Dream Theater Exclusive!

Our first real "Exclusive!" How exciting! This has not been publically announced yet, so this is the only place you will find it!

I have found out through some of my connections that Dream Theater is a few signatures away from signing with....RoadRunner Records!!

Very interesting situation on both ends. I think we may see Dream Theater make the turn from a guilty pleasure to a band with a competitive, fighting chance against today's band. What do you think about this partnership?

*if you plan on reposting this, help a small page out and attach our names! Let us get in trouble for letting the cat out of the bag! haha MEOW!

20 best songs of the past 20 years

The list, developed by British magazine, Q leaves much to be desired. However, I don't Rolling Stones critique really is much better.

Q's original list:

1. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Nirvana, 1991

2. “Hey Ya!” OutKast, 2003

3. “Sweet Child O’ Mine” Guns N’ Roses, 1987

4. “Unfinished Symphony” Massive Attack, 1991

5. “One” U2, 1991

6. “Live Forever” Oasis, 1994

7. “Bitter Sweet Symphony” The Verve, 1997

8. “Common People” Pulp, 1995

9. “There She Goes” The LA’s, 1990

10. “7 Nation Army” The White Stripes, 2003

11. “Song 2″ Blur, 1997

12. “Crazy” Gnarls Barkley, 2006

13. “Angels” Robbie Williams, 1997

14. ” … Baby One More Time” Britney Spears, 1999

15. “Personal Jesus” Depeche Mode, 1990

16. “Like A Prayer” Madonna, 1989

17. “Firestarter” The Prodigy, 1997

18. “Brimful of Asha” Cornershop, 1997

19. “Stan” Eminem, 2000

20. “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” Arctic Monkeys, 2006

Rolling Stones evaluation hereI pose 2 questions:

1.) Who do you think should have been on this list? I'll tell you my choices tomorrow.

2.) This may start some drama, but does anyone else think that Nirvana is completely overrated? Why do they ALWAYS make it to the top of lists. Does it have more to do with thier talent, their murder of hair metal or Kurt's death?

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Gwen Stefani talks No Doubt reunion. Could it be because the new album apparently bites ass?

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Some CKY news for those of you who are into them.

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Cradle of Filth US tour dates

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Vegas is about to get luckier than usual.

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"I don't understand how the last card is played"

This post will contain a story about Ville and a story about Bam and they have a smidge to do with one another. I'm not Bam fangirl, and I don't like posting things about the two of them together. However, see if you can find the fairly obvious reason I am connecting the Bam story to one about Ville.

Ville to make vocal appearance on new Finnish album, "Synkkien Laulujen Maa" (The Land Of Dark Songs).

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Listen to audio here - I have no idea what they are saying, if anyone does, leave us a translation.

Bam Margera is in talks to direct the new Cradle of Filth video. Surprise, surprise...(here is where you are supposed to make the connection)

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Speaking of Ville, why does he look so damn poor? It's like Oliver Twist meets Johnny Depp when he's off his meds. I love you Ville, but seriously, shower. Please. Look I'll even offer my services to help. ;)

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Evanescence video interview

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Guns & Roses kick "Pigeons of S**t Metal" off tour.

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Alcohol giveth and alcohol taketh away.

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This made me throw up in my mouth a little...and I HATE Stevie Nicks.

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Jared Leto is kind of a poon

I am tired of Jared Leto being pretentious. He would like for you to believe that he is a musical genius who is misunderstood. I haven’t misunderstood, I just think he’s confused and thinks that people care enough about 30 Seconds to Mars that he is allowed to be weird and strategically “deep.” Let’s discuss his many, MANY discrepancies in this area.

- He is a man-whore. He uses girls like normal people use Kleenex. I like to think of him as a male version of Jennifer Love Hewitt. Look at their dating history. They begin dating people who are receiving media attention to get themselves in the spotlight and as soon as that light begins to dim, they immediately lose interest.

