As far as New Years Eve, we didn’t do shit, but Casper Adams picked up our slack. He hit the Hollywood Hills like Max Hardcore hits porno stars mouths with his violent cock, and partied like it was 1999. Not only was Casper the life of every party he attended (he wasn’t invited to any of them mind you) but he met a whole bunch of new famous friends (Casper said Paz tried to take him home, but he’s not a first date kinda guy), and did a couple pounds of coke off their girlfriend’s tits. This dude is moving up in Hollywood. Get a piece of this soon to be superstar while you still can ladies. Check these pics out.

Johnny Knoxville, Casper, and two Jackasses.

Casper and Paz (ex-A Perfect Circle/Zwan).

Bud Bundy (Married With Children) and Casper.

Every magazine published their “best of 2003” lists… we’re gonna do one too, it’s just that we’re having trouble remembering 20 records we liked this year. We’re at 12 so far… almost. Also be on the lookout for the 2004 Buddyhead website facelift. We started off by changing this here gossip page layout. We like pink, cos we’re on the pink team. Well, some of us are.

Actually we’re never putting out an issue again. WE FUCKING QUIT. We’re gonna start golfing. Golfers get ass. Check out Tiger Woods’ wife / fiancé / fuckhole: (1)(2)

When The Icarus Line was on tour with A Perfect Circle they made Travis pay for his ride by taking more photos than ever possibly needed, including this totally cliché double group shot. Here it is in all its glory.

(from left to right: Billy Howerdel (guitar – APC), Aaron Icky Poo (guitar – The Icarus Line), James Iha (guitar – APC), Josh Freeze (drums and cigerettes – APC), The Captain (drums – The Icarus Line) in the back, Alvin Deguzman in rock star pose (guitar – The Icarus Line), Maynard James Keenan giving the peace sign (vocals – APC), Twiggy errr Jordie White (bass – APC), Don Devore (bass – The Icarus Line), and Joe Cardamone (vocals – The Icarus Line).

To celebrate this special time of year, Shat wrote you all a song. It’s called “Thank You For Giving”. A bit late for this Thanksgiving we know, but early for next years! Happy Holidays from Jeff Wood! Click here. Also, check out his website.

At a recent rock show in the dark shithole city known as Detroit, something quite magical happened. It all started when that poser from the Von Bondies (who talks about Radiohead in every interview like it’s some crazy obscure band we should all check out) tried to start a fight with Jack White of The White Stripes cuz he’s jealous of them and wishes that his shitty band was bigger than them. Homeboy has been talking mad shit on the White Stripes even though he’d probably be working at a gas station right now if it weren’t for that band. So Jack, with only one good hand mind you, beat the living piss outta the dork. Decked him seven times in the face and kept drilling him with his one good hand (that doesn’t have all those metal pins in it) even once he was down. Yooooooowzah! Sent that ego-driven dorkus to the hospital with a dislocated eyeball, a bruised self esteem, and some nice new beauty marks that chicks are gonna DIG! Not. The best part is even though he started the fight, now he’s gonna sue Mr. White for 4 million dollars or some fucking shit. What a total pussy.

Elusive Buddyhead recording artists, Your Enemies Friends are going out on the road with The Dillinger Escape Plan & The Locust FOR A REALLY LONG TIME. Now you know that’s gonna be a weird crowd. Half the crowd will be tough guy metal dudes with Pantera shirts who hate faggots, and the other half will be white belted spock kids who wish they were faggots. Gonna be some brawls we’re guessing. This tour will be your first chance to pick up a copy of the Buddyhead Label Suicide Sampler (Buddyhead #10 finally!) at Your Enemies Friends’ and Dillinger’s merch booth. It’s 2 discs full of unreleased and rare tracks from not only Your Enemies Friends, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Icarus Line, Burning Brides, Murder City Devils, At The Drive-In, Shat, Gayrilla Biscuits, Souls She Said, Text, and Radio Vago, but The Locust as well! How’d we do that? Wait and see! Get it before it hits stores at one of these shows below. It’ll be the cd with blood all over the cover, cuz blood is cool! Also, peep their website, it’s killer… you can see how cute they all are… ahhhh. http://www.yourenemiesfriends.com
1.12 DENVER @ LARIMER LOUNGE (with Sleepy Time Gorilla and Bear vs. Shark)
1.14 KANSAS CITY @ SPITFIRE (with just The Locust)
1.15 IOWA CITY @ GABE’S OASIS (with just The Locust)
1.16 MINNEAPOLIS @ TRIPLE ROCK (with just The Locust)
1.17.04 CHICAGO, IL @ THE METRO
1.18.04 INDIANAPOLIS, IN @ THE EMERSON THEATRE
1.20.04 CLEVELAND, OH @ THE GROG SHOP
1.21.04 GRAND RAPIDS, MI @ THE INTERSECTION
1.22.04 DETROIT, MI @ ST. ANDREWS HALL
1.23.04 TORONTO, ONT @ OPERA HOUSE
1.24.04 LONDON, ONT @ CALL THE OFFICE
1.25.04 GUELPH, ONT @ TRASHETERIA
1.26.04 OTTOWA, ONT @ BABYLON
1.27.04 MMONTREAL, ONT @ RAINBOW
1.29.04 WORCESTER, MA @ THE PALLADIUM
1.30.04 SAYERVILLE, NJ @ KROME
1.31.04 PHILADELPHIA, PA @ THE TROCADERO
2.1.04 NEW YORK, NY @ THE BOWERY BALLROOM
2.2.04 WASHINGTON, DC @ 9:30 CLUB
2.3.04 RICHMOND, VA @ ALLEY KATZ
2.4.04 WINSONT SALEM, NC @ ZIGGYS
2.5.04 JACKSONVILLE, FL @ JACK RABBITS
2.6.04 TAMPA, FL @ TWILIGHT
2.7.04 ORLANDO, FL @ HOUSE OF BLUES
2.9.04 TALLAHASSEE, FL @ THE BETA BAR
2.10.04 COLUMBIA, SC @ UNCLE DOCTORS
2.11.04 ATLANTA, GA @ MASQUERADE
2.12.04 NASHVILLE, TN @ EXIT IN
2.13.04 MEMPHIS, TN @ THE HI TONE
2.14.04 BIRMINGHAM, AL @ ZYDECO
2.15.04 NEW ORLEANS, LA @ HOUSE OF BLUES
2.16.04 HOUSTON, TX @ THE ENGINE ROOM
2.17.04 AUSTIN, TX @ EMOS
2.18.04 DALLAS, TX @ TREES
2.20.04 TUSCON, AZ @ RIALTO THEATRE
2.21.04 SAN DIEGO, CA @ EPICENTER
2.22.04 ANAHEIM, CA @ HOUSE OF BLUES
2.23.04 LOS ANGELES, CA @ HOUSE OF BLUES
2.24.04 DAVIS, CA @ UC-DAVIS
2.25.04 SAN FRANCISCO, CA @ SLIMS
2.27.04 PORTLAND, OR @ ROSELAND BALLROOM
2.28.04 SEATTLE, WA @ SHOWBOX
2.29.04 VANCOUVER, BC @ MESA LUNA
3.3.04 DENVER, CO @ BLUEBIRD

The Icarus Line is kicking off the New Year by touring the UK with Primal Scream. Somebody is going to die on this tour that’s for sure. Primal Scream does more drugs in one night than Keith Richards did in the entire 70’s. These shows will be the only place all you English and Scottish lads can get your hands on the “Three Jesus Songs” sampler containing 3 new tracks from The Icarus Line’s upcoming “Penance Soiree” album (and will you fucking stop emailing us asking when it’s coming out, we’re thinking March – For now download “Up Against The Wall Motherfucker” by clicking here). This fucker won’t be available in stores, so if you want it, get out to one of these shows below. More Icarus Line shows may or may not be added, but these ones are fer sure:
January 16 – Glasgow – Carling Academy
January 17 – Glasgow – Carling Academy
January 18 – Manchester – Carling Apollo
January 20 – Birmingham – Carling Academy
January 21 – Southampton – Guildhall
January 23 – London – Hammersmith Apollo
January 24 – London – Coronet

We have a new celebrity “story” couple, yeah. Tommy Lee is wrecking Pink’s trashbox. On some airline flight the two got wasted and almost got thrown off the flight because of “rowdy” behavior. Pink looks like a dude sometimes, then other times, she looks like a chick… but even then, there are “dude” qualities. Ever notice that? 50 bucks she’s got a wiener. Tommy, you can do better than this man… just let Jeff Wood have her man.

The singer for the Darkness got arrested in New York because they thought he was a terrorist. They let him go though. If we were the pigs that arrested that dick, we’d have him under the hot light asking him, “WHAT THE FUCK IS FUNNY ABOUT BEING AN IRONIC HAIR SPRAY METAL BAND?” and then we’d send in Aaron Icarus in a full cop outfit complete with a greasy moustache, and Aaron would do a full body cavity search without a glove… and he’d like it.

Radio Vago told us they found a new singer and that they are planning on finishing their debut album for Buddyhead with Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (he plays guitar for The Mars Volta and is Jennifer Lopez’s little brother) as soon as time permits. We’re excited to say the least, cuz we loved J-Lo’s last joint, it was fucking off the hizzy yo.

Adrienne (former singer of Radio Vago) has a new band herself. They are called Shoot Out The Lights… or maybe it’s Shoot The Lights Out… anyway, either way, they are really good. If you like to go see bands n’ stuff, and live in L.A., you know this already. If you haven’t seen this band yet, here’s when they’re playing:
Sat. Jan. 3rd @Bottom of the Hill, SF w/ The Hard Place, Bart Davenport
Thurs. Jan. 8th @The Silverlake Lounge w/ The Lovemakers, Seksu Robot 21+
Thurs. Jan. 15th @Zen Sushi, LA w/The Lips, The New Collapse
Tues. Jan. 27th @Spaceland, LA w/ The Blood Arm, The Adored, Mika Miko
Thurs. Feb. 20th @The Smell w/ Electro Group (more TBA)
Fri. Feb. 27th @The Scene w/ Tsk Tsk, Hot & Heavy

Oh yeah, we couldn’t remember if we told you or not, but we’ve signed a new band with these four little shitheads from L.A. called The Fallen. One of the conditions though, was that they stop doing so much god damn blow, and find a new band name that doesn’t suck. So if anybody has any good band name ideas, email us, or go see them play one of these shows and tell them… Jan 6th@ Q-Topia (6021 Hollywood Blvd) with Nantucket Suicide (who also rule) and Broadie (no, not the chick from The Distillers). The show is all ages, $5, doors @ 9:00, show starts at 9:30, “The Fallen” play third. Go see em, they fucking slay.

The Fallen are also playing with Yeah Yeah Yeahs on January 21 at the Troubadour. If you already have tickets to the sold out show, come early to see The Fallen… or whatever they’re called by then. Har Mar is playin too. Time to make party. Hopefully Nick can seal the deal with Fairuza Balk. He’s gonna hafta dump that Bright Eyes kid first though.

Speaking of that Bright Eyes kid we heard he only made out with Winona Ryder, dude… you’re gay.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are up for a Grammy but are gonna lose to The White Stripes cuz Jack White made a deal with the devil and shit. Karen O is gonna show up to the awards dressed up as one of her favorite Lord Of the Rings characters.

Call up the tour manager, Pete Robertson, for those big haired emo puffs, Coheed and Cambria, and tell him that the Nazi soldiers were only following orders too. 323-304-4764. Mixing emo with prog-metal leads to the sort of things that would happen if you bred a short bus riding, drooling, soft-serve retard midget girl with one of those 4 dudes in every high school who wear all over print t-shirts with unicorns, dragons, and rainbows on them, and sit in the back of the lunch room playing dungeons and dragons. What a total fucking mess.

We heard that the gawky “MAD Magazine” looking singer guy from Thursday broke down in tears at some “acoustic in-store” in Boston at Newbury Comics. Apparently this bedwetter does this every night during the exact same part of the song. Sounds a little scripted to us. When did fake crying become cool? Where the fuck were we? Did we miss a meeting? The worst part is that there are 300,000 emo-nazi youth hanging onto every word this dipshit says, setting us all up for a huge wave of emotional fruitcakes who will spawn a billion other crybaby bands. We’re in for some shit folks.

David Yow (singer of The Jesus Lizard) now calls Los Angeles his home! Good work Davey! The bummer that we keep hearing is that he’s been hanging out with Gavin from Bush! Now, not only does Gavin get to play hide the pickle in Gwen’s pink taco, but he gets to go drinking with DAVID YOW!!!! That bastard! David, you should be drinking whiskey with us instead of hanging out with that British export. Just cuz he tricked Steve Albini into recording his band once doesn’t mean he’s cool. Actually, we’ll hang out with both of you if Bush is buying drinks for everyone. If he throws down the card, it’s on. By the way, if you’re still a stupid kid, go buy The Jesus Lizard records “Goat”, “Liar”, “Head”, their live cd “Show”, and their singles and rarities cd, “Bang”.

Finch kicked out their drummer. We didn’t care enough to find out why. Oddly enough, people who buy Finch records also buy child pornography. We read that somewhere. Or maybe it’s people who put out Finch records…

Speaking of dork shit. The new Lord of the Rings made like a gazillion dollars in its first weekend. If you saw it, ask yourself “how much of a fucking loser am I? I just went and saw a movie about elves and dragons and wasted three hours of my life.”

The dude from The Kill’s with that wack spock haircut has been blasting loads up in that blonde tart from The Raveonettes. Meanwhile the girl from The Kills has jumped teams and is now cutting some rug with the singer of The Hells. By the way, The Hells used to have The Captain on drums for a while there, back when The Icarus Line fired him for being a pussy. We’re glad Captain’s back.

The MTV Real World house is at 4922 North Harbor DR San Diego. Someone better go down there with some tar and feathers. Or at least some eggs.

We ran into two members of that shitty Canadian pop punk band, Sum 41 (the drummer/rapper dude and the short little gay singer guy who nailed Paris Hilton), at the Beauty Bar a few Saturdays ago while Travis and Joe were Dj-ing. Yeah dude, we rub elbows with fucking famous people here in Lost Angeles… too bad not any cool ones. They looked lost and confused with the sounds of non Warped Tour affiliated bands playing, so we heckled them for a bit with Nofx and Blink 182 references. They didn’t laugh and pretended to call other famous people on their cell phones as a defense mechanism. We felt bad for the musically retarded millionaires for some reason, and actually tried to give them one of our LP’s of The Stooges “Funhouse” after they actually admitted to never hearing the album before (or even knowing it was an album) even though they just recorded a song with Iggy Pop. We told them that they embarrassed Iggy and that they should listen to some other music besides Green Day so they could grow as “artists”, so we offered them the gift, but they continued to refuse it, so Travis just ended up making strange animal noises at them until they left confused. You try to be nice…

Har Mar Superstar does however own “Funhouse”, not to mention tons of weird hip-hop and R& B records. Plus, not only does he live in L.A. now, but he lives in the same Apartment building Motley Crue used to call home (yeah the one right behind the Whiskey). Needless to say, he is slaying mad tang. He also did some amazingly funny tv commercials for Vladivar Vodka you can download here (we recommend the one not allowed on tv). Oh, and he told us to tell you he tested negative on his HIV test, which is awesome, and you should all go get tested too.

Michael Jackson likes to get his dick sucked by little boys. He’s going down. We’re gonna throw a party once that freak is behind bars. He got off once, but this is like if OJ killed another girl… you ain’t getting off twice dude, I don’t care how much money you got or whatever. This fruit is toast. Oh, and fuck all these famous people supporting him… IT’S WRONG TO SLEEP IN A BED WITH OTHER PEOPLES KIDS, TOUCHING THEM OR NOT… HE AIN’T IN THE JACKSON FIVE NO MORE AND HE AIN’T SINGING “ABC 123”. The dude is NAMBLA all over, and the “celebrities” getting all worked up over this wouldn’t let their kids stay over Michael Jackson’s house either… or maybe they would… depends on what kind of publicity they’d get.

Here’s some lame juicy emo gossip (the 14 year olds just got excited and now Michael Jackson just got excited too)… The real reason The Anniversary was kicked off the Vagrant roster is because when The Get Up Kids and The Anniversary were on tour in Japan, it came out that Adrianne (the keyboard girl in The Anniversary and who is/was married to the bass player from The Get Up Kids) and Justin (the singer dude in The Anniversary who pretends he likes Led Zeppelin) were having an affair. Yikes is right! Can you say emo love triangle?!

Not only did Carlos from Interpol steal Asif’s haircut (he manages Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Tv On The Radio and a million other bands) but he’s also a hardcore chubby chaser. Yeah he’s the guy who’s always “diving on the grenade” outta the bunch of em. Yeah dude, he’s pounding the pudgy pussy! At least the man has a passion… fuck, that’s more than most of you geeks can say.

The guys in The Black Sea have been smoking more reefer than Dead Meadow lately, and in the mist of the haze, they’ve gone and changed their name to Decahedron. We’re not sure what the fuck that means, but we’re gonna bet Shelby named it during a game of D& D. In case you’re in the dark on who the fuck The Black Sea is/was, it’s two guys from that band Frodus (you like Frodus? How about I throw this …) and the bass player dude from Fugazi. They already got an mp3 up you can hear.
http://theblacksea.cc/
http://www.decahedron.net/

Speaking of Fugazi, all good things must come to an end, and it seems that the long and crazy trip is finally over. Yep, they’ve finally called it quits. Ian has a new band with his girlfriend or wife or life partner or whatever she is. We heard his new lyrics are still all about coke and heroin and how he hates coming down… but we could be wrong.

Rick Rubin is making two records at once right now! Yeah, that’s how good of a “producer” he is!!! He doesn’t even have to be in the studio when they are recording! Wow is right! We can’t wait to be producers ourselves so that we can eat donuts, fart em out, grow beards, and talk to famous people on our two way pagers all day long too! Sounds like a great job! The International Noise Conspiracy and Weezer get to share Ricky at the present time. In their spare time, Dennis and the rest of INC like to hang out at the Beauty Bar to do fat rails of speed and pick up on dudes and chicks to take back to Rick Rubin’s mansion. They won’t let us hang out, but they invited Sam Velde to use him for his American style singing for backups on their record so they don’t sound quite so Swedish.

