of all time.

Interpol and their ilk make me slee...snore...

Posted by: Ian at July 20, 2009 2:11 PM

I loved Muse live at the State Theater in Minneapolis, but I will say that their lyrics are among the cheesiest in the business. Still, when you can play like that, who cares?

I love Interpol, but I could see them being a dreadfully dull live act. Surprisingly, I thought the same about Grizzly Bear, but was totally wrong; as sleepy as they can be musically, they kicked ass live.

Posted by: Christian H. at July 20, 2009 3:49 PM

Are you going to do a review/talk about Mayhem Festival? Or did I miss that somewhere? I'm going Saturday.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at July 20, 2009 5:42 PM

Admin, Don't do it. The Chris Cornell/Timbaland thing will suck your life force away with the power and strength of it's suck. It will kill you. It's bad, so very, very bad. Don't do it.

Posted by: Melody at July 20, 2009 9:26 PM

Great, now I have to watch an MTV awards show. See how I suffer for you, Muse? You're welcome!

Seriously, for the last month, I've been listening to "Hysteria" at least once a day. It's my favorite thing to blast on my way to work.

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at July 21, 2009 8:05 PM


















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