- He’s apparently an asshole when fans aren’t around. When I saw them live he was very accommodating to fans, offering autographs pictures, blah, blah, blah. However, after hearing accounts from several promoters and production managers during 30STM tours, he’s a completely self-important shmuck.

- When 30 STM started, he was obsessed with hiding his identity. He would become infuriated if people mentioned his actor past when discussing the band. For the entire first album, he would not show his face and wore his hair over his eyes. For months no one knew what he looked like. My opinion? When he realized no one was picking up what he was laying down he decided that maybe letting swooning girls buy his albums for his looks wasn’t so bad afterall.

- Oh yes…for those of you who were shocked when I previously announced he was and is an actor – SURPRISE! See his acting credits here

- Lastly and most disturbing (this relates to No. 1) he has dated and most likely slept with Lindsay Lohan. Ew. If you don’t believe me check out these pictures. She is also rumored to have an Echelon tattoo on her foot that he drew and she had tattooed over. If my memory serves me correctly, she also wore Echelon bracelets in her “Confessions” video which I attempted to find and wasn’t able to find. If you ask me, the video was altered after their relationship fell to shambles. I know, it sounds like a far stretch, but I am fairly sure that at one time, they were there.

In closing, I kind of like 30 Seconds to Mars. They’re decent musicians who come up with listenable songs and I don’t even really mind the faux emo/goth thing they have going on, but Jared Leto needs stop being a hypocrite and be what he is. He’s an actor who always wanted to be a musician and only now has this come to fruition.Watch him in all his “My So Called Life” glory:

Yes, that's him singing with the guitar.
And here is the new 30 Seconds to Mars video which put me on this rant in the first place.

5 Most Unintentionally Funny Albums of 2006

Cracked magazine is a low-rent Mad magazine. They rip off jokes, they use bathroom humor and they pretty much suck ass, so please, take what I am about to tell you with a grain of salt.

They have announced their list of the 5 Most Unintentionally Funny Albums of 2006.

1.) Inhuman Rampage by Dragon Force
2.) The Life Pursuit by Belle and Sebastian
3.) Jibbs Feat Jibbs by Jibbs
4.) Amputechture by Mars Volta
and last, a choice that is very poorly calculated
5.) The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance

I know...I know. It doesn't even make me mad, it just makes me feel sorry for them. Even if you don't like MCR, there are very few things funny on that album. This just proves that most people who write about music have no right to do so. For their stupidity, I am not even going to link to them. They don't deserve the traffic.

Here was their explaination for why they chose MCR:
"Nobody knows why Queen worked. Maybe it was the ’70s. Maybe it was Freddie Mercury’s magical mustache. By all logic, a band fronted by a man wearing white spandex overalls who sings rock-operas about riding a bicycle should not work. But it did and unless you’re one of the many millions of people who find them incredibly annoying, Queen was good in a creative, tongue-in-cheek way, and that was that. Now comes the thing known as My Chemical Romance, a bunch of sniveling little pop-punk MTV cretins who think they can just throw on some marching band uniforms and recreate “Bohemian Rhapsody.” Sure, Brian May could rock circles around My Chemical Romance. And yes, even with his head in a bucket of water Freddie could out-sing their weenie lead singer. But the most important thing here is that Queen had a sense of humor about their over-the-top rock, while My Chemical Romance takes it all so seriously. You think that in 20 years people will be performing karaoke to “Son when you grow up, would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned?” Or will they be screaming “Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?!” Epics are either really fun or kickass: you can either be funny and flamboyant like Queen or surly and awesome like Lynard Skynard. But you can’t shop at Hot Topic and cry about your daddy."

This is what he pays me for. I'll show you how it's done.

My grrrl Shirley Manson is getting closer to releasing her solo album. The former frontwoman for Garbage was one of the riot girls of the 90's.

