I'm so grateful for those libraries and museums that are uploading stuff to Flickr. Those photos are great but they're just the tip of the iceberg of amazing stuff that's out there.
Last night I was talking to my new acquaintance about country. I used to think I hated country, too. And that was before country became middle-of-the-road rock with a cowboy hat. So today I've been poring through YouTube trying to find her examples of the real deal. So far I've linked her to Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Maddox Brothers & Rose, Buck Owens & the Buckaroos, The Delmore Brothers and a couple more.
Sorry if this was posted earlier, but NF just tweeted, and could Seth Green be any cuter? [link]
Fun! I thought of all our geek and gamer girls here.
listening to White Stripes B-Sides
Me: Did a chipmunk just show up?
D: That's why these are B-sides, yo.
MCR ALBUM RELEASE DATE: 11/22
So, right after my birthday. No title yet. Aaaand the text from Rolling Stone about it:
Title TBD 11/22
My Chemical Romance had nearly finished a dark Stooges influenced LP when frontman Gerard Way came to an important realization: He hated it. "We were just trying to be America's young rock band," he recalls. "We did that, and what came back was boring." They scrapped the record and started over, writing and recording a new set of songs, mostly synth-happy, technicolor pop tunes, complete with an unabashed dance beat on "Planetary (GO!)." Like the band's last album, 2006's Black Parade, the new disc has a unifying conceit: It's supposed to be a transmission from a post-apocalyptic radio station in 2019. "It's a party record," says Way. "The scariest thing was to admit to ourselves that we wanted to have a good time." Way is particularly fond of the obnoxiously catchy opening track, "Na Na Na." "It's the pop-punk 'Hey Ya,'" he says. "It sounds like a big gang of children yelling. It's dumb as fuck, really."
That doesn't really sound promising, but I guess it's all in the execution. They'll need some super sugar hooks and singalong choruses to pull off a party album of the apocalypse vibe.
Believe it or not, the MCR boys are really good at hooks and singalong choruses. That's part of what made both "Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge" and "The Black Parade" so successful.
TOUR, DAMMIT. TOUR NOW.
They scrapped the record and started over, writing and recording a new set of songs, mostly synth-happy, technicolor pop tunes, complete with an unabashed dance beat on "Planetary (GO!)." Like the band's last album, 2006's Black Parade, the new disc has a unifying conceit: It's supposed to be a transmission from a post-apocalyptic radio station in 2019.
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So, they submitted to the Cobra?
So, they submitted to the Cobra?
Aaaaauuugh. You may be right. Would that explain Gerard's terrifying hair color?
