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/

The Icarus Line cancelled all the upcoming Ireland dates cos they figured they were never gonna find that pot of gold and some of the dudes are being checked in somewhere to get off the drugs anyhow. There was also talk of them doing shows with “Helmet”, but then somebody found out it was just Page Hamilton and some dudes from Anthrax, White Zombie, and Bush, so that’s a big fat fucking NO WAY JOSE! The Ickies are still doing these shows below though.
August 24th @ The Concorde, Brighton, UK (with DKT/MC5)
August 25th @ The Astoria, London, UK (with DKT/MC5)
August 28th @ Richfield Avenue, Reading, UK
(Reading Festival)
August 29th @ Bramham Park, Wetherby, UK
(Leeds Festival)
August 31st @ The Garage, Glasgow, UK (with DKT/MC5)

Tom Apostolopoulos sold out the scene. Yeah man, he’s not edge anymore. We got him on video doing a shot of 151 with Travis. We’re kicking him out of hardcore. Later Tom.

Oh yeah, if you were at the Dillinger Escape Plan show at the Troubadour… it was Ben’s birthday, he’s the guiter player dude who thinks no sleeves on shirts are cool (kinda like Joe Cardamone), so we got him a cake with a huge 13 inch black dildo on top of it. Somewhere in all the confusion after the cake was brought out on stage by half naked dudes in Planes Mistaken For Stars, Ben belly flopped on top of the cake, and we lost the dick. If you are the kid, or know the kid who ran off with the dick, give that shit back. That was Ben’s present, and it was fuckin expensive man. GIVE UP THE DICK! GIVE UP THE DICK!

We went and saw PJ Harvey recently and she totally slayed. Homeboy from Thelonious Monster was on guitar and some huge motherfucker was on bass. The new album is kinda so-so, but what is not so-so apparently is her “area”. One of our homies saw her bend down to set up her pedals, and when she was down there, like 10 people got a full on beaver shot. No panties dude! And no, there was no sas-squaff. Homegirl spruces up the gash! Cheers.

KROQ is advertising their Inland Invasion show by saying The Stone Roses are playing. HEY DOUCHE BAGS! HOW THE FUCK COULD THAT HAPPEN? THE GUITAR PLAYER AND THE SINGER DON’T EVEN SPEAK YOU FUCKING CUNTS! So yeah we checked out the print ad and it says it’s that it’s just Ian Brown playing. Dude better not fucking pussy out and not play some jams off “Second Coming” (like “Tightrope”). Devo, Siouxie, and X are also playing which is cool but so are a bunch of other shitty bands like those fucking posers from Vegas, The Killers. Is it just us or does that drummer look exactly like Jeremy Pivens (the agent on that new HBO show Entrouage)? Either way The Killers need to be kicked in the balls for sucking so bad, that is, if they have any… cuz it doesn’t sound like they do.

Speaking of KROQ… Joe Sib from Side One Dummy got a show on 103 and asked Travis to come on his show next week so he could play some real music. Which Travis was excited to do, until Joe called him back to explain that the big fat pussyfaces over at INDEPENDENT 103 FM told him he wasn’t allowed to have anyone from Buddyhead on his show.

On the new Cure album, there’s a little “making of” documentary. You can watch that dipshit Ross Robinson stand next to the drummer rocking out, trying to “amp him up” and show him where to do the drum fills. You can tell the drummer is thinking, “Dude, when you thought Korn was the next Nirvana, I had already been doing this for YEARS BITCH! GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME SO I CAN RECORD MY DRUMS!”

Robert E. Lee is Pat Smears great grandfather, and his dad invented Technicolor. Beat that. Don’t believe us, you can read all about it in his upcoming autobiography book.

Joe Preston (Melvins/Thrones) has officially joined High On Fire. They’ll be recording with Steve Albini for their new record on Relapse. Bearded dudes are stoked.

Props to the Mean Reds and Rolling Blackouts for being kicked off the Warped Tour for pissing onstage, showing their dicks, and talking shit on the bro-deo. But like, you dudes should’ve known it was wack in the first place though. What did you expect?

The dude at Drive Thru Records is not only a pedophile, but a fucking crybaby too. Read this shit… it’s a knee slapper the whole way through. http://www.gamefoe.co.uk/interviews/dtr.php

If V2 decides to start caring for once, The Icarus Line will still be heading over to Europe in a couple weeks to do some shows with that MC3 or whatever it’s called thing, and play some festivals and stuff. In case ya haven’t heard yet, DKT/MC5 are the three surviving members of the MC5, and have Mark Arm from Mudhoney (!) and Evan Dando from the Lemonheads (?!) as guest singers. The day The Icarus Line is playing Reading and Leeds isn’t actually all that bad… White Stripes, Morrissey, New York Dolls, Mark Lanegan, TV On The Radio, Dillinger Escape Plan, Autolux… and a bunch more. If ya can’t get in cos it’s sold out, call The Captain at (562) 500-0820 and tell him you’ll be his date and you’ll probably get hooked up. He likes to get JACKED OFF! And like, who gets jacked off anymore these days? Here are the Icky dates… Some Holland and France dates should be added soon as well. See, we’re posting info once again, and V2 can’t even kick down a few hundred bucks a month for a banner ad on this site:
August 24th @ The Concorde, Brighton, UK (with DKT/MC5)
August 25th @ The Astoria, London, UK (with DKT/MC5)
August 28th @ Richfield Avenue, Reading, UK
(Reading Festival)
August 29th @ Bramham Park, Wetherby, UK
(Leeds Festival)
August 31st @ The Garage, Glasgow, UK (with DKT/MC5)
September 1st @ Roisin Dubh, Galway, Ireland
September 2nd @ An Cruiscin Lan, Cork, Ireland
September 3rd @ Dolans Warehouse, Limerick, Ireland
September 4th @ Whelans, Dublin, Ireland
September 5th @ Limelight, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Speaking of Reading and Leeds… The New York Dolls are playing. Izzy Stradlin is in the New York Dolls now. Didn’t Izzy always look like he was in the New York Dolls anyway? They’re playing the same day as The Icarus Line, so we’re gonna stalk the dude. We’re gonna try super hard to get Izzy Stradlin, Mark Arm, Evan Dando, Har Mar Superstar, the buff singer guy from Dillinger Escape Plan, Mangina, Jack White, and Morrissey all in the same place at once to party. FREAK SHOW!

We keep confusing the ads for the new Dillinger record for 24 Hour Fitness ads. Chill out on the weights dudes. Either grow out your hair, or pump iron… not both. You do both and you start looking like Conan The Barbarian or some shit.

Taking Back Sunday sold something like 200,000 copies of their new record in their first week. Yes… there are that many dweebs out there free to walk the streets among us.

Wires On Fire are on tour. They’re selling hand numbered and homemade versions of their EP because Lookout “Nada Hermano-ed” us on pressing the real ones in time. It’s cool though, cos they’ll be ready as soon as the kids get home. Indie rock rules! Live the dream kids! Check out their website you internet sluts – http://www.wiresonfire.com .
August 5th, Thursday- Greensboro NC @ College Hill Sundries w/
The Letters Organize
August 4th, Wednesday- Atlanta @ Drunken Unicorn w/ The Letters Organize
August 5th, Thursday- Greensboro NC @ College Hill Sundries w/
The Letters Organize
6th, Friday- Richmond, VA – TBA
August 7th, Saturday- DC – TBA
August 8th, Sunday- Baltimore @ Ottobar
August 9th, Monday- Philly – TBA
August 10th, Tuesday – Philly, PA @ Tritone w/ DJ Terrydactyl, T Mobile, and Prime Meridian, 1 more TBA
August 11th, Wednesday- New Brunswick, NJ @ Basement Show w/ Listless Lovers
August 12th, Thursday – Brooklyn @ TBA
August 13th, Friday- Dayton, OH @ Elbos w/ Wet Leather and The Vitamin
August 14th, Saturday- Louisville, KY @ Keswick Democratic Club w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, and Read Yellow
August 15th, Sunday- Clevelend @ Scene Pavilion – 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 – Toledo, OH @ Masonic Temple w/ Planes Mistaken For Stars and Since By Man
August 20th Friday – Milwaukee, WI – @ Knights of Columbus Hall – Robot Mosh Fest w/ Undying, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Since By Man
August 21st Saturday- Denver @ Laramir Lounge w/ The Starvations *DAYTIME SHOW
August 22nd Sunday- Salt Lake City – TBA

Aaron manages Shat now. Shatmania is about to happen.

Shat is gonna book his own DIY tour. If you want Shat to play your town and can throw him on a show or can put him in touch with someone who can or you just wanna show him where he can find drugs and whores, email him at Jeffwoodofshat@yahoo.com.

Everyone is moving to LA cuz they think stuff is happening here. Stay in Nebraska please. We’ve filled the waitress quota plenty. Traffic sucks now.

Asif can stay though… as long as he doesn’t blow us off for dinner anymore. You do that shit again, and we’re gonna shit on your porch. Call us back dickfore.

Alex Newport can stay too cos he built a studio downtown and it’s kinda cool. He’s gonna record a 400 Blows album there, and a new e.p. for The Locust which will be one really long song that will come out on Ipecac. He’s also supposedly doing some work on the upcoming Gayrilla Biscuits record. If you live in L.A. and don’t mind being bossed around by limeys, check this website out: hotheadrecording.com

And another thing, if you live in LA, don’t start a band. There’s enough shitty bands here already. People are starting bands here just so they can get free drinks at the bar.

Thursday is breaking up cos the singer is getting married and doesn’t wanna hafta be away from his wife. Whatever pussy.

Bluebird broke up. The bass player is tripping and is trying to play a show every night cos he was told to do so while he was high on peyote. Ehhhhhh. Sam’s a shorthair now.

Speaking of psychos, the singer of Say Anything went crazy from listening to The Get Up Kids too much. See, we told you kids that shit was bad for you. We wouldn’t normally be giving this shit the time of day, but Casper Adams happens to be in the band for some strange reason.

Staying on the topic of freakshow singers of L.A. rock bands, the singer of Brian Jonestown Massacre, Anton Newcombe, has a documentary movie about him and the poser from the Dandi Warhols called “DIG”, and it’s supposed to be bonkers. Someone send us a copy.

Devendra Banhart and his pack of happy neo-hippies and elves want you to DRINK THE KOOL AID! Drink up kids. He’s onto some Charles Manson shit. We’re guessing that kid is gonna set up shop out at Spahn Ranch sooner or later with about 30 girlfriends…

The Get Up Kids are breaking up cuz they’re adults now. They’re gonna put out one more album first though.

Story Of The Year, and the 3,476 other mall screamo / jock metal hybrid bands with shants, bad tattoos, lip piercings, shiny wireless metal guitars, skate shoes, and have singers who tap their chests when they sing, should all be stabbed in the face. This crap makes Pennywise look bad ass. We can thank the Warped Tour for these crimes against humanity. We’re in our mid 20’s, and this shit makes us feel old. Yeah… we’re so old kids, we remember when Victory Records was a hardcore label!

Courtney Love has been bitching about having serious financial problems. We’ve got three words for you Courtney…. NIRVANA BOX SET! See how fucking smart we are? Your troubles are over. Cut us another check sweetie and put us in touch with your pill hook up goddammit.

If you go to the X Games you’re a jock. Fuck You.

If anybody knows how to hook us up with a deal on a Apple laptop, email Aaron@Buddyhead.com . Take one for the team.

Just when you thought the people who work at major labels couldn’t get any fucking dumber, in an effort to not lose their SUV’s and flat screen TV’s, they’ve started putting huge FBI “anti piracy” labels on cd’s now. Great, now if you buy a CD you get less artwork and you gotta look at this ugly FBI badge on the back and cd face. Sweet! That’s totally gonna stop piracy! Why don’t you guys just stop signing bullshit? You never know, if you put some quality out instead of quantity, people just might start buying records again.

Also, if you do work at a major label, act like Robin Hood and send us a big fat box of CD’s so we can fucking sell that shit! PO Box 1268 Hollywood, CA 90078

The MTV Video Music Awards are coming up again. Playing live this year in the “rock category” is Jet, Yellowcard, and Hoobastank… sounds sick man. Wake us up when something happens.

In the new Yellowcard video the Violin player is jumping off amps… yeah, you heard me right THE VIOLIN PLAYER. Our dorkus detector needle is in the red.

The kid with the zits and the fucked up ass problem in Saves The Day has been shooting loads up in his girlfriend, and is trying his hardest to knock her up. Mmmmk.

Steve Jones has been playing some good shit lately. Have us on your show Steve. But… hey Steve, I don’t need to hear any songs from The Libertines or Foo Fighters dude. Just play the old shit you know is good old man.

Well, we know that Indie 103 reads our site… Andy Gershon (President of V2) called Travis at 9am in the morning to tell him the good news, after the station had called him crying about how now they aren’t gonna play “Spike Island” because of what we had said about them refusing to play “Party The Baby Off” (because they said it’s “too fuzzy” and people will think their signal isn’t strong, yet they play The Jesus And Mary Chain and The Velvet Underground? Homosaywhat?) and that they had thrown all The Icarus Line cd’s in the trash and are never going to play them again. Why does Indie 103 care so much about what we think? Well in that case you think you guys are a bunch of pussies, all of you, minus Steve Jones. Yeah just keep waving the “INDIE” flag and make sure your play list looks almost identical to KROQ’s…. Oh, in case you missed this the first time, Indie 103 FM is owned by Clear Channel, and is nothing more than a ploy to knock KROQ down one point in the ratings so that KISS FM (another channel owned by Clear Channel) can be the number one station in LA. Oh, and we heard The Camp Freddy Radio Show finally, which is Dave Navarro’s, and we’d rather listen to monkeys fuck than have to listen to that dickhead talk about how he shaves his chest, and then directly after playing Nirvana’s “Rape Me” say, “Yeah Nirvana, those were the days…” If any terrorists are reading this and are planning attacks in L.A., hit the clear channel building please.

That hot keyboard / guitar player girl from The (International) Noise Conspiracy who quit the band cos she broke up with Dennis is in Sahara Hotnights now playing keyboard. Talk about conspiracies… this one sounds like one conceived by the Swedish government to get all the bomb Swede gash into one group, and thus takeover the world.

Jello Biafra and the Melvins are in the middle of making a record together. The collaboration will be called “JELL-VINS”. No shit.

Rivers Cuomo posted the following novel on his website, and it’s a pretty interesting read.

“I wrote this for readmission to school…

What I’ve Been Up To Since I Left School

Weird Science
After the initial failure of my band’s second album, Pinkerton, I decided not to return to school in the fall of 1997, instead setting out on a mission to develop creative methods which would allow me to be more consistent as an artist. Above all, I wanted to cure myself of the Romanticism which I believed was to blame for my failure.

Throughout 1998 and 1999 I engaged in hundreds of song-experiments. I filled notebooks and cassette tapes. I drew graphs, tables, and charts. I studied other writers’ methods. I took hundreds of pages of notes on the creative process, mostly from Nietzsche, but also from Goethe and Stravinsky.

At first, I maintained a social life, playing and coaching soccer and continuing my classical piano studies with Bruce Sutherland. Eventually, however, I became more and more isolated. I unplugged my phone. I painted the walls and ceiling of my bedroom black and covered the windows with fiberglass insulation. I disciplined myself to an extreme extent. My goal was to purge myself of all weakness so that I could write ‘perfect’ songs as reliably as a machine.

