Arcade Fire members to play free shows in Ohio for Barack Obama
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[/cut] According to a recent press release Win Butler, Will Butler, Regine Chassagne and Jeremy Gara of the Arcade Fire will be performing a free show this Sunday at Stuart’s Opera House in Nelsonville, Ohio in support of Democratic hopeful Barack Obama. [cut = Read more...] They will also be playing another free show at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland on Monday. Get there at 7 p.m., or earlier, to experience the Ba-Rock.
I know what you’re thinking. “Aren’t the Arcade Fire a Canadian band?” Sort of. They live in Canada but were born and raised in the U.S. (Texas), Regine has dual citizenship because her father served in Vietnam, and Jeremy Gara is a full-blooded Canadian. Does any of this matter? No. Just make sure and get down to the venues early, entry is first come, first served.
Do you think Arcade Fire should write a Pro-Bama song? [/cut]
Panic at the Disco sing-along: Band reveals Odd lyrics
[/cut]Dedicated Panic fans are studying up on live videos to learn the lyrics to Pretty. Odd. songs– lucky for them, those oh-so-giving boys posted the lyrics on their MySpace page! Now you don’t have to mumble incoherently! [cut= Let's sing along...]
Mad as Rabbits
Come save me from walking off a windowsill
or I’ll sleep in the rain.
Don’t you remember when I was a bird
and you were a map?
Now he drags down miles in America
briefcase in hand.
The stove is creeping up his spine again,
can’t get enough trash.
He took the days for pageant
Became as mad as rabbits
With bushels of bad habits
Who could ask for anymore?
Yea who could have more.
His arms were the branches of a Christmas tree
preached the devil in the belfry.
He checked in
to learn his clothes had been thieved at the train station.
Rope hung his other branch
and at the end was a dog called bambi
Who was chewing on his parliaments
when he tried to save the calendar business.
The poor son of a humble chimney sweep
fell to a cheap crowd
So stay asleep and put on that cursive type
you know we live in a toy.
Paul Cates bought himself a trumpet from the salvation army
But there ain’t no sunshine in his song
We must reinvent love.
She’s a Handsome Woman
Innocence.
Sunk the glow and drowned in covers,
send for all your absent lovers things.
Sheepish Wolves.
Looking lived in eating buttons,
Wink, just don’t put your teeth on me.
Accidents.
Let the evening in the backdoor,
filled the room ceiling to the floor.
Beat backbones.
Grazed the poem and made it strange,
I wasn’t born to be a skeleton.
Go on,
grab your hat and fetch a camera.
Go on, film the world before it happens.
Jealous orchard.
The sky is falling off the ceiling
while I’m tucking fibs into a cookie jar.
Bombed reverie.
It’s useless searching in the cupboards
when everything you have is on your back.
That Green Gentleman
Things are shaping up to be pretty odd.
Little deaths in musical beds.
So it seems I’m someone I’ve never met.
You will only hear these elegant crimes,
Fall on your ears from criminal dimes.
They spill unfound from a pretty mouth.
everybody gets there and everybody gets their way.
I never said I missed her when everybody kissed her,
Now I’m the only one to blame.
Things have changed for me, and that’s okay.
I feel the same, I’m on my way, and I say.
I want to go where everyone goes,
I want to know what everyone knows
I want to go where everyone feels the same
I never said I’d leave the city,
I never said I’d leave this town.
A falling out we won’t tiptoe about.
Nine in the Afternoon
Back to the street where we began
Feeling as good as lovers can you know,
yea we’re feeling so good.
Picking up things we shouldn’t read
It looks like the end of history as we know,
It’s just the end of the world.
Back to the street where we began
Feeling as good as love you could you can
Into a place where thoughts can bloom
Into a room where it’s nine in the afternoon
And we know that it could be
And we know that it should
And you know that you feel it too.
Cause it’s nine in the afternoon
And your eyes are the size of the moon
You could cause you can, so you do.
We’re feeling so good, just the way that we do
When it’s nine in the afternoon.
Back to the street down to our feet,
losing the feeling of feeling unique.
Do you know what I mean?
Back to the place where we used to say,
Man it feels good to feel this way.
Now I know what I mean.
Back to the street, back to the place,
Back to the room where it all began.
(This song will also appear on the ‘Heroes’ soundtrack!)
We’re so starving
Oh how it’s been so long,
We’re so sorry we’ve been gone
We were busy writing songs for you.
You don’t have to worry, cause we’re still the same band.
You don’t have to worry, you don’t.
And hey, this is FIVE whole songs– we tossed out some fake reviews earlier this week (as a mockery of Maxim mag’s review-without-listening stunt) but now we’re well on our way to being able to complete a REAL review![/cut]
Deicide, Eminem and Xtina: Torture music?
Death metal does have uses after all! It also has something in common with Christina Aguilera. Motherjones.com just released a list of the 24 songs used by troops in American military prisons to “prolong capture shock” and disorient prisoners during investigations. Number one on POWR (Prisoner of War Radio) is “F*** Your God” by Deicide. [Cut = Read more...] Think about it, if you were from a foreign country and had never listened to American music, and were then bombarded at loud volumes with some of the harshest, most extreme forms of American music it would be a little disorienting.
The rest of the list is equally hilarious, including such randomly matched artists as Eminem, Drowning Pool, Tupac, Bruce Springsteen, Prince (now THAT’s disorienting), and Christina Aguilera. But most hilarious of all is that song that goes “meow meow meow meow”. HAHAHA. To see the entire list go here.
Now I’m not in favor of torture, but I have to admit this list is pretty ridiculous. It is strangely funny to think of the Barney theme song being blasted in a prison environment.
So what song would be pure torture for you??? What song would make you crack???
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Incubus’ Brandon Boyd: ‘I loved what Radiohead did’
[/cut]Incubus front man Brandon Boyd recently spoke to Aussie publication The Age about his band’s place in the music scene and the possibility that they might cop Radiohead’s unconventional album-release scheme– he has a refreshingly optimistic perspective and it kinda makes me want to hug him. Ok, I may have ulterior motives for the hugging bit, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that the man has a good head on his shoulders. [cut= Read more...]
“I’ve been listening to some of these younger bands coming out and their music doesn’t have a long attention span. They are fast, scattered hybrids of indie music and metal and hardcore and punk and soul — all of these mushed together. I don’t really understand it and I don’t understand how we are relevant in that scope of what’s going on in music right now.”
“It’s exciting — I don’t care if people buy our music or not, I just want them to hear it. The way record deals are organised, bands are never really going to make any money off albums. To make money you probably have to sell a million copies so the chances of making money are astronomically low. So why should you care? I loved what Radiohead did. In my ideal world, we would give our albums away and if fans liked it enough, they could buy it.”
THAT’S THE SPIRIT! Observant, adaptable, and not desperately clawing at flash-in-the-pan trends.
You know what’s strange? I’m not a huge Incubus fan but I always buy their CDs (the actual physical copies) because I love the artwork. That’s one of the few bands I can say that for.[/cut]