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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Har Mar got dropped. Surprise.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anyone seen Kool Keith lately?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finch fucking sucks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Speaking of Vincent Gallo… GLASSJAW FUCKING SUCKS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shane from Playing Enemy is in love with Alex Newport.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Graham Coxon quit Blur.

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

Rivers Cuomo is in party mode.

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

Axl Rose is totally tripping!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The McRib is back… still.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Burger King has two tacos for .99.

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

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

Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult’s 1980 Concert Film “Black & Blue” will finally be released on DVD on October 8th, 2002. ‘Black & Blue’ has never been issued on home video at all until now. This 80-minute cult film has managed to avoid being widely bootlegged. Yes it is the Duo era, but the film was produced by the late George Harrison so that kind of makes up for the lack of Ozzy. Plus you know they put “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” on there, so that alone is worth watching this film. Haha.
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Sub Pop is selling some hot new shirts for The Catheters, check it! Fashion bands always have the best shirt models.

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

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

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

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

The Warped Tour is funding the Taliban.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12/07 Middle East, Boston, MA (with Cave In)
12/08 Lancaster, PA the Sex Caldron (Without Cave in)
12/09 Indianapolis, IN Emerson Theatre (Without Cave in)
12/10 Memphis, TN Map Room (Without Cave in)
12/11 Ft Worth, TX Wreck Room (Without Cave in)
12/12 Austin, TX Emo’s (Without Cave in)
12/13 Lubbock, TX Campus CDs (Without Cave in)
12/14 El Paso, TX E9 (Without Cave in)
12/15 Phoenix, AZ Nile Basement (Without Cave in)

In the “as-if-anyone-still-cares” category, Dag Nasty is going to be heading into an unnamed recording studio in early January 2002 for a reunion CD on a “relatively well-known independent label.” Hmmm…. Maybe Epitaph? Brian will be writing the songs and Dave Smalley will sing. They won’t tour.

The Neptunes band N*E*R*D played their first LA show ever at the Viper Room about a month ago… yeah we’re slow these days. Pharell was missing his voice so him and his fellow N.E.R.D.s only played 5 songs. Everlast’s fat ass was there and so was B-real from Cypress Hill. At first we were kinda bummed we missed it (you know, tour), but from the sound of things it look likes this newly recorded version of their album and a beer in Ohio was just about as good.

The new Radiohead live EP is out. Get it.

The new Spiritualized is better than water. Buy it.

Anyone that has some server space for our mp3s should email us. Our last one died or something.

Sunny Day Real Estate’s Dan Hoerner sold his soul so that he could officially join the soulless organization known as Dashboard Confessional. We’re sure they will be touring the Midwest real soon and finally resting for eternity in the burning pits of hell.

There’s a rumor floating around that Rocket From The Crypt might break up. We also heard that horn dude who quit Reel Big Fish is joining the band. We’re hoping that neither one is true. Unless of course either one means that somehow we get a new Hot Snakes album.

If you like hip hop check out the new Dilated Peoples record.

Supposedly at Lucy’s (135 Avenue A – between St. Marks and Ninth – New York City) they have The Icarus Line’s “Feed A Cat To Your Cobra” on their eclectic jukebox. Someone confirm this.

Amoeba is the best thing to happen to L.A. since… well, ever.

Our messageboard is back up. Thanks Justin for hosting it. Click here to nerd out.

Chicks dig Buddyhead…

We got these little presents from Jen (check out her website at http://www.jensex.com) the other day. Here’s Jen showing just how much she loves Buddyhead. Jen is super bomb as you can see. She’s even been on our radio show (which we haven’t been doing the last couple weeks, sorry) and let Jessie Turner interview her. Anyhow, check out her site, and if you like what you see, join it.

(Click on the photo above to check out the whole gallery)

Stop emailing us about The Casualties banner… we know they suck.

Buy those Makato Split 7 inches, they are bomb. Click here.

In silly skateboard news, New Deal was set to release their new video “7 year glitch” until they heard the Flip video was gonna blow it out of the water, so now they are refilming and telling their skaters to get better. They should tell them to get accents too.

Tum Yeto has a new skateboard company that Kris Markovich is running called Hollywood, the ads have cocaine in them. Which is pretty bomb. (Now take one out on our site).

Scott Bourne said fuck you to all the american companies that wanted to sponsor him after he said fuck you to consolidated. He now rides for Death skateboards out of London and has a board coming out called “living just to die” He’s bomb. Read our interview with him, click here.

Fuck man… Jay Z plead guilty for stabbing someone and he only got 3 years probation. Hmmm… who should we stab first?

Saves The Day are currently in Los Angeles filming for a new music video, it’s being shot by Rich Egan’s sister (she also did the Alkaline trio video for “Stupid Kid” that nobody ever saw). Also look for the STD commercial on M2 featuring Jeremy’s photos. Jeremy’s like famous.

Andrew Reynolds knocked some teeth out on a bench, little kids in hollywood steal his shoe laces off handrails and sell them on ebay. We’ve seen em.

Travis got qouted in the Makeout Club Dot Com article from the last issue of Spin with those boring fucks Icubus (WE DON’T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOUR MOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! DORK!) on the cover. Bomb. Click on the quote for the full article.

The Brea skatepark outside L.A. is closed and getting replaced with a useless patch of land. Bummer.

Lord of the Rings looks to be amazing, it premieres in London a couple weeks (dec.10th) before it opens in the states. We heard Shelby from Frodus is rasing money right now to buy us all plane tickets.

Seth from Status told us he likes Kid Rock a lot. Like he has a poster and shit. Weird right? Well, we promised not to tell anybody, but you know how we feel about lying. Seth also told us that Sharks Keep Moving have some updated tour dates. Looks like a show over at Koos Cafe was added, that’s a good thing cuz we’re sure they’ll have fun playing to house full of ugly white kids with staring problems. When SKM gets to LA, they better have some drugs on them for us to smoke or they are all getting wedgies. True dat.
Sharks Keep Moving
11.03.01 Portland, OR @ Meow Meow. w/ Atombombpocketknife.
11.04.01 San Francisco, CA @ Kimos.
11.05.01 Goleta, CA @ The Living Room. w/ Countervail, Transistor Legion.
11.06.01 Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell. w/ Transistor Legion.
11.07.01 Las Vegas, NV @ Tremors.
11.08.01 Day Off. (i.e. DRUGS)
11.09.01 Santa Ana, CA @ Koos Cafe. w/ Bullet Train To Vegas, Transistor Legion.
11.10.01 Santa Rosa, CA @ Jesse Jean’s Coffee Beans.
11.11.01 Bellingham, WA @ The College. w/ Pinback, Boilermaker.

On Thursday October 18th, while the hordes of Hollywood’s “industry insiders” and trend chasing star fuckers were busy jerking themselves and everybody else off at the Strokes show in L.A., a new band that actually is exciting and important played their first show just down the freeway in Anaheim. The crowd for the first ever The Mars Volta show (the group is Omar and Cedric from At the Drive-In’s new rock band) didn’t include celebrities and the Hollywood elite. Winona Ryder was not in the house stumbling around and looking for a new boyfriend. The audience actually consisted mainly of a bunch of kids who were there to see the other bands, and had no idea they were witnessing The Mars Volta playing to an audience for the first time ever. The rest of the crowd was rounded out by a few others who had been tipped off about the “secret” show, in which the band member’s other band, Defacto, had been advertised to play. Buddyhead was in the house, and we can testify to the bomb-ness. Photos of that night will be up soon. So will a couple mp3s from their demo and a website (Buddyhead is working on it as you read this). Catch them on tour with that shitty wuss rock band right now.

Sparta, the group in which the other remaining members of At the Drive-In have started, has signed to Dreamworks. The group will likely be re-recording many of the songs off their demo that’s been floating around (three of the tracks you can find here), and deliver an album sometime next year. The dude who signed Papa Roach and Alien Ant Farm signed the group, so if we’re lucky they might all start bro-ing down with each other and set up some sort of summer tour package with all of them involved. Bomb.

Fred Durst has been trying to get the weirdo from Big Stupid Head, or whatever his other band is called, to sign a legal document agreeing he won’t talk about any personal related stuff involving his time in Limp Bizkit. Freddy doesn’t want the kids to know he was busy porking the guitar player’s girl. Why don’t you call Fred up at work (310.865.7671) and ask him if he’s still hittin’ that shit now that he’s “turning a new leaf”. Make sure to mention that Buddyhead sent you. He’ll give you the special treatment if he knows you’re with us.

If you live in L.A., your ass better be at the Troubadour on November 2nd. Not only will Cave In and The Icarus Line be playing one of their first shows on tour together, but Buddyhead’s very own THE REVOLUTION SMILE will also be rocking the house and representing. There haven’t been this many good bands playing the Troub in one night since… well, ever. So don’t fuck this up. Iann Robbinson recently gave the tour and Buddyhead props a few days ago on MTV2 news, even though none of us wear masks. Thanks brah.

The hot gossip on the emo streets (not that we hang out there… we have a friend who does) is that Brett Detar from the Juliana Theory is causing some headaches over at his former label, Tooth & Nail. It seems ol’ Brett convinced a girlfriend of one of the God-fearing Christian staff at the label, that his cock was one of those “Jesus Crackers” that you get at communion. Yeah, some dork’s girlfriend got lanced by the dude with the Bobby Brown headset. Emo dick up in her mouthpiece. BOOM. That’s what you dudes get for putting out records like you do. Hate to say we told ya so.

Speaking of the Juliana Theory, on October 23, they’ll be releasing another pile of shit for their 14-year-olds with emotional problems fanbase. It’ll be entitled… uh… fuck. Whatever. Who really gives a shit? It’s going to be fucking horrible, and the only person with an IQ above 4 who’s waiting for it is Aaron Icarus, and he’s just waiting for it so that he has something to blame his long overdue murdering spree that’s just waiting to happen on.

Those glam-queen new wave dorks (no, we’re not talking about The Faint, we’re talking about their major label counterparts), Orgy are going to be releasing a DVD in a few months. It will feature live footage, all of their music videos (including that New Order cover that they butchered and got big off of), and a step by step process of them putting on all their make up and wigs. Now The Faint just have to figure out what New Order song they are gonna get big off of. There’s a lot to choose from guys, don’t stress out.

Speaking of fashion rock, The Strokes new video is now all over MTV. In the video they are playing live on a retro TV set (who would have guessed?). They are all styled perfectly (as if they are preparing for their celebrity spot with the Harlem Globetrotters on Scooby Doo), the guitar player has his guitar so high we can’t believe he can still breath, and the singer looks down right bored (much like he looked during most of the movie BIG). The same girl who was born into filmmaking and made that shitty flick about Kirsten Dunst killing herself made their video. Which seems fitting cuz the Strokes were born into the fashion world, money, and child acting, which in turn landed them a record deal. Some things just work out.

Oasis guitarist/songwriter, Noel Gallagher, pulled the release of their new single and delayed the release of the album, because “Liam has been doing nothing for the last three-and-a-half months, but chasing girls and concentrating on his drinking habit.” Bomb, sounds like what happens at Buddyhead all year round. We should all probably party together. The question is, will we have a new issue out before Oasis puts a new record out?

