^i've been hearing some of their stuff on my Sirius XMU channel. its pretty good. the channel itself ain't half bad either.

8/3/2010 10:35:57 PM

No idea if this is appropriate or not, but has anyone checked out Rick Ross - Teflon Don?

Not normally my style, but I dig it.

8/4/2010 12:11:07 AM

soooooo, weezer signed to epitaph

that either means they'll continue to sound more and more like shitty punk from 1998

or they'll go off the deep end of weirdness, which could be pretty cool

8/5/2010 11:23:06 AM

Epitaph is picking up all kinds of bands way past the peak of their career within the past few years... thursday, every time i die, new found glory, alkaline trio...

stylistically it is a weird signing for weezer, but then again all 4 of those other post-peak bands they picked up sound extremely different from each other too.

either way I don't see them writing anything I enjoy again anytime soon.

[Edited on August 5, 2010 at 11:34 AM. Reason : ]

8/5/2010 11:32:14 AM

Damnit, I've given up hope on Weezer making another good record and then given them another chance, only to be massively disappointed again, about 3985 times. And they only get worse. But this probably means that Geffen heard the new record and hated it, which could mean it's good, which only means I have to give Weezer ANOTHER chance, only to be disappointed again. We'll see.

In reality, though, I doubt they'll make another good record unless Matt Sharp rejoins them.

8/5/2010 11:38:43 AM

apparently the Arcade Fire show at MSG last night was the greatest show ever

this is pretty hilarious though:

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"Live: The Arcade Fire Basically Own Madison Square Garden Now By Rob Harvilla, Thu., Aug. 5 2010 @ 7:30AM Gold medal, stage banter, 2010: "I have to say my favorite part of Madison Square Garden is this area right over here," announces Win Butler, gesturing toward a spot to his right maybe halfway back into the general-admission pit seething on the floor before him. The people he's pointing at are thrilled at the compliment, until... "But that's only because that's where Hakeem Olajuwon blocked John Starks in game six for the Houston Rockets to win!" Shock, revulsion, rampant boos, band launches into "Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)." Amazing. I don't want to get all zeitgeist-y on you people, but Arcade Fire played Madison Square Garden, and, like, filled it, both with rapturous fans (the chorus to "Wake Up" was full-participation soccer-stadium euphoria) and the chaotic enormity of their sound, nine extraordinarily chipper and energetic people tossing instruments (giant drums! bullhorns on sticks! a hurdy-gurdy!) back and forth seemingly at random (Régine Chassagne in particular reminded me of when a showoff baseball player tries to play all nine positions, an inning at a time), their vaguely arena-sounding indie rock magically turning into actual arena rock. This means something. A paradigm shift, a generational cataclysm. Did we win? Did we lose? Who's "we"? The point is they sounded like they belonged there, and were treated as such. Tonight's high points were just deliriously, deliriously high: Régine pirouetting through a fizzy, thrashing "Haiti"; Win looming over the limb-flailing GA pit and shouting the climactic commands of "No Cars Go" ("Women and children? Let's go!") into a mic held by a crowd member; the abrupt "Crown of Love" transition from pearls-clutching torch song to deranged disco anthem. The pandemonium only flagged during a handful of new tracks from The Suburbs, but even those fared alright: The way-less-ponderous "Rococo" bolstered by two full-kit drummers bashing away beneath some overzealous lighting, "Month of May" fast and cheap and out of control, elegant mega-anthem "We Used to Wait" the obvious keeper. Stuff from Funeral dwarfed everything, though -- these guys were huge enough to fill stadiums at the onset. Just had to wait for the people. So yes, even if you hate the Arcade Fire (hopefully you've at least tried not to), it's awfully hard not to find this impressive, that they can fill this joint (twice! have fun tonight, Terry Gilliam!) and invite Spoon along for a 15-song (!!) set only slightly less triumphant, that band's wonky minimalist stuff ("Nobody Gets Me But You," say, or the double-piano rant "The Ghost of You Lingers") somehow just as grandiose and anthemic as their actual quasi-pop songs. Plus peripheral AF dude Owen Pallett opening with orchestral-prog looped-violin soundscapes, echoing in an oddly beautiful way within a then-half-empty basketball stadium, a small but rapt crowd looking on, standing right at the spot where Hakeem Olajuwon once denied John Starks. Yep, this is arena rock now. Splendid. Set Lists: Arcade Fire "Ready to Start" "Neighborhood #2 (Laika)" "No Cars Go" "Haiti" "Half Light II (No Celebration)" "Rococo" "The Suburbs" "Crown of Love" "Intervention" "We Used to Wait" "Neighborhood #3 (Power Lines)" "Rebellion (Lies)" "Month of May" "Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)" (encore) "Keep the Car Running" "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" "Wake Up""

8/5/2010 12:03:48 PM

i could keep Sprawl II on repeat all day

8/5/2010 12:17:50 PM

had the same conversation with a friend last night

we both concurred

8/5/2010 12:23:15 PM

according to my friend's text last night:

"this [was] absolutely jaw-droppingly incredible"

this will be excellent tonight.

