So we’ve got a few “new” records coming out we figured we should tell you about as “Buddyhead: the record label”. First up, hot off the press, is the 400 Blows “The Average Guy” 7 inch. Here are two songs that’ll never cease to bum people out. Guaranteed to bum out parents, roommates, girlfriends, boyfriends… just about anyone! We pressed 300 on marijuana green and 700 on cocaine clear. Yeah we know cocaine isn’t clear, but use your imagination dickfore. You can buy those on our online store in a week or so, or from the band at shows, or at Amoeba in Hollywood. If you’re a distributor or record store that wants to carry this, email travis@buddyhead.com and he’ll hook that shit up! Next up we’ll have the Burning Brides “Leave No Gashes” LP with two exclusive bonus tracks on a bonus 7 inch from the same recording session that you won’t be able to get anywhere else. Shit will be all color vinyl and limited, not to mention radical as always.

As you might have read on the front page of Buddyhead, we took down all the old articles and interviews and we’re starting fresh and clean like a women’s douche. Chew on this salty Mark Arm (Mudhoney) interview. More on the way soon.

Weezer is going on tour with The Pixies. Thousands of fat nerdy emo gorilla girls are already sweating just at the thought of this.

The Black Crowes are going on tour with Tom Petty this summer. Siiiiick.

Remember when you were in grade school, and you had a really cool shirt that you were stoked on, and then some jock dude, or dork or something showed up one day wearing the same shirt and it bummed out your world cos now some nimrod who was a complete piece of shit and had nothing to do with you personality wise almost kinda resembled you in some small way. Yeah… every time we see a picture of that terrible band My Chemical Romance, we feel kinda like that. Not that Aaron is fat like that kid… but dude, cut the shit with the eye makeup and moves.

Speaking of My Chemical Romance, Green Day’s gonna go on tour with them. Dudes everywhere who have fat little brothers that wear their mom’s makeup and follow them around can relate.

Queens Of The Stone Age are gonna play The Music Box (Henry Fonda) in Hollywood four or five nights in a row at the end of their US tour. Their record comes out on March 22.

Billy Idol got to put out another record. Nobody cares.

How come Courtney Love doesn’t have a reality show yet?

Seeing as how that movie “Ray” made money, Hollywood’s gonna start pumping out more movies about the lives of rockers. Get ready for Pink playing Janis Joplin (we’re so not making this up), Leo Gregory playing Brian Jones, Michael Pitt playing Kurt Cobain, Joaquin Phoenix playing Johnny Cash (don’t forget that square bitch Reese Witherspoon as his wife, June Carter) and a bunch of people playing Bob Dylan. Oh and they’re also making a movie about that frat guy who invented Napster on accident. That’ll be a thriller!

So we saw Ian Brown play the House Of Blues here in Los Angeles and it was anything but boring. Homeboy played some songs off his solo records (most of em were from his newest one “Solarized) as well as the obligatory Stone Roses songs. He didn’t do “Tell Me” or “I Am The Resurrection” like he promised when we interviewed him at the Kroq inland invasion, but then again he’s Ian Brown and he can do whatever the fuck he wants. That includes starting the same Stone Roses song three times due to “the bass being too loud mate” and complaining about the sound (we think that’s what he was saying) the entire show. He still can’t quite hit most of the notes on The Stone Roses material, but he was surprisingly nailing his solo songs. Yeah Ian was in rare form. Even if he wasn’t, Travis wouldn’t notice cos he’s tone deaf and has a crush on this limey. From the sounds of things he was in even rarer form by the time his mini tour hit San Francisco where he got into a soccer style fistfight! The story goes like this… Ian stops the show after three songs to complain about the sound and a fan jumps on stage and tackles him, and the two start throwing punches. His band members jumped in and pulled the attacker from him and then after a 15 minute break they finished the set. Brown was arrested later that night at his hotel and taken in for questioning by SF pigs but no charges have been pressed as of yet. Ian will be performing on the Conan O’Brien show on Wednesday March 23rd, and MTV on Subterranean on Friday 25th. Let’s hope he kicks the living piss outta that poser who hosts Subterranean. We wanna see blood!

David Lee Roth has been on talk radio lately here in Los Angeles on 97.1 FM (same station as Howard Stern and Tom Leykis). Homeboy still only talks about what women he wants to bone and he sounds like he’s blowing through some big rails on the commercial breaks. If anyone knows how to contact Diamond Dave, let us know cuz we got some shit to talk to him about.

LA Weekly has a new music editor and it’s none other than #1 Incubus fan Kate Sullivan! Yep, these “music journalists” sure fail upwards. Go ahead and dig through some old Spin magazines where homegirl wrote a whole article about how hot that douche bag singer guy is. She just wrote a piece about what a bummer it’s gonna be come April 1st when “Indie 103 FM” gets dumped by Clear Channel. We highly disagree.

Yeah, you heard us right… The story is on April 1st Clear Channel is being forced by the FCC to drop one of it’s radio stations. So Indie 103 is getting the hatchet… most likely. Which means if we’re lucky no more Dave Navarro talking about how he waxes his chest (not even joking either), in fact no more of Camp Freddy (who are hands down the most out of touch “rock star” douche bags around these parts. And mind you these parts have lots), no more of those “mashups”, no more “indie shows” at the fucking Key Club, no more of that metal show (NO ONE WANTS TO LISTEN TO SLAUGHTER OR ANTHRAX), don’t even get us started on that local show (if we wanted to hear those bands we’d go to the Silverlake Lounge or Spaceland every night!), and we can’t forget Brent Bolthouse whose musical taste rivals your 13 year old sister’s. So if you’re a loyal Indie 103 listener now you’re gonna have to turn on Kroq to hear Green Day and Franz Ferdinand. Bum deal for all the chumps who work there!

Oasis is playing the Hollywood bowl! FUCK YEAH! The only problem is you gotta make sure you show up late or you’re gonna have to sit through Jet’s set of watered down AC/DC and Iggy Pop covers. It’s a bummer Oasis needs Jet to fill that place, but then again if those fucking brits would stop snorting cocaine for a second and just wrote a record half as good as “Definitely Maybe” they wouldn’t have to ask Dave Sardy who should open for em.

Primal Scream are half way through the recording of their next album. In the meantime check out Under the Radar Magazine for an interview Bobby recently did with The Cramps. In it he says he named his new son Lux and at the end of the article there was a line saying a new primal Scream record will be out sometime in 2005.

Jared Leto outfits his whole band at Marc Jacobs. Now if that doesn’t sum up what a bunch of posers those guys are we don’t know what would.

Dead Meadow have released a new record called “Feathers”. Dead Meadow are also officially Matador’s worst selling band ever. How fucking punk is that? Steve, the drummer of Gayrilla Biscuits, is tour managing them right now. If you’re a girl and you like Dead Meadow, please go to the show and jack Steve off.

Speaking of Gayrilla Biscuits, Buddyhead will be releasing another of their records this year.

Stop emailing us about: Fred Durst, Paris Hilton, vinyl pressing info, Nine Inch Nails & unpaid balances.

Anywhoo… Paris Hilton’s sidekick got hacked. The way we see it is, at least this time she’s showing her tits and you can’t hear her talk. As for Fred Durst’s sidekick also getting hacked (we smell a famous dipshits pattern) and wouldn’t you know it, our little chubby/furry friend had a video of him sticking it in some little whore from behind on it. Yeah, now everyone know’s that Fred Durst is prolly the only dude in the world who could make fucking some hot slut from behind look totally fucking boring. And yeah, now everyone’s got confirmation that homeboy DOES have a tiny rocket. A mini me. Yo Fred, Check out this shit.

Speaking of Freddy, Limp BIZkit’s new drummer is none other than Sammy Siegler of Youth Of Today, CIV, Side By Side & Rival Schools “fame”. Sammy, you’re on the other team now homeboy. We hope they’re paying you well for your sins. A new Limp BIZkit record is coming out soon so we’ll all have plenty to laugh at real soon.

Some dude named Trevor Kelly interviewed Weezer for an upcoming Alternative Press cover story a few weeks ago. The interview didn’t go as smoothly as planned due to the band insisting Trevor Kelly was actually Buddyhead’s own Travis Keller. Yeah dude, it’s time you changed your name.

Speaking of Weezer, they just shot a new video at the Playboy mansion last week and they didn’t even fucking invite us?!?! What the fuck Rivers?!?! Thought we were tight. You aren’t invited to our next party, count on it. The word on the street is that Rivers is getting back to the good life. And by that we mean all night cocaine rodeos and teenage asian girls! Fuck yeah! Let us know when the party train rolls through our part of town again Rivers! WOOOOOO HOOOOOO!

Gabe from The Locust is Year Future’s new drummer. Gabe knows how to jack a man off the right way!

Maynard is in a movie and it’s called “Sleeping Dogs Lie”. We’re predicting this launches him into a huge acting career where he’ll play everything from cops to junkie/drug dealer/tattooed rock guys! Check out the trailer: www.sdlmovie.com

Aside from being a huge movie star, Maynard and his Tool friends are jamming the night and days away getting ready to make a new Tool album. We hope this one’s pissed off.

Speaking of dudes in Perfect Circle… Josh Freeze is playing drums for Sting now. Maybe he’ll pick up some of Sting’s tantric sex moves on tour.

Wires On Fire just got back from the South By Southwest music festival infected with various STD’s. If you’re a brit, The Bloodloss Collective are releasing a Wires On Fire 7″ in the UK. It’s limited to 500, and each includes a polaroid photo by none other than Travis Keller.

In between doing heroin and getting haircuts, The Kills managed to put out another record and they still don’t have a drummer. Remember when the girl in this band was chubby and had dreadlocks and was straight edge and shit and sang for a terrible pop punk band?

Dillinger Escape Plan is gonna tour with Slipknot.

Dinosaur Jr is reforming. Simon from Sweet Nothing put out the reissues, check that shit out.

Tony from The Distillers is playing bass for Har Mar Superstar right now on tour.

Fiona Apple’s new record got shelved by Sony. They don’t wanna put it out. So a few labels are trying to get her outta her contract. For now you can download it or stream it u can hear it directly at http://cherrybloss.org On the right of the screen you’ll see a box with light blue lettering that says “Radio Blog”, you can stream the 11 tracks from that. Tracks are:
Not About Love
Red Red Red
Get Him Back
Better Version of Me
Oh Well
Oh Sailer
Used to Love Him
Window
Waltz
Extraordinary Machine
Please Please Please

Watch Frank Zappa fuck fools up on Cross Fire back in the 80s. Click HERE.

Some rapper named “Houston” started tripping balls and tried to jump out of a window to kill himself but was contained in a room where he then gouged his own eye out. Fame’s a bitch. The photo is pretty gnarly, so don’t click HERE if you can’t handle shit like that, or you’re like at work next to old ladies.

Upon hearing about this Houston cat, Bushwick Bill for one of the only rap groups we like, The Geto Boys, came out and said that in 1991, Bill forced his girlfriend to assist him in a suicide attempt, and she shot him in the eye. “Fame will make you crazy,” Bill said. “Fame isn’t for everybody. There are people who have a fear of fame, those who want fame, and those who don’t understand fame. It drives them crazy, because it is a lot of responsibility to be all things to all people, and you can lose yourself in the shuffle, where there are no longer 52 cards in the deck.” Speaking of The Geto Boys, does anyone have their new record “The Foundation”?

Someone emailed us to tell us that some band who have never left California named Run Run Run cover a Mazzy Star song. Too bad it’s her only hit “Fade Into You” and they sound like Hoobastank meets Interpol. You guys are gonna be huge man. You’re all gonna make it. Every single one of you.

Wanna get real bummed on life? Chew on this… Evanescence sold 13 million records. 13 million people with real shit music taste, alive, breathing & breeding. God bless America.

The new Staind record is finished. Sounds to us like homeboy from Staind has been studying the harmonization on the Shat record. Jeff Wood better get some royalties if that shit gets big again.

Speaking of Shat, Jeff Wood is finishing up a new Shat record. WE can’t wait. And Sayrah.net posted Shat on their latest mixtape. http://www.sayrah.net/mixtape.htm

Touch & Go stepped into the 90’s and got a real website. www.touchandgorecords.com

Someone emailed us this… and yeah it doesn’t get any geekier than this shit. So geeky we wouldn’t care to even relay you this info if it wasn’t so goddam funny. This is a conversation between two scenester dorks who post digital photos of other scenesters getting wasted and dancing to ironic music. Hey dudes REALITY CHECK, YOU’RE NOT DOING SOMETHING IMPORTANT! Click HERE

Dimtri from Burning Brides doesn’t just get to put out vinyl versions of his album on cool independent labels, he also gets free shit form a company called vapor brothers. Homeboy is sponsored. No shit. We think they should sponsor us too! Click HERE

Need New Body has signed to Kill Rock Stars. Dale’s apartment in Philly is like a modern day Pee Wee’s Playhouse on acid.

We’re getting one of these for Shat.

Shat got some press on their last short tour. Click HERE and he’s got a new website http://www.jeffwoodofshat.com.

This LA band, Eskimo (hey man we didn’t name em), are looking for someone between the ages of 18-25 to play bass in their band. Their influences range from, but not limited to, Unwound, Fugazi, Frodus, Slowdive, Sonic Youth & Jawbox. You have to be able to tour and pay for a lockout. Check em out here and send them an email to bassbuddyhead@hotmail.com if this sounds like a gig for you.

Our favorite magazine, “Loose Lips Sink Ships” is throwing in the towel… at least for a little while. Good things never last.

So yeah, Aaron is in Nine Inch Nails now. He did not quit The Icarus Line to join Nine Inch Nails. He quit The Icarus Line first, and then the NIN thing came along a couple weeks later. If ya wanna check out what the new NIN looks like in action, go to NIN.com, click on “current”, and then click on that big blob at the top to see the new video for “Hand That Feeds”. As you can see, not much has changed… Aaron’s still wearing black and knocking things over. You could see him doing that shit live at these upcoming shows, but all the fuckers have already sold out… except the festival shows… but you’ll hafta get sun burnt and eat bad gyros at those, so maybe wait till the fall when the boys will play yer local enorma-dome. But if yer impatient, sneak into these shows. Don’t email us to get into these or we’ll send Jeff Wood to your house to kick your ass.
3_23_05: Fresno, CA (Williamsarovan Theatre)
3_24_05: Reno, NV (Reno Hilton Showroom)
3_25_05: Davis, CA (Freeborn Hall)
3_30_05: London, UK (Astoria)
3_31_05: London, UK (Astoria)
4_27_05: San Francisco, CA (The Warfield)
4_28_05: San Francisco, CA (The Warfield)
4_30_05: Las Vegas, NV (The Joint)
5_01_05: Indio, CA (Coachella)
5_03_05: Denver, CO (Fillmore Theatre)
5_04_05: Denver, CO (Fillmore Theatre)
5_06_05: Chicago, IL (Congress Theatre)
5_07_05: Chicago, IL (Congress Theatre)
5_09_05: Toronto, ONT (Koolhaus)
5_10_05: Toronto, ONT (Koolhaus)
5_12_05: Boston, MA (Orpheum Theatre)
5_13_05: Boston, MA (Orpheum Theatre)
5_15_05: NYC, NY (Hammerstein Ballroom)
5_16_05: NYC, NY (Hammerstein Ballroom)
5_18_05: Philly, PA (Electric Factory)
5_19_05: Philly, PA (Electric Factory)
5_21_05: Atlanta, GA (Tabernacle)
5_22_05: Atlanta, GA (Tabernacle)
5_24_05: Houston, TX (Verizon Wireless Theatre)
5_25_05: Austin, TX (Stubbs Bar-B-Q)
5_27_05: Phoenix, AZ (Marquee Theatre)
5_28_05: Phoenix, AZ (Marquee Theatre)
5_30_05: San Diego, CA (Soma)
5_31_05: San Diego, CA (Soma)
6_02_05: Mexico City, Mexico (Sports Palace)
6_10_05: Scheesel, Germany (Hurricane Festival)
6_12_05: Tuttlingen, Germany (Southside Festival)
6_14_05: Vienna, Austria (Outdoor Arena)
6_15_05: Berlin, Germany (Columbia Halle)
6_19_05: Seinajoki, Finland (Provinssrock)
6_22_05: Paris, France (Zenith)
6_24_05: Interlaken, Switzerland (Greenfield Festival)
6_25_05: Oberhausen, Germany (Area 4 Festival)
6_29_05: Barcelona, Spain (Razmatazz)
7_02_05: Werchter, Belgium (Rock Werchter)
7_04_05: London, UK (Brixton Academy)
7_05_05: London, UK (Brixton Academy)
7_07_05: Glasgow, UK (Barrowland)
7_08_05: Birmingham, UK (Academy)
7_10_05: Manchester, UK (Apollo)
7_11_05: Manchester, UK (Apollo)
7_13_05: London, UK (Brixton Academy)
7_14_05: London, UK (Brixton Academy)
8_13_05: Tokyo, Japan (Summersonic Festival)
8_14_05: Osaka, Japan (Summersonic Festival)

Shellac is going on tour. Too bad you gotta live in the butthole of America to see em.
04-13 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
04-14 Milwaukee, WI – Todd Wehr Hall
04-15 Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
04-16 Chicago, IL – Martyrs
04-16 Chicago, IL – Martyrs
04-17 Chicago, IL – Martyrs

DIVEBOMB MARCH 23RD
Main room:
Bad Dudes (12:30)
http://www.baddudes.us
Parts and Labor (11:30)
http://www.partsandlabor.net
Appreciation (10:30)

Alt Lounge:
Books On Tape (10:15)
http://www.beatpunk.com
Raking Bombs (9:15)
http://www.rakingbombs.com/

& GUEST DJ EVAN WEISS (WIRES ON FIRE)… AGAIN
(http://www.wiresonfire.com)

Hosted by Travis Keller & Aaron North
All Ages, Free for +21, $5 for –21, live bands, cheap drinks & loud music.
From 9pm-2am.
$2 Red Stripe Beer from 9pm-10pm.
$3 Vodka drinks all night long.
http://divebombnight.com/

If The Icarus Line haven’t bummed you out yet, vote for em. They’re up for a few categories in the Kerrang Awards (see below), click here to vote.
Best International Newcomer
Best Single (Part The Baby Off)
Best Live Band
Best Album
Best Band on the Planet

Also go to www.fuse.tv and vote “KEEP IT” for The Icarus Line’s “Party the Baby Off” video. They’re up against six other videos chosen for OVEN FRESH. The 1/2 hour TV show plays all the videos and airs Monday -Thursday: 2am EST and 4pm EST (check local listings for times). Good thing we post all this shit for free cuz god knows a banner ad on our site would for sure bust V2’s bank.

WIRES ON FIRE STILL NEED YOUR HELP BOOKING THEIR SUMMER TOUR !!!!
Just back from their west coast tour, and already itching to hit the road again. Yeah these fuckers are doing it DIY style once more… but they still need some fucking help… so help out the fuckin’ scene or something, we’ll give you a cookie if you can help them set up a show, a place to stay, show them what boobs look like (they’re 18.. come on) or anything else, send em an email. Below is the itinerary for their summer of hell tour part 2. If you could help with booking a show, a place to stay, contact information of venues, where to pick up fifteen year old boys, or would like to promote this tour please contact wofbooking@hotmail.com. Tour dates, still need help with “TBA”
July 30th, Friday- Austin – TBA
July 31st, Saturday- Houston – TBA
August 1st, Sunday- New Orleans – TBA
August 2nd, Monday- Gainesville, FL @ Common Grounds
August 3rd, Tuesday- Orlando, FL – TBA
August 4th, Wednesday- Atlanta @ Drunken Unicorn w/ The Letters Organize
August 5th, Thursday- Chapel Hill, NC – TBA
August 6th, Friday- Richmond, VA – TBA
August 7th, Saturday- DC – TBA
August 8th, Sunday- Baltimore/DC – TBA
August 9th, Monday- Philly – TBA
August 10th, Tuesday- Philly/off – TBA
August 11th, Wednesday- New Brunswick, NJ@ Basement Show w/ Listless Lovers
August 12th, Thursday- Brooklyn @ TBA
August 13th, Friday- Dayton @ Elbos w/ Wet Leather and The Vitamin
August 14th, Saturday- Louisville, KY @ Kewswick Democratic Club w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, and Read Yellow
August 15th, Sunday- Clevelend @ Strhess Fest w/ Thursday, Finch, Converge, etc.. www.strhessfest.com for more info
August 16th, Monday- Pittsburg – TBA
August 17th Tuesday- New York, New York @ Knitting Factory w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Drowningman, and An Albatross
August 18th Wednesday- Indianapolis – TBA
August 19th Thursday- Ohama – TBA
August 20th Friday- Kansas City – TBA
August 21st Saturday- Denver @ Laramir Lounge w/ The Starvations *DAYTIME SHOW
August 22nd Sunday- Salt Lake City – TBA

YOUR ENEMIES FRIENDS ARE LEAVING TOWN FINALLY
Your Enemies Friends are all jumping in the van and hitting the road again. They’re headed out to Siren Fest and Hell Fest. Check em out if they come through your shitty town. Plus they’re headed to Norway soon and in the fall will be doing a tour with The Division Of Laura Lee.
July 8 Salt Lake City, UT – SHOW CANCELLED
July 9 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge 21+
July 10 Omaha, NE Ranch Bowl Ent’ment Center
July 11 Iowa City, IA Gabe’s Oasis
July 12 Chicago, IL Subterranean 21+
July 13 Detroit, MI Shelter at St. Andrew’s
July 14 Toledo, OH Headliners Toledo
July 15 Covington, KY Radio Down
July 16 Pittsburgh, PA Club Cafe 21+
July 17 Brooklyn, NY Stillwell Stage at SIREN FEST
(w/Blonde Redhead, The Thermals, …Trail of dead) YEF @ 1:30pm
July 18 Philadelphia. PA North Star Bar 21+
July 19 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
July 20 Buffalo, NY Nietzsche’s 18+
July 22 Poughkeepsie, NY The Loft (w/The Bronx)
July 23 Elizabeth, NJ Hell Fest – Rex Plex Sports Complex YEF @ 5:40pm
July 24 New York, NY  The Knitting Factory (w/The Bronx, Hurry Up Offense, Read Yellow)
July 26 Columbia, SC Headliners Music Hall (w/Thursday, Stretch ArmStrong, Head Automatica)
July 27 Memphis, TN  The Caravan
July 28 Lawrence, KS The Bottleneck
July 30 Raleigh, NC Lincoln Theatre (w/ Thursday)
Aug 12 Oslo, Norway Oya Festival (w/ Spiritualized, Air, Deerhoof)
Aug 22 Los Angeles, Sunset Junction (Blonde Redhead, The Donna’s)

Speaking of… subscribe to AP this month and get a free Your Enemies Friends cd. Yeah they love us for hating them. Click here to do that shit.

Anyways, back to us… we’re in the LA Weekly again this week (well now it’s last week cuz Tom took two weeks to spell check and add to this), click here to read CURSE OF BUDDYHEAD!!!… it’s spine tingling kids!

In other news about us… Some brits are saying that Travis is now the 37th most powerful man in rock n’ roll. We’re not gonna argue…. That’s pretty good for not being able to pay your rent eh? Eminem is right under him at number 38. Read it and weep by clicking here or picking up the new Kerrang..

Speaking of Eminem… Do you remember when MTV reported that story of how Suge Knight showed up at the new 50 Cent video shoot with a bunch of dudes? Well, they made it out to look like he showed up, and promptly took the fuck off, like we do every time we go to some geek record release party where the open bar gets pulled after half an hour and we’d rather be dipping our balls in a broken glass/krazy glue mixture then hanging out with dudes who haven’t realized that singing about your “crush” makes you sound like a 13 year old boy who hasn’t hit puberty yet. Anyway, back to the story… well, the part that MTV forgot to mention is that when Suge showed up everyone ran the fuck out of there. MTV didn’t mention this, cause Eminem’s camp wanted the story squashed and you know, white rappers sell TV spots and aren’t as intimidating to Loder and Gideon.

Jeff Wood wanted to remind all of you how funny the name Loder is. Say it…. Loder.