Most of the time, I believed that I was optimistic and happy. The song-experiments, however, produced music of less and less joy and, occasionally, I would fall into despair. At one point, in September of 1999, I actually gave up my mission and decided to go back to school, sacrificing my music career indefinitely. I contacted Dean Thomas Dingman to gain admittance, but learned that I had missed the registration deadline by two weeks. I could only move forward with the music.

I struggled on for two-and-a-half years in all. I finally concluded that such intense focus on musical perfection was only scaring off any real inspiration I might have had. I needed to broaden my focus onto a more practical, tangible goal, in the hopes that music would start to flow in service to that goal. Nietzsche’s discussions of ‘great’men’Julius Caesar, Cesare Borgia, and Napoleon’suggested the goal of ‘world domination’, or in terms applicable to me, commercial success.

Commercial success, I believed, simply dictated making the most of what I had, musically, and becoming active with my band again, and making an album and touring. I swallowed my creative insecurities for the sake of that success and revealed my songs to close associates in early 2000. Their positive reactions led to rehearsals, which led to performances. We discovered that during our long absence, we had only become more popular. Our ‘failed’ album, Pinkerton, was now viewed by many critics and fans as great. With momentum behind me, I kept writing. At the end of 2000, we entered the studio to make our long overdue third album.

Imperial Aspirations
The Green Album was released in May of 2001, going on to sell over two million copies worldwide. We toured extensively, playing our biggest concerts ever. We performed on Saturday Night Live and at the MTV Movie Awards. The album’s success at radio and MTV, and in foreign markets wherein we had had no previous success, seemed to me to validate the approach I had taken with myself and my art. I became the opposite of the unconfident hermit I was in 1998 and 1999. I believed that my band would become ‘the biggest band in the world’ and that I was the man to lead us to that destiny.

I sought to cultivate the same ruthless practicality in my business that I had achieved in my music. I studied the lives of Napoleon and David Geffen, Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’, and contemporary texts on leadership and management. I gradually took over all of the business responsibilities from our manager and managed the band completely by myself. My performing, writing, and recording continued but were now joined by my business activities, all of which together I viewed as converging on the one goal of ‘world domination’. I read books on business and negotiating. I hired a staff. I reformed our operation, renegotiated contracts, and consolidated power. I found it easy to gain ground in negotiations because no music businesspeople wanted to ‘play hardball’ with ‘the artist’. Furthermore, I believed we were able to grow with integrity, as I could make informed choices, seeing for once exactly how the business worked.

However, I also steered us into many bitter battles, including two lawsuits and many other very tense negotiations. For example, in order to demonstrate our independence from the record company in the new age of digital media, I shut them out of the making of our fourth album, Maladroit. We financed and produced the album entirely ourselves, sending hundreds of copies of the finished product to press and radio, but none to our record company. The record company could only watch on the sidelines as the first single quickly climbed the charts, and the fans downloaded the promotional copies off the internet. At this point, we had what I believed was optimal leverage, and we renegotiated our contract.

Ultimately, however, Maladroit was not the big hit that it had threatened to be, selling only about three-quarters of a million copies. I had succeeded in improving our financial arrangement, but not in making a hit album. The record company blamed my shenanigans for the downturn in success.

Many fans also criticized the music. They heard both Maladroit and The Green Album as being ‘mechanical’ and ‘emotionless’. I tried to evaluate the criticism objectively but I had a difficult time. I had crushed my faculty of self-criticism in 1998-2000 in order to make a comeback. I could not tell if my current predicament was just a classic case of an audience lagging behind the development of an artist (as in the case of Bob Dylan when he went electric) or if I had really ‘lost something’. I reacted defensively, calling the fans ‘little bitches’ in an interview with Guitar World magazine. Now the fans were unhappy, the record company was unhappy, my associates were unhappy, and I was unhappy. I did not know what could be done to change that.

I fell into a life of ego and vice. Deep inside, however, I was having serious doubts. I asked myself, ‘Is my life really supporting the production of the music I know I am capable of creating?’ I had to admit that music no longer gave me the feeling of sublime ecstasy that it once had. Although I had already written another large pile of songs for our fifth album, I put all plans to record on hold. There was a revolution brewing in my mind, soon to be triggered by the man we had hired a few months earlier to produce the album, Rick Rubin.

Renunciation
In February of 2003, Rick gave me a copy of Daniel Ladinsky’s translation of Hafiz’s poetry, The Gift. After overcoming my initial aversion to all things spiritual, I decided to read some of the book because I trusted Rick so much. Henry Mindlin, in his introduction to the book, says:

Hafiz wrote hundreds of ghazals [or love songs], finding ways to bring new depth and meaning to the lyrics without losing the accustomed association of a love song’He explored different forms and levels of love: his delight in nature’s beauty, his romantic courtship of that ideal unattainable girl, his sweet affection for his wife, his tender feelings for his child’his relationship with his teacher and his adoration of God.

I was struck by the connection between all these different forms of love. I recognized that the feeling of sublime ecstasy I once got from music was just one more of these forms of love.

I had an epiphany: if the feeling these mystics get in union with their God is analogous to the feeling I used to get in union with my music, then their teachings for how to achieve their union should likewise serve to instruct me how to achieve my union. A whole world of spiritual teachings opened up to me for the first time since, as a child, I had decided that I was an ‘atheist’. I now read these teachings as coded instructions for how to connect with my musical creativity. For example, when Hafiz says, ‘Self-Effacement is the emerald dagger you need to plunge deep into yourself upon this path to ‘God’, I read it as ‘Self-Effacement is the emerald dagger you need to plunge deep into yourself upon this path to Musical Creativity.’ Like this, I just replaced the word God wherever I saw it. I had discovered a new path. I believed that this path was what I had been waiting for.

I eagerly studied a wide variety of traditions including the mystical poetry of Hafiz, Rumi, and Kabir, contemporary spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Leonard Jacobson, and ancient texts such as the Tao Te Ching. In accord with my understanding of these teachings, I abruptly dropped all of my business responsibilities and hard-won power, and isolated myself once again. I fasted and lost fifteen percent of my weight. I took a vow of complete celibacy. I gave away or sold most of my possessions, my house, and my car and lived in an empty apartment next to Rick Rubin’s house for the rest of the year. I moved to settle outstanding lawsuits and reconcile myself with enemies. I apologized to many people. I volunteered six days a week at Project Angel Food in Hollywood, preparing meals for people with HIV.

Balance
Thus, my life made another extreme swing, as it has many times, at least since I was a teenager. I have been sometimes a tyrant, sometimes the most frustratingly passive person you have ever met, sometimes a socialite, sometimes a hermit, sometimes a rock star, sometimes a student. I have had little inner stability.

During this latest swing towards spirituality, however, I started a practice at Rick Rubin’s suggestion which may help me achieve some balance: meditation. I was averse to the idea, initially. My goal in trying all the crazy experiments in my life has always been to improve, maintain, or recover my connection to music. Meditation, it seemed to me, would rob me of the angst that I believed was an essential precondition to that connection. With little to lose, however, I took the chance. I experienced immediate benefits.

The technique I was drawn to is called Vipassana. It is taught around the world at over one hundred centers. (Go to www.dhamma.org for more information.) I started the practice fourteen months ago, attending seven ten-day courses and serving as a volunteer at two. Since then, I have found that the areas of tension in my mind’the fear, the anger, the sadness, the craving’are slowly melting away. I am left with a more pristine mind, more sharp and sensitive than I previously imagined possible. I am more calm and stable. My concentration and capacity to work have increased greatly. I feel like I am finally much closer to reaching my potential.

I now live in a small but comfortable apartment. I feed myself adequately. I took a class at USC this spring, ‘The History of Literary Criticism’, and enjoyed it very much. I take private lessons in music composition once a week from Bruce Reich, a professor at UCLA. I still volunteer, once a week, now at the West Hollywood Food Coalition, feeding homeless or otherwise disadvantaged people. Most pleasing to me is that, month by month, I have watched my creative flexibility growing. The music I have created over the last six months has brought me much enjoyment.

I am returning to school in the fall. Other than that, I am wide open to whatever else comes my way.”

Dave Grohl plays some drums on the upcoming Nine Inch Nails record. Should be dope seeing as how whenever homeboy does this, and only this, the album slays.

A dvd of the last Botch show ever should be out sometime soon on Hydrahead.

Speaking of Botch… the bass player recently got married… to a dude. Congratulations dude.

Iann Robinson wrote this article that totally fucks up that band Atreyu, not like it’s hard to fuck up a band named after a big flying dog from a kids movie, but still it’s funny. Somebody pussed out and took it down though, anybody still have that?

Fiona Apple’s new record “Extraordinary Machine” has been shelved by her label Sony. The rich old white dudes who run Sony are so used to making 14 year old lip-synch’ers undress that they couldn’t find a “single” and were “unsure as how to promote the record” says her producer Jon Brion. Weak.

The singer of The Gossip lost a lot of weight. Two words – Trim Spa. Click HERE.

In other girl rocker news, Erase Errata’s guitar player has quit. We’re not sure why but we are sure that now the singer plays guitar and they’ve got some dude who kinda looks like Jude Law singing. It seems they’re going for that whole “October” era U2 vibe now. Sweet.

Throbbing Gristle fucked everybody up by putting on their own festival for their reunion concert… and then… never showed up to play. Awesome.

Good Charlotte are finishing up their new record across the street from 3 Of Clubs in Hollywood with Eric Valentine (Dwarves, Queens Of The Stoneage) and they’re gonna call it “The Shape Of Mall Punk To Come”.

Hydrahead signed Big Business! If you haven’t seen em yet, they fucking slay. It’s Jared from Karp and Tight Bro’s on bass and beergut, and Cody of The Murder City Devils kicking ass on drums. It sounds like… y’know… Karp. We heard they’re getting a guitar player. We also heard people saying they sound like Lightning Bolt?!? If you’re one of those guys, YOU’RE TRIPPING SERIOUS BALLS!

Everyone wants to sue Vice it seems. First it was Jessica Hopper, now they’re getting sued by the disco label DFA cuz they’re claiming DFA stands for Death From Above (even though they’ve never used the full name) which is the name of a two member canuck band on Vice’s record label. We heard the drummer thinks he’s hot shit now cuz he got to fly to Australia because of his band. Hey man, get in line. Vice is also feeling heat from DJ Millionare A.K.A. Steve Dim Mak, who is taking a break from playing rap records on Cahuenga, and slapping them around over the fact that The Panthers re-recorded a song off the Dim Mak EP for their full length. Everyone just needs to have a beer, chill out, and listen to some Black Sabbath.

Dio sent Dios a cease and desist letter, so they changed their name to Dios Malos. Yes, they can still eat you under the table.

The Captain (drummer of The Icarus Line) used to play in this band Shoegazer til we let him be in The Icarus Line. Well, those dudes from Shoegazer have a new band called “Helpgnashred” and Captain plays drums on their new 7 inch that Hit Dat Records is putting out. Check it out HERE if you’re a big, big Captain fan. MP#

Danzig is taking Doyle out on the next Danzig tour so they can do a “Misfits set”. Danzig says, “It’s the closest thing to a Misfits reunion anyone is ever going to see!” Danzig also said that, “It seems like I have been touring my whole life and I want to take some time for myself and do many of the things I’ve always wanted to do, like direct my first feature film, which I will be doing this next year. I’m also in a lot of pain from getting knocked the fuck out, and need to recuperate.” Click here (http://azpunk.com/) to see Danzig get rocked by some steakhead metal guy.

The Explosion just put out a new EP online called “The Red Tape EP” and are finally done with their major label debut record for Virgin (they’ve been on the label for two years plus now). You should see that in stores before years end. To be honest, we’re more curious if their manager can name a Sex Pistols song yet.

Speaking of our Buddyhead Suicide Sampler, Wonka Vision Magazine is giving away some copies of it as well as copies of Your Enemies Friends “You Are Being Videotaped” in their new issue. Check it out.

Bobby Gillespie, from Primal Scream, just won a court case for an undisclosed amount from Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloid News of the World over an article that suggested he had an affair with Kate Moss. Ummm what? Bobby be tripping it sounds like. I mean, if someone was saying we were shagging Kate Moss we’d just go with it. It’s cool though, more money for speed now.

This band from LA called Werewolf with Robot Hands are looking for a singer. The band told this annoying kid, that we happen to know, who in turn then told us what they said… “It doesn’t matter where you live, doesn’t matter who you know, and doesn’t matter if you think you’re an amazing singer. All that counts is that you really wanna be in a band and will give it 100%.” If this sounds like something you wanna do, check them out at www.purevolume.com/werewolfwithrobothands or www.werewolfwithrobothands.com. And then email Brian (who we’re gonna guess is in the band) at ifitbledsitleads@aol.com. If singing isn’t your thing spread the word by repost it or telling a few friends. DO IT FOR THE SCENE.

On Oct 26, Pavement’s “Crooked Rain” (Travis swears it’s the best one) hits the stores again, this time as a “DELUXE EDITION”. Tons of extra shit and prolly more artwork. Rad!

CONTEST
We’re giving away 10 copies of Jayz’s Black Album. If you wanna win Jigga’s new album all about how he’s awesome, send us an email to buddyhead@buddyhead.com with “I WANT SOME JIGGA MAN YO” and tell us why we should send you a copy of this cd. DO IT, DO IT!

Mic-stands to the face always suck. Click HERE.