She has several musicians helping her with the project including Jack White and....big shocker! Billy Corgan. I told you he was the Kevin Bacon of the 90's music scene. Anyway, the album is expected to release in 2007 and I hope I don't end up putting my foot in my mouth the way I did when I found about the solo Gwen project.

(insert game show loser noise here)

Does anyone else remember how bad ass she was? I wanted bright red hair for like a year.
Oh my god...this video is so 90's

MCR on the cover of RockSound

MCR is on the cover of RockSound

Also, RockSound is doing their annual Readers Poll.

Put in your votes here

Additional Deftones tour dates announced

U.S. tour:

Dec. 08 - Chicago, IL - The Riviera
Dec. 10 - Cleveland, OH - HOB
Dec. 11 - Detroit, MI - Clutch Cargos
Dec. 13 - Louisville, KY - Headliners
Dec. 14 - Nashville, TN - City Hall
Dec. 17 - Tulsa, OK - Cains
Dec. 18 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theatre
Dec. 19 - Minneapolis, MN - First Ave

European tour:

Mar. 08 - Liverpool, UK - University
Mar. 09 - Leeds, UK - University
Mar. 11 - Manchester, UK - Academy
Mar. 12 - Glasgow, UK - Academy
Mar. 13 - Newcastle, UK - Academy
Mar. 14 - Nottingham, UK - Rock City
Mar. 15 - Birmingham, UK - Academy
Mar. 16 - Norwich, UK - UEAMar. 18 - Bristol, UK - Academy
Mar. 19 - Portsmouth, UK - Guildhall
Mar. 20 - London, UK - Brixton Academy
Mar. 22 - Paris, France - Olympia
Mar. 23 - Weisbaden, Germany - Schlachthof
Mar. 24 - Koln, Germany - E-Werk
Mar. 25 - Tillberg, Holland - 013
Mar. 26 - Hamburg, Germany - Docks
Mar. 27 - Berlin, Germany - Columbiahalle
Mar. 29 - Dortmund, Germany - Westhafallenhalle
Mar. 30 - Dijon, France - Zenith
Mar. 31 - Munich, Germany - Elserhalle
Apr. 03 - Zurich, Switzerland - Volkshaus
Apr. 04 - Milan, Italy - Alcatrazz
Apr. 06 - Clermont-Ferrad, France - Coop de Mai
Apr. 09 - Amsterdam, Holland - Paradiso
Apr. 10 - Brussels, Belgium - Halles de Schaerbeek

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Doesn't this seem kind of selfish?

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Fall Out Boy announce name for new album

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Why does Jared Leto always have to act like he's so damn deep? Wake up! You're not Yoda!

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Cradle of Filth lose drummer

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The Used, Senses Fail, 30 Seconds To Mars, Saosin, Chiodos, Aiden and Evaline are all scheduled to appear for the Taste of Chaos tour next year, beginning Feb. 15th in Seattle.

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Sunshine! Justin Hawkins was faking! Well, I don't know if he was or not, but he apparently starting a solo project. hmmm

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Eternal Thoughts of the Sunshine Mind pt. 2

October 25th (and we all know how tiring and monumental Oct 24th was) I started a new Pastry Chef position. It is a fairly basic menu, but still an adjustment. That weekend I also attended a family wedding upstate. I returned Monday, to my new job and CMJ. I tried with (almost) all my might to catch Tokyo Police Club and The Horrors and yet was unable to do so. However, the week was still a well balanced, good time! Tuesday, Halloween, I dressed up and went down to my local beer garden/bbq (owned by my roommate) and terrorized the clientele in 2 ways.
- First, I was the only person in the joint dressed up (in bloody vampire gore) for the first 2 hours of the evening. During this 2 hour period I consumed a burger (I was sorely tempted to order tartar for effect) and as many Jameson's neat as my roommate would pour me consecutively.