What’s with Gideon taking off the glasses lately? And more importantly what’s up with that new beard he’s got, it’s giving us the creeps. Dude looks like he’s got a ticket booked to Taiwan for some little boy suckee suckee.

Oh and before we forget… since we’re talking about our boy Gideon… Ian Robinson kinda fucked him up in this little interview thing. Check it out here or instead of sifting through a bunch of words about metal and shit here’s the diss:
“20. Time for Metal Sludge’s Word Association. We mention a name, and you give us your thoughts:
Gideon Yago = Gideon, who’s 25, always referred to himself as an “old school punk kid”, think about that statement and you’ll get a good idea of who he is.”

OK, now Gideon next time you get interviewed mention that Ian has more toys in his house then a 13 year old pimple faced nerd kid whose parents are worried that he doesn’t have any friends, and might grow up gay. Yeah dude, we saw his place on that bullshit show “Cribs” and our geek alarm went off. You can fuck with him on how he hangs out with the that dude who was in Lord of the Rings…cause we all know that shits about as cool as Cher live in concert. Ian keep fucking with Gideon about how he’s a poser, nothing pisses poser punkers off then being called on it. You two should mud wrestle.

So the guy that looks like an aging midget mixed with some sort of demon gnome you’d see on one of the Dio records in the 80’s, Lars Ulrich, missed playing at Donnington’s Download Festival in the UK. Now the official reason was stated as a health condition brought on by stress. Blah Blah, what those pussy rags out in that side of the world wouldn’t mention is this.; we hear that Lars didn’t have just a health condition, instead the dude did way too much blow on their private plane over to the UK and had to make an emergency stop cause dude thought he was going to die. Lars, stay away from the yellow blow, that shit’ll kick your ass!

If the fucking clown from Glassjaw says that his new band Head Automatica sounds like Primal Scream again, we’re going to have to remind everyone about his pooping problem one more time. Cut it out fruitcake.

Speaking of Primal Scream, Mani (also from The Stone Roses) is in a new side band with Peter Hook (New Order) and Andy Rouke (Smiths) which is going to be called either “Freebass” or “Stalingrad”. We say go with Freebase!

Ian Brown (Stone Roses) and Noel Gallagher (Oasis) have written and recorded a new song together that’s slated to be on Ian’s new record. Hopefully it’s not some gay Chemical Brothers bullshit like most of the Ian Brown solo shit is.

Joe Escalante (owner of Kung Fu Records) actually wears New Found Glory hoodies in public and isn’t embarrassed. But then again the dude also is somewhere around 40 and puts out pop punk records.

Hey Indie 103 FM… Yeah we’re talking to you… You guys are fucking pussies. Yeah we know everyone is licking your ass for some reason right now, but we’re blowing the whistle on you corporate rock posers. Here’s a NEWSFLASH: You guys wave the “Indie” flag so hard it’s fucking gross. Because being owned by Clear Channel is pretty fucking “Independent” man. And playing the fuck out of shitty major label bands like The Vines, The Thrills, The Stills, Snow Patrol, Foo Fighters, Auf Der Maur, Muse, Beastie Boys, and The Strokes is pretty fucking “Indie” as well. And in case you didn’t get the memo, putting on shows at The Key Club and The Viper Room is completely fucking lame, you’d be hard pressed to find a lamer venue in Hollywood than either. For those not in the know, The Key Club is a mix of MTV’s “the Grind”, and the Nookie video. No one wants to go to that piece of shit club, who wants to go where Methods Of Mayhem play every weekend? And The Viper room now looks like Dublins plus it ain’t even owned by Johnny Depp anymore so no ones cares at all now. Pull your fucking heads outta your pussies cuz you guys used to play some cool shit before you gave all those geriatrics their little shows. Don’t give us a show though, cuz we’re like young, run an INDIE label in Los Angeles and are in bands that tour. That’d be like lame dude. Plus our playlists (click here to see those) have bands on em that are good and that you’ve never heard… fuck that man! Who wants to hear new music that’s rad? Not you that’s for sure. Play that Beastie Boys song one more time geeks.

Speaking of whhhhhhack, Winner of the “LA Weekly’s Best Radio Show” and self proclaimed “inventor of punk rock”, Steve Jones, pays $250 for facials from the same person who does Jennifer Aniston. Yeah dude, that’s fucking punk. And your shows playlist blows for you being in Sex Pistols. Come to think of it quit announcing you were in the Sex Pistols every fifteen minutes, everyone knows man. And you guys didn’t invent punk rock, The Stooges did. You covered No Fun …so sit down old man. Plus, what have you done for the past 30 years besides trying to cash in on the past and creep out young chicks in Hollywood who have no idea who you’re alzheimers ass is anyway? Did we mention that you’re old? Dork.

And speaking of old dudes on INDIE 103, they gave Henry Rollins a show too. Great, now we get to hear that jock talk about how he used to be in a cool band (Black Flag) but since then all he’s done is make lame jock metal records, lame movies, and lift weighs. Thanks for that INDEPENDENT 103. You guys are rad!

BUDDYHEAD ON LITTLE RADIO EVERY MONDAY NIGHT
Buddyhead Radio is back on the airwaves folks! We shit you not! Every Monday night from 9pm til whenever he feels like it (or until we run out of beer), Travis Keller will be playing records and whatever else happens. Usually he’ll have a “special guest” with him, which means whoever gives him a ride to the station gets to be on the air too!!! You can listen to the show online @ Little Radio (http://www.littleradio.com) or on your FM radio @ 87.9FM if you are in Los Angeles (mainly the east side and Hollywood). Check out this temp radio page http://buddyhead.com/radio/ for updates. While the show is on air, you can instant message them at BUDDYHEADRADIO….

NEXT monday – 07/12/04:Jimmy Hey from All Night Radio (R.I.P.) will be in the studio to play some records.

Oh Boy, Have you seen the new Hives video? It’s so fucked. The creepy guy and the fat guy totally dominate the video… it’s like slightly worse then watching an amputee porno. And their new song is about as exciting as it is watching their bass player try and breath with all his body fat trying to silence him.

The retarded bass player from Korn with the pochahontis braids changed his rap bands name from Fieldy’s Dreams to Fieldy’s Nightmares… whatever dude… just put out another record soon please, that last shit was gold! Easily the funniest shit we’ve ever fucking heard. It’s like “you’re in Korn……..and you rap.” HAHAH. That rules, pure comedy.

Ashlee Simpson has to be the bitch with the least talent to ever grace a tv screen. The best part about the show is watching Jordan Shur (one of the main shitheads at Interscope) tell her she can’t fucking sing. Shit is priceless. The word on the street is one of those creepy twin teens from Good Charlotte is porking her now, they are officially the number one couple begging for a suicide bomber to jump in their SUV.

Glenn Danzig got knocked the fuck out. http://www.azpunk.com We had to laugh, it did kinda rule. Even though the level of retardation in that room was at an all time high, that shit was rad. Looking at that room of people in the video made us wonder: Is Danzig playing nuclear waste disposal centers on this tour or what?

Revolver must’ve realized that filling your magazine cover with 60-year-old hessians who need a B-12 injection just to stay awake during a photo shoot ain’t the way to win over the kids, because it’s launching an all mall-punk magazine called “Threat” this October. Looks like AP won’t be the only place 13-year-old future Republicans get to read about My Chemical Romance and Avenged Sevenfold anymore, but don’t worry dudes — someone forgot to tell both your magazines that mall punk is over.

Speaking of the before mentioned shitty bands, if we see anymore ads or articles or whatever it is that we’re seeing (cause usually we’re skimming as the bands covered in the magazine world are uber shitty these days), with those Avenged Sevenfold or My Chemical Romance dorks in it making gloomy evil faces, we’re going to run and dive headfirst into a pit of lions. HAVE YOU SEEN THESE MONGOLOIDS. It’s like if Hot Topic did a “MAKING THE BAND”, and that lame slut from Fuse TV was Puff Daddy.

Gene Simmons covering Prodigy’s “Firestarter” is quite possibly the worst song in the history of music. Dude totally lost the song. If you’re a KISS fan stop reading our site, we don’t want your kind round here! Stick to tractor pulls and corn dog eating contests. Fucking farmers.

Hey Matt Sorum, we saw you standing in the middle of Sunset stopping traffic so you could take pictures of your band’s lame band’s billboard that’s hanging on the side of the Whisky and that makes you a bigger dork than we originally thought you were. NEWSFLASH: You didn’t play on Appetite.

Speaking of idiots… Word on the street is one of the dudes in that band Plexi (who are also Mark Lanegen’s band and the dudes who were hired by Fred Durst to help him write new limpBIZkit songs) wanna kick the shit outta Travis cuz we posted that LimpbIZkit was practicing at Cole Rehershal and a bunch of people showed up. We only got one thing to say about that and it’s play like a pussy, get fucked like a pussy! The blood is on your hands man, NOT OURS!

Juliette & the Licks signed to Fiddler Records. Wow.. uh.. good work Fiddler. Word on the street is that Juilette likes to get FREAKY! We’re talking crazy shit like getting double teamed by two dudes at once and fist fucked as well. It sounds like she needs to tour with Shat…hey Julette, email Jeff, he’s down for the party JeffWoodofShat@yahoo.com , he’ll stick a Cristal bottle in your ass, open it, and tell you about the time he got crabs, you guys will bro down on the crabs dude. Hopefully the dude who plays guitar for her and was in H2O doesn’t wanna rip our arms off now. That would totally suck. Having arms is rad.

Dead Meadow has some “exclusive” mp3s on the Matador site, oh hey look one of em is their song from “Buddyhead Presents: Gimme Skelter”, sweet! Click here

Wrangler Brutes (members of Born Against, Monorchid) signed to Kill Rock Stars, are gonna record their full length with Steve Albini, and plan tour in fall.

Now that Maynard is done with A Perfect Circle (‘cuz Tool’s getting ready to make a new record), everyone else is doing their own thing. Twiggy is gonna play second guitar for the Burning Brides (that means a few more goth kids at every Brides show), Josh Freeze is gonna play on like 80 different bands records, and James Iha is busy hanging out with models in New York City.

Also thanks to Chris Diaz who had Travis on his show two Wednesdays ago to play some records. Tune into hear Chris’s show every Wednesday from 2pm-6pm on KXLU 88.9FM or listening online via HERE (http://www.kxlu.com/). Also thanks to everyone who listened, called in, and Big Muscle for punching each other and playing two killer songs live on the show.

The Swami finally got his shit together and built a website that’ll brainwash you into liking good music. Click here.

Metal update, Isis has polished the fuck outta their hockey stick guitars so that when they entered the studio a few days ago, they were nice and shiney. They are working on their next album which will come out through Ipecac sometime around October 19th. They also have some new live cds, a cool remix 12 inch (that is sick), and prolly a whole lot more we don’t know about. Check their website for more info: www.sgnl05.com

More metal that we like.. which is rare. The Dillinger Escape Plan put out their new record on July 20th, it’s called Miss Machine. Buy it so that Tom doesn’t have to go back to slangin steaks and Ben doesn’t have to go back to putting his balls on Aaron Icarus. We’re not even gonna mention the monkey costume stories… Oh, and they’re on tour too.
07/07/04 Pinerella Di Cervia, Italy Rock Plant
07/08/04 Lecce, Italy Open Air Festival
07/09/04 Padova, Italy Radio Sherwood Festival
07/10/04 Moutier, Switzerland Knockout Festival
All Dates Below as part of the “F$#cking With The Lights On Tour” 2004
7/18/04 Baltimore, MD United States Otto Bar (w./The Bronx,
Drowningman, An Albatross, Decahedron,
7/19/04 Baltimore, MD United States Otto Bar w./The Bronx, Darkest Hour, Decahedron, The Violence Sequence
7/21/04 Boston, MA United States Middle East w./The Bronx, Read Yellow, Decahedron)
7/25/04 Elizabeth, NJ United States Rex Plex for Hellfest
7/26/04 Toronto, ON Canada Club Rockit w./The Bronx, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Dechaderon, The Violence Sequence
7/27/04 Toronto, ON Canada Club Rockit w./The Bronx, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Dechaderon, The Violence Sequence
7/29/04 Detroit, MI United States Shelter w./The Bronx, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Dechaderon, The Violence Sequence
7/30/04 Cleveland, OH United States Grog Shop w./The Bronx, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Dechaderon, The Violence Sequence
7/31/04 Chicago, IL United States Fireside Bowl w./The Bronx, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Dechaderon
8/01/04 Chicago, IL United States Fireside Bowl w./The Bronx, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Read Yellow
8/03/04 Boulder, CO United States Fox Theater w./ Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow
8/06/04 San Francisco, CA United States Bottom of the Hill w./ Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow
8/07/04 Los Angeles, CA United States Troubadour w./ Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow
8/08/04 Los Angeles, CA United States Troubadour w./ Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow
8/09/04 Phoenix, AZ United States Mason Jar w./ Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow
8/11/04 Austin, TX United States Emo’s w./ Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow
8/12/04 New Orleans, LA United States Parish @ House of Blues w./ Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow
8/13/04 Spartanburg, SC United States Ground Zero w./ Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow
8/14/04 Louisville, KY United States Keswick Democratic Club w./ Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow, Wires on Fire
8/16/04 New York, NY United States Knitting Factory w./ Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow
8/17/04 New York, NY United States Knitting Factory w./Drowningman, An Albatross & Wires on Fire,
8/20/04 Hasslet, Belgium Pukklepopp
8/21/04 Biddinghuzen, Holland Lowlands Festival
8/28/04 Reading, United Kingdom Reading Festival
8/29/04 Leeds, United Kingdom Leeds Festival

Oh and we heard Aaron Icarus is dating a new little lady by the name of “ MARY JANE”… you know “The Bombastic”, “The Chronic”, “The Sticky Icky”, “Ganja”, “El Reefer”, “Pot”, “Grass”, “Weed”, “MARAJUANA!” Welcome to the other side Aaron. Aaron is falling the fuck apart, it’s awesome. 50 bucks says in 6 months he’s blowing old fat dudes for his hourly dope fix, while dressed in pumps and garters. We’re on our way.

Calling all metal art fags with no money, this is your favorite show… Isis are playing a FREE show on July 29th Los Angeles, CA – Museum Of Contemporary Art July 30. SAN PEDRO, CA / HOUSE SHOW@ pun house on 4th Street.

Also check out the label Aaron (from Isis) runs with his bearded buddy Mark, called Hydrahead if you’re not already up on their shit. Dudes make the best looking metal records around. Make sure to check out that new Harkonen / These Arms Are Snakes split EP, shit is fucking sweeeeeeet! http://hydrahead.com/

Oh yeah and Mark from Hydrahead thinks it’s ok to wear his hair in a ponytail. Dude is tripping on the pony tail business. Shits for hippies and yuppies. Dio never rocked a pony tail Mark.

The Fruitbats over at 50-50.com (Hawaiian skate brahs) have posted the first photos of Christian Hosoi skating since the dude got outta jail. Skate or die kids!

http://www.50-50.com/absorb/articles/2004/hosoi_is_back.shtml

Our friend Narduwar, the greatest living music journalist, has posted some new interviews on his site. Including one with Franz Ferdinand and one with Ice Cube. If you haven’t explored his site yet, you’re blowing it. Also make sure to catch Nardwuar’s band “The Evaporators” on the west coast leg of The Icarus Line’s tour. Keep rockin’ in the free world! http://www.nardwuar.com/

A new Stone Roses double disc DVD is out (at least it is in the UK, not so sure about America) and it looks fucking rad! Shit comes with dolby digital 5.1 surround sound, features the Blackpool live concert, six promo videos, a bunch of TV performances, and interviews as well. Someone send us this now. Go….Do it….we’ll be nice to you. Probably not though.

Rilo Kiley have jumped the uber indie label of Saddle Creek Records and ended up over at EMI Records. Now they’re gonna bring the suck to non white people too!

Aaron Icarus likes Bright Eyes. He also likes sucking off big dicked black men, writing haikus about dolphin love and planting eucalyptis trees in the Los Angles area.

Saddle Creek Records have a new label sampler coming out next month called “PUSSY SONGS ABOUT PUSSY SHIT”.

Lollapalooza cancelled itself. At least one of our prayers were answered this month. Now if only Ozzfest and The Warped Tour would do the same.

Canuck disco spocks, Hot Hot Heat, are really stoked right now cuz they get to live in sunny and warm Los Angeles, California for a month or two while they make their next record with Dave Sardy. Yeah, the label thought they’d write better smash singles they can play on the radio if they came outta their igloos for a bit. Where you live sucks doesn’t it?

Aspera broke up.

Mall emo hippies, Coheed and Cambria, got picked up by some tone deaf A&R dude who works at Columbia Records. Sure can’t wait for their next record about comic books and being dorks or whatever it is they sing about. HEY HAS ANYONE NOTICED HOW BAD THIS BAND SUCKS, AND HOW ANNOYING EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT THEM IS???? Anyone? Anyone? This shit could easily be the house band at a Star Trek convention. IF YOU LISTEN TO THIS YOU’RE GUARANTEED NOT TO GET LAID. These dudes make Thursday look like Sabbath. Dork shit. Maybe the worst band on earth.

Simon Keeler likes to suck dudes off.

Mary-Kate (one of those Olsen Twins from Full House) is in the hospital cuz she thinks she’s fat yet she’s weighing in at about 50 lbs. Bitch is tripping. Word on the street is that the Church of Scientology and The Church of Satan have been pursuing the freak show twins.
People keep saying she has a coke problem, so Jeff Wood will be pursuing her now as well.

Sugarcult needs to learn the meaning of the word… music.

Ronald Reagan died. He was an actor that played the President in this movie. The movie sucked.

Amen still think they’re a “punk” band. No dudes, your band is what they call WHACK MALL PUNK! Break up, or give us your drugs so we’re nice to you, cause that’s the only reason anyone is nice to you. There’s nothing worse than trust funded 30 plus retards running around in Hot Topic gear claiming they’re punk. GIVE IT UP POSER!

Failed “singer” Bijou Phillips got dump by another “failed singer” Sean Lennon last week, so she jump on over and landed on Stephen Dorff’s cock this week.

Nick Cave’s DVD is set to drop May 4. The 20-track Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Videos features “Into My Arms,” “Red Right Hand,” “Deanna” and “Where the Wild Roses Grow,” Cave’s collaboration with Kylie Minogue

LA Label, Bomp Records (home to killer records by the likes of Dead Meadow, Beachwood Sparks, Iggy & The Stooges, and tons of others) made a weird (but exciting) choice and signed Swedish transplanted, LA glam band, “S’cool Gurls”!!! Yeah they are on a fucking label now! No shit! Let us tell you, we’ve partied at their house a few times and these guys are living the fucking dream. These dudes are insane, they have a whole wall of Kiss posters, which as lame as Kiss is, it’s almost so lame it’s kinda rad. These dudes also have some crazy weird “glitter rock” style, wear stick on glitter stars on their faces, jumpsuits, and go through hairspray like it’s going out of style… check this shit out for sure. Click here.

Courtney Love is losing touch with her mind, she’s claiming people are stealing her money. Lay off the coke babe, it makes you nuts. Well, more nuts. Courtney didn’t pay her website server bills, so the members of it’s “community messageboard” have started donating money to keep it alive. So far they’ve raised $3,000 and have $2,000 more to go. If you’re one of those dweebs that’s bummed we don’t have a message board anymore, help these people out and post your little thoughts there. http://www.kittyradio.com/

Omar’s solo record is coming out on GSL, it’s called “A Manual Dexterity – Soundtrack Volume 1”.

GSL is also putting out another EP by Sonny’s band, Year Future real soon called “The Hidden Hand”. Make sure to catch this band live if they come through your town.

The Makers are going in the studio June 21-27 to make a new record for Sub Pop records, lets hope they go back to kicking ass cuz those last two records FUCKING BLEW! Gimme some danger, gimme some rock n roll, gimme some Psychopathia Sexualis! Come on Mike Maker, give us the middle finger again, we tried of you blowing us kisses man! Get with it! Get fresh again!

Some dude actually proved that all Linkin Park songs are the same, like you didn’t already know, by putting two of their singles (one in the left speaker and one in the right speaker) into one mp3. Click here for the suck.

Speaking of beating a dead horse, Braid are back together for one more money making emorific tour. If you’re bald, lame, and sensitive, you’re not gonna wanna miss this homoerotic show of male bonding. Sweater-vests and dick sucking will be in full effect at this thing.

A little band from Texas released an album called “Men Are the New Women” which in English translates into “WE LIKE TO BLOW DUDES”. They’ve also released an accompanying guide and log with the album showing how to record an entire acoustic album for free and how to record yourself (just as they did), in hopes anyone else out there who cares enough to want to know can learn how to do it. They want little… except for you to visit their site http://www.laslow.org.

If you’re not into The Jesus And Mary Chain, you should be. Start with “Psychocandy” and work you way up, they don’t have a bad record (besides that weak live bbc record that came out this year). Just to fill up some space on this page we figured we’d post some amazing quotes from Jim and William Reid. This is rock n’ roll folks.