People just can’t mention The International Noise Conspiracy without throwing in Dennis’s old band, Refused in there somewhere. So here we go following the masses. Dennis is pissed about the Refused DVD that is about to come out. Kris Steen (the guitar player from Refused) was in LA a while ago for a few weeks interviewing people (one being Don Devore) for the digital video disc that will come out on Epitaph sometime later this year. Their last album, “The Shape Of Punk To Come” is also being re-released in a 5.1 mix with some bonus stuff. Hopefully it includes the last song Refused ever recorded, “Peek-A-Boo”. It’s got a good slayer riff, and even better lyrics about how Dennis is pissed cos he’s the only straight edge one left in the band.

Heckler ripped 400 Blows off for a show they put together, and still haven’t paid Aaron and Travis from like 5 years ago either. Somebody tell these bitches to pay up. Does anybody out there really wanna read about snowboarding and the Deftones at the same time anyway? Didn’t think so.
Email their dipshit editor at sam@heckler.com or samtoll@electircpage.com

If you’re in a band that tours in a bus, and you were wondering why it is now legal for the police to enter your bus without a search warrant to look for drugs, well… blame the dudes in Queens Of The Stoneage (but don’t say we said so cuz we don’t want our asses kicked by them, they’re huge dudes). Apparently the law had to be changed cos those dudes were smuggling half of Columbia underneath their bus all over the country. Thanks dudes!

Every record label in the world is trying to sign The Shins now that they are out of their contract with Sub Pop. More importantly, the keyboard player of The Shins has a mega hot girlfriend that was on “America’s Next Supermodel” or some shit. Check her out here.

Canyon is touring with and backing up Jay Farrar (x-uncle tupelo).

Dave Grohl is putting aside his modern day Wings band, the poo biters, so he can pretend he’s metal. He’s releasing a metal record with guest singers from 80’s bands on Southern Lord. Greg from Southern Lord is buying drinks next time we see him cuz you know that’s shit’s gonna sell!! BOOYAH!

Speaking of the Jim Carey of rock, Dave Grohl is also producing Rye Coalition’s major label debut that’ll come out on Dreamworks some day. Hopefully more people will care about this record than that Verbena record he did a few years back. The Captain likes to suck dicks with Rye Coalition.

Krist Novoselic, you know… the tall one in Nirvana, says he may run for lieutenant governor of Washington.

Jason Newsted got kicked out of Ozzy.

Rumor is that Chris Robinson is teaming up with the Deleo brothers (STP bass and guitar) and the former Black Crowes drummer to start a band. It’s gotta be better than that shit Slash and Scott Weiland are trying to pull over on people.

Clone Defects from Detroit broke up.

The Hot Snakes want to tour more, so they had to get a new drummer cos Jason is too busy with Burning Brides. Bummer.

Sofia Coppola filed for a divorce with Spike Jonze. Sofia says that with her new free time, she’s going to start a record label (just what the world needs) and that Giovanni Ribisi’s character in her last movie “Lost In Translation” was based on Spike Jonze. We say her whole career is based on her dads.

Rocket From The Crypt dressed up as The Villiage People for Halloween.

Photo credit: “Rulon”

Anyone who’s up for some shits and giggles might wanna check out the DVD video portion of the new “Misfits” record called “Project 1950″. It contains a video from a live show where Jerry Only, Dez Cadena and Marky Ramone toured as the “Misfits”. They play only old cover songs (Dion, Bobby Vee, etc.), done in the Misfits style — and the kicker is they’re playing at a snowboarding hill for a bunch of jocks who throw snowballs at them (to which Jerry says, with complete sincerity, “Hey, you guys are pretty cool”…for being so bad-ass?). Dez looks like a black metal guitarist with corpse paint. Marky, somehow, doesn’t have to wear make-up, and instead dons the signature Ramone look, and Jerry’s still flexing after all these years. It’s almost more Spinal Tap than The Tap itself.

The Bronx can’t stop getting into van accidents.

Those old dudes in Face To Face finally decided to hang it up. THANK FUCKING GOD! The drummer is in an equally wack band now, Saves The Day. Shit sticks together.

Speaking of Saves The Day, we hear dudes at their label are bummed cos they tried to be weird on this new record, and it didn’t sell like they thought it would. Weird huh? Still sounds like a kid who needs a diaper whining to us, what’s weird about that? We still think it’s funny that the dude has a weird bowel problem. If we were your friend we would have gotten you diapers for Christmas.

Todd from that band Glassjaw is now dating Mouseketeer Hillary Duff! HIT THAT SHIT TODD!!! Daryl from Glassjaw started a garage rock band cause he’s panicking that nu metal might not be the way to go. Pssshhht…. garage rock sucks too. Try again. We also heard the singer guy has a shitting problem too. The same as the Saves The Day guy. Glassjaw always has to cancel tours and shit, cause homeboy is on the toilet or something. It’s childish, we know, but it’s funny. We just realized that’s way too much Glassjaw news coming from a website run by two dudes who have never even heard this band before… but we heard they were lame, so whatever.

Blink 182 is gonna write a song about Glassjaw and Saves The Day’s shitting problems. It’s going to be serious though. Cause Blink is serious now.

We keep confusing the new Blink song with the new McDonald’s commercials, “I’m Lovin This” or whatever…

Someone tell Madonna she’s too old to try and dance like she does in that new video with Britney. Oh yeah, and someone tell Britney her voice sounds like PROTOOLS AUTO-TUNE.

Anyone wanna guess just how fucking dumb Liz Phair feels right about now? Her Matrix written, Avril Lavinge sounding pop album sold 50,000 less than her record “Whitechocolate”, and about 200,000 less than her records “Whip Smart” and “Exile in Guyville”. She needs to write more songs about blowjobs.

Starlite Desperation is slaying tang and mixing their new e.p. for Cold Sweat in nyc this week. The record is called ‘Violate A Sundae’. Their guitar player tried to kick Aaron’s ass for being gay once.

Yet another Spiritualized rarities album is coming out in a few months. Sweet tits.

Wu Tang is putting out a new record in 2004. This might actually be ok with ODB around now. I just realized how cool it is that these guys have the word TANG in their band name.

Cris Kirkwood from the Meat Puppets was shot Friday by a security guard at the downtown Phoenix post office. The dude should live, but it’s still fucked. According to witnesses, Kirkwood was fighting over a parking space. Cris was backing into the space when Jenny Hom, attempted to pull into it from behind. Hom honked her horn, then both drivers pulled into the parking lot. Hom said that Kirkwood, whom she did not identify by name, followed her and stopped her on the sidewalk outside the post office, yelling obscenities at her. “He shrugged his shoulder as if he was going to hit me,” she said. “He didn’t hit me.” But Hom went into the post office and reported the man’s behavior to a security guard. The guard escorted the man out. Kevin Killigrew of the FBI said that the aggressor shoved the guard twice. “[The guard] took out the baton and held it out in front of him and said, ‘You need to leave,’” Killigrew said. “The guy took the baton from him and struck him at least one time in the forehead at which time the guard felt fear for his life. He said, ‘I thought the guy was going to kill me.’ He already displayed that he would hurt him, and the guard shot him one time in the abdomen.” Shortly after the incident, the guard was sitting dazed on the steps of the post office. Kirkwood’s clothing sat in a pool of blood on the sidewalk. “I never shot anyone before,” the fake pig told Phoenix Police.

Sam McPheeters of Born Against, Men’s Recovery Project fame, has a brand new punk rock band called WRANGLER BRUTES. One of the drummers from Born Against, and homeboy from The Monorchid is in it too. Shitty part is, you can only get their record on tape. These dudes thought it would be “cute” and “punk” to do it that way. Mmmmmmmk. Retro.

Alex Newport finally pulled his head out of his ass and moved to L.A. from San Francisco. Alex is pretty cool for a limey turdburgler.

Sam Velde is getting married! Congratulations dude!

The infamous, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, is hitting the road for a west coast tour with his band The Evaporators. Make sure you go see this live extravagaza if you are able to. Check http://www.nardwuar.com and http://theevaporators.com/ for more info. Keep rockin’ in the free world, and have a good dinner.
Evaporators West Coast Tour Dates 2004
Jan 21- Twlight Café, Portland, OR (1420 SE Powell Blvd. ) w/ Ronson Family Switchblade, The Observers Info? http://www.twilightcafebar.com
Jan 23- Gilman, Berkeley, CA (924 Gilman ) w/ Harold Ray Live In Concert $5 Info? http://www.924gilman.org
Jan 24- The Smell, Los Angeles, CA (247 So. Main St. Downtown L.A. (between 2nd and 3rd St (enter in the back through alley.)) 9pm $5 ALL AGES w/ The Orphans, Harold Ray Live In Concert plus Nardwuar’s Video Vault! (see *Note) Info? http://www.thesmell.org
*Note: The above mentioned Sat Jan 24th date at the Smell will be a * very * special show. In addition to the evenings rawk, Nardwuar of the Evaportors is gunna show some video interviews he’s done over the years! Check out clips of Snoop Doggy Dogg, Mikhail Gorbachev, Michael Moore, Marilyn Manson, Henry Rollins, Blur, Ashanti, Kelly Rowland, Busta Rhymes, The Damned, GWAR, Vanilla Ice and lots more – all presented live to you via video projector on the big screen. No joke!!!
Jan 25- Spaceland, Silverlake, CA (1717 Silverlake Blvd) 9pm w/ The Orphans, Rolling Blackouts, Harold Ray Live In Concert Info? http://www.clubspaceland.com
Jan 27- The Casbah, San Diego, CA (2501 Kettner Blvd.) w/ Harold Ray Live In Concert Info? http://www.thecasbah.com
Jan 28- Thee Parkside, San Francisco , CA (1600 17th Street at Wisconsin Street) w/ Harold Ray Live In Concert Info? http://www.theeparkside.com
Jan 30- Java Jive, Tacoma WA (2102 South Tacoma Way) 9pm w/ Ronson Family Switchblade, Rockin’ Rod & the Strychnines
Jan 31- The Funhouse, Seattle (206 5th Ave) w/ The Fallouts, AAIIEE!!
Feb 14-The Brickyard, Vancouver, BC (315 Carrall Street ) w/ Los Furios, Riff Randells Info? http://fireballproductions.com
Feb 17-Mesa Luna, Vancouver, BC (1926 West Broadway) w/ Los Furios, Riff Randells 7pm doors ALL AGES Info? 604 669 6468

Oh, and The Icarus Line’s manager, Les Borsai (aka Chef Boy-am-I-gay) has done us all the favor of sharing one of his world famous recipes for a meal of our own enjoyment this festive holiday season. Here it is:

Filet Minion
Cooked in a mushroom shallot red wine sauce. Filet wrapped in bacon cooked at 350 for 30 minutes. Let mushrooms, wine, and shallots caramelize in oven for sauce.

Baked Carrots
Carrots Julienne baked cumin, sugar, thyme, butter, and white wine. Bake for 30 minutes.

Yellow Zucchini
Sauteed in Olive Oil with Garlic and Red Chilli Peppers for 20 minutes.

Drink two bottles of 99 cent red wine while Joe’s dog bites your leg, and we make fun of all the bands on Headbangers ball.

Chop out four big fat fucking lines of blow for dessert. (Don’t buy blow from Monica though)

Have The Icarus Line and Travis come over and eat the dinner, so you can take your mind off the fact that your girlfriend is getting fucked in Fiji by the janitor of the resort she’s staying at.

We have no idea when The Icarus Line’s album will hit stores, but the vinyl version on Buddyhead should be out a bit before the cd. If you’re having trouble keeping it in your pants to hear new Icarus Line shit, they will have a demo version of the song “On The Lash” on the upcoming “Underworld” soundtrack. It’s some movie about vampires or some shit. They heard Don Devore used to be in Ink & Dagger so they freaked out or something. Other bands with new songs on the soundtrack include Dillinger Escape Plan, David Bowie, that dude Maynard from Tool, and that Southern Christian rap metal band with the chick singer… Evanessence er whatever it’s called. Sweet. Also still available in the UK is the “Love Is Happiness” single, with four new-ish songs on it. Check it out.

In even more Icarus Line news… their first e.p., “Red And Black Attack” (recorded way back in the 90’s!) is now completely out of print. We managed to salvage a couple boxes of these things, and if you like screaming and shit and want one, your last chance is by picking one up here on our online store. Click here to buy that shit.

The Burning Brides start recording their first proper major label album for V2 at Oceanway Studios in L.A. on Monday. That’s where Radiohead recorded their last record so you know it’s gonna be posh. Sometime after basic tracks are done, their drummer Jason is going down to lay down drums for the new Hot Snakes record. Bonus.

The cutest little trend now with new bands and major labels, is to sign young bands, and instead of them sitting around for awhile doing nothing, they get them to put out fake indie albums… usually on their own fake indie labels, or perhaps any indie label willing to take a check under the table, and that way they can build up that “indie cred” that “money can’t buy” in an “organic” way. Right. This is especially popular among many local L.A. bands of the moment who have played like… 5 shows, but are already living fat on the major label payroll. The funny part is that some of you idiot kids out there either can’t tell this is happening, or don’t care. Well here’s the thing, to all the bands that put out albums on independent labels cos there’s no other way to put out their records, and tour in vans cos that’s the only option there is, not cos it’ll make them look like “troopers” in their major label debut’s one sheet, IT’S HUGELY FUCKING OFFENSIVE. FUCK OFF. So next time you hear about a band where somebody says, “awwww, naw dude, they didn’t really sign with $8#2% Records, that’s just a rumor”, and then see full page ads in every magazine on the face of the planet for their “independent” record, YOU ARE BEING FUCKING PLAYED.

Kate Moss will be seen “pole dancing” in the new White Stripes video “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself”. We’d rather see her dance on our poles.

Those boring 40 year old garage rockers, The Mooney Suzuki, are in Los Angeles working on their new album… or should we say, paying other people to work on their album. The Suzuki’s took all that money Nike crammed up their asses and put it toward their new album! YEAH! They’ve hired the Matrix songwriting team to help them pen some radio hits so they don’t get dropped too quickly. Busted again. Last time we busted these guys for lying about their ages, they changed their age info on their website like, the next day. Snap! So yeah, The Matrix are the same people who wrote Avril Lavigne’s songs as well as the new soul-less Liz Phair album. Looks like this time around the song writing process won’t be so “Complicated” for The Mooney Suzuki.

The bass player of Phish is tripping! Oh wait, he always has been. But now he’s gonna get stabbed for it. The story is he’s kidnapped the daughter of the head of the Hells Angels and taken kiddy porn photos with her. That was smart dude.
Jawbreaker reunited and you missed it. Well, kind of. At the Jets To Brazil show, Wednesday june 20th in Seattle, Washington at Graceland, every member of Jawbreaker was in the same room for the first time in over seven years. No songs were played and we weren’t even there to yell “KISS THE BOTTLE” at em, but Frankie Chan, the club promoter of Graceland, got super agro fan geek on them and made them pose for this photo. Good work Frankie.

Jeff Wood’s porno is up on burningangel.com. Yikes.

Ian Svenious of the Make Up/Nation of Ulysses and Calvin Johnson of K records are doing a DJ tour together so they can play stupidly obnoxious records that about four people in the western hemisphere have heard and fuck all the little friendster boys and girls that they can get their aging punk dude hands on. Sounds like a party to us.

Speaking of Friendster, if you’re on that shit, take a look at yourself and try and tell yourself you’re not a total waste of skin. It’s pretty fucking impossible huh? Get a hobby dorks.

Cave In might need some help prying that foot out of their mouths right about now cuz they just started playing the heavy shit again. The kids think those Foo Fighter songs are like tampons (they’re for pussies) so they’ve started playing the Slayer riffs again and making Stephen do that barking crap and all that shit. Oh yeah, and Vanilla Ice is rapping again too.….. we’re just sayin.

So Cal Inflight is back kids! Now you can check out all the upcoming shows while you jerk it to porn: http://premiummagazine.com/Socalinflight.html

Your Enemies Friends finally finished their album. We’ll have a release date for that real quick like for you. They’ll be playing a few shows in LA before we send em out on tour for life. They promised they would buy tuners before the shows too.

Atom and his package is breaking up. There are at least four coffee shop geeks from Philadelphia that are really fucking bummed out right now. The rest of us realize that “nerd irony” is about as funny as a funeral for a toddler.

Jack Grisham, singer of TSOL, is running for governer of California. Dude, not only does Arnold have a better chance of winning than you do, but we’re betting Webster kicks your ass. Yes, Webster is actually running.

That Bright Eyes fruitcake is moving the fuck out of Oklahoma cause he read in Spin magazine that New York was cool, so he’s packing up all his Sunny Day Real Estate 7 Inches and moving to Brooklyn where he’ll brainwash little 15 year old girls into thinking that he’s “talking to them” before he bruises their little gashes. Dude is emo, but he lays more pipe than Keith Richards. We’re talking Keith Richards of 2003 by the way.

The new Saves The Day record is coming out on Dreamworks. If you care about this YOU ARE A GIANT PUSSY.

This is pretty amazing, in a totally fucking geek way. http://www.the-fingerboarder.com

Tim Armstrong keeps telling everyone he’s gonna start laying mad pipe in famous people now that his ex-wife is making out with dudes in magazines but so far no takers. Rancid is also still sticking to that, “We’re not on Warner Brothers, we’re on Epitaph” story too. Riiiiiiiiiiight dudes. Then how come last time we were at Epitaph looting the place, when we asked for the new Rancid album so we could sell it at Amoeba, everybody said, “Naw, we don’t have any of those, you need to get that one from Warner Brothers”. Hmmmmmmmm.

Kool Keith just released an album of “odds and ends” called Lost Masters. Someone better send us this shit.

Page Hamilton from Helmet has been calling everyone to brag that he is fucking Winona Ryder, but everyone already knows that because Page 6 reported it. We’re just wondering if she’s gonna let him play Bob Dylan’s guitar that she owns. Yoooo Winona! Let us come over and play Bob’s guitar JUST ONCE, and we’ll quit talking smack.

Andy Greenwald’s book about how emo is a sexist boy subculture is coming out
in October and I guess every bed-wetting date rapist with a poetry journal
(or at least the current Vagrant roster) is scared it’s gonna kill their 15
minutes of fame. We just can’t believe that dork gets paid to write about music.

