Posted by Joel Weiss on May. 10, 2009, at 10:54 pm
I wasn’t really sure what to expect going into Friday’s concert at Mahaffey Theater featuring an un-costumed, un-amplified-to-11 Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer. Maybe I was thinking too hard about it? After all, when you go see a band, they play their songs. When you go see a comedian, he does his material. With Guest, McKean, and Shearer, reality lay in between — a hilarious, two-hour multimedia jaunt down memory lane complete with stories, clips, and songs predominantly from two classic film satires about seemingly disparate genres of music. Read the rest of this entry »
The Mars Volta’s fifth studio album, Octahedron, will be released June 23 by Warner Bros. in the U.S. and on June 22 via Mercury Records to the rest of the world.
“It’s more mellow. It’s a little more of what we consider our ‘acoustic’ side,” singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala told Australian radio station Triple J of the new record. “We know how people can be so linear in their way of thinking, so when they hear [the new album], they’re going to say, ‘This is not an acoustic album! There’s electricity throughout it!’ But it’s our version,” the singer said. “That’s what our band does — celebrate mutations. It’s our version of what we consider an acoustic album.”
Hailed by The New Yorker as “perhaps the most musically adventurous act currently signed to a major label,” The Mars Volta formed in 2001. The band’s recorded output includes their 2003 debut full-length, De-Loused In The Comatorium, as well as Frances The Mute (2005), Amputechture (2006) and the Grammy-winning The Bedlam In Goliath (2008).
Potential lesbian and singer Miley Cyrus revealed this week on Tucson morning radio show Johnjay & Richthat she was rebuffed by Radiohead (her favorite band, “the only one she would cry over” according to her agent) during the Grammy Awards last month.
Radiohead was in a dressing room only four doors down from Ms. Cyrus. Miley had her manager request a little face time with Thom and the gang. Their response? “We don’t really do that kind of thing.”
Cyrus told the radio hosts she thought it was “rude.” She even left the ceremony and missed Radiohead’s live performance on the show. “I left ’cause I was so upset. I wasn’t going to watch. Stinkin’ Radiohead! I’m gonna ruin them, I’m going to tell everyone,” she said.
Posted by Leilani Polk on Feb. 9, 2009, at 11:55 am
Brown got caught up in an domestic violence episode involving an unidentified woman (possibly Rihanna, his girlfriend). The two may or may not have gotten into an argument in their car, she got out, and things escalated from there. Here’s Billboard’s official story.
Out of morbid curiosity, I read through the list of this years Grammy nominations. I’ll admit, they are a little more left of center than most years; but it’s the effing Grammys. You might as well have just won your high school’s “Battle Of The Bands” that is judged by the school’s choir director and that one creepy guidance councilor that no one liked. But, buried way down the list, in “Category 88″ was No Age. Did I read that right? WTF did No Age get nominated for? Best Recording Package. That’s what I thought, so here is your answer.
So, a band that put out one of the best reviewed albums of the year; that has even spawned their own cover band (that one of the members of No Age then joined to form a new band with!) gets a Grammy nod for their cover art. Whatever. But kudos for getting noticed by the man.
You know, this does work to No Age’s advantage…
Grammy Nominated band No Age is playing Tampa Saturday!
The Mars Volta
Potential lesbian
Out of morbid curiosity, I read through the list of this years 