Nothing to do this Wednesday night in Hollywood? Stop by the Beauty Bar from 10pm-2am, have a few drinks, and listen to Travis and Joe (from The Icarus Line) play some records. It’s gonna be bomb bro.

Now, this one is a little hard to swallow, so make sure you are sitting down. Tavis quit Reel Big Fish! We know, we know. SKA WILL NEVER BE THE SAME! Tavis played trumpet in “The Fish” for the last eight years (not to mention performing with other bands like Green Day, and studio sessions with Weird Al Yankovic and the Bloodhound Gang). He quit following a bitchin’ gig in Green Bay, Wisconsin (where people still seem to like ska, go figure). Their official site says, “horse play on the tour bus led to a confrontation with another band member. Tavis has yet to decide whether or not he will quit the music industry entirely, and the rest of the band is not sure if he will be replaced as the decision came right in the middle of their current tour”. The part that leaves us with our mouths wide open is that Reel Big Fish just got signed to Jive Records!?! Did someone forget to give the dudes over at Jive the memo on no one giving a flying fuck about ska? Send Tavis an email at Tavis@reel-big-fish.com and tell him that Buddyhead says “NOT TO GIVE UP ON SKA BRO!”

The Buddyhead store has stuff you want to buy. Click here. Do it or lose it.

Carrot Top, you know the “comedian” that always invents shit cuz he couldn’t tell a joke to save his life and does those annoying as fuck 1-800-collect commercials, needs to die. Anyone that brings us the head of Carrot Top gets a free Buddyhead T-shirt and a double high five from Aaron Icarus.

Drowningman is looking for a bassist. Candidates should be able say yes to the following questions: Can you drink a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon in less than 30 minutes? Do you know the best places to find hookers in major cities? Can you suck a golf ball through a garden hose? Do you have funny sideburns like Simon? If you want in (and chances are if you are reading this you don’t have much of a life, so being in a band might be kinda bomb for you), email Simon at SimonBrody@aol.com. Hey Brody, we think Jeff Wood may be available, give him a ring (973) 879-5165

The best record of 2002 is supposedly in the works. On March 5 2002, D3 Entertainment will release “The Trials and Tribulations of Russell Jones”. Yes a NEW O.D.B. RECORD. The tracks were done when the Dirt Dog was on the run from the cops. We’re so positive that this is going to be amazing, our boners have started already. Adding to the already great news is word from Dirty’s lawyer that “if all goes well Mr. Jones (ODB) may be released by the time Trials and Tribulations hits shelves, possibly via a work-release
program or other options.” FREE ODB!

In other Wu Tang news, The new Wu album is supposed to be out on December 18th of this year, or so RZA said. Hey RZA, we don’t care when it comes out, just make sure this one doesn’t blow goats like the last one. Ok? Bomb.

In even more Wu Tang news, Ghostface Killa will have his new record, “Bulletproof Wallets”, out in stores on November 13. Hey Ghostface, this one better be a little more kick ass than that one you put out last year, Supreme Clientele or whatever, which was pretty boring besides that weird song about Mariah Carey’s Ex-husband.

AFI will be opening for Jane’s Addiction on October 26 at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Moutainview, Ca. KROQ has also been playing their single “Days of the Phoenix” and they are all dolled up in the new AP. Aaron whacks it to that AP every night.

KROQ is also already “Chasing The Wild Goose” and playing the new Bad Religion song, “Sorrow”. The new album called “Process Of Belief” will be out in January on Epitaph. It prolly won’t be as good as “Into The Unknown”, but then again it prolly won’t have Keyboards on it either.

Scott Litt (Nirvana, REM, The Replacements) is gonna try and make the Get Up Kids sound like a real band. He’ll be producing their new album starting in January. In the meantime, Vagrant is putting out an album of “rare, out of print, and compilation tracks” called “Outlook Express”. All those fat girls and geeky dudes who have been waiting and waiting for the new GUK tracks will be somewhat satisfied on November 13th when that puppy hits stores. Sometime around next summer, Doghouse will re-master it, give it new artwork, and put it out as a new release.

The Deviates are back in the studio writing a new album of Pennywise covers. Hey dudes, do the bro song one, it’ll be bomb.

Snoop Dogg got busted in Ohio for having 200 grams of weed on his tour bus while being stopped on a speeding violation. About time. The only thing is, Tom A. says he’s gonna freak out and kill some pigs if Snoop goes to jail and a sequel to his new movie “Bones” is delayed.

Seeing as how the drummer left Saves the Day so he could learn and bang college girls, the other dudes in the band somehow tricked a guy from “Hey Mercedes” to fill in for him. Even with the dude from the not-braid band, their fan base remains 14 -year olds with mad zits.

The guitarist from Linkin Park freaked out like a 6-year-old girl and kicked a metal door breaking his foot. Unfortunately this hasn’t caused the band to miss any performances.

Speaking of old, GBH (you know, Great Big Haircuts) just signed to Go Kart Records. Yes, that GBH. They will have a new album out early next year. If the kids sitting on Hollywood Blvd had computers and could read this, we’re pretty sure they’d be real stoked.

Jane Magazine gets all their gossip from us. Busted! Put us in your magazine somewhere (that means either interview us or give us a monthly column on makeup or something) and we won’t tell Jeff Wood you stole from Buddyhead.

Spacemen 3 are gonna tour? Well, not really. Jason Pierce won’t be on this tour, he’ll be out kicking ass in his “new” band, Spiritualized (you might have heard of them). But seeing as how, Pete Kember, doesn’t have shit to do (he’s not in Spiritualized), he’s put a band together so he can rehash those old Spacemen tunes and cash in. Don’t get us wrong, we’re gonna take drugs and go to the show. The band is made up of Spacemen 3 bassist Will Carruthers, Rick Maymi (ex-BJM, Smallstone), and Cliff Magreta (Belle Isle, ex-Tyde, Smallstone, Warlocks, Lilys). It’ll be a one-time American tour, billed as Sonic Boom and Spectrum in a Tribute to Spacemen 3.

Ok, so we were wrong about those two new Misfits cd’s that are coming out on Oct 30th. They don’t have Danzig on them; therefore they will be un-bomb. It’ll prolly have the Hulkster singing or something. Totally un-bomb. The new Misfits can eat our dizzzicks. Like anybody gives a flying buttfuck about outtakes from the new Misfits.

Oh, and thank fucking god we were wrong about that Strung Out covering Radiohead’s “Ok Computer”. It’s actually an orchestral arrangement of the record. Which is still pretty wack and unnecessary, but at the same time, it’s a lot better than some old dudes in vans and “board-shorts” playing Radiohead songs on their hockey stick guitars. Those old dudes are apparently recording a new record for Fat Wreck Chords right now, which will be titled “American Paradox”. We’re just glad they kicked out that fat hippy they had playing bass. He was a bummer. Major bummer.

Ja Rule, you know the rapper who “sings” even though he can’t do it in tune, is going to be in a movie with Steven Seagal. They’ll be playing lovers in the year’s best “romance” movie. Ehhhhh mmmmk.

That band on Initial, the White Octave, is breaking up, and we doubt anyone gives a shit. Who the fuck is the White Octave again?

Speaking of Initial, how come we never got a promo copy of that Black Flag tribute comp they put out without a single band from L.A. on it? Andy, send it over brah!

Nofx is releasing a double cd of rarities. So if those 18 or so albums about skateboarding with the same fuckin drum beat just aren’t enough, run out and buy it bro!

Sean Ingram likes Nofx and Sum 41. He told us. Sean’s off the team.

Famous people give Blonde Redhead the stamp of approval, Ed Templeton and Giovanni Ribisi were in the (glass)house for their show this week. Must be the Gap commercial they did.

Fat Mike’s other label; Pink and Black just signed some new band called The Flipsides. We didn’t have the patience to download their mp3s, so we have no idea if they suck or just kinda suck, but the girl in the band looks pretty bomb. So hey, yeah maybe all the other Fat bands are filled with fat dudes who play the same song and drumbeat over and over, but this band is probably playing the same song and drumbeat over and over but with a hot chick in the band. BONUS! Click here.

Brett Scallions from that shitty “older brother with leather pants” band, Fuel, is drilling Rebecca Rankin from VH1. They like to hit the nose candy and talk about their TV appearances together. Ahh, what a meaningful relationship.

The new Le Tigre album is totally bomb.

Speaking of totally bomb, do yourself a favor and pick up the new Fugazi full length and 7″. Both are the best musical purchases you’ll make all year.

Speaking of un-bomb, that pseudo emo girl, Rachel (from The Real World) needs to get slapped around with some large, raw, sea animals.

Boom records (which is pretty close to Bomb records) is putting out another Stooges bootleg. Someone over there needs to send us all the Stooges shit you guys have put out. We need to hear it and we’re not gonna buy em. Yeah, Boom is putting out “Iggy & The Stooges – Wild Love”. It’s a jam session, where the Stooges mess around with songs by Bo Diddley, Bob Dylan, Cream, and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, play the beginnings of songs that never went any further, like “Old King Live Forever”, “I Come From Nowhere” or “Wild Love”, and play some very impromptu jams such as “Move Ass Baby” and a James Williamson solo. Aaron has a rock hard boner. The tracklisting is:
1. Wild Love
2. Pin Point Eyes
3. Hey Baby
4. I Come From Nowhere
5. I’m So Glad
6. Ballad of Hollis Brown
7. Delta Blues Shuffle
8. Old King Live Forever
9. Look So Sweet
10. Mellow Down Easy
11. I’m a Man
12. Move Ass Baby
13. Til the End of the Night

Kid Rock has a new 14-song album coming out called Cocky. From the looks of the track listing below, it’ll prolly be about how he’s white trash, likes country music, nails strippers, and is rich. We’re hoping there’s gonna be another ballad where he uses the Cher voice (you know the same one that old dude with the funny hair in The Faint uses on like EVERY FUCKING SONG… change it up bro). Cept, only this time Kid sings about his dead midget. That would be bomb. No one has ever sung about their dead midget.
Tracklisting for “Cocky”:
“Forever”
“Trucker Anthem”
“Lay It on Me”
“Cocky”
“What I Learned Out on the Road”
“I’m Wrong, But You Ain’t Right”
“Baby Come Home”
“You Never Met a Motherfucker Quite Like Me”
“Picture” (featuring Sheryl Crow)
“I’m a Dog”
“Midnight Train to Memphis”
“Lonely Road of Faith”
“WCSR” (featuring Snoop Dogg)
“Drunk in the Morning”

Scoob tour 2001. The Warlocks are venturing out of Silverlake (where most scoobs wouldn’t dare), but don’t worry, they aren’t going alone. They’ll be opening for the BRMC. So feather your hair, put on your brady bunch clothes, jump in your mystery machine, and head to the show so you can listen to the
boring rock! We don’t have the dates, but if you want to find em, you could prolly find em on www.scoobydoo.com

Sharks Keep Moving are going on a short west coast tour. They also have a new e.p. out called “Pause & Clause” on Status Records. Seth, send us a copy bro! Anyhow, they hardly tour, so make sure you catch them this time and yell Blood Brother songs at them.
11.03.01 Portland, OR @ Meow Meow. w/ Atombombpocketknife.
11.04.01 San Francisco, CA @ Kimos.
11.05.01 Goleta, CA @ The Living Room. w/ Countervail, Respira, Transistor Legion.
11.06.01 Los Angeles, CA @ The Smell.
11.07.01 Las Vegas, NV @ Tremors.
11.08.01 Santa Ana, CA @ Koos Cafe. w/ Bullet Train To Vegas, Monument To Masses.
11.09.01 San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe. (not confirmed)
11.10.01 Santa Rosa, CA @ TBA.
11.11.01 Bellingham, WA @ The College. w/ Pinback, Boilermaker

Call Corey Feldman at (310) 497-7625 and ask him when that fuckin Goonies sequel is coming out.