8/5/2010 12:27:00 PM

unless tonight's show sucks

which i don't hope for or expect

but it could happen

8/5/2010 12:32:14 PM

Can't fucking wait for tomorrow night's show

8/5/2010 12:32:39 PM

my friend was front row at that MSG show last night. she said it was incredible

and I too like Teflon Don

8/5/2010 5:16:04 PM

^^me either. where are your seats at MPP? left center rear here.

[Edited on August 5, 2010 at 5:47 PM. Reason : -]

8/5/2010 5:46:41 PM

Not sure, they're waiting for me at will call because they're from the label. Honestly, I just hope they're pit tickets. I'm not too concerned with sitting; I want to get semi-close to the stage.

8/5/2010 6:11:58 PM

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"that new megafaun ep or whatever is niiiiiiiceeee"

8/5/2010 6:28:23 PM

^^ when I saw them at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium a couple of years ago, right before the first song, Win instructed anybody that wanted to get closer to the stage to come up, tickets be damned

8/5/2010 6:30:22 PM

Haha, that's awesome. I hope he does again, that'd be cool. I can't really imagine being seated for a high-energy show like tomorrow's should be.

8/5/2010 6:38:00 PM

well if you have seats you obviously don't use them for sitting.

8/5/2010 6:41:22 PM

Yeah, I know. Like I said, just be cool to get kinda close. If Win does what he did in Asheville a couple years ago, no worries

8/5/2010 6:46:30 PM

look on the ground for better tickets.

i did this at radiohead in wpb a few years ago and upgraded from lawn to pretty close

8/5/2010 6:49:18 PM

haha i'll keep my eyes peeled. my plan was to try to make a deal w/ a scalper who had pit tix if mine are seated. pay him for the upgrade.

8/5/2010 6:59:29 PM

My friends said they killed it in Boston, too. Wish i could have gone. Have fun!

8/5/2010 11:07:21 PM

new kings of leon entitled come around sundown set for october 19. i feel like i heard them say this album would be more like their old stuff, but i also feel like this never happens when bands have said similar things in the past. maybe they realized how shitty their last 2 albums were or something.

8/7/2010 12:29:05 AM

Arcade Fire show at MPP was totally mind-blowing. Here's the setlist:

Ready to Start
Month of May
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
The Well and the Lighthouse
Half Light II (No Celebration)
Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
No Cars Go
Haiti
Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
The Suburbs
The Suburbs (Continued)
Modern Man
Rococo
Intervention
We Used to Wait
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Rebellion (Lies)

ENCORE:
Keep the Car Running
Wake Up

The songs off The Suburbs didn't seem to get the crowd going nearly as much as the older songs. But that's probably because a lot of people just aren't as familiar with the stuff off The Suburbs yet. But, those last 4 songs they played were completely unreal. It made so much sense to see those songs being played that loud to a crowd that big. To hear that many people singing along with "Rebellion (Lies)" and "Wake Up" was nothing short of rapturous. It really felt like a lot of those songs on Funeral were meant to be played that big.

There was a little fuck-up 5 songs into the set when their drum machine broke in the middle of "Half Light II" and Win just stopped singing the song, referencing the broken drum machine. Instead of trying to finish the song, they just went into "Laika" and the crowd got right back into it.

[Edited on August 7, 2010 at 1:30 PM. Reason : .]

8/7/2010 1:28:02 PM

it's funny how much I enjoy "Sprawl II" by itself, but even more so when I listen to "Sprawl" first.

8/7/2010 2:10:45 PM

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"new kings of leon entitled come around sundown set for october 19. i feel like i heard them say this album would be more like their old stuff, but i also feel like this never happens when bands have said similar things in the past. maybe they realized how shitty their last 2 albums were or something."

youth and young manhood plzzzzzzzzzzzzz

8/7/2010 9:50:00 PM

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"soooooo, weezer signed to epitaph that either means they'll continue to sound more and more like shitty punk from 1998 or they'll go off the deep end of weirdness, which could be pretty cool"

the comments from Rivers make it sound like the "shitty punk" route is the way they are going to go.

it's insane to me that so many people, myself included, still give a shit about Weezer despite nothing but bad albums for the last decade (Green Album soft spot, excluded).

8/8/2010 12:22:49 PM

Can't get enough of the new Miniature Tigers. Shit is sooooooo catchy

Also,

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"it's insane to me that so many people, myself included, still give a shit about Weezer despite nothing but bad albums for the last decade (Green Album soft spot, excluded)"

(seconded)


[Edited on August 8, 2010 at 12:24 PM. Reason : .]