The Revolution Smile are head banging in unison at this very moment… somewhere. That shit is about as cool as your grandma wearing a fanny pack.

My Chemical Romance, some band the dude with the bottle opener gap-teeth from Thursday “produced”, just signed to Warner Bros. Because in case you didn’t read in Spin… EMO IS BIG.

Oh, and if you missed this one too… Spin, or maybe it was Rolling Stone… what’s the difference… just pretended like they invented the term “screamo”. That shit was lame when middle aged, white, Matchbox 20 fans didn’t know about it anyway.

Relapse still thinks it’s releasing the Dillinger record next spring. NAW BRAH!

The guitar player from that band Breaking Pangaea on Equal Vision has joined
Taking Back Sunday. The guy whose girlfriend the lead singer fucked is still
under contract for another record, even though he’s not in the band anymore,
so it should be interesting to see how that pans out on the next record,
which is supposed to come out on Victory or any number of major labels next
year. Blah, blah, blah. Um… too bad nobody cares about any of this shit except for 15 year old pussies .

DreamWorks and Island are both trying to sign Brand New. Which if you think about it is pretty funny… a bunch of mid aged people listening to fourth generation mall emo. You people are old enough to know better!

Someone told us that Sub Pop has the Modest Mouse guy doing A&R now. We heard that instead that to prepare for this job he’s been hitting the crack pipe on the most recent tour. Sounds like the kind of place we want to work. Anyone wanna hire us over there?

The Tripping Daisy guy from Polyphonic Spree is the only one on the contract with Hollywood Records and according to current and former band members he is starting to go “crazy” and is a complete “egomaniac”. Yeah, no shit…the guy started a band where he convinced a bunch of people to dress up like they believe that Aliens are coming to resurrect Jesus, he’s supposed to be like that you fucking nimrods.

The dude from Staind keeps getting fatter.

Limp Bizkit got boo’ed off stage, not to mention pelted with bottles while the crowd chanted “FRED SUCKS”, when the Summer Sanitarium tour hit Chicago a few weekends ago. That’s pretty cool and all, but why the fuck didn’t the crowd do the same to Mudvayne, Linkin Park, and Metallica. NEWFLASH, THOSE BANDS SUCK TOO.

By all accounts Fred Durst seems to know his record is going to be like the equivelant of listening to a pig fuck an elephant. Sources tell us that he’s been “on-edge” lately and that as more and more demos come out sounding like what would happen if you taped a Christmas prison rape, he’s been getting more and more irritable. He’s even taken to weight lifting to fix his frustrations, and apparently that’s working out for him, but as that’s working he’s been getting more and more concerned that his appearance will look a bit unbalanced come fall when MTV premiers “Launch: the Making of the Limp Bizkit album”. Seems Fred is having MTV go back and digitally alter video to make his ass look “less plump”. Go get em lard ass.

Jonathan Davies from Korn had extra hair digitally inserted where he’s balding in a couple of the bands videos from the last 2 years. Yeah, going bald and singing in Korn… if that doesn’t make you want to dive headfirst into a pit of alligators I don’t know what would.

One of the guitar players from the Explosion “had a nervous breakdown” and checked into a mental hospital. We’re not sure which one, probably the one who will be assuming the “more punk one” role as they slowly morph into a Good Charlotte cover band. Rama better get those guys on tour with the Sex Pistols and start making sure that those dudes wear their bandannas and mesh hats with their spiked bracelets, cause you know… that’s like “punk”.

For their newest video, AFI played Hatebreed and Throwdown over the P.A to get kids psyched up and matrix moshing. Meanwhile Davey Havok was backstage in his dressing room “getting psyched” watching Richard Simmons “Sweating 2 the Oldies 2” before doing his thing.

Mondo Generator are doing drugs in these cities.
September 28th Montreal, QC – Metropolis
September 29th Toronto, ON – Kool Haus
October 01st Minneapolis, MN -Quest Club
October 03rd Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium
October 08th Seattle, WA – Showbox
October 09th Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
October 11th San Francisco, CA – Warfield
October 30th Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl

Interpol are going to be prancing around and acting like pretentious dipshits at all of these places. Either avoid all this shit, or go and act like a suicide bomber.
08-02 Osaka, JP – Summer Sonic Festival
08-03 Osaka, JP – Summer Sonic Festival
08-06 Brisbane, AUS – The Zoo
08-07 Melbourne, AUS – The Corner Hotel
08-08 Melbourne, AUS – The Corner Hotel
08-09 Sydney, AUS – Metro
08-22 Reading, UK – Carling Weekend
08-23 Leeds, UK – Carling Weekend
08-24 Edinburgh, UK – The Liquid Room
08-25 Belfast, UK – The Limelight
08-26 Dublin, Ireland – The Village
08-27 Manchester, UK – Manchester University
08-29 Biddinghuizen, NL – Lowlands Paradise
08-30 Weeze, GR – Terremoto Festival
09-16 Montreal, QB – Club Soda
09-17 Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theater
09-18 Detroit, MI – State Theater
09-19 Chicago, IL – Riviera Theater
09-26 Seattle, WA – Showbox Showroom
09-27 Seattle, WA – Showbox Showroom
09-28 Portland, OR – The Crystal Ballroom
09-29 San Francisco, CA – The Warfield
10-01 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium

JR EWING latest album “Ride Paranoia” (GSL)
US TOUR- October/November – (More US shows to come!):
15.10.03 – Washington DC, USA @ Black Cat w/Pretty Girls Make Graves
16.10.03 – Philadelphia, USA @ Church w/Pretty Girls Make Graves
17.10.03 – Boston, USA @ Middle East Down w/Pretty Girls Make Graves
18.10.03 – Hoboken, NJ @ Maxwells w/Pretty Girls Make Graves
20.10.03 – Prov, RI @ The Met Café w/Pretty Girls Make Graves
21.10.03 – Brooklyn, NY, USA @ Northsix w/Pretty Girls Make Graves
25.10.03 – New York, CMJ Showcase – Dim Mak & Cold Crush @ Knitting
Factory

The Ol’ Dirty Bastard is FREE FROM JAIL! Yeah we’re pretty excited that the Dirt Dog himself is once again a free man! We’d like to think that Buddyhead had a lot to do with Dirt McGirt (ODB’s newest alias) getting released. It must be due to our constant campaigning of the slogan “FREE ODB”. Anywhoo, Old Dirty has only been a free man for less than a week and he’s already got two songs on the radio, uttered a bunch of amazing quotes, and is already in the studio with the Neptunes (who made his last record with him, “Nigga Please”) making a new record. Well, looks like at least one hip hop record is going to be interesting this year… here’s a few of the things ODB had to say in case you missed em: “I wrote rhymes when I was incarcerated. When I got in [the vocal booth] it was a hop, skip and a jump. It was 1, 2, 3. I wanted to get back into the shine. I just want to get back out there and do it again. You know, how Mike Tyson came back, I wanna come back the same way. I want to hit ‘em hard. I just want to hit y’all with headbangers. I’m just gonna be screaming on shit. Period.” Big Baby Jesus also stated, “It feels good being out and just jumping back into my music. I like to hear myself on the radio. I like how quick Roc-A-Fella moves. They move too quick. Quick as lightning. I’m talking about Superman, the Legion of Doom, Flash.” We can’t wait for the new ODB record.

It’s official. There will be no new Guns N’ Roses album. After a decade of millions of studio hours, millions of different collaboration combinations, and millions of dollars… and when we say millions, we mean FUCKING MILLIONS… Interscope / Geffen / 50 other labels, have finally pulled the plug on Axl. This last tour getting cancelled was the last straw in the continuing money pit that is (was) Guns N’ Roses. Looks like “Chinese Democracy” will be placed alongside countless other urban legends with handfuls of people claiming, “Oh yeah, I heard it once, it exists.” Etc etc.

Speaking of scrapped albums, Fred Durst announced on his website that the new Limp Bizkit record will be titled “Open up and say AHHHHH”. We think that fits perfect. After that dumb ass “agreeance” comment he made about the war at the Grammy’s, he went and posted a pro-war statement on his website. Here’s the quote: “And we are putting out an album for our countries victory!! our soldiers kicked so much ass!! i am so proud to be an american!! watch out america. good things are heading our way.” What the fuck is wrong with this dipshit? Too bad a new Limp Bizkit album isn’t going to come out any time soon. Kids who like wrestling are super pissed. Yeah, the ENTIRE new Limp Bizkit album has been SCRAPPED. That’s right, and they’re only 6 million dollars in the hole! Somebody finally told this assclown that his record is a parody of himself, and that he’d better start over, or risk making an even bigger ass of himself than he’s done so far. Looks like we’ll never hear that Rivers Cuomo / Fred Durst collaboration after all. Damn?

Taking Back Sunday nearly broke up after the singer, who was dating the guitar player’s sister, cheated on her. The guitar player and some other dude quit the band cos they were pissed or something. Now the band is looking for new members to round out their lineup and forge ahead so they don’t hafta go back to working at Burger King. If you’ve got what it takes to be a pussy/mall emo superstar, give em a call!

Did anybody else notice that the new member of P.O.D. isn’t fat? You see? Some people listen, and with our constructive criticism here at Buddyhead, we’re just trying to make the world a better… less obese place.

MTV is bringing Headbangers Ball back and Ian Robbinson isn’t even the host. What the fucky? And why are they playing shit like Staind? That shit don’t make our heads bang. DEATH TO FALSE METAL!!!!

MTV slowly sucks your soul from your body. Be warned. They won’t give it back once they get it either.

The archive link to all the old gossip on this page works again. Go ahead, try it out. In the next few days the gossip page and the music reviews pages will both get fresh new looks. How exciting is right! A very very large batch of new record reviews is coming soon as well. And not long after that a bunch of new interviews and features will be posted too. We’re going to town kids.

Madonna rapping about her trainer and yoga is as painful, if not more painful, than having your penis runover by a large semi truck. Someone please make her stop and get her off my tv. She’s done.

Jack White has an intense crush on Karen O. His plans include to woo her, marry her, divorce her, and then start a 2-piece band with her after assuming her last name. If it ain’t broke, why fix it? Jack is pissed that O-Town is already taken. Any suggestions should be shouted at him in between songs on his current tour.

Jack and Meg White supposedly think they’re the new “David Bowie(s)” or something like that, cuz they wake up every morning to a bowl of porridge and plate of cocaine. No wonder their skin looks so smooth… also the new Ziggy Stardust cd and dvd reissues are totally awesome. A must own. Buy em… all you kids who don’t know about David Bowie better get hip to his program… Check out “Ziggy Stardust”, “Low”, and even check out some of the albums he produced. Sure, he’s waify, and ultra fruity, but he fucked Iggy Pop and Mick Jagger, and that’s pretty damn cool.

Speaking of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, they appear on Vice’s “Yes New York” comp as “Unitard”. Tricky, tricky guys! It’s a good song, if you can make it that far past the live Strokes song and that geek from Interpol talking about New York. And if you saw Yeah Yeah Yeahs play on the Conan O’Brien show, then you know they slayed. Buy their new record, it’s great. We like it. Rainbows. Fairies. Unicorns. Children holding hands. Positively positive.

Maybe there is some justice in rock n’roll after all. Kelly Osbourne finally got dropped from Sony. Oh wait… she has nothing to do with rock n’roll. Well… maybe the rolls part. Her mom threw a hissy fit after her daughter got dropped and took her geriatric husband off the label in protest. A lot of people in towns you’ve never heard of with populations in the double digits are going to be super pissed! We say, going to be pissed, because they still haven’t found out yet cos they don’t have computers out there yet. The 12 kids who bought Kelly’s record are already onto their next adolescent phase anyway, so they aren’t too upset.

Saves The Day and Rye Coalition both signed to Dreamworks. Ho hum.

At that Metallica Icon thing on MTV, Limp Bizkit was so fucking bad they had to film them playing that song like twelve times before they got a version that was barely passable for national television. We happened to see the final version and it was pure shit… we can only imagine what they DIDN’T keep. It prolly sounded a lot like it would if the Kids Of Widney High tried to cover “Sanatarium”. Korn had to play theirs a few times too. Their bass player is still trying to figure out why his solo rap record wasn’t bigger than his gut.

The Icarus Line are in the studio recording, and after Continental Airlines destroyed half of Aaron’s gear on the last tour, he is missing some crucial equipment to record with. If anybody has, or knows where to get one of those “Snarling Dog” wah pedals (the red one called “Whine-O”) he will spit on your butt and fuck it. Or just pay you. Whichever you prefer. Email him: Aaron@Buddyhead.com Or if you don’t have the pedal, but just want him to spit on your butt and fuck it, email him cuz he’s down for the brown.

Speaking of fucking butts, check out http://www.vera-groningen.nl/fotoos/icaruslinetwee/index.html for some pictures from the Icarus Line show at VERA in Gronigen, Holland. One of the best clubs in the world. Check out their site. www.vera-groningen.nl

Oh yeah, Aaron needs an apartment in Hollywood too, but nobody will rent to him cos he’s a longhair that looks like he’s on junk. If you have an inside scoop on a 1 bedroom pad, hit him up. If everything works out, you can come over anytime and he’ll spit on your butt and fuck it.

The Mars Volta changed bass players… again. This time they kicked out the dude with the weird beard and stole Manny’s bass player from Distortion Felix. They got the old guy who did all the art for the Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd covers to make the art for their record cover. That’s pretty awesome if you ask us.

Try out for Courtney Love’s band. You just gotta be a “goddess” and able to “really play”. We bet you’ll get to see her burger, and get yelled at a lot… just like Kurt did!!!! How cool is that?! And you’ll get to be label mates with the coolest band on the planet… Stay tuned for more info on that kids! Just call 323-802-7269 to get the address on where to send a videotape of you playing guitar or bass to C-Love. By the way, Courtney, call us we’ll do lunch.

The new Blur record sounds like Moby, and even Moby doesn’t wanna sound like Moby anymore. Graham jumped ship right before it sank it looks like. Someone tell Blur, NO MORE ROBOT VOICES!!!

Your Enemies Friends just finished recording their debut full length. Mixing will begin in a few weeks. We’ll keep you posted on when this record will hit stores. Shit sounds bomb.

ANDREW W.K. has finished recording his new album. Between 10 and 25 songs were reportedly recorded for the forthcoming album, including “Violent Life”, “Never Ending Gay Swing Party”, “Close Calls With Brick Walls and Large Balls”, “Big Dicks and Shit Bricks”, “Addicted to Crack”, and “I Am Totally Retarded”. When the album comes out, Andrew plans on…………… wearing all white and doing jump kicks on tour, what else?

The Deftones are putting out a new record and praying to God that no one remembers that they were on all those wrestling compilations with all those other rap metal bands.

Dave Grohl has finally gone off the deep end. Not only has he been wearing a shirt from that band The Sounds, but now he’s gone too far… He recently recorded a rap rock record with Tommy Lee under their side-project name “The Coolest Dudes”. Dave Grohl said him and Tommy were just “sitting around talking about how rad we are and listening to the new Transplants cd, which is totally awesome, and we got inspired and just got our hip-hop on!” C’mon dude, you used to be in Nirvana.

Mudhoney is still cool.

Are you behind the times? Well, catch up with this teen lingo page. http://www.thesourcefym.com/teenlingo/.

The Stills signed to Vice/Atlantic, and are currently recording their full-length debut which will be in stores sometime in late 2003. The best part is not only did they get tons of cash for signing on the dotted line, but they had “4 lifetime passes to the Playboy mansion“ worked into the contract too. The band said that they can’t wait to start jet-skiing with Playmates and doing body shots of tequila with Twiggy.

Speaking of Twiggy, seeing as how he’s not in Manson’s band anymore, he’s free to DJ your birthday party, jewish holidays, or Christmas parties. You’d just better be ready for him to start spinning Poison on vinyl.

Nicole Kidman and Q-tip were seen at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York on April 19, watching The White Stripes. They left together too. Nicole either loves anal sex or Q-tip is hard up for cash and is now her bodyguard, which could be the case seeing as how his “jazz record” never saw the light of day.

Could Audioslave suck any worse? We vote no.

Aaron watches Sports Center.

Jordan Schalich of the band The Ghost (Some Records, Chicago, IL) formally challenges any sissy boy member of the soft-core band formerly known as American Nightmare, now known as Give Up The Ghost to a mud wrestling match. The winner of the match can keep the word “ghost” within the context of their band name. The loser must change their name to Canadian Daydream. Jordan says, “Watch out for shit filled kiddie pools when you’re in Chi-Town boys. You won’t be able to deny our existence when Jody Jo has got one of you mark ass bitches in a full nelson of fury. Can you handle him, or are you too afraid of getting dirt in your hot topic haircuts?”

Call up Nick Carter 813-787-9550 and ask him if Buddyhead can borrow some money from him.

In the new Rockpile magazine, they describe Cave In as a “toned down Icarus Line”. Huh? Plus we noticed they jacked some of our gossip for their section and didn’t even give us credit. Jesus Christ guys…

If you have more money than us, think about donating (scroll to the top of the page to do that babycakes) so we can keep writing and making you want to beat us up.

Panthers from NYC are putting out a split seven inch with another NYC band Japanther. Get it? They’re both from New York and have panther in their names… anyways… This cute concept was brought to you by Vice! The catch is… these bands fucking hate each other! Japanther has repeatedly called Panthers “the gayest band with a bad-ass animal name ever”. We hear a rumble coming on!

The new Led Zeppelin DVD looks totally fucking killer. Someone over there at Atlantic Records better send us over some, or shits gonna be ugly!

Ever since those Lifetime records came out, we knew those guys over at Jade Tree had a soft spot for Pop Punk. Now they’re putting out an e.p. of Michael Jackson covers. We’re guessing that’s gonna be “funny” or something. We don’t like our rock funny… but thanks anyway. Yeah, you heard us right… in some weird fucked up way, Fat Mike is on Jade Tree.

MTV is bringing Headbangers Ball back and Ian Robbinson isn’t even the host. What the fucky?