A new Hot Snakes album called “Audit In Progress” is recorded, and it hits your local record store shelves October 5th 2004. We’ve seen the cover already and it features a smiling soccer ball and pirate rubbing a cat’s belly or some shit. You think we’re joking? Just wait. We haven’t heard it yet, but we’re pretty sure it’s gonna kick ass. I mean, it’s Hot Snakes, what could really go wrong there? One change on this record is that Jason Kourkounis is no longer drumming (he’s busy touring with Burning Brides right now, there’s no hard feelings). This time around you’ll hear Mario Rubalcaba (Black Heart Procession, RFTC, and Clickitat Ikatowi). Also, The Snakes are hitting the road!
9-30-04
MASON JAR
2303 EAST INDAIN SCHOOL RD.
PHOENIX, AZ. 85016
602-954-0455
10-01-04
EPICENTRE
7450 MIRA MESA BLVD.
SAN DIEGO, CA. 92111
858-271-4000
10-02-04
Troubadour
9081 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90069
310-276-1158
10-03-04
Great American Music Hall
859 O’Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
415-885-0750
10-07-04
North Star Bar
2639 Poplar Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
10-08-04
Ottobar
2549 N. Howard St
Baltimore, MD 21218
10-09-04
Northsix
66 North 6th St
Brooklyn, NY 11211
10-10-04
Knitting Factory-NYC
74 Leonard St
New York, NY 10013

Year Future are going on tour. Make sure you don’t miss this fine L.A. band when they roll through your town.
08/11 Wed Anaheim @ Chain Reaction w/ Hint Hint, Free Moral Agents – all ages
08/13 Fri Denver @ Larimer Lounge (6:00 all ages show)
08/13 Fri Denver @ Larimer Lounge (9:00 21+)
08/14 Sat Omaha @ Sokol Underground
08/15 Sun Chicago @ Fireside Bowl w/ The Starvations, Wolf & Cub
08/16 Mon Cleveland @ Grog Shop w/ Wires On Fire, The Explosion, Burning Brides
10/02 Sat Brooklyn NY @ Northsix w/ Gogogo Airheart
10/03 Sun NYC @ Knitting Factory w/ Gogogo Airheart
10/04 Mon Boston @ Middle East Upstairs w/ Gogogo Airheart
10/05 Tue Philadelphia @ First Unitarian Church w/ Gogogo Airheart, Explosions in the Sky
10/06 Wed WDC @ Warehouse Nextdoor w/ Gogogo Airheart
10/08 Fri Chicago @ Fireside Bowl
10/09 Sat Lawrence KS @ Replay Lounge
10/10 Sun Denver @ Larimer Lounge
10/13 Wed San Francisco @ Bottom of the Hill w/ The Holy Kiss
10/14 Thu Los Angeles @ The Echo w/ The Holy Kiss

Planes Mistaken For Stars are back on the road again playing some shows and probably taking turns blowing each other in the back of their van.
07/21/04 Lincoln, NE @ Knickerbockers w/ TBA [PMFS HEADLINE]
07/22/04 Wheaton, IL @ Wheaton Grand Theatre w/ TBA [PMFS HEADLINE]
07/23/04 OFF
07/24/04 Washington, DC @ American Univ. Kay Spiritual Center w/ Ultra Dolphins, Snack Truck, 1905 [PMFS HEADLINE]
07/25/04 Elizabeth, NJ @ Hellfest w/ Lots of really awesome hardcore bands
07/26/04 Toronto, ONT @ Rockit w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, The Bronx, Decahedron
07/27/04 Toronto, ONT @ Rockit w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, The Bronx, Decahedron
07/28/04 East Lansing, MI @ Mac’s Bar w/ Decahedron, Bear Vs. Shark, Spit For Athena [PMFS HEADLINE]
07/29/04 Detroit, MI @ Shelter w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, The Bronx, Decahedron
07/30/04 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, The Bronx, Decahedron
07/31/04 Chicago, IL @ Fireside Bowl w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, The Bronx, Decahedron
08/01/04 Chicago, IL @ Fireside Bowl w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, The Bronx, Decahedron
08/02/04 Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Saloon w/ TBA [PMFS HEADLINE]
08/03/04 Boulder, CO @ Fox Theatre w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Daughters, Read Yellow
08/04/04 OFF
08/05/04 OFF
08/06/04 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of The Hill w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Daughters, Read Yellow
08/07/04 West Hollywood, CA @ Troubador w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Daughters, Read Yellow
08/08/04 West Hollywood, CA @ Troubador w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Daughters, Read Yellow
08/09/04 Phoenix, AZ @ Mason Jar w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Daughters, Read Yellow
08/10/04 OFF
08/11/04 Austin, TX @ Emos w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Daughters, Read Yellow
08/12/04 New Orleans, LA @ The Parish w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Daughters, Re ad Yellow
08/13/04 Spartenbug, SC @ Ground Zero w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Daughters, Read Yellow
08/14/04 Louisville, KY @ Keswick Democratic Club w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Daughters, Read Yellow
08/15/04 Cleveland, OH @ TBA Strhessfest (Tentative)
08/16/04 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Daughters, Read Yellow
08/17/04 Long Island, NY @ TBA w/ Since By Man [PMFS HEADLINE] (Tentative)
08/18/04 Pittsburgh, PA @ TBA w/ Since By Man, Wires On Fire [PMFS HEADLINE] (Tentative)
08/19/04 Toledo, OH @ Masonic Temple w/ Since By Man, Wires On Fire [PMFS HEADLINE]
08/20/04 Milwaukee, WI @ Knights Of Columbus Hall Robot Mosh Fest – w/ Undying, Since By Man, Wires On Fire, and more.
08/21/04 Columbia, MO @ TBA w/ Since By Man, Wires On Fire [PMFS HEADLINE] (Tentative)

The Starvations are taking off for their U.S. summer tour tomorrow! If you have friends in any of these cities, spread the word!
July 30 Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress w/ Knockout Pills
July 31 Phoenix, AZ @ The Complex
Aug 02 Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves
Aug 03 Austin, TX @ Emo’s
Aug 04 New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks w/Starlite Desperation
Aug 05 Memphis, TN @ Young Avenue Deli w/Mouserocket
Aug 06 Atlanta, GA @ Lenny’s Bar
Aug 07 Columbia, SC @ Art Bar
Aug 08 Brooklyn, NY @ Trash
Aug 10 Boston, MA @ Middle East
Aug 11 New York, NY @ Lit Lounge w/Broke Revue
Aug 12 Baltimore, MD @ Talking Head Club
Aug 13 Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks w/The Mae-Shi, Rapider
Than Horsepower
Aug 14 Cleveland, OH @ The Black Eye w/This Moment IN Black
HIstory, The Peppermints
Aug 15 Chicago, IL @ Fireside Bowl w/Year Future
Aug 16 Green Bay, WI @ Mainstage
Aug 17 St Paul, MN @ Big V’s w/Red Satyrs (and daytime radio
show)
Aug 18 Sioux City, IA @ Legion Hall
Aug 19 Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck (early show: 6-9pm) + possible
party
Aug 20 Kansas City, MO @ The Hurricane
Aug 21 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge (early show, BBQ party)
Aug 22 Las Vegas, NV @ Double Down Saloon

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
AUG. 13-Sacramento, CA @TBA                    w/Moving Units
AUG. 14-Santa Cruz, CA @TBA                    w/Moving Units

If you need a kick ass website built and have some cash money, we think you should hire DREW, he designed the all night radio interview for us (click here). Check out his website dudes… www.oakandelm.org

Quite shortly The Icarus Line will be spreading their sound like a bad case of anal-herpes across The United States Of America and Canadia. They’ll be sharing the stage with such radical bands as Dead Meadow, Battles, Nardwuar’s band – The Evaporators (who are doing the whole west coast… FUCK YES!), 400 Blows, and Year Future. Travis is staying home this tour cuz someone’s gotta work on shit while Aaron’s playing rock star. If ya wanna be the super cool fan dork up front who knows the new songs before everybody else, you can download the band’s latest BBC session they did in London recently here: PART 1 PART 2. The 2 new songs are called “Skipping Church” and “Frankfurt Smile”. There’s a half assed Black Flag cover on there too where Joe apparently doesn’t remember the words. Also, if you aren’t a limey, chances are ya haven’t heard the Funkadelic cover that’s a b-side on the “Party the Baby Off” single cuz that shit is like 40 bucks on import. Check that out here: Speedsick & Hit It & Quit It. Oh yeah, like we said before, if ya wanna get into any of the shows for free, find Aaron beforehand and give him Ritalin and a gay blowjob out back. Just Ritalin should work too.
THE ICARUS LINE:
06 22 04 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s (with 400 Blows)
06 23 04 – New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks (with 400 Blows)
06 24 04 – Atlanta, GA @ Echo Lounge (with 400 Blows)
06 25 04 – Orlando, FL @ The Social (with 400 Blows)
06 26 04 – Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern (with Dead Meadow & 400 Blows)
06 27 04 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle (with Dead Meadow & 400 Blows)
06 29 04 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat (with Dead Meadow & 400 Blows)
06 30 04 – Baltimore, MD @ Fletcher’s (with Dead Meadow & 400 Blows)
07 01 04 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Khyber (with Dead Meadow, 400 Blows & Trouble Everyday)
07 02 04 – Boston, MA @ Middle East (with Dead Meadow & 400 Blows)
07 03 04 – Ottawa, ONT @ The Capital Music Hall (with Dead Meadow & 400 Blows)
07 04 04 – Toronto, ONT @ Mod Club (with Dead Meadow & 400 Blows)
07 05 04 – New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (with Dead Meadow & 400 Blows)
07 06 04 – Pittsburgh, PA @ The World (with Dead Meadow & 400 Blows)
07 07 04 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop (with Dead Meadow & 400 Blows)
07 08 04 – London, ONT @ Call The Office(?!)(with Dead Meadow & 400 Blows)
07 09 04 – Detroit, MI @ Shelter (with Battles & Dead Meadow)
07 10 04 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave Bar (with Battles & Dead Meadow)
07 11 04 – Chicago, IL @ The Bottom Lounge (with Battles & Dead Meadow)
07 12 04 – Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry (with Battles & Dead Meadow)
07 13 04 – Des Moines, IA @ Hairy Mary’s (with Battles)
07 14 04 – Omaha, NE @ Ranch Bowl (with Battles)
07 15 04 – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck (with Battles)
07 16 04 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge (with Battles)
07 17 04 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Lo-Fi Cafe (with Battles)
07 19 04 – Vancouver, BC @ Richard’s on Richards (with Battles and The Evaporators)
07 20 04 – Victoria, BC @ Lucky Bar (with Battles)
07 21 04 – Seattle, WA @ Crocodile Café (with Battles and The Evaporators)
07 22 04 – Portland, OR @ Dante’s (with Battles)
07 23 04 – San Francisco, CA @ The Pound (with Battles and The Evaporators)
07 24 04 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Roxy (with Battles, Year Future, and The Evaporators)
07 25 04 – Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction (with Battles and The Evaporators)
07 27 04 – San Diego, CA @ The Casbah (with Battles, Year Future, and The Evaporators)

Your Enemies friends are playing Siren fest (in NYC) and Hell fest (somewhere else far away) this summer. They’re doing a show with The Hunches and The Ponys at The Troub and some shows with Read Yellow on the way out to Siren Fest and back. Here they are:
June 18th – Skratch Magazine Party at The Knitting Factory in Los Angeles
June 19th – Goleta, CA @ The Hard to Find with Year Future and the Vanishing
June 29th – Hollywood, Ca @ The Troubadour with Starlite Desperation, The Hunches, & The Ponys (8pm doors – YEF on at 11pm)
Jul 09 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge w/Read Yellow & Kill Radio
Jul 11 Iowa City, IA Gabe’s Oasis w/Read Yellow & Kill Radio
Jul 12 Chicago, IL Subterranian w/Read Yellow
Jul 13 Detroit, MI Shelter w/Read Yellow
Jul 14 Toledo, OH Headliners w/Read Yellow
Thu Jul 15 Covington, KY Radio Down w/Read Yellow
Fri Jul 16 Pittsburgh, PA Club Café
Sat Jul 17 Coney Island, NY Siren Fest w/Blonde Redhead/Trail Of Dead, etc
Mon Jul 19 Cleveland, OH Grog Shop w/Read Yellow
July 22nd @ The Loft in Poughkeepsie, NY
Jul 23 Elizabeth, NY Hellfest *** HELLFEST WILL BE ONE OF THESE 3 DAYS
Jul 24 Elizabeth, NYHellfest
Jul 25 Elizabeth, NY Hellfest
July 28th @ The Bottleneck in Lawrence, KS
Aug 22 Los Angeles, CA Sunset Junction w/ Blonde Redhead, The Donnas, etc…

Radio Vago are up and running again. The band has been kicking ass around L.A., and will be finishing their debut album shortly with Slowmar.

Shat is recording a new 69 song record for Buddyhead. No, we’re not joking. And Shat is ready to tour, so if you’re in a band, take Shat on tour. Don’t be a pussy!

Speaking of Shat… Why isn’t Shat on Ozzfest? The hillbilly sister fuckers that pay between $90 and $370 for admission would surely eat up Shat and his weird metal songs about pussy. Ozzy’s kids need to get down with Shat. DO IT!

So yeah, Ozzy is hauling his geriatric corpse back out on stage and bringing those other old dudes with him so that all the Hessians will spend all their “bail me out of jail after I get drunk and forcefully sodomize my sister” money on Ozzfest tickets. Guess it’s a good business move, but do you really want to see “Disney Ozzy” shaking like a crackhead singing “Hole in the Sky?” We’ll stay home and avoid Wresltemaniafest or whatever you wanna label this circus without SHAT.

Michael Moore’s new flick “Fahrenheit 9/11” finally got picked up for distribution and will hit theatres nationwide June 25th. The trailer debuted on the internet a few days ago, and it looks BADASS… check it out…. Click here for the trailer and here for Michael Moore’s site. Learn.

Creed broke up… finally. Even Jesus is stoked.

The Vines broke up too… finally. Their “crazy and wild” pot smoking “singer” dude is stoked cuz now he has time to impregnate that chick who’s hairy and dirty or whatever she’s called.

The Libertines broke up too. Finishing a record didn’t sound as much fun as hittin tha pipe.

From the sound of those three last items… shit might be looking up!

We haven’t heard that Velvet Revolver record, but can someone tell that dude who wasn’t in STP or GNR that wearing a beanie and a “Famous Stars And Stripes” t-shirt in every promo photo makes him about as cool as those weenies in Blink 182. Come on dude, you’re in a band with Slash now, let’s not be a total pussy and lose the jock beanie and grow your hair out. Same goes for you Matt Sorum, no one cares that you played on “Illusions” buddy, lose the frosted short Hollywood cut and grow that shit out. Weiland… well you’re fucked no matter what man, just keep doing drugs.

Buddyhead’s lawyer, Bryan Christner, (who used to be in Shelter), won one more for the good guys and got back the rights to the two Atlantic-era Jawbox records for DeSoto Records (who’s gonna re-release them next year, hopefully with some DVD bonus material). Once again Bryan sticks it to the man. Dude is like the Robin Hood of lawyers and shit. Think about it, he does handle us losers.

Speaking of Shelter, Youth Of Today are doing even more reunion shows this summer, but this time in the U.S. Porcell is tired of folding t-shirts at Equal Vision, and needs the loot. Ray too, even though he’s not straight edge anymore, and has a sex addiction problem. Speaking of hardcore dudes with sex addiction problems, these guys had better ask Gayrilla Biscuits to open the shows.

That new Cure song sounds like some posers like Thursday writing a Cure-esque song, though more “in key” vocally. Yeah, it’s fucking shitty, and Robert Smith looks even more bizarre now, like he does his makeup with powdered donuts… which would totally make sense, cause he’d get to gorge his face with donuts after getting all tarted up. Ten bucks says Aaron’s doing that by the next Icarus Line record.

Speaking of Thursday, their crybaby singer kid goes around telling people that “playing live isn’t really their thing”. They also reportedly hit the stage at Coachella by announcing, “Hey, we’re Thursday, and we’re an emo band, you might have heard about emo by now!” Too bad security was tight at that shit, cos if somebody had a gun, that dude woulda been ended.

Stop by Cole Rehearsal in Hollywood… it’s on Cole just south of Santa Monica… if ya wanna hear Fred Durst attempting to “sing”. They’re in studio D. Homeboy usually shows up around 9 or 10. It’s comedy, we promise. Tell em we sent you.

Speaking of LAME DORKS… Click here to see Hollywood’s new batch of ironic social butterflies http://www.polaroidscene.com/…if you hang out with these people you are a lame dork.

Capitol will be releasing “The Mazzy Star Anthology” (a collection of songs from the bands three studio albums) in October of 2004 with some bonus DVD material. Dope.