Jim Reid:
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On stage, we’re one of the sexiest groups you can imagine. Three of four reasonably young guys in leather rolling around showing their backsides to the audience. All I know is that we get tons of screaming young girls. If a gig doesn’t have sex, there’s something wrong.
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When it comes to a boy meets girl situation, I’m not in the least bit romantic. Romantic to me means that you build up an idea of something and nothing touches it. I tend to get romantic about things like Hell’s Angels, you know, motorbikers that wear dirty black leather. People are too complex to get romantic about. I’m romantic about Rock N Roll music; to me Rock N Roll is a very romantic idea.
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I know it sounds like a complete cliche, but I’ve always been a big Velvet Underground fan, and the effect I want to have on people is the effect it has on me looking at pictures of Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison in 1966. The photographs of them in Andy Warhol’s Factory contain just about everything that made their music so awesome. That’s what we’re trying to do — our words, our music, our photographs. It should all be that one thing.
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I think the whole surf thing had a lot of potential… I mean, think of the Beach Boys brilliant songs, but look at the way they dressed, look at the way they produced their records. It should have been a gang of Hell’s Angels that made surf music.
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The best thing that could have happened to the Rolling Stones was if they’d have met Charles Manson in ‘69 and he could have hacked their heads off with a chainsaw.
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I’m embarassed to tell people what I do with my life, to think that what I do is the same as what Eric Clapton does. He’s raping it, he’s puking on it, he’s pissing on it. For that reason I don’t want to be a part of it.
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They write encyclopedias on the Eighties and we’re not even mentioned. We WERE the fucking eighties.
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Guitars look good. That’s all we really care about. They look good, they make good sounds. You don’t really need to sit down and learn to play the fuckin’ thing. That would be three or four years of your life wasted. You should be doing a gig the day you get your first guitar.
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WORST PLACE?
“I stayed in a lot of shit holes, but the worst was this place in Fulham. It was a big house and would have been comfortable for a family of four, but there were just all these little bedsits. It was horribly grimy and dirty. Really unclean.”
WORST FEATURE?
“The other people. There was this psychotic Scottish drug dealer who used to come in with blood all over his face. Then there was this woman down the hall who used to have arguments with herself. You’d hear her shouting “BAAAASTARD!” and throwing things around in her room, but she lived on her own. Must have been schizophrenic.”
CHANCES OF STUDENT SURVIVAL?
“Well, you’d have to be pretty tough. I remember one time when William came round to have a bath, and he was getting out of the bath just as the door got kicked in by the mad Scottish drug dealer. He’d got blood all over his face and needed to wash it off. He just said “WAGHYOUSEDOINMAAAGHBATHROOM?”. You’d get out of there quick. Having said that I lived there for years.”
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“…but it’s easy to be exciting onstage. You could walk onstage with a gun and shoot a dog. That’s exciting, but so what?… Excitement is easy, you just walk on with a road drill and destroy the stage. But anybody can do it. And if that’s what you’re into buy a road drill and a stage and do it yourself!” – NME / Sporran Co-Despondents / September 24, 1994
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William Reid:
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I’ve never felt comfortable on stage — never. Playing live is the biggest contradiction. Everything we do in the studio may sound spontaneous, but it’s not. It takes time. I’ve always hated other people’s songs played live too. I just hate gigs.
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After us, the perfect record is ‘I Wanne Be Your Dog’ by the Stooges, but the horrible guitar solo fucks it up.
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Bo Diddley wrote ‘Who Do You Love’ in 1955 and I don’t know if you can make out the words on our version, but they’re like pure evil. These days they would be considered grossly offensive, too evil for mass consumption. And this was released in the day of Doris Day and Perry Como…
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Whenever my girlfriend wears tights, I refuse to see her, I put her on the first train back to Hornchurch and tell her to come back wearing suspenders.
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There has never been a riot at any of our gigs. You get the odd clown who thinks he’s Rambo, doing tap dances on the mixing desk. I hate it, I despise it. We’re trying to present ourselves as serious, not a Cockney Rejects Oi Oi type of group.
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Sacrifice myself for rock’n'roll? Fuck off – Vox, February 1992
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There’s nothing worse than waking up next to someone you don’t even know or like.
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I think success isn’t necessarily a good thing. Look at U2. What will they ever do to top Zoo TV? And look what happened to Kurt Cobain. That guy should’ve been a bus driver. He would’ve been alive until he was 87. – CMJ: New Music Monthly, January 1995
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A lot of times we’re just awkward, fucked-up little idiots – RAYGUN magazine, September 1994

Devendra Banhart is on tour with Joanna Newsom, Vetiver. Get your hippy on!
Thu 7/8/04 Hollywood, CA – in-store at Ameoba Music at 7PM
Fri 7/9/04 Los Angeles CA – NEW VENUE! Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions [6522 Hollywood Blvd., 323-957-1777]
Sat 7/10/04 Sacramento CA – Old Ironsides [1901 10th St, p 916-442-3504]
Sun 7/11/04 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall [859 O' Farrell St, p 415-202-9815/415-202-9816]

These Arms Are Snakes are hitting the road. Tell em we sent you.
7/9 – 7/24 w/ Murder By Death, Paris Texas, and Communique (except 9/5)
July
9: Portland, OR @ Solid State Cafe (624 E Burnside)
10: Seattle, WA @ Graceland (109 Eastlake Ave E)
11: Los Gatos, CA @ Los Gatos Outhouse (4 New York Ave)
12: San Francisco, CA @ 12 Galixies (2565 Mission St)
13: Goleta, CA @ Hard to Find Showspace (7190 Hollister Ave)
14: Pomona, CA @ Glass House (200 W 2nd St)
15: Los Angeles, CA @ Echo #B (1822 Sunset Blvd)
16: San Diego, CA @ Epicentre (8450 Mira Mesa Blvd)
17: Tucson, AZ @ Skrappy’s (201 E Broadway)
18: Phoenix, AZ @ Modified (407 E Roosevelt)
19: Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad (618 Central Ave SW)
21: Houston, TX @ Mary Janes Fat Cat (4216 Washington)
22: San Antonio, TX @ Sanctuary (1818 N Main St)
23: Austin, TX @ Emo’s Alternative Lounging (603 Red River Rd)
24: Dallas, TX @ Gypsy Tea Room (2548 Elm St)
7/26 – 8/3 w/ Since By Man, Paris Texas, and Communique (except 7/29, 8/3 & 8/5)
July
26: Des Moines, IA @ House of Bricks (3839 Merle Hay Rd)
27: Rock Island, IL @ UAW Hall (4511 4th Ave)
28: Chicago, IL @ Fireside Bowl (2646 W Fullerton Ave)
29: Milwaukee, WI @ The Cactus Club (2496 S Wentworth)
30: Madison, WI @ Terrace (800 Langdon St)
August
1: St Louis, MO @ Creepy Crawl (412 N Tucker St)
3: Denver, CO @ Rock Island (1614 15th St)
September
5: Seattle, WA @ Seattle Center Exhibition Hall “Bumbershoot Festival” (305 Harrison St)

Starlite Desperation on tour.
JULY 9      San Diego, CA-Casbah-w/Red Onions
JULY 12     Denver, CO-Larimer Lounge
JULY 13     Lawrence, KS-Jackpot Saloon
JULY 14     Omaha, NE-ranch Bowl
JULY 15     Minneapolis, MN-Triple Rock
JULY 16     Milwaukee, WI-Cactus Club
JULY 17     Chicago, IL-Subterranean
JULY 18     Detroit, MI-Lager House
JULY 19     Cleveland, OH-Beachland Tavern
JULY 20     Hoboken, NJ-Maxwell’s-w/Psychedelic Furs
JULY 21     Brooklyn, NY-Southpaw-w/The Fresh Kills
JULY 22     Asbury Park, NJ-Astbury Lanes
JULY 23     Philadelphia, PA-North Star-w/Greenhornes
JULY 24     New York, NY-Bowery Ballroom-w/Dirt Bombs
JULY 25     Boston, MA-Middle East-w/Weirdos
JULY 26     Baltimore, MD-Ottobar
JULY 27     Wash. DC-Black Cat-w/The Cougars
JULY 29     Carboro, NC-Go Studios
JULY 30     Jonesboro, GA-Breakers Music Hall-w/The Hiss
JULY 31     Atlanta, GA-Echo Lounge-w/The Hiss
AUG. 1      Nashville, TN-The End
AUG. 3      Birmingham, AL-The Nick
AUG. 4      New Orleans, LA-One Eyed Jacks
AUG. 5      Houston, TX-The Axium-w/Bring Back The Guns
AUG. 6      Austin, TX-Emo’s
AUG. 8      Dallas, TX-Gypsy Tea Room         
AUG. 9      San Antonio, TX-Sin 13
AUG. 10     EL Paso, TX-Moontime Pizza
AUG. 11     Tucson, AZ-Hotel Congress

Wives will be playing shows all over California this summer til their debut LP/CD “Erect The Youth Problem” is released on Sept. 21, 2004 on Coldsweat Records, and then they’ll be touring like for reals.
JULY 27-Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell          w/Mae Shi
JULY 29-Santa Barbara, CA @TBA               w/Moving Units
JULY 30-San Diego, CA @ TBA                    w/Moving Units
AUG. 12-San Francisco, CA@TBA               w/Moving Units
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Here’s Glen Friedman’s take on the Black Flag reunion. We didn’t go to that shit cos we knew it was gonna be uber wack. It wasn’t Black Flag. Of course Black Flag isn’t Black Flag without Greg Ginn, but it’s also not the “first four years” Black Flag when you don’t have key members from the first four years on the stage. No Chuck Dukowski? Keith Morris? Total fucking rip off man! Greg Ginn needs to get off his fucking high horse and quit tripping. Oh well, instead he chose to embarrass himself in front of thousands of people. Oh yeah, here’s Glen’s take on the situation:

“(other than rick rubin saying ginn was incredible – no one else said anything positive about any of it)

I’ll start with the purchase of the tickets. They were set at $27.50, but with Ticket Master “service charges” the total came to $41.10. This is by far the most I’ve ever paid for a concert ticket, but hey, it’s Black Flag we’re talking about, right? Well . . .

September 12, 2003, Judgment Day. At this point I’ve heard all kinds of rumors about who will be up on stage. A month earlier I was told by Chuck Dukowski that he wasn’t even asked to perform. A few weeks ago, Keith Morris sent out an e-mail to let everyone know that he was told his “services aren’t needed.” So I’m expecting to be let down.

I arrive at 6 pm and there is already a massive line outside. I see people I know from as far as Detroit and New Jersey waiting to get in. Most of these people have Black Flag tattoos, some of them have never been to California before. I am informed that Robo will be playing. I am also told that HR will be a guest vocalist. I don’t know what to believe.

The audience has its share of sketchiness, a few LADS shirts, a swastika tattoo here and there, but nothing to the degree that I expected. The lobbies are full of booths set up by animal rescue organizations. Most people are indifferent. The first band goes on at 7:30. They are called Mike V. & the Rats, and they are okay at best. The guitarist walks out waving a Johnny Cash poster. Cash had died the day before. Some people cheer. The Rats are basically imitating the Damaged/My War era Black Flag sound, and Mike V. is doing his best Rollins impression. Mike V. says something like, “Years from now when they talk about Dylan, Springsteen, Cobain, Neil Young, and Cash, I’ll feel honored to have shared the stage with one of these legends. And that is Greg Ginn. His tireless attitude and perseverance have paved the way for so many, and he will go down as one of the greatest songwriters and guitarists ever.”

They get some clapping in between songs. Most people are indifferent.

The second band is called 1208. They are a pop-punk band on Epitaph who have only two things in common with Flag: Raymond Pettibon did the art for their album cover, and they are from the South Bay. 1208 try to have as little silence in between songs as possible, but when the band does stop to tune, they are met by a sea of booing. No one wants to hear them.

Finally Ginn is on stage setting up. On the opposite side of the stage is Dez Cadena, whose hair is half way down his back. Ginn’s drummer, named Drummer, is setting up his kit which looks and sounds like it was salvaged from a junk yard. There is no bass player, but instead an SVT cabinet crowned with a head and some kind of sampler. On top of the sampler is a cardboard face with a huge mustache wearing a real sombrero. This is “Dale Nixon,” a computer that will play bass lines laid down by Ginn earlier. Dez grabs the mike and says something to the extent of, “There have been a lot of rumors flying around about this show. I want everyone to know that anyone who is not on this stage tonight has been given the opportunity to perform. Now we’re going to do the entire My War album, and Mike V. is going to come out and sing.” Mike V. comes out again, and this time he is literally getting a chance to do his best Rollins impersonation, which isn’t that great, but not terrible. The whole band is keeping up with “Dale Nixon,” which only allots 2-3 seconds before automatically going into the next song. There is no time to tune. A few songs into it, there is a group of men towards the front who are shooing away and flipping off what they see on stage. One of them crowd surfs and gives two middle fingers to the band while yelling obscenities. Someone holds up a sign that reads “Bait Flag.” A large plastic garbage can is tossed towards the stage, but only makes it to the front of the audience. When the entire My War album is played, there is a 10 second pause. 1/3 of the audience is clapping, 2/3 is booing. I’m just standing there scratching my head. Then Dale kicks back in and they’re playing “Black Coffee.” The second that song ends, Drummer’s set is broken down.

For the next 15 minutes stage hands are setting up Robo’s kit. Robo is helping. A bassist who I am told is C’el, the last bassist for Flag, is on stage with an actual bass. Dez has his guitar in hand, and says, “This song is called Life of Pain.” The band plays and Dez is singing now. I still don’t know what to think, nor do most people. Half way through the song, Robo totally forgets his part, and it crumbles. Dez just starts the next song, “Thirsty and Miserable.” After this, Dez takes off his guitar and grabs the mike. Alright, this is it. They play “Wasted,” and the place goes nuts. Bodies are jumping and swirling around. There is a huge, scary slam pit. Robo sounds like he’s rushing the songs, and screws another one up. Dez says, “This next song is called You Bet That I Don’t Care, which is a hybrid song containing the verses of “I Don’t Care” and the choruses of “You’ve Bet I’ve Got Something Personal Against You.” The song feels like a real attack on it’s original vocalist, Dukowski, and its original target, Morris. They play “Louie Louie” and Robo goes into an extended drum break. The rest of the band leaves the stage. People are getting uptight. Is this it? The band comes back and finishes the song. They were doing a John Bonham “Moby Dick” thing I guess. Somewhere around this time, Dez says, “After all these years, it’s good to know who your real enemies are.” My friend and I look at each other and shake our heads. What the fuck is Dez talking about? After about 10 songs from the first four years era, Dez says, “We’ll be back in 10 minutes. Don’t go anywhere.” What now?

Robo’s kit is torn down, and Drummer’s kit is set back up. Great. Sal leaves the stage, and the building. Now the line up is Drummer, Ginn, Dale Nixon, and Dez on vocals only. They blast through another 15 or so first four years songs, with the computer pausing only 3 seconds in between songs. Another plastic garbage can is thrown towards the stage, and misses again. The band butchers “T.V. Party,” and “Revenge.” Dez comes in late on most of the songs because he doesn’t know when the robot/computer/Dale thing is going to hit it’s first note. Everyone’s timing is off. The machine begins the legendary opening for “Six Pack,” but does it twice as fast as it’s supposed to be. Ginn can’t keep up on the opening guitar part. He has trouble playing along to his own recording. The band does some new Ginn jam song, and Dez has everyone singing along “FUCKED . . . UP!” Fucked up is right. After a few more early numbers, I look at my watch, and it is 10:59 pm. The lights in the whole building turn on. The band is still playing. They are doing “Depression” I think. A stagehand informs Dez that they have to stop. Dez tells the other guys to stop. Dale goes into the next song, and drummer turns him/it off. We all file out.

I saw the Rollins Band do all Black Flag songs just a year previous, and it was incredible. Every song was played slower than on the records, but the energy and the spirit were there. What I saw on Sept 12 was not cool. It wasn’t bad enough to incite a riot, but I couldn’t get into it. I just kept wondering when the band was going to screw up next. Plus, there was this aura of backstabbing and negativity surrounding the whole event. It didn’t feel right. What I saw on that stage was not Black Flag.”
http://www.burningflags.com
greg ginn interview (before gig): http://www.markprindle.com/ginn2-i.htm

In more recent Greg Ginn news, now that the “Black Flag” reunion is over, he has set his sights on getting his new band rolling that he has started with Jon Bon Jovi. The group is called GONE JOVI.

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Fresh from her release from a psychiatric ward (due to attempted suicide) in a Beverly Hills hospital, Courtney dropped by Second Spin record store last week in Sherman Oaks where she smoked 12 of Scott’s (the guy in the picture) cigarettes in five minutes, proceeded to have a verbal freak out, and purchased the second season of CSI on DVD. Bitch is tripping.

Speaking of tripping bitches, what the fuck is wrong with Fred Durst? We knew he was a fucking idiot before, but he’s taken that title to new heights as of late. Dude has a tattoo of Kurt Cobain’s face on his chest!!! Next to a tattoo of Elvis!?!?! What the fuck? Hey newsflash sissy, Kurt would hate you and your shitty rap rock band! That’s like Satan getting a tattoo of Jesus Christ on his chubby chest! We all know what you’re really like… you should have gotten a tattoo of Vanilla Ice’s head dude. Thanks for totally ruining that Who song forever now for us dude. Weak.

Buddyhead is in a video game… well, we’re in an internet video game at least. It’s called Emogame (http://emogame.com/)and you can be characters like Cedric from Mars Volta or that Bright Eyes pussy. Buddyhead’s own Aaron and Travis are one of the “bosses” at the end of one of the levels, or so we’re told. We don’t really play video games so we’ve only seen these screen shots (click here, here, and here to see em), we’re gonna get Alvin on the case ASAP though.

Gideon Yago is a character in the next Tony Hawk video game.

Joe Escalante from the Vandal and Kung Pow Records is suing Brett Gurewitz from Dad Religion and Epifat Records for slander or some shit. We can only imagine what was said… “Joe’s shitty pop punk bands are shittier than my shitty pop punks bands!”

Verbena is breaking up. Nobody cares.

The guitar player for The River Boat Gamblers swung his mic and broke his guitar players face when they were in San Francisco last time. Dude finished the show too. Now that’s punk! Then Cathy from Lookout drove him to the hospital to get stitches. Check out this photo. http://www.theriverboatgamblers.com/

We find it very amusing that no one has noticed that Jet and Kings Of Leon are actually the same band.

The Kills, The Thrills, The Stills, The Chills… we still think that’s funny.

The new Shins record on Sub Pop rules.

Speaking of records that rule, pick up the new Fiery Furnaces record on Rough Trade, the new Spiritualized album “Amazing Grace”, The new Need New Body record, and all those Bob Dylan reissues… you’ll thank us.

By the way, someone better send us the Bob Dylan reissues.

We’re still not sick of “Hey Ya” from Outkast… the single or the video. Someone send us that album too man!

Zwan broke up. Nobody cares.

Vaux signed to Atlantic. No one’s ever gonna care.

S.T.U.N. is officially the worst band on the planet. Hopefully no one cares.

It’s cold in New York. If you live there, you’re bummed.

L.A. is on fire. Good thing we’re leaving.

Everyone is saying that the highlight of CMJ was SHAT’s performance and unveiling of his new band at Don Hills for the Buddyhead party. We’re weren’t there, but we believe it! Check out these photos. Word on the street is that Jeff had such a good night he couldn’t find his car and was stuck in the city for two days… the adventures that man had one can only imagine.

Jessica Simpson’s little sister is a crazy party slut. Her name is Ashlee and as of lately she’s been riding Carson Daly’s frat boy dick like an exercise bike. That tells you about how smart she is too.

Can someone tell that fruitcake skateboarding nerd from The Neptunes that we’re all sick of seeing his face “all up in the videos” and that he can’t sing or rap… oh, and we don’t care if he likes skateboarding either.

Let’s hope Puffy goes to jail too so we don’t have to see his hack ass on tv anymore either. The word fool is an understatement to describe this assclown. Get off my tv.

Karen O from Yeah Yeah Yeahs recently seriously injured her back during a show in Australia. This was after she fucked up her wrist in Japan and chipped a tooth on a mic somewhere else… yeah… she probably looks like a hockey player now or something. But the word on the street is that she’s ok even though her ass is in Gatorade. Get well champ.

Speaking of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, their new video for the song “Maps” (which we heard is about Jack White) is beautiful. Good work Patrick.

Tony Lovato of Mest hates black people. He used to be in the organization CASH (Chicago Area Skinheads) and in a white power band. Did we mention he’s also 35 years old? Which wouldn’t be that bad if he wasn’t telling everyone he’s 23 and dressing like he’s 14.

Call up Staind’s tour manager, Tim Krieg, at 602.315.1973 and ask him what the fuck they are feeding that uncle fester singer guy. He’s HUGE!

Call up some dorks from that shitty band on RCA, Damone, who are like 30 and sing about BMX bikes and crap. 617-319-9449 – Dustin. 781-983-6207 – Mike.

Call up Benji from Good Charlotte @ 269-341-2583 and ask him if the subway diet really works.

David Spade text messages while pissing in urinals.

Can someone tell Mxpx their album looks like a fucking diesel ad? Actually can someone tell Mxpx that they suck massive throbbing cocks?!?!

The Pixies are getting back together and they still look weird.

The Foo Fighters covering “darling Nikki” sounds like a Sum 41 song. It seems the Foo’s true calling is in making 70’s and 80’s tunes safe for today’s frat boys and mall rats to consume without any guilt of being caught listening to something otherwise “uncool”. Dude should have swallowed his ego and stayed the qotsa drummer.

The drummer from Revolution Smile quit cos he hates the singer. He thinks he’s a dickhead or something. Supposedly the last straw was at a show in England when the singer’s guitar wouldn’t work during the first song, and a guitar tech came onstage to fiddle with his pedals to try to fix the situation. The singer responded by kicking the tech hard in the ribs. Nice.

Fiona Apple is finishing up her third studio album, and we can’t wait. She’s started eating too or something cuz she has these things called hips and this other thing called an ass now… more girls should try eating.

Tim Armstrong wrote the whole new Pink Album and is now getting hit up by Britney Spears’ people and Christina to write some songs for them too. The word on the street is that Tim and Pink are inseparable best friends now also. I guess he met her a ways back and said, “I have a song you should do”. Next thing you know, Tim is writing most of her record. Now he has a separate manager who is strictly managing his “Co-writing and producing” career. Mmmmmmmmmmmmk.

Mark Arm sings vocals on the “T.V. Eye” cover on the “School Of Rock” soundtrack. Yeah Mark!

The man Queens Of The Stoneage thought was a transvestite, Davey, and some other dude in the band named Jade from AFI are doing an “electronic side project” called “BLAQK AUDIO”, probably because they discovered Aphex Twin like three days ago and have decided that being into Skinny Puppy makes it easier for them to declare themselves way cooler than the rest of the mall punk herd that are still sporting Misfits shirts.

Jawbreaker’s last album Dear You is being reissued on Blackball Records, which is Adam, the drummer’s label, with five bonus tracks. One being an unnecessary re-recording of “Boxcar”, the unreleased “Shirt” remixed by J. Robbins, “Into your like a Train”, “Sister”, and something else. A whole bunch of kids feel real stupid for buying the original copy on ebay for a shit load of cash now.

Blake Soper, the guitarist for that band Rilo Kiley, is that sissy “Joey the Rat” from that show Boy Meets World.

Can someone tell that bearded dude from the Flaming Lips that all of us aren’t eating mushrooms every single day so most of that shit on their records doesn’t sound as bomb as he thinks it does.

International Noise Conspiracy signed to American, but we heard the hot chick isn’t even in the band anymore. Dude, I guess capitalism stole their virginity. They may be hypocrites, but I bet they’re gonna have some awesome new suits now,

That band Movielife appear to have broken up. Only about another 4,276 more irrelevant mall punk bands to go.

Vincent Gallo tries to explain why he’s in a Glassjaw video… thanks Vince, we were getting worried there for a minute.
“How much money and how few days. That was My Vitrol. I needed to go to England to meet with Warp records and do some press for the album, When. So we’re negotiating which fucking cheap coach (economy) flight I’m going to fly on, and I’m telling Rob Mitchell I can’t fly coach anymore, I just can’t. It’s not for nothing; I’ve worked an 80-hour week, I’ve got to get on the coach flight, get there and do 10 hours of press, and then come right back. I can’t take it. He was like, “well, we can’t afford anything but coach”. While we’re having this discussion a call waiting comes in and somebody offers me a video in England, and I say, “how much and how many days? Can you fly me first class and put me in a nice hotel?” they say, yes, I call Rob Mitchell back and say, “I’m coming on Friday, I’m doing this stupid video and I’ll see you there.” In the end, the record label of My Vitrol were not nice. I had asked them not to videotape me talking and they did it anyway. They took photos of me that I asked them not to do and released them. They were a low integrity company. Even though I was there and had no interest in the band or music, I showed up and was really nice and did the best I could, but I felt bad about that job in the end.

As for Glassjaw, here’s how Glassjaw happened…Geoff Eros, a 20-year friend of mine and one of the 10 most powerful people in the record industry, calls me up at home (puts on deep cigar smokers voice) “Hey, Vinnie, it’s Geoff. I’m sitting here with a new band I want to sign and they say they won’t sign unless you’re in their next video.” And I go, “A-ha…well…Geoff, I’d like to do you a favor but you’re asking a little to much, I don’t do videos, sorry.” He goes “How about I let your friend Patrick Hollick direct the video?” Patrick’s my close friend, who’s flat broke and has been trying to direct a video with his company for five years. He’s the friend you’d do anything for. Geoff adds, “I give you guys complete creative control over the project.” And I say “How much and how few days?” And we hammer that out. We do the video, which I’d written the script for, and the band, the band from Long Island, is all about their shots, their hair, they don’t like the way they look. They use their manager and attorney to turn the whole video into the same thing you fear and complain about and that was it. So do I feel good that I was in that terrible video? No. Do I have an interest in the band? No. Why did I do it? I did it for the money and to get my friend a job.”

On January and February of 2004 the SuicideGirls are travelling across the USA to perform a live burlesque show for tens of thousands of rabid fans, do mad drugs, and bang dudes. You could be one of the lucky ones! Pitchforkmedia, Buddyhead, Makeoutclub, and SuicideGirls are joining forces to search for the best band in each city of the tour to open for their unique show. On November 25th 2003 they will collect the submission for each city and our expert panel of judges: Ryan from Pitchforkmedia , The Gibster from MakeOutClub and Travis from Buddyhead will select two finalists for each date. Aaron doesn’t get to vote cos he said he’s waiting for the Suicide Boys tour. On December 1st 2003 we will announce the finalists, at which time we will allow everyone to vote and select the winner for each date. Voting will close December 31st 2003 and the winners will be announced on January 3rd 2004. Click here to check this shit out man!
Jan 07 -San Francisco, CA
Jan 09 -Los Angeles, CA
Jan 11 -San Diego, CA
Jan 12 -Phoenix, AZ
Jan 13 -Tucson, AZ
Jan 14 -Albuquerque, NM
Jan 16 -Dallas, TX
Jan 17 -Austin, TX
Jan 18 -Houston, TX
Jan 19 -New Orleans, LA
Jan 20 -Tallahassee, FL
Jan 21 -Tampa, FL
Jan 23 -Miami, FL
Jan 24 -Orlando, FL
Jan 27 -Jacksonville, FL
Jan 31 -Raleigh, NC
Feb 02 -Washington, DC
Feb 03 -Baltimore, MD
Feb 04 -Philadelphia, PA
Feb 05 -New York City, NY
Feb 07 -Providence, RI
Feb 09 -Boston, MA
Feb 10 -Northhampton, MA
Feb 11 -Buffalo, NY
Feb 12 -Cleveland, OH
Feb 13 -Detroit, MI
Feb 14 -Columbus, OH
Feb 16 -Cincinnati OH
Feb 17 -TBD, Indiana
Feb 18 -St Louis, MO
Feb 19 -Chicago, IL
Feb 20 -Milwaukee, WI
Feb 21 -Minneapolis, MN
Feb 22 -TBD, NE
Feb 23 -Denver, CO
Feb 27 -Seattle, WA
Feb 28 -Portland, OR

All Tomorrow’s Parties Saturday and Sunday, November 8th and 9th, 2003
On the Queen Mary & in the Queen Mary Events Park (1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach. CA 90802) Doors at 1 PM each day and Show begins at 2PM. Box Office opens at 11 AM. Curated by Matt Groening of The Simpsons. THEFUCKINGSTOOGESBITCH.

