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New Amanda Palmer video is out
Today Amanda Palmer released another video for her album Theatre Is Evil, which gained her popularity for her raising over a million dollars on Kickstarter for the making of the album. The song is titled “Do It With A Rockstar”, and the video is a little NSFW.
via amandapalmer.net
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Punchline’s Weezer Tribute
Punchline is one of the most underrated bands in my book. They are amazing, and yesterday they posted a video of them performing all Weezer songs. It’s pretty much the best thing I’ve seen in a long time.via stevepunchline on Youtube
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MCS covering Ben Folds Five’s “Army” in Austin, TX
How perfect is this? I saw Ben Folds last month, and am seeing Motion City for the tenth time or something (I lost count) in a couple weeks. Can’t wait. -
Chris Carrabba covers Weezer’s “El Scorcho”
Chris Carrabba does a great cover of the classic Weezer song “El Scorcho”.
via AltPress
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Ben Fold Five concert tonight
Here is Ben Folds Five latest video. I’ve seen Ben Folds in concert, but tonight will be my first time seeing Ben Fold Five. Kate Miller-Heidke is opening for them. She opened for Ben Folds the last time I saw him, and was really good. I’m looking forward to seeing her again too. Here is the video for my favorite song of hers titled “Caught in the Crowd”.
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Best Coast covering “About a Girl”
My all time favorite album, Nevermind, turned 21 earlier this week. This is a pretty good cover of “About a Girl”, by Best Coast—which wasn’t on Nevermind—but still a great Nirvana song.
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Justin Pierre (Motion City Soundtrack) performs acoustic version of “Broken Heart”
Justin Pierre from Motion City Soundtrack just recently started a Tumblr blog. It’s a great one to follow. He is posting cool videos and shit.
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Tony Sly’s final performance
Three of my favorite punk bands from the 90s are NOFX, Lagwagon, and No Use For A Name. We sadly lost Tony Sly from No Use For A Name on July 31st. This video was was the very last song he ever performed live. It was a NOFX cover he played with Joey Cape from Lagwagon. In case you don’t know, that’s Joey Cape on the left and Tony Sly on the right. I still can’t believe Tony Sly is gone.
via Punknews.org
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RIP Tony Sly
One of my rock heroes died today. I’ve been a No Use For A Name fan since the early 90s. I own all their albums. I’m lucky enough to have seen No Use… in concert once, and Tony performing his solo music once. 41 is way too young to go. No details have been released yet on the cause of death. I’m still keeping my fingers crossed that it’s just a big hoax, but I kind of doubt it. Here are some videos to remember the great Tony Sly, and his band, No Use For A Name.
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Fuck You Aurora
I kind of forgot about the Alkaline Trio song “Fuck You Aurora” until today. It was probably one of my favorites off their 2000 album Maybe I’ll Catch Fire. The song most likely refers to Aurora, IL, but recent events have sure changed the meaning of this song to me. Here are the Lyrics:
My, my what a mess we’ve made
Of our pretty little heads these days.
It appears a heavy wind’s blown through here recently.
Best wishes have been made for you.
You never had no say it’s true.
You have to be the cutest gravedigger I’ve ever seen.
And all your lonely nights
In the city of lights are much like
All these crowded bars I so often find my stupid self-stumbling through.
My, my what a mess was made of my head
When I heard what you’d been through that day.
It appears a violent storm’s passed through you recently.
Letters meant to be sent have been torn.
The phone lies off the hook, on the floor.
All these "I’m sorry"s and "I miss you"s are useless.
I fucked this one up long ago.
And all your lonely nights
In the city of lights are much like
All these crowded bars I so often find my stupid self-stumbling through.
Fuck you Aurora, you took my only friend.
And although it’s all my fault,
The blaming myself had to come to an end. So I say:
Fuck you Aurora, you took my only friend.
You won’t catch me behind the wheel
Of a Chrysler ever again.
My, my what a mess we’ve made
Of our precious little lives these days.
It appears a big fucking tornado has twisted us up recently.
Best wishes have been made for you.
You never had no say it’s true.
You have to be the cutest gravedigger I’ve ever seen.
And all your lonely nights in the city of lights are much like
All these crowded bars I so often find my stupid self-stumbling through.
Fuck you Aurora, you took my only friend.
And although it’s all my fault,
The blaming myself had to come to an end. So I say:
Fuck you Aurora, you took my only friend.
You won’t catch me behind the wheel
Of a Chrysler ever again