Hope Sandoval is also on one song on the “Vetiver” record, which Devendra Banhart plays guitar on and Colm from My Bloody Valentine plays drums on. Also, look out for the Arthur comp Devendra put together. And buy Devendra’s new record. Homeboy is weird and sings about his teeth and shit. Here’s that comp tracklisting. Click here (http://www.arthurmag.com/store/bastet_cds.php) to buy that shit.
1. Vetiver (with Hope Sandoval) – “Angel’s Share” (from the “Vetiver” LP)
2. Joanna Newsom – “Bridges and Balloons” (from “The Milk-Eyed Mender” LP)
3. Six Organs of Admittance – “Hazy SF” (previously unreleased)
4. Viking Moses – “Crosses” (from “Crosses”)
5. Josephine Foster – “Little Life” (prev. unreleased home recording)
6. ESPers – “Byss & Abyss” (from “ESPers” LP)
7. Vashti Bunyan & Devendra Banhart – “Rejoicing in the Hands” (from the forthcoming “Rejoicing in the Hands of the Golden Empress” LP)
8. Jana Hunter – “Farm, CA” (prev. unreleased)
9. Currituck Co. – “The Tropics of Cancer” (from “Ghost Man on First”)
10. White Magic – “Don’t Need” (from forthcoming EP)
11. Iron and Wine – “Fever Dream” (from “Our Endless Numbered Days” LP)
12. Diane Cluck – ” Heat From Every Corner” (from “Macy’s Day Bird”)
13. Matt Valentine – “Mountains of Yaffa” (prev. unreleased)
14. Entrance – “You Must Turn” (prev. unreleased home recording)
15. Jack Rose – “White Mule” (from “Red Horse, White Mule” originally released thru Eclipse, forthcoming on VHF)
16. Little Wings – “Look at What the Light Did Now” (from “Light Green Leaves”)
17. Scout Niblett – “Wet Road” (from “Sweet Heart Fever”)
18. Troll – “Mexicana” (from “Pathless Lord”)
19. CocoRosie – “Good Friday” (from “La Maison de Mon Reve”)
20. Antony – “The Lake” (from “Live at Saint Olaye’s With Current 93″)

It’s Christmas in June all over the black hole of humanity that is the Midwest. Yep, a new Slipknot record is upon us. Right now there are about a million dudes with names like “Shitpile” and “Scumfucker” that will take a break from their backyard wrestling matches with their 5 year old sisters to spend every penny they have in their pockets that isn’t going to porno.

Lakers in 5 bitch.

Jeff Winterberg (ex Antoich Arrow) has a photo book out called “Rat a Tat…Birds”. It’s a collection of pictures from 1991-2003 featuring live shots of Jesus Lizard, Monorchid, Karp, Nation Of Ullyses, Boredoms … you name it. It’s fucking rad. Get it @ www.jeffwinterberg.com

Jeff is also in a band called “Coptic Light” with John Fine (ex bitch Magnet) go see them too.

The Mars Volta are winning new fans everyday. Yesterday their new fan was Kirk from Metallica, click here for photo.

Watching American Idol is the 2004 version of watching Star-Trek. Who the fuck cares about these high school talent show morons? Anything that gives Paula Abdul a job and makes millionaires out of weirdo dudes who look like Alvin from the Icarus Line needs to be abolished.

Bob Dylan & Paul McCartney both said they want to be judges on American Idol next year. Come on God, serve these guys up a pair of heartattacks before the next television season.

The guy from the Darkness who sings like the skin of his balls is being peeled away with a buck knife had some surgery that went well and now he can sing all gay again. Bummer, that doctor fucking blew it.

Dillinger have a new record coming out on July 20th called “Miss Machine”. We hear it’s about the Jeff Wood period in the band where chicks would actually show up to shows to see if they could get a piece of the dong master, Jeff Fucking Wood. The Dillinger Escape Plan is also going on tour for, like, ever. Here are the dates… Europe first, then you North American dorks can get with it.
June 5th @ Download Festival, Donnington, UK
June 6th @ Rock IM Ring Festival, Nuremburg, Germany
June 8th @ Manchester University, Manchester, UK
June 9th @ Cathouse, Glasgow, Scotland
June 10th @ Garage, London, UK
June 11th @ Exeter Pheonix Arts Centre, Exeter, UK
June 12th @ Engine Room, Cardiff, UK
June 14th @ Magnet, Berline, Germany
June 15th @ Logo, Hamburg, Germany
June 17th @ Hultsfred Festival, Hultsfred Sweden
June 19th @ Provinsrock Festival Seinajoki, Finland
June 22nd @ Garage, Oslo, Norway
June 23rd @ Stengade 30, Coppenhagen, Denmark
June 24th @ Effenaar, Eindhoven, Netherlands
June 25th @ Grasspop Festival, Dessel Belgium
June 26th @ Fury Festival, Le Mans, France
June 27th @ Danube Festival, Vienna, Austria
June 28th @ Garage, Munich, Germany
June 30th @ La Locomotive, Paris, France
July 2nd @ State X Festival, Den Hauge, Netherlands
July 4th @ Eurockennes Festival, Belfort, France
July 6th @ Bloom Art, Palermo, Italy
July 7th @ Rock Planet, Pinarella Di Cervia, Italy
July 8th @ Open Air, Lecce, Italy
July 9th @ Radio Sherwood Festival, Padova, Italy
July 10th @ Knockout Festival, Moultier, Switzerland
North American “Fucking with the Lights On” tour starts
July 18th @ Ottobar, Baltimore, MD (w./ The Bronx, Decahedron plus special guest)
July 19th @ Ottobar, Baltimore, MD (w./ The Bronx, Darkest Hour, Decahedron)
July 21st @ Middle East, Boston, MA (w./(w./ The Bronx, Decahedron plus special guest)
July 25th @ Rexplex Center, Elizabeth, NJ (w./The Bronx, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Decahedron)
July 26th @ Rockit, Toronto, Ont (w./The Bronx, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Decahedron)
July 27th @ Rockit, Toronto, Ont (w./The Bronx, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Decahedron)
July 29th @ Shelter, Detroit, MI (w./The Bronx, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Decahedron)
July 30th @ Grog Shop, Cleveland, OH (w./The Bronx, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Decahedron)
July 31st @ Fireside Bowl, Chicago, IL (w./The Bronx, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Decahedron)
August 1st @ Fireside Bowl, Chicago, IL (w./The Bronx, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Read Yellow)
August 3rd @ Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO (w./Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow)
August 6th @ Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA (w./Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow)
August 7th @ Troubador, Los Angeles, CA (w./Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow)
August 8th @ Troubador, Los Angeles, CA (w./Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow)
August 9th @ Mason Jar, Pheonix, AZ (w./Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow)
August 11th @ Emos, Austin, TX (w./Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow)
August 12th @ Parish @ The House of Blues, (w./Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow)New Orleans, LA
August 13th @ Ground Zero, Spartanburg, SC (w./Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow)
August 14th @ Keswick Democratic Club, Louisville, KY (w./Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow)
August 16th @ Knitting Factory, New York, NY (w./Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, Read Yellow)
August 17th @ Knitting Factory, New York, NY (w./ Special Guests)
August 20th @ Pukklepop Festival, Hasslet, Belgium
August 28th @ Reading Festival, Reading, UK
August 29th @ Leeds Festival, Leeds, UK

The new Blink 182 video for some song called “Down”, features former gang members playing and get this… this is a total thespian stretch, current gang members. Wow, take 3 white ass dudes from the rich area of San Diego and surround them with gang members. WHO THE FUCK IS WRITING THE STORY BOARDS FOR THESE DUMB FUCKING VIDEOS???? Here’s our idea for their next video, Blink 182 shows up at a party, they’re the only white dudes there… they think they’ll be “down”, cause they hang out with Tommy Lee and rich rappers here and there at gay ass Hollywood parties. So Tom (not sure which one he is, but we know one of them is “Tom”) throws up his hands like he does when he’s high fiving his warped tour buddies after someone scores in Volleyball, and instead of the nice gang members bro-ing down with Blink 182, they beat the living shit out of them for 3 minutes and 30 seconds so that it fits MTV’s criteria for a video getting shown. For 3 minutes and 30 seconds those 3 dorks get fucking pulverized. It would be the best video ever. We’d watch MTV again. It’d be great.

Call up Tara Reid and tell her it’s time to get some more plastic surgery. Yeah, let’s have her lips stapled to her ass. 323.874.9888

While you’re at it, call up Mandy Moore and tell her to act her age, 12. 310.920.1517

Is it just us or does that fat goth chick in Evanesence look like a wee bit plumper Meg White dressed up for Halloween?

That kid made another emo game. We don’t play video games, but Alvin’s gonna beat this shit man. It’s called Bush game. Bush doesn’t give a fuck. http://www.emogame.com/bushgame.html

If you can find it, pick up the new Jools Holland dvd, it’s 34 live performances from 1993-2003 including Primal Scream, Spiritualized, The Charlatans, The Verve, Oasis, Echo and The Bunnymen, Pulp, Radiohead, Blur, The Darkness and Franz Ferdinand. Shits out June 7th.

Courtney Love is going on tour… well, our guess is like one or two of these shows will happen, the rest of the time, she’ll be too busy popping crazy horse pills, showing her tits and vagina off, busting out windows, talking dirty, spitting, smoking, or being too much of a fucking wierdo tweaker to bother showing up.
June 18th @ New Haven, CT Toads Place
June 19th @ Providence, RI Lupoís The Strand
June 23rd @ Boston, MA Avalon Ballroom
June 25th @ Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
June 26th @ Norfolk, VA The Novva
June 29th @ Washington DC Nation
June 30th @ Pittsburg, PA Rock Club

David Cross’ new record is pretty funny even if he is a dork. Check out this mp3 sample. Click here.

The Revolution Smile got dropped… do we really need to say it?

The bass player from the Strokes is having a kid. Baby lurch?

The singer from the Strokes is getting married to some chick he met in his record label’s office or something. Maybe she can lend him some girly cream for his zits.

So those lame bar rockers Godsmack had their road crew kick the shit out of faux mall “punk rockers” The Story So Far at some lame festival (which is a lot like two retards trying to claw each others eyes out in the back of the short bus), who posted a poor written and detailed account of how they got their asses kicked on their website only to later take it down. Here’s what those pussies posted.
“FUCK GODSMACK AND THIER NAZI FUCKING CREW…..
Hello everyone. Something pretty amazing happened, and I would like to share it with you………..

Last night, at a Radio Show in Indiana, my band (except for Josh, he was in the shower) and our tour manager was jumped by godsmack’s production manager, crew, and security, along with local security. It was a pretty fair fight. The five of us vs. at least ten 200+ pound football reject, jock – coke head fucking piece of shit fucking losers. Almost a fair fight huh? So what did we do to deserve this you probably wondering? It had to have been something really bad huh? Did we have sex with one of their wives? No, that’s not why. Did we steal some of their drugs? No. Not that either. Did we sell their security some bunk steroids?. No. This is the awful thing that we did to get jumped..

The show was in an amphitheater. We made everyone in the crowd jump, and asked everyone in the lawn to come down to the front of the stage. I can totally understand how this might have caused a little bit of a panic for the local security, but the show was sucking, so we had to make it rock. It’s not like there was a riot or anything. It ruled. Apparently, godsmack’s douche bag fucking production manager and crew didn’t like this, so they we’re backstage waiting for us……

I’m going to stop the story right there just to re-interate the fact that this was a RADIO SHOW. NOT A FUCKING GODSMACK SHOW. We were not opening for godsmack. We are not on tour with godsmack. The absolute fact of the matter is that neither godsmacks’s band or crew had any authority or say in anything regarding my band. It was simply none of their fucking business what happened on or off stage during our performance.

Anyway, we walked off stage excited, because we turned a shitty show into a fucking rock show. Within ten seconds of us finishing our last song, Godsmacks ugly dick faced production manager had his hands all over Dan screaming at him saying “Get the fuck out of here, you’re not getting fucking paid” “Who the fuck do you think you are, you’re not fucking rock stars”….Dan replied to the guys face “YEAAAAHHHHH ROCK AND ROLL! WAHOOOOO!” This really pissed off the piece of shit production manager. Our tour manager intervened and told the dude not touch band members. What happens next? Three cro-magnon jock fucks grabs our tour manager and holds him still so one guy could pummel his face. 4 of them jump on Adam and pummel his face. Dan, Phil, and I got hit, but not half as bad as they did. Josh walked off stage and went in the dressing room just 5 seconds before this happened and missed it. I did get to punch a dude in the face a couple of times. That ruled. Dan got to punch thier production manager in the face, and Phil, god love Phil…He picked up a metal box and smashed the pussy face production manager in the head with it. I think It’s still pretty safe to say we lost though.

Let me again re-inerate the fact that no one in godsmack’s band or crew had ANY FUCKING RIGHT TO EVEN SAY A WORD TO US. If we were opening for godsmack at one of THIER lame ass shows or if we were on tour with them, then yeah, they’ve got the power, it’s their show, they’re in charge. But even then, kick us off tour, tell us to go home, cuss at us, don’t pay us whatever. DON’T PUT YOUR FUCKING GORILLA HANDS ON MY FUCKING BAND. That’s not business, that fucking gang shit.

So we just got jumped putting on a rock show, then to top it off, the fucking cops quarantine us in a 300 degree room while all the fucks who started the fight walked around drinking beer and laughing about it. They totally started the fight, threw the first punches, and WE were fucking held in a room, then held in our bus. Then, the icing on the cake; an inbred cop with a handlebar moustache tells us “he’s not putting up with our kind” and ” the whole things a joke and he can personally guarantee that nothing will happen to anyone that kicked our ass”…. Eat another doughnut you power abusive fucking molester.

So why fuck godsmack? Because their dickface crew jumped us and not one member of that fucking band bothered to come and apologize for it. Sully (the singer) walked by our dressing room, looked at us, and gave us a dirty look. No sorry my hoosier ass crew jumped you. No sorry my band hires irresponsible fucking criminals, Nothing from any of them. Awesome.

It’s funny that we played a terrible fucking new metal festival with all these hard ass terrible new metal dork bands like godsmack, and they couldn’t handle little old storyoftheyear’s rock show. Sorry we’re not 40 years old and we don’t stand on stage like someone is forcing us to. Sorry we love our band and love to put on a show for people who pay 3 million dollars to see a bunch of dorky bands stare at their feet. So they took it upon themselves to jump us. Yeah, so fuck godsmack and their stupid fucking crew, and fuck every steroid using, jock fucking cave man security guard that thinks hitting a dude 200 pounds smaller than him is cool. Eat shit and die you fucking pussies. “

Robin posted new photos. Check em out. www.redhedpictures.com.