Second, I decided that the music selection was unpalatable, ran home to gather a 'better' selection, and 'forced' the bartender (again, my roommate) to play the cd's I had provided. The selection I deigned Halloween appropriate was: 36 Crazy Fists, A Snow Capped Romance; Mastodon, Blood Mountain; Headbangers Ball, Vol. 2; My Chemical Romance, The Black Parade; The Blood Brothers, Young Machetes; and the Skeleton Crew Sampler. (I take any chance I can get to introduce folks to Leathermouth!) Almost everyone enjoyed the selection but when he finally said we should quiet it down some, I drunkenly insisted that he replay all the quieter tracks on The Black Parade semi-against his will. Oh alcohol and aggressive rock can make me a little bit rascally.

Wednesday, 2 of my absolutely fave bands of this year played together at Club Midway. I met my friend Scott at Midway right before The Rinse took the stage. They rocked out a FANTASTIC set! They were all gussied up and James, the guitarist even had a penciled on mustache. So fancy! Wills, the singer, was boundlessly energized and energizing, as usual, setting up the vibe for the rest of the night. 3 more of my friends arrive after The Rinse, but in time for the next band, Read Yellow, who fucking blew the doors off the place. I don't know if I'm hanging out with the wrong crowd but all of my friends jumped ship on this performance because they all thought it was 'too loud'. Regardless of the noise level, the frontman 'rocked out (nearly) with his cock out'! Fuck! I haven't seen a performer like that since Jack Black. This guy went NUTS, careening all over the stage and floor and singing his heart out. Punk rock, with full control, never crashing into anything, no matter how hard he flailed. "The dictionary defininition of the word spastic." Gritty, guitar-y indie rock out of Boston. Check them out. Then, my darlings, Scissors For Lefty closed out the show with their second performance of the evening. They opened with 'Ghetto Ways'and ran with it from there, playing a few songs I hadn't heard yet. Bryan is as charming, delightful and tasty as a frontman could be! A fantastic show! LOVE!

Friday, an attempt was made to attend Tokyo Police Club at Mercury Lounge with a CMJ pass my friend found on the street. Unfortunately, twaty Albert Hammond, Jr. was playing directly after our boys so the starfuckers were out in full effect which precluded our entrance to the venue, pass or no pass. Little did I know Ira was djing a metal set 1 block away at Guero.

Saturday, I baked chocolate cupcakes with peppermint buttercream for my folks, The Rinse and skipped down to The Tank to see them with 2 of my friends who hadn't heard them yet. Directly before they came on Hello Nurse delighted us with a performance that was fun, catchy, dynamic and not wholey unlike Fall Out Boy sans eyeliner. The Rinse's performance blew my friends away and they left excited and promising to see them again! They have recently recorded an e.p. so I'm hoping they will be able to make it available soon.

So I played Guitar Hero II...

for, like, 2 hours yesterday and another 2 today. Not exactly the marathon I expected, but plenty of time just the same. While overall I am not really impressed with the covers (most of the vocals sound like bad karaoke) it is fun. My only beef with the game as compared to the last one is that the "Hard" level is WAAAYYY too hard. From "Medium" to "Hard" is such a leap I thought I had accidentally set it on "Expert." I will tell you though, "Beast and the Harlot" is about as bad-assed as it gets. Its owns you and your mother. Oh, and please, don't think my counterpart and myself didn't get our fill, we made it to Freebird. Oh yeah.

Apparently Jonathan David of Korn loves it too. I knew that man had good taste. ;)

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This is shit...bit it's hilarious

Britney Spears has filed for divorce. It's about damn time.

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and they're now calling him "Fed-Ex." ...and you thought Bennifer and Brangelina was bad. geez.

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Jay Z has been accused of being a devil-worshipper. Please, rap has taken over the radio, please don't steal the last sacred thing metal has had to keep the morons out of the genre.

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Michael Jackson plans on scaring children and their mothers at the World Music Awards next week with a performance of his classic song, Thriller. Well, the good news if that his broke ass will save on a make-up artist this time around. Ooooh burn!

