Ville on the cover of Rock Sound

And I'm going to scour Louisville to find one.  I hated living Cincinnati, but it did have one good thing about it - it was easy to find hard-to-find magazine.  Wah waaaah.

HIM U.S. Tour Dates announced.

It's been so long Ville.  I long for the smell of your b.o. and stale cigarette smoke...  Mwah!  Oh, and apparently he's stopped drinking.  I'll believe it when I see it.

3/26 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of the Living Arts
3/27 Baltimore, MD Sonar
3/28 Boston, MA House of Blues
3/30 Montreal, QC Metropolis
3/31 Toronto, ON Sound Academy
4/01 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
4/02 Pontiac, MI Clutch Cargo
4/03 Cincinnati, OH Bogarts
4/07 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
4/09 Chicago, IL House of Blues
4/10 Milwaukee, WI The Rave
4/13 Calgary, AB MacEwen Hall
4/14 Edmonton, AB Event Center
4/16 Vancouver, BC Commodore Theatre
4/17 Seattle, WA Showbox SoDo
4/18 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre
4/20 San Francisco, CA Regency Ballroom
4/21 Anaheim, CA House of Blues
4/23 Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern
4/24 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
4/25 San Diego, CA House of Blues
4/27 Englewood, CO Gothic Theatre
4/29 Dallas, TX House of Blues
4/30 Houston, TX House of Blues
5/02 Orlando, FL House of Blues
5/03 Atlanta, GA Center Stage
5/04 Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues
5/07 New York, NY The Fillmore at Irving Plaza
Ville = hilarious on We Need To Talk... Don't miss this.  I actually LOL'd at the David Hasselhoff reference.

Buy your own him sex cuffs.  No really.

HIM - Heartkiller video

Life has been hectic the past few weeks so I'm a little delayed but I did get to go to New York and see Ms. S it made it all worth it.  Anyway, HIM released their video for the first single off of their new album, Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice.  Heartkiller as a song is fair but as a video is strange and has a pretty low production video but you get some good shots of Ville's new ink, skinny body, aging face and Lindes ridiculously long hair.


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He's still sex on a stick and yes, I am aware it's 2010 and that saying is passe.  Don't care.

And MetalHammer gives a play by play for the tracklisting.

Musicians send holiday wishes and ideas for world peace...nice one, Ville.

HIM announcing tours starting in December

Normally I would be disappointed since there isn't anything scheduled in the US (as far as I know), however, at least there is something.  Jesus Christ.  This is only the first HIM post this year and it's November.  It's like coming home again, no?  *squee*

Watch a video from about a week ago of Ville talking about the work on the new album.



F*cking sexy.  Good lord.  Oh, and the album is supposed to be out in February.  Stop it.  I can't even talk about it.  BTW - check out our Facebook to see a pic of me with the amazing Mr. Valo.

What's so impressive about a diamond...

Inapproriate music videos! nme

For every one time John Mayer is funny (yes, he can sometimes make a joke) there are 10 times that he's an idiot. nymag

Oasis is still broken up. Yahoo

For all you crazy Fall Out Boy fans and Pete Wentz stalkers - please control yourself. The level of creepy just isn't worth it. Besides, we're in a recession, remember? You crazy kids, get off my lawn! Kerrang

And ew. I love skinny boys who look like they're about to die (ahem Ville Valo) but Russell Brand is just too far. He's so.....sweaty. I don't know, just ew. NyDailyNews

HIM to begin working on new album!

It's been quite a while since HIM released Venus Doom but I am pleased to announce that after our long wait, they will begin working on a new album in August with a tentative release date of early 2010.

The working title for the new album is SCREAMWORKS: Love in Theory and Practice

Can't wait to hear the new stuff!

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Gym Class Heroes to embark on UK tour.

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New Guitar Hero will feature songs by Jimi Hendrix.

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Johnny Truant singer dislocates knee - band cancels July tour dates.

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Ville Valo discusses NOT being a sperm donor in the new Kerrang!.

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Newish video on innerpartysystem YouTube page.

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By the way, I totally got tickets to the Coheed Neverender show in New York. Yay!

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Details about "Guitar Hero: World Tour" announced.

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In the same vein - "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" have been beathing life into new music as well as classics.

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Red Hot Chili Peppers taking a year off.

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Ville Valo feeds the haters because he like sto "stir the pot" so to speak.

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Secret performers for the Atticus DIY show are calling themselves, "The River People." I"m going to take a calculated guess here and say it's probably going to be Madina Lake.

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As Alanis prepares for the realease of her album, people just can't keep talking about Ryan Reynolds. I have said this before and I will say it again - I'm sure she was heartbroken when it happened but trust this - Scarlett Johansson might be younger and a popular actress but she will never be able to help him get a real acting career and she's so f*cking boring I could die. Tom Waits anyone? That album sucks ass.

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Kerrang! interviews performers at Give It A Name.

Fightstar and Ville from HIM (he's at about 4:25 if you want to fast forward) and Ville is acting a little on the bizarre side...



