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Friday evening, the new STP song “Between The Lines” leaked!
It’s from their first new full length record in over a decade (self titled, out in May)
If you’ve been a fan of the band in the past, there’s no reason why you won’t like this song a lot…heck it even has Scott Weiland talking about drugs. THAT is the STP we know and love.
Check it out here:
Over the last six months, I’ve seen THREE Major news anchors get beat on Jeopardy.
Not just beat, destroyed.
Example #1:
Andy Richter making Wolf Blitzer look like a fool
scroll to 7 minutes in for the short version of “maximum beatdown”
Example #2
Chris Matthews…host of Hardball had the best showing of the three, but in reality, stunk up the show until a late surge pulled him back into the realm of respectability.
Scroll into 6:45 for Final Jeopardy
Example #3
Anderson Cooper, the silver fox. Without question my favorite/the coolest host on CNN. I’ve been a big fan since back in the days when he was risking his life in reports for for Channel 1 (a current events broadcast that ran before our morning announcements in High School)
Now, here he is….getting worked by Cheech Marin on Jeopardy
However, in typical Cooper fashion, he is all class and takes his beating with style.
What kind of bizzaro world are we living in?
Jessica Simpson answering legit questions about her possibly joining the Smashing Pumpkins?
What’s Next? A 45 year old Courtney Love posting letters of apology to Billy Corgan on her Facebook page?
uh oh.
Yes! I just found the GG Allin Rarities Record I've Been Looking for
We all know that CD sales have been steadily declining over the last decade and a half. The fact of the matter is that you can get music in easier/cheaper (sometimes free) places. Long gone are the days where an artist will sell a million copies of an album in a week.
Most major record companies have been very slow to evolve and have lost millions because of it. However, one of those companies now thinks it has the answer.
Music Industry giant Universal Music Group announced plans to reduce the price of it’s single disc albums to $10 or less. With this price shift, profit margins will go down, but the company is gambling that volume of product sold will dramatically increase.
Brillant? Or Too Little, Too Late
The $10 price tag obviously brings to mind I-tunes, who also sells who records for that price.
It also begs the big question…Would you rather have the convenience of buying a record at home and sacrifice a physical copy of the album/artwork etc OR make the trip to the record store, enjoy everything entailed in that “experience”, have a physical copy of the record etc.
For me, it’s an easy answer…I would rather go to the record store. Not because I’m in love with the physical”Cd” format, that can die a quick death, but because the experience of going to the store, poking around, and walking out with 5 more records that I meant to buy is awesome.
I feel as more time passes, that train of thought is in the minority, and that’s a sad reality.
I don’t think that record stores will ever go away entirely. One bright spot has been the resurgence of vinyl over the last couple of years. There will always be people that are looking for what only a record store can provide. However, as more time passes, it seems like it will become more and more niche.
A great time to go out and support your local record store is “National Record Store Day” on April 17th. All sorts of artists are involved providing limited edition releases, performance etc. Get more info here
Alex Chilton, the singer/guitarist of Big Star & The Box Tops passed away yesterday at a hospital in New Orleans of a suspected Heart Attack. He was 59 years old.
The Memphis native was said to have complained about his health earlier on Wednesday, before being taken to hospital by paramedics.
Chilton was still very active and was scheduled to play a gig in Austin for SxSw this weekend with Big Star.
A HUGE influence for a lot of the music we play on The End, 2 of the biggest artists that have credited Chilton are R.E.M. and of course The Replacements who named one of their best songs “Alex Chilton”
The Replacements Alex Chilton
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The honeymoon has long been over for President Barack Obama as the realities of being president have set, however, it’s nice to see he still has time to fill out his bracket
One MAJOR beef….a first round loss for the UW? Really?
Billy Corgan and Courtney Love have quite the relationship
The cliffnotes:
Billy helped Courtney write most of 1998’s “Celebrity Skin”
Rumors of a “romantic relationship”
Somewhere along the way, there was a big fight…they hate each other
reconcilliation
another big fight…
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another big fight…
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another big fight…
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another big fight…
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Billy helps Courtney write songs for the forthcoming “Nobody’s Daughter”
a HUGE fight
and that pretty much brings us to the last couple weeks.
Billy says he has a “no contact” policy with Courtney. He also says this about the songs they wrote together for the new “Hole” record
“it would be a real big problem, because I haven’t given my permission. I have no interest in supporting her in any way, shape or form. You can’t throw enough things down the abyss with a person like that.”
Courtney hasn’t been shy about her feelings toward Billy…as evidenced in her interview with Red earlier this week
courtney love billy is a dick (2)
Then, in typical Courtney fashion…a mere 48 hours later, an attempt at reconcilliation
from her Facebook page
“Dearest Billy:
I love you, I love your strong and eternal heart, even love the f***ed up gnarly amazing magnificent bigger-than-god louder-than-love karma of the songs you write and allow me to fly with. We have again created beauty from the agony between us, all the buried and unburied anguish, all that is true, that is gold, that is meant to be is within this endless and somehow eternal cycle of Billy & Courtney. I hope you will take my sincerest apologies for all the thousand ways I sometimes offend you, because I know you are a king, a prince, and my beautiful noble boy. No one will ever force my hand, nothing will come between the truth of what we are:
Eternal lovers
Eternal fighters
Eternal warriors.
Let the forces and the shock and awe loose from its cages, all credit where it is due. I love and you and can never thank you enough.Your soul (and you know this).
Xxx CLC”
My guess is that Billy doesn’t take the bait
P.S. It’s been awhile since we’ve had a good ole Rock n Roll fued…nice work you two.
Still the best…
I just wanna know “Where da Gold At?”
It would be awesome if this was a cover off of Radiohead’s “The Bends” (Rapid Decompression?)…however, it’s not
In all honesty, I’ve always been a moderate fan of Against Me!. Never LOVED the band, but never hated them either.
That appears to be changing
I’ve heard 3 songs from “White Crosses”, the bands 5th record that is scheduled to come out in June…and they have all been incredible. Butch Vig produced the record and his very distinct “big” and “polished” style works very well with the songs Against Me! are writing these days.
The band was recently in town and stopped by The End’s studio’s to answer some questions from Red.
They also performed a couple of the new songs from the record acoustic. You can check that out here.
Against Me Teenage Anarchist (2)
Here’s a video the band shot at Spaceland in LA for a track off the new record.
‘Rapid Decompression’
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