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"And the dead start to walk in their masquerade There's no escapin' the jaws of the alien this time"

She has lost her damn mind.

Here is the cover for the new Gwen Stefani album - I hate her again.

Read about our long, torrid, love affair here.

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Eighteen Visions have extended their US tour.

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News about the AFI DVD

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Courtney Love to publish her diaries. Like anyone cares...

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Evanescence's new album, The Open Door, has gone platinum and they are scheduled to appear on David Letterman.

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Christopher Walken has signed on to play Ozzy in Crue movie.

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Maybe that obnoxious friend with all the bulletins was right...

Could MySpace be on the road to charging for licensed content? MySpace along with owner, Rupert Murdoch has been under heavy pressure for their lax rules regarding copyrighted material. The new decision still allows you to use whatever you want for your page (music, videos, etc.) but you would now have to pay a small fee to do so.Now, I am no expert at internet social communities but without getting too technical, I know a thing or two about business. Let me explain what it wrong with this picture:

1.) I am NOT giving my credit card to a website that can't keep people from phishing my password.

2.) The majority of people on here are under the age of 25 and most of them can't afford to pay anything or don't have a means (via credit cards, bank accounts) to pay anything.

3.) One of the selling factors for MySpace vs. other social sites is that you can share music and videos - two things of which I will NOT pay for on here.

4.) They make enough money off of advertising that this should ot even be discussed.

5.) Does this mean that eventually we actually will have to pay for MySpace. Ya'll better forget all that! I'm not paying shit for this crappy site that usually doesn't work. I will tell you though, in the event that they do begin making people pay; WE WILL NOT BE SHUT DOWN!

Shit, if I'm going to pay to use a page, we'll get a real page and you guys can just come play with us there!

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AFI news!

AFI are on the cover of Revolver this month. I also see from the cover that there's some My Chem in there too. Something for everyone!

They will also be headling the 91x “Nightmare Before Xmas” on Sunday, December 10th. Tickets are available for pre-order at Ticketmaster.com. The password is XMAS. For all of you out there stoked about the magazine having AFI and My Chem - guess what? MCR is the supporting band for the show, along with Taking Back Sunday! I know, seriously, don't shit your pants, no one wants to clean up the mess.

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Kanye West is an idiot

I won't go into the many, MANY reasons why I think he's a moron. I think we'e covered some of them earlier in the semester. I came upon this article today (which is a little old, but I feel is necessary to say something about it) in which the writer discusses Mr. West's recent behavior at the European MTV Awards. I would paraphrase it myself, but it's been done so beautifully by our buddies at ArjanWrites.com. I promise, it's worth the read:

"It all went down after Justice Vs. Simian were the surprise winners of the Best Video Award for "We Are Your Friends." The band was not available and two representatives accepted the award on the group's behalf. Visibly ticked off, Kanye West crashed the stage to upset their acceptance speech.

West, who was nominated in the same category, ran his big mouth and said: "Fuck this! My video cost a million dollars (. . ..) If I don't win this award, this show loses credibility." He also added that he had not seen Justice Vs. Simian's video. The live footage quickly turned to a commercial.

The show's presenter Justin Timberlake tried to ease the moment after the break by making a clever remark. "Kanye West will be accepting awards he didn't win in the parking lot after the show," he quipped. "I've got sexy covered, it is good to see someone is bringing crazy back." Touche! West admitted backstage that he had drunk too much "sippy, sippy."

I can't even describe how big of an asshole this guy is. I mean, I'm an asshole so forme to say that; he must really have something wrong in his head.

If one of you sees him in public and doesn't bust him in the jaw, I'm personally coming after you.

Tours: Buckcherry and Genesis - no, not together

Buckcherry are touring heavily to support their new album which has just gone gold.