Members of the vandals, the distillers, the transplants, AFI, tiger army, rancid, green day, and more Warped Tour-ish bands you shouldn’t care about are making a puppet horror movie together entitled “Live Freaky, Die Freaky“ We’re sure it’s gonna be up for oscars and shit. Here’s a link to the website: http://www.livefreakydiefreaky.com/index2.shtml

Speaking of the Warped Tour, Avril Lavigne is covering Green Day’s “Basket Case” on her current tour. Go to www.greenday.net to hear an mp3 or watch a video if you can stomach those sorts of things. We can’t.

Linkin Park’s new record comes with a 40 page booklet. That’s pretty thick for a children’s book.

Some retarded label called Dying Wish thought putting out a Jawbreaker tribute record would make them some cash. Expect to see a bunch of shitty bands butchering Jawbreaker songs real soon. Those wack bands include: Bayside, Name Taken, Kill Your Idols, Riddlin Kids, Face to Face, Big Wig, Sparta, Fifteen and many more. Oh boy.

In more NYC news, hip and very drunk band of the moment, The Fugue are going to go ahead as a four-piece (their drummer left at the beginning of the year to become a male nurse). Their guitarist is going to play both drums and guitar on their next album, which is going to be called Muscle. We’re not sure if that Muscle bit is a gay reference or not. Make sure to catch them on the Carson Daly Show as part of some feature on hot up and coming bands from NYC next week. They’ll make your panties wet or something.

4 Creed fans are suing Creed because Scott Stapp (or whatever his name is – the lead singer) was wasted at a Creed Show. For much more info, go to this site.

Conor Oberst is boofing Winona Ryder. Our question is, who hasn’t? That’s almost a standard perk in most band’s recording contracts… two cases of beer, new guitar strings, and a wild night with Winona.

That band with the singer who sounds like a muppet, Brothers Keeper, is finally breaking up. Thank the heavens.

The Campfire Girls are doing one more acoustic show before they start a month long residency in LA at Three of Clubs (every Wednesday in June).
monday, may 19th
campfire girls
@ the downbeat cafe
1202 n. alvarado
silverlake, ca
213-483-3955

He is the… KING. He is the… KING. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are playing some shows. Chances are you aren’t cool enough or rich enough to get into these shows. But if you do, enjoy it cuz he’s bad ass.
6/16/03 WARFIELD THEATRE San Francisco CA
6/17/03 WARFIELD THEATRE San Francisco CA
6/18/03 HOLLYWOOD PALLADIUM Hollywood CA
6/21/03 CHICAGO THEATER Chicago IL
6/24/03 ROSELAND BALLROOM New York NY
6/25/03 ROSELAND BALLROOM New York NY

Lou Reed is really fucking old, but he’s still gonna go on tour cuz he’s bad ass and… well, what the fuck else is he gonna do? We’re guessing he’s not gonna play anything you’d wanna hear, seeing as how it’s for the Raven album. Expect some poetry to be read kids.
5/14 Berlin GER: Schillertheater
5/15 Stuttgart GER: Beethovensaal
5/16 Munich GER: Herkulessaal
5/17 Zurich SWI: Kongresshaus Zurich
5/18 Milan ITA: Teatro Nuovo
5/20 Bilboa SPA: Auditorio Euskalduna
5/21 Salamanca SPA: Centro De Artes Escenias
5/24 Amsterdam NET: Carre Theatre
5/25 Antwerp BEL: Queen Elisabeth Hall
5/26 Paris FRA: The Casino
5/28 London ENG: Barbican Hall
6/3 Upper Darby PA: Tower Theatre
6/4 Vienna VA: Wolf Trap Filene Center
6/7 Boston MA: Orpheum Theatre
6/8 Gilford NH: Meadowbrook Farm
6/10 New York NY: Town Hall Theatre
6/11 New York NY: Town Hall Theatre
6/13 Toronto ONT: Massey Hall
6/15 Chicago IL: Navy Pier Skyline Stage
6/19 Tempe AZ: Marquee Theatre
6/21 San Francisco CA: Warfield Theatre
6/22 San Francisco CA: Warfield Theatre
6/24 Los Angeles CA: Wiltern Theatre
6/26 Saratoga CA: Historic Mountain Winery
6/28 Portland OR: Roseland Theatre
6/29 Seattle WA: Moore Theatre

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. We can’t wait.
June 3rd @ Modified (Phoenix, AZ) w/ Dismemberment Plan
June 4th Tucson, AZ
June 5th Austin, TX
June 6th @ Rubber Glove (Denton, TX)
June 7th @ Fat Cat?s *formerly Mary Janes (Houston, TX) w/The Pattern
June 8th @ El Matador (Atlanta, GA)
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

Burning Brides had to cancel the second half of their US tour with My Morning Jacket and Detachment Kit because Dimitri (Burning Brides singer) had to fly into LA for a bit role on the hit tv show Dawson’s Creek. Watch next weeks episode and you’ll see Dimitri playing the guy who steals Dawson’s lady friend away from him… we can’t wait! The word on the street is that Josh from Queens Of The Stoneage wants to produce their next record (their V2 debut)… in the meantime, the Brides are flying over to Europe to bring the rock and also bring the party.
June 03 PARIS, FRANCE – LA BOULE NOIR
June 04 BRUXELLES, BELGIUM – ROTONDE
June 05 GRONINGEN, NETHERLANDS – VERA
June 07 BERLIN, GERMANY – KNAACK
June 08 MUNCHEN, GERMANY – BACKSTAGE
June 09 WIESBADEN, GERMANY – SCHLACTHOF
June 10 KOLN, GERMANY – PRIME CLUB
June 11 STUTTGART, GERMANY – DIE ROHRE
June 12 HAMBURG, GERMANY – SCHLACTHOF
June 14 HULTSFRED, SWEDEN – FESTIVAL
June 15 COPENHAGEN, DENMARK – LOPPEN
June 17 UTRECHT, NETHERLANDS – EKKO
June 18 AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – UP @ PARADISO
June 20 BIRMINGHAM, UK – TBC
June 21 MIDDLESBORO, UK – THE EMPIRE
June 22 GLASGOW, UK – BARFLY
June 24 NOTTINGHAM, UK – RESCUE ROOMS
June 25 LEEDS, UK – COCKPIT
June 26 LONDON, UK – UNDERWORLD

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

With The Dillinger Escape Plan (Shat on selected shows)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Someone feed that Buffy the whatever slayer bitch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

By the way, fuck the entire Warped Tour.

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

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

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

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

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

Sexual Ryan’s band still sucks.

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

Spiderman knobbed Christina Aguilera.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Lost Kids blew it and broke up.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fuck Incubus.

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

Fuck Coldpay.

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

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

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

Fuck Coldpay.

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

Fuck Incubus.

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

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

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

Fuck Korn.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fuck that band 3rd strike.

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

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

Fuck that entire jock fest know as the Warped Tour.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tool is taking out Tomahawk on their US Summer 2002 tour. In case you’re a bit out of the loop (which we know most of you are), Tomahawk is Duane Denison (Jesus Lizard) on guitar, singer Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, and Dillinger Escape Plan’s new EP as well), Kevin Rutmanis (Melvins) on bass, and John Stanier (Helmet) on drums. Someone get us into the LA show. Pretty please.
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In case you care (the sad thing is that we know most of you dorks do care), Weezer shot their muppet shit, for their new single “Keep Fishin’” in Manhattan Beach, CA earlier this month with Ray Cappo’s favorite director, Marcos Siega (Blink 182, System Of A Down, Papa Roach – such quality, right?). It’ll premiere on MTV2 on July 14th. Oh, the excitement… muppets… woo.

Dimitri Minakakis is getting married to Lisa Peck. Liv Tyler is fucking pissed. So is Aaron Icarus.

Oh yeah speaking of Aaron Icarus, he looks exactly like the Count from Sesame Street. They both wear capes. We heard muppets are cool.

Travis needs a car. His died so send him one. His birthday is July 6th. Tom needs a car, preferably purple, his birthday is July 14th… send him one too.

Make sure you buy the new EP by Your Enemies Friends called “The Wiretap EP”, it’s out in stores now on CD and LP through you’re favorite label ever, Buddyhead. Click here to buy that crap in our store. Support our scene…or whatever…

Ok, so anyways, back to us… Inside the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, with Keanu Reeves on the cover (Whoa!) it says we’re one of the 100 most creative people in entertainment this year. Yeah, we’re actually in a magazine, page 108 (kind like that hardcore band Tom listens to everyday), photos and everything. The funny part is, the other 99 creative people in entertainment are all rich. What the fuck are we doing wrong? Anyone got any ideas? Send us money…. now.

Let’s talk about us some more… Buddyhead will be releasing the most important record since Nirvana put out “Nevermind”… Yep, Shat’s 65 track best of album entitled “The Cunt Cronicles” will hit stores across the world on the date of July 30th 2002. Mark that shit down, this is the day the world has been waiting for, Christians wait for Jesus, smart music buyers wait for Shat. The world will never been the same…

Also, in case you haven’t heard yet, every Wednesday night from 9pm til the end (2am) in the city of Los Angeles, Sam Velde (Bluebird) and Travis Keller (Buddyhead) are DJing a new bar in the L.A. area called ‘The Scene (Yeah-Yeah, we don’t wanna hear about the name…thanks. It’s been called that for 40 years…). But anyhow, this place is great, they’ve got two pool tables, booths to sit in, a circle bar, and really cheap drinks! Not to mention they’re letting us play music. Last week was off the hook. We even had Celebrities in the house! John Stanier from Helmet and Tomahawk was there dancing to the B-52’s little a little school girl and Jeremy Weiss of the Saves The Day Muppet video was chilling like a villain at the bar too! We play anything from punk, hardcore, no wave, new wave, classic rock, psych rock, soul, etc, etc, etc,…… you name it! Everything from the Gang Of Four to the 4 Tops. This is a new place run by the people that brought you the ‘Short Stop’ in Echo Park. Come by and rock out with your bad self.

The bar is located in Glendale just north of Silverlake…the address is:
806 e. colorado blvd. 818-241-7029.

Directions from Hollywood:
Los Feliz Blvd. east to Brand Blvd-go left.
Brand Blvd. to E. Colorado Blvd.-go right.

It’ll be on your right hand side…cross street Everett. See you there and make sure to tell your friends.

Speaking of Bluebird, they have a new record in stores called the Black Presence you’re gonna wanna check out. It’s actually out now on Dopamine Records. If you’re one of those lazy types who doesn’t get out of the house or to a record store much, they’ve been so kind as to set up this internet ordering crap online at http://www.dopamine-records.com where you can order a copy of the record and it’ll show up on your doorstep. It’s crazy. The Black Presence was recorded by Bluebird themselves in their own studio last fall, it’s primarily an ambient record as songs were mostly built through improvisation (that means it’s really good it you’re on the pot!). Some of their friends even played on it; Josh Hughes and Andy Rothbard (both from Pleasure Forever), Dave Catching and Mattias Shneeberger (Earthlings/Queens Of The Stone Age) and J. Yuenger (White Zombie, which means he’s “More Human Than Human”). Basically this is the heads up, don’t be a lame, go buy this record. But it doesn’t stop there… Bluebird have also just mastered their record for Dim Mak Records entitled “Hot Blood”. This record was mixed by the amazing Joe Barrisi (Jesus Lizard, QOTSA, Melvins, Weezer) and mastered by the wizardy of David Chepa (Velvet Underground, Dr. Dre, and even the BRMC – the Beans Rice and Cheese Band). An actual release date hasn’t been set yet, but
look for a Fall release on that one. Bluebird is playing some shows… go see em:
7/14 Modified Phoenix, AZ
7/17 Troubador Los Angeles, CA w/ Your Enemies Friends, The Kills, and Radio Vago
7/18 Slims San Francisco, CA w/ Black Cat Music
8/24 Sunset Junction Fest. Silverlake, CA w/ Sonic youth, Mudhoney and much much more…

Penelope Spheeris finally got a clue and figured out she better make the next “Decline of Western Civilization” about a band that people care about. Either that or someone told her that no one cares about street punks and Final Conflict. Johnny Rotten and the “birth of punk” will be the focus of the next film from director who brought us Wayne’s world and teary eyed moments like Chris Holmes from W.A.S.P. drunk in the pool while his mother watched from pool-side in horror. The film will be an adaptation of John Lydon’s fabricated autobiography “Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs” and will explain the ’70s punk revolution from old Johnny’s skewed, but always entertaining perspective. Guess that means The Stooges won’t be in a movie about the birth of punk, sham-out!

Looks like Sharon is striking while the iron is hot and reissuing a bunch of Ozzy’s solo stuff. All those albums we never cared about because it wasn’t Sabbath are back… You know, Bark At The Moon, No Rest For The Wicked, The Ozzman Cometh, and Ozzmosis. Yep, they reissued them with bonus tracks and prolly some new artwork. Other Ozzy albums were reissued earlier this year with songs that were re-recorded with musicians who weren’t on the original recordings. Weak is right. Whatever, just get the Black Sabbath boxset instead. It’s an import, but it kills solo Ozzy shit.

Also out in stores from Ozzy is Live At Budokkan, on CD, VHS, and DVD. That outta be exciting. I wonder if he’s got any muppets in this shit?

In other Osbournes news, next season, Gideon Yago will play their newly adobted son. I smell an Oscar!

It seems everyone wants to be like the Obournes, even people who dress like they’re 13 even though they’re bald. Yep, you guessed it… International Pie Eating King, Freddy Durst is getting his own “reality show” on MTV called “The Launch”. It’s gonna be all about the making of the new Limp Bizkit record. In it, he fires the guy from Snot, plots with the Taliban, begs Wes to come back, throws raw meat on the asses of strippers with The Revolution Smile, tries to play guitar and realizes he’s too fat to rock, and he even jams with the walking corpse, Eddie Van Halen. He also compares “Da Bizkit” to Van Halen about eight million times. That’s how we know Eddie’s slippin’. The Eddie who plays in Van Fucking Halen would have just punched him in the nose and put out his seven cigarettes that he smokes simultaneously right on Lord Porkchop’s rotund face, for saying dumb shit like that. The only worthwhile moment of the whole show is watching DJ Lethal publicly ponder whether or not Limp Bizkit are a bunch of talentless, one trick ponies. Now that’s what we call reality TV. This is gonna be better than Vanilla Ice, cuz there’s so much more footage to look back and laugh about.

John Entwhistle was found dead at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas at age 57. Big time bummer. But chances are he died happy…. Come on, you’re a member of The Who on tour in Las Vegas… You’d think that would mean no Who tour this summer, but they play their first show Monday. Which means, right now The Who is practicing somewhere with a studio bass player…

Looks like there’s gonna be at least one good show this summer, the Hot Snakes are going on tour. Yeah, yeah, we know they kinda ripped us off on the artwork this time around, but don’t take it out on the band, it’s the Swami’s fault! That evil bad greedy Swami! Oh, Swami, why don’t you take the money you saved by making that three color one panel insert and make sure the band has enough t-shirts this tour, unlike the last tour when the Swami was busy plotting terrorist activities with his buddy Bin Ladin. By the time the Hot Snakes got to LA last time they were outta shirts so make sure you order enough this time champ. Anyway, we wanna fuckin’ buy a t-shirt. Fuck, we should be getting free shirts for all these helpful tips we’re passing the Swami’s way. Anyhow, the Burning Brides told the Hot Snakes they’d let them have their drummer back for a few shows as long as they don’t try and keep him, but only cuz they’re gonna be busy counting all the money V2 gave em. So yea, The Hot Snakes are going to be out on the road soon! Make sure not to miss this exciting live rock n’ roll experience! Here are the dates:
Aug 6 Scene San Diego CA
Aug 7 Scrappys Tucson AZ
Aug 9 Emos Austin TX
Aug 10 Rubber Gloves Denton TX
Aug 12 40 Watt Athens GA
Aug 13 The Earl Atlanta GA
Aug 14 Cats cradle Carrboro NC
Aug 15 9:30 club Washington DC
Aug 16 Bowery Ballroom NYC
Aug 17 tba
Aug 18 Middle East Boston MA
Aug 20 Lees Palace Toronto ONT
Aug 21 Grog Shop Cleveland OH
Aug 22 Magic stix Detroit MI
Aug 23 Double Door Chicago IL
Aug 24 400 bar Minneapolis
Aug 25 Bottleneck lawrence KS
Aug 26 Tulagis Boulder CO
Aug 28 Richards on Richards Vancouver
Aug 29 Graceland Seattle WA
Aug 30 Berbaitti’s Pan Portland
Aug 31 Slims San Francisco CA
September 1 Troubadour Los Angeles CA
September 2 tba

By the way, Dimitri from the Burning Brides looks like Heath Ledger in Knights Tale.

Hoobastank will be releasing a 7 song CD comprised of previously unreleased songs on July 9th. We’re waiting on this like we’re waiting on contracting AIDS.

Boy Sets Fire are doing a live EP. Someone better yell Buddyhead in between every song that you don’t yell out Shat and Gayrilla Biscuit song titles. Someone else better tell them they suck too. We’ve been telling them for a while, and they’re not getting it or some shit. They probably think we’re joking, so someone go to the show and let them know. They’ll be taping their 7/19 show in New Jersey for the upcoming EP on Creed’s label called “Live For Today!” We know that the singer, Nathan, is hoping that the Mangina is in the house because he wants the Mangina’s dirty butthole… but the Mangina has Shat practice that night so that dude’s shit out of luck. That EP is out in September sometime if you’re a dipshit and actually care about dudes crying over metal.

Every band on the Warped Tour supports the slaughter of innocent children and kittens in Third World countries. They also all laughed a lot on September 11th. Fuckers…

Jane’s Addiction are currently in the studio with producer Bob Ezrin (Pink Floyd, Kiss) recording another album which they are gonna call “Hypersonic”. The band has completed layed down the basics tracks so far and are expected to continue the “tightening up” process for the coming weeks. Tightening up means that they’re all going do get loaded and buttfuck each other in a pool of sour cream then go out and free slaves with Perry’s fruity ass. In case, you didn’t hear about that, read this… click here

Thrice finally signed to Island Records. When asked about signing, one of the dudes in shants (shorts/pants) from the band said, “We weren’t gonna sign to Island Records bro, we didn’t feel at home like we did at Hopeless. We told them, man, you guys don’t have any killer bands. But then they reminded us that not only was Bon Jovi on their label, but they also had Hanson, Melissa Etheridge, Hoobastank, Saliva, Sum 41, and Def fuckin’ Leppard! So we just fuckin’ signed on the dotted line right there!” Good choice guys!