8/8/2010 12:23:30 PM

fuck Weezer.

8/8/2010 12:54:02 PM

never understood weezer's appeal.

8/8/2010 12:59:39 PM

See, I can never revert to "fuck Weezer." Pinkerton is too fucking good.

8/8/2010 1:06:18 PM

Suburbs is $3.99 on Amazon FWIW
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003X73QA8/ref=dm_ty_alb

8/8/2010 9:44:02 PM

Weezer was so good at Bonnaroo and I will love Rivers Cuomo unconditionally forever as a result.



[Edited on August 9, 2010 at 4:41 AM. Reason : .]

8/9/2010 4:39:04 AM

i wouldn't call the new Weezer song good, but it's probably better than all of Raditude

the verses are awful though

8/9/2010 12:52:21 PM

I didn't even know they had a new album coming out until I read it in this thread, and I probably would have considered myself to be the biggest Weezer obsessive on this forum at one point in time.

wtf:

8/9/2010 3:06:16 PM

late to the game but this love language album is awesome

8/9/2010 4:00:20 PM

I lol'd at this part of the Pitchfork interview with Rivers:

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""We just wanted to use that picture of Jorge Garcia's face on the cover. It's such an amazing album cover, and we didn't want to have any other words on it, so we just figured everyone was going to call it Hurley, so that's what we call it.""

And this:

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"Pitchfork: Some people reacted negatively to the mainstream pop production and sound of Raditude. Does Hurley continue with that sound or is it different? RC: Hurley is definitely a raw, unpolished, high energy "alt-rock" album. Pitchfork: Now that you're on an independent label is your music going to be more "indie" i.e. less polished and pop-sounding? RC: No. Pitchfork: Are any of the songs you did with Katy Perry going to be on this new Weezer album? RC: Nope. Pitchfork: Are there any more Weezer-brand products in the works a la the Wuggie? RC: No."

Insightful, Rivers.

8/9/2010 4:04:11 PM

8/9/2010 7:04:26 PM

i know it's not 2010, but i really dig the phosphorescent willie nelson tribute cd.

8/9/2010 8:00:22 PM

some really cool songs on ODDSAC

sounds like a mix between MPP and Here Comes the Indian or something

8/9/2010 8:06:58 PM

^^^woah. props to the malkster for keepin' on.

8/9/2010 9:24:14 PM

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"The rest of the summer was the best we ever had. We watched Titanic and it didn't make us sad. I took you to Best Buy, you took me home to meet your mom and dad"

these lines are the reason why i can revert to "fuck weezer" and the reason why i left that show 30 seconds after i stopped to watch it at bonnaroo. pinkerton and the blue album be damned, this is a horrible, horrible group.

[Edited on August 9, 2010 at 9:45 PM. Reason : .]

8/9/2010 9:45:05 PM

^this. gospel.

8/10/2010 12:25:35 AM

soundgarden is releasing telephantasm on september 28th

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"Soundgarden's recent reunion will come full circle with "Telephantasm," the rock group's first release in 14 years, due out Sept. 28 on A&M/UMe. The retrospective album will feature the band's hits, previously released obscurities and "Black Rain," a never-before-heard track from the "Badmotorfinger" recording sessions."

it's probably safe to assume "black rain" rules. i'm not sure what the point of this is considering a-sides was literally the exact same thing. apparently they were really good at lollapalooza this weekend, so i'm hoping for a tour some time soon.

8/10/2010 12:56:00 AM

I'd pay top billin' for a Soundgarden show.

8/10/2010 1:07:39 AM

i think i'd pay top billing for a soundgarden show 15 years ago. actually i probably still would now. i was kinda too young to see them in their prime.

8/10/2010 1:28:59 AM

a perfect circle's facebook page posted some weird new note which seems to suggest the band is coming back together, it came up on my newsfeed and it's getting a lot of buzz

it'd weird that a lot of my favorite metal band's that I thought were dead are coming back together lately, metallica actually did something worthwhile, iron maiden has had a big resurgence in quality since a brave new world (and I think they are releasing another album very soon and hardcore fans should pay attention because their last album was BRILLIANT), alice in chains, and now soundgarden if this pans out

8/10/2010 3:13:49 AM

i knew maynard james keenan had supposedly been working on new stuff with tool, but i wasn't aware of APC. i wonder if they'll retain the same lineup from thirteenth step. i'd like to see paz lenchantin return since i'm a fan of her work. she was pretty awesome with the entrance band at bonnaroo.

not sure how alice in chains and soundgarden would be considered metal though.

8/10/2010 3:29:18 AM

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"@lancearmstrong The new Arcade Fire is for real."

LOL

8/10/2010 2:30:09 PM

hahaha

i kind of hate that guy

but i do love in his new commercial when he yells, "ALPHONSE!"

8/10/2010 2:34:52 PM