The Shins are on tour with Fiery Furnaces, go see em, just get ready to see 8,000 little urban outfitter pussies. Also, check out this basement recording video of “Gone For Good”.
May 21 Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, BC
May 22 Roseland Theater Portland, OR
May 25 Fillmore Denver, CO
May 27 Bricks Salt Lake City, UT
May 29 The Gorge George, WA
May 30 Neumos (TSB Benefit) Seattle, WA
Jun 1 Warfield San Francisco, CA
Jun 4 Wiltern Theater Tucson, AZ
Jun 5 Glass House Pomona, CA
Jun 6 SOMA San Diego, CA
Jun 7 Rialto Theater Tucson, AZ
Jun 9 Stubbs BBQ Austin, TX
Jun 9 Waterloo Austin, TX
Jun 10 Engine Room Houston, TX
Jun 11 House of Blues New Orleans, LA
Jun 13 Variety Playhouse Atlanta, GA
Jun 14 Cat’s Cradle Carrboro, NC
Jun 15 Norva Norfolk, VA
Jun 17 Newport Music Hall Columbus, OH
Jun 18 House of Blues Chicago, IL
Jun 19 House of Blues Chicago, IL
Jun 20 First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
Jun 21 First Avenue Minneapolis, MN
Jul 4 Roskilde Festival Rokskilde, Denmark
Jul 6 Folkets Park Malmo, Sweden
Jul 7 Tradgar n Gothenburg, Sweden
Jul 8 Munchen Brewery Stolkholm, Sweden
Jul 9 Quart Festival Kristiansand, Norway
Jul 10 Oxegen Festival Dublin, Ireland
Jul 11 T in the Park Glasgow, Scotland
Jul 17 Somerset House London, UK
Jul 18 Somerset House London, UK

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Beachwood Sparks main-dude, Chris Gunst, has a new band called Mystic Chords of Memory on Rough Trade. Killer.

Kathleen used to make sure Buddyhead knew how to spell and wrote some of our reviews and cleaned up Aaron’s puke… now she has a rock band called Tsk Tsk. If you live in L.A., go check it out:
*June 11th Friday @ The Echo (1822 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles CA) w/ Dirty Little Secret, The Lips 9 PM – $5.00 – 18+ FREE for 21+
*June 15th Tuesday @ Key Club (9039 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles CA) Indie 103.1 and Filter Magazine presents Ruby Tuesdays w/ American Eyes, The Have 8 PM – FREE – ALL AGES
*June 22nd Tuesday @ Spaceland (1717 Silver Lake Blvd, Los Angeles CA) w/ Slow Signal Fade, Jessie Deluxe, Lily and the Ladies 9 PM – 21+
*July 12th Monday @ RAGE (8911 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood CA) w/ American Eyes, Living Science Foundation 8 PM – FREE – ALL AGES
*July 19th Monday @ The Echo (1822 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles CA) w/ The Moon Upstairs, Lily and the Ladies

Dios are on tour with Beulah.
5/24 Gainesville, FL @ Common Grounds
5/25 Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
5/26 Orlando, FL @ The Social
5/27 St. Augustine, FL @ Caf? 11
5/28 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
5/29 Nashville, TN @ 12th & Porter
5/31 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
6/01 Washington, D.C. @ Black Cat
6/02 Philadelphia, PA @ North Star Bar
6/03 Brooklyn, NY @ North Six
6/04 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
6/06 Asbury Park, NJ @ The Great Bamboozle Festival (w/ Sonic Youth)
6/07 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar *
6/09 Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place +
6/10 Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick +
6/11 Chicago, IL @ Martyr’s +
6/13 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge +
6/24 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey **
6/25 Portland, OR @ Ash Street Saloon **
6/26 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore

Speaking of Wires on Fire, go see them at one of these upcoming shows:
May 7th @ UC Santa Cruz – Kresge @ The Town Hall with The Lot Six
May 23rd @ Sacred Grounds – San Pedro
June 8 @ Troubadour in Hollywood with McLUSKY $10 adv 8pm Doors.
And check out http://www.wiresonfire.com for more info.

The Icarus Line were home for like, two days so they could do laundry, do a bit of skiing in the Hollywood Hills, not pay rent, talk about themselves, call their manger “chef-boy-am-I-gay” a faggot, and damage some local burger (In N’ Out is the best!) and now they’re back out on the road to spread the rock n’ roll like a bad venereal disease. Their album is out in Europe. Get it. It comes out in the U.S. in a week or something. There’s no press or ads in magazines but the size of Joe’s head has finally been accurately represented… it’s on top of Amoeba in L.A. right now (check out the photo below if you don’t live in Lost Angeles). After these dates, the Icky’s will do a headline U.S. tour. So if you were scared away from the Distillers shows ‘cos the thought of being around nine hundred 14 year old, half retarded, Hot Topic decked out “punk” rockers with bullet belts and Casualties t-shirts bummed you out (don’t worry, it bummed us out too), you can go to those shows. Travis will be on the U.S. tour as well playing records in between bands to keep the party afloat, so spruce up the gash. Whenever Travis is around, shit turns into ho-verload. That’s your new vocabulary word for the week… learn it, know it, use it. Oh yeah, Aaron is a lethargic mess (prolly cuz all he does is drink soda and stuff donuts into his fat face all day) and needs Ritalin to stay awake (cuz he’s too much of a pussy to do real drugs)… bring him some before the shows, and he’ll get you in for free or something.

Here are the shows:
“BANGERS OF GASH” UK TOUR
(with Modey Lemon)
April 28th 100 Club, London, UK
April 29th The Cockpit, Leeds, UK
May 1st The Barfly, Cardiff, UK
May 2nd Bar Academy, Birmingham, UK
May 3rd Rock City, Nottingham, UK
May 4th Roadhouse, Manchester, UK
May 5th Fez Club, Sheffield, UK
May 6th The Louisiana, Bristol, UK
May 8th King Tuts, Glasgow, UK
May 9th Zodiac, Oxford, UK

“SLANTED AND ENCHANT ME” JAPANESE TOUR
May 13th Harajyuku Astro Hall, Tokyo, Japan
May 14th Harajyuku Astro Hall, Tokyo, Japan
May 15th Shinsaibashi Club Quattro, Osaka, Japan

“KANGA / CAVIAR ROO” TOUR
(we don’t have the rest of the dates cos Chef Boy-am-I-gay is too busy sucking dudes off… keep it in yr pants aussies)
May 20th Sydney, Australia
May 21st Melbourne, Australia

So yeah, The Icarus Line tour with The Distillers went out with a bang at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles. This review of the show, that was forwarded to us, seems to sum it up nicely:

“Went and saw The Icarus Line on Saturday night… First off, they rock balls any night of the week. I defy anyone to not at least have a reaction to the music. It’s the type of band that splits a room with the first strike of the guitar… you’re either enlisted in The Icarus Line army at that moment, or you’re standing on the other line drawn in the sand and you best get the fuck out of the way. That being said, I think it’s safe to say that most of the Hot Topic “punks” in attendance on this Distillers tour don’t know WHAT to make of The Icarus Line. Probably due mainly to the fact that none of these kids own the seminal albums that make up The Icarus Line canon: “Psychocandy”, “Funhouse”, “Prayers on Fire”, “Kick Out The Jams”, “Goat” or “the Rebel Sound of Shit and Failure.”

But back to Saturday night… In typical fashion, The Icarus Line is NOT playing nice. The crowd doesn’t seem to appreciate their sonic assault and are showing their disfavor via any number of hand signals and shouted admonishments to the band. One punk rock rooster in particular (2 foot mohawk and all) was being particularly vocal in his disapproval and continued to bait the band and even started throwing things.

At this point, Aaron (guitar player/madman) takes the mic from singer Joe. He then tells the guy up front, “If you’ve got a problem, why don’t you step up on stage and let’s take care of it.” But the guy chickens out and says something about how he can’t get to the stage. Aaron then reaffirms him, “It’s all girls up here… you can push your way up. I’ll help you.” But still, nothing. So Aaron then says, “Well then, fuck you.” And turns his back to go pick up his guitar which he left back by the amp.

As he’s picking up his guitar, with his back to the crowd, the same guy HURLS a full bottle of water at Aaron and hits him square in the back, water splashing everywhere. The last thing I saw was Aaron drop the guitar, turn round like a light, and dive headfirst into the crowd where the guy was standing. It was like an explosion!!

The floor splits immediately and kids who look “ever so tough” in their spikes and studs are running from a guy who can’t weigh more than 130! As Aaron dived into the crowd, the rest of the band was right on his heels! They stopped being a band and became a gang! It was awesome! Fuck with one, fuck with all. Security poured onto the floor and dragged the instigator away.

The band took back the stage and continued their set, but not before Aaron had one more thing to tell the crowd. “20 more minutes… 20 more minutes and you can all run in your circles like you do at school. Just 20 minutes…” And they took up their instruments and battered everyone into the ground with a phenomenal set.

As for the crowd? They didn’t say SHIT after that. A few naysayers decided to get brave from THE BACK of the venue, but that was all. But the best part of all… in 9 months, these same kids will be piping off about how cool this band is and how they thought it was “so rad that they didn’t take any shit that night!” They’re young… I’ll forgive them…

But remember… it’s the bands that nobody understands at first that make the most lasting impressions on music. Nobody “got” the MC5… nobody “got” The Velvet Underground… nobody “got” Love… hell, nobody “got” At The Drive-In until they had broken up!! Yet those are the bands that get name checked now for their unmistakable contributions to music. The Icarus Line is next… just watch.”
-Andy Lewis

If you’re in the land of no showers and purple vegetables, The Icarus Line are gonna play an intimate show next Friday, May 7th to help launch the second issue of the Wondrous LOOSE LIPS magazine. Which is our most favorite magazine in the world… Mojo is our second fav. Check our Loose Lips website: Click HERE to order this sweet cherry of a magazine. Anyhow the show is at the WINDMILL, 22 Blenheim Gardens, Brixton Hill, LONDON SW2. No guestlist, £3 before 10pm, £4 after… The Icarus Line on stage 11pm, djs till 2 am… Party Party.

For a little chuckle, check out the new Revolver with “The Icarus Line” in it. Aaron didn’t feel like making it to the photo shoot that day, so while he reorganized his 7-inches, Travis (who happened to be there for the free meal courtesy of Revolver) stepped in to represent his absence with Aaron’s old favorite “2 for the pink, one for the stink” hand signal. The funny part is, nobody at The Icarus Line’s label, management, or publicity company even noticed. Something tell us, that photo is gonna move some fucking units.

Radio, from The Need, is in Courtney Love’s band now. At least one person in that band can play guitar cuz God knows the other two newbies ain’t cutting it.

The Mars Volta are recording a new album and are tripping harder than before… one of the five songs is 30 minutes long. Yeah tons of people are gonna make to the end of that one. These dudes think they have a touch of salsa in their music. We think there’s more salsa on their rider than in their music.

Speaking of The Mars Volta, their drummer Jon Theodore, broke Josh Freeze’s leg while they were on tour with A Perfect Circle in a fit of what has been labeled “drummer jealousy”. The word on the street is that Jon got so competive with Josh during their tour together that he figured the only way he was gonna be the “best drummer on the tour” is if he crippled him with a large remote control airplane. Now that’s some James Bond shit… motherfucker is ruthless. Don’t fuck around with The Mars Volta unless you want to be limping or want to learn how to play your kick drum with your left foot.

Radio Vago has a new singer (yeah Adrienne is not in the band anymore, she’s in Shoot Out The Lights, so stop asking her if she’s opening for Sleater Kinney motherfuckers), and their first show with her is gonna be in L.A. Saturday, May 8th at the Student Union/Quarry Amphitheater on UCSC’s campus. The show starts at noon, Radio Vago plays at 1:15. Andrew WK, No Motive and The Locust are also playing. Their second show will be opening for Sleater Kinney & Quasi at The El Rey in Hollywood on May 20th. Go check one of those shows out!

Go get the Eagles Of Death Metal record. Their singer can party like no one else, plus they have a Belgian dude named Tim in the band who whips his dick out when he hears The Jesus Lizard. That’s pretty cool in our book.

Email Indie 103 and tell them to stop being pussies and give Travis a show, so that he can bring rock n’ roll to the airwaves of Los Angeles… feedback@indie1031.fm.

Some webzine just interviewed Wires On Fire, The Icarus Line, and SHAT… sounds like a great issue to us. Click here. http://www.sayrah.net/

Spiritualized just did a cool radio session on KEXP that you should check out. An interview and some live songs. This station actually has a rather large archive of different bands doing similar sessions you might wanna check out… Click here.

Kids who listen to Slipknot call themselves “maggots”. Guess what we just realized rhymes with “maggots”…

Van Halen is, once again, Van Hagar. GOOD MOVE GUYS. David Lee Roth said it best when he said, “Van Halen with Sammy Hagar singing, is like a really hot chick with really bad teeth.” We couldn’t have said it better. Unless, of course, Aaron came up with a new euphemism for ‘vagina’. And if we hear one more person try and tell us that David Lee Roth is a homo, we’re gonna bring the pain.

Your Enemies Friends is on tour with Midtown 182 and some other whack pop punk bands. We can’t say what we really want to here.. They also have two new music videos (one for “Back Of A Taxi” and another for “Cenus”) that are in the final stages of editing and look killer bro. We’ll keep you posted. Oh, and their debut record “You Are Being Videotaped” is in stores now… so buy that shit. Also, they’re a small feature on them in the new Filter if you wanna jerk off to Ronnie’s face.
(All dates Below with Midtown 182 and Armor For Sheep)
4/30 Pittsburgh, PA @ The World
5/1 Cleveland, OH @ Peabody’s
5/2 Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
5/3 Off
5/4 St. Louis, MO @ Creepy Crawl
5/5 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
5/6 Minneapolis, MN @ Ascot Room
5/7 Iowa City, IA @ Gabe’s Oasis
5/8 Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
5/9 Off
5/10 Denver, CO @ Rock Island
5/11 Salt Lake City, UT @ Lo-Fi Cafe
5/12 Off
5/13 Seattle, WA @ Graceland
5/14 Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theatre
5/15 San Francisco, CA @ Slims
5/16 Pomona, CA @ The Glass House
5/17 San Diego, CA @ Epicentre
5/18 Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
5/19 Off
5/20 Austin, TX @ Emos
5/21 Dallas, TX @ The Door
5/22 Beating off
5/23 Spring, TX @ Java Jazz
5/24 Beating off
5/25 St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre
5/26 Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ The Factory
5/27 Orlando, FL @ The Social
5/28 Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits
5/29 Atlanta, GA @ Earthlink Live
5/30 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
5/31 Richmond, VA @ Alley Katz
6/2 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
6/3 Philadelphia, PA @ Northstar Bar
6/4 Worcester, MA @ Palladium

The WB is doing a TV movie about the life of Kurt Cobain. Hold on… it gets worse… that retarded singer from Muddle of Pudd is playing Kurt… someone’s gonna get hurt over at the WB. And Charlie (who wrote the book) is going down too. Is nothing scared?

The Fader came out with another killer issue of ads.

Bands like the Casualties are the reason punk is dead. Cut off those stupid fucking Mohawks you irrelevant Warped Tour clowns. We’re gonna start dressing like a time period too… we’re only going to wear clothes from the 1400’s. No fuck it, we’re gonna dress like motherfucking pilgrams… and carry muskets around town. Yeah, that’s how fucking retarded you look.

That band The Killers, another band that got “big” in five seconds cuz they sound like Strokes b-sides, are actually named after the last movie Ronald Regan did (called “The Killers”). Let’s hope they get alshimers and forget they wanna play music. Must be nice playing Coachella before you’ve ever toured you fuckin’ posers.