Not sure what to put on your Christmas list? Check out these Limp Bizkit action figures! Since when do the guys in Limp Bizkit have spock haircuts? Click here,

If you read this far, it means you really like Buddyhead. If you really like Buddyhead, you should really buy shit in our store. Click here.

The Pietasters didn’t get the memo about them not being Rocket from the Crypt.

Chad Ginsburg from CKY told us that his new favorite band is Pressure 4-5. He said he just can’t stop listening to the cd since his band played with them and that he hopes they get to tour with them and Alien Insect Barn or that kickass band Saliva!

Slash, Duff, and Izzy still aren’t back in Guns N’ Roses. Bummer.

Cave In and The Icarus Line are hitting the road together for well over a month on a full U.S. tour together… hide the painkillers, booze, and Rush bootlegs, nobody is safe. The tour starts on November 1st in San Diego CA, and ends in December in some truckstop town in Vermont or something. Should be bomb weather up there brah. Here are the tentative dates, we’ll post the rest as soon as we gets em.
11/1 SD, CA @ Epicentre
11/2 LA, CA @ Troubadour
11/3 Santa Barbara, CA @ Coach House
11/4 SF, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
11/5 Portland, OR @ Meow Meow
11/6 Seattle, WA @ Paradox
11/7 Missoula, MT @ Elks Lodge
11/8 SLC, UT @ DV8 Basement
11/9 Boulder, CO @ Tulagis
11/10 Lawrence, KS @ Bottleneck
11/11 Mnpls, MN @ 7th st Entry
11/12 Chicago, IL @ Fireside
11/13 Milwaukee WI @ Rave Bar
11/14 Grand Rapids, MI @ Intersection
11/15 Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
11/16 Cleveland Oh @ Grog Shop
11/17 Cincinnati @ Top Cat
11/21 Little Rock, AK @ Vinos
11/24 Tallahassee @ Cow Houas
11/27 Chapel Hill, NC @ Cats Cradle

So the dude who wears the makeup and goofy costumes in that Limp Bizkit band has quit. Seems like he wasn’t too happy with the fact that Freddy decided it would be fun to fuck the dude’s wife. Freddy… c’mon dude, we all know there’s no homey hopping… party foul bro. No word yet on whether Wes will continue with his other band that is actually even more annoying than Limp Bizkit, Big Stupid Face or whatever the hell it’s called. Props though for stepping away from the antichrist in the form of a band, ten bucks Axl asks Wes to be in Guns N’ Roses. No word yet on who will replace him, maybe Buckethead? Think about it Freddy, he wears chicken buckets on his head, you like to stuff your fat face with chicken… could be love at first site. Just don’t eat him.

Add these people to the list of those that will burn in hell: P. Diddy (I think he was already on there), Timbaland, Method Man, DJ Premier, Bubba Sparxxx, Eve, DJ Lethal (he was there a few times too), The Neptunes, and William Orbit. The above-mentioned are all part of the new Limp Bizkit remix album. Say it ain’t so Pharell!!! The Neptunes remix “I did it all for the nookie”?!?!?! What the fuck? Timbaland remixes the mission impossible song and P. Diddy is prolly talking in the background of all the songs so he gets paid more. Fred’s amazing quote about this pile of shit was “The remixes are like brand new songs.” Bomb Fred. Also in time for the holidays will be a Limp Bizkit DVD featuring home movie footage and music videos. Hopefully they include the backstage sluts footage and the rapestock (woodstock) footage right next to the statement of how Fred’s changing his tune.

The Pinehurst Kids tricked their original drummer, Robler Kind, into playing with them again. The “Kids” have used three different skin pounders since Kind left the group in 1999 so that he could have sex with his girlfriend who is a former postal worker. In the meantime Cal is busy stalking some blonde hottie in Portland who he met at a party and ran into again at a Tight Bros show. Hit that shit Cal.

Apparently the injunction TVT had against Vagrant Records, keeping them from manufacturing on projects that started under their contract with Vagrant, but were going to be pimped and fluffed by Interscope, has either been settled or expired, because the Hey Mercedes album is in production and is adhering to the original release date (By the way, bomb choice of a cover guys… someone running through a field? I think we saw that on the Saves The Day record already. And come to think of it I think those 6 post-Braid-breakup releases were more than our stomachs could handle guys, thanks, you can stop now). A couple of the other bands are all bummed because it’s coming to light that even a 4000$+/month Vagrant publicity campaign can’t cover the stink of the shit storm that currently surrounds the label. Certain bands have already made moves to sever their management deal with the label, and must certainly be bummed by realizing for example that they’ve only actually sold 20,000 records – a mere 2,000 more than they did for a previous “smaller” label. They are also likely bummed to find out Soundscaning 48,000 doesn’t mean you actually sold 48,000. We won’t even get into the Soundscan fraud stuff Vagrant is guilty of. But we guess that’s what big time “punk rock” managers are supposed to do huh? It doesn’t help that a certain band has to recoup an estimated 100 grand that Vagrant spent trying to turn them into Blink 183 so far. In the meantime, Vagrant is still sniffing for a deal with a major, among the labels they are sending boxes full of their releases to is Dreamworks. Good luck dudes… better yet, good luck to all the naïve bands on your label you are fucking in the ass. At least a couple bands on the label are smart enough to realize their rectum is indeed bleeding. Perhaps we’d go a little easier on Vagrant if they not only talked the talk, but walked the walk as well. Bragging to huge corporate rock magazines about how much money you make while still being “indie” and “punk” and then deciding not to pay the people who help you sell the records is super weak.

Meanwhile in so, so, so exciting Saves the Day news, New Jersey’s most beloved Lifetime cover band fronted by a dude that still has braces are being worked into heavy rotation on KROQ. Interscope wanted to start it out in heavy rotation, but decided a “slow build” would not alienate the old “indie” fans (is that what you call girls who work at Tan Club in the mall?) and to give the “appearance” of a gradual grassroots “groundswell”. Wicked.

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This kid: ANDREW JACOBSON (from Santa Monica, CA) is muy, mega bomb. He’s a real champ. Let’s give it up for Andrew… Andrew, email us. We have something for you.

So Dillinger Escape Plan played their new show with Dio… word is that it was weird yet bomb. Shat played too. There is no doubt that that shit was life changing for those in attendance.

Bob Dylan’s son’s band kicked out their guitar player, Michael Ward. They still suck balls. Speaking of Bob Dylan… is anyone gonna get us into his show here in L.A.?

Ice Cube will be releasing his greatest hits album next month. It will include two new songs, one produced by The Neptunes. Cube’s way bomb. The tracklisting is below, wonder why Cube left off “Wicked”, “The Wrong Nigga to Fuck wit”, “AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted”, or “Black Korea”…
“The Nigga Ya Love to Hate”
“Once Upon a Time In the Projects”
“Jackin’ for Beats”
“Steady Mobbin’ ”
“My Summer Vacation”
“It Was a Good Day”
“Check Yo Self” (remix)
“You Know How We Do It”
“What Can I Do?” (remix)
“Bop Gun (One Nation)” (radio edit, featuring George Clinton)
“Bow Down”
“We Be Clubbin’”
“Pushin’ Weight”
“You Can Do It” (featuring Mack 10 & Ms. Toi)
“Hello” (featuring Dr. Dre & MC Ren)
“In the Late Night Hour”
“$100 Bill Y’all”

The Emmys got canceled. But that’s ok, The Sopranos were gonna win everything anyhow.

311 is getting sued by 7-11 for a t-shirt design where they replace the 7 with a 3… somebody else should sue those clowns for noise pollution.

Here’s what the artwork for Radiohead’s next release (“I might be wrong” – live recordings) looks like. Click here.

While we’re on the artwork tip, here’s what the cover for Bad Religion’s new one is gonna look like. Click here. It’s called the “The Process Of Belief”, it’ll be on Epitaph, Mr. Brett is back, and it’ll be out in Feb of 2002. We heard part of it, and it’s actually pretty bomb.

The Faint, you know the indie rock Orgy (aka the mainstream media’s favorite indie rock band) take pretension to whole new levels you never thought could exist. Bomb or unbelievably wack? You decide, but do it quick, they are all the rage.

Jimmy Eat World, Weezer, and Tenacious D are gearing up for a tour together soon. Tenacious D is gonna be bumming some kids out it looks like. 20 bucks says Tha D steals all of Weezer’s underage asian groupies.

Motion Man, you know the guy who rapped with Kool Keith on last year’s Kut Masta Kurt’s Masters of Illusion album, has a solo full-length coming out early next year. Keith will guest on at least one of the tracks, so you know at least one song won’t suck on the album. Check out their website for more info. http://www.threshrecs.com You can also buy your Dr. Doom T-shirts there. Pretty bomb.

Beyonce from Destiny’s Child is going to be Mike Meyer’s love interest in Austin Powers 3: Goldmember. Cross your fingers for at least a boob shot.

When the Murder City Devils played in DC a few days ago (October 10th) some interesting shit went down. Apparently, knowing that Ian Svenonious of The Make Up was at the show, Spencer decided to regale the audience with a story about Ian being a dickhead the last time he was in Seattle. Something about not being let into the Cha-Cha when it was at capacity and him yelling “do you know who I am?!” at the girl working the door. (who was the lovely Jenn Galucci, Dann’s sister) Anyhow, after the show Ian stormed backstage and tried to hand out an ass-whooping. He slapped Spencer across the face, breaking his glasses, but shit got real crazy when Nate grabbed Ian and threw him to the ground. Luckily Gabe was nowhere near the fray or Ian probably wouldn’t have survived the incident.

Zero Zero and Jade Tree are parting ways due to mutual thinking each other is sucking. This is the second band-dropping for Jade Tree, after Turing Machine, who were dropped due to the guitarist stalking/banging someone at the label’s girlfriend or something. Scandalous!

The Misfits have 2 new cd’s of old stuff coming out on October 30th? That’s what we heard, not sure what’s on it.

Pink has a new album coming out. She’s still not hot.

It was just a matter of time before hard rockers Anthrax squeezed out a few words concerning their name in light of the recent outbreaks in Florida. Here’s what they had to say…

“In light of current events, we are changing the name of the band to something more friendly, Basket Full of Puppies. Actually, just the fact that we are making jokes about our name sucks. In the twenty years we’ve been known as Anthrax, we never thought the day would come that our name would actually mean what it really means. When I learned about anthrax in my senior year biology class, I thought the name sounded ‘metal.’ Everyone in my neighborhood had a band with an ‘er’ name, like ‘Ripper’ or ‘Deceiver’ or ‘Killers’ and I wanted to be different. Anthrax sounded cool, aggressive, and nobody knew what it was. Until a few years ago most people thought we’d made it up. Even our album, Spreading The Disease was just a play on the name. We were spreading our music to the masses. Before the tragedy of September 11th the only thing scary about Anthrax was our bad hair in the ’80s and the Fistful of Metal album cover. Most people associated the name Anthrax with the band, not the germ. Now in the wake of those events, our name symbolizes fear, paranoia, and death. Suddenly our name is not so cool. To be associated with these things we are against is a strange and stressful situation. To us, and to millions of people, it is just a name. We don’t want to change the name of the band, not because it would be a pain in the ass, but because we hope that no further negative events will happen and it won’t be necessary. We hope and pray that this problem goes away quietly and we all grow old and fat together.”