QM EVENTS PARK STAGE – SAT 8 NOV 2003
SONIC YOUTH »
BUILT TO SPILL »
MODEST MOUSE »
THE MAGIC BAND »
THE SHINS »
THE BLACK HEART PROCESSION »
!!! »
UNKNOWN HINSON »

QUEEN MARY STAGE – SAT 8 NOV 2003
SPOON »
MIKE WATT/GEORGE HURLEY MINUTEMEN DUET »
JOHN WESLEY HARDING »
DEERHOOF »
DANIELSON FAMILE »
DANIEL JOHNSTON »
MORIS TEPPER »

QM EVENTS PARK STAGE – SUN 9 NOV 2003
IGGY & THE STOOGES – WEST COAST EXCLUSIVE »
THE MARS VOLTA »
MISSION OF BURMA »
HAR MAR SUPERSTAR »
JAMES CHANCE AND THE CONTORTIONS »
BARDO POND »
BANGS »

QUEEN MARY STAGE – SUN 9 NOV 2003
CAT POWER »
AMERICAN ANALOG SET »
CARLA BOZULICH RED HEADED STRANGER SHOW »
TERRY RILEY/ STEFANO SCODANIBBIO »
JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER »
ELECTRELANE »
LIARBIRD »

F-Minus are playing at Gilman Street in San Francisco on November 8th, does it get any punker? They’re also doing a show in San Diego on the 9th at the Che Café before they head to the UK and Spain to dish out the punk to the limeys and the Spanish.
November 8th GILMAN ST. SAN FRANCISCO CA.
November 9th CHE CAFE SAN DIEGO CA.
November 12th JOINERS SOUTHAMPTON UK
November 13th TALBOT HOTEL STOKE UK
November 14th CORPORATION SHEFFIELD UK
November 15th MULTI RACIAL CENTRE HIGH WYCOMBE UK
November 16th ENGINE ROOMS CARDIFF UK
November 17th CROFT BRISTOL UK
November 18th CAVERN CLUB EXETER UK
November 19th PHEONIX PLYMOUTH UK
November 20th SOUNDHOUSE COLCHESTER UK
November 21st MANLLEU LES DAMES SPAIN E
November 22nd LA ROCA DEL VALLES SPAIN E
November 23rd GIRONA BAR CADILLAC SPAIN E
November 24th DAY OFF SPAIN E
November 25th GARAGE LONDON UK
November 26th ON TYNE THE CLUNY NEWCASTLE UK
November 27th CHARLOTTE LEICESTER UK
November 28th CLUB 85 HITCHIN UK
November 29th FORUM TUNBRIDGE WELLS UK
November 30th THE PARK PETERBOROUGH UK

Spiritualized is touring America… and we’re gonna be gone when they hit LA which sucks, but we saw them enough last year to make missing them this time alright. Make sure you catch this show, and catch it really high. Also, go buy their new album “Amazing Grace” if you haven’t already.
September
Saturday 6th Ireland Limerick Dolans
Sunday 7th Ireland Cork Half Moon Theatre
Monday 8th Ireland Dublin Vicar Street
Wednesday 10th UK Northampton Roadmender
Thursday 11th UK Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
Friday 12th UK Sheffield Leadmill*
Sunday 14th UK Brighton Concorde 2
Monday 15th UK Bristol Bierkeller
Tuesday 16th UK London Electric Ballroom
Wednesday 17th UK London Electric Ballroom
Friday 19th Holland Amsterdam Paradiso
Saturday 20th Belgium Brussels Botanique Festival
Sunday 21st France Paris Cafe De La Danse
Tuesday 23rd Spain Barcelona BAM Festival
Thursday 25th Italy Milan Alcatraz
Friday 26th Germany Cologne Stolwerk**
Saturday 27th Germany Berlin Columbia Frit
October
Friday 10th USA New Haven CT Toad’s Place
Saturday 11th USA Boston MA
Monday 13th USA New York NY Irving Plaza
Tuesday 14th USA New York NY Irving Plaza
Wednesday 15th USA New York NY Irving Plaza
Friday 17th USA Providence RI Lupos
Saturday 18th Canada Montreal Club Soda
Sunday 19th Canada Toronto Open House Concert Venue
Monday 20th Canada Toronto Open House Concert Venue
Wednesday 22nd USA Pittsburgh PA Club Laga
Thursday 23rd USA Cleveland OH Agora Theatre
Friday 24th USA Cincinnati OH Bogarts
Saturday 25th USA Detroit MI St. Andrews Hall
Monday 27th USA Indianapolis IN The Vogue
Tuesday 28th USA Chicago IL Vic Theatre
Thursday 30th USA Minneapolis MN First Avenue
Friday 31st USA Madison WI Barrymore Theatre
November
Sunday 1st USA Columbia MO Blue Note
Sunday 2nd USA Lawrence KS Granada
Tuesday 4th USA Denver CO The Gothic Theatre
Wednesday 5th USA Salt Lake City UT DV8
Thursday 6th USA Boise IO Big Easy
Friday 7th USA Portland OR Roseland Ballroom
Saturday 8th USA Seattle WA The Showbox
Sunday 9th USA Vancouver BC Commodore Ballroom
Tuesday 11th USA San Francisco CA Bimbos
Wednesday 12th USA San Francisco CA Bimbos
Thursday 13th USA Los Angeles CA Avalon Theater (formerly The Palace)
Friday 14th USA Los Angeles CA Avalon Theater (formerly The Palace)
Saturday 15th USA San Diego CA 4th & B Theater
Sunday 16th USA Tempe AZ Marquee Theater
Tuesday 18th USA Austin TX The Mercury Lounge
Wednesday 19th USA Austin TX The Mercury Lounge
Wednesday 20th USA Dallas TX Gypsy Tea Room
Thursday 21st USA New Orleans LA House Of Blues
Friday 22nd USA Atlanta GA Earthlink Live Center Stage Theater
Thursday 27th Spain Victoria Akenza
Friday 28th Spain Madrid Aqualung
Saturday 29th Spain Barcelona Razzmatazz
Sunday 30th Spain Valencia Republica

Primal Scream is touring next year. Here’s the first of the dates but don’t get excited cuz you can’t see these shows unless you have fucked up teeth or are visiting people with fucked up teeth.
01.17.04 Carling Academy – Glasgow Glasgow
01.18.04 Carling Apollo Manchester
01.20.04 Carling Academy 2 – Birmingham Birmingham
01.21.04 Guildhall Southampton
01.23.04 Hammersmith Apollo London

Los Angeles’s own 400 Blows will be hitting the road for a short bum everyone out tour… wish we were going. Go see this band, they’re fucking awesome!
10/31/2003 Oakland, CA 40th St. Warehouse 9pm
11/1/2003 San Jose, CA The Blank Club w/NEBULA 9pm
11/2/2003 Bakersfield, CA Riley’s Tavern 9pm
11/7/2003 Long Beach, CA Alex’s 9pm
11/12/2003 Silverlake, CA The Fold at Silverlake Lounge w/THOSE PEABODYS 9pm
11/23/2003 San Diego, CA Casbah w/YEAR FUTURE, LAST OF THE JUANITAS 9pm

Dead Meadow is going to Europe to smoke weed and listen to Sabbath records. Have fun guys.
October 2003 UK Dates
10/13 Keele University w/Super Furry Animals
10/14 Southhampton Guildhall w/Super Furry Animals
10/15 Newport City live Arena w/Super Furry Animals
10/16 Birmingham Academy w/Super Furry Animals
10/18 Brixton Academy w/Super Furry Animals
10/19 Bristol Colston Hall w/Super Furry Animals
10/20 Norwich UEA w/Super Furry Animals
10/22 Manchester Academy w/Super Furry Animals
10/23 Newcastle University w/Super Furry Animals
10/24 Glasgow Academy w/Super Furry Animals
10/25 Leeds University w/Super Furry Animals
10/27 Islington Academy w/Of Arrowe Hill

The Fiery Furnaces are playing shows. We got nothing funny to say about them. Go see em.
October 28 @ Artrocker / London, UK
October 29 @ the Astoria / London, UK w/ Hot Hot Heat & Franz Ferdinand
October 30 @ the Waterfront / Norwich, UK w/ Hot Hot Heat & Franz Ferdinand
October 31 @ the Barfly / Liverpool, UK w/ Hot Hot Heat & Franz Ferdinand
November 1 @ the Leadmill / Sheffield, UK w/ Hot Hot Heat & Franz Ferdinand
November 2 @ the Academy / Manchester, UK w/ Hot Hot Heat & Franz Ferdinand
November 3 @ Newcastle University / Newcastle, UK w/ Hot Hot Heat & Franz Ferdinand
November 4 @ QMU / Glasgow, UK w/ Hot Hot Heat & Franz Ferdinand
November 5 @ Rock City / Nottingham, UK w/ Hot Hot Heat & Franz Ferdinand
November 6 @ Wulfrun Hall / Wolverhampton, UK w/ Hot Hot Heat & Franz Ferdinand
November 7 @ Paradiso / Amsterdam, NL w/ Franz Ferdinand
November 8 @ Ecko / Utrecht, NL w/ Franz Ferdinand
November 10 @ the Metro / London, UK
November 16 @ Small’s / Detroit w/ the Hidden Cameras
November 17 @ the Empty Bottle / Chicago w/ the Hidden Cameras
November 19 @ Schubas / Chicago w/ 90 Day Men
November 20 @ Grog Shop / Cleveland w/ Brian Jonestown Massacre
November 22 @ Mercury Lounge / NYC w/ Franz Ferdinand, Autumn Defense, Gene Dreamy & Gary Since

Radio Vago got nominated for “Best Rock Band” in the L.A. Weekly Music Awards 2003 (click here to check that out), and to celebrate, they have decided to part ways with their singer, Adrienne! So as of now, the band is on “temporary hiatus”. Looks like Radio Vago has been hanging out with the afro’ed members of The Mars Volta a little too much. Anywhoo… if you think you’ve got the goods, Radio Vago is having singer tryouts:

Established all girl L.A. band seeking female vocalist/performer. Must be willing to drop everything for practice, shows, and TOUR. This is a completely dedicated and collaborative band looking for an experienced, creative vocalist who is also an explosive, energetic performer. Influences include: Sioxsie and the Banshees, PJ Harvey, Joy Division, Bauhaus, The Cure, Magazine. Please contact: calimusic@hotmail.com.

When Chad from the band CKY was asked why The Revolution Smile wasn’t on tour with them anymore, he replied with: “#1-they sucked.,they quit the tour like babies because we wanted them to go on first as planned..then liesure..then CKY, they didnt want to open the show (ego issue).. so we decided if they dont wanna open..how about they headline the show and play in our slot..that was too intimidating of a time slot for them..so they quit..they were being snotty little pricks to liesure and talked shit on stage about CKY and leisure to thier 23 hometown fans,they finished fully fearing the wrath they awaited leaving the club..ahaha..so either way.. leisure kicked thier ass..it was fucking hysterical, they were running!! their tour bus was unfortunately locked when they ran to it..so they proceeded to actually cry at us!!-if you are booked on a CKY tour and act like fucks and our audience hates you, you are gone..good luck kids . the singer got his shit talking ass beat down..props to leisure..we enjoyed the entertainment so much we gave leisure a grand to stay out on the road with us and get some food, drinks,hookers ,drugs whatever they want. they are touring like real rock + rollers ..they didnt get to borrow much money from their cheap ass label, so we were more than happy to help a real rock & roll band.” Sounds like Shat should have taken The Revolution Smile’s place on this tour. Speaking of Shat on tour…

Jeff Wood of Shat just got a new band. In his own words they are “three fat dudes from Jersey that love to get fucked up and bang chicks”. Sounds like a match made in heaven if you ask us. They’ll be on tour later this year. Get ready America.

All Tomorrow’s Parties in L.A. got cancelled cos nobody wants to pay to see Sonic Youth and Blonde Redhead for the 47,863rd time. All the bands that were supposed to play that were on tour ended up getting stuck on random shows together that made it impossible to see all the bands. Mogwai played with the Trail Of Dead and blew all the other bands off the stage in front of 90 people. The dudes in Mogwai rock the free skater fatigue shwag a little too hard though. One dude had an Etnies shirt on and one dude had a Gatorade hat on. YOU GUYS ARE BLOWING YOUR SHTICK YOU WEIRD SCOTS! Le Tigre played with The Clean and Yo La Tengo on another show and we saw them plan some crazy riot grrl shit backstage with the drummer of Sleater Kinney. They were cooking up something having to do with beating up dudes. Did we mention that Wire even played Spaceland with Melt Banana? Oh, and let’s not forget Nick Cave’s show at the Palladium where he smoked through the entire show.

Oh and guess what? Nobody’s buying tickets for Lollapalooza either… cos they still don’t have the real bass player for Jane’s Addiction in the band and NOBODY wants to see Audioslave. Surprise. Even that nu-metal band with the song Rivers from Weezer wrote dropped of the tour cos it sucks.

Speaking of Jane’s Addiction, Fred Durst has compared the forthcoming Limp Bizkit album to Jane’s Addiction’s ‘Nothing’s Shocking’. We don’t need any other proof that the dude is sucking the glass dick… among other dicks too.

On that new Metallica single, is it just us, or is bad snare and vocal all you can hear? What the fuck is going on there? 9 minute songs with no wanky solos? This shit ain’t metal.

Rancid has signed to Warner Brothers. I bet they feel silly about not signing like… 10 years ago when they probably coulda gotten 5 times as much money, and then not look like total hypocrites years later for waving the “we will never sign to a major label… PUNK ROCK!” flag. Funny shit, dude.

In more bro-punk news, Pennywise is playing the Warped Tour again this year, but have decided to mix it up by letting the fans choose their set list every night. If ya feel like confusing these dudes, tell em to play the song that sounds like Bad Religion, to which their reply should be, “That’s all of them dude.”

Guns and Weiland (ex guns n’ roses members Slash, Duff, Matt Sorem, and Izzy (he’s just writing) along with the world’s best poser, Scott Weiland (singing) finally named their band. They figured they’d outdo Audioslave and steal the crown of worst band name ever with the name “Velvet Revolver”. Good choice guys. They played their first “show”, more like “circus”, at the El Rey in Hollywood. First they had a press conference where they told everyone how rad they are. Then they played six whole songs, most of em covers. They did “Bodies” by the Sex Pistols, “Money” by Pink Floyd, some Stone Temple Pilots song, one of their own songs, and believe it or not “Negative Creep” (with a verse from “School” too) by Nirvana. We’re surprised lightning didn’t strike the building and set the whole place on fire killing all the sinners involved. The best part is Mr. Dave “I’m so happy to be famous” Grohl was in the crowd bobbing his head to that shit. Somebody revoke his “I used to be in Nirvana” card cuz the dude is blowing it. Can someone get all of the original members of Guns n’ Roses (minus Izzy of course cuz he’s still cool as shit) and lock them up in some sort of underground security holding tank so they can’t embarrass themselves anymore?

The reason the new Rapture record took so long to come out is because DFA, their label/dicso remixers, wanted songwriting co-credits with the band and the band wouldn’t do it. DFA says they wrote most of the electronic house music songs on the record and that The Rapture have no clue what the fuck they are doing with electronic equipment. The Rapture told them NO DEAL on the song writing credits and signed to a major label. The DFA gets stuck with putting out their vinyl. Hey, we know how that goes man.

Planes Mistaken For Stars are probably breaking up. They will probably still suck each other’s dicks though even though they won’t be making music together anymore.

Oh yeah… just when you thought that it was only 16 year olds who live at home with their parents in nebraskahoma who were constructing Buddyhead rip off sites, suddenly married 30 year olds who listen to Saves The Day step into the game. Keep talking about us, it’s all you’ve got anyhow. You can return your identities to the Buddyhead front desk when you’re done role playing as us. Thanks kids.

The dudes in Good Charlotte have to sign contracts that say they will not tell people about them having girlfriends… but you were already aware these guys are a boy band in Hot Topic fatigue, right?

Can somebody put the Kills, The Stills, and The Thrills on some sort of package tour together so they’ll all finally realize JUST HOW FUCKING STUPID AND CLICHÉ THEIR NAMES ARE!

Jack White is sticking his foot in his mouth right about now. After all that talk about him not being into dating famous people and not having a sex drive and yada, yada, yada “I’m a bluesman” shit, he’s now going out with that chick with the small head from Jerry McGuire, Renee Zellwger. The best part is he met her on “the set”. Yep, Jack’s an actor now too.

Can someone please explain to us who the fuck is letting 311 continue to make albums? These dudes have been tripping for so hard and long, it’s a never-ending nightmare. Someone needs to tell those dudes that the “funky hippy” thing sucks massive dick.

Someone over at Maverick needs to get the Deftones on that no bread diet. The guitar player gained about 8,000 pounds since their last record. Nobody wants to see these fat asses anywhere, let alone on the cover of magazines and on TV. Yo Maverick, Let’s trim these fuckers down by using some of that label money to enroll these dudes in that fat camp you sent Madonna to.

If anyone knows those girls in that wack New York white-girl rap group that sounds like The Fresh Prince circa “Parents Just Don’t Understand” tell them that it’s not funny and to knock that shit off. If you haven’t seen this, consider yourself healthier.

The drummer of Karp / The Whip (Scott) died a few days ago in a boating accident. We are huge Karp fans here at Buddyhead. Big bummer.

In other sad news, Jeremy from The Mars Volta and Defacto has passed away, and it’s also a big bummer. Back in the day when Buddyhead used to put on shows, Jeremy would show up and do shit like make out with Mitch on stage in between the bands and bum everybody out. Always a good time.

In other Mars Volta related news, check out the artwork for their new album. The artist’s name is Storm Thurgeson. It’s some trippy emo-Santana shit. All the kids who like to listen to songs that are between 160 bpm and 180 bpm are gonna be stoked as fuck eating mushrooms and frying their balls off staring at this weird ass shit on the cover. Click here and here to view em.

Vincent Gallo is pissed he’s not playing Charlie Manson in some new Hollywood movie about the serial killer. He’s been sending nasty emails and making threatening phone calls to the directors and producers of the film for not picking him. Don’t worry dudes, in our experiences he’s like a barking dog without any teeth. Hey Vincent, that’s what you get for being in a Glassjaw video. Karma brah.

The bass player from White Light Motorcade is sticking Mr. Stinky Pinky up in Tracy Bonham’s vag. Yeah “Mother, Mother” Tracy Bonham. They’re like married or something.

Radiohead’s record sales should shut some people the fuck up over the controversy of, “If people download albums do they go out and buy them?” Everyone and their mom downloaded that thing months before it came out, and it’s still “toppin’ the charts”. Yeah! Let’s hear it for Radiohead and the dorks who take the time to download records from the internet!

Don Devore’s new favorite band is Rooney. If you haven’t heard Rooney yet, the singer’s brother is the drummer guy from Phantom Planet (you know, that kid in Rushmore) and their mom or aunt or something is a Copola. They’re so loaded, they all got million dollar record deals for their birthdays. Aside from having one of the worst band names ever, Rooney is going for that whole, “We really liked Weezer… AND The Strokes! So we started a band that sounds like The Monkees!” thing. Stellar.

Jade Tree tried to sign Morrissey. But he told them to suck his dick.

The Minor Threat demo is in stores. Aaron kept bugging the staff at Amoeba to see if it was in yet three weeks before it came out. What the fuck is up with Rollins being in every photo on the layout? It’s out as a CD single and a 7″. Now that’s fucking punk, eight songs on a seven inch. That’s less than a song an inch!
Demo tracklisting:
01 Minor Threat
02 Stand Up
03 Seeing Red
04 Bottled Violence
05 Small Man, Big Mouth
06 Straight Edge
07 Guilty of Being White
08 I Don’t Wanna to Hear It

Some band called Wolf Eyes just signed to Sub Pop. We don’t know much about em but we heard they’re down with Andrew WK, which could be a good thing for them.

Word on the street is that Carlos, the bass player dude with floppy hair from Interpol, has some weird thing on his dick from sleeping with half the population of lower Manhattan. That dude needs to hang with Jeff Wood it sounds like.

At least someone’s doing good things. ODB showed up at his mother’s house with 2 strippers on Easter. It will all be on VH1 when they air the new TV show about him being out of jail.

Some new band from New York called THE Prosaics, which has the drummer of Rainer Maria in it, signed to 4AD before even playing a show. No way?!? They’re from New York and they got a deal without playing a single show? Never heard that one before. They’re telling everybody that they sound like Joy Division but we know how that one goes. You can’t sound like Joy Division if you’re from New York, you end up singing about sleeping on couches and shit.

Speaking of Rainer Maria (girl emo) the singer is getting fully railed by their merch guy. Call up Kyle Fischer (the boy emo singer) at 917-842-8504 and ask him how he feels about his ex-girlfriend getting porked by the merch monkey. Drama in the tribe!

Har Mar got dropped. Surprise.

If you used to work at MCA, you’re probably reading this at home now instead of at work. YOU GOT FIRED DIPSHIT. BUMMER.

These Arms Are Snakes (remember band #566 that got signed cuz we named dropped em here) has a new video promo of sorts you can download. Click here. It’s basically Ryan and Joe snorting K and looking at gay porn to one of their songs. Brilliant if you ask us.

Orthrelm is signing to Ipecac. Mike Patton worships the guitarist. Like in a “I wanna suck your balls clean” way. He called him the best guitarist ever. Umm, you’re tripping Mike. Check out this dude called Jimi Hendrix.

Fiona Apple is working on a third album in Silverlake, at Real Music Records Mansion. Iggy did a few records there. She hasn’t invited us over for some beer and a listening party yet, but the place looks pretty swank, check out their website. She’s gonna spend some more label loot and finish it up at Abbey Road. It’s being produced by Jon Brion (he did the first one) and Matt Chamberlain (he produced the second one) is playing drums. As gay as it sounds, we can’t wait.

Cameron Diaz stopped banging Jared Leto and is now humping Vince Vaughn, which rules, and Jared Leto doesn’t have cable. We saw Vince Vaughn at Daddy’s and he almost kicked Casper Adams’ ass for commenting on his new handlebar mustache. Instead Vince just ended up beating all the beautiful babies off him with a stick. Dude gets mad chicks.

Andy Rich from Initial Records has a hustle going on. Dude is flying to Vegas and winning some duckets. Andy told us that, “Some people we know make music. Some make websites. I make full houses.” Check out the dudes cash prizes here and here.

Did anyone happen to see that Rolling Stone a few issues back with Fred Durst, Ozzy, and all those other posing fruitcakes? There’s some fucked up shit going on: Fred Durst unveils his new tattoo of Kurt Cobain’s head. That’s like Hitler getting a tattoo of Jesus to try and make us all forget what he’s done.

David Lee Roth is on tour blazing a trail of cocaine across America as you read this. He wins.

Anyone seen Kool Keith lately?

The new Lilly’s record (which features Don Devore on guitar for a few songs) called “Precollection” is the summer jam of 2003. Get hip to it.

Courtney Love is on Virgin. Samantha is playing drums and she’s picking the band, so if you wanna hang out with Winona Ryder, you better start being nice to her.

