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Scissor Sisters – Last Night @ Metropolis
08.30.10If you could imagine a small cabaret going through a glam rock and disco car wash combined with multi-colored spandex and glittering confetti then you have some idea of the wildness that went down last night at Metropolis when the Scissor Sisters triumphed on stage… dazzling photos and review on their way.
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Guttermouth – Last Night @ Foufounes Electriques
08.29.10There once was a punk rock band named Guttermouth, who made all the other punkers in the land green with envy… Why? Well, who else could bitch slap Montreal’s Foufounes Electriques with such style? Photos & words on route.
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Scissor Sisters – Tonight @ Metropolis
08.29.10It’s time for some psychedelic disco! The Scissor Sisters are set to cut up the floor tonight at Metropolis with their melodious charm and incomparable flare.
With special guests: Sammy Jo + Casey Spooner
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Guttermouth – Tonight @ Foufounes Electriques
08.28.10Kickin’ ass and takin’ names since 1988, punk rock pugilists Guttermouth return to our budding shores triumphant as Montreal’s Foufounes Electriques is sure to rattle with seasoned intensity tonight!
With special guests: The Real Deal + Unbelievers
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Slash, Eddie Vedder, Billy Gibbons to Appear on Ronnie Wood Solo LP
08.25.10Being a guitarist in one of the most world-renowned rock groups of all time has its perks, one of which is the friends you make in the music business. This perk is used to the fullest in the forthcoming solo record of The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood, which will features guest spots by Slash, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons. Set for a Sept. 27th release, the album, dubbed I Feel Like Playing, also features RHCP’s Flea, Kris Kristofferson, Bobby Womack, and Ian McLagan of Wood’s former band Faces. Get a taste of this red carpet-worthy collab on RonnieWood.com where he’s streaming sing Thing About You now. (more…)
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Vampire Weekend Cover Girl Offers her Side of the Lawsuit Story
08.25.10While Vampire Weekend and their fans have made their opinions on (and opposition to) the Contra cover lawsuit known, the model behind the suit, Kirsten Kennis, also has a story to tell and she did just that in a new Vanity Fair article. In the piece, the former model admits that when her daughter pointed out the album cover and she started seeing her photo on posters and storefronts she was initially flattered, but began to feel like she was being exploited. “Who do these people think they are that they can just take my picture from god only knows where and plaster it everywhere?” She also vehemently denies photographer Tod Brody’s story that he took the photo during a commercial casting session in 1983. While initially it seemed like a cash-grab by Kennis, you also find out that the former L’Oréal, Revlon and Cuervo model (to name a few) is living in a three-story house in a gated community and money may genuinely not be the motive here. Check out her side of the story and a portfolio of her modelling days on Vanity Fair here.
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Generation Cooperation: Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy Cover CCR Acoustic
08.25.10Mavis Staples became a star singing gospel and soul music, but with a voice like hers she can make any genre sound amazing, as she proves on her upcoming album doing covers of Randy Newman and Creedence Clearwater Revival, among others. A video has surfaced of Staples covering CCR’s Wrote a Song for Everyone acoustic with some help from her new record’s producer, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy. In the clip Tweedy takes care of the guitar and helps out on chorus as best he can, though Staples’ voice is so powerful it just overwhelms him. The LP You Are Not Alone is set for a Sept. 14th release on ANTI-, but you can check out the tracklist below. (more…)
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Wyclef Jean Denied Appeal on His Presidential Candidacy, Puts Out Protest Song
08.25.10The saga, so it seems, is finally over. Wyclef Jean has been denied an appeal on the electoral council’s decision to leave him off of the presidential candidate list. His ill-fated run at the Haitian presidency officially ended as the provisional council, known as the CEP, has ruled that under the country’s laws Jean cannot challenge their initial decision. The Fugee had little chance of success on appeal regardless as in Haiti on matters related to elections, the electoral council is the highest authority or court, so his arguments would have been directed to the same people who denied him in the first place. Jean, angry since he believed other candidates also had not met the five-year residency law that prevented his own candidacy, has already released a track in Creole called Prizon Pou K.E.P.A. or “Prison for the Electoral Council” in which he reportedly criticizes the administration and calls the council corrupt. You can listen to that on his blog.
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HELLYEAH – Last Night @ Club Soda
08.25.10Seeing HELLYEAH play live is enough to make anyone want to go home, eat a steak and then drink till you see Dimebag. Southern fried metal served with a side of bad facial hair. Ya’ll come on back now y’hear? Pics n’ words on the way.
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Documentary Chronicles The Extraordinary Ordinary Life Of José González
08.24.10José González is sitting at a table with his head in his hands desperately trying to think of something to write about as he speaks about his songwriting process and how critical he is of himself. That’s the gist of the two-minutes trailer for The Extraordinary Ordinary Life Of José González, a documentary which follows the Sweden-based artist over three years including his creation of record In Our Nature. The trailer also features some live performance footage, as well as a whole bunch of weird cartoon clips which means you could probably expect directors Fredrik Egerstrand and Mikel Cee Karisson to have interspersed the real with the surreal. The film is set to premier at European film festivals this fall.