Speaking of Coachella. Here’s our rundown of the “hot and sticky” event in case you didn’t go this year. Here goes: Sit in the car for three hours. Hot, sticky, sucks. Walk around in the desert heat. Hot, sticky, sucks. Walk around a bunch more. Pay ten bucks for shitty food. Listen to whack bands like Death Cab For Cutie bring their wussy suck. Pay two bucks for water. Hot, sticky, sucks. Pixies are good. Pay six bucks for a beer. Hot, sticky, sucks. Pay six bucks for a beer. Have to talk to some industry dork and inform him his bands suck. Pay six bucks for a beer. Hot, sticky, sucks. Radiohead is good, the spring break crowd acts like they just saw Jesus descend from heaven. What’s with all the jocks? Hot, sticky, sucks. Kraftwork was good. Hot, sticky, sucks. Kool Keith killed it. But no matter how you slice it, hip hop blows live. Even more so when you’re standing in desert. Hot, sticky, sucks. A ton of emo bands played and no one really rocked. Nick Zinner from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs got emo on guitar with Bright Eyes. Hot, sticky, sucks. The Cure were decent but we couldn’t get over the fact that they are recording their new record with the dude who invented Limp Bizkit, Rick Robinson… I mean Ross Rubin. Hot, sticky, sucks. Whoa, the VIP area is bigger than the audience. Hot, sticky, sucks. Man, we’re jaded.

Oh man… we’re totally not making this up… a band called As I Lay Dying is touring with another band called Everytime I Die. We’re guessing some other shitty, pretty boy “screamo” bands called As I Die on Thursday I May Bleed, or whatever the fuck all those pussy ass bands are called will be opening all the shows. All of you fruitcakes with lip piercings, stupid tattoos, and hair in front of your eyes with mosh down parts and wussy singing parts in the same songs should fucking die every Thursday in a well bleeding. Hey, there’s a new band name for some of you dorks out there. Maybe you can get on the cover of AP!?!

Jerry Only is still begging Danzig again to reconsider doing a Misfits reunion tour. But everyone knows that Danzig is too buzy reading comic books, not mowing his lawn, being evil, and sacraficing sluts from the valley to pay attention to Jerry’s fat ass.

Casper Adams has quit Kinkos and is in a band called “Say Anything”. Right now they’re on tour with Dashboard Confessional, more like Gay Anything. We’re taking bets on how long Casper will last til he gets kicked out of this band cuz his band, label, and manager are all big fat hairy pussies. Yeah you heard us right PUSSIES! Oh and ask his manger if he knows a Sex Pistols song yet…

Nardwuar (you may know him from Gimme Skelter, from your Canadian television, or from some of the various fanzines and magazine’s he’s written for over the years) also has a radio show you can always catch up http://nardwuar.com/radio/. A few weeks ago he called up Travis and Aaron from Buddyhead, if you missed that (which you most likely did),you can download that crap.

Travis wrote some boring shit about some records he listens to for http://dustedmagazine.com/, if you are that bored, click HERE for that.

The New Jim Jarmusch Film “Coffee and Cigarettes” that’s coming out soon look pretty fucking hot… starring Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Bill Murray, The RZA, The GZA, Jack White, Meg White, Steve Buscemi, and a bunch of other fools…. Check out the trailer HERE.

This movie looks awesome too. Click here.

Robby Redcheeks posted some rad old Ink & Dagger photos, facepaint era, bitch. Click here.

Call up William Hung’s voicemail (from American Idol) @ 818-633-9638 and tell him Buddyhead has no idea who he is, but someone emailed us his phone number so you’re calling him to tell him “ROCK N’ ROLL PSYCHO FREAK OUT”.

Fred Durst should get sued by the estate of Nirvana for exploiting Kurt’s face in the form of a tattoo on his chest. Homeboy thought that shit was gonna change his image. Sorry dude we still remember you telling us you wanted to “rip peoples faces off with chainsaws”… we’re not buying this new “sensitive/credible” shtick. In fact the only thing you’re doing is bumming out the steak heads who just wanna mosh. You dumb turd. The judge should slap that poser with a big fine and make him cover that tat of Kurt up with duct tape whenever he feels the need to take his shirt off. Motherfucker.

In another attempt to trick the public into thinking he has good taste, Fatty has been seen sporting t-shirts by real bands. Like this one of him in a Smiths shirt. Hey fatass, weren’t you like all about the nookie and into breaking stuff like a year ago? We’re not buying this shit.

In the new issue of Mass Appeal magazine, Iann Robinson (whos magically disappeared from MTV without an explaination… hmmm) wrote some piece berating Fred Durst that’s pretty amazing. He also mentioned Buddyhead which makes it twice as good. We love to stroke ourselves…

Canyon broke up. Sam Velde is pissed.

The International Noise Conspiracy just finished their ten song album with Rick Rubin, the Sweds told us it’s packed full of hits. In other Swed news, Lars from INC seems to have a little bit of a man crush on The Captain from The Icarus Line, we’re not gonna spill the beans, but lets just say… get a few beers in the guy and he’s down for whatever man.

Shane MacGowan got his ass kicked in a London bar by two twenty year olds with metal bats last week.

We got a heads up from a reader in London that a UK zine called Soda Pressed has been bumming out hardcore kids by handing out this flyer at shows. Front & Back. Click here for their website. Good work kids.

“On the last weekend in June, shit will be going down in Echo Park. I’ll be putting together a rather large show that will take place at five locations, all within a block away from each other on Sunset Blvd. I’m not going to break into details, but the purpose of the show is to bring together LA artists and musicians of all styles and genres into one area. If you’re interested in having your art a part of the show or have any questions, contact me. My e-mail address is sean_theblacklist@hotmail.com This is open for anybody living in the LA area or like a 100 miles away. Don’t pass up this opportunity, this will be kickass.”

Call up that dorky violin boy from Yellowcard @ 818.917.1822 and tell him pop punk is wack enough with out school band instruments in the mix making it even more annoying. Again we ask… does that dude get chicks on tour?

Tv On The Radio signed to 4AD in Europe for some pretty cash. Dudes know how to bring the heat!

Young L.A. punk band The Wives, who’s lead singer “Dean Dean The Sex Machine” used to write the Sex Advice column for Buddyhead, signed to Cold Sweat Records. Cold Sweat is also doing A Devendra Banhart/White Magic split.

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Check out the new trailer for Threat @ http://www.threatmovie.com/. Look for Hardcore Dave, pre-makeup era.

Jack White produced country legend Loretta Lynn’s new album “Van Leer Rose” and even sings on a song called “Portland, Oregon”. We heard that during the recording sessions Jack dusted the cobwebs outta her tunabox at least once or twice. HIT THAT SHIT JACK! http://www.lorettalynn.com

The Datsuns have a new record coming out that sounds just like their last one. Oh bomb!

Another Lady Fest is happening in The Bay Area. Sounds like a killer spot for it. http://www.ladyfestbayarea.org/

David, drummer of Refused and member of Text, lets people take photos of him in his underwear. Click here to see him in his underwear. Kinda sexy eh?

Aaron from Buddyhead is one of the finalists for the lead role in the sequel to Falling Down, which will be called “Falling Down As Well”

All Night Radio got a bass player and his name is Tim Ko. Shit sounds thick live now. If you don’t have that record, go buy dat shit yo.

Chuck D from Public Enemy just recorded a song with The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion called HOT GOSSIP, which we think is about us.

Black Rebel Motorcycle got dropped on their heads like a retarded baby by Virgin Music. Turns out Virgin didn’t think they were selling enough records here in the states. Bummer dudes… maybe if you jack another Spiritualized riff you can get signed somewhere else?

Speaking of Virgin, can someone over there tell that dude from “NERD” that rocks trucker hats and likes jock metal that he has about ten seconds left in his shelf life, and that when we slit our wrists that fucking “Milkshake” song is gonna be the goddamned theme song. Thanks for contributing your “art”, now go take your shirt off and jump in another music video, dork.

In what is quite possibly his first contribution to “music”, Buckethead has quit Axl’s band he calls “Guns N’ Roses” and derailed the band for the time being. THANK YOU BUCKETHEAD, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!

Good Charlotte are in Eric Valentine’s Hollywood studio making another pop-turd filled album they’re gonna market as “PUNK ROCK”. We can’t wait for that one man.

Travis needs a bike cuz traffic is Hollywood is sucking dicks like a Jenna Jameson in heat (plus some dickhead just rear-ended his car and fucked it all up, so dude is walking as of late). If you live in the Los Angeles area and wanna donate a (working) bike to him in the name of keeping Buddyhead mobile and environmentally friendly, or even if you got one you wanna sell us cheap, email him at travis@buddyhead.com .

Not that we give a flying fuck about rap these days, but someone told us that in the “Chingy” video called “One Call Away”, the “ho” is played by none other than Rudy fucking Huxtable from The Cosby Show. Bill Cosby’s kids are outta control.

Jade Tree is STILL putting out emo records.

The Dillinger Escape Plan have finished recording their new album, and the fucker should be out by late summer. Dudes in Faith No More t-shirts are stoked like you wouldn’t believe.

The man Dillinger Escape Plan told he was “too good of a musician for their band”, Jeff Wood just told us he has started laying down drum tracks this week for the new SHAT record, which will be titled “CUNTREE”. Yes, we are putting out another SHAT record. And yes, we’re stoked!

Burning Brides recently finished their second full length album, which they recorded for a few months here in sunny Los Angeles (AT THE SAME PLACE RADIOHEAD RECORDED THEIR RECORD MAN), and have now named it “Leave No Ashes“. “Leave No Ashes” is actually a reference to the “NEW RULE” Travis made about his house when he shouted “NO MORE PARTIES AT MY HOUSE CUZ YOU GUYS ARE ALL FUCKING SLOBS AND I’M SICK OF CLEANING UP ALL YOUR ASHES!” Their new album drops on June 8… BUY DAT SHIT YO. But in the meantime, go to our online store and buy their first album on vinyl so you can be OGBB, cuz we only got so many of those fuckers left and shit, yo.

BURNING BRIDES GOING ON TOUR WITH A PERFECT CIRCLE
The Brides are took a break from hanging out with potheads and are out on the road with Maynard and his friends.
Monday, April 26 Blue Cross Arena Rochester, NY
Tuesday, April 27 Tweeter Center Camden, NJ
Wednesday, April 28 Wachovia Arena Wilkes-Barre, PA
Friday, April 30 Centrum Center Worcester, MA
Saturday, May 01 PNC Arts Center Holmdel, NJ
Sunday, May 02 Patriot Center Fairfax, VA
Tuesday, May 04 Giant Center Hershey, PA
Wednesday, May 05 Big Sandy Superstore Arena Huntington, WV
May 06, Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, NJ
Friday, May 07 Nassau Coliseum Long Island, NY
Sunday, May 09 Glens Falls Civic Center Glens Falls, NY
Monday, May 10 Augusta Civic Center Augusta, ME
Wednesday, May 12 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Norfolk, VA
Thursday, May 13 RBC Center Raleigh, NC
Friday, May 14 Cricket Arena Charlotte, NC
Saturday, May 15 Gwinnett Arena Atlanta, GA

Dios are going on tour. I bet these dudes have some killer mothership deli trays on their riders. Homeboys can eat. And their new album is good… check it out. http://www.wearedios.com
MAY 15 – THE CASBAH     SAN DIEGO, CA
MAY 16 – OLD BRICKHOUSE GRILL – PHOENIX, AZ
MAY 19 – THE PARISH – AUSTIN, TX
MAY 20 – TREES – DALLAS, TX
MAY 21 – MARY JANES FAT CAT – HOUSTON, TX
MAY 22 – THE PARISH – NEW ORLEANS, LA
MAY 23 – TBA – GAINSVILLE, FL
MAY 25 – THE ORPHEUM – TAMPA, FL
MAY 26 – THE SOCIAL – ORLANDO
MAY 27 – CAFE 11 – ST. AUGUSTINE, FL
MAY 28 – THE EARL – ATLANTA, GA
MAY 29 – 12TH AND PORTER – NASHVILLE, TN
MAY 31 -  CATS CRADLE – CARRBORO, NC
JUNE 1 – BLACK CAT – WASHINGTON, DC
JUNE 2 – NORTH STAR BAR – PHILADELPHIA, PA
JUNE 3 – NORTH SIX – BROOKLYN, NY
JUNE 4 – THE BOWERY BALLROOM – NEW YORK, NY               
JUNE 6 -THE GREAT BAMBOOZLE FESTIVAL- ASBURY PARK, NJ
JUNE 7 – OTTOBAR – BALTIMORE, MD
JUNE 9 – MOHAWK PLACE – BUFFALO, NY
JUNE 10 – MAGIC STICK – DETROIT, MI
JUNE 11 – MARTYS – CHICAGO, IL
JUNE 13 – LARIMER LOUNGE -  DENVER, CO

Decahedron are on tour. Check these dudes out cuz they like to ride motorbikes naked.
04/15/04 – Brooklyn, NY @ Northsix w/ Nakatomi Plaza, Baby Teeth, Quick Fix Kills
04/16/04 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar w/ Beauty Pill & Q And Not U [info]
04/17/04 – Washington DC @ Black Cat *RECORD RELEASE SHOW!!* w/ Beauty Pill & City Goats
04/18/04 – Lewisburg, PA @ Henderfest@ Local 193 U
04/19/04 – Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place w/ Scout Niblett
04/20/04 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Division Ave. Arts Cooperative w/ TBA
04/21/04 – Chicago, IL @ Fireside Bowl w/ Yaphet Kotto & Mannequin. [info]
04/22/04 – Iowa CIty, IO @ Gabe’s Oasis W/ Limbeck, The Lifestyle, & local artist TBA
04/23/04 – Omaha, NE @ Sokol Underground w/ Scout Niblett
04/24/04 – Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive w/ TBA
04/25/04 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court w/ TBA
04/27/04 – Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern w/ Supine to Sit, Hidari Mae
04/28/04 – Portland TBA
04/29/04 – San Fransisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill w/ A Burning Water and local artist tba
04/30/04 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Scene W/ Wires on Fire and local artist TBA ..
05/01/04 – Tucson, AZ @ Plush w/ tba
05/03/04 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s w/ TBA
05/04/04 – Houston, TX @ The Axiom w/ White Whale, & TBA
05/05/04 – Louisiana TBA
05/06/04 – Louisiana TBA
05/07/04 – Gainesville, FL @ Common Grounds Coffeehouse w/ TBA
05/08/04 – Orlando TBA
05/09/04 – Mt. Pleasant, SC @ Village Tavern w/ TBA
05/10/04 – Athens, GA @ Caledonia Lounge w/ Who Is Myrtle Malloy? & TBA
05/11/04 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl w/ Thye Standard and The Liverhearts
05/12/04 – Carrborro, NC @ Room 4 @ Go Rehearsal w/ Shannon Wright & Bellfea
05/13/04 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church 267.977.6264 W/ Trans Am, Les Gorges Leningrad, and The Frequency. r5 productions
05/14/04 – Washington DC @ TBA
05/15/04 – Boston,MA @ North Eastern University w/ El Guapo, Forensics, Holy Mountain, Fallout Countdown
05/16/04 – Wilkes Barre, PA @ The Zoo w/ Forensics, Holly Mountain, and more

Need New Body are headed out on tour to slay the masses with their artfag rock. If you don’t own their new record “UFO”, go buy it. It’s sick. Plus they make all their own merch and the shit is stylish to say the least… check their website for mp3s and movies and junk. http://www.neednewbody.com/
Fri April 16th TT’s The Bear’s Boston, MA. W/Mobius Band
Sat April 17th Casa Del Popolo Montreal, PQ W/Les Angles Morts,Letlowns
Sun April 18th Rockit Club Toronto, ON W/Les Angles Morts,Letlowns
Mon April 19th TBA Ottawa, ON. W/Les Angles Morts
Tues April 20th Nietzche’s Buffalo, NY.
Wed April 21st Second Story Bloomington, IN. W/Azita
Thurs April 22nd Live on WNUR 89.3 FM 5pm’ish wnur.org
Thurs April 22nd The Fireside Bowl Chicago, IL. w/Mahjongg, Pit Er Pat (blackbirds) & Michael Columbia
Fri April 23rd Caughy Haus Beloit College Beloit, WI.
Sat April 24th Gabes Oasis Iowa City, IA. w/The Stunning & Flaccid Trip
Mon April 26th Loveland Hall Edinboro, PA.
Sat May 1st The Downstairs Cafe Bennington College Bennington, VT.
Tues May 18th Emo’s Austin, TX. W/Hella, Make Believe
Wed May 19th Proletariat Houston, TX. W/Hella, Make Believe
Thurs May 20 Hailey’s Denton, TX. W/Hella, Make Believe

If ya wanna get your hands on the new two cd Buddyhead sampler, the only way you can get it (until it hits stores in mid Feburary) is by going to one of the shows above. It’s a good time. Lots of rare tracks by radical bands like The Icarus Line, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Burning Brides, Radio Vago, Gayrilla Biscuits, Shat, At The Drive In, Murder City Devils, Your Enemies Friends, and high-larious prank calls. We had so many prank calls to choose from by Mr. Torture Device, that we had to leave some off the cd’s. Here’s one that didn’t make the cut involving the singer of Aerosmith. Click here.

