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Chiodos
Perhaps no one can explain the sheer ferocity and timid quietness it is better than when vocalist Craig Owens says “we don’t want to let the kids down” when discussing the group’s intense vocals live at shows. Well they never let a single kid down with their vicious assault on the ears and grip on the jugular...
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03.09.2007 by J-Sin
Band Spotlight - Chiodos
Perhaps no one can explain the sheer ferocity and timid quietness it is better than when vocalist Craig Owens says “we don’t want to let the kids down” when discussing the group’s intense vocals live at shows. Well they never let a single kid down with their vicious assault on the ears and grip on the jugular throughout their many storied albums to date. Signing with Equal Vision and shortening their name from “The Chiodos Bros.”, Chiodos is a group that formed in high school in their native Flint, MI. As steely cold as that automaker industry town as is, nothing is perhaps more frigid than the icy grasp of a wicked guitar riff from Chiodos...
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Radiohead got sick of hearing about how they weren’t on iTunes and the whispers that made some of the creeps (no pun intended) on the Internet whine that they were in it for the money. So they released their seventh studio masterpiece, “In Rainbows” in two formats, one a completely DRM-free download that costs as much as you’re willing to pay, and a deluxe boxed version that includes a double vinyl disc, a booklet, two CDs, and eight bonus tracks that comes out in time for the holidays. Many are clamoring and calling this approach, the “anti-marketing” technique, and a way to declare all-out war on the music industry. But they’re more focused on the fact that the album was fast-tracked—being released a mere three months after final touches on the mixing and mastering were completed—rather than what I find more compelling—the DRM-free download that allows you to decide how much to pay for it...
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The View
It's not often that one can get an inside peek at the creative process around the making of a video. Sure they might be packed onto those Enhanced CDs that everyone seems to be annoying listeners with these days, but does anyone really watch them? Well The View shows us that we should really appreciate the old fun-filled, days of drinking in the morning, with debauchery in the afternoon. It's entertaining, even for a new fan.
Posted on 04.19.2007 by J-Sin
Goo Goo Dolls
The Goo Goo Dolls return to the US for their North American tour beginning November 4th in support of their latest album, Let Love In. The group has just finished up the new single's music video for the album's title track. Still reeling from a triumphant sold-out tour of the U.K., The Goo Goo Dolls return home for another North American tour in support of their new album Let Love In. The tour will sweep across the US and Canada beginning November 4 in Seattle and wind down in Anaheim, California for a special New Year's Eve show.
The new video for album’s title track and current single, "Let Love In," premiered on MySpace.Com on Tuesday, October 17, 2006. The clip was filmed in Los Angeles and directed by P.R. Brown (Death Cab For Cutie, Billy Corgan, Audioslave).
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Posted on 10.25.2006 by