Nothing lasts forever anymore it seems. Conor Oberst and Winona broke up.

Speaking of Winona Ryder, she’s dating Jack Osbourne now.

Kelly on the other hand is really into acting like an adult in public.

Pete Yorn just got the Trent Reznor haircut for $455 dollars at a Hollywood Salon. You heard it here first kids.

Hot Hot Heat get the award for “Most Annoying Song Written… EVER”. These guys are taking all the white belt / singer doing the fruity arms thing / stupid haircuts cliché’s to a whole new level. Ohhh too much heat! Hot Hot!

SWIZ is reforming for a benefit show in Philly for someone in Kid Dynamite who is sick.

Spiritualized have a new old album that just hit stores called “The Complete Works, Vol. 1” It’s basically a comp of all the shit pre- “Ladies and Gentlemen” that you aren’t cool enough to own cuz you just got into this band last week. So catch up and buy this hot potato cuz it’s muy killer. Can someone from that label send us over a few free copies cuz we just PLUGGED YOU FOR FREE YOU DIRTY DIRTY BITCHES. J. Spaceman has also just recorded a new album titled “Amazing Grace” (if you saw him live last year he was probably wearing a shirt that said “Amazing Grace”… a little useless trivia for you all) and it’s already all over the internet. It’s the opposite of their last album “Let It Come Down”. Where “Let It Come Down” took him 6 months to records and mix, this new one, “Amazing Grace” took a mere three weeks. You could call this his punk/country record, or the closest thing he’s going to get to such a thing. His label was tripping on the record so much, they DROPPED SPIRITUALIZED. Can you say, “Tripping Jack Daniels”? If it ever comes out, buy the thing, cuz Jason needs to be able to buy more drugs so he can make more music to take drugs to. Apparently the band have re-signed with Sanctuary / Rough Trade. Jason Spaceman also gave a new version of the song ”Hold On” (which is on “Amazing Grace” to a comp to help the children of Iraq… check out their website at http://www.wmuk-newmedia.co.uk/wea/hope/hope.html Check that out cuz it’s for a good cause.
The full tracklisting of “Amazing Grace”:
* ‘This Little Life of Mine’
* ‘She Kissed Me (It Felt Like A Hit)’
* ‘Hold On’
* ‘Oh Baby’
* ‘Never Goin’ Back’
* ‘The Power And the Glory’
* ‘Lord Let It Rain On Me’
* ‘The Ballad of Richie Lee’
* ‘Cheapster’
* ‘Rated X’
* ‘Lay It Down Slow’

Check it out, our friend Ian Rogers is famous and shit. Click here to read about the new program, Muse, that he’s made. It’s killer.

The bass player for Slipknot is dumber than we thought. That’s pretty fucking dumb.

The Starting Line is the worst band on the planet as of right now.

Joe Somar, the singer guy of that much hyped New York band, The Fugue, got jumped two weeks ago in front of his apartment building. Four random dudes dressed like rappers roughed him up and smashed his glasses but couldn’t get any cash off of him, just his cheapo discman and Primal Scream CD before they hopped into their shitty ride while blasting 50 Cent. The beating will apparently be addressed in the form of a “punk song” on the upcoming LP by The Fugue. Everyone’s on the edge of their seat now.

Matador has some Dead Meadow signed LP’S to give away. If you wanna win one, email us at buddyhead@buddyhead.com with “DEAD MEADOW RULES” in the subject and in the body of the mail tell us why you need Dead Meadow’s rock power on vinyl. Winners must own a turntable. We’ll pick our favorite answers and post the winners if we feel like it.

Capitol has some Verbena CD’s to give away. If you wanna win one, email us at buddyhead@buddyhead.com with “yes, I really like Verbena” in the subject and in the body of the mail tell us why the fuck you like that band. We’ll pick our favorite answers and if you’re not a loser you’ll get a free cd! Oh boy, is right! If you have no idea who the fuck Verbena is, you can watch their video they made to sell them lots of records.

Steve Aoki (he owns Dim Mak Records) has a sister who’s a big time movie star now. Her name is Devon Aoki and she’s in that car racing 2 Fast 2 Furious. Get her to sign your Kills related solo project records.

Marko is famous again. Click here. Email him at marko@buddyhead.com and ask him where the fuck the new Sex Advice is.

These dudes (click here) swing on our nuts like monkeys from trees. Get off our dick corporate dot comers.

You should know about Nardwuar. He’s amazing. Click here to visit his site.

Youth Of Today is getting back together to play some shows in Europe this summer. What the fuck is right. Rival Schools broke up, so even Sammy will be playing drums on the tour.

A few months ago, the singer of Blonde Redhead, fell off a horse and totally bashed her face in. She had to go to a face doctor and get it all fixed up. Since she has healed her face, they recorded an album, and they are shopping it for a major label deal. They’re on tour right now, so go see em before you have to call em sell outs.
06-24 Santa Cruz, CA – Catalyst
06-25 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
06-27 Vancouver, BC – Commodore
06-28 Seattle, WA – Showbox
06-29 Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom

The White Stripes and Yeah Yeah Yeahs are going on tour together across the US of A later this year! They’ve settled their differences and decided to do a tour together where both bands will play simultaneously. You know cuz 2+3 = 5, and that’s actually a whole band! Meg is gonna play bass, sing duets with Karen, and it’ll be one big happy family.

The White Stripes are bigger than Jesus and they’re going on tour. Everyone’s stoked.
06-13 Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Ampitheatre
06-16 Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
06-17 Charlotte, NC – Grady Cole Center
06-18 Tampa, FL – USF Special Events Center
06-19 Boca Raton, FL – Mizner Park Amphitheater
06-20 Stone Mountain, GA – Stone Mountain Park
06-21 Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
06-23 New Orleans, LA – Municipal Auditorium
06-24 Houston, TX – Verizon Wireless Theatre
06-25 Austin, TX – Stubb’s Bar-B-Q
06-26 Grand Prairie, TX – Next Stage
06-27 Oklahoma City, OK – Bricktown Events Center
06-28 Kansas City, KS – Memorial Hall
06-30 St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
07-01 Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom
07-02 Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom
07-03 St. Paul, MN – Roy Wilkins Auditorium
07-05 Milwaukee, WI – Eagles Ballroom
07-23 New York, NY – Central Park Summer Stage

The Circle Jerks and GBH are doing an east coast tour in July. Keith is bomb. Here are the dates.
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July 9 Fort Lauderdale, FL @ The Factory
July 10 Tampa, FL @ Masquerade
July 11 Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
July 12 Jacksonville, FL @ Freebird Cafe
July 13 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
July 15 Washington DC @ 930 Club
July 16 Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
July 17 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
July 18 Asbury Park, NJ @ The Fast Lane
July 19 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
July 24 Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
July 25 Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
July 26 Minneapolis, MN @ Quest

Beehive and the Barracudas are touring the U.S. this Spring. This will be in support of their new LP titled “In Black Love” to be released in June on Swami Records. They’re in trouble too cuz they gave Travis a song off the album for his comp.
June 11th @ King?s Barcade (Raleigh, NC)
June 12th @ The Otto Bar (Baltimore, MD)
June 13th @ The Khyber (Philadelphia, PA)
June 14th @ Mercury Lounge (New York, NY) w/The Pattern
June 15th @ North Six (Brooklyn, NY)
June 20th @ The Black Cat (Washington, DC)
June 21st Pittsburg, PA
June 23rd @ Grog Shop (Cleveland, OH)
June 24th Detroit, MI
June 25th @ The Empty Bottle (Chicago, IL)
June 26th @ Rocket Bar (St. Louis, MO)
June 27th @ Brick’s (Kansas City, MO)
June 28th @ Larimer Lounge (Denver, CO) w/Apples In Stereo and Creeper
Lagoon
June 29th @ Kilby Court (Salt Lake City, UT)
July 1st @ Graceland (Seattle, WA) w/The Husbands
July 2nd Portland, OR
July 4th @ Hemlock Tavern (San Francisco, CA) w/The Husbands
July 5th Los Angeles, CA
July 6th San Diego, CA

Radiohead’s going on tour in America. Chances are, you’re stoked.
13 August Tweeter Center Boston
15 August Parc Jean Drapeau Montreal
16 August Molson Amphitheatre Toronto
18 August Tweeter Center Philadelphia
20 August Merriweather Post Pavillion Columbia MD
21 August Blossom Music Center Cleveland
23 August Alpine Valley Music Theatre Chicago (Troy WI)
24 August UMB Bank Pavilion St. Louis
26 August Red Rocks Amphitheatre Denver
28 August USANA Amphitheatre Salt Lake City
30 August Thunderbird Stadium Vancouver
31 August White River Amphitheatre Seattle
23 September Shoreline Amphitheater Mountain View CA
25-26 September Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles CA
28 September Coors Amphitheater San Diego CA
1 October Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion Houston TX
2 October Keifer UNO Lakefront Arena New Orleans LA
4 October Sound Advice Amphitheater West Palm Beach FL
6 October HiFi Buys Amphitheater Atlanta GA

SOULS SHE SAID “RUB THE SLEEP OUT” EP IS IN STORES NOW!!!

The vinyl version of The Dillinger Escape Plan’s “Irony Is A Dead Scene” will be in the store real soon too. Keep hitting that refresh button. The first 100 pressed are on clear yellow vinyl and ONLY AVAILABLE ON THE BUDDYHEAD ONLINE STORE. You can pick the other versions of the record up on the bands April tour as well:
4/5 Harrisonburg VA @ Macrock Fest
4/6 Farmingdale NY @ The Downtown
4/7 Boston MA @ Axis
4/8 Montreal QC @ Salle L’x
4/9 Ottawa ON @ Babylon Club
4/10 Toronto ON @ Opera House
4/11 Guelph ON @ Trasheteria
4/12 Northhampton MA @ Pearl St.
4/13 Pittsburgh PA @ Club Laga
4/14 Baltimore MD @ The Ottobar
4/15 Winston-Salem NC @ Ziggy’s
4/16 West Columbia SC @ Uncle Doctors

Jack in the Box has new Philly Cheese Steak Sandwiches. Mmm.

Let it be known, that as we enter a new era in shit music which includes jocks playing emo music, that it was here at Buddyhead that you first heard that Bro + emo = BRO-MO. Or perhaps E-BRO? Let’s see what catches on faster. Now watch every shitty publication rip us off.

So let’s talk about us some more… we all made it back from South By Southwest and the lovely state of TexAss in one piece it seems. Alvin didn’t even get arrested this time, although we thought he was gonna be a few times. We had bodyguards in toe. Earpieces and guns. The Icarus Line gave Texas a big hello in the form of Keith Morris (he was in these bands called Circle Jerks and Black Flag for all you dumber kids out there) jumping on stage and covering “Wasted” with them. Keith dedicated the song to “The ghost of Stevie Ray”. The next night Radio Vago played all new material from their upcoming full length and slayed. Dead Meadow played after them but we went to see Shat and Mudhoney. Shat killed it. Mangina would have made Keith Moon proud. Next it was back to Emo’s where we slid in the door with the help of Mr. Mark Arm himself and Graham from Emo’s. Thanks Graham, because of you we saw Mudhoney and for that we love you. Kisses. Mudhoney slayed. They didn’t play their Fang cover but they did play “Touch Me I’m Sick” as well as the first song off their new record which is killer. After the show Travis almost got clubbed for trying to used the restroom at the 4 Seasons. If anyone knows the buff lame asian guy who works security there tell him to eat our dicks. We ended the night by inviting ourselves to Mudhoney’s hotel room where we drank their beer and ate their pizza. Then the Captain cornered Mark Arm and delivered a 45-minute monolog about absolutely nothing. He finally scared Mark off to his room. Then we drove the rental van into some trees and porta-potties til we ruptured the fuel tank. It was killer. Fuck Texas by the way.

Edward Furlong was fucking wasted out of his mind at the Spun premiere last week and called Nick Stahl, the guy who replaced him in Terminator 3, “a punk”. We’re waiting to see what happens when Tom finally takes the plunge and gets wasted. We’re guessing that high heels, leeches, and knives will all be involved on that joyous occasion.

Finch fucking sucks.

The Offspring drummer guy finally got fed up with being like 45 years old and singing about high school shit so he quit. We hope that the other members realize their band is as silly as a midget wanting to go one on one with Shaquile O’Neal real soon. Josh Freeze is fucking blowing it.

In other Offspring news, after a round of bong rips they decided on “Chinese Democrazy (You Snooze You Lose)” for their next album’s title. Everything has gotta be goofy with those old men… Axl didn’t think it was funny, so he had his people tell his team of lawyers to slap them bitches with a fat ass lawsuit.

Iggy and The Stooges are playing Coachella. This sucks cuz we’ll be on tour with Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Everyone’s hoping Iggy isn’t playing at the same time as the Blue Man Group… NOT.

MTV is bringing back the Headbangers Ball, but instead of having Ian Robinson host it they’ve decided to get that pseudo nu-goth band slut from Much Music, Julia. Yeah, the half retarded girl with the voice that’s about as appealing as listening to babies dying, is on tap to host the show in hopes of securing the attention of fat 14 year old boys who call each other maggot and shit-tub after Slipknot invented nu-metal in 1999.

The Anniversary got dropped like a baby on its head from Vagrant Records this week. Reportedly, Rich Egan being the Minor Threat fan that he is, acted in pure punk rock form and dropped The Anniversary cuz they got a few Led Zeppelin records and figured out the Get Up Kids weren’t the next Beatles. After giving the band the boot from his Emotaph roster, Egan then posted an absolutely scathing explanation for his decision on the Vagrant message board, then removed it. Good thing we’ve got little elves on the internet that keep that shit for us. Here’s what was posted:
Rich Egan:
“im simply not at liberty to go into details.
suffice to say this.
you will NEVER see this band
1) on tour with other Vagrant bands. The Get Up Kids or anyone else.
2) being promoted on this website.
Vagrant and our bands are a family. When someone goes out of their
way to hurt any member of the family, we circle the wagons. We are in
this together. And those that aim to hurt a family member will feel
the effects of their actions from the ENTIRE family. its that simple.
i have learned a couple things in my years—-when you dont live in
the real world, and refuse to give credit to anyone else, you become
blinded by your own inflated sense of self worth (however unrealistic
or unearned that is). when you dont work for a damn thing and get
everything handed to you, you start to assume that you deserve what
you have.
when your sole concern is your own personal gain, you dont care who
gets hurt by your self centered, despicable actions, you have no
problem anilihating relationships with everyone and anyone who helped
make your station in life possible. this usually comes with
tremendous ego. ego and jealousy make people do disgusting things.
some people dont realize what they have (or WHO they have) until all
those people are gone (or alienated). then they are left alone,
bitter and broken with only their inflated egos to comfort them”

Dashboard Confessional loves his fans so much that he told us it’d be “mighty swell” if he could talk to them at all hours of the evening. He likes talking about subjects ranging from his favorite sweater vest to his favorite gay bukkake pornos. Call up Chris… he’s awake all the time. Tell him Buddyhead thinks he’s totally awesome… not. (561) 289-6615

International Noise Conspiracy are close to inking up with American Records. This way they can buy even more pairs of $200.00 “vintage” jeans to help in their fight against capitalism. Rick Rubin is going to try and fool everyone into thinking that Swedes are still cool.

A.F.I. is gonna trick the youth of America into thinking pop punk is goth.

Somebody at Epic is going to get fired over signing those whining dipshits, The Juliana Theory. It seems that kids aren’t buying the “emo” on the new record or whatever. It’s either that or the fact that listening to that shit is like listening to audio from a Nazi concentration camp. No thanks.

Colin Farrell knocked up some model in between making sure Brittney’s ass gets tapped. Jeff Wood is pissed at Collin Farrell.

Shat is in Entertainment Weekly in the music section under “worst band names”. Those dudes who did the story are fucking posers. Email the editors at Entertainment Weekly and tell them you’re boycotting their magazine unless they print an apology. ew-letters@ew.com

The doofy looking guitar player from New Found Glory is sticking his shit in Kelly Osbourne’s burger. We’re not exactly sure which goofy looking guitar player cause they both look kinda beefy faced down syndrome-ish, but that’s not really the point. The point is that this dude is batting clean up to that shower-less troll from the Used…… yeah, Bert. Bert’s dirty penis slid into that shit first, so we can’t even imagine what’s going on there, cause that guy showers less than Travis.

There are interns at major labels whose only job is to read Buddyhead and report to A&R people what we say is cool. When we posted about These Arms Are Snakes, RCA records called them the next day. When we posted about Roy, they received packages from every lame nu-metal label. If you are one of these interns, grab anything that’s not bolted down (including cd’s, lp’s, computers, chairs, watches, dvd players, you name it) and mail it to us. PO Box 1268 Hollywood, CA 90078 Thanks in advance.

These Arms Are Snakes just inked a record deal with Jade Tree. I guess when you have a member of ROY in your band you can write your own ticket.

Vincent Gallo will appear in any bands video as long as you pay for his first class flight, 5 star hotel, and hook him up with drugs and blonde girls. He doesn’t care if the music’s good. Contact him via his website http://www.vincentgallo.com/contact/. He loves attention.

Speaking of Vincent Gallo… GLASSJAW FUCKING SUCKS.

Your Enemies Friends still don’t have a keyboard player.

Not smoking weed is fucking Snoop up. Somehow, some way, Snoop Dogg thought it’d be a good idea to do guest tracks on what is sure to be the anti-christ in audio form, aka the new Limp Bizkit album. Snoop, fix this shit or you’re off the team.

Fred Durst will be co-hosting all this week on that late night frat comedy show, Jimmy Kimmel Live. It tapes in Hollywood at the El Capitan Theatre nightly. If you wanna go sit in the audience and throw shit at Freddy, click here to get on the guest list.
(http://www.1iota.com/1iotaproductions/event.asp?eid=10)

Cave In is going on tour with the Foo Fighters AND… THE TRANSPLANTS. We’d go, but Burger King has that new Italian Chicken Sandwich back… so like… we’re busy.

Bam from Jackass was so amped the last time we posted his number… so here’s his other number (484) 433-2281.

Pete Yorn is going on tour. When Jeff Wood finds out, Pete Yorn is in deep shit.
May 12th Boston, MA – Avalon Ballroom
May 13th Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
May 16th Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle
May 18th Miami, FL – TBA
May 19th Lake Buena Vista, FL – House of Blues
May 21st New Orleans, FL – House of Blues
May 23rd Dallas, TX – Majestic Theater
May 24th Austin, TX – Stubb’s Barbeque
May 26th Phoenix, AZ – Celebrity Theater
May 27th San Diego, CA – 4th and B
May 29th Los Angeles, CA – Wiltern Theater
May 31st Las Vegas, NV – Hard Rock hotel
June 02nd Santa Barbara, CA – Arlington Theater

Some dude in Arkahoma got real suspicious when Godspeed! You Black Emporer showed up to his hole in the wall gas station and called the FBI claiming he had terrorists at his place. The FBI showed up guns drawn and interrogated the old punkers from GYBE for a bit. When everyone finally realized that they weren’t threatening, they were just a little “slow” cause they’re from Canada, everything was coolio.

Radiohead’s got a new record coming out called “Hail To The Thief”. Capitol’s bummed cuz this is the last one they get before Radiohead’s contract is up. They’re coming to the US in the summer.

Andrew Clark, who plays bass in Campfire Girls, had his house burn down last week. That means he lost all his bomb records and all his killer silverlake clothes. They had a benefit show to help him get back on his feet on Friday. If you missed that and want to help Andrew out, send him some cash or killer records in the mail. He really needs it. His address is: 1812 Ewing St. Los Angeles, CA 90026

In more LA band’s getting fucked news, Jason from Midnight Movies had his car broken into and most of his gear stolen. If anybody can make donations towards the deductible of his car insurance, call him at (323) 839-3058. Seriously.

Michael Moore fucking rules as far as speeches and making movies goes. We bet he’s pretty good at eating too.

Creem! Magazine is coming back. Click here for their site. You know that’s gonna suck. A bunch of pussy writers talking about The Strokes.

All Tomorrow’s Parties is coming to LA June 20th-22nd and it’s gonna be killer. Wire, Trail of Dads, Blonde Redhead, Boredoms, Breeders, Fantomas, Le Tigre, Mogwai, Patti Smith, The Black Heart Procession, The Fall, The Melvins, and a bunch of other shit we don’t care about. Can someone sneak us in the backdoor or some shit? http://www.atpfestival.com/

Shane from Playing Enemy is in love with Alex Newport.

People should go see Alex Newport’s band, Theory of Ruin, because he was in Fudge Tunnel and Nailbomb, and another dude was in Mr. Bungle. He also recorded good records from At The Drive-In, Mars Volta, Your Enemies Friends, and The Icarus Line among others. And he has a cute little accent… and ass.

F-Minus are selling out the scene and opening up for rap/punk moguls, the Transplants on tour. Bomb idea guys. On the lighter side of things, F-Minus just finished their new album with Steve Albini and it’s stellar.

Skinhead Rob from The Transplants got a “solo deal” with Warner Bros as a hip hop artist. KILLER!

Is it just us or is the trucker hat thing pissing you off too? If it’s not, go buy one of the ones we’re selling. We’re sellouts.

The christian dude in Pedro the Lion makes more in one royalty check than both the owners of Jade tree make in a whole year combined. Jesus is gay.
We’re bringing Sex Advice back. Well, actually now we’re just making Marko do it. Send him some sex questions so he has something to answer, marko@buddyhead.com. Also, check out www.hotelcafe.com it’s the Coffee Shop Marko owns (they serve wine and beer too now). The address is online if you wanna stalk him ladies or dudes.

We got a new messageboard, it’s at http://www.buddyhead.com/forum if you wanna go chat it up. We must warn you though, most of the kids on there sound like a bunch of pussies. But then again, last time we checked it was FREE FOR YOU SO SHUT THE FUCK UP. Also, Jeff Wood of Shat is on there like all day, so that prolly balances out all the pussiness in the end. Just remember, just cos it says BUDDYHEAD on the top of the thing doesn’t mean we condone or agree with most of the shit on there. In fact, we hardly, if ever, go there. Play nice kiddies.

The new Harkonen/Playing Enemy side project is called Beset by Archers. It sounds like Guided by Voices and Arab Strap. Sounds awesome… not.

Blood Brothers are going on a US tour and taking Akimbo and Playing Enemy with them. They still have two singers that can’t sing.

Unsane are on tour again. Chris from Unsane is an heir to the Time/Warner/AOL fortune so he gets millions of dollars just to be alive. That dude should give us some coin so we can hire some dudes to pick up some of the slack around here.

The Atari’s singer Kris Roe has switched from wearing a red tie to wearing a black tie. Now, they’ll never know where you got the idea!

Casper Adams knows famous people and he’s got a truck load of class! If you wanna fuck Casper or fight Casper, you can send your naked photos and death threats to him @ casper@louisville.cc.