November 200610 - Grand Rapids, MI - Orbit Room11 - Flint, MI - Machine Shop13 - Allentown, PA - Crocodile Rock Cafe14 - Charlotte, NC - Amos' Southend16 - Hilton Head Island, SC - Monkey Business17 - Sarasota, FL - Charlotte County Fairgrounds18 - Jacksonville, FL - Planet Fest at Met Park20 - Atlanta, GA - Coca Cola Roxy Theatre22 - Canton, OH - Palace Theatre24 - Chicago, IL - Metro25 - Sauget, IL - Pop's27 - Youngstown, OH - The Wedge28 - Johnstown, PA - North Central Events Center29 - Georgetown, DE - Great Slate's Pool HallDecember 20061 - Orlando, FL - Tinker Field2 - West Palm Beach, FL - Sound Advice Amphitheatre10 - Wichita, KS - Cotillion16 - San Bernadino, CA -Morongo Casino

Also, Genesis, with Phil Collins might I add is preparing to tour themselves. I don't care what you say, Phil Collins and Genesis are the shit. They're not metal, and they're not emo or screamo or any other -mo's, but they're the shit.

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Led Zeppelin really need to get over themselves. I love them, I do. However, this is pretty damn stupid and childish.

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Evanescence guitarist headbangs his way to a stroke.

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It just keeps getting worse.

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Gerard's Umbrella Academy series preview!

Our wonderful Sunshine has brought this to our attention:

DarkHorse.com had the sneak peek into the new comic series

"The Umbrella Academy tells the story of seven extraordinary, maladjusted individuals and their plight to protect the planet. The series begins when the Umbrella Academy, now grown-up and disbanded, learn their adoptive father, Sir Reginald Hargreeves, aka The Monocle, has died. When the former team members become aware of a new world-ending threat, they must put their personal and inter-personal problems aside and unite the super-group once more to do what they were born to do--save the world. While continuing to work on the first series, Gerard has put together a special web comic strip as a preview."

A sign of the Apocolypse

Hannah Montana, a Disney television star and daughter of Achy Breaky Heart singer, Billy Ray Cyrus, released an album last week and unfortunately, it took the number one spot. Yes, kids, that means it beat My Chemical Romance who were number 2.

I have a few statements:

- Little kids are better manipulators than teenagers when it comes to getting money from mom.

- Adults need to buy more albums.

- Adults and teenagers need to buy fewer Hannah Montana albums.

The only thing more sad is that "High School Musical," also associated with Disney seems pretty cheezy is the only album this year to sell 3 million copies. Geez...

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Despite the shortfall to Ms. Montana, the album did go gold.

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Bitch and Moan club

Tom Delonge now hates Blink 182 and claims they suck ass. His exact words to the other members and fans were that the music was pop "bullshit."

"I don't want to be in a bullshit pop band with bullshit pop songs while you drive your fucking bullshit car and sing along to it like you're some 14-year-old girl."

HAHAHA Like Angles and Airwaves isn't pop bullshit. HAHAHA

Hold on, let me catch my breath. HAHAHAHA

Hold on....

Ok, I'm good now.

I hate Blink 182, but now I know for sure that Tom Delonge sucks.

A picture of happier times - he dosn't seem too heart-broken here does he?

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What is it about Victory and Roadrunner that makes all it's bands hate one another? We all know from my previous post that From First To Last and Atreyu on not on good terms. It's getting uglier. Now they are arguing about money. I hate to break it to them, but they both had better take what they can get - bands like them never turn into the Rolling Stones. Ride the snake kids...ride the snake. Wait, that's about drugs. Ride the wave. There, that's better.

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You think you know an unsigned band that could make a million dollars? Put your money where your mouth is.

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Jonathan Davis to star in another scary movie.

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Tool to tour the US in the Spring.

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Pepper's Ghost holds a special place in our hearts since they're good friends of one of our favs., Silvertide. Find out about them here.