The band — Scott Ian, Charlie Benante, Frank Bello, and John Bush — ended its message with “be safe” and then quipped, “P.S. If an Anthrax member gets anthrax, call Alanis Morissette. That would be ironic. Don’t you think?” Yes, we do.

Ryan Stewart from Tum Yeto told us that Training Day “is pretty bomb” and that he thought he saw Travis in the movie playing the guy who is dealing crack with Snoop Dogg on the corner. No bro.

We heard that in Ben Stiller’s new movie, Zoolander, they say “brah” at least five times. Everyone is ripping us off.

Michael Jackson will play an alien in the movie Men in Black 2. The funny part is that out of all the alien’s in the movie, he’s the only one without a costume.

Jenny Frost from the British pop trio, Atomic Kitten, keeps leaving Travis voice mails about their upcoming tour but doesn’t ever leave her number. She’s pretty bomb. Click here.

We got the new Trail of Dead album… eh… let’s just say the new Best of ODB cd is still in the player brah. Still no songs.

Ever wanted to page a midget? Well, page Paula Abdul at 800 810 1914.

Weezer didn’t play Letterman this past Wednesday due to Rivers freaking out over the people at the Letterman show not agreeing to the part of his rider about the six asian teenagers and passes to really weak Hollywood dance clubs.

Looks like Maverick is putting out a soundtrack to a videogame. BOMB GUYS. Tony Hawk 3 will be the first video game with a soundtrack. Hopefully this will sell better than Tantric or that bitch Amanda, wouldn’t want those fuckers over there to have to trade in their SUV’s. The track listing for this pile of crap is as follows:
NOFX “What’s The Matter With Parents Today?”
Sum 41 “Summer”
Alien Ant Farm “Wish”
Pennywise “Who’s On Your Side”
Drowning Pool “Follow”
Outkast “B.O.B.”
Onesidezero “New World Order”
Papa Roach “Infest”
Millencolin “Pepper”
Hometown Hero “Questions”
Pressure 4-5 “Melt Me Down”
Ozomatli “Cut Chemist Suite”
Deftones “Headup”

Speaking of Maverick… Michelle Branch, the contrived little girl whose record they spent about 4 zillion dollars on, hooked up with that fat ass Bubba Sparxxx after meeting him at a recent New York after-party.

Strung Out is remaking Radiohead’s Ok Computer? Say it ain’t so! Click here.

Pulley have a new record coming out. Did someone fart?

Sean Agnew ended up getting 50 hours of community service for that Cowpax bust of his at a rave this summer. His community service has something to do with him booking talent shows at nursing homes. Sean, Shat will play anywhere.

Grand Royal has some sales going on. Click here.

Our new store will be up in the next couple days. Keep it in your pants kids.

Can’t remember if we already said this or not, but The Vogue, that band with the one singer who sings like he’s from overseas from The Blood Brothers, changed their name to The Soiled Doves.

Sunny Day Real Estate members Jeremy Enigk and Will Goldsmith have hit the studio with their original bassist, Nate Mendel to record their new band’s album. Their new band does not have a name yet. If they want they can use the name “Baggy Spandex” courtesy of Buddyhead, free of charge.

In other Sunny Day Real Estate news, Dan Hoerner is now collaborating with the reigning king of watered-down college rock, Dashboard Confessional. Dan, yer off the team.

Speaking of bummers, Dashboard Confessional were on the Craig Killborne show the other night. We didn’t see it, but we’re betting he looked ultra cute. Rocky Votolato (Waxwing) will be heading out on tour with Dashboard Confessional before the end of the year. We get a serious case of the idiot shivers just thinking of the crowd.

The Dwarves have a new album coming out called “How to Win Friends and Influence People” which is 16 previously unreleased tracks. It’ll be out on Greedy/Reptilian on November 1st, 2001. They’re also going to be out in Australia playing a few shows and one in the city of angels.
Monday November 12 LA, CA The Troubadour
Friday November 16 Vic The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Saturday November 17 Vic The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Thursday November 22 Qld The Gabba, Brisbane
Friday November 23 NSW The Annandale Hotel, Sydney
Saturday November 24 NSW The Annandale Hotel, Sydney

Make sure to check out the Dwarves videos and the audio interview below.
Behind the Scenes of “Over You” (Approx. 6.4 MB)
HeWhoCannotBeNamed (Approx. 5.7 MB)
I Wanna Be Your Pimp (Approx. 2.7 MB)
Blag doing a phone interview with some geek.

Slash, Duff, and Izzy still aren’t back in Guns N’ Roses. Bummer.

Raft of Dead Monkeys broke up. Kids with weird haircuts are pissed.

Nardwuar is bomb. Bow down to Nardwuar.

Rahzel is now in the studio recording his new album, titled “SuperHuman”, that will be released sometime in early 2002. The mandatory hip-hop guests will include: Bootsy Collins, Everlast, The Roots, and Snoop Dogg.

Some Atlanta rock radio called 99x (www.99x.com), gave us props on the air the other day and congratulated us on dissing Fred Durst again. Hey 99x, send us money, or buy us burritos or sumpthin.

Booker from MTV2 is dating JLo’s sister. Score bro.

Sean Ingram of Coalesce has a new band called The American Spectater… actually it’s a “project”. The other members are Jessie Smith of ZAO, James Dewees of the Get up kids & Coalesce, and Don & Ryan Clark of Training for Utopia. No label yet.

Check out this old article on the Strokes, which was written before they were uber hipsters. In it they use the words “spunky” & “indomniable spirit” – wonder why those never made it into any of their Velvet Underground cover songs. Click here.

Dustin Diamond (aka Screech from Saved By The Bell) was at the Milwaukee Plea for Peace show. He got a little tipsy at the show and tried to fight Mike Park. He also gave out his manager’s number. Call up Screech at 414.915.9292. He plays bass and likes to talk “gear”.

Live in New York and not sure what Halloween party to attend? Check out the Sperber Party. Also put on by Pony Gang and North Six, it’s the 2nd annual “BIG HALLOWEEN PARTY”! Wednesday, October 31st, 2001. Featuring: The Panthers (Brooklyn, NY), Stan Levine’s Party Machine (entirety of Glassjaw and pals), Shit Skittle (entirety of Rival Schools), Q and Not U (Washington DC), and the teen dance party record spinning action of: DJ L.C.D. (aka KidChampale) of Troubleman Unlimited Records. at: North Six 66 North 6th Street between Kent and Wythe (directions below!) Brooklyn, NY 11211 (718) 599-5103 www.northsix.com Doors: 8pm, show at 9. COSTUMES A TOTAL FUCKING MUST. $8 Dollars

Ali G is bomb. Watch him. Click here.

Kittie is pretty shitty. But their singer wants to bang Aaron Icarus.
10/21 – Dallas, TX
10/23 – San Antonio, TX
10/25 – Albuquerque, NM
10/27 – Phoenix, AZ
10/29 – Los Angeles, CA
10/31 – Las Vegas, NV
11/2 – San Francisco, CA
11/3 – Portland, OR
11/4 – Seattle, WA
11/7 – Denver, CO
11/11 – Madison, WI
11/14 – Chicago, IL
11/18 – New York, NY
11/20 – Philadelphia, PA
11/21 – Washington, DC
11/23 – Detroit, MI

Richard Reines (richard@drivethrurecords.com) “And you have no new gossip because why? A-holes.”

Oh hey sorry for the lack of updates Porky, we didn’t know you were waiting so eagerly for our words on the current events. We’re flattered, but don’t you have some prepubescent pop punk to listen to? Either way, no need to sit there and hit the refresh button any longer… here’s the new gossip tubster. By the way, if you or anyone else who takes themselves too seriously, is missing a sense of humor, and wants to threaten to sue us (like Drive Thru did)… contact our lawyer directly:
Bryan K. Christner, Attorney at Law,
1156 North Fuller Avenue, West Hollywood, CA 90046

In other Drive Thru Records related news: the label is trying to get out of their deal with MCA. They haven’t told MCA this as of yet. Apparently they aren’t being too smart about it, and telling all their friends about it. (you know their friends’ 13-year-old boys who think Blink 182 is the second coming of Jesus).

We need money for our new server, if you wanna send us money our address is po box 1268 | Hollywood, CA | 90078. Anyone who sends us cash is totally bomb. We’ll have a paypal donation thing up here in like two days. So then you can give us cash quick. It’ll be bomb.

Courtney Love gave some shout outs to Buddyhead on KROQ’s “Kevin & Bean” morning show. She also dissed Freddy D and his new band Puddle of Mudd. C-love blew the whistle on tubby’s new band, whom he refers to as his “fake Nirvana band”, by saying that Fred told her he signed them and then fired everyone except the singer and hired the rest of the band. Sounds like the fake part fits, but Nirvana? NO BRO! By the way, Courtney, we’re coming to that Jane’s Addiction show you’re playing, make sure we get all access passes so we can drink all your beer and eat all your food.

By the way, the new Nirvana book, “Heavier Than Heaven”, is super bomb. Check it out bro.

As result of the recent terrorist attack tragedies, the king of jock rock / date rape / slap and pop / adidas wearing / bald headed dudes with goatees / yo yo white boy yo / 7 string guitar / Ross Robinson produced rock, Mr. Fred Durst himself, has seemed to have a change of heart on his life outlook. Fatboy Freddy has sworn to be positive and forgive all former grudges. Looks like Buddyhead’s in the clear! Bomb! Sorry Fred, but the biggest tragedy of all is the way your band and the hordes of clones have systematically dumbed down kids everywhere by influencing and reinforcing the steakhead / machismo / dipshit mentality. If you’re so down for change, do the world a favor and go hide in a cave until intelligent, open minded, and talented music takes your place in the spotlight you’re so hesitant to give up. Oh, and suck our collective cock.

Speaking of Fred… we got a hold of his demo video from his 1989 debut “2 white” that appeared on VH1. It’s totally bomb bro… Fred has got skills like Vanilla Ice gots wack jumpsuits. Click here bro.

Buddyhead is prouder than proud to announce that we will be releasing the new EP from The Revolution Smile (which features the ever talented, not to mention good looking, Shawn Lopez from Far). We told Shawn he’ll get chicks if his record is out on Buddyhead and he bought it! The band is almost finished with the recording and it will be titled “We Are In This Alone”. We’re shooting for a January 2002 release date so try and keep it in your pants until then. In the meantime make sure to check em out live cuz it’s a show not to missed. We just saw them at the Troubadour on Friday and they blew all the other bands off the stage. It was bomb. Rev Smile Shows: October 11th @ The Roxy in Hollywood CA (830 PM) | October 13th @ Chain Reaction in Anaheim CA | October 20th @ Scratch 8 in Sacramento CA | October 27th @ The Portlight in Oakland CA (21+). Also, make sure to check out their website, where they have mp3s and the whole like. http://www.therevolutionsmile.com/

The Rapture and The Icarus Line are playing 2 shows together in SoCal this weekend. On Saturday the 6th they are playing in San Diego at the Casbah, and on the 7th they are playing at Koo’s in Santa Ana. The Icky Line will be debuting some new material as well as their brand new outfits: each member wears a jumpsuit and has a different mask and number. They’ve also added some dudes who just play levitating drums and run around beating each other up. They’ve been told this will land them a deal and make them big with the kids.