Paranorm said we had to link his new cd or he’d beat us up. Download the fuck out of this so we aren’t harmed. http://www.headcrack.com/audio/slap.html

Someone say BOOOYAAAAH!!!!!! (Click on booyah)

Lungfish are heading out on tour in May for the first time since 1994. So chances are you’ve never seen them. It’d be a good idea to see them. Here are the dates:
MAY
Fri 9 CA, San Francisco – The Parkside w/ Enablers
Sat 10 CA, Oakland – tbc *(still working out some details)
Sun 11 OR, Portland – The Blackbird w/ The Tiny Kings
Mon 12 TBA
Tue 13 CAN, BC, Victoria – The Lucky Bar
Wed 14 TBA
Thu 15 WA, Seattle – Graceland w/ Juno and The Tiny Kings
Fri 16 CA, Eureka – E & O Bowling Alley
Sat 17 CA, San Francisco – tbc *(still working out the details)
Sun 18 CA, Los Angeles – Spaceland

Playing Enemy is going on tour. They’ll try not to put their pubic hair in your face cream this time around. Booyah.
4/26 Portland, OR
@ Satyricon w/Diestro
4/27 San Francisco, Ca
@ Curve Bar w/Thundergasm
4/28 Day off in San Francisco
Shane will stalk Alex Newport
4/29 San Diego, CA
@ Che Cafe w/Thundergasm
4/30 Las Vegas, NV
@ Hammer House w/Curl Up And Die
5/1 Corona, CA
@ Showcase Theatre
5/2 Berkeley, CA
@ 924 Gilman
5/3 Eugene, OR
@ The Corral w/The Scheme

Radio Vago is going to Europe. Make sure you don’t miss this one kids. It’s gonna be a show… you can listen to their ep here or visit their website here
Tuesday, April 1 S036 – Berlin, Germany w/ Mars Volta and Subtitle
Wednesday, April 2 Rock Café – Prague, Czech Republic w/ Mars Volta and Subtitle
Thursday, April 3 Flex – Vienna, Switzerland w/ Mars Volta and Subtitle
Friday, April 4 Mochvara – Zagreb, Croatia w/ Mars Volta and Subtitle
Sunday, April 6 Estragon – Bologna, Italy w/ Mars Volta and Subtitle
Tuesday, April 8 Razzmatazz 3 – Barcelona, Spain w/ Mars Volta and Subtitle
Wednesday, April 9 Moby Dick – Madrid, Spain w/ Mars Volta and Subtitle
Friday, April 11 La Boule Noir – Paris, France w/ Mars Volta and Subtitle
Saturday, April 12 AB Box – Brussels, Belgium w/ Mars Volta and Subtitle
Sunday, April 13 Astoria – London, England w/ Mars Volta and Subtitle
Monday, April 14 Metro – London, England
Friday, April 18 Henry Fonda Theater – Los Angeles w/ The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Icarus Line
Saturday, May 3 House of Blues – Las Vegas, NV w/ The Donnas

While we were over in the UK, we attended The Reading and Leeds festivals. First off, European festivals are light years ahead of American festivals. I mean they still suck cuz it’s a festival and no one wants to sit in the mud and rain to see way too many shitty bands, but it’s better than the ones in our country. And people in Europe actually like music. Imagine that!?! Anyhow, lots of shitty bands played, a few good ones too. The Icarus Line slayed (what do you expect us to say?), Pulp was decent, Aphex twin was amazing, The Pattern got the skinny white kids dancing, the Strokes had by far the worst stage sound…all you could hear was a snare, a guitar, and their zit faced singer, no wait – Sum 182 actually had worse sound – I take the Strokes thing back. Alec Empire was rad, The Hives sucked (whoever it was that told me that band was good live is fucking insane, those guys can’t even speak English let alone rock me with English), The Vines wet their pants, (http://php.ipc.co.uk/nmegallery/gallery.php?g=5&i=16) Walter and The Rival Schools were making everyone happy, The International Noise Conspiracy didn’t play their Stooges cover like we told em to (pussies), Janes Addiction were pretty rad (we heckled the ever-shirtless Dave Navarro though), and the rest is kind of a blur for some reason. Let’s put it this way, the food backstage was far more interesting than most of the bands that played. We missed Spiritualized (they played the night after The Icarus Line) and I’m pissed about that. But we did see them play their first Australian show ever when we were down under. And that my friends was fucking real noice. That’s not a typo. We met that geek from The Vines, who thinks he’s the new Kurt Cobain, backstage. When we asked what it was like to be better than Nirvana he didn’t have anything to reply. At least tell us to fuck off…. Jesus. That kid is a dork and his band sucks. The end. We also met Rivers Cuomo backstage and his marine friend Jerry (or something). Rivers put up with all our harassment like a champ while his jock friend Jerry told us that short hair was cool. We told him he was trippin.

Oh yeah, speaking of Reading… get this… A while ago we reported that the reason the Yeah Yeah Yeahs weren’t going to Reading was their singer Karen O was injured in a bar fight. Well that was a bit of a lie we made up. Sorry. The funny part is NME (you know, that English music tabloid that says a new band is the next savior of rock every other week) even printed our false gossip. You fools better start fact checking over there. Yeah so anyway, we just wanted to come clean and confess. The real reason the Yeah Yeah Yeahs didn’t make it over to Europe and to Reading was due to Karen O’s panic attacks. See last time the band flew overseas their plane was raided by police with guns drawn looking for possible terrorists, so now Karen is a bit freaked to fly.

Here’s a bit of rock trivia for your head: Both the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Shat have a song called “Bang” on their debut releases.

So while we were in the UK, we also attended The Kerrang Awards. What a huge pile of shit that was. Not that we expected anything more from a magazine who jerks off bands like Slipknot and The Offspring. Oh yeah, the Offspring won the “Classic Songwriter” award. That means Kerrang is putting them up there with Bob Dylan. Good choice guys. The other bands that won were Hundred Reasons, A, Foo Fighters won the “Hall of Fame” award, some band called Muse won “Best British Live Act” (they haven’t heard of Spiritualized yet in the offices of Kerrang), and Kasey Choas was in the house smashing glasses and telling everyone how he likes Refused more than the Beatles. What’s with all these lame nu-metal dudes thinking they understand Refused?

Before I forget, someone really needs to tell the British about some of these new and amazing inventions we have over here in the good ole’ US of A… showers and vegetables. What’s for breakfast? Meat, cheese, and bread. What’s for lunch? Meat, cheese, and bread. What’s for dinner? Meat, Cheese, and bread.

The Dillinger Escape Plan have a new EP with Mike Watt from the Minutemen on bass, called “Irony Is A Dead Scene” and it’s out in stores. Go pick it up cuz it’s killer. Epitaph is selling those like hot cakes and shit. When DEP played Reading, their new singer guy/gymnast Greg Puciato took a poo on stage and threw it at the crowd, rubbed it on his chest, and damn near puked all over the place because of it. Yeah you heard us… poo, real human poo. Poo is not cool, we agree. He was quoted as saying “A lot of people are making music for all the wrong reasons nowadays. There doesn’t seem to be much art just product. that being said I don’t feel there’s more of a difference between what I did on stage and what most bands are doing anyway so I figured I’d use the festival as a platform to kind of make that comparison more vivid. Coincidentally I also really had to go and it’s not like there’s a toilet on the side of the stage. That might have been the largest public viewing of a bowel movement in world history.” Hey Greg, pinch em off before you go on stage…no one wants to see, smell, or have your poo.

THE ICARUS LINE AND DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN ON TOUR
DEP is still out on the road with The Icarus Line as we speak. The number of times balls have touched male faces on that tour bus is probably in the high thousands. Some USA dates were just added. Go see them.
Tue Sep 24 Worchester, MA Middle East
Wed Sep 25 New York, NY The Knitting Factory
Thu Sep 26 Philadelphia, PA The Trocodero
Fri Sep 27 Washington,DC 9:30 Club
Mon Sep 30 Winstom-Salem, NC Ziggy’s
Fri Oct 04 Los Angeles, CA The Roxy
Sat Oct 05 Las Vegas, NV The Castle
Mon Oct 07 San Francisco, CA The Pound
Tue Oct 08 Portland, OR Roseland
Wed Oct 09 Seattle, WA Showbox
Sun Oct 13 Denver, CO Bluebird Theatre
Tue Oct 15 Kansas City, KS El Torreon

Speaking of Epitaph, they just signed Ikara Colt (dunno what they are all about) and they’ve got a new website. Oh look, it’s Orange! Wonder where they got that idea. Hmmm…. maybe here?

RADIO VAGO RECORD IN STORES NOVEMBER 19TH
Radio Vago’s debut release “Black & White Photo Enterprise” will hit stores on November 19th. We’ll have it really soon for mail order in the Buddyhead store. They will be playing The Troubadour on October 14th with The Fall and the Fuse. Come and watch them blow those other two bands off the friggin’ stage.

YOUR ENEMIES FRIENDS ON TOUR WITH THE DONNAS
Your Enemies Friends will be out on tour with The Donnas real soon like. American Hi-Fi was originally supposed to be on the tour as well, but when those geeks found out a “Buddyhead band” was on the tour they pulled off cuz they were scared we’d tell everyone how bad their band sucks or something. Dorks. Your Enemies Friends will also be opening for The Icarus Line and The Dillinger Escape Plan when they play the Roxy in Hollywood on Friday, October 4th. Who ever is making the ads for The Roxy needs to find the SPELL CHECK FEATURE…Be there.
Wed Oct 23 Los Angeles, CA Roxy
Thu Oct 24 San Francisco, CA Great American
Fri Oct 25 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
Sat Oct 26 Seattle, WA Graceland
Mon Oct 28 Vancouver, BC Richard’s
Thu Oct 31 Minneapolis, MN Ascot Room @ The Quest
Sat Nov 02 Cleveland, OH Agora Ballroom
Sun Nov 03 Detroit, MI The Majestic
Mon Nov 04 Buffalo, NY The Continental
Tue Nov 05 Pittsburgh, PA Club Laga
Wed Nov 06 Toronto, ONT The Opera House
Thu Nov 07 Boston, MA Middle East
Sun Nov 10 Brooklyn, NY Warsaw
Mon Nov 11 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
Tue Nov 12 Philadelphia, PA The Trocodero
Wed Nov 13 Washington, DC Black Cat
Thu Nov 14 Winstom-Salem, NC Ziggy’s
Fri Nov 15 Atlanta, GA Masquerade
Sun Nov 17 Orlando, FL Sapphire
Mon Nov 18 Tampa, FL Twilight
Tue Nov 19 Ft. Lauderdale, FL The Culture Room
Wed Nov 20 Tallahassee, FL Floyd’s
Fri Nov 22 New Orleans, LA Shim Sham Club
Sat Nov 23 Houston, TX Fitzgerald’s
Sun Nov 24 Austin, TX Emo’s
Tue Nov 26 Phoenix, AZ Nile Theatre
Fri Nov 29 Los Angeles, CA El Rey
Sat Nov 30 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore

Speaking of Buddyhead releases, the 65 tracked Shat’s “The Best Of Shat” will be in stores on September 10th. So I guess that means rock will be saved on exactly September 10th. NME says that the Vines are better than Nirvana and are gonna save rock n’ roll and all that bullshit. Well Buddyhead says that Shat, even on a bad day, is better than the Vines, even if they ever do learn how to play their instruments. Click here for the Shat “best of” track listing.

BUDDYHEAD ON THE RADIO IN SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA
On September 16th (Monday night), from 10pm-Midnight, Travis from Buddyhead will be a guest on Scott Rigg’s Show on 92/1 Premium Radio, KFSD-FM (that’s a San Diego station). Tune in and listen as we will turn up the suck. Give us a call to request some music or just talk some shit. We’ll be taking calls.
Web site: www.independent.fm.
PH #:760.745.9292
AOL IM: coup921

So we caught part of the MTV VMAS 2002 the other night… was it just us or was the word of the night “rock”? Our bet is that those VJs were getting extra points every time they said the word. MTV really wants America to know that it’s going to buy “rock” from them really soon. Rock is coming back, in case you didn’t hear. Like it ever went anywhere… dipshits. So anyways, in case you somehow were lucky enough to miss the VMAs this year, here’s our rundown of what happened…
The Boss played and no one cared. If you are saying to yourself, “What the heck?!? I cared!” you are what they call a hillbilly. Eminem won a lot of awards, proved he was a jock by yelling at Moby, and then rapped over his CD. Now that was exciting, live entertainment at its best for sure. How come no one else is thinking rapping over your cd is lame? Some fruitcake from N’ Sync break danced. Michael Jackson did something. The Brady Bunch won some awards for something. Dashboard Confessional won an award for being really safe, boring, and clean. Christina was in the house, not to promote a new record but to let the world to know she now has fake boobs and is on speed. The Hives (is that bass player getting fatter or is it just us?) and The Vines both stunk up the stage (it was the Vines 61st show. Hey Viners, how does it feel to be better than Nirvana like NME says you guys are after only 61 shows? True talent indeed!) The singer from the vines ended up boning Paris Hilton. We’re sure they had an amazing conversation in the morning. One can only imagine what those two brain surgeons talk about when they are together. Kangaroos and Prada. Gideon Yago was backstage fluffing The Strokes before they proceeded to take a bunch of famous chicks back to their hotel rooms. Who the fuck is Jimmy Fallon? Hip hop is fucking boring these days. But we’re in luck, cuz in case you haven’t heard rock is coming back. MTV is making sure they get all those cute and cuddly rock bands on! NEWSFLASH: rock isn’t cute and clean or cuddly. Ok anyways, then the shit hit the fan… Axl and his cover band that he calls “Guns N’ Roses” were the Grand Finale. Man was that weird! First off Axl is T-R-I-P-P-I-N-G! YO AXL! THIS BAND ISN’T GUNS AND ROSES! SLASH, DUFF, AND IZZY ARE HANGING OUT WITH THE DUDE IN BUCKCHERRY CUZ YOU ARE A FUCKING BIPOLAR DIPSHIT WHO WON’T TAKE HIS MEDICINE NOW! YOU HAVE A GUY WITH A CHICKEN BUCKET ON HIS HEAD WHERE SLASH USED TO BE! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING? TAKE YOUR FUCKING MEDICINE AXL! YOU HAD YOUR HAIR IN LAME BRAIDS AND WERE WEARING BAGGY LEATHER PANTS WITH A FOOTBALL JERSEY AS WELL?!?! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ABOUT? BASICALLY, YOU NEED TO TAKE YOUR FREAKY LITTLE HAIRPLUGGED SELF BACK TO YOUR LITTLE MANSION AND STAY THERE. DON’T BUM US OUT LIKE THAT AGAIN. Someone should just kick the shit out of the new Axl, the old Axl would want it that way I think. Jesus, remind me not to watch this crap again next year.

Graham Coxon quit Blur.

In case you needed further proof that Coke is better than Pepsi…. Papa Roach will be in a new series of commercials for Pepsi. The best part is the dick that directed “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is shooting them. Sign of the times anyone?

Rivers Cuomo is in party mode.

Radiohead is recording a record in LA. The entire band showed up at a recent Beck show and Radiohead sightings are coming in from all over town. We heard they are looking to party…if that is true Radiohead needs to email us (buddyhead@buddyhead.com) and we’ll show them how to party.

Axl Rose is totally tripping!

Someone better send us a copy of the new Black Flag tribute Henry Rollins put together with his Rollins band playing and superstar guest singers (it’s for charity, don’t get mad). We heard Iggy doing “Fix Me” and it’s fucking awesome to say the least! Also singing on the comp are Cedric from the Mars Volta, Chuck D, Keith Morris, Nick from Queens, Ice-T (how perfect is it that Ice-T is singing Police Story?), Tom Araya, Lemmy from Motorhead, Former black Flag Bassist – Chuck Dukowski, Tim Armstrong, and Grateful Dead Tattoo haver – Lars Frederiksen. No sign of Gregg Ginn in sight on here. It’s pretty obvious Gregg took one look at the track listing and saw Kasey Choas, some guy from Slipknot, and Ryan Adams and told Henry he was tripping! Who lets those fucking geeks on a Black Flag comp? Henry’s gotta make sure it’s a little bit lame if he’s involved no matter what. As if his muscles and short shorts weren’t already bumming us all out enough.
* “Rise Above” (with Public Enemy’s Chuck D, Henry Rollins)
* “Nervous Breakdown” (with the Circle Jerks’ Keith Morris)
* “Fix Me” (with Iggy Pop)
* “American Waste” (with Clutch’s Neil Fallon)
* “I’ve Had It” (with the Mars Volta’s Cedric Bixler)
* “I’ve Heard It Before” (with Poison the Well’s Jeff Moreira)
* “Room 13″ (with Slipknot’s Corey Taylor)
* “Wasted” (with Exene Cervenka)
* “Jealous Again” (with Queens of the Stone Age’s Nick Oliveri)
* “TV Party” (with Henry Rollins)
* “No Values” (with Hank Williams III)
* “Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie” (with Ween’s Dean Ween)
* “Depression” (with Amen’s Casey Chaos)
* “Six Pack” (with Mike Patton)
* “Police Story” (with Ice-T)
* “Revenge” (with Slayer’s Tom Araya)
* “Thirsty & Miserable” (with Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister)
* “What I See” (with Chuck Dukowski)
* “No More” (with Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, Lars Frederiksen)
* “Black Coffee” (with Henry Rollins)
* “Slip It In” (with Henry Rollins, Inger Lorre)
* “Annihilate This Week” (with Henry Rollins, Kira Roessler)
* “My War” (with Henry Rollins)
* “Nervous Breakdown” (with Ryan Adams)

Attention pasty white children, Sleater Kinney’s got a new record out, go pick that one up.

The Burning Brides let Hot Snakes have their drummer back for a bit so they could play some shows. Well, Mr. Reis and co. finally played Hollywood a few nights on one the hottest nights of the year. 105 during the day. Show report: opening band played for five hours, it was hot, hot snakes came on, they slayed, it was hot, they played “Bullet Train To Vegas”, it ruled, lots of kids in tight pants, sweating, the end.

Right now the guys in Incubus are thinking about….. their moms. How exciting!

The Mars Volta are wrapping up pre-production on their debut full length and are getting ready to enter the studio with Rick Rubin. We heard the demos slay. Get ready for “punk floyd” kids, it’s gonna be good.

Piebald had to cancel their tour with Dashboard Confessional. Their emo fieldtrip with the cleanest tattooed guy on earth was cut short due to their singer, Travis Shettle, having to undergo vocal chord surgery. He’s gotta have some gnarly blood blisters and other shit cut off his chords. The surgeon wielding the knife is the same guy who cuts up Elton John’s throat. Which is kinda neat. Check their website for more info, we heard they are selling shirts to help pay for it or something. Maybe Rama was lying about that. We’re not sure. www.piebald.com

Joey C. of Danzig/Prong is taking Dave Grohl’s seat behind the drums for Queens Of The Stoneage. He had one practice and started their US tour, what a pro. Hey will one of you stupid shitheads that work for The Queens label send us their fucking record already? Everyone and their moms have it but us! What the fuck? You guys are blowing it…. we actually like that band, send us the fucking record. We write about that shit.

Rumor has it that Tomahawk’s Mike Patton pissed on Maynard and Adam’s legs during a recent Tool performance. It must of not have bummed them out that bad because Tomahawk is still on the tour.

The McRib is back… still.

After playing an LA show at the Troubadour, The Explosion are receiving an onslaught of offers from just about every major label in existence. They are also listed in the new Hits magazine (HITS is a magazine for dipshits in the music industry who don’t know anything about music – if you fall into that category please know that the people who do Buddyhead hate you) as a “buzz show”. That means they are gonna have major label slime balls nibbling on their dicks like a rat does cheese. Free Lunches!

Right now Fred Durst is thinking… “boobs, boobs, boobs, I need to learn how to play guitar quick, boobs, boobs.”

The Division Of Laura Lee are changing their name. They recently posted on their website that their new band name, which they think better describes their sound, will be “Shit”. Hey guys, that’s a good band for you and all but there’s already a band called Shat! And to be honest, if it came down to it, Jeff Wood is way bigger than any of you little mod fruitcakes. Don’t front.

Oh get this, this is great! Those pop punk geeks in New Found Glory are putting together a Bjork/Sugarcubes tribute comp on Atticus. Let me guess all the bands will prolly sound like their band maybe? Of course, all those pop punk bands just listen to each other’s bands. If you put shit in, you get shit out. We feel sorry for Bjork.

Boy Sets Fire told us that they are going on tour with Snatchface and some Victory band they’ve never heard of, and then going to Europe for 4 weeks. After that they’ve got a record coming out in September, which will be half live and half nu-emo. Did we mention that they are on Creed’s label? Geeks.

Oh yeah… Boy Sets Fire also told us that they played Furnace Fest to “a bunch of black haired tight pants jaded 16 year old assholes and it sucked”. So they got drunk and fucked with Andrew WK. Their guitar player got loaded and on a 10 dollar bet ran out and put him on his shoulders. Andrew was stoked. He high roved that when he high fived him after the show. Andrew WK knows how to party! (Photo1)(Photo2)

Burger King has two tacos for .99.

Phantom Planet totally suck in case you didn’t already know. Any band with both an actor AND a model as members completely sucks. You can’t convince us you like The Who drummer man.

Seattle band Earth have announced their first live shows in over 8 years. Earth will perform as a two-piece with Dylan Carlson on guitar and Adrienne Davies on drum.
The dates are as follows:
9/16 – The Pond – Boston
9/17 – Knitting Factory – New York
9/18 – Khyber – Philadelphia
9/19 – Velvet Lounge – Washington DC

Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult’s 1980 Concert Film “Black & Blue” will finally be released on DVD on October 8th, 2002. ‘Black & Blue’ has never been issued on home video at all until now. This 80-minute cult film has managed to avoid being widely bootlegged. Yes it is the Duo era, but the film was produced by the late George Harrison so that kind of makes up for the lack of Ozzy. Plus you know they put “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” on there, so that alone is worth watching this film. Haha.
www.classicpictures.co.uk
www.ronniejamesdio.com
www.blueoystercult.com

Sub Pop is selling some hot new shirts for The Catheters, check it! Fashion bands always have the best shirt models.

Jawbreaker finally released their B-sides comp on Adam’s label Blackball records under the title “ETC”. Aaron jacked off to it the whole time we were in Europe. He said the new mastering sounds good and the artwork is decent. Here’s the track listing:
* Shield Your Eyes
* Equalized
* Caroline
* Better Half
* Split
* Gutless
* With or Without U2
* Fantastic Planet
* Rich
* Peel It the Fuck Down
* Pretty Persuasion
* Kiss the Bottle
* First Step
* Friends Back East
* Sea Foam Green
* Housesitter
* Into You Like a Train
* Sister
* Friendly Fire
* Boxcar

The Distillers are hitting the big time it looks like, They are going to be opening for Garbage and the self-loving Gwen Stefani (and most likely featuring the other dudes from No Doubt who don’t get to be in the video as well). Wow, what a giant suckfest that’s gonna be.

Snoop Dogg is sober (yeah not even weed) and is in the studio with The Neptunes recording his next record. We heard he wants to kick the shit out of Spiderman in his next video cuz “Spiderman didn’t have any black people in it!” We think Snoop could kick the shit out of that midge.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have a new album coming out. Tom Petty for sure smokes more weed than Snoop Dogg now.

The Warped Tour is funding the Taliban.

Autolux got signed to some new fake label that The Cohen Brothers started called DMZ (they have a P&D with Columbia Records). Sounds rock n roll dudes. Autolux will enter into a studio in late October to start recording their debut full length record.

That shitty pop punk band Yellowcard got signed to Capitol. Yeah can you believe that those little geeks don’t gotta get jobs now? There’s no justice in rock. Will this pop punk shit ever go away? It won’t, will it? Fuck….

That band The Trust Company needs to pull up their fucking pants and buy another record besides “The Shape Of Punk To Come”. Death to all mall punks.

Someone tell that guy in Blink to get another record too. In every interview he talks about how he’s been listening to Refused. It’s like, GET ANOTHER FUCKING RECORD DORK! Refused are good and all, but expand your horizons geek.

If you don’t already own it, go buy the Spacemen 3’s album “Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs to”.