Moby’s going on tour with Bowie. Bowie is totally gonna fuck Moby fruity ass. Brian Montouri is going to kick Moby’s ass in a jealous rage. Should be interesting.

Speaking of Moby, his dog, which he named Buddyhead, recently had his leg amputated. Which is a really strange ’cause all the dudes in Incubus had their balls amputated. Is this some kind of new trend we don’t know about?

Speaking of raping babies, New Found Glory debuted at number four on the Billboard Charts. Then the editor of Billboard had a fucking heartattack and died. We’re blaming the fat kid on bass with the kool-aid hair cut.

Some poor soul-less dumb fuck has licensed a Damned song to the Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen movie. Oh, and did you hear those two little tramps in waiting are worth 38 million? We can’t wait til they pose for Playboy.

Dashboard Confessional is shooting another video in LA and he’s asking all those fat chicks who come to his shows to be in it. The one-man Buffy fan wants all of his loyal female emo whales, “especially those who know the words to the song ‘Saints and Gay Sailors’, to show up at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles on this Sunday (the 30th) at 11 a.m. to check in, so you can go through the Hot Topic Wardrobe people, so they can make you look all fucking dorky like Rivers. Anyone who gets in this video (fuck, let me rephrase that, ANY video) wearing a Buddyhead shirt gets some free stuff from us. Email dashboardvideo@aol.com first to let ‘em know you’re coming and that Buddyhead thinks they’re all a bunch of cry baby little fruitcakes.

Travis is gay and has no idea what month it is.

Krazyfest happened and a bunch of shitty bands played. The Dillinger Escape Plan broke a bunch of shit, set their equipment on fire and threw their cabinets and sound guys mic stands into the river. People were pissed.

People at labels need to be sending us more free records. Bulk is the key when you sell CD’s, cause no one really gives you that much for one, so we need lots. If you work at a label, stop reading this now and send us a package of good shit, or anything actually..anything at all… to buddyhead po box 1268 Hollywood, Ca 90078. Thanks baby, we love you fuckers.

Someone who works for ABKCO should be a peach and send us the new remastered Rolling Stones records. They are the good ones too! Back when Brian Jones was in the band! We’ll talk about how great they are and tell everyone to buy em if we get two free copy of each.

Dave Grohl can’t seem to get a record out this year… The new Queens of the Stone Age album, “Songs for the Deaf”, has been pushed back. Dave, cut the crap and get the fuckin’ Nirvana box set out!

Bob Dylan sat in with the White Stripes in a recording session for their new record they’re recording in London. Even Bob couldn’t stop starring at her tits..

Bob’s still on tour even though he’s old. Go check him out. Here’s the dates:
8/3: Newport, RI, Newport Folk Festival
8/4: Augusta, ME, Augusta Civic Center
8/6: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Metro Center
8/8: Moncton, New Brunswick, Moncton Coliseum
8/9: St. John, New Brunswick, Harbour Coliseum
8/10: Quebec City, Quebec, L’Agora du Vieux Port
8/12: Montreal, Molson Center
8/13: Ottawa, ONT, Corel Center
8/15: Hamburg, NY, Erie County Fair Grandstand
8/16: Toronto, Molson Amphitheater
8/19: Southampton, NY, Southampton College
8/21: Omaha, NE, Omaha Civic Auditorium
8/22: Sioux Falls, SD, Canaries Stadium
8/23: Fargo, ND, Newman Outdoor Field
8/24: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Winnipeg Arena
8/26: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Place
8/27: Edmonton, Alberta, Skyreach Center
8/28: Calgary, Alberta, Pengrowth Saddledome
8/30: Park City, UT, Deer Valley Snow Park Lodge
8/31: Grand Junction, CO, Mesa County Fairgrounds
9/1: Aspen, CO, Janus Aspen Jazz Fest

R. Kelly wants to eat your heiney, even if you’re only 7.

Brittany Murphy is banging Eminem. She also plays his girlfriend in his new movie that’s coming out soon. She’s been pretty fucking annoying since that “I’ll never tell” movie, but we’d still pork her.

In other Eminem news, he just sold more records than you can count this week. Not to mention every little kid you see right now with headphones on is listening to Eminem. Lot’s of white rappers are being born right now… please god, help us!

The McRib is back.

Rama (not pictured), Mark Hydrahead (the only guy with cool hair in the photo), and a bunch of dudes with tats in t-shirts were interviewed in the Boston Globe about how much they like the movie “Office Space”. Check it here.

Noel Gallagher and Bono are going to score Tom Cruises new War of the Worlds movie. Scientology is dumb.

Courtney Love is being deposed Thursday (June 27) and Friday (June 28) by the attorney for Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic in the continuing battle over the rights to Nirvana’s music and legacy. You three should just cut the shit, we don’t even care if you release the boxed set, just send us copies of all the songs…we promise to keep em locked up…we swear. We already typed out the po box address once today, find it above dudes.

The Strokes have a new video for “Someday” that was scripted by David Cross of Mr. Show fame. In it, they Strokes play Family Fued against Bob Pollard and those old guys in Guided By Voices. I guess when you got the money, you can get anyone to work with you. Rama worships David Cross, we think he might like him in the gay way too. In related news, Fabrizio from the Strokes is banging Drew Barrymore tang. Guess she has a thing for dudes with one testicle.

On the other hand, Drew’s ex, Tom Green is only moving onto bigger and better things. He’s now a pro skater for the same company as the most boring man alive, Tony Hawky-Hawk, Birdhouse Skateboards. He’s also got some Skateboard show coming out in which he’ll be all fucking annoying and get punched by homeless people or something.

Speaking of nuts, Bobby Brown was hospitalized. Not for that “I’m dehydrated” bullshit again, which I think is just code for “I was on a three week crack bender with Ricky Bell and Ronnie Devoe”. His PR lady says it was an infection but she refuses to say what kind. A reliable source says it’s an infection of the nut sack. Poor Bobby B!

The Juliana Theory will release their song “Do You Believe Me When I Say I Like Men?” as the first single from their Epic debut “Man Love”. We can’t wait to hear this.

Matt Skiba, of infamous Alkaline Trio, and Kevin Seconds (you know, of 7 Seconds) are releasing an EP of accoustic shit. Sounds sketchy.

The Vandals made another record that sounds like the last ten. Their bass player likes to sue people.

Sarah Ultragirl “will not date boys who have ever actively participated in the role playing game, Dungeons and Dragons”.

Eddie Vedder likes to wear tiny pink tights to bed.

Exene Cervenka got her footprint immortalized in cement in Hollywood’s RockWalk, when her band X, was inducted last Tuesday. Exene and the other three original members of X, were all introduced by super-fan Henry Rollins. Rollins made sure to let everyone know he was in Black Flag at one time in his life.

Andre 3000 from Outkast was rocking out at the Hives show at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom. Nick Arson from the Hives is banging some Swedish bitch in that band Sahara Hot Nights. The bass player is probably into bestiality. Jesus, look at the fucking guy..he’s creepy.

Calvin Johnson is still alive.

Also, if you ever need to mail Buddyhead anything, our one and only address is: Buddyhead PO Box 1268, Hollywood, CA 90078. Anything sent elsewhere will not reach Buddyhead. We like free shit by the way. We even like when you send us baby shit or razorblades. It brightens our day to see we’ve affected you fruitcakes so deeply. So if you work for some company, send us whatever it is your company does, for free. Now. Cuz we’re poor and we make you laugh and we’re smarter than you, or if you’re just plain fucking rich, give us some of your motherfuckin’ money biatch. Also, back to the free product, this really means you, mister or miss record label, management company, pr firm, or any other place that has promotional music… send Buddyhead tons of free cd’s and lp’s. Thank you. Our email address is: buddyhead@buddyhead.com.

So, last time we posted on here we sent you over to say hi to The Strokers as we were leaving for their city to steal their women and drink in their watering-holes. Joe Cardamone (singer of the Icarus Line, not to mention one hell of a graffiti artist) and myself (Travis Keller) went on a little trip. We flew out to New York first for a night of rock n’ roll, cab rides, drugs, and well… we saw Spiritualized. This is just after catching them the week before at their L.A. show. Just to clear this up, we weren’t following them or pulling any kind of Grateful Dead type shit. Don’t worry. It’s like Lance said, “We might smoke pot, but we’re not fucking hippies man!” Somehow we got into the “Official New York Spiritualized After Party”, which turned out to be kinda boring. Joe, myself, the one and only video camera wielding Joe Burns (who made our day and gave us the show on video along with The Rolling Stone’s “Cocksucker Blues” – thanks again Joe!), Eddie Vedder’s brother and his ill posse, the well dressed and (did he mention?) college educated, gay icon Gideon Yago (check out NEW YORK magazine for Gideon’s write up as “gay icon Y” Haha.), Todd Bridges (yes from Different Strokes), Kramer, multi-lingual super model Leah Cary (who later danced on tables), the entire cast of Friends, a few slutty chicks, a few dickhead suits, some other creepy randoms, and the sober cast of Spiritualized. So there we were partying, drinking their beer and eating their deli trays, talking shit and watching Gideon tell everyone in Spiritualized how rad they were for us while we told ourselves how rad we were. Four valiums and most of their beer later we got antsy and left. On the way out we stole the rest of their beer in our bags and hit up some bar none of us remember much of. The next day Tom told us he’d showed up with an air horn and Travis got us kicked out because of it. The rest of the night was an uphill downhill, if you know what we mean. Meaning we’re not gonna tell you, just think rock n’ roll, death, satan, drugs, sex, and violence. Oh and there were a few explosions too. The next day it was off to Philly where Joe finished up recording an EP with Don Devore (from Ink & Dagger) for their new side project “Souls She Said”. Don laid down the bass and guitar tracks, while Ryan from Ink & Dagger and Ryan from Euphone each did half the drum tracks. Joe showed up, the music was done, he just wrote lyrics and melodies right there with Don. Don even made Travis do a little back up singing on one song. After two nights of writing and recording, a big pile of pills and drugs, a few good Joe Burns acoustic jam sessions, and a dog constantly trying to fuck everyone, we were done. We’ll have an mp3 up on the record label page real soon for you guys to check out. It’s a rough mix of something from the EP. From Philly it was back to New York once more, but we enjoyed it a bit too long and missed our flights. Joe caught the next one back and headed to Coachella with Aaron who didn’t go to New York and actually WORKED and stuff on Buddyhead while Joe and Travis were busy suckin’ dicks. Travis stayed in the city for a little reclusive vacation of sorts. Click here for a small gallery of digital photos Travis snapped on the trip.

Oh yeah, everybody who sent in death threats to Aaron about the Stevie Ray Vaughn guitar incident… PRICELESS.

Oh, and we took the Buddyhead message board down because Buddyhead is not about some dork ass hangout where people can brag about all the famous people they’ve fucked or know. It’s about music and the CONTENT on the page. Therefore we’ve taken the board down until we touch up the site with a ton of exciting shit we have going on. TONS of new Buddyhead merch will be available soon. Don’t worry internet geeks, there’s plenty of Buddyhead on the net to occupy your time besides the dorkboard. Go back and read the site again and the archives (which will also be heavily touched up soon). New music review database launching next week too. If that doesn’t give you a boner I don’t know what does.

These people RULE THE SCHOOL: Esther E., Carolina E., Nate H., Ray S., Matt P., Gabe A., Cassandra B., and Christy C. Without their help, the Your Enemies Friends LP’s would have been a total disaster. Not to mention Kathleen Fisher who got everybody’s ass in gear and mommied us all. Thank you a million for saving our asses… a million slaps on yours. By the way, the LPs and CDs of The Wiretap EP will be available on the Buddyhead store real soon, and then finally in stores sometime in June.

Coachella was a bit disappointing… a pile of shit? Backstage was full of them too. It didn’t suck on Goldenvoice’s part though. The organization and execution of the whole thing was done beautifully. Maybe the suckage had more to do with the neg vibes perpetuated by the handful of wack bands and their dickpig followers. Aaron, Joe, and Troy (of the Icarus Line) went to find the free food, drugs, and/or alcohol, but only ended up finding dickpig rockstar chasing sluts, ass kissers, idiot yes man label people, butt licking publicists, and a slew of boring bands. Rama (you might know him better as Travis Keller’s roommate or the face of Big Wheel Recreation) ended up at some after party thing and taught the Strokes how to play the dice game, C-LOW. Then Kelly Osborne kicked Rama out for being loud?!? Isn’t it a party? What gives Kelly? Your dad is Ozzy, you are allowed to get a bit wild. So anyhow back to the Strokes not knowing how to play C-LOW… What the fuck is that about? How are you in a rock band and you don’t know how to play fucking dice? So, what else? Oh yeah. It looks like we were right again. Dave Grohl played drums with those old dudes like we said he would, Bjork did her thing, the Strokes bored everybody but all the geeks dressed like the Strokes, but then fucked all the hot girls anyway cuz they wear leather jackets that cost more than small countries, The Mars Volta fucked it up and showed all those other bands why they all suck, the Foo Fighters had famous people on stage or something, Saves The Day proved why the emo explosion is gonna be a sleeper, Pete Yorn spent most of the day looking in the mirror at himself, Siouxsie was probably ok but she was so old we couldn’t tell, Cake fucking played (that was super killer, about as good as stabbing yourself in the neck with a fork), The INC came out and talked about the government or something in their camo, Oasis talked about how rad they were and bored everybody into a coma and sent them to the parking lot, and that Jessie Camp knob was there being lame and not talking in that voice he used to. Watching people not give a fuck about most of the headlining bands was kinda a bummer… but also kinda cool. People are ready for some new shit, and aren’t interested in reminiscing about what was happening in rock 10 years ago. The only problem is… where is it?

It seems like A&R dudes are out on the town looking for the next Emo-boy-band with the same ferocity as a Catholic priest looking to rope in some altar boy communion dick. A good example of this is that band from Nebarkabama (yeah we have no idea where the fuck they’re from, but we know it’s some fucked up corn and cow state that breeds boring bands) Recover, who are getting tons of offers from major labels and even Emotaph (Vagrant). Who forgot to tell everyone that these guys are kinda not that interesting? What the fuck is going on here? Does the mainstream really need to be inundated with whiney 19-year-old white kids complaining about girlfriends and shit. Fuck this shit. Gimme danger, gimme excitement, gimme people who aren’t boring.

On the “shitty bands actually getting signed to majors” tip, Orange County hardcore band and firm supporters of the “shorts on stage” look, Thrice, are now millionaires. Yeah, those dudes don’t have to get jobs now cuz their mall metal/emo band got signed to Island Def Jam. That’s right, they can now buy stuff like one Throwdown record for every resident of Anaheim or some shit. Think of the possibilities they now have, it’s exciting.

Oh and The Hives, you know the fat Swedes in ties? Well, they got sold to Warner Brothers for a million bucks. Now they can afford to send the two slobs in the band back to fat camp for the summer. Get on that guys.

Despite the high amount of sucky warped tour bands getting signed, a few good ones are getting picked up too. The Burning Brides are getting their dicks sucked by pretty much every major label dipshit out there right now. Go check em out now before you everybody else pretends they knew about em before you did.

http://www.burningbrides.com/

The Burning Brides Tour Dates:
W/LOCAL H
05/03 – Otto’s (Dekalb, IL)
05/04 – Vic Theater (Chicago, IL)
W/ MONSTER MAGNET
05/08 – TLA (Philadelphia, PA)
W/ MIKE WATT
05/31 – Knickerbocker’s (Lincoln, NE)
06/01 – The Bottleneck (Lawrence, KS)
06/02 – The Bluebird Theater (Denver, CO)
06/03 – The Aggie Theatre (Ft. Collins, CO)
06/04 – Liquid Joe’s (Salt Lake City, UT)
06/05 – Neurolux (Boise, ID)
06/07 – Richard’s On Richards (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
06/08 – The Crocodile Cafe (Seattle, WA)
06/09 – Dante’s (Portland, OR)
06/10 – Wow Hall (Eugene, OR)
06/11 – The Brick Works (Chico, CA)
06/12 – Old Ironsides (Sacramento, CA)
06/13 – Slim’s (San Francisco, CA)
06/14 – The Slo Brewing Company (San Luis Obispo, CA)
06/15 – The Living Room (Goleta, CA)

The new Punk Planet is out with their “Vagrant Expose” article in it. Not at all the “scandal piece” they were hoping for it seems. It’s actually quite boring and we couldn’t even make it all the way through… skipped about to the Buddyhead quotes, and Steve Albini’s. The rest is pretty lame. The funny part is that throughout the entire article, nobody just mentions the fact that normal people don’t care about any of that shit at all cos Vagrant doesn’t even put out any good records that merit any attention for them… save one or two fluke records. Oh and Jessica Hooper straight up lies and points the finger at Buddyhead for that Alkaline Trio situation just to cover her own ass. She obviously figures Buddyhead is an easy scapegoat to point the finger at. Hey Jessica, everyone knows you did it, so quit being a soul-less little crybaby bitch and take credit for what you do. In other words, grow a spine.

In other Vagrant news, Kevin Vagrant has quit working at the label to sing for some band called Hoobastank.

Oh, yeah, if any of you major label peoples wanna take us out to lunch, we’re down for free lunch. You can watch us eat and wonder why we are only stuffing our faces and not “talking shop”. If you’ve got the company card, we’ve got the time. Free food is free food. Let’s talk rock bro!

Just saw that new Korn video. Ok, first off, as much as you fucking geeks wish you were, you guys aren’t and never will be as good as Tool or even Nine Inch Nails. They even got worms and shit in their video. Trent already did that like ten years ago. Oh, and your bass player wears Pony PJ’s out in public, go the fuck home.

Speaking of Korn, The Revolution Smile are out on tour with Puddle of Mudd. Bet that’s an awesome tour. Having fun guys?

That big wrestler/frat guy Andrew W.K. has somehow tricked Dave Grohl’s old slam-piece Melissa Auf Der Mar into letting his sweaty/geeky ass bone her. Yeah, they’re like totally dating! Gross is right. Somebody ruin this guy’s life immediately please. Oh wait, he’s gonna do that himself… he just invited the Icarus Line on tour…

Speaking of Dave Grohl, he’s put the Foo Fighters “on hold” so he can go play with those other old guys in Queens of the Stoneage. Dave, give us money. Speaking of delusional drummers, the guy with the bad hardcore tats in Blink 182 now thinks he’s Tommy Lee. His drum set actually spins upside down and shoots fire out – yeah talk about wack. They’ve been worrying more about their clothing labels than their songwriting.