Speaking of masks, we attended the recent Slipknot/System of a Down show at the Forum… for educational purposes of course. First of all, Cave In was there, and they told us not to tell anyone, but you know us, we can’t fucking lie! They were there, so was their buddy Santos, and they all had corporate rock VIP passes and sought advice from members of Mudvayne backstage on which direction their new material should go. We also saw Rick Rubin, who was with some pretty bomb tang. I guess being fat doesn’t matter if you are down with Slayer and rich. System wasn’t bad; they weren’t great, but much better than we expected. Although we can’t figure out if their songs are ok or just plain annoying… circus music anyone? As for Slipknot… we’ve never felt more like we were at Wrestlemania. First of all, there was a drum solo. Yeah, a fuckin drum solo. So we sat through that, thinking it was pretty wack, then the fucking drum set flips upside down! So not only did we have to sit through a drum solo, but the dude playing drums in the mask was flipping upside down. It was ridiculous. From there it only got worse. There was a “moment of silence” for the people who died in New York. When kids in the audiences yelled during that time the singer would shout, “SHUT THE FUCK UP MOTHERFUCKERS”. Genius. Then the singer goes into this speech about how we need to be patriotic and come together, which was painful enough, but it really got lame when they played their song where the chorus is “666″ and a huge 666 sign lights up behind them (so the crowd knows what to sing) while the singer is draped in an American flag?!?! HEY BUDDY… “ONE NATION UNDER GOD” = NOT SATAN… PICK ONE DICKHEAD. YOU’RE EITHER A SATAN WORSHIPPER, OR A PATRIOTIC REDNECK. YOU CAN’T BE BOTH.

In other Pledge of Allegiance tour news, that band where the dudes dress up like extreme sports goths, Mudvayne… well they’re dropping off the tour cause the singer does a lot of coke, and some people aren’t into that or some shit.

In other Mudvayne news, the dude in the band with the big pants is “way into buddyhead”. Bomb bro. Send us some of the money you made dressing up like a fucking dork.

In the wake of The Murder City Devils breaking up, Derek will focus more on his other band Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the other members will continue on under a different, undecided name. As of right now it looks like Krist Noveselic is going to be filling Derek’s shoes as the bass player in the new Murder City band. Rumored names for the new band include Murder City Devils 75.

Radiohead are going to release a live EP, called ‘I might be wrong’, featuring eight tracks from their European summer tour. Their label, EMI, announced that the tracks were recorded in Oxford, Berlin, Oslo and Vaison La Romaine. It will include the previously unreleased song “True Love Waits,” which frontman Thom Yorke wrote during the recording sessions for OK Computer and often played solo during the tour. The European release is now set for November 12th, but seeing as how Radiohead could shit in a box and you’d buy it, the live album will be sold as a full-length CD, and not as an EP. Bling Bling bitch. Also in the future for the band is a 2002 DVD release. Shwing!
Here’s the tracklisting:
01 the national anthem
02 i might be wrong
03 morning bell
04 like spinning plates
05 idioteque
06 everything in its right place
07 dollars and cents
08 true love waits

The Dillinger Escape Plan is playing their first show with a new singer on Thursday October 11th in New York City at the Downtime during CMJ week. As for the identity of this new vocalist, word is that it’s either Ronnie James Dio or the singer from Gayrilla Biscuits. Should be bomb.

MTV is still searching for that expert on Middle Eastern territories and international policies that’s young and “hip” looking. This could be your big break!

Bluebird recorded a few songs with Pleasure Forever this week. They all got drunk, worshiped Satan, and talked about scoob rock.

Cold left the Weezer tour due to all of Weezer’s geeky fans booing them and even throwing things at them while they played every night. Their label said that the real reason Cold left the tour was that they were exhausted and that “They’ve been on the road non-stop for over a year and they wanted to take some time off and regroup before their upcoming headline dates.” Sure bro. Weezer is now picking up that shitty silverlake band, The Start, which is that band with the guitar player who thinks he’s in The Icarus Line.

We also heard that Pat from Weezer likes Buddyhead now. Way to jump on the bandwagon Patty. That and… Brian Bell eats at Real Food with scoob girls. They also have a new video where they play with animals and shit, it’s pretty boring.

Timbaland and Dr. Dre are making a record. They say the songs will most likely be about weed and ho’s. It’s a real departure for the two.

Mobb Deep are totally bomb and they have a new album called Infamy coming out December 4 on Loud.

Bryan Newman, the drummer of Saves the Day, quit the band last week to pursue a career in photography and to continue schooling at New York University. We were hoping that the rest of the band would go back to school as well, but Andrew Black (ex drummer for the Explosion/Good Charlotte) emailed us to inform us that he will be taking Bryan’s spot in Saves the Day. Andrew, if we see you wearing creepers in photo shoots your ass is grass buddy.

Former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach has teamed up with ex-Anthrax guitarist Paul Crook to record a version of “Amazing Grace” (yep, that one). Wanna hear it? Click here. The recording was made in reflection of the current situation in America following the terrorist attacks on September 11. Sebastian opted to record the cover after his management team told him that re-recording “Youth Gone Wild” under the new title “Middle Easterners Gone Wild” would be inappropriate. Did you know we’re down with Mr. Bach? If not… read here.

We wanna go to Bob Dylan when he plays LA. Someone get us in. We’ll let you hang out with us… for a second.

Burning Airlines aren’t changing their name, but magazines with interviews with them and ads for their records are listing them as B. Airlines.

Supposedly Morrissey is sexually involved with this 6 foot 5 black dancer guy. Suckin dicks and all that shit… pretty bomb… we thought he wasn’t into ass at all. Guess we were wrong. In other Morrissey news, if you like Morrissey you’re a big fucking geek.

The word on the street is that Buckethead got canned and that Izzy is talking with Axl again about returning to the band!!! Axl, make it happen bro!

The new Fugazi album “the Arugment comes out Oct. 15 in the U.S. and Oct. 8 everywhere else, those lucky bastards. Plus a single “Furniture” on cd and clear 7″ which has material they couldn’t put on the LP cause there wasn’t enough room. BOMB.

Wanna see Travis fall down a bunch of stairs trying to slide a handrail on his skateboard? Click here.

Tara Reid gave us her number at the nintendo/mtv party we went to last night on Hollywood and Vine. She told us she has a thing for fat bald guys in adidas jumpsuits and that she’s totally on Fred Durst’s nuts. Give Tara a call at (323) 876-8907 and tell her even though she’s pretty wack, we’re betting she can do better than a fat guy like Fred.

The Dillinger 4 and Lawrence Arms both signed to Fat Wreck Chords. Fat Mike was thinking they needed a few more pop punk bands… good thinking Fat.

There is a rumor floating around that Jello may tour with the Dead Kennedys one more time. We would probably give a flying fuck if we were still 16. It still couldn’t possibly be more pathetic than what the band is doing live now, with some random guy up there singing. Old punkers suck.

Ben Affleck was stopped by sheriff’s deputies after he was clocked driving 114 mph on a Georgia interstate, the actor’s publicist said Monday. Ben is a hack. We don’t like him, unless he wants to give us a lot of money, then he’s pretty bomb.

Napster is pretty hooked up. Fuckin a. Their sugar daddy (who is Bertelsmann) has spent over $100 million to keep the graveyard of a file-sharing software service “alive”. Napster’s recent settlement with music publishers will end up costing them $36 million. Guess who is gonna pick up the tab? Yep, you’re right… Bertelsmann. Just last year alone, he cut a check for $60 million, which was a “loan” for Napster. This year he cut a second “loan” in the “$7 million to $12 million range. Where the fuck is our sugar daddy? Fuck… all we need is someone to pay our server bill…

AFI have a fashion spread in the new alternative press. Aaron popped a boner over it. Travis is patiently waiting to see what he should pattern his new look after.

Hatebreed is going on tour with Slayer starting the very end of October. Btw, the new Slayer album hasn’t left Travis’s car stereo for the last two weeks… but then again, neither has that Boy George cd, so make your own conclusion.

Planes Mistaken for Stars will be out on the road with Converge in December. Gared from PMFS sent us an email saying that they would be in LA for a few days and that “you guys are always talking shit about getting toasted and cruising strip clubs, here’s your chance to step up to the plate with PLANES!” We’re ready to play ball. Speaking of ball, right now they are traveling around Europe telling people how they have sucked on each other’s balls before. Don’t believe us?… read this (make sure to listen to the mp3 of the conversation too).

Bjork has been getting harassed by the FBI a lot lately. She lives on the same block that they have offices on in NYC that they’re using in light of recent events there, and it’s totally regimented. You need to show I.D. to even walk down the street. The last time they stopped her she just started yelling, “I fucking live here! I do this every time for you!”

Michael Jackson has a new video for his new single “Cowabunga, dude”. He looks real scary in it. Aaron is just glad that there’s none of that morphing shit in it.

J-Lo got married to some dancer fruitcake. We’re still watching the porn of her and Puffy.

The Mars Volta had to cancel their European tour with The Locust because they gave their drummer the boot. They are going on tour with those geeks from the midwest: The Anniversary. Um… wack.

Omar from At The Drive-In/Mars Volta is being pursued by Calvin Klein to be one of their new underwear models. Omar declined due to the impending embarrassment of his crotch afro being discovered.

Elastica broke up on Tuesday. Like… bummer bro.

Alkaline Trio and Hot Water Music are doing a split e.p. on Jade Tree. It’ll be out January 22, 2002 and will be the second release in the Jade Tree spilt series, the first one being the NOFX/Kill Your Idols Split.

The Gorillaz recorded a track in the UK on 09.12.01 with D12, while they were stuck in the UK unable to fly home. Look for it soon. Also, their new video ‘Rock The House’ is up in the Cinema section on gorillaz.com. Del is on this one too…

Members of Goldfinger, Mest, and Good Charlotte got together and recorded a song called “The Innocent” about the World Trade Center Tragedy. Ehhhhhhh… Mmmk. You can check out the song here.

Once again there are rumors floating around about a new Descendents album in the works. Apparently this time it’s more or less confirmed… the All website has the announcement on their main page. Sexual Ryan is now jacking off to this thought.

Give James from River City High a call. (804) 370-9620 Tell him that cowboy hats are for cowboys.

At Wayne Isham’s (he’s a music video director with a ponytail) VMA post post-party, Puffy showed up in a bathrobe with his manservants, Carson Daly, Fred Durst, and Chester from Linkin Park. They all sucked dongs and then left except for Chester and the Linkin Park guitar tech who stayed around and drank while hitting on Sarah Ultragrrrl and her friend Vicki.

Eagle Eye Cherry got pissed at the Sigur Ros show in NYC when a bouncer made a lot of noise at the door trying to kick some kid out who smoked pot. Eagle Eye Cherry is suckin dicks.