The two cd sampler also includes an abbreviated history of the Buddyhead record label. But in case you live in the middle of nowhere, or can’t wait until you get yr porky lil hands on the sampler to get some insight into the whole Bootyhead story, click here to check that out.

Your Enemies Friends debut album, will also be available at the shows above in a couple days. This won’t be available in stores, so get your fruity ass out there. You could be like one of the kids in one of these pictures or something. Click here.

It’s Groundhog Day! The Icarus Line are going straight back to the UK for a few more shows. And in the same freezing ass cold towns they were just in a few days ago with Primal Scream! Sweet! Some of the same clubs too! Can’t wait to eat more deep fried fish! The shows will be with the Distillers. Travis is staying home so he can take Disturbed’s advice and “GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS OOOOH WAH AH AH AH”. The Icarus Line and the Distillers will also be touring together across the U.S. soon for about a month.
2.13.04 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowlands
2.14.04 – Leeds, UK @ University of Leeds
2.15.04 – Birmingham, UK @ Birmingham Academy
2.16.04 – Islington, UK @ whothefuckknows

So the Grammys were Sunday and nothing exciting happened. SURPRISE! At least someone coulda pulled a tit out. And killer groups like Outkast, White Stripes and… Evanessence won awards. All the action was at the after parties though. Aaron talked about being goth with Trent Reznor, Gideon Yago made out with half a dozen dudes, and Travis smoked Snoop Dogg under the table.

The newest Buddyhead band, Wires On Fire, have completed their debut e.p., and you can check out one of the songs called “Learn To Drown” by clicking here. They’re also playing a few shows, oh man, and one’s outta LA!!! You guys are big time now.
2/14 Hollywood, CA @ M Bar (vine and fountain) 10pm 21+
2/27 Los Angeles, CA @ True Rehersals w/400 Blows and Nantucket Suicide. $5.00 All Ages
3/12 Santa Cruz, CA @ UC Santa Cruz

Alternative Press is determined to put every last wack band that exists on the planet on the cover of their magazine. This months member of the hit list is Yellowcard. Bomb.

Iann Robinson got “let go” from MTV.

Rick Rubin is recording Slipknot vocals right now… we’re just curious how he’s getting that “diarrhea tone”.

Rick is also still doing pre-production on the new Weezer record. From what we’ve heard River’s is back in party mode. His asian intern can’t get the blow up that guys nose fast enough for him… seeing as how we understand that problem, we’d like to offer up our new intern, Brian to help out. Give us a ring Rivers.

If anybody in California has an extra current license plate registration tag for Aaron’s truck, send that shit over. We will hook you up with all kinds of goodies. Or, if you’re good at stealing those things, we’ll look the other way too. If Aaron goes to jail cos he’s been driving with a warrant, an expired license, and expired tags, things are gonna get messy. This will not benefit the children. Hook a brotha up cuz Aaron’s too big a pussy to commit crimes unless he’s on stage with a guitar.

Karen O got tired of everybody thinking she’s from California cos she says “dude” and “like” so much, that she decided to move here to be amongst her people. Her Yeah Yeah Yeahs bandmates are still hanging out in New York in igloos though.

The Buddyhead Best and Worst Records of 2003 list is still up. Click here if you haven’t checked that shit out.

We’ve also updated the Buddyhead FAQ section. Stop emaling us your retarded questions, and go here to have them all answered. Click here.

That’s right bitches… looks like things are getting a little more active on here huh? Well keep it in your pants, but a new issue is along the way with interviews with Kevin Shields from My Bloody Valentine and Primal Scream, Jason Pierce from Spiritualized, Mudhoney, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Wire, etc. etc.

Saturday nights in Hollywood are usually pretty dull. So from now on, you should be going to the M Bar on Vine and Fountain for our DJ night called “Party The Baby Off”. We moved it from the Beauty Bar cos they were trying to make us play “Groove Is In the Heart” and “Beat It”. This is gonna be way better, cos from now on, surprise live guests will be performing every Saturday, and you’ll actually be able to move your arms and legs and stuff. Boo yah. Oh yeah, and Steve Aoki (from Dim Mak Records) will be playing all the Hip Hop you’ll need to get your ass shakin’, while Travis will be playing all the Rock N’ Roll you’ll need to feel like you wanna shoot up and head bang. This Saturday Wires On Fire will be playing live.

Whoever is programming 103.1 FM in LA is getting worse and worse taste in music as time goes on. HEY BUDDY! LESS OFFSPRING AND PENNYWISE AND MORE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN AND THE STOOGES! GOT IT?

Ipod’s come with batteries that last only 18 months and these dudes are pissed! Click here.

We thought these guys broke up like, 3 years ago or something, but it looks like they can finally quit their day jobs. Click here.

Iggy is having an art show. Hopefully it’s better than his new record. Click here.

Did we mention that no one in Sum 41 owns “Funhouse”?

Courtney Love’s new single “Mono” (where have we heard that name before? Hmmm…) sucks more than a tranny hooker on Highland and Santa Monica. But that shouldn’t be that shocking.

Coachella looks pretty descent this year.
Saturday, May 1st
Radiohead
The Pixies
Kraftwerk
Wilco
The (International) Noise Conspiracy
The Rapture
Desert Sessions
Hieroglyphics
Kinky
Stereolab
Future Sound of London
And you will know us by The Trail of Dead
Peretz
Death Cab for Cutie
Laurent Garnier
LCD Soundsystem
Living Legends
Sander Kleinenberg
Black Keys
The Sounds
Howie Day
Junior Senior
Mark Farina
Moving Units
Sahara Hotnights
Electric Six
The Stills
Seb Fontaine
22-20’s
Juana Molina
Phantom Planet
Dios
Jem
Q and not U
Erase Errata
The Section Quartet
DJ Icon

Sunday May 2nd:
The Cure
The Flaming Lips
Air
Belle & Sebastian
Basement Jaxx
Paul Van Dyk
Bright Eyes
Atmosphere
Thursday
BRMC
Cursive
Le Tigre
The Crystal Method
Dizzee Rascal
Adam Freeland
Mogwai
Ash
2many Dj’s
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
Muse
Sidestepper
The Thrills
Broken Social Scene
The Sleepy Jackson
Ferry Corsten
Prefuse 73
!!!
The Cooper Temple Clause
Sage Francis
T. Raumschmiere
Stellastarr*
The Killers
The Section Quartet

Speaking of bands playing Coachella…. The Pixies have announced their first dates of their world tour. Looks like when you get old, Canada seems like a good place to go. We just wanna see the drummer do his magic show at the Magic Castle.
• 4/14 – Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
• 4/15 – Regina, SK @ Doris Knight Ballroom
• 4/17 – Saskatoon, SK @ Prairieland
• 4/18 – Edmonton, AB @ Red’s
• 4/19 – Calgary, AB @ MacEwan Hall
• 4/21 – Victoria, BC @ Victoria Curling Club
• 4/22 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
• 4/23 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
• 4/24 – Spokane, WA @ Big Easy
• 4/25 – Boise, ID @ Big Easy
• 4/27 – Eugene, OR @ MacDonald Theatre
• 4/29 – Davis, CA @ Freeborn Hall
• 5/1 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Festival

This kid is crazy. He drives around the country in his car selling zines. We wouldn’t even drive around the country for free ass and blow. Well, maybe blow… but anywhoo, anybody this stoked on life deserves to be helped out. Plus, he went to the same high school as Aaron, so show the dude some pity and love. Check it out:

“Goddamn do i need your help! I do the zine, the Blacklist out of Los Angeles and once again will be going on a cross-country zine tour in my beat up station wagon. A majority of the trip will be spent tagging along with Against Me!, Lucero and Grabass Charlestons. This time I’m trying to stay away from sleeping in my car or passing out beside on a river bed so this is where you come in. It’s just a friend and I going on this trip and we’re looking for a few kids in each city to get drunk and ride bikes with, show us around town, let us sleep on their floor and hopefully eat their food. Here are all the dates and don’t worry, I’m harmless, I’m an eighteen year old vegan that won’t steal your mom’s money. Email me at sean_theblacklist@hotmail.com or hit me up on aim at Blacklistzine and we will talk it up. Your help will definitely mean a lot.”
2/14- Phoenix
2/15- El Paso or driving straight to Houston
*the next two shows Iíll be hustling zines at the The Locust/ Your Enemies Friends gigís
2/16- Houston
2/17- Austin
2/18- New Orleans
2/19- Gainesville (getting drunk with Tony Weinbender and those crazy kids that live in g-ville)
begin Against Me!/ Lucero tour
2/20 – West Palm Beach, FL @ Ray’s Downtown w/Rouge Set
2/21 – Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
2/22 – Tallahassee, FL @ Beta Bar w/The Weight
2/23 – Athens, GA @ 40 Watt Club w/The Weight
2/24 – Memphis, TN @ The Riot on Monroe w/The Weight
2/25 – Little Rock, AR @ Vino’s w/The Weight
2/26 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Green Door
2/27 – Kansas City, MO @ Spitfire
2/28 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theatre w/Love Me Destroyer
2/29 – Ft. Collins, CO @ Starlight
3/1 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Albee Square
3/3 – Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project
3/4 – Eugene, OR @ Wow Hall
3/5 – Berkeley, CA @ Gilman Stree t w/Mike Park, Love Songs
3/6 – San Francisco, CA @ Bottom Of The Hill w/Mike Park
3/7 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Santa Cruz Teen Center w/Missing 23rd
3/8 – Reno, NV @ ARK-A-IK w/Missing 23rd
3/9 – Bakersfield, CA @ Jerry’s Pizza w/Missing 23rd
3/11 – Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction w/Mike Park
3/12 – Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour w/Mike Park
3/14 – Phoenix, AZ @ Mason Jar w/Financial Panther
3/15 – Tucson, AZ @ Skrappy’s
3/16 – El Paso, TX @ Moontime Pizza
3/17 – San Antonio, TX @ Sam’s Burger Joint
If I’m still alive at this point you’ll find me at South by Southwest heckling record executives to buy me drinks.

The Fugue are taking a break from hanging out with their buddies The Strokes and Interpol, and sucking off men, and they’re heading out on tour. Good lookin out guys!
Thur Feb 12 @ Bard College Red Room
(Annadale-on-Hudson, NY)
w/ An Albatross + The Sick Lipstick
Fri Feb 13 @ Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)
w/ Dead Meadow + An Albatross + The Sick Lipstick
Sat Feb 14 @ UCONN (Storrs, CT)
w/ An Albatross + The Sick Lipstick + Apse + First Aid
Kit
Sun Feb 15 @ The Spider Hole (Boston, MA)
w/ An Albatross + Mahi Mahi
Mon Feb 16 @ The Living Room (Providence, RI)
Show starts at 9PM ($5)
w/ An Albatross + The Faux
Tues Feb 17 @ Bloomfield Cafe (Montclair, NJ)
w/ An Albatross + The Oval Portrait
Wed Feb 18 @ Knitting Factory – Old Office (New York
City)
w/ The Holy Wars + Timber!

Buddyhead #11 The Dillinger Escape Plan “Irony Is A Dead Scene” limited LP’s are for sale in the BUDDYHEAD ONLINE STORE. Buy those now if you want em, cuz they’re going fast.

We’re in Holland doing drugs and you’re not… except Aaron… he’s trying to figure out how to murder the motherfuckers at Continental Airlines who totally destroyed his amp on the flight over here… Alvin’s guitar too. So fuck Continental, hurrah for smoking weed in the streets. Alvin says hoorah for smoking weed in the streets while sporting a ponytail.

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

The singer of The Revolution Smile had this to say in a recent interview:
“I saw Nirvana open for Red Hot Chili Peppers. They wore socks on their … things, and at the time weren’t the most credible band. But after [Nirvana] played, no one cared. That’s what we want to do. We want to make the band after us scared. The ‘Return Of Rock’ is a joke. That’s not rock. Something that happened in 1991, that was the return of rock if there ever was a return of rock. Last year was cool, but it’s not real. There’s nothing dangerous about those bands. They might be good bands, but they’re not taking any chances. I believe this band is taking chances.”

The Revolution Smile plan to set the world on fire this year for everybody who never heard bands in Drop D… like Quicksand and Deftones! Dangerous! Taking chances! You heard it here first kids!

Oh, and speaking of The Revolution Smile, the first person to find any press on them that doesn’t mention “Buddyhead” (has to be longer than 10 words too) and send it into us gets a free t-shirt of your choice from our online store.

Speaking of White Stripes… the new album “Elephant” is stellar… even if the dude rips himself off on some of the songs. The release date for the album has been moved up to April Fools Day (April 1st) after mad people downloaded the thing on the internet. Let’s just hope he’s not gonna let Meg sing her song live anymore.

In other Jack White news… Jack White may have a new gig… as the bass player in The Stooges! That’s right, the original Stooges are getting back together and recording some new tracks. Obviously the original bass player, Dave Alexander is still dead, so on the new songs, not only is Jack White “producing”, but he might be playing bass as well. Bad ass! Let’s hope they do some shows with this lineup.

Speaking of The Stooges, this email was sent to us regarding an incident that happened during their recent recording session in Florida.
“Ron called me early Monday morning at 2am to report this. Ron and his brother Scott Asheton are in Miami Beach, FL finishing up some STOOGES tracks for the next IGGY POP album. Last night at the 11th st diner in Miami Beach, FL at approximately 1am Ron and Scott Asheton fought off a knife wielding cook and a table tossing busboy to save the life of a stray cat. Apparently the bloodthirsty kitchen help annoyed by the presence of the stray, burst into the dining area exclaiming, “Let’s kill that cat!!”. Ron the animal lover was not going to have any of this and jumped the pair shocking even his brother Scott. Scott was able to hold his brother back and an exchange of words ensued. Dismayed and frustrated by the lack of communication due to language barriers, “Zorro” and his table tossing side kick retreated back into the kitchen area and the Ashetons paid their bill and left. According to other customers the kitchen help at the 11th St. Diner has severely injured this poor cat in the past leaving him with a broken jaw. Luckily, a good Samaritan took the animal to a vet for treatment.

