I was just doing research for my part of our “Top 107 Songs from the Beginning of The End” countdown that starts tomorrow and came across this pivotal moment from my childhood.

If there was a time I ever thought about using drugs, seeing Jesse Spano’s decent into the darkness got those thoughts right out of my head.

Scott Weiland from STP is a man of many talents.

Without question one of the most charismatic rock front-men of the last 20 years.  He’s also an author, a poet, a big fan of Notre Dame Football, drug addict, convicted felon etc.

Well, now we can add one more thing to that long list of accomplishments…creator of a Christmas Album.

Yes, Weiland is bringing the Yuletide cheer this holiday season revealing in a recent interview that he is in the middle of recording the album now.

“I’m picking various versions of these songs because they’ve been covered so many times,” said Weiland.

There’s rumored to be a reggae version of “Little Drummer Boy.” and a couple of secular songs thrown in there as well.

This isn’t his first time tackling the genre….if you remember he did “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” last year

P.S. We’re hearing that STP will return to the NW for a big show sometime in late October/Early November.  Keep listening to The End for details.

Here’s the trailer for the new Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, 28 Days Later) movie starring James Franco.

It’s the story of  Aaron Ralston, the American mountain climber who was forced to amputate his lower right arm after being stuck for days after a fall

We’re a little over 2 months away from Conan’s TBS debut in November.  Here’s what they are going to call it.

Never short of good idea’s, the guys in Radiohead have just made available a “fan made” concert DVD for absolutely free.

Last year at a show in Prague, the guys gave 50 fans flip cameras to record the entire evening.  The footage was pieced together, pro audio was used from the band and the ultimate DIY video was born.  Pretty cool.

The film is available in a number of formats right here.  Careful, according to Consequence of Sound it’s running slow right now due to high demand.

The creators of the video ask only that you honor the fact that this is “Strictly not for sale — By the fans, for the fans. Please share and enjoy.”

Here’s a taste of what it looks like:

“Idioteque”

Everyone knows Green Day’s “American Idiot” record.  The album that turned the band into a Grammy winning, Broadway starring, Arena filling mega-group.

However, did you know that before the guys started working on “American Idiot” they had another record COMPLETELY finished and the only reason it didn’t come out was because someone stole the master tapes from the studio?

The band has said that it’s probably best that they didn’t release “Cigarettes and Valentines” because it forced them into a creative space where they could create “American Idiot”.  That and producer Rob Cavallo basically said the record kinda stunk

While recording a forthcoming “live” record in Colorado last week, the guys took the opportunity to bust the title track from “Cigarettes and Valentines”.  LUckily for us, someone brought their phone.

The new Facebook movie “The Social Network” seems to be getting more and more interesting.

With 2 very cool looking trailers and a lot of VERY talented people on board (Director David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin) this could easily be one of the best movies of an otherwise pretty bleak year at the box office.

Well to pile more coolness on top of the already large pile of coolness that is this movie, Trent Reznor and NIN producer Atticus Ross are scoring the film and we have new music!!!

According to 130BPM this is a clip called “Hard Cover Bruise”

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – “Hand Covers Bruise” (No Piano) by Some Kind of Awesome

Like most people Reznor approached the idea of a “Facebook” movie with a little caution.  However, after reading the script and seeing what the people involved with the project were doing with it he jumped in head first.

We should see the entire soundtrack sometime before the movie comes out on October 1st.

Eddie Vedder co-headlined a benefit show for the West Memphis Three over the weekend in Little Rock, Arkansas (with the Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines?).

It turns out a number of their famous friends also came out to help the cause of three men who have been in jail for years despite strong evidence pointing towards their innocence.

Ben Harper played a set,  Jospeh Arthur was on hand for some songs and then craziness began.

Johnny Depp!?! came out to play guitar on a song with Vedder and the legendary Patti Smith.  Here they are doing the Smith song “Dancing Barefoot”

At that point all they could do to top that moment was have everyone on stage for a good ole fashioned sing a long, this one to the tune of Smith’s “People Have the Power”

Brooklyn duo Matt & Kim’s highly anticipated 3rd record “Sidewalks” is coming out November 2nd and we have your first listen to the first single “Cameras” right here.

“Cameras”
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The song is available for download exclusively on I-Tunes starting TODAY (8/31)!!!

The band has already mapped out an extensive tour leading to the release of the record including a stop at the Showbox Market on September 28th. Tickets are available right here.

Check out Matt & Kim chatting backstage with GregR at Lollapalooza and while you’re at it, hear ‘em discussing “Cameras” with MTV about 20 feet away.

Vampire Weekend has posted on their Facebook the reason for canceling last nights show at Marymoor Park.

Here’s what they had to say

Dear Seattle,

We are incredibly sorry about our last minute cancellation last night in Redmond – the decision wasn’t taken lightly. Ezra had some vocal issues earlier in the day, but felt like he was improving however, while he was warming up just moments prior to our set time he lost his voice completely and was unable to perform. He was then taken to the ER and diagnosed with inflamed vocal cords and the doctor ordered him to not perform for 48 hours. Even so, we still wanted to perform but by that point it was clear that any performance we could give would have been essentially instrumental and nowhere close to what we or the audience was expecting.

We know you all had to wait around for the announcement, and many of you came a long way to be there, and again – we truly apologize.

Earlier in the day, the band did manage to pull off an End Session, highlights are coming soon to 1077theend.com

As far what you can do with your unused ticket from last nights show, the promoter has said

Refunds at point of purchase.
We are working with artist management to reschedule the show and should have something to announce soon.