CMJ is rescheduled for October 10th or something. Nobody is going.

These are from The Icarus Line tour when we were in Chicago. The Captain and a poster… yikes.

Onelinedrawing are playing a house in San Diego, Thursday, October 4th. The address is 1526 elevation road. It starts at 8, and in Jonah fashion, the show costs from 5-10 dollars, depending on how much you can afford. Jonah will be there talking about himself.

That shitty Sacramento band, Simon Says, recently had to drop off of the Primer55 tour due to the fine people at Hollywood Records finally pulling the tour support out from under their stuck up asses. We hear the band now plans on breaking up and reforming under a different name so to escape recouping the 2-million dollar debt they accumulated over at the Disney-owned label. We suggested their new name be: Shitskillet.

Nardwuar the Human Serviette is bomb.

Monica (that girl with the rad boobs that rocks the guitar in that Jagoffs band) got fired from one of her jobs recently. If anybody wants to be her sugar daddy, email her at jagoffs@aol.com if you wanna hook her up.

Tool is playing Irvine on November first at the Verizon Wireless Ampitheatre. We’re not going. Fuck.

Walter from Rival Schools/Quicksand is playing drums in a band called Pearl Harbor whenever Rival Schools takes time off. They’ll be playing some shows in NYC in October. We’re not sure if they are bomb or not, but we’d go see em if Walter will sing us Project X songs again.

Speaking of Straight Edge Revenge… Rival Schools have been shooting tons of video on their tour, some of which will end up on the Buddyhead Dvd coming out next year. They posted some of them, plus their new music video which is pretty wack.
Tour Footage: (high quality)(medium quality)(low quality)
Music Video:(high quality)(medium quality)(low quality):

We were wondering why Nate Cavalieri was too busy for Buddyhead, he’s famous now! Click here.

K.D. Lang has a “greatest hits” record coming out next month. Girls who lift weights and do chew are excited about that one.

Rush are back in the studio, recording a new album. Dudes who play lots of D&D are stoked. Shelby? Cave In is obviously really excited too.

Tracii Guns is telling everyone that Axl asked him to join the new Guns N’ Roses, but that “He couldn’t afford me!” Sure bro… we believe you.

Disturbed and POD both canceled their plans for UK dates. Dammit. No fats guys with dreadlocks for you cunts.

Wow, couldn’t have seen this one coming…. The Insane Clown Posse got dropped from Island Def Jam. Hey Drive Thru, you guys like signing clowns, these guys would fit perfectly on your roster!

Nolan from Paris Texas got kicked out of Fenix Tx already after making one too many jokes about Linkin Park. We would have gotten kicked out too Nolan… don’t worry bro.

We just realized that the singer of Nickelback not only looks a lot like our lord and savior Jesus Christ but he’s also a dead ringer for the eldest brother in Hanson, cept with facial hair.

The Strokes succumbed to the major label dong this week and pulled the song “New York City Cops” from their record. It features the chorus “New York City cops, New York City cops, New York City cops, They ain’t too smart.” They are replacing it with the song, “When It Started” and the album, originally scheduled for Sept. 25, has been pushed back to Oct. 9. It’s not that long of a wait Gideon…

Green Day played a surprise set at the Adeline Records showcase at 924 Gilman St. last Sunday, breaking the “no major label bands” policy at Gilman. People who haven’t showered in years and take Crass seriously are pissed.

The ODB greatest hits album doesn’t come out on 9/25 – its out now!!! It came out on Tuesday (9/18). Go pick the shit up – short but entertaining liner notes, a couple bomb pictures and spliced in soundbites of the man himself before/after the songs. Go pick the shit up – support the cause!

Carl Crack, of Atari Teenage Riot, died on September 6th. He was a mere 30 years old. Our hearts go out to his family and friends. Carl had been working on solo material to follow up his Black Ark release as well as performing with a variety of other artists. Alec Empire said; “I played in a band with Carl for ten years. We’ve been through a lot together in all those times. He was my friend. We didn’t have much contact with each other since the last bout of heavy touring with ATR ended in March 2000. There was too much between all the members of the band and we all needed space to recover. Carl and I decided to write each other because it was nearly impossible to talk. He wrote to me that things were going better for him, he was playing music in different projects. And that he wanted to start a long-term therapy. He had suffered since a teenager from psychotic attacks, which I watched getting worse each year. I hoped that he would be able to work things out. His letters sounded positive and optimistic. His sudden death has hit me very hard and it is not easy for me to find the right words. A lot of little events and situations keep coming into my mind. When I think of Carl I don’t think only of the great stage presence and charisma he had, especially on the tours for our album “The Future Of War,” I also remember him dancing to soul music at parties, laughing and singing Curtis Mayfield songs. He brought a tension into the band that is very rare and special these days. I am very proud of him, and of what he has achieved as an artist. People like us can’t even imagine how hard it must have been for him to deal with those attacks, to record and perform, and on top of that to take care of his personal life and relationships. He was not only a vocalist with a very unique style, he also recorded one of the deepest instrumental albums I know: “The Black Ark E.P.” It was his decision. I just wish we had talked in person one more time, even though we cleared things in the letters. I will miss him. Carl, we’ll never forget you.”

Bruce from the band Vega4 looks like Gaz from Supergrass. He’s prolly getting mad tang cuz of that.
Gaz|Bruce (far right)

DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist are playing together again. They are doing two shows on October 19th & 20th at the Knitting Factory in LA.

Ozzy’s gonna name his new tour OzzBless America and the logo’s gonna be an american flag with his face where the stars go. Mmmmmmk.

Johnny Knoxville is getting divorced. He figured he better start banging gash before people realize he isn’t famous anymore.

The Queers have a new record, which is called “Live in West Hollywood”, and as you can guess it’s just that, 31 live songs, recorded at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. The liner notes are worth the price of the record alone. Joe says “These homos on the Warped Tour singing about ’selling out’ don’t really do too much for me. (Their message is ‘fuck the system’, but they are the system.) You’d never see Black Flag or Flipper on the Warped Tour – They were a lot of things but they weren’t fucking whores”. Hey Joe, wanna write for Buddyhead? Click here.

Dinosaur Jr. have a new record coming out called “Ear Bleeding Country”. It’ll be a greatest hits collection. Think that song they did with Del Tha Funky Homosapien for the Judgement Night soundtrack will be on there? Let’s hope not.

The Explosion sent us over this clipping of Sum 41 that they found in the Boston Globe. If you look real hard, the guy on the far left is wearing an Explosion shirt. The response from the Explosion was “fuck!!!!!”

Rachel from Friends is prego. We didn’t do it.

Epic Records is now in league with Satan: The Juliana Theory have signed on the dotted line to Epic. Yikes.

Joey McIntyre of the New Kids on The Block, here’s his cell number: (617)-803-5575 He likes when strangers call drunk at 3 A.M. It’s a “wicked piss-ah” brah.

James Iha from Smashing Pumpkins is a big Shat fan. He’s way into “Cunt Flavored Lollipops”. Someone tell that dude that even though Smashing Pumpkins broke up, and 21 Jump Street got cancelled, now that he’s discovered Shat, life will get better.

Lou Pearlman is thinking of buying the punk record label Hand Held Heart. (could it be the Blood Brothers connection/hype?)

This band called Fairview were out in Philly on tour and they ran into none other than DMX on the street. DMX let them take photos with him even though they are skinny white crackas. The Revolution Smile will be opening for Fairview (i.e. blowing them off the stage) at Chain Reaction on November 3rd. DMX won’t be there, but come check out Revolution Smile anyhow.

New Dj Assault flash video. Click here.

There’s a bunch of dudes in shitty bands that are bummed that Buddyhead doesn’t like their band. STOP SUCKING DICKS, or send us money.

F minus are going on tour with Agnostic Front. Go check em out and tell Brad that he’s bomb.
5-Oct PITZER COLLEGE GOLD Claremont, CA
13-Oct SIDEBAR TAVERN Baltimore, MD
14-Oct THE PIT Kill Devil Hills, NC
16-Oct MAP ROOM Memphis, TN
17-Oct SHIM SHAM CLUB New Orleans, LA
18-Oct COWHAUS Tallahassee, FL
19-Oct STATE THEATER St. Petersburg, FL
21-Oct ORBIT Ft Myers, FL
24-Oct MASQUERADE Atlanta, GA
25-Oct UNCLE DOCTORS Columbia, SC
26-Oct TREMONT MUSIC HALL Charlotte, NC
27-Oct ALLEY KATZ Richmond, VA
31-Oct THE CHANCE Poughkeepsie, NY

Janes Addiction are touring…. again. If anyone cares, Femi Kuti, Stereo MC’s, and Courtney Love are opening. C-Love will play her first show billed as a solo artist at the October 27 date in Los Angeles.
10/2 – Worcester, MA @ The Centrum
10/3 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Union Spectrum
10/5 – Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre
10/6 – Bristow, VA @ Nissan Pavilion
10/8 – Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena
10/9 – Gainesville, FL @ University of Florida
10/12 – Charlotte, @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
10/13 – Raleigh, NC @ Alltel Pavilion @ Walnut Creek
10/15 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
10/16 – East Rutherford, NJ @ Continental Airlines Arena
10/19 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mellon Arena
10/20 – Auburn Hills, MI @ Palace of Auburn Hills
10/21 – Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena
10/23 – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center
10/26 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
10/27 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl
10/28 – Chula Vista, CA @ Coors Amphitheatre
10/31 – Denver, CO @ Magness Arena
11/3 – Vancouver, BC @ Pacific Coliseum
11/4 – Portland, OR @ Rose Garden Arena
11/5 – Boise, ID @ Bank of America Center
11/7 – Seattle, WA @ TBA
11/9 – Phoenix, AZ @ Cricket Pavilion
11/10 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint/Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
11/11 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint/Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

Spiritualized is playing a bunch of shows with an orchestra or something. Go yell Spacemen 3 songs at them.
10/23/01 washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
10/24/01 Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
10/25/01 New York, NY @ Riverside Cathedral
10/26/01 Boston, MA @ Axis
10/30/01 Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theater
10/31/01 Chicago,IL @ Metro
11/1/01 Minneapolis, MN @ Quest
11/3/01 Boulder, CO @ Fox Theater
11/6/01 Seattle, WA @ Showbox
11/8/01 Portland, OR @ Roseland
11/10/01 Santa Cruz @ TBA
11/11/01 San Fransico, CA @ Fillmore
11/13/01 Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern
11/14/01 Pheonix, AZ @ TBC
11/16/01 Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa
11/17/01 Houston, TX @ TBC
11/18/01 Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Live

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Marilyn Manson could get two years in prison for plopping his shlong on a security guards head. Aaron Icarus is jealous, he wants that thing in his mouth.

This one is actually incredibly flattering. We piss a lot of people off it seems, but this one takes the cake. Someone actually not only registered http://www.antibuddyhead.com, but actually designed (very poorly we might add) and wrote content. Thanks for letting us know we matter that much. Honestly. The problem is, the owner of the site left his info laying around on the Internet. Ryan Stockwell isn’t the smartest cookie in the cookie jar. Ryan, Jeff Wood will now be calling you at all hours of the night. Everybody else can as well, and you can even stop by his house and say hello if you wish. We just might!
Ryan Stockwell
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Costa Mesa, CA 92626
usa
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phone:
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…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead has made it public that they are unhappy with their new home on Interscope due to the label insisting that they actually write songs for this record.