When Bluebird played The Sunset Junction, Wayne Kramer (from the MC5) joined them on stage to help bring the rock. As if things couldn’t get any better, Long Duck Dong from the movie 16 Candles was spotted in the crowd, wasted and screaming! No joke. The Bird is going on the road. Go see them blow those geeks in Shit off the stage.
9/7 meow meow portland or. w/sparta
10/7 slims san francisco, ca. w/international noise conspiracy
10/22 el rey, los angeles, ca. w/international noise conspiracy, division of laura lee
10/23 glasshouse, pomona, ca. w/international noise conspiracy, division of laura lee
10/27-11/23 U.S Tour

Dead Meadow are possibly coming to your town. Make sure you don’t miss these guys if you happen to live in one of these shitty cities. Don’t fuck this one up. They will be playing with the Brian Jonestown Massacre and some furry band, so get there early.
September 23rd New York City Bowery Ballroom Brian Jonestown Massacre
September 24th Boston, MA Middle East Brian Jonestown Massacre
September 25th Hoboken, NJ Maxwells Brian Jonestown Massacre
September 26th Washington DC 9:30 Club Super Furry Animals
September 27th Chapel Hill, NC Cats Cradle Super Furry Animals
September 28th Pittsburgh, PA TBA Super Furry Animals
September 29th Cincinatti, OH Southgate House Super Furry Animals
September 30th Indianapolis, IN Birdy’s Super Furry Animals
October 1st Atlanta, GA TBA Brian Jonestown Massacre
October 3rd Houston, TX Rudyard Brian Jonestown Massacre
October 4th Austin, TX Emo’s Brian Jonestown Massacre
October 5th Dallas, TX Gypsy Tearoom Brian Jonestown Massacre

Sparta is starting their US tour in support of their new full length, Wiretap Scars. They’ll be playing with Jimmy Eat World, Cave-In, Small Brown Bike, Longfellow (wow, they are still a band? Yikes), and the Papa Roach fans in Loudermilk. Also, if you are a TV head, make sure to check out Sparta when they appear on the Conan O’Brien show Sept 24th. After that Sparta is going on tour with Hundred Reasons in Europe. It’s gonna suck opening for a band who is nothing more than a bad imitation of your old band. Meanwhile Hundred Reasons are still trying to pretend someone in America has actually heard of their shitty pop punk band.
Sparta dates are as follows:
September 05 Seattle, WA – Graceland (listen to KNDD around 2pm for a live sparta performance on the air! and ticket giveaways) w/guests Pleasure Forever and Loudermilk
07 Portland, OR – Meow Meow w/guests Bluebird
08 San Francisco, CA – Slims w/guests Longfellow and Loudermilk
09 Pomona, CA – Glasshouse w/guests Longfellow and Loudermilk
10 Tempe, AZ – Nita’s Hideaway w/guests Longfellow and Loudermilk
12 Austin, TX – Music Hall w/Jimmy Eat World and Cave-In
13 Dallas, TX – Bronco Bowl w/Jimmy Eat World and Cave-In
14 Tulsa, OK – KMYZ Edgefest @ Will Rogers Downs w/Jimmy Eat World, Blindside, Cave-in, Sugarcult, and Sevendust.
16 Houston, TX – Verizon Wireless Theater w/Jimmy Eat World and Cave-In
17 New Orleans, LA W/Cave-in
19 Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle w/Jimmy Eat World and Cave-In
20 Columbia, SC – WARQ show at Finley Park w/Jimmy Eat World, Cave-in and a lot of other bands
21 Richmond, VA – WDYL fest w/Jimmy Eat World, Cave-in, Finch, American Hi-Fi, others
22 Washington DC – GWU Free show to GWU students and their guests, with Jimmy Eat World and Cave-In
23 Philadelphia, PA – TLA with Cave-In and Breaking Panagea
24 CONAN OBRIEN
25 Grand Rapids, MI – Calvin College w/Jimmy Eat World and Cave-In
26 Green Bay, WI – Phoenix Sports Center w/Jimmy Eat World and Cave-In
27 Chicago, IL – Metro w/Cave-In and Small Brown Bike
28 Atlanta, GA – 99X BDO fest @ Hi Fi Buys w/Stone Pilots, Sum 41, Filter, The Roots, New Found Glory
30 Detroit, MI – Clutch Cargo w/Cave-In and Small Brown Bike
OCTOBER
01 Toronto, ONT – Phoenix Concert Hall w/Cave-In and Small Brown Bike
02 Ottawa, ONT – Babylon w/Cave-In and Small Brown Bike
04 Boston, MA – Paradise w/Cave-In and Small Brown Bike
05 Washington, DC – Black Kat w/Cave-In and Small Brown Bike
06 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom w/Cave-In and Small Brown Bike

Our good buddies from Seattle, Playing Enemy, are on tour right now. Damian said for us to tell everyone who is planning on coming out to the shows that they really appreciate presents and places to stay.
9/6/02 Boise, ID / JD’s
9/7/02 Lindon, UT / Suite 13
9/8/02 Denver, CO / Crowbar
9/9/02 Omaha, NE / House show
9/10/02 Lawrence, KS / Replay Lounge w/ Esoteric
9/11/02 St. Louis, MI / Creepy Crawl w/ Sixer
9/12/02 Indianapolis, IN / Solidarity Books w/ The Dream is Dead, Anodyne,
Black Widows
9/13/02 Chicago, IL / Fireside Bowl w/ Lickgoldensky
9/14/02 Ypsilanti, MI / Mr. Mugs w/ Lickgoldensky
9/15/02 Cleveland, OH / Grog Shop w/ Lickgoldensky & Keelhaul
9/16/02 Toronto, ON / Lee’s Palace w/ Cursed
9/17/02 Ottowa, ON / Underground w/ Cursed
9/18/02 Montreal, QB / Cafe L’Inconditionnel w/ Cursed
9/19/02 Portland, ME / The Skinny w/ Conifer
9/20/02 Boston, MA / Papa’s w/ Anodyne, Shot Dead
9/21/02 Philadelphia, PA / Funrama w/ Lickgoldensky, Anodyne
9/22/02 New York, NY / CBGB w/ Andoyne, Mastodon, Burnt By The Sun
9/23/02 Baltimore, MD / The Bloodshed w/ Lickgoldensky, Monger, Suckpig
9/24/02 Huntington, WV / Mooneys w/ Lickgoldensky
9/25/02 Louisville, KY / Aslan’s w/ Black Widows
9/26/02 Memphis, TN / Map Room w/ Love Lost But Not Forgotten
9/27/02 Little Rock, AR / Vinos
9/28/02 Ft. Worth, TX / Wreck Room w/ Yeti
9/29/02 New Orleans, LA / Dixie Tavern
9/30/02 Austin, TX / Emo’s w/ Snapcase
10/1/02 drive
10/2/02 Phoenix, AZ / Jugheads
10/3/02 Tucson, AZ / Skrappy’s
10/4/02 San Diego, CA / Che Cafe
10/5/02 Anaheim, CA / Chain Reaction
10/6/02 San Francisco, CA / The Pound w/ Blessing The Hogs
10/7/02 Eureka, CA / Rumours w/ Peyote Calamity
10/8/02 Portland, Or / Blackbird w/Isis, thrones

The Icarus Line World Tour:
Aug 8 Adelaide , Australia Music House
Aug 9 Melbourne, Australia Evelyn Hotel
Aug 10 Melbourne, Australia Evelyn Hotel
Aug 11 Sydney, Australia Club 77
Aug 12 Sydney, Australia Club 77
Aug 13 Brisbane, Australia The Gabba
Aug 17 Tokyo, Japan Summer Sonic Festival
Aug 18 Osaka, Japan Summer Sonic Festival
Aug 23 Belgium Pukkelpop Festival
Aug 24 Reading, UK Reading Festival
Aug 25 Leeds, UK Leeds Festival

With The Dillinger Escape Plan (Shat on selected shows)

Aug 27 Bochum, Germany Matrix
Aug 28 Munchen. Germany Garage
Aug 29 Weisen, Austria 2 Days A Week Festival
Sep 1 Zurich, Switzerland Abart
Sep 2 Frankfurt, Germany Batschkapp
Sep 4 Eindhoven, Holland Efenaar
Sep 5 Bristol, UK Fleece & Firkin
Sep 6 London, UK Mean Fiddler
Sep 7 Nottingham, UK Rock City
Sep 8 Dublin, Ireland Music Centre
Sep 10 Barcelona, Spain KGB
Sep 11 Colchester, UK Arts Centre
Sep 12 Amsterdam, Holland Melkweg
Sep 22 Chicago, IL
Sep 23 Cleveland, OH
Sep 24 Detroit, MI
Sep 25 Toronto, ONT
Sep 26 Montreal, QUE
Sep 28 Boston, MA
Sep 29 New York, NY
Sep 30 Washington, DC
Oct 01 Philadelphia, PA
Oct 03 Pittsburgh, PA
Oct 04 Winston-Salem, NC
Oct 05 Atlanta, GA
Oct 06 New Orleans, LA
Oct 07 Houston, TX
Oct 08 Austin, TX
Oct 10 Phoenix, AZ
Oct 11 Las Vegas, NV
Oct 12 Los Angeles, CA
Oct 13 San Francisco, CA
Oct 15 Portland, OR
Oct 16 Seattle, WA
Oct 17 Vancouver, BC
Oct 20 Denver, CO
Oct 21 Kansas City, KS

Everyone is for sale in the “independent music scene” it seems. Add Trustkill Records to the list of indie labels getting swallowed by major labels, because Columbia bought 49% of Trustkill for $1.5 million. Who would think you could get rich off of shitty mosh metal? Those dudes are gonna be able to buy all the eight string basses they want now!

Mandy Moore is the teenage Kathy Lee Gifford and deserves to die a horrible death. Now. Please.

Your Enemies Friends have canceled the rest of their U.S. tour due to injury. It seems their drummer, Louis, was trying to impress some chicks by shredding it up on his skateboard before one of the shows. Skate or die dude.

The Your Enemies’ Friends and The Cancer Conspiracy show that was scheduled for next Wednesday, August 14th at The Emerald Theatre in Detroit, will still be going on with the headliners, Factory 81 and The Used. They are currently adding 2 more bands to the show to take YEF’s and TCC’s place.

Yeah Yeah Yeah’s had to cancel all their European tour dates cos their singer injured herself in a bar fight.

All the members of the Juliana Theory wear women’s pants. We couldn’t make something like that up.

Dashboard Confessional might as well wear women pants, we all know he wants to.

Someone slap the fuck out of Paris Hilton please. Not to Paris, YOU’RE FAMOUS FOR NO FUCKING REASON OTHER THAN YOUR PARENTS ARE RICH. Yer wack.

Someone feed that Buffy the whatever slayer bitch.

If you missed the Siouxsie & the Banshees show in LA (and you weren’t in Australia), you’re a poser.

Not only is Motley Crue’s Vince Neil a total fat ass now, but he’s also in trouble with the law again. This time it’s for allegedly decking some record producer outside of the Rainbow room. Vince thinks he’s about 300 pounds lighter and ten years younger it seems. The story goes that on April 28 Vince landed several punches on record producer Michael Schuman’s face.

The singer of the Strokes needs to Oxycute em! Do it dude.

Speaking of money, someone send us some…. now.

Email Mark Hoppus, dorky bass player from Blink 182 at vikingwizardeyes@yahoo.com, and make sure he knows he’s a geek. Let him know we’re onto his scam of using his shitty pop punk band as a tool to whore out his “clothing company” (which does nothing more than slap the company’s name in a basic font on the front of black t-shirts) to the retarded youth of America. He’s gonna burn in hell for that if there is a hell. Tell him to relay a little message to that guitar player and drummer with the stupid haircuts that they’re fruitcakes too and their band sucks about as bad as a band can suck.

While you’re at it, email the guitar player from New found Glory, Ian Grushka at nachonfg@yahoo.com and make sure he knows he’ll be playing music to 15 year old retarded mall girls on the Warped Tour for the rest of his life if he doesn’t figure something out quick. Tell him to get that fat bass player on a diet too.

By the way, fuck the entire Warped Tour.

Kevin Lynman, the shirtless dude with the weird belly who started the cultural cancer known as the Warped Tour, is actually Mr. Burns in bad running shorts.

Oh and the word on the street is that Death By Stereo’s bus on the warped tour is a rolling teenage party. Killer.

The remaining members of Rage figured they’d turn the suck knob up to 10 as they are teaming up with DMX to record two new songs. The songs will appear as the title song on the soundtrack for the new Jackass movie and DMX’s new film. The drummer thinks his hair is long. The titles of the 2 new songs will be “What!” and “WHAT?!!!”

Jeremy Weiss and Gideon Yago are both caught red handed celebrating the fame of one of Ozzy’s kids in the new issue of nylon magazine. Gideon, HIT THAT SHIT.

This fall, the two N.W.A albums that don’t suck, Straight Outta Compton and Niggaz4life are getting reissued with bonus tracks. Sexual Ryan has a boner.

Sexual Ryan’s band still sucks.

Christina Aguilera just bought a new house in the “inland empire” where her and her dickpig posse do speed all day, everyday.

Spiderman knobbed Christina Aguilera.

Steve-O from Jackass is in trouble with the law! He’s supposed to turn himself into the pigs. He’s wanted somewhere in the south for “stapling his nutsack to his inner thigh in a nightclub”. Steve-O, when you get out of jail, send us those stupid dvd’s you promised us like a year ago bitch and stop hurting your balls dood.

In the “who cares about this shit” category, someone emailed us to let us know that MTV will be releasing their annual Road Rules soundtrack on August 6th. This year the rage seems to be EMO BANDS!!! Wooooo. Here’s the complete track listing for the soundtrack, it reads like a hit list:
1. Jimmy Eat World-Bleed American
2. Thursday-Understanding (in a Car Crash)
3. The Used – Box Full of Sharp Objects
4. AFI-The Nephilim
5. The Rise-The Fallacy of Retrospective Determinism
6. Unwritten Law-Take Me Away-Unreleased Track
7. Thrice- See You In The Shallows
8. Deftones-The Boy’s Republic-Unreleased Track
9. Sinch-Something More
10. Brand new-Jude Law and a Semester Abroad
11. Dashboard Confessional-Saints and Sailors
12. 36 Crazyfists-An Agreement Called Forever
13. Haste-Engine
14. Hoobastank-Pieces
15. Julianna Theory-Bring It Low-Unreleased
16. Coheed & Cambria-33
17. New Found Glory-Something I Call Personality- Unreleased
18. Jersey-All Rise
19. Taking Back Sunday-You Know How I Do
20. The Movie Life-Walking On Glass
21. Get Up Kids-Overdue

Courtney love is tripping. She thinks people wanna see more of her so she’s getting her own reality show. I hear someone rolling over…

Supposedly they’re gonna finally fucking release the “new” Nirvana song, “On the Mountain” in the form of a “best of nirvana” album by the end of the year. But we’ve heard that before haven’t we? Doesn’t everybody already have every Nirvana album already? Best of? Find the people buying this for “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and pistolwhip them.

Buy the bootleg (from the band) of Dead Meadow’s BBC session at Ameoba. You won’t regret this.

Har Mar just signed a decent sized deal with Interscope records. His album is being produced by Bob Rock as you read this, and he will soon be shooting a video for the single in Kelly Osbournes bedroom. Look for him in the opening slot on Incubus’s “Christmad Fun” tour this December. This might perhaps be the most gigantic leap everyone has ever made off Kill Rock Stars.

Does anyone else think that Tony Iommi’s kids should just kick the shit out of Ozzy’s kids or is it just us?

Jessica Hopper is totally trippin. Word on the street is she’s quiting the punk rock pr business to move to Hollywood to be in a soap opera for midgets. Shoot for the stars Jessica.

The Lost Kids blew it and broke up.

When The Locust came through Seattle recently only ten people were in attendance, but somehow at the end of the night they’d sold $4,000 in merchandise. Hmmmm.

The new Botch-supergroup, Roy, recently entered the studio to record nine bongwater drenched country jams. The record, titled “Roy, the album”, is slated for a winter release, allegedly for Ross Robinson’s label. We can’t wait.

Shane from Playing Enemy has balled pretty much every girl on the indy-porn Site www.frictionusa.com. Score Shane.

Playing Enemy are going on tour. Make sure to check them out when they come through your little backwoods shithole town. If Demian thinks that Travis is giving him his books back at the LA show he’s trippin.
9/5/02 Seattle, WA / Chop Suey w/ Swarming Hordes, Stagger Lee
9/6/02 Boise, ID / JD’s
9/7/02 Lindon, UT / Suite 13
9/8/02 Denver, CO / Crowbar
9/9/02 Omaha, NE / House show
9/10/02 Kansas City, KA / Replay Lounge w/ Esoteric
9/11/02 St.Louis, MO / Creepy Crawl
9/12/02 Indianapolis, IN / Solidarity Books w/ The Dream is Dead,
Anodyne, Black Widows
9/13/02 Chicago, IL / Fireside Bowl w/ Lickgoldensky
9/14/02 Ypsilanti, MI / Mr. Mugs w/ Lickgoldensky
9/15/02 Cleveland, OH / Grog Shop w/ Lickgoldensky & Keelhaul
9/16/02 Toronto, ON / Lee’s palace w/ the cursed ,the shallow water
blackout band
9/17/02 Ottowa, ON / venue tba w/ Cursed
9/18/02 Montreal, QB / venue tba w/ Cursed
9/19/02 Portland, ME / The Skinny
9/20/02 Boston, MA / Papa’s w/ Anodyne, Shot Dead
9/21/02 Philadelphia/Camden, NJ / venue tba
9/22/02 New York, NY / CBGB w/ Andoyne & Mastodon
9/23/02 Baltimore, MD / The Bloodshed w/ Lickgoldensky
9/24/02 Huntington, WV / Monkeys w/ Lickgoldensky
9/25/02 Louisville, KY / venue tba w/ Black Widows
9/26/02 Memphis, TN / Map Room
9/27/02 Little Rock, AR / Vinos
9/28/02 Ft. Worth, TX / Wreck Room w/ Yeti
9/29/02 Austin, TX / Emo’s w/ Employer Employee
9/30/02 OFF
10/1/02 Tucson, AZ / Skrappys
10/2/02 Phoenix, AZ / Modified
10/3/02 Los Angeles, CA / Troubador
10/4/02 San Diego, CA / Che Cafe
10/5/02 Anaheim, CA / Chain Reaction
10/6/02 San Francisco, CA / The Pound w/ Blessing The Hogs
10/7/02 Eureka, CA / The Vista w/ Peyote Calamity
10/8/02 Medford, OR / Trinity’s place.

Oxes are going on tour. Tell them to get a singer.
Tue Sept 17 – Boston w/ WIRE
Wed Sept 18 – NYC / Irving Plaza w/ WIRE
Thu Sept 19 – Philly w/ WIRE
Fri Sept 20 – DC / 930 Club w/ WIRE
Sat Sept 21 – Atlanta / Echo Lounge w/ WIRE
Sun Sept 22 – Carrboro / Go Rehearsal-TBC
Mon Sept 23 – DAY OFF
Tue Sept 24 – Pittsburgh (hook up with ISIS + Dalek)-TBC
Wed Sept 25 – Cleveland / Grog Shop -TBC
Thu Sept 26 – Detroit / Magic Stick -TBC
Fri Sept 27 – Chicago / Empty Bottle -TBC
Sat Sept 28 – Mnpls / First Ave -TBC
Sun Sept 29 – Iowa City or DAY OFF – TBC
Mon Sept 30 – St Louis-TBC

Those bed wetters from Jersey, Saves the Day are taking those bed wetters from Portland, Kind of Like Spitting out on tour. If you go to this crap and you’re over 16 you’ve got problems. Actually you’re gonna have problems if you’re under 16 too actually. Word is the drummer of Kind of Like Shitty quit, so if you end up at that fruitcake fest, you’ll see two dudes on stage without a drummer. If you are actually interested in the dates below, consider yourself a total fucking geek.
8/15/02 Junction Omaha NE
8/17/02 Fireside Bowl Chicago IL
8/18/02 Globe Milwaukee WI
8/19/02 C Pop Gallery Detroit MI
8/20/02 Little Brothers Columbus OH
8/21/02 TBA Morgantown WV
8/22/02 T.T. the Bear’s Cambridge MA
8/24/02 Mercury Lounge New York NY
8/25/02 Galaxy Hut Arlington VA
8/26/02 North Star Bar Philadelphia PA
8/27/02 Go! Rehearsal Carrboro NC
8/28/02 Jack Rabbits Jacksonville FL
8/29/02 Florida State / Club Downunder Tallahassee FL
8/31/02 Orpheum Tampa FL
9/2/02 Will’s Pub Orlando FL
9/3/02 EARL Atlanta GA
9/5/02 Mary Jane?s Houston TX
9/6/02 Emo’s Austin TX w/ The Good Life
9/9/02 Modified Phoenix AZ
9/10/02 Los Angeles CA
9/11/02 Casbah San Diego CA

See how well you know you! We knew you had already forgotten about the amazing Buddyhead Online Store, so we figured we’d be a pal and remind you like this. It’s probably from all that pot you’ve been smoking, you need to cut back champ. I don’t mean to nag, sorry. Ok now get out that credit card and buy that Your Enemies Friends “The Wiretap EP” on CD as well as the limited colored vinyl LP. Oh, and you better make sure to get a one of our shirts too while you’re at it, get one big enough to cover up that new gut of yours too. Just fucking buy something… click here.

The Fourth of July was a big let down as far as I’m concerned. Our night ended with us following Mark Hydrahead (who was wearing his hair in a ponytail like a clown) up to Mulholland Drive to Tom Morrello’s house. He’s the guy from the Rangers Against The Machine or something someone said. Anyways, as soon as we walked in, Tom told everyone the party was over and to get out of his house. We missed the party, only left to wonder how crazy it probably was. I mean, he was wearing Hawaiian shorts and a visor. The weirdest part was that his house was decorated like some total parent house, not a rocker’s house. Gene Simmons was there. Kiss sucks. The “Rage” room had all his records and photos on the walls kinda made me wanna barf. The third of July @ The Scene was a good time until the pigs showed up and said we were over capacity. If Aaron were here he’d say “shoot pigs in the face”, and then he’d go get dress up in garter belts and lace wonderbras and jack off to pictures of dead hookers. We miss Aaron.

So anyway, the other night we happened to see part of that Dashboard Confessional unplugged thing and I must say my stomach is still in a knot. I mean, Jesus fucking Christ who knew you could cram so much fucking mutant retard into such a little tiny space? It’s amazing the things they can do now with technology. Watching this shit was about as uncomfortable as seeing a dozen alter boys being sodomized by a sweaty old Catholic priest. The crowd was overflowing with pasty faced zit ridded brainwashed 14 year old hot topic pigs, and their crying little girly boyfriends. It was a fucking Oxy commercial gone emo. The worst part is they were all singing along. Uber-wack! Pay attention kids, this is the height of the so-called emo explosion. In the future, this will be what people are going to point to and follow with a strong chuckle when the question unfolds “What was Emo daddy?”. It’ll be the equivalent of watching a Manowar video, complete comedy with a slight touch of horror. All this pansy assed bullshit has to end at some point. We’re waiting for a sign…..

….and that sign is looking like it will come in the form of a bald 32 year old from New Jersey who does landscaping in his spare time. That’s right kids, on July 30th, the neutron bomb drops on the musical landscape…. SHAT’S “…BEST OF THE CUNT CHRONICLES” CD is going to be unleashed on the world. You knew the day was coming, and it’s upon us. In less than one month, you’ll have over 60 songs of genius put to tape and shoved all up in your area. To say the excitement is overwhelming would be an understatement. The parent groups are gonna be pissed. Jeff’s gonna get laid. YOU WILL BUY THIS RECORD.

So get this, Saves the Day kicked out their guitar player, Ted. He was asked to leave by their singer Chris. Chris will now sing and play guitar when they do their little Muppet thing live. How cute. Oh wait, the best part is Vagrant doesn’t even know yet. Well, now they do.

While we’re talking about lame shit… I might as well get this off my chest and ask the question “Who the fuck is buying all these goddamn Nelly records?” Stand up. Please confess cuz I want to know who’s actually into this wack shit. That guy is fucking lame! What the fuck is wrong with you people?

Papa Roach dropped off their tour with Eminem for their singer, Moby Dick, to have back surgery. Dick was hurt recently in a family backyard wrestling match with his dad, who is actually an old Pro-Wrestler from the 80’s named “Crazy Eddy”, at a Bar-B-Q. Coby said that he’ll be back on tour in a few weeks, and that he knows his fans will understand because he knows they all love wrestling and watching tubby dudes sweat just as much as he does! How sweet!

While we on the subject of lame metal jocks… we heard that the buff blonde steak-head from Crazy Town is on some new Paul Oakenfold song called “Starry Eyed Surprise”. Sounds like a huge bowl of gay to us. Next.

We heard that The Strokes like to rub their willies together when they get drunk. The thought sickens us to horrifying levels, on par with watching children burn alive. There’s something fucking weird going on with those Strokes dudes, and we’re not talking about Fabio’s, or whatever his name is, herpes.

The B.R.M.C. own every single Jesus and Mary Chain record. Even that new one on Sub Pop.