Madina Lake and All American Rejects. (also at 4:25)

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Prince covers Radiohead at Coachella.

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NIN tries to beat scalpers.

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Kill Hannah for Download 2008.

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Ville Valo once referred to this band as being like drinking Jack and Pepsi as opposed to Jack and Coke. He's hilarious.

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Want 4 lifetime tickets to Coachella? Find Roger Waters' pig.

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Ville on cover of Kerrang!

HIM releasing live DVD

HIM will release "Digital Versatile Doom: Live at the Orpheum Theatre" on March 11th. I hate to be that guy, but HIM are pretty hit or miss live and if you don't agree you're lying. I've seen them three times and the first two it kind of sucked. Anyway, I'm sure many of you will buy this and I trust that you will be honest in your critique because if I go buy it and it sucks I'll hunt you down and grind your bones to make my bread.

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HIM for Sweden's Hultsfred festival - here

HIM also slated for Rock am Ring and Rock im Park in Germany - here

God. He IS a sexy bitch, isn't he?

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Madina Lake interview at Rock Sound.

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Amy Winehouse to appear in Norwegian court.

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Ville Valo Christmas interview.

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Over-production has made music sound like crap - which is why we go to shows.

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Speaking of shows - apparently some insiders think tickets for these shows aren't high enough. They can't possibly be serious...

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Sebastian Bach is retarted.

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Rolling Stone rates the top 25 album covers of 2007.

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The Black Parade is officially dead.

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New Panic at the Disco in their blog - check the last song in the playlist.

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Kerrang! Readers Poll 2007

The results are in however you have to read the issue to find out who won.

In the mean time, relish in the fact that Gerard Way and Jared Leto were voted Sexiest Female of 2007. hahahaha

Jared had this response:

"That's fucking hilarious!," writes Leto. "Maybe next year you guys can make an exception for Gerard and I?"..."I hope all the Kerrang! readers are great and please send them a warm happy X-Mas, boxing day, and merry kwanza from the band."

Ha!

Read more about the Kerrang! Readers Poll here and in the new issue of Kerrang! which by the way features Ville on the cover - you can't go wrong!

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Some video goodness

The new video for HIM's, Bleed Well



Speaking of HIM - Rolling Stone is having readers guess who will be on the cover of their new issue. I immediately saw the scarf and thought Ville Valo but surely RR isn't hip enough to put a band like HIM on the cover...

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Fall Out Boy covers Pantera



White Stripes with, Conquest.

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Pink Floyd to release huge boxed set.

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Live footage from A7X's "Halloween" show in Hollywood, CA.

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This song is terrible. Not kind of terrible, truly awful. I mean, she uses the word "frickin'." Britney Spears: making the south look bad since 2001.

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Amy Winehouse vows to stay sober before and during shows on her current tour but was very clear that she had no intention of staying sober after them. I guess she gets points for being honest, right?

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Led Zeppelin to release digital boxed set in mid-November.

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Rock Sound, a day late and a dollar short reports on Ville getting knocked out by Jonna. Might I remind everyone again that this news is older than baseball. Ok, maybe not that old, but it's old.

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Seriously, Evan Rachel Wood getting a recording contract? Apparently they give them to anyone these days. She's a weirdo anyway. I'm sure it won't last long.

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Johnny Rotten likes to, as I say, "stir the pot", no?

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Part of me thinks this is sacreligious but the other part of me thinks that John Varvados is one of the only acceptable people to pull this off. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

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Interview with Ville - Avenged album in its entirety

Another video interview with Ville Valo. They mentioned this on Blabbermouth and made a crack about him getting beat up by a former girlfriend. Then explained that an "unnamed" woman blacked his eye and burst his ear drum by screaming into it. Either I am obsessesed or Blabbermouth needs to get on their game. Is this were HIM Jeopardy, this question would only be worth $400.



Listen to the full Avenged Sevenfold album at MTV.com. Click here

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Amy Winehouse arrested for drugs. This one is just too easy.

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Paul Raven of Ministry has died.

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Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes talks double edged sword of winning "Best New Artist" at the VMA's.

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DAATH loses singer; looks for new one.

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Patrick Stump(y) talks new FOB album.

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If you want to feel old, read this list of one-hit-wonders.

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Once, I almost got into a fist fight with a girl working at Steak N Shake - but at least it wasn't Waffle House.

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HIM video interview

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HIM might be in talks to write new Bond theme

Amy Winehouse has drank and drugged herself right out of singing the next Bond theme reports contactmusic.com. The singer has been dropped from talks to perform the theme for the 22nd installment in the James Bond series. I can't however say I am disappointed. Word on the street is that the producers are in talks with none other than Ville Valo to perform the song.

My first reaction was, "GET OUT! I LOVE IT!" (if you know me you know that's probably what I said verbatim.)

Thanks I. Am. Pineapple. for the heads up - you rule.

Link - http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/winehouse%20dumped%20from%20bond%20theme_1047093

(I'm using Safari and blogger doesn't support it - I'll link it later)