Every 10 years or so a new lot of bands seem to gain a certain amount of major label attention, and every 10 years or so there are always certain bands that seem to sign the worst deals they possibly could as well as the first deals presented to them. Let’s add Seattle’s Blood Brothers to this list who have decided to sign on with the inventor of “Adidas rock” Ross Robinson and his Virgin Records imprint. A word of advice for the Bloodbrothers… if tubby tries to pull that egomaniacal tough love crap on you like he does with every band he “produces” by like, making your drummer cry before recording, just tell him, “hey dipshit, he’s just playing drums, I doubt his bawling will make the song sound any different”. You can catch the Bloodbrothers on tour now as we speak, playing mostly $5 d.i.y. shows hot off their signing to Virgin. Good luck guys. Seriously.

Mike, the cokehead from Weezer, has been checked into a nut house in Boston due to depression related to his “supermodel” girlfriend Leah Cary [click for photo] (who attends columbia university), leaving him after she found out about the band groupie he knocked up from Mesa Arizona. She’s supposedly already moved on to some other rocker already.

Meanwhile, the band that gave him the power of nailing chicks, Weezer, has found a replacement. Scott Shriner, the bassist from Broken, just won the lotto. Get ready to start banging sluts and doing lots of drugs Scott. You are the new “not-Matt Sharp”.

We’re going to Radiohead tonight at the Hollywood Bowl. Axl Rose, Fred Durst, and Dave Navarro are on the Celebrity guest list. If we see Axl we’re gonna tell him he’s blowing it, to quit fucking around with dudes who wear chicken buckets for hats, and to give Slash, Duff and Izzy a call. If we see Freddy we’re gonna wish him a happy birthday and tell him to come by so he can pick up this wig we bought him. If we knew (or cared) what Dave Navarro looked like we’d prolly think of something to say to him too.

Alien Ant Farm will die by our hand. We swear. Especially the fat dude with the wood stained 5 string bass. I don’t know about you guys, but I think Mtv has just about enough fat dudes playing wood stained 5 string bass. Especially fat bass players making goofy faces. There should be some sort of affirmative action on Mtv for dudes who aren’t fat and make funny faces and play bass. No more fat people on tv please. I believe there is a direct correlation between the weight of the bands and how good they are. For example… when Nirvana and shit was on Mtv, the music rocked right? Were they fat? Exactly. How many fat dudes did you see in the “Welcome to the Jungle” video? None right? Once again my point is proven. So let’s start it right here and boycott the fat rockers. Thank you for your time.

The new Tenacious D album is amazing. So far the song “Dio” is our favorite. Watch their new flash video for “Fuck her Gently“.

The Murder City Devils aren’t as tough are they thought they were. They just canceled the rest of their tour that would have taken them to Germany, Belgium, Holland, Ireland, N. Ireland, and England. Think of all the foreign gash they are missing out on! The excuse they gave was that Leslie (the keyboard player) has a hurt wrist. Derek likes emo.

Alkaline Trio’s new drummer from Suicidal Tendencies is making them all wear bandanas and get DOGTOWN tattooed across their chest. Maybe this will make the band actually rock now.

So we attended Scoob-palooza 2001 this weekend, which was better known as the “Sunset Junction”. Lots of scoobs, older gay men, booths with info on how to free Mumia, food, beer, margaritas, carnival rides, gash, and even some music. Some guy even told Jeremy “wow tits”, which we later found out meant that he liked his tits. At 9:30 Elliot Smith went on and stumbled through his set. He couldn’t remember most of the words and chords to his own songs. He completed two songs during his 45 minutes set, and asked the crowd for help. (“give me the first line of that song, I can’t remember it”) Be it heroin or booze or weed or just not giving a fuck, watching Elliott fail was 1,000 times better than watching the Beachwood Sparks do their lil country/retro/silverlake backyard party soundtrack schtick.

Kurt Cobain will be on the cover of the next issue of Spin. There will be a special on Grunge airing on VH1 on Sept 13 to coincide with this cover. Courtney Love wants all the money.

Kate Hudson is suing her assistant. The reasons are unknown at this point. We’re guessing he got caught sniffing her panties.

Someone slap that fat bass player of New Found Glory on the back so he’s stuck with that goofy face he’s always making. Check it.

Puddle of Mud needs to be stabbed to death with a spoon.

Shelby Cinca of Frodus fame is no longer playing guitar for L.A’s Bluebird. “The Bird” has enlisted some guy who used to be in White Zombie. No shit. Shelby is starting a new band with Frodus drummer Jason Hamacher. It will most likely kick mucho ass.

Drowningman has indeed changed their name to Drowning Pool. Simon seems to have put on a few pounds too. Let the bodies hit the floor bro.

New Found Glory said they are planning on covering “November Rain” by Guns n’ Roses. Yeah… good idea guys. You can make a video for it too, and at the end you can have that fat ass geeky bass player get on top of the piano and rock out like Slash. Instead of rocking though, you can just bunny hop on the thing and then the video can have a huge grand finale when your obese ass caves the baby grand piano in and obliterates it into splinters. Amazing huh?

Star Wars episode 2 will be titled “Let the bodies hit the floor”.

Blake Schwarzenbach is in the studio with Billy Joel helping him bust out some songs for his next record.

Chris Bauermeister of Jawbreaker fame is now making art it seems. He did the cover art for the band, Flower on their LP, “Concrete Sky”.

Email The singer of Korn and tell him to suck on yer genital area. SirWaldo15@aol.com.

Mans Ruin Records have called it a day. Dudes who never shower are way bummed.

Supposedly, Cameron Diaz was at the Peaches karaoke jam at the knitting factory in La. We wish we would have seen her. Staring at her would have been more fun that watching some chick with a mullet do karaoke of weak songs we’ve never heard before.

“Skinhead Rob” (the steakhead who punched Aaron Farley) and Tim Armstrong have this really fucking lame, awful, retarded, pathetic side-project they do called the Transplants. Word is Tim bought a Pro Tools system, but the problem is Tim can barely use a calculator. On top of that, that Rob dude tries to go aggro-rap on it and Rob thinks he is some kind of Compton gang-member, even though he is a white-kid from Fresno. Sounds bomb guys.

In other fat white people news, Drive Thru Records is trying to steal No Motiv from Vagrant. That’s like two retarded kids fighting over a broken toy.

We also heard that Drive Thru Records are members of Westboro Baptist Church who picket gay weddings, parades, funeral, etc. and host the website http://www.GodHatesFags.com.

Call the guy from Earth Crisis and tell him that he can start drinking beer and eating burgers now that his silly band is done with 315 451 7099.

Call Gwyneth Paltrow 917 822 4354 on her cell phone, and tell her Travis is single and now’s her chance.

Call Vinny from Less Than Jake at 352-337-2968 and tell him to “pick it up” the phone.

Call Bjork on her cell phone 011 44 498 743 643 and ask her about gnomes.

Call Barbara Walters at 212 456 7777 and tell her to do a story on Buddyhead cuz we’re bomb.

People seem to like Swedish dudes yelling. Text is at #188 on the CMJ top 200 this week. Buy it on our store. Click here.

No Doubt’s new album “Rock Steady” should be out on December 18. We’d like to Rock Steady with Gwen, she’s bomb.

Kris Roe from the Ataris placed third this weekend in the Santa Barbara spelling bee championships for 5th graders. High five Kris.

Chalk up another one on the third wave of shitty pop punk bands getting signed to major labels list. Wakefield (the old drummer from Good Charlotte is in this band) signed with Atlantic Records. If the Ataris are the Gruntruck of this signing craze, Wakefield is The Candlebox (at best). If you are up for some shits and giggles, check out their website Wakefieldworldwide.com. The bios are good for a few laughs.

P.J. Clapp, AKA Johnny Knoxville, has quit Jackass. He thinks he’s like an actor or something now.

Steve O. from Jackass is homeless but he still has e-mail. Ask him how bad he wants to beat up Johnny Knoxville for ruining his gig steveo420@aol.com.

Gideon Yago broke up with Michelle Branch (who just got signed to Maverick). Gid is now banging Natalie Portman.

Some band called Denali just signed to Jade Tree. The guy from that band Sparklehorse is going to produce the record. A bunch of dudes in geek glasses and grandpa clothes are psyched.

Hatebreed have also left Victory records and signed with Creed’s label. Their next record will be called “Satisfaction is dudes who sing their vowels with R’s”. In other tough guy hardcore news, Hatebreed was just on MTV2’s “upcoming bands” news blurb. Hey Iann, we know you’re the guy who’s responsible for that. Can we not try and get some good bands on there? Ok?

Speaking of Iann Robinson (MTV2 news)… he was seen dropping hundreds at the Lotus bar in NYC on Saturday night with Estella Warren (Planet of The Apes) hanging on his arm.

Snoop and Dre are still alive. We’ll keep you posted.

Slash, Duff, and Izzy aren’t back in GNR yet.

Andrew Black, drummer of the Explosion, now plays for Good Charlotte. What?

Dischord’s ‘Bluetip’ have called it quits, but have a new full length on the way this fall. Some remaining members have already started a new band.

This new white rapper guy, Little T or whatever his name is, needs to get slapped around with a shovel.

Liam Wilson, bass player for the Dillinger Escape Plan, is giving bass lessons in exchange for weed. Give Liam a shout at Liam@dillingerescapeplan.com. Tell him Aaron Farley wants to nail him.

Tara Reid is slamming that Sugar Ray guy, Mark McGrath. Last week at the Hammerstein Ballroom, she was hangin all off of him and even licking him. Her PR still says she’s with Joe Ader, the 55 year old stockmarket guy, but he’s sticking it to Willa Ford.

Rival Schools is shooting a video today, Monday August 20th. If you want to be in it they are shooting it at 1567 Hazelwood – Eagle Rock, CA. But make sure to set yer alarm, cuz it starts at 8:30am PST. It’ll be for the bomb song, “Used For Glue” and the guy who did the Blink videos is shooting it, Marcos Siega. He also did two Quicksand videos too.

VH1 has premiered its new season of ’storytellers’. We can look forward to such classic groups like Crosby Stills and Nash, Aerosmith, and the Beachwood Sparks telling stories of yesteryear and playing all the 60’s and 70’s hits that made them famous.

Wanna hear a song off the new Aphex Twin album, which is titled DRUQS? Click here.

Big Wheel Records has a new great looking website. Too bad you can’t polish turds like those records Rama puts out. http://bigwheelrec.com

Ultragrrrl and Jake Fogelnest (from Squirt TV) will be throwing a party on Tuesday, August 21 at 9:30 for the “Tenth Anniversary” of Jake’s Talk Show. The party’s going on at the Slipper Room (corner of Orchard and Stanton) in NYC. Jake and Ultragrrrl will also be DJing and Gideon “GidRock” Yago will do a set also while delivering music news stories at ten to every hour. Show up because we’re pretty sure that Jimmy Fallon will be coming, not to mention Jake’s new slam piece Kirsten Storms from Days of Our Lives. Sounds bomb.

Uncle Fester from Staind will be appearing on the upcoming Sevendust album.