Attention: User of Digital Music: One of our close friends, Mr. Ian Rogers (he used to work at Winamp, as well as Grand Royal, he’s basically like the eighth Beastie Boy or something, and his baby momma sends out the merch from our store), has made this new program called, Muse.Net (beta). It organizes your digital music collection and you can use it to stream files from anywhere. Basically this is a program that could change the rules. Check it out if you wanna be the coolest kid on your block or cubicle or where ever you people live. It even works for you barnyard dorks from Arkabama, we think.

Speaking of digital media and smart people, those guys over at Pitchfork are sure smart, they figured out what we should do now that audiogalaxy is gone. If they could only figure out what rock n’ roll is all about…. Click here.

The guitar player from Universal Recovered is now playing bass in The Mars Volta. He just got out of jail so don’t try fuck around with those guys. Guys who have been in jail can kick your ass. Right now The Mars Volta are in the studio recording their full length album. Can’t wait for that one. It’s gonna be a hot potato kids, we can feel it.

Some weird internet guy made Travis into a cartoon. Weird is right. Check out the Ink & Dagger shirt. Click here to check out this guys site if you like cartoons… and if that’s the case give us your weed, cause the only people who still watch cartoons smoke the most weed. Just ask my roommates.

Willie Nelson has a show this summer in that itchy butthole of a state, Texas. Willie has been so busy listening to Kid Rock albums and taking in marijuana intravenously lately that he didn’t have time to think up his own name for the show. So he decided to rip off Goldenvoice and call his show “This Ain’t no Picnic”. That’s cool cuz we’ve got this new single coming out on our label called “Mama’s Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys“ by this dude we know named Willie Nelson. From the sound of things, we gonna sell a ton of copies, ain’t we Willie?! Cool huh?

In the new Radio Times Magazine, Moby admitted to doing drugs when he was ten years old so he could “to be cool and impress his friends”, before “straightening” up and becoming the big vegan dorkus morkus that he is now. Yo, Mobster, maybe if you started doing drugs again you wouldn’t be such a fucking turd licker that makes soul-less corporate ad jingles for soccer moms and frat boys who need an affordable car to drive. God you’re a fucking dipshit.

Look who changed his tune… Blake Swartzenbach will be appearing “selling kids to other kids“ in a new series of commercials for the burger giant, Burger King on NBC starting July 29th. That should be interesting. Hey Blake, we won’t make funny of you for being an old dude who sells out when the green is in his face, if you give Aaron free Shaq Packs.

No more white guys rapping please. We’ve had enough.

What the fuck is with all these old shitty ska punk bands getting back on major labels? First it was Reel Big Fish, they tricked some dipshit over at Jive records (probably the same guy who signed Too $hort) into giving them a big wad of cash to record some more ska songs. Now those dicks in Less Than Jake are back living on Warner Bros. major label cash! What the fuck is going on here? Did we miss the “Ska is gonna come back” memo? Who the fuck are these clowns that are signing these fruitcake ska bands? There’s no way you are gonna trick a large number of people into thinking ska is cool again for at least another ten to twelve years. Even then it’s gonna be a pretty tough sell. It’s like when a country gets attacked by terrorists and shit, then the next time they’re ready for it. Ska is the official music of the Taliban.

Reel Big Fish are changing their name to Oskama Bin Ladin.

Speaking of wack ska records… Hopeless is taking a break from putting out records and they are doing another “Plea For Peace” tour with some help from another wack label, Asian Man Records, as well as Flower booking, who aren’t so wack, but they’re hanging with wackness. They actually got a few good bands to do their tour, Le Tigre, Cave In, and Trans Am are all playing. The tour starts September 13 in Worchester Mass and runs through October 28. The other bands that are playing are; Thursday, The Promise Ring, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, the Bouncing Souls, Poison The Well, Jimmy Eat World, Anti-Flag, the Lawrence Arms, Common Rider, Cursive, and ton of other shitty bands. Not all bands will appear at every date so make sure that at least one non-sucking band is playing your hometown. Hit up their website for more info. www.takeactiontour.com for details.

Fuck Incubus.

Coldplay says they are breaking up after this record. I say we get a pool of money together and try and get them to break up BEFORE this record. Think about it, if we all just pitched in five bucks….

Fuck Coldpay.

Who the fuck let Tommy Lee make a solo record? Someone is responsible. Tommy, dude bro, your album is a pile of shit bro. Get back with the Crue or get your dork ass out of town dickhead.

Someone should buy us that new Velvet Underground & Nico – Deluxe Edition 2CD set. It’s got both stereo and mono mixes, 45 versions, selected Chelsea Girl cuts, and a fluffy white digipack with a peel able banana. It’s better than your shitty Poison the Well records. You listen to shitty records, we know you do… and we’re always… ALWAYS… going to make fun of you for it.

You know that goofy dude in The Strokes with the hippie pubic hair haircut? Yeah .. the guy who plays his guitar nipple high, well he has been quoted as saying that the new songs The Strokes have written are “the future of Rock N’Roll”, and that their new songs are inspired by Yacht clubs, intense water polo matches, and inter-band orgies involving eels and cucumbers. If that’s the future of rock, we’re throwing the towel in now.

Fuck Coldpay.

Speaking of ties wearing hipster rich kids, Attention: “Guys that wear ties…. You are super lame. Any guys that’s wearing a tie over a t-shirt needs to get strangled and set on fire. This is not the VH1 fashion awards you fucking shitbag wannabe.

Fuck Incubus.

Speaking of ties… haha…..you see where we’re going with this… The Icarus Line, who are still over in Europe on tour, just did another Peel session and it will be broadcast on the John Peel show, July 24th between 10pm and 12pm. So if you happen to live over there make sure to tune in. They’ll be playing a few new songs “Getting Bright At Night”, “Miss Bliss”, “The Big Sleep” and “Kiss Like Lizards”. If anyone tapes the show, send us a copy to our po box (buddyhead PO BOX 1268 Hollywood, Ca 90078)

By the way, the Post Office, fuck that place. We figured out that our post office, the Hollywood Post Office on Wilcox, is the exact center of hell. No other place in the world can you see as many freaks, crazies, fruits, nuts, strippers, homeless people wearing thongs, Henry Rollin’s “people” getting his mail (his po box is 1910 and ours is 1268), guys in pink running shorts with matching sandals dry-heaving in the corner, middle age ladies discussing how awful it is that the stamp is 3 cents more expensive now, weird sweaty fat guys in polo shirts looking for someone to discuss just about anything with them, obsess women with seven kids running about, and fights, lots of fights… anyhow… back to shit you maybe care about…

Sleater-Kinney are making a new record. We’re gonna guess that they still gots no bass on this one.

Fuck Korn.

Dischord is putting together a three-CD compilation celebrating their 20 years of putting out records. Ian is going out on a limb and calling the compilation “20 Years of Dischord.” The first two CDs will include a song from every band on the label. A third disc will include unreleased material and some early video footage from The Untouchables, The Teen Idles, SOA, Faith, Void and Deadline. Sounds fucking awesome, we can’t wait. It’s set to be released in North America on October 7th and September 23rd in Europe. Europeans get shit first? Even the French? Who the Fuck approved that?

Fuck those two mutants that sing the Hero song on the Spiderman sound track. That shit needs to stop. We keep watching that video hoping they fall off that fucking building… then we get all disappointed when they don’t … viscous cycle we know.

Whoever it is over at Capitol Records that thinks the Vines sound like Nirvana needs to get body checked. THE VINES DON’T SOUND LIKE NIRVANA DICKHEAD SO STOP SAYING THAT SHIT IT HURTS MY FUCKING EYES EVERYTHING I BLOODY READ IT, they sound like a monkey with diarrhea.

The Dillinger Escape Plan’s new ep that’ll be out on Epitaph, but got leaked on “the net” yesterday is pretty killer. Buy it dorks.

Grade broke up. Dorks who wear visors and swear by everything put out on Fat Wreck are pretty bummed. Those dudes are Canadian, that’s always good for a laugh. If we lived in Canada, we’d never even consider being in a band. First off, what the fuck are you going to sing about? Snow? Polar Bears? Cold weather? People don’t wanna hear about that shit man. And if you do happen to live in Montreal where all the cool stuff is, then are you really going to waste your time playing shitty Victory-core? No way! No fucking way you are when you could be out getting loaded at the finest strip clubs in the world where the strippers give you coke and where you pay very low prices for a very close lesbian show that rules the school and end up trying to find some random rave where you find yourself searching for drugs, keep in mind everyone but you speaks French so you really feel like a total American Chevey Chase on Vacation dipshit and finally it gets to the point where you just start screaming out “DRUGS ..DRUGS”, cause you hope one of the Canaravers will recognize this International call for fun and hook your foreign ass up…. and then no one wants to help you because they’re not even close to being “on the team”, do you just head back to the van and get wasted? Or do you try to drive everyone to the nearest crackhouse/motel with bullet holes in the wall and hookers in the lobby who try to pull you in the rooms to rob you. We speak from experience.

So we heard the new Sonic Youth album is pretty good. We know someone reading this works for them, so why don’t you (the person who gets free Sonic Youth records) send us our copies. Thanks baby.

Rama’s in Boston for the week. He was on tour with Piebald, who are opening for the Juliana Theory every night. Rama said The Juliana Theory suck real bad but tons of really hot girls go see that band so he’s hoping to get “emo” enough with one of them so he can convince her to take it in the poopshoot… Hey he said it…. He also said that lame singer guy with the bobby brown headset now has a Ponytail! What the fuck is with ponytails? Ok, let’s get this straight… Long hair is cool… but there is no room for ponytails in rock… Ponytails are for lawyers and crossdressers.

Rama also told us that Travis from Pieblad has a mustache right now. Interesting.

Jason Farrell, you know the guy with perfect hair from Bluetip and Swiz, has an EP from his new band on the way. The band is called ‘Retisonic’ and features Joe Gorelic from that one band, Garden Variety. It’s pretty… yeah… it sounds like Bluetip…

Goldfinger is putting out another record. That’s like finding out someone you know is dying. Horrible, horrible news.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones put out another record, read the above again, insert new this band name with that band name.

Fuck that band 3rd strike.

The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino has been receiving tons of calls from people who specifically ask about reserving the room that John Entwistle died in. So far all the requests have been turned down, but the Hard Rock says the room can’t be specifically requested, but it is being used as one of the hotel’s 657 regular rooms. We’re going to get that room one day, smoke pounds of the pot with that shitty stoner band Bongzilla, and have a fucking séance… with naked strippers and rubber chickens. It’s gonna be grand.

Not having a car in the city of Los Angeles totally fucking sucks. Tom says not having a car in New Jersey sucks too. No one sent cars yet, you’re all blowing it.

Fuck that entire jock fest know as the Warped Tour.

Matador was bought out by Beggars Banquet. The only people who care about this are a bunch of indie dorks who care waaaay too much about they’re vinyl collection and whether or not they can Photoshop a picture of PJ Harvey nude well enough so that they can trick themselves into believing that it’s real enough to spank their wiener to.

In news we actually care about, Matador just sign one of our favorite bands, Dead Meadow. They’ve already got two records out now if you’re late on figuring it out this band rocks. Buddyhead will also be releasing a split EP between Dead Meadow and Bluebird in the coming months. Save your lunch money.

If you’re one of those people who like to see good rock shows, you might want to go check out Dead Meadow when they play in Silverlake @ Spaceland on 7.11.02. Bring a joint.

Speaking of shows, Joe Cardamone’s favorite Los Angeles band, Nantucket Suicide, is playing this Saturday, June 6th @ 9:30pm. The shows gonna be @ Mr. T’s Bowl (in Highland Park off of Figueroa). It’s five dollars to get in and you must be 21 and over, otherwise it’ll probably cost you about ten bucks. Just kidding.

Another show you’re really not going to want to miss is on July 17th @ The Troubador in Hollywood…. The bands playing are: Bluebird, Your Enemies Friends, Radio Vago, and The Kills (which is the girl from Discounts new band).

Your Enemies Friends like Mother Love Bone and Starbucks so much that they’re packing their bags and moving to Seattle, Washington. We tried to talk em’ out of it but they’re set on it.

Moby will co-star with Ben Stiller in the sequel to Zoolander (they’re gonna call it Zoolander II, go figure). We heard that when he was asked about his upcoming film, Moby explained that he “was very excited to be extremely good looking”. Moby looks like a big egghead doofus. God we hate that guy.

We’re not going to put the Buddyhead messageboard back up so stop emailing us about it. Go waste your life elsewhere.

The Dura-Delinquentare are re-forming for some so Cal shows. They’re out of rehab and out of the closet to rock your skinny asses

Jason Frodus is playing in Combatwounded Veteran and touring the south with them. Ten bucks says he has swamp ass right about now. Florida is for filth and alligators. If you live there, move.

Jason’s other band… The Black Sea are recording an EP right now for Lovitt. In case you’re out of the loop, The Black Sea is Shelby and Jason from Frodus, with Brendan from Fugazi.

Fugazi cancelled UK dates do to a death in the family. But don’t worry they’ll be back over in the fall so that Ian can yell at all you Eurogeeks for moshing like a sailor yells at hookers when the ship comes to port. Oh… and if you “mosh”, then you should consider lighting yourself on fire.

Can someone make Aerosmith stop soon? No one wants to see shirtless old men in tight pants, it’s creepy. Knock it off guys!

Some kids emailed us to tell us Matt Skiba from the Alkaline Trio sang back ups on that new “New Found Glory” album. Look Matt, if this is true you are actually on that wack pop punk band’s cd doing anything… fuck it… even if you just showed up at the studio to mooch beer and weed, you’re off the team pal. We’re starting the investigation now…

Chris Rock had a kid. That kids probably not going to be funny, and he’ll probably get into trouble like Dana Plato and Todd Bridges. Todd Bridges whooped ass on Celebrity Boxing.

Tool is taking out Tomahawk on their US Summer 2002 tour. In case you’re a bit out of the loop (which we know most of you are), Tomahawk is Duane Denison (Jesus Lizard) on guitar, singer Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, and Dillinger Escape Plan’s new EP as well), Kevin Rutmanis (Melvins) on bass, and John Stanier (Helmet) on drums. Someone get us into the LA show. Pretty please.
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Jeff Wood quote of the week:
“I don’t care that I’m stupid… people LOVE ME CAUSE I’M STUPID. If I was smart no one would like me.”

The Shat record is nearing completion. Jeremy Weiss shot Jeff Wood for the album artwork yesterday, (what better way to spend the few days before your wedding day than with Jeff Wood?). Yeah, that’s right, our friends Jeremy Weiss and Claire Davis are getting married on the 19th of this month in New Jersey. We were too poor to go, but we want to congratulate them via the world wide web. CONGRATULATIONS!

The Your Enemies Friends “Wiretap E.P.” 12 inches are pressed up. They will be available in the Buddyhead online Super Store tomorrow. The first 150 people who order the vinyl on the Buddyhead store will receive one of only 208 LP’s pressed on CLEAR VINYL. The clear versions will never be available in stores EVER, so don’t fuck this up if you’re a vinyl collector nerd. The band will also be selling LP’s on their tour now. Another 813 white vinyl versions will be available at shows and in stores. If these freaks come through your town, make sure to check em out. The digi pack cd version will be up in the store in the next week or so too. So hang out for that.

Speaking of our store. It’s full of new shirts and sweatshirts. Buy a lot of shit.

The Icarus Line lied about not playing any U.S. shows until September, and are doing some shows with that Andrew W.K. dude. Their first show with their new drummer, Troy Boy, will be with the party dude at the House Of Blues in L.A. on May 31st. That’s gonna be a whole lot of weird looking dudes with long hair on one stage that night. We’re gonna see if Andrew really parties or not.

Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional is in the new Rolling Stone magazine saying some funny fucking shit. First off he says that he has a crush on Michelle Gellar, but it doesn’t stop there, he then goes on to say that he’s going to marry her. He also makes sure to throw in that he’s “not a stalker” and that she’s “so beautiful”, and that he’s “never looked at her website”, but that he “did buy the ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ box set DVD”. Ok, first off this guy is a bigger geek than I thought. Secondly, WHO THE FUCK BUYS THE BUFFY BOX SET? I mean, I just got the Black Sabbath box set, but the Buffy box set? Come on dude… try not to be such a geek, you’re giving me a stomach ache. And not to be the one to break it to you, but you’re from Florida, Buffy isn’t gonna date a dude from Florida who buys her box sets.

Matador is on Dead Meadows nutz.

McRib is back.

Melissa Auf Der Maur is recording her first solo record here in LA. It features members and former members of Tomahawk, Queens Of The Stoneage, Fu Manchu, Rocket From The Crypt and the Screaming Trees. We were hoping that seeing as how she’s banging Andrew W.K., he might do a duet about partying on the album.

Speaking of Tomahawk, they’re opening for TOOL! We’re going.

Burger King is giving Jack a run for their money, they’ve got two tacos for .99 cents!

What the fuck is this 3rd Strike shit? Where do they find all these fat jocks? If you see anybody buying or listening to this shit, take one for the team and swiftly bitch slap the fruitcake.

Go buy the new Rapture “Jealous Lovers” 12 inch on DFA records. It smokes. You can check out the track on epitonic.com by clicking here. If you live in Europe, they’re coming over this summer. Go see them.

Anyone tried the cheesey fry-sauce that comes with that Shaq Pack?

Apparently, Fred Durst and those other guys in Limp Bizkit rented the Pink Mansion, (in the back of the Beverly Hills Hotel) to audition guitar players from other bands. The list of try outs were: Buckethead, Dave Navaro, Mikey from Soulfly, and Dino from Fear Factory. They finally settled on Mike Smith from Snot/the Start. Killer dudes.

Apparently, our buddy Fred Durst might be moving to New York City instead of
England due to new airline regulations. None of the major airlines are allowing large quantities of lard to be flown overseas, so it looks like we’re stuck with Fred for a while.

Aaron’s breathing is normal again, The Cro Mags are back together… again.

We got an email from some kid who went over to Island / Def Jam wearing a Buddyhead shirt… he said that “First off, they Buddyhead worship over there. I happened to be wearing my Buddyhead t-shirt and every creepy suit walked up to me and gushed about Buddyhead. One dude was all like, “I’m good friends with Travis. He’s a great guy.” Shit like that. It was pretty sad. I saw an Icarus Line CD sitting on top of some dude’s desk with an Andrew W.K. CD and an Injected CD.” Well that’s bullshit creepy suit guys over at Island / Def Jam…. Cuz we never get free records from you! Let’s fix that… send us a big old box of the good stuff. If you’re gonna say you know us, at least send us free records we can sell for McRib sandwiches. Buddyhead PO BOX 1268 Hollywood, CA 90078

In other Island news, word is they want to snatch up The Promise Ring and Milemarker. Thursday isn’t going to record any new material for their last Victory/MCA release. It’s going to be outtakes or live shit or something. All the new stuff is going to be on the Island/Def Jam debut. How exciting, you’re only like six years late on that one.

Idaho band, Built to Spill, broke up.

If you’re Japanese, you’re pretty stoked cos the Summersonic festival lineup has recently been announced. Guns N’ Roses, The Offspring, No Doubt, Andrew WK, Nofx, Disturbed, Morrissey, The Hives, Rival Schools, Hoobastank, Sum 41, Cave In, The Icarus Line, and a bunch of other bands are gonna play and then try to get all Rivers Cuomo on the local chicks. Someone book Travis a flight today.

If you’re into seeing tons of shitty hardcore bands in one sitting, you’ll be super stoked about Krazyfest this year. From June 21-23 killer bands like As Friends Rust, Bane, Reach The Sky, The Hope Conspiracy, Thursday, and Stretch Armstrong will wow tons of Midwest kids who have no idea that “hardcore” is just as dead. Stagnant, and boring as “punk” and they probably won’t even notice that all these bands sound the same… or close enough that anybody with any musical taste will not care. A band or 2 playing the thing are actually good. Dillinger Escape Plan and Planes Mistaken For Stars are playing… worth spending all your lunch money and having to sit through all the other wack shit? Probably not.

Fuck Carrot Top.

You may have seen the newest of Nike’s retro ad campaign featuring your favorite basketball players in afros and bell bottoms, accompanied by the one and only Bootsy Collins. They were directed by the Hughes Brothers, who made “Menace II Society”. The next commercial features Snoop Dogg and George Clinton rocking the “mothership.” The brothers will probably leave out the footage of G. Clinton smoking crack in the bathroom and the leftover crack pipes the P.A.’s had to clean up after the shoot! “Ain’t nuthin but a party ya’ll’ and George knows how to party!

Joe from The Icarus Line thinks Pink is a midget, the new Beachwood Sparks – “Make the Cowboy Robots Cry” is great, and that Donny Darko is the best movie of the year.

I wish someone would talk about SPIDERMAN some more!

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are staying at the Chateau Marmont with Rick Rubin while they finish up another record. We couldn’t care any less about funk bands.

If you’ve turned on the radio lately, you’ve heard Kelly Osbourne’s cover of Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach”. We heard somewhere that Incubus was involved somehow. Could this Incubus involved, real life sitcom inspired, Madonna cover song, be Kelly’s way of telling her father Ozzy that “she is keeping the baby”? If there’s a baby, who’s the father? Could it be Gideon Yago of MTV News and Teen People’s hottest 25 under 25! Scandalous!

Eminem has a new record about how awesome he is at rapping and how everyone else is gay. It’s called “The Eminem Show”, it’s in stores June 4th, and if you turn on your TV or radio for the next year, you’re gonna hear it. Go see him live so you can watch him rap right over his cd.

Dan O’Mahoney, that weird fat guy who sang for No For An Answer, 411 etc… yeah, a bunch of bands nobody cares about, has opened a bar in Huntington Beach. Yeah dude, the guy with the “POISON FREE” tattoo runs a bar now. What a dipshit.

The Get Up Kids are out peddling their evil on the road again with Superchunk as their opening act. Oh boy.

Well, cross the White Stripes off of your “bands that might save rock n’ roll” list. The singer guy just got the kiss of death from the indierock Bebe Buell, Winonna Ryder. Once you shag that rug, no one’s even gonna step on you man.

Matt Skiba told us he lost his virginity to Gillian Anderson while she was running a punk label.

Shellac and a bunch of other bands are gonna be at this year’s ”More Than Music Festival” July 5-7 in Columbus, Ohio. Too bad it’s in Ohio. Additional bands that are gonna be playing the 10-Year Anniversary of the festival include: Lightning Bolt, Jets To Brazil (word is they are actually gonna play “Kiss the Bottle” if the crowd yells it enough times at this show!), The Locust, Rah Brahs (ex Nah-Brahs), The Walkmen, Bratmobile, The Dropscience, The Blood Brothers, Erase Errata, Adult, Cancer Conspiracy, Converge, French Kicks, High On Fire, Super Smash Brothers, and a few others you really don’t care about.

The Juliana Theory were going to call their upcoming Epic debut “Love”, but then one of the other suits at their label who actually owns a few real records told them that Lou Reed already did that way back in 2000, so they’ve changed the upcoming title to “Man Love”.

Ja Rule is apparently banging Ashanti. Tom Apostolopoulos is apparently banging lots of dudes.

Arab on Radar, Lightning Bolt, and The Locust are touring together this summer. That’s gonna be a lot of skinny white kids with dumb haircuts freaking out at once.

Emily’s Bat Mitzvah changed their name to The Fugitive.

Dead Meadow and Bluebird last night at The Troubadour.
Went to a show last night and it was the first time in a long time I felt excited. It was an awesome show! Dead Meadow floored me with their Sabbath/Zeppelin sounds. Pick up their two full lengths, and make sure you see this band live! They rule. Bluebird came out after Dead Meadow, which was a hard act to follow, and basically slayed the crowd. Nice artsy fartsy film projected behind them too. Good show. Buy Bluebird shit too.

Buy shit you know you don’t need on ebay.
Travis is selling shit on ebay. Buy it dood. Click here.

Bored on Sunday in L.A.?
Every Sunday for a while Travis is DJing at the Beauty Bar from 10pm til the end. Come and have some drinks. Oh, and if you hear any new wave or “Thriller” being played, it’s not him, he trades off with Rebecca and she likes that crap. The Beauty Bar is located between Hollywood and Sundset on Cahuenga at 1638 North Cahuenga Blvd.

Bored now?
Call Jeff Wood. He’s on tour right now with The Dillinger Escape Plan. 973.879.5165 is the Shat Hotline!