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Los Campesinos! Recorre Norte América en Octubre
08.24.10The Spanish-named British-based eight-piece indie-pop band Los Campesinos! has announced a North American tour this fall. In a post on their site they wrote “It is our great pleasure to announce that this coming October we will be returning to the United States for a run of shows along the East Coast and down a bit.” That return to the States neglects two Canadian shows that kick off the tour, however, in Toronto and Laval. The tour is in support of their two recent releases, Romance is Boring and the acoustic All’s Well That Ends, the latter of which you can get digitally for free if you buy a ticket for the tour from GalleryAC.com. Mark down your date from the list below: (more…)
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Big Boi Brings Big Hat and Vonnegutt to Letterman
08.24.10Big Boi continued the promotional tour for his Sir Lucious Left Foot album with a visit to Letterman, bringing his Vonnegutt and a massive fur hat for support. The Outkast MC let loose rocky single Follow Us with Kyle Lucas and Neil Garrard helping out on vocals and the hat, well he may have just spawned a fashion trend with that beauty. I want to say no animals were hurt in the making of that headwear but I’d probably be lying. In typical Letterman fashion he continued the trend of awkward post-performance commentary with “That’s what we’re talking about, you know what I mean, that’s exactly what we’re talking about!” Thanks for the input Dave… check it out here.
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MGMT Off Congratulations to Dying Monster in New Video
08.24.10First Yeasayer and now MGMT?! It seems the untimely death of ugly puppet creatures is the new hit plot for music videos. In the electro poppers’ new clip for Congratulations, founding duo Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden follow an anorexic bird-camel beast as it treks through the desert on its final journey before eventual death. As it becomes unable to walk, the band carries it to some kind of burial site where the body is absorbed by the sand and fireworks go off. It sounds depressing but the song and video are actually more ironically amusing than sad. See for yourself courtesy of MGMT’s VEVO.
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HELLYEAH – Tonight @ Club Soda
08.24.10Get it dirty n’ Southern fried with the HELLYEAH heavy metal super group at Club Soda tonight staring members of Mudvayne, Pantera and Nothingface. Mandatory +35 blood alcohol level just to be allowed in.
With special guest: The Catalyst
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New Video for Björk’s Song Written for Finnish Children’s Movie
08.23.10Björk and strange just seem to go hand and hand, which is probably why the offbeat video for The Comet Song, her contribution to animated Finnish children’s movie Moomins and the Comet Chase, is so unsurprising. The track itself is very strange, with no apparent melody or pattern and Björk singing about a comet potentially ending the Moomin world over some weird flute and cymbal music. Judging by the video though, the song fits right into the movie, which features weird claymation creatures on two-dimensional surfaces and seems way too eerie and dark to be a children’s flick. The movie is already out in Finland, but you can download the song off of iTunes as of August 24th and all proceeds will be put towards UNICEF children’s charity work in flood-devastated Pakistan.
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Wyclef Will Contest his Rejection by the Haitian Electoral Commission
08.23.10Wyclef Jean isn’t quite ready to give up on his quest to become Haiti’s president, despite being left off of the official candidate list by the nation’s Electoral Commission. According to a statement, Jean plans on contesting the decision that he is not an eligible candidate through “legal channels.” Despite much discussion of how he did not meet certain requirements to run for the position, the singer apparently disagreed, tweeting “We have met all the requirements set by the laws. And the law must be Respected.” This decision may come as a bit of a surprise to some after a post Jean made on his blog in the hours following his rejection in which he wrote “Though I disagree with the ruling, I respectfully accept the committee’s final decision, and I urge my supporters to do the same.”
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New Cee-Lo Track Jam Packed With Fuck You’s
08.23.10Cee-Lo may have a heavenly voice, but his language might just send him in the other direction. The singer just released another single off of his upcoming album Lady Killer, and it’s probably the most upbeat hate song you’ve ever heard. In Fuck You, a gospel-esque backing choir joins Cee-Lo as he sings about a girl he loved who was just in it for the money, and judging by his repeated use of the F-bomb, who he no longer thinks too kindly of. Let’s put it this way, if you took out all of the swearing from the song, you would lose about a quarter of the total lyrics. This track is definitely NSFW or anywhere around children, but it’s catchy as Fuck, so pull out the headphones and give it a listen.
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Ted Leo’s New Video Basically an Awesome Cheap Shot at Green Day
08.23.10Last week Ted Leo worked a little prank on some of his fans all for the sake of promoting his just-released music video for Bottled in Cork. In a post on his website, Leo spoke about the financial challenges of working in punk music and mentioned a musical theatre project he may have in the works with someone named Reginald VanVoorst. Well, when the video dropped today it turned out Ted and his Pharmacists were just messing with their internet followers and the upcoming musical theatre project was essentially the plot of the parody clip, which features comedians Paul F. Tompkins and John Hodgman. It’s funny, features some cool guest spots, and it makes fun of Green Day’s overblown musical. Can’t go wrong with that. Watch it on Funny or Die here.
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Sublime with Rome – Last Night @ Metropolis
08.23.10Montreal’s Metropolis hosted Sublime with Rome as a packed house howled with pleasure to the sweet punk rock reggae soundtrack of our adolescence! Never forgotten and always celebrated, R.I.P. Bradley Nowell… Photos & words in a smokey minute.