During the filming of the movie Princess Diaries, Mandy Moore got her cherry popped by Robert Schwartzman (Jason’s little brother). Hopefully he told her not to talk.

Dj Muggs signed to Epitaph’s Anti. On his first Anti release he’ll be remixing some Epitaph classic such as the entire first Total Chaos album, not to mention that Insted album.

Evan, the kid who maintains The Icarus Line’s site and fucks up Tom’s design in the process, has a band. They are called “The Fallen” (he says he knows it’s a shitty name) and they are playing August 24th at the cobalt cafe in shitty canoga park. He promises mad gash at the show.

Zaq from Cadillac Blindside is getting married. Remember Zaq, no wifes on tour. That’s not rock.

The Reading Festival in the US has been canceled.

The Olsen Twins are almost 18. Click for proof.

Wanna chat with the producer of American Pie 1 and 2, Final Destination and Cats and Dogs? His name is Warren Zide, he’s fucking rich, and he loves Buddyhead readers. His email address / screen name is WZGekko@aol.com. Ask him if we can borrow some money.

Sean Agnew and Joan Hiller (who works for Riot Grrrl extraordinaire jessica Hopper) will be on Blind Date september 13th. They attended the Chicago plea for Peace show, hopefully they won’t air Mike Park’s set.

Al’s Bar closed. Old L.A. dudes are pissed.

Dave Dederer of Pusa and Duff McKagan of Guns N Roses are now going by the name, Loaded. They finished up a CD called “Dark Days” which was released in Japan in late July. It is rumored that it will be released in North America shortly. Duff, you’re not in GNR… what gives?

The Revolution Smile (Shawn from Far’s new band) is in the middle of recording their new EP “we are in this alone” and should be finishing it up within the next couple weeks. In the meantime you’ll be able to check out their live show if you are fortunate enough to live in the wonderful state of California. www.therevolutionsmile.com

August 19th San Francisco, CA / The Pound / 6pm
August 23rd Anaheim, CA / Chain Reaction
August 24th San Jose, CA / Cactus Club
August 30th Campbell, CA / The Gaslighter Theater
September 7th Sacramento, CA / Scratch 8

Vincent Gallo is humping P.J. Harvey. He rules.

The Gorillaz are playing 2 to 3 east coast dates during the 2nd week of October. The cities scheduled are New York, Philadelphia, and possibly Boston. Boner.

Aaron Lewis of Staind is actually Uncle Fester.

Mariah Carey was hospitalized after suffering from a “mental and physical breakdown” at her mother’s home in NY. The singer, rumored to be dating Eminem, was upset that her ex-husband (Tommy Matola) was trying to “torpedo” her career. Whatever, she should just dump all the industry geeks and get her freak on with Jeff Wood. By the way, Jeff says you that you people don’t call enough anymore. Talk to an International Icon by calling 973 402 4028

Speaking of quitters, Ben Affleck is in rehab too. He huffs dongs as far as we are concerned.

Hype band of the week, The Strokes played LA last night to a sold out house at the Troubadour. Scoobs came from miles around to see ex-child star, Julian Casablancas (he played Tom Hank’s best friend Billy in “Big”), sing about how rich his father is and how his band has never worked for anything and just how much wool they are pulling over everyone’s eyes.

Chi Cheng of Deftones just cut off his dreads; he can’t mack hippy girls anymore

The Icarus Line will entering the studio next week to record two songs for a split with Chixdiggit! A tour of Canada will follow.

Radiohead is releasing “Knives Out” as their next single. No release date has been set yet. The B-sides to the single are as follows: Fog; Worrywort; Cuttooth.

Buckethead has left Guns N Roses. We’re not sure if he quit or was fired, but supposedly Axl wasn’t too happy about having to cancel summer tour plans. So who knows? All we know is that Axl’s fat ass is blowing it on a daily basis now.

In other GNR news, Slash, Duff, and Izzy are still not in the band.

At the MTV 20th Anniversary Party, The Outlawz, Tupac Shakur’s group that he put together before his murder in 1996, and P. Diddy almost came to blows during Puffy’s rehearsal. Supposedly, the trouble started on Wednesday when The Outlawz crashed the rehearsal for a tribute to Shakur and Biggie Smalls. While Puffy and others were doing their thing, The Outlawz began, “messing around and talking shit”. Puffy ignored the troublemakers until one of the Outlawz snatched the mike from his hand. Suprisingly Puffy didn’t back down, and a huge brawl almost took place as security ended up ejecting the Outlawz.

Madonna canceled her New Jersey show so she could go watch Shat play at Connections in Clifton, New Jersey. Jeff’s going to father her next child, bank on it.

A bunch of bands that you like still suck… but that’s nothing new.

Jade Tree is picking up and moving their operations to Philadelphia from Delaware in the fall, where they will change the direction of their label from girly bird watching rock to progressive bong metal.

EMF is back. We’re not sure what to think about that… Click here.

Kris Roe of The Ataris spoke about their band signing to Columbia Records: “The bottom line is that we chose Columbia over everyone else we talked to for no other reason than this, we want to continue to grow as a band and this for us we feel at this time is the next gradiual step for us as the ataris”. And he even spelt “gradual” wrong. Hopefully Columbia is gonna hire some spell checkers over there for Kris and buy them a new sign (photo1) (photo2) (photo3).

Vadge Moore, longtime drummer for the Dwarves & notorious ladies man, got married 2 weekends ago in Colorado. Real-live Satanists were involved. His bride’s name is Jenna & she’s pretty damn foxy. But will the little girls understand?

The singer of Sum 41 is dating Rob Halford. We Approve. Call Steve and ask him about it: (416) 709-0367. Oh, and don’t get him talking about Scientology, he won’t stop.

Good Charolette, New Found Glory, and all those other shitty pop punk bands can suck on our collective balls.

Aaron Farley didn’t get beat up this week. Someone get on that.

Jessica Hooper wants to bone Aaron Icarus. Then again who doesn’t?

Sean Na Na signed to French Kiss. No word on where Har Mar is going label wise.

Rex “El Dangeroso” from Flickerstick left his wife and kid, and is humping that girl Raychell from that other shitty Band’s on the Run band Harlow. Pat Smear is producing the Harlow album.

Dave Grohl is ditching out on the Queens of the Stone Age record.

The Foo Fighters played some small bar in the valley last night; they opened for a Van Halen cover band. Tomorrow night they will be playing the Troubadour, the 300 audience members were selected from a group of email entries submitted their website. We’re gonna go and yell Alanis Morresette songs at Oliver (Taylor).

Ghostface Killah has reportedly recorded a Track that will be on the soundtrack for the upcoming Major League 5 starring Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. The best part is that Emilio is on the track rapping. We’re betting they we’re all pretty coked up.

Adam, previously of Rocket From The Crypt, is playing drums for Alkaline Trio on the Vagrant Tour. That dork from Face To Face will take over for the next tour. He better learn how to drink real quick.

CKY got signed cuz one dudes brother is on Jackass. The bros over at Volcom are pissed cuz that’s the other band they had that sold any records. Stick to surfing bros.

Green Day was filmed for HBO’s Reverb June 26th at the Asbury Park, NJ show, no word if Billy Joe set anything on fire or not. It will premiere Wednesday, August 15th at 8pm.

Morissey was seen hanging backstage at the Agnostic Front/the Business show that took place at The Palace in Los Angeles. Also seen backstage was Zoli from Ignite/fake-Misifts with two half-naked strippers. Thumbs up Zoli.

Milemarker needs a new drummer. The old one wasn’t “into playing to hardcore kids anymore”.

Sean Agnew just spent 4 days in jail; he got busted with like 400 kalpax outside a rave.

A Dag Nasty tribute is gonna come out soon. Bands on it will be: Planes Mistaken for Stars, Strike Anywhere, Ex Number Five, Gameface, Testicle Bomb, Fairweather, Grade, and Shat.

Paul (pwally22@aol.com) “At the warped tour in TX my friend Rob was going to do an interview with Kool Keith. When he got into the bus Keith asked him if he had any drugs. Rob said he didn’t and Keith told him to get the fuck out of the bus.” Keith is our hero.

Mike Patton, vocalist for Faith No More/Mr. Bungle/Fantomas will be handling the vocals on the next Dillinger Escape Plan EP, which will be out sometime before 2002. Yes, this does rule.

Also on Mr. Patton’s agenda are several tracks on the new Automator album called “Songs To make Love To Your Old Lady To”, due in the fall, a Peeping Tom record in the second half of 2002, and the long awaited project with Massive Attack. Oh yeah, and he dumped piss on Axl’s monitor when he Faith No More was on tour with Guns N Roses, just thought we’d add that in.

Fantomas is on tour in Australia, if you’re from there then you should go. You should also send us a Koala, or just some girls with accents.
08/17/2001 Brisbane, Australia Arena
08/18/2001 Sydney, Australia City Live
08/19/2001 Melbourne, Australia Palace
08/21/2001 Perth, Australia Globe Theatre
08/23/2001 Adalaide, Australia Governor Hindmarsh
08/24/2001 Sydney, Australia TBD
08/26/2001 Auckland, New Zealand Power Station

Tricky was trying to get that opening spot on the TOOL tour, to promote his new album “Blowback”, but Maynard told him his new shit is wack.

Shitty elf-rock band Belle and Sebastian is touring…who gives a fuck?..not us…a bunch of coffee shop geeks wearing Birkenstocks are stoked though. Aaron Farley’s going cause he heard the one dude is from France.
9/6 – Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern Theatre
9/8 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
9/11 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
9/13 – Vancouver, BC @ Croatian Cultural Center
9/14 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre

The Murder City Devils are going to be bringing the world to kids who don’t speak English. They have an EP called THELEMA coming out September 4th and a website coming as soon as Gabe stops huffing dong for a second and sends Travis the info he needs.
Aug 03 First Avenue, Minneapolis,MN (Dillinger Four)
Aug 04 Globe East, Milwaukee,WI (Dillinger Four)
Aug 05 Shelter, Detroit,MI
Aug 07 Warped Tour, Cleveland,OH
Aug 08 TLA, Philadelphia,PA (TSOL)
Aug 09 El-N-Gee, New London,CT
Aug 10 Middle East, Cambridge,MA (The Explosion)
Aug 11 Krome, S. Amboy,NJ (The Explosion)
Aug 12 Armory High, Syracuse,NY (The Explosion)
Aug 13 Knitting Factory Club Inc, New York,NY
Aug 14 930 Club, Washington,DC
Aug 17 Highfield Festival, Erfurt,Germany
Aug 18 Popkomm Festival, Koln,Germany
Aug 19 Razzle Dazzle, Berlin,Germany
Aug 21 AJZ, Bielefeld,Germany
Aug 22 Vera, Groningen,Holland
Aug 23 Waterfront, Rotterdam,Holland
Aug 24 Leeds Festival, Leeds,UK
Aug 25 Pukkelpop Festival, Hasselt,Belgium
Aug 26 Reading Festival, Reading,England
Aug 28 Shelter, The, Dublin,Ireland
Aug 29 TBA’, Belfast,Ireland
Aug 30 Dance Factory, Glasgow,Scotland
Aug 31 Louisiana, Bristol,England
Sep 01 Hop and Grape, Manchester,UK
Sep 02 Rock City, Nottingham,England
Sep 04 Garage/ Scala, London,UK