In other Blink news, the drummer and one of the other dudes also forgot they were in a band that’s all about poop and high school girls. They think their new band, who we keep forgetting the name of, sounds like Quicksand, Refused, and Fugazi. No dudes, it just sounds like Blink in drop D. Go back to writing songs about popping zits and shit. You fucking dorks.

Speaking of bands trying to rip off Refused, HOW THE FUCK DID THAT SHIT BAND “Hoobastank” GET AWAY WITH COMPLETELY RIPPING OFF A RIFF FROM “NEW NOISE” AND NOT GET NAILED FOR IT? SOMEBODY STAB THESE INCUBUS DONG HUFFING DORKS. DO WE REALLY NEED ANOTHER INCUBUS?

Ahhhhhhhhh Weezer news. Here we go…

Matt Sharp slapped Rivers, his child molester beard, and the rest of his goofy band, Weezer, which a fat ass lawsuit this week. Sharp claims that Rivers owes him some money and some credit concerning the “Undone (Sweater)” song, and the entire record of Pinkerton.

Oh, and you know Weezer’s hit single “Hashpipe”, is actually not really a Weezer song? It was originally written by a band called The Shods from Boston who opened for Rivers on a few of his acoustic shows. The Shods song is called “He Shot Himself Up”, download it from audiogalaxy and compare. The Shods song was on an album that was never released (but will be soon) but was a regular feature of their set for years. Rivers was apparently such a huge fan of the band that he used to shout out and request “He Shot Himself Up” live and had Kevin, the Shods guitarist teach it to him. He was also such a huge fan that he thought it would be a good idea to blatantly steal the song’s riff and use it for himself. Bomb dude.

Rivers Cuomo likes to fuck 13 year old Asians. That’s not even news, but it will always be funny. Oh yeah… he has a fucking beard now too! Did anyone get a load of that shit, he’s going for that “pedophiliac 7th grade Earth Science Teacher look”. And the new bass player guy… YIKES! Looks like they got him from prison. In about a year all of these dorky white boy emo bands will resemble bearded kid touchers. Should be a party like Andrew W.K.

Mikey Welsh (that dude from Weezer who got to be “not Matt Sharp” for a few months) well… his ex girlfriend found out about Mikey cheating on her from buddyhead.com. Sorry bout that one there sporto. Now that Mike is single, he’s got plenty of time to play music again. He started a band called The Kickovers, which is with some guy who used to be in The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Yeah, sounds real awesome man. Pick it up. http://www.thekickovers.com/ is their site.

The lineups have been announced for this years Reading and Leeds Festivals, and it looks like we will all be there trying to talk Axl into letting anyone, even fat ass poodle-head drummer for hire guy, Matt Sorum, back into “the band”. Jeff Wood (of Shat) says he’s going to propose to Meg White (of the White Stripes). Jeff told us she was “ready”. Travis and Joe will be busy trying to get J. Spaceman to do drugs with us. Aaron’s gonna be quizzing those hicks in Slipknot about being on tour with System. He’s hoping one of em saw the guitar player naked or something. Anyway, this thing looks like this: Guns N Roses – which is really just Axl, his hairplugs, his fat ass, and a bunch of other dudes who are named: “Not-Slash”, “Not-Duff”, and “Not-Izzy” – yippee (they’re only playing the Leeds show), Prodigy, The Offspring, Slipknot, Incubus, NOFX, Puddle of Mudd, The Strokes, Pulp, Janes Addiction, Weezer, the White Stripes, Foo Fighters, Muse, Sum 41, The Hives, Andrew W.K., Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Spiritualized, the Icarus Line, and the Dillinger Escape Plan (on the Main Stage!). The later two, we hear will be teaming up in the next few months on a few things that we’ll be telling you about in the very near and very exciting future. Stay tuned dorks.

Ok, who was it with the bloody idea over at MTV, to let those two clowns from Good Charlotte host their new “ROCK SHOW” on MTV, which is hardly a rock show by the way… more like a show about fat bald dudes playing jock metal and hardcore guys playing pop punk. Although it is pretty fucking funny to watch the two twin brother hosts get all giddy and excited whenever the suits let them watch a Green Day video (or any other pop punk video for that matter) while they show off their Hot Topic clothes. Maybe it’s even funnier that these supposed “punk” dudes are forced by the MTV suits to act excited about the new Godsmack video and tour dates they announce. Pretty fuckin punk dudes.

Bruce Vilanch (who was the fat guy from Hollywood Squares) probably doesn’t know Buddyhead is for the children. Call him and tell him at (323) 851-6652.
The new Botch EP is killer. Wait til you hear it, you’re gonna piss yourself. For sure their best stuff ever, much more straight ahead and focused, in every good way possible. Why are all the good bands breaking up? What the fuck man? Their last show is on June 15th @ the Showbox in Seattle, Washington (you know, where Nirvana was from, man) with some other bands that they like. You can buy tickets on www.fastixx.com Were going and someone better figure out how to get Jeff Wood out there or it ain’t gonna be the party it could be.
The Mars Volta just got back to Los Angeles from some “killer shows in Europe and Japan”. They did five weeks in Europe with the bearded ones of Les Savy Fav, followed by a week in Japan. Their new e.p. “Tremulant”, is out on GSL and it’s one of the sweetest things our ears have heard lately. Get down with it fruitloop. Lots of reverb. The Mars Volta have also signed to a label that doesn’t have a name yet that belongs to Gary Gersh and is a subsidiary of Universal. Hey Gary, give us some motherfucking money. You have so much of it. Like a few thousand bucks would really make us giddy. Thanks. The deal was sweetened for the band with an agreement that helps fund indie label GSL which is co-owned by one the afros… Omar. Punk Floyd baby, I mean The Mars Volta played Day 2 of the Coachella festival. At least one good band played.
In addition to working on their hair, I Am Spoonbender have been working on a 4 track e.p. for release this summer on GSL.

R. Kelly will eat your ass if you’re young and ripe.

That Dashboard Confessional dweeb likes to kill baby kittens backstage before he goes on every night. He’s also a member of NAMBLA. We’re on to you geek.

De Facto just played at the KXLU 88.9 fm fund raiser show, on April 24 at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood. Hope you brought your bong if you caught that.

Layne Staley is dead. But the sad thing is, nobody is surprised. I mean come on, watch their last MTV Unplugged thing and check out the bass player and guitar player giving each other the “is he gonna make it through this song?” looks at each other. Near the end Layne could barely even use his hands at all cos he’d been shooting heroin in between his knuckles.

In case you missed the memo, Aaron Icarus is now known as “the Corpse”. We weren’t out of town a full week, yet we come back and now he’ll only leave the house in full corpse paint, his cape, knee high boots, and his Bauhaus shirt that’s covered in real goats blood. We didn’t think it was possible, but the kid is getting weirder.

Some band named, Vega4 (they’re on Capitol or something), claim to be Shat’s biggest fans. Speaking of Shat, the new record “The Cunt Chronicles” (which will be 65 tracks mind you!) is being laid out by a graphic artist as you read this. Expect that in stores by June and in the Buddyhead online store much sooner than that.

With the death of Milton Berle, the largest cock in show business now belongs to Stephen Brodsky from Cave In.

Speaking of Cave In, it’s a good thing their new label RCA is spending thousands of dollars on street teams for them (wonder if that’s recoupable). Whatever street team is working Cave In totally rules. They were out in front of Coachella giving away tons of free nu metal band shit, so we thought it’d be interesting to see if we could hijack about 7 boxes worth of Cave In samplers. Amoeba here we come! Street teams are bomb and totally worth the millions that major labels spend on them!!! Not.

That huge guy, Fletcher from Pennywise, must have seen that Scorpion movie with the Rock in it over the weekend because now all of a sudden he wants to get all WWF Raw action on Aaron Icarus’ little gothic ass. We kinda think that this is all just a big excuse so that he can try and touch Aaron’s wiener. There’s been a lot of that going around lately… dudes touching his wiener that is. If you see Fletcher, tell him to lay off the 7 layer burritos a little bit and make sure he cuts back a tad on the amount of macho nachos he’s stuffing in his face every day.

Fuck Incubus.

You know that At the Drive-in rip off band? No, not Vendetta Red, that other one. Yeah, Thursday. Well, they just signed to Island Def Jam for some crazy amount of stupid money. Yeah, these geeks aren’t getting jobs anytime soon. The funny part is that it’s for the record after this next one, because they still owe Victory another record. In the meantime, Victory Records turns around and sells 25% of their silly label to MCA Records for like $5 million clams or some fuckin’ shit (you know they’re just day dreaming of all those hockey jerseys and bandanas they are gonna buy with all that!), so it looks like Island Def Jam’s ass just got fucked really hard by the cock of MCA, who now gets the next Thursday record. The funniest part is that all these people are getting totally scammed, cause Thursday totally sucks shit like it’s their bloody job. Can someone give us some good bands to talk about?

Also, Geoff from that Thursday band is producing an album by another band we couldn’t care less about, called My Chemical Romance. He’s gonna tell them when to turn up the emo. Sounds killer.

A bug with 65 legs ran across Tom’s desk when he was adding to the gossip, and he screamed like a girl. Ten bucks says he was listening to Bold.

Travis thinks The Black Heart Procession are completely amazing.

Two guys in that shitty band Coal Chamber, knocked each others teeth out while they were on stage, but then a week later they kissed and made up. Jeff Wood (of Shat) hooked up with that girl who’s in that band. Jeff showed her “horrible things”.

The Juliana Theory kicked out their drummer. What that dude doesn’t realize is he just got the equivalent of an 11th hour pardon while being on Death Row.

Fuck Incubus again.

Midtown did some “crazy” interview with some punk webzine no one cares about, where they talk shit on their old label. Too bad their band is still just as embarrassing as their old label. Click here for interview. http://www.absolutepunk.net/sub_pages/interviews/files/midtown.htm

The Weakerthans will be touring with The Promise Ring. The Promise Ring’s new album, “The Chronic”, is out on Epitaph now. The album has some killer “buds” on it in some crazy metallic ink. Try getting really stoned, or huff a bunch of gas, and then pretend they’re as good as The Flaming Lips (they sure did) when you listen to it.

Julian Casablancas, former child star from the movie “Big” and current singer of “The Strokers”, lost his cool and punched John Voigtmann. John just so happens to be the senior director of international marketing at RCA. That’s pretty funny, but needless to say, that’s about the most exciting thing we’ve heard about this band yet.

Damon from Blur/Gorillaz also had some things to say about the Strokers. “Shall I tell you the problem? The Strokes. Very good band, nice melodies – they’ve got everything required at that age to make good music. But you know, they’re not the only good band in the world, and as soon as they make a mistake, you bury them. And they will make a mistake. We all make mistakes.” Yeah like going to see the Gorillaz live.

Soren and Rama went in on a vacuum together. Travis vacuumed his floor.

LuxuryFashion.com mentioned us when they were talking about the Osbournes in ‘news’, oh boy we even got a link. http://www.luxuryfashion.com/news.html

Amen got dropped or something by Virgin. Two dudes who are homeless and stole the last record when it came out care about this news. Everyone else just wants that singer dude to dish out some pills. He’s a “pharmacist”. Dude, next time you see us, you gotta dish us some pills man, we know you got the good pills.

Alkaline Trio’s singer/coverboy Matt Skiba, recently added some vocals to The Pattern’s new album. Word is Matt got a “scolding” from the englishman behind the boards, Alex Newport (Mars Volta, The Icarus Line, Your Enemies Friends producer) for “ruining his voice with a bottle of beer”.

The Melvins crawled out of their wheel chairs and are now on tour with Dead Low Tide.
5/21/02 Chico, CA @ Brick Works w/ Dead Low Tide
5/22/02 Sacramento, CA @ The Boardwalk w/ Dead Low Tide
5/23/02 Santa Cruz, CA @The Catalyst w/ Dead Low Tide
5/24/02 San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s w/ Dead Low Tide
5/25/02 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubador w/ Dead Low Tide

Revelation records signed another band. We’re not even gonna bother naming them because no one cares. Simon Brody says that Rev can eat a dick straight up. Well, actually we said it, but Simon wants to say it worse.

The Lost Kids couldn’t hack it in Portland, so they moved back to San Diego. Word on the street is they are gonna try to move there again soon. First Pleasure Forever, and now those guys? What the fuck is in Portland, besides fucking beavers and trees? Did we miss something?

So yeah, Pleasure Forever also got weird on us and moved out of California to Portland. They’re getting ready to hit the road for a long time. Make sure you catch this band, they will fucking rock you.
Tour Itinerary
DAY DATE CITY, STATE VENUE
Wed 5/1/02 San Antonio TX Strutters
Thu 5/2/02 Austin TX Emo’s
Fri 5/3/02 Baton Rouge LA Thirsty Tiger Tavern
Sat 5/4/02 Jackson MS Martins lounge
Sun 5/5/02 Birmingham AL The Boiler Room
Tue 5/7/02 Nashville TN The End w/Les Savy Fav
Wed 5/8/02 Knoxville TN Pilot Light w/Les Savy Fav
Thu 5/9/02 Atlanta GA The Earl w/Les Savy Fav
Fri 5/10/02 Carrboro NC Go Lounge w/Les Savy Fav
Sat 5/11/02 Baltimore MD Otto Bar w/Les Savy Fav
Sun 5/12/02 Washington DC Black Cat w/Les Savy Fav
Tue 5/14/02 Cambridge MA MIDDLE EAST Upstairs w/Rye Coalition
Wed 5/15/02 New York NY Bowery Ballroom w/Les Savy Fav
Thu 5/16/02 Philadelphia PA Khyber w/Rye Coalition
EUROPEAN TOUR:
DAY DATE CITY, STATE VENUE
Mon 5/20 Hamburg GER Marquee
TUE 5/21 Gothenburg SWE Ideal (w/90 Day Men)
WED 5/22 Oslo, NOR Mono (w/90 Day Men)
THU 5/23 Stockholm SWE Stampen (w/90 Day Men)
FRI 5/24 Skien NOR Rjukan FESTIVAL
SAT 5/25 Bergen NOR The Garage
MON 5/27 Malmo SWE Inkonst
TUE 5/28 Bielefeld GER Forum
WED 5/29 Munster GER Gleiss 22
THU 5/30 Koln GER Underground
SAT 6/01 Kontich BE Lintfabrik
MON 6/03 Vienna AUS Chelsea
TUE 6/04 ITALY TBD
WED 6/05 ITALY TBD
THU 6/06 ITALY TBD
FRI 6/07 ITALY TBD
SAT 6/08 ITALY TBD
SUN 6/09 Ljubjana SLOVENIA ILLISKRA BIRSKA MKNZ CLUB
TUE 6/11 Berlin GER Wild At Heart
WED 6/12 Krakow POLAND Club RE
THU 6/13 Wroclaw POLAND Piec Nutek
FRI 6/14 Prague CZ Club Wagon
SAT 6/15 Regensburg GER JAHNINSEL FESTIVAL
SUN 6/16 Weisbaden GER Schlachtof
SUMMER U.S. TOUR:
Tue 6/18/02 Pittsburgh PA TBA
Wed 6/19/02 Columbus OH or kalamazoo
Thu 6/20/02 Chicago IL Empty Bottle
Fri 6/21/02 Kansas City or Omaha
Sat 6/22/02 Denver CO BLUEBIRD THEATER

Aska from Your Enemies Friends recently tied the knot with Nathen from Pretty Girls Make Graves. Buddyhead wishes them many happy months together. Hopefully they like each other a lot cuz they’re gonna be seeing enough of each other while both of their bands are on tour together. Your Enemies Friends should have vinyl, cd’s, and t-shirts a few shows into the tour. Limited amounts of colored vinyl will be available in the Buddyhead store very soon.
Your Enemies Friends/Pretty Girls Make Graves Tour Dates
05/02/02 Salt Lake City, UT X-Scape (Formerly DV8)
05/03/02 Englewood, CO Gothic Theatre
05/04/02 Sioux Falls, SD Knights Of Columbus
05/06/02 Milwaukee, WI Globe East
05/07/02 Champaign, IL High Dive
05/08/02 Chicago, IL Fireside Bowl
05/09/02 Detroit, MI The Shelter
05/11/02 Pittsburgh, PA 31st Street Pub
05/15/02 Cambridge, MA Middle East Club
05/16/02 South Amboy, NJ Krome
05/21/02 Atlanta, GA Echo Lounge
05/22/02 Orlando, FL The Social (Sapphire Supper Club)
05/26/02 Houston, TX Fitzgerald’s
05/29/02 Tucson, AZ Skrappy’s
05/30/02 Mesa, AZ Nile Theatre
06/02/02 San Diego, CA Che Cafe
06/04/02 Goleta, CA Living Room
more dates coming soon

Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock are getting married. Those are gonna be some smart kids.

A sample of the new Hot Snakes record (which will be out June 11th and titled “Suicide Invoice”) is up at http://www.swamirecords.com/

Call up that dork who is responsible for the geek haven makeoutclub.com at (617)-216-6903 and tell him Morrissey is for fat girls.

There’s a new record store in the ghetto here (Echo Park) called Sea Level. Yeah Amoeba’s better, but if you go to Sea Level you have a chance at meeting the one and only Rama Mayo (who runs Big Wheel Records upstairs). Stop by, pick up some emo, and wink at Rama. 1716 w. sunset blvd.

Just when you thought Epitaph wasn’t all that bad of a record label, they put out another Punk O’Rama compilation to remind of us of all the shitty bands on their label. And there’s lots of em. Punk O’Rama number seven’s track listing:
Millencolin – Fingers Crossed
Hot Water Music – Wayfarer
The (International) Noise Conspiracy – Up For Sale
Pennywise – The World
Division Of Laura Lee – Black City
NOFX – Olympia, WA
Randy – Addicts Of Communication
Pulley – Hooray For Me
Bouncing Souls – The Something Special
The Hives – Supply And Demand
Bad Religion – The Defense
Deviates – The End
Dropkick Murphys – Heroes From Our Past
Rancid – Bob
Death By Stereo – Wasted Words
Agnostic Front – Love To Be Hated
1208 – Outside Looking In
98 Mute – M.A.D.
Guttermouth – My Girlfriend

Paul Westerberg called his new album “Mono”. I know we already said this, but… THE ICARUS LINE ALREADY NAMED THEIR ALBUM THAT… LAST YEAR BRO. Oh, and we saw that guy on Letterman and his band really sucks. Whatever man.