11th Street Diner
1065 Washington Ave
Miami Beach, FL
305-534-6373

Call them and let the owners/management know that cruelty to animals will not be tolerated. Ron thanks you if you do.”

Pathetic Overweight Dudes… otherwise known as POD, have decided to try to change their image by kicking out the fattest dude in the band. And the fat dude is pissed. The fat guy wanted to talk about legalizing pot and laying pipe in groupies and shit in interviews, and the other dudes didn’t think that jived with their Christian image. Bummer for that dude… no more Krispy Kremes every night on the rider. Dudes with dreadlocks and board shorts everywhere are bummed too.

Pretty Girls Make Graves totally sold out the scene and signed with Matador.

Coheed and Cambria are in the studio recording what surely will be a big fat emo turd for all the lobotomized emo mall youth. Has anyone honestly listened to this band? The singer sounds like he got his nuts ripped off and then crammed down his throat, and he’s got an afro, cause you know it’s “edgy-emo”… the afro makes it different. Liking this shit is as unexplainable as being pro-child molestation.

Glassjaw made the nu-emo-metal world sad when they canceled their Bro-Core dates because the singer has some sort of poop problem that makes him shit out everything he eats. We’re hoping the poop problem comes back every time that dude even thinks of whining into a microphone.

Call Bam Margerra at really fucked up times and tape it. If he gets pissed tell him it’s all a “stunt”. (610) 558-1772.

Metallica and Linkin Park are headlining Reading and Leeds Festivals this year. That’s kind of like when Jeff Wood got crabs and gonorrhea at the same time.

First Pete Townshend, now 3 D from Massive Attack. The Massive Attack main-man got nabbed with kiddy porn on his home computer, as part of a British Child Pornography Sting. Creepy.

The Mars Volta album is in the bag, and the band is heading out to tour Europe… some shows with the Chili Peppers, and about 2 weeks headlining on their own with none other than Radio Vago on the tour as well. This is Radio Vago’s first trip over there, so don’t fuck this up and not check this out.
The Mars Volta & Radio Vago:
3/31 Copenhagen Vera
4/1 Berlin S036
4/2 Prague Rock Café
4/3 Vienna Flex
4/4 Zagreb Mochvara
4/6 Bologna Estragon
4/8 Barcelona Razzmatazz 3
4/9 Madrid Moby Dick
4/11 Paris La Boule Noir
4/12 Brussels AB Box
4/13 London Astoria

Fred Durst has decided to heighten his profile as “BIGGEST DIPSHIT IN THE UNIVERSE” by making up new words in front of millions of people at the Grammys. “Agreeance”? That’s some Don King type shit right there. Oh and another thing… there’s a bunch of people that should never, ever, ever be asked their opinion on anything again… not even if it’s “what’s your favorite color?” I know it’s cool to get up on TV and be against war and stuff, but nimrods saying, “This war needs to end as soon as possible.” HEY SHITHEELS, THE WAR HASN’T EVEN STARTED YET, NEVER OPEN YOUR MOUTHS IN PUBLIC AGAIN.

Obviously we’re on the verge of a new Limp Shitskit record, cause the “English language revolutionist”, Fred Durst went on Howard Stern and told the world something that we already knew… that he banged that coke slut Brittney Spears and that she’s got a hairy burger. He also spewed some Neanderthal like lyrics from his upcoming album that went like this: “I have 20 eyes in my head/ Cause I’m a Misfit” and on a separate song “3….2….1 Errrrrghhh, Here we go again/Right now, let’s go/Me and you, toe to two/So we can rock, we can roll/Here we go again/I’m addicted to crackin’ skulls when punks, start, static.” Wow, what can you say other than we’re about as excited for this record as we are for smashing our dicks with hammers, or a worldwide Ebola spread. Those lyrics read like a “slow” drooling 12 year old’s poetry would after sitting through WWF Raw. If you want to go visit fat Fred and see for yourself the fucking disaster of a record that will undoubtedly be the new Limp Bizkit, head down to Sound Track Studios in New York on 936 Broadway. Bring rocks… make sure they’re heavy. Oh, and you might as well give them a call over there and see if you can get Freddy on the horn. (212) 420-6010.

Oh, and if you haven’t heard the new Limp Bizkit song, which they’ve posted on their website as a preview to the new album, you’re missing some of the funniest shit ever. THIS IS THE WORST SONG IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Click here.

And more Fred Durst… did anybody see this dickhole wearing a Minor Threat shirt at the press conference announcing the upcoming Metallica / Limp Bizkit / Linkin Park / Deftones tour? POSER. They should throw Great White on that tour too and we could all cross our fingers hoping lighting strikes twice. Click here.

Tickets for that Summer Sanitarium bullshit are selling about as fast as thong bathing suits at a fat camp in Alaska. Seems like the people running this mess are getting a bit scared that the whole thing might turn into a disaster. We’re thinking that the whole thing is a clusterfuck, sold out shows or not. NEVER, in the history of human kind will that many people with borderline drooling retard IQ level be in the same place at the same time.

Speaking of Great White, The Icarus Line have hired their tour manager for their upcoming tour with Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs signed to Interscope for 14.7 kajillion dollars.

Read a Shat interview here.

Somebody told us that the new System of a Down video was done by none other than Micheal Moore (Bowling for Columbine). Tom ran to get lube and tissues when he heard that.

Don’t let all those magazines fool you with their high gloss dick sucking cover stories on these fucking lame ass bands: Thursday, Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Glassjaw, The Movielife etc. etc. etc. All are total fruitcake shit. Nobody wants to listen to your suburban white ass cry and moan over how your girlfriend’s a whore cause she broke your heart and how you have feelings that some sort of mythical person is trying to “take away”. WRITE THAT SHIT IN YOUR DIARY and start strumming acoustic guitar at the local coffee shop with the hippies and other dipshits who label themselves “artists”, and leave the rest of us alone. We’d rather listen to Aaron dump out his bowels than your sappy fucking middle school ramblings on some girl that dumped your dumb ass after she realized what a big fucking bed wetter you are.

Tomahawk has a new record coming out on May 6th called “Mit Gas” on Ipecac, which will be preceded by a tour with the Melvins
April 28th San Diego, CA – Cane’s

Our good buddy, Dimitri, the original singer of Dillinger Escape Plan, has a new band. They are called Tokyo, and you should check it out. It’s Dimitri and some other dudes who were in a band called Knives Out. They are playing some shows in the tri-state area soon, so make sure to keep your eyes peeled for that.

Snapcase got into a fight in Europe with some crazy fucking Russian dudes. We’re not sure what they were fighting over, but the drummer got kicked in the face and the tour manager got his jaw broken.

Ex Janes Addition bass player, Eric Avery, tried out for Metallica, Twiggy also tried out for Metallica, but they didn’t like him cos he didn’t have any eyebrows. He’s joined A Perfect Circle instead, replacing that Paz chick who’s in Zwan now. Danny Lohner of Nine Inch Nails has also joined the group, replacing Troy who is now in Queens of The Stoneage full time.

In more summer concert news, Lollapalooza is back. The big surprise is that it will include Janes Addiction, Audioslave, etc etc. Oh, don’t forget the token positive hip hop group they always gotta have… oh look, Jurrasic 5. I guess it could be worse… at least some kids might check this out instead of the Warped Tour this year.

In more “festival” news, the lineup for Coachella has been announced. Oh killer… can’t wait to see Blue Man Group both days… NOT.

Those mall punk kids from Good Charlotte are starting a record label with Goldfinger singer John Feldmann. Great, just what we need, another label signing more pop mall punk bands…

Call Mark McGrath and tell him how cool you think it is that he brings his dad out on tour so they can hook up with chicks together, all the while, his girlfriend and mom sit at home alone. (310) 572-5821

The Starlite Desperation is back together.

The Atari’s have once again seemed to have forged their identity based on the fact that they don’t have one. Dude… dressing up like you’re in The Icarus Line in your video… what are you smoking? More like, what’s your bass player eating….

Kelly Osbourne and Bertie from The Used broke up and we heard Bert is hitting the bottle pretty hard cuz he misses his little chunky monkey… our hearts go out to him. Keep ya head up champ!

Oh and in case you didn’t notice, there’s some new record reviews up. You can read about the new White Stripes album and a bunch of others there. It’s kinda confusing… new ones are under old ones in some places… just scroll around, you’ll get the idea.

Sexual Ryan’s old emo band, Spitfirevolver, broke up, and he wants to start a new punk band. He just needs to buy an Ampeg bass head first… y’know, with tubes and stuff. If you have one you wanna sell, and like… support the scene, email is ass at: Nlsonmntz@aol.com … tell him if he uses it for emo again though, there’s NO DEAL.

It’s about that time again. Time to travel to the asshole of our country, Texas, to see a bunch of bands play, drink a bunch of free drinks, eat a bunch of free food, and watch industry slimeballs suck the dicks of promising bands. Oh it’s gonna be a blast. This year all of Buddyhead’s active bands will be playing, yep, even SHAT.
The Icarus Line: Friday, March 14 La Zona Rosa 11:00 p.m.
Shat: Saturday, March 15 Fox and Hound 12:00 a.m.
Your Enemies Friends: Saturday, March 15 Fox and Hound 1:00 a.m.
Radio Vago: Saturday, March 15 Privilege 8:00 p.m.

Blur is playing their first show with their new guitar player, that dude from The Verve, at South by Southwest this year too. Boo yah.

Turbonegro’s newest album “Scandinavian Leather” is in the can, and should be out by summer. Awesome. Equally as awesome is that they are touring the U.S. with Queens of the Stoneage. Bomb.

QOTSA/Turbonegro (more dates to follow):
3/13/2003 House of Blues New Orleans, LA
3/14/2003 New Daisy Theater Memphis, TN
3/15/2003 40 Watt Club Athens, GA
3/17/2003 The Marquee Theater Jacksonville, FL
3/18/2003 Culture Room Ft. Lauderdale
3/19/2003 Twlight Tampa, FL
3/21/2003 Hard Rock Live Orlando, FL
3/22/2003 House of Blues North Myrtle Beach , SC
3/23/2003 Lincoln Theatre Raleigh, NC
3/24/2003 Norva Theatre Norfolk, VA
3/26/2003 Webster Theatre Hartford, CT
3/27/2003 The Vanderbuilt Painview, NY
3/28/2003 Birch Hill Nightclub Old Bridge, NJ
3/29 – 3/31 will be added later

Courtney Love got naked again. Check out the burger.
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Gwen Stefani is gonna “drop” a hip-hop solo album, and her label Interscope just dropped The Briefs. We’re not sure what it is but we think there’s some sort of connection there.

We’re giving away three Foundation “pop Tops” skateboards. To enter send an email to us at buddyhead@buddyhead.com telling us why you should win. MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR ADDRESS AND FULL NAME. Click here to view the deck yo.

Call Joe Millionaire and tell him he blew it by not picking the chick who sucked him off and likes to get tied up and shit: 913 706 9269 (His real name is Evan Marriot)

Bill Hicks was one cool motherfucker! Click here.

Patty from Hole is now playing drums for Juilette Lewis’s band. She must have a thing for backing up actresses.

The Dwarves are pissed. Check this out from The Dwarves mailing list, people need to know about this kind of stuff:

“To all of you who bought tickets to the Shakedown and were disappointed at our cancellation, here is the reason for it.

The promoter of the show Ralph Carrera oversold his venues substantially, leaving many ticket holders out in the cold and unable to attend the shows they had paid for. He also failed to secure a stable venue for his festival. LA fire and police departments were called because of his irresponsibility, and refunds were promised by him, but we don’t feel he will honor them.

This guy’s own greed caused him to oversell the venues, he was still selling tickets the day of the show, knowing he was way over capacity.
We won’t play for a promoter who cheats people out of their money. We rarely cancel shows, but this clown wanted us and all of the other
bands to play so that he wouldn’t have to give refunds to the people who made it into the show, when hundreds of other people couldn’t even get in the door.

His aftershow spin is bullshit. He cheated the ticket holders, the bands he booked and even his own staff. We suggest haranguing him for a refund, or just beating his silly ass so that he stops promoting shows once and for all. He can be reached at Ralph Carrera 909-355-5823 / CELL 909-229-8939

To all of our fans, we regret the cancellation and we will be appearing all over the US over the next year. Thanks for listening.
DWARVES 2/03”

Oh boy, more reality shows. In case you haven’t heard by now, mtv is doing another reality show on the ex-members of Guns n Roses. That’s right… Slash, Duff, Izzy, Matt… all the dudes. They still don’t have a singer, so maybe that will make things even more interesting.

Also on the reunion tip, it looks like Youth Of Today is getting back AGAIN, to make sure we are all definitely sure how goofy and irrelevant straight edge hardcore really was.
YOUTH OF TODAY
6 / 27 Kontich – Lintfabriek (Belgium)
6 / 28 Nantes – HC Superbowl (France)
7 / 5 Roitschjora – With Full Force Festival (Germany)

Looks like Mike Ness has a little lawsuit on his hands. At a recent Social Distortion show, the singer took it upon himself to deal with somebody in the crowd being an asshole. Mike was giving his opinion on some recent events from the stage, and about how, “a lot of things must change in our world today, starting with our fuck up of a president.” At that point, somebody in the crowd picked up the mic to say, “Mike, I think you’re cool, and I like you a lot, but if you ever say anything about our president again, I’ll light you up.” At that point Mike took off his guitar, jumped into the crowd, and started punching. After the show, the kid, bleeding from his nose with a fat lip, filed a report to the police. The funny part is, the band was taping the show for a dvd they are planning to put out, so it’s all on tape.

Burning Brides are on tour with Audioslave
Fri 02/28/03 Detroit, MI State Theatre
Sat 03/01/03 Toronto, ON Kool Haus (formerly Warehouse)
Mon 03/03/03 Boston, MA Avalon
Tue 03/04/03 Boston, MA Avalon
Thu 03/06/03 New York, NY Hammerstein Ballroom
Fri 03/07/03 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
Sun 03/09/03 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
Tue 03/11/03 Austin, TX Austin Music Hall
Wed 03/12/03 Dallas, TX Bronco Bowl
Fri 03/14/03 Mesa, AZ Mesa Amphitheatre
Sat 03/15/03 Las Vegas, NV Hard Rock Hotel – The Joint
Mon 03/17/03 Hollywood, CA Hollywood Palladium
Wed 03/19/03 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
Thu 03/20/03 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
Sat 03/22/03 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre

The Cure signed to Ross Robinson’s label. Weak.

THIS WEDNESDAY IN LOS ANGELES “FUCK THE SCENE” WITH DIRTY LITTLE SECRET @ THE THREE OF CLUBS
This week’s musical guest is Dirty Little Secret (www.dirtylittlesecret.biz). And as if that wasn’t enough to get you to come out, it’s FREE to get in and they have $3 beers! You can’t beat that. The 3 of Clubs is in Hollywood on the corner of Santa Monica and Vine. Also this week, Travis Keller and Joe Cardamone will be spinning the most smashing and crashing sounds that will leave your senses dull. We’ll be playing everything from The Jesus Lizard to Jesus and Mary Chain and then some.