The Pinehurst Kids guitarist Devin Morrow cut the shit out of his hand while performing a satanic ritual, something about pig blood, a goat head, a large saw, and an oily dildo… we didn’t ask. Even as a three piece they’re better than Vendetta Red, which ain’t sayin’ much. They just did some demos with John Goodmanson who mixed the New Wu Tang Clan record. Although we’re not saying they are as good as “The Clan”, you should probably check the MP3’s out anyhow. http://www.pinehurstkids.com/sounds.html

The Explosion are breaking up, pussies.

Kool Keith has a new rap group. They’re called KHM, which stands for Keith, H and Mark (the three members of the group). They will release their untitled album in July on Keith’s own label, Gamelock Records. In addition to KHM, Keith said he has 10 solo albums already prepared (that’s a whole lot of keith), including new albums from old favorites Black Elvis, Dr. Octagon and Matthew. Killer.

The band no one can pronounce, !!! signed to Touch n Go Records. The band will be on tour with Trans Am in May and June, playing to crowds full of stupid haircuts.

The Convocation Of… are “on hiatus”. Bummer, these dudes bring the rock.

Saves The Day just announced their summer tour will be called “We think that we really like men”.

The Locust are going over to the East Coast so they can get beat up for dressing like cavemen again. Shat is going to play one of their shows (and obviously blow them the fuck away). Epitaph has been trying to sign these crazy guys for a long time. Who knows where their next album will end up. They should sign to Death Row. Errr, I mean THA ROW!

The Apes just finished up a European tour with Les Savy Fav and The Mars Volta and are currently working on their first full length on Fat Wreck Chords.

Vagrant Records is part of the Taliban. They’re hiding Bin Laden on tour with Dashboard Confessional.

The Blood Brothers are currently in the studio recording their major label debut with that hack Ross Robinson. No word on if he’s making the drummer cry about a dying relative or something, or if he’s blankly stared at the tape machine wondering how it works yet. We’ll keep you posted.

The Cancer Conspiracy, a pretty awesome band and very cool guys had their van broken into and everything stolen recently. You can’t make instrumental neo-prog math rock without $900 guitars, antique keyboards, and tube-crunch-echo-chamber-compression-delay-overdrive-super-shifters. Should have used “The Club” brah! Here is the word from the band’s label on the situation…

On their way home from playing at the BWR showcase at SXSW last week, the Cancer Conspiracy had one of the most tragic misfortunes that a band can endure happen to them. While staying in Queens, NY two nights ago their van was stolen with ALL of their equipment and merch in it. Sadly nothing has been found. The band would like any help possible in replacing their equipment. Here is a list of what was lost:

Drums: 3 Yamaha Cymbal stands $450 1 Paiste Hi Hat stand $300 1 Pro Mark
stick bag w/ sticks $75 1 Pearl rack tom stand $100 1 DW Snare stand $200
1 Gibraltor drum throne $150 1 Zildjian Sizzle 20 in. $300 1 Chimes $300
Ludwig Snare red sparkle Ludwig rack tom red sparkle Ludwig floor tom red
sparkle Ludwig floor tom blue sparkle Ludwig bass drum red sparkle $2000
Zildjian A custom 17 in. cymbal $200 Zildjian A custom 18 in. cymbal $200
Zildjian Mastersound Hi hat $300 Paiste 20 in. cymbal $250 DW drum pedal
$250 1 Sabian Black cymbal case $200 2 floor tom case 1 rack tom case 1
snare case 1 bass drum case $500
Guitars: 92 Fender Telecaster American $900 97 Fender Telecaster American
$900 73 Fender Twin reverb combo amp $1000 76 Marshall JMP 50 head $800 93
Rivera knucklehead 4×12 cab $850 SKB pedal board $200 Ibanez Tube screamer
distortion $100 Danelectro danecho delay $90 Morley AB box $50 Boss PSD
Pitch shift delay Akai Headrush delay $179 2 Ernie Ball Volume pedal $178
3 15in. cords $40 misc. cords $40
Bass: Ampeg SVT Classic Head $1600 Ampeg 8×10 Anniversary Series cab $1000
Fender Mexican Jazz Bass $450 SKB pedal board $200 2 Boss DD5 digital
delay $260 Boss ODB Bass Overdrive $80 Boss Compression Sustainer $80 Boss
Phaser $80 Boss PH3 Phase shifter $130 Boss Super shifter $150 Boss TU2
Tuner $100 Danelectro danecho delay $100 Ernieball volume pedal & 75 Grey
Tool box (cords, power supplies, strap) $150
Misc.: Ensoniq keyboard $500 Yamaha Saxaphone w/ case $800 Peavey Combo
amp $300 Boss DD5 digital delay $130 1 green tote merch.(cds, stickers,
etc) $1200
Also if you haven’t had the chance you should visit
thecancerconspiracy.com and listen to their entire record there. Even
buying a copy of the Audio Medium would help out in a small way. Thank you and we all are hoping the band can pull through this travesty
and continue to make their amazing music. BWR

Fuck Incubus again. Fuck that band Adema while we’re at it.

Slash, Duff, and Izzy are still not back in Guns N’ Roses… BUT, they are starting a new band together! No word on who the singer is going to be. This is not bullshit! Bomb.

My So Called Band…
The pretty-boy guy from that sappy MTV “teen drama”, “My So Called Life”, Jared Leto, has a band. Yeah we know, who doesn’t have a band. They’re called 30 Seconds to Mars since the Frozen Embryos broke up. Even though none of us have heard their songs, we know they eat shit cause they’re going on tour with Puddle of Mudd in the not too distant future. Wow, now if that’s not perfect I dunno what is. Oh, and to make things even weirder, the guitar player from that old Vagrant band, Boxer, is in this band. Oh, and in case you didn’t know, Chris, the drummer of Dillinger Escape Plan was in that shitty band Boxer too. The magnetic pull of mall punk gash will do strange things to even the best of us

Bands are moving to… Portland?
Pleasure Forever got tired of all those hippies and dot com people, they’ve opted for rain and snow. Yup, they’ve picked up and moved from San Francisco to Portland. Portland is gonna have a lot more Orgies now that those guys live there. They’re also playing South by Southwest. Hiroshima-Nagasaki!

Speaking of moving to Portland, The Lost Kids have also picked up and headed north. Is Portland cool now? What are we missing? We thought it was all granola and shit. Hmm.

We do drugs now!
Two members of this month’s shiny happy Alternative Press cover boys, Saves the Day, were arrested for smoking the reefer in the Big Apple. The emo rockers ended up spending a day in jail. We wonder if they made any “friends” while inside the joint. At least they do drugs now. It’s a start. Good work guys.

Call Fred Durst on his cell…
We’ve got Fred Durst’s number while he’s out on the road looking for a replacement for the dude whose girl he banged. Call up his cell at 609.688.9228. If his assistant answers, tell him to put Fred on or else you’ll keep calling until Fred puts down the Doritos and gets his fat ass up off the couch. Boom.

Elliott didn’t get dropped…
We told you a while ago that Elliott Smith had been dropped from his label, Dreamworks, but actually he hasn’t been dropped. Here’s what happened, the label got his new record, realized that there wasn’t any “hits”, and is now going to allow him to release it on an Independent Label of his choice (Kill Rock Stars) and then he will release his next album on Dreamworks, because they can’t drop such a trophy artist no matter how few records he sells. An artist like Elliot only attracts other bands and the suits at Dreamworks know that it seems.

People covering Weezer should be punished.
We just got a “Weezer Tribute Album” in the mail today. No I’m not trying to be funny, we really got one. It’s bad enough that it’s a tribute for a shitty band that’s still around, but to make matters worse you’ve got bands like Dashboard Confessional, Midtown, Piebald, The Ataris, The Stereo, and The Impossibles which only add to the already high suck factor of this piece of plastic. Everyone involved should get kicked in the balls. Where’s my gun?

Bryan is doing vocals for some shitty movie…
Marilyn Manson has just entered a studio in Los Angeles to record a song called “Redeemer” that the singer guy with the moustache from Korn and Richard Gibbs from Oingo Boingo wrote for the upcoming “Queen of the Damned” film. That guy’s mustache is filthy by the way, like he’d be perfect to be in “German enema porno”. Aaron’s way into that type of thing, he’s leaving all his clothes behind so he can stuff his suitcase full of videos filled with guys giving each other shit beards. Go Aaron.

Dave…. BOXSET US!
The Foo Fighters are tracking vocals for their new record at a studio in Hollywood also. Hey Dave, I’ll trade you some colored vinyl of The Icarus Line’s album for a copy of that Nirvana song!

Umm but you didn’t sign the Gorillaz…
Dan the Automator signed to MCA Records. The press release the label sent out was amazing. 90% talked about how he is in the Gorillaz and how many records they sold and yada yada yada. HEY DIPSHIT OVER AT MCA WHO DOESNT KNOW THAT THE GORILLAZ ARE ON VIRGIN RECORDS… YOU SIGNED DAN THE AUTOMATOR NOT THE GORILLAZ!

Call someone who cares…
Call Tommy Lee up and tell him you know Kid Rock. 818.721.2162

Need some love advice? Call R. Kelly on his cell phone. 312.315.5407 or hit him up 2002 style on his 2-way pager. 312.213.1212

Call the singer of Lit, AJ, and tell him Buddyhead said he’s too old to write songs about high school. 714-626-3929.

Call up Rikki Rocket from Poison and ask him to Talk Dirty to You. 661.510.3170

Dillinger Escape Plan, and more importantly Shat, are on the road…
If you’re at a Dillinger Escape Plan show and you want Shat to play, this is what you do:
1. call jeff 973 879 5165 over and over, and ..beg him…tell him you’ll bring chicks and coke
2. yell “SHAT! SHAT! SHAT!” in unison during other bands sets.
3. send us money for drugs.
Here are the remaining dates on the Dillinger Escape Plan tour
2/01 West Columbia, SC @ Uncle Doctors
2/02 Memphis, TN @ Premier Palace
2/04 Tampa, FL @ Orpheum Theatre
2/05 Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room 3045 N. Federal Highway)
2/07 Tallahassee, FL @ The Cow Haus
2/08 New Orleans, LA @ The Shim Sham Club (w./SHAT)
2/09 Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s
2/10 Austin, TX @ Emo’s
2/11 Dallas, TX @ Canyon Club – Bronco Bowl Theatre
2/13 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
2/14 Tuscon, AZ @ Muse
2/15 Tempe, AZ @ Boston’s
2/16 Las Vegas, NV @ Tremors (YOUR ENEMIES FRIENDS)
2/19 Pomona, CA @ The Glass House (W./ BOTCH, YOUR ENEMIES FRIENDS)
2/20 Los Angeles, CA @ the Troubador (W./ BOTCH, YOUR ENEMIES FRIENDS)
2/21 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall (w./BOTCH)
2/23 Portland, OR @ Meow Meow (W./ BOTCH, PLAYING ENEMY)
2/24 Seattle, WA @ Graceland (W./ BOTCH, PLAYING ENEMY)
2/27 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
2/28 Kansas City, KS @ El Torreon
3/01 St. Paul, MN @ The Lab
3/02 Chicago, IL @ Fireside Bowl
3/03 Grand Rapids, MI @ the Intersection
3/04 Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
3/05 Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre
3/06 Syracuse, NY @ Armory High
3/07 New Haven, CT @ Toad’s Place
3/08 Boston, MA @ Bill’s Bar

Ex At The Drive-In Updates
Sparta (Non-afro’s: Jim, Paul, and Tony from At The Drive-In) have an EP called “Austere” that they will have out on Dreamworks in the spring. We’d tell you how it was, but those guys are blowing it and haven’t even given us a copy yet. Blaze, hook a brother up! Their full length that they tricked Dreamworks into paying big bucks for Jerry Finn to produce, will be out by summer. In the meantime, you can catch their live show at South by Southwest. Paul Hinojos of the band stated “When At the Drive-in went on hiatus, we waited to see if anything would change. Nothing did. There is nothing left to say except that ATDI is now defunct. Sparta is our present, our future, and we will put 110% of our energy and emotion into this. There is no looking back.” Three new Sparta songs are out there on the internet somewhere we hear: SANS COSM, LIGHTS BURN CLEAR, & TRAPEZE

On the other side of the At The Drive-In fence is The Mars Volta (featuring the ex afro members of At the Drive In: Omar and Cedric as well as members of Defacto) who have also just finished their new EP which will come out on GSL. Speaking of GSL, they put out the vinyl for the Pleasure Forever record and it’s really kickass, pick it up. That Lost Kids EP they put out is an ass kicker too. Been playing that when I DJ a lot. But Mars Volta is blowing it too. We haven’t heard their EP either. We’ll keep you posted on both these bands and their happenings.

Did we mention Omar is hung like a horse? Swear.

Guns N’ Roses aren’t back together, but…
Slash and Duff McKagan are collaborating with Izzy Stradlin on his upcoming solo album! The three ex-Guns N’ Roses members haven’t played together since the Use Your Illusion albums in 1991, when Stradlin left the band. As with his last three solo albums, Izzy wrote most of the material and sings on all the tracks. We’ve all got boners. But not in the gay way. Well Aaron’s is in the gay way, but that’s a permanent thing.

Slash is still planning to go to Japan with Ronnie Wood (Jeff Wood’s cousin) for a tour there in March. Dates will be announced soon. Also, Slash played ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ at the L.A. Lakers January 16th game against the Miami Heat at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Aaron was stoked on that cuz he’s a jock and likes sports.

Wanna drum for Slayer?
Slayer is looking for a new drummer. You can send a video tape of yourselves playing drums to Slayer songs and their manager is going to pick the best submissions who will then be invited to audition in person, some time in February in Dallas, San Francisco or Peoria, Illinois.

Aaron called us from Europe and said this:
Dear Guys!
“I’ve never been happier than when these two hungarian guys filled my holes with their dick snot, I can’t wait to get to sxsw so I can be in the center of a man orgy.”
-aaron icarus
It was something like that, I don’t know, we get high a lot. I’m sure it was close. Either way, we’ll all be at SXSW this year again. We’ll tell you about that later though. All you need to know for now is that Shat is playing the Buddyhead showcase at Emos along with Revolution Smile and Your Enemies Friends among others.

Praise Emo.
We finally figured out why Vagrant is selling so many records, they’re listed as a Christian label on Yahoo! Click here.

Speaking of Jesus-emo, Dashboard Confessional just shot a video that looks very much like a Staind video. Hey “Mainstream America”… get ready for a stern force-feeding of the watered down white guy music known as “EMO”. Coming to a TV set near you. Make sure to pick up the newest issue of that great publication, Teen People, which features a piece on Dashboard Confessional himself. It even lets you know how much he paid for his pants! We were wondering how much those set him back! Also check out the new issue of Interview Magazine, it features Dashboard wearing a shirt with the famous photo of Johnny Cash flipping off the camera. Not very Christ-like dude. But then again neither is nailing 16 year old fan gash in the back of your new Audi.

Skate or Die, Fred…
Heath Kirchart and Steve Berra now skate for Alien Workshop, who was voted the “hot” skate company in Rolling Stone. Jeremy said “By the way, thanks for the free shit!” Travis says “What Free shit?!? I didn’t get any free shit!” Travis also wants to know what’s up with him hearing Steve is buddies with Fred Durst now? What are you doing Steve? You’re blowing it! Stop hanging out with Fred and send over some decks dood!

What’s cool?
Also, in Rolling Stone, The Short Stop (a bar where lots of old scoobs hang out) in Los Angeles was given the “hot” bar award. No shit it’s hot in there, the ventilation is horrible and with all that hair and vintage clothes no wonder it’s hot.

Jeremy takes photos… did we mention he takes photos?
Piebald is on tour in Europe right now, while they are gone they have a new CD coming out with Jeremy’s photos all over that shit. Don’t hold it against him, Jeremy is a real swell guy. Ask him to show you his penis. Oh and buy shit from his website. www.day19.com

Yawn…
After The Strokes performance on Saturday Night Live their sales dropped. Bummer dudes. In other Strokes trivia, we found out that Julian, the singer, wasn’t just in the movie Big as a child, turns out he also had a small part in Air Bud 2 as one of the bench warmers. Our mistake. Also, on February 2nd (that’s tomorrow!), The Strokes will be putting people to sleep for just 2 dollars in Los Angeles. If you go to that show you are admitting you like to force small animal to have sex with you. Just letting you know now, you attend that show, and you are a small animal rapist!

Speaking of stroking, Courtney Love wants Julian to stroke her hole. She apparently debuted a song called “Julian I’m a Little Older than You” at her shitty new band Bastard’s gig in Ventura the other night. She says it’s about drugs, but we’re not buying that. Hit that shit young Casablanca.

Elijah Wood, the short guy in that retarded fucking elf movie that goes absolutely nowhere for three hours – Lord Of The Rings, waited in some huge line for tickets to see our favorite four car garage band, The Strokes. While in line he was quoted as saying “ I like them because they dress cool”. Yeah, you and all the rest of the suckers who got duped into liking that band. The people who like the strokes are the same people who are amazed when you show them how to light a fire with a match. We wonder if Elijah wore his dumb little elf costume to the show. Goddamn we hope so.

By the way, if you liked Lord of the Rings you’re a fucking nerd. Deal with it. Now give us your lunch money so we can buy drugs.

Justin Roy is now riding for Hollywood skateboards, who has yet to send us free shit. Travis is wondering if Jeremy is getting a lot of free shit or what…

Vendetta Red should give us money.

Hoobastank thought no one would notice when they picked the song with the stolen Refused riff for their single. Well, sorry dudes, we noticed. Your band fucking sucks.

New End Original have broken up. Seems the Drummer and bass player quit when their singer Jonah had an “Eddie Vedder moment” and was crowd surfing post show. Some people don’t wanna be in Pearl Jam.

Madonna was letting Tupac wreck her area on a very regular basis for a number of years before he died. Score Tupac!

Parties and ska hats…
Gideon Yago (of MTV and knowing Travis fame) and Sarah “buckets” Ultragrrrl threw a party type thing last night at the slipper room. We were supposed to tell you about it, but Travis was busying moving. Sarah sent in her report of what went down last night though. “Phantom Planet, The Faint, and Saves the Day all showed up in full force and danced with sluts as I turned the night into dance party usa. Sean Lennon got his groove on with some hot sluts who were 16 and hot on Gideon’s ass. I managed not to pass out or make out with anyone.” High five Sarah.

Speaking of Gideon Yago, we hear (for a good bald source no less) that he has taken to wearing a “ska like” pork pie hat. What’s up with that dood?

The day of love…
If you live in New York you don’t have to be alone on Valentine’s Day.
Date: February, 14th 2002
Location: Warsaw (261 Driggs Ave – Brooklyn NY)
Performances by: Cex, Sparrow (members of the Lapse, Hot Snakes, Delta 72, Lilies and Ink and Dagger), Calvin Johnson, The Witnesses (members of The Mooney Suzuki and The Rondelles) and The Aeffect. Tell those kids in the Aeffect they are from Florida and tell Don from Ink & Dagger that he plays guitar like a champion for a dude that mumbles as much as he does.

Animal Bikes made a video…
Some bands called, Animal Bikes, is having their video premiere party at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, NJ on Feb 10th at 730pm. We don’t know them, or at least we don’t think we do, but check it out cuz if you live in Jersey there isn’t anything else to do. Unless you’re going to the Rest-a-bit, but most of you aren’t “down like that”.

Poison the Well have an album full of shitty emo-mosh songs coming out. I’m sure a bunch of people care, but those people are dumb as shit.

Stop with the tribute albums for bands who are still around…
Someone thought a Supersuckers tribute album would be a good idea. People, please ask us if it’s a good idea before you actually go out, get all the bands to record the songs, press the cds, and yada yada… it’s so much easier if you come to Buddyhead with your ideas for records and we can tell you they totally suck before you go through all the effort of making it, it’ll save us all a lot of headaches. Cause really, we want to help. We really do. Anyhow that Supersucker comp features 17 bands no one cares about. Buy it here. ttp://jeanoroid.com/sike.htm or save your money and buy 2 copies of the soon to be released Shat CD entitled “the best of the Cunt Chronicles”. Yeah you’re better off getting the 2 copies of the Shat CD. That way, like if you meet this totally bomb gash or dude piece, you can impress them by giving them the ultimate love gift….Shat’s “best of the Cunt Chronicles” .
If you want to blow it and buy this shitty comp here’s what you’re in for:
THE DEVIL RAYS Evil Powers of Rock and Roll
BADWATER Non Addictive Marijuana
OSTERBURG Luck
SMACK PATSY I Say Fuck
LORDS OF VOLUME I Want the Drugs
BRENDA Marie
THE JEALOUS TYPE Girl I Know
WERNER & THE VON BRAUNS On the Couch
THE SPURNING Hell City, Hell
THE JEANO ROID EXPERIENCE Poor
LADYSPEED I’m A Bitch
STUDLEY HUSBAND RUBBINGS Sweet n Sour Jesus
LADY MONSTER Would You Care to Dance
PILLMAGNET Superpowers
SMACK ATTACK King of the Snakes
THE DEVIL RAYS Robin Hood Hills
THE HOLY SINNERS Supersuckers

Rich from the Black Halos just joined that shitty nu-metal band Amen. He is currently on tour with them in Australia getting chicks cuz people over there don’t know that Amen gobble up dicks.

Krist Novoselic of Nirvana and Bud Gaugh drummer of Sublime/Long Beach Dub Allstars started a band with the guitarist of the Meat Puppets. They are called Eyes Adrift, they will play at the Galaxy Theater in Santa Ana on Jan 31. Shit that was last night, I need to post this shit faster. Let’s just hope that the Sublime guy doesn’t try to start rapping or something. They played at the Troubadour last night but we were too stoned to make it. Krist, hook us up with a box set bro!

The singer from that really shitty band Silent Majority, has a new band that just got signed to Initial Records. They’re called Blood Red and has some of the guys from the band Inside (they were on Redwood Records I believe). We’re hoping the rest of the band didn’t follow suit, and instead are concentrating on their true life calling of custodial engineering at Peep Worlds throughout the N.Y. area.

Bomb Gash.
Supercult.com features some bomb gash. The girl in the bathtub is way bomb.

Rama is cashing in!
Jimmy Eat World changed their album title from “Bleed American” to “Jimmy Eat World”. The funny thing is, that singles record that Rama put out is already called that, so people are buying the singles record thinking it’s the album they just saw the video with naked kids in it. Rama is making loot!

Jets to Cub.
Jeremy Chatelain from Jets to Brazil has a “solo emo” record coming out on Jade Tree called Cub Country. The sadness will even be taken on tour featuring both Chris and Blake from Jets on drums and piano respectively. High Fives to anyone who yells Jawbreaker songs at them. We bet those guys like bird watching and crying at Meg Ryan Movies.

Tsunami Bomb is signing to Sony for a bajillionty dollars.

Bubba and Missy… fat hip hop love…
We told you a while ago that, fat white guy rapper, Bubba Sparxxx has been blowing loads on Missy Elliot the past few months. Well the word on the street now is that he’s knocked Missy up. We can’t really confirm this seeing as Missy always looks pregnant, but I guess we will all know in 9 months.

Mike Ski (from Brother’s Keeper) got stabbed in the leg when Until the End played CBGB’s last week. We hope he’s OK. Mike.. avoid watching shitty bands play shitty music and this type of thing won’t happen. Well, it might, but you won’t be listening to some dorks from Florida playing mosh songs when it does.

“Coby Dick”, the singer of Papa Roach, was spotted outside of a Wesley Willis concert in Sacramento a few nights ago. He was drunk, stumbling around, and singing Wesley’s lyrics. He’s just jealous that his band isn’t that good.

Will Records have their dick in Grandaddy’s asshole!
Grandaddy’s old label is going to release one of their old albums without the bands consent… here’s what the band said about it:
“1-16-01 Hello again. It has been brought to our attention that Will Records, our former label, is planning to release a “new” record by “us” on February 19, entitled Concrete Dunes. Please be advised that this album arrives without our input or knowledge. It consists primarily of The Broken Down Comforter Collection, which I have usually seen in stores for less money than Concrete Dunes is selling for. We were not involved in the decision to re-release or repackage this album. We first saw the incredibly questionable artwork, title, and new track listing on the internet, after being given the heads up by a friend. The additional material does not merit a re-release in our opinion, and could be considered grossly opportunistic. I think that it’s probably illegal for us to discourage you from buying it, so I won’t actually verbalize that sentiment. Again, at the risk of sounding incredibly redundant, we have nothing to do with the release of a record entitled Concrete Dunes. Pleasant afternoon to everyone.”

Placebo are splitting up.

Portishead has a new cd coming out in April. Look for a full U.S. arena rock tour supporting Shat by summer.

Snoop Dogg’s triple-X video, “Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle,” won two trophies at the 2002 Adult Video News Awards last week. Tom has that flick, he’s “used” it many times. He says he’s backing it.

We’re like, popular.
Some guy at TVT thinks we rule. He posted his top 5 at http://www.thetripwire.com/cs_playerpicks.php
and we made number 5! Oh boy! Hey dude.. send us Kool Keith vinyl if we rule so much. Might as well throw in whatever else you put out too so we can sell it at Amoeba for something good.
Tom Mullen
TVT Records
Astoria, NY
01. the static age – www.thestaticage.com
02. ON THE MIGHT OF PRINCES!!!
03. orange county – jables makes me laugh
04. tape op magazine – for the recording nerd
05. buddyhead.com – getting to be velvetrope.com

No Motiv are shopping themselves around to majors…

Nick Z. from Paris, Texas wears the same creepy brown pants every day. He hasn’t washed them in years. His testicles are filthy.

Thursday is shopping their new cd around… mostly major labels. The buzz started when some A&R guy found out they played a show with At The Drive-In.

Girls Against Boys is currently recording their latest album with veteran noise producer Ted Niceley in Brooklyn, New York. It will include 11-12 new songs and will be released on Jade Tree records.

The Hives are still fat and people like them now cuz they read they should in Spin. People are stupid.

Tom Petty is smoking a lot of dope and trying to record some new songs anyone would give a shit about at Cello studios on Sunset. His posse of fat and mustached hippies is perving on the girls hanging around a different band recording there. Fuck.

So Mojo went under a while back. That old-guy pop-punk band, Goldfinger, that was on Mojo is now on Jive. Yeah, the same label that has the best boy bands now has Goldfinger! I’m sure everyone at Jive is jerking themselves off over that score! Double High Fives all around the office.

Reader mail
(KFOLEY28@HOTMAIL.COM): ‘dude, you guys probably don’t care but it’s from the atomjack list serve “P.S. Has anyone ever noticed that it is that motley Buddyhead crew who are the biggest zombie-like weenies at shows? Too much Nyquil, I tells ya :] ” just kinda nice to be referenced. . . oh and you guys should DIY bowl.’

(mwdropout@aol.com): ‘Sunday night in Vegas a band opening for ataris wannabe’s Rufio were all sporting Icarus Line shirts!! How bomb is that brah? Also I have seen Pennywise sporting a shoot pigs in the face buddyhead.com shirt.’

(nuttymong@aol.com): ‘http://members.aol.com/nuttymong/cheapblueCLOVE.jpg – picture of courtney (she offered to buy me, 19, a drink) taken that night at the troubadour, also that article in Spin mentions someone yelling One Armed Scissors, t’was me. Zack Wolk. :D’

Buddyhead/Cave In video interview… it’s not all that neato.
Some kid from Atlanta who does a nice band photography site, tried to do a Buddyhead/Cave In video interview with us and Adam and Stephen of Cave In when we were on tour, but it ended up being pretty chaotic. It’s pretty pointless and basically goes no where, but Aaron does come out of the closet. He says he’s into doods, finally. Click here.

A christian reviewing “Mono”…
Some christian/music/record-label site decapolis.com just ran a review of The Icarus Line’s “Mono”. The writer actually describes them as “Black Flag/Braid combo”. We were thinking “Pansy Division/Propaghandi”. Click here.

The Icarus Line in AP.
The Icarus Line got a mention in an article called “100 bands you need to know in 2002″ that’s in the new AP. At least one guy over there is smart. He also picked Lightning Bolt (who fucking rule, and if our best of 2001 list ever comes out, they’re on there too), Mars Volta, The Locust, and Convocation Of. The rest of the picks are pretty shitty. But props to Aaron Burgess for being an ass kicker.
“The Icarus Line recall the glorious, dangerous days of 90’s noise rock, when Drive Like Jehu were ruling the West Coast, the Jesus Lizard were Midwestern fat cats and Helmet were the dons of New York. And as all three of those bands eventually crept into the mainstream, so too are these guys poised to make that leap. Not that there’s anything market-friendly about the Icarus Line’s approach, Clad in matching badass red-and-black outfits, they’re known more for wrecking stages than for starting trends. And thanks to a direct connection with the Fred Durst-hating underground bile portal Buddyhead.com (guitarist aaron North co-runs the site) they’ve already become infamous as the band you simply must love to hate.” – Aaron Burgess

Hot Snakes are playing Michigan Fest!
Makoto Recordings is doing Michigan Fest again this year.
When: March 22nd-24th
Where: Wayne, MI
Venue: Wayne Tree Manor
Address: 35100 Van Born Road
Wayne, MI 48184 (2 miles from Detroit Metro Airport)
Confirmed acts for Michigan Fest 2002 include:
The Hot Snakes (1 of 2 live dates for 2002)
Planes Mistaken For Stars
The Dismemberment Plan
Death Cab for Cutie
Arab on Radar
Milemarker
The Liars
Vaz (ex-Hammerhead)
Haymarket Riot
Creation is Crucifixion
Few and Far Between
Coalesce
Dillinger 4
Isis
Hey Mercedes
Small Brown Bike
Sweep the Leg Johnny (last non-Chicago show)
The Rye Coalition
The Honor System
The Casket Lottery
Inside Five Minutes
The Arrivals
Berwer
Crooked Fingers
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Radio 4
Pleasure Forever
Silkworm
Crush Kill Destroy
Aloha
The Leaving Rouge
!!!
End It
The Mercury Program

Love And Rockets frontman is going solo bitch!
Daniel Ash, from the ass-kicking and name-taking bands called “Love and Rockets” (go buy the album entitled “Sweet F.A.” if you don’t have it. The F.A. stands for Fuck All, pretty cool eh?), has a solo record coming out on February 5th called “Daniel Ash”. How clever. A little more Daniel trivia for you: he was in the movie Grosse Pointe Blank and is currently in nationwide TV and radio commercials for Starburst. He’s also going on tour. We’re gonna be there.
Fri-Mar-01 Santa Ana Galaxy Theater
Sun-Mar-03 San Diego Brick By Brick
Tue-Mar-05 Los Angeles Roxy Theater
Wed-Mar-06 San Francisco Slim’s
Fri-Mar-08 Portland Aladdin Theater
Sat-Mar-09 Seattle Crocodile Cafe
Sun-Mar-10 Vancouver T.B.A.
Tue-Mar-12 Salt Lake City T.B.A
Wed-Mar-13 Denver Bluebird Theater
Fri-Mar-15 Minneapolis First Avenue
Sat-Mar-16 Chicago Metro
Sun-Mar-17 Detroit The Magic Bag
Mon-Mar-18 Toronto 279 Club
Tue-Mar-19 Cleveland The Agora Ballroom
Wed-Mar-20 Pittsburgh Club Laga
Fri-Mar-22 Washington DC Black cat
Sat-Mar-23 Philadelphia Trocadero
Sun-Mar-24 Long Island Down Town
Mon-Mar-25 New York City The Bowery
Wed-Mar-27 Boston The Paradise
Thu-Mar-28 Buffalo The Continental of Buffalo

Beer and guys in shorts.
Flogging Molly has a new album coming out that sounds just like the last one and they are gonna be on… Wooooo! The Warped Tour. Sounds fun guys. The other shitty bands that will be on the tour are mighty mighty bosstones, nofx, lagwagon, new found glory, reel big fish, no use for name, good charlotte, and the casualties. But before the jock rock summer fantasy trip, they are playing some clubs. Go get drunk at em kids!
3/14/02 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
3/15/02 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
3/16/02 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
3/17/02 San Diego, CA @ 4th & B Theater
3/19/02 Ventura, CA @ Ventura Theater
3/20/02 Anaheim, CA @ House Of Blues
3/22/02 Tempe, AZ @ The Bash on Ash
3/23/02 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad

Pop Punk on the road.
Hide the beer and tattoo guns cuz the Alkaline Trio are going on tour. First they’ll be in vegas at the BYO punk rock bowling tournament (that we never get invited to, cuz we’re not punk enough) where Travis is gonna drink Matt under the table. Here are the dates dorks.
2/16 Hurricane Harrys (BYO Bowling Tournament) 3190 W. Saharah Las Vegas NV
2/19 House of Blues 1530 S. Disneyland Ave. Anaheim, CA
2/21 Cane’s 3105 Oceanfront Walk San Diego CA
2/22 Living Room 430 Fairview St. Santa Barbara
2/23 House of Blues 8439 Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood CA
2/24 Great American Music Hall 859 O’farrell St. San Francisco, CA

This guy plays folk and went to school with Travis…
Josh Ritter is going on tour. If you like decent folk music or just wanna meet someone who went to high school with Travis check his show out.
01/31/02 Freight & Salvage, Berkeley CA – 7pm
02/02/02 The Mint, Los Angeles CA – 7:45pm
02/03/02 Java Joe’s, San Diego CA – 8pm
02/06/02 Aladdin Theatre, Portland OR – 8pm
02/07/02 Sam Bond’s Garage, Eugene OR
02/08/02 Tractor Tavern, Seattle WA – 6pm
02/09/02 Wilda Marston Theatre, Anchorage Alaska – 8pm
02/10/02 Gothic Theatre, Denver CO – 8pm

Bluebird are doing shit.
Bluebird is putting the final touches on their ‘ambient-esque” full length for Dopamine Records. The record is entitled ‘Black Presence’ and will be out in the Spring. They’ve started pre-production of sorts on the 2nd full length, this one to be released on Dim Mak records and will be out in late Spring/early Summer. They will start the actual recording of it in February. Speaking of Dim Mak, Steve is such a good guy that he released “The Two”, Bluebirds last full length on vinyl. You can order it directly from their website if you like or wait til the end of this week and the band will have some in their web store on colored vinyl! www.bluebirdsounds.com In regards to vinyl, Bluebird will be releasing a split 7 inch later this year with friends from the nation’s capitol Dead Meadow on Buddyhead. Speaking of Dead Meadow, they will be playing some shows with Bluebird starting later this week.
2/1 TROUBADOR-LA, CA
2/2 CASBAH-San Diego, CA
2/3 BOTTOM OF THE HILL-SF, CA

Her Space Holiday on the road.
Her Space Holiday are out with The Gloria Record. Go see them. Their new record is pretty good.
Jan 24 Montreal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo
Jan 25 Ottowa, QC @ Sandy Hill Community Centre
Jan 26 Boston, MA @ Middle East
Jan 27 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory
Jan 29 Philadelphia, PA @ TBA
Jan 30 Richmond, VA @ Swingers
Jan 31 Chapel Hill, NC @ Go Rehearsal Studios
Feb 01 Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern
Feb 02 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
Feb 03 Nashville, TN @ The End
Feb 04 New Orleans, LA @ Mermaid Lounge
Feb 05 Houston, TX @ Mary Jane’s
Feb 06 Dallas, TX @ Gypsy Tea Room
Feb 07 Austin, TX @ Mercury

Go see Toys That Kill. They’re punk dude.
feb 3rd upland @ the ale house
feb 25th @ the garage FREE
mar 9th @ mr.t’s bowl

Coalesce is doing a reunion tour.
Tom’s all excited like a little school girl..
3/21 Lawrence KS Bottleneck w/ Saved By Grace, Casket Lottery
3/22 Chicago IL Fireside Bowl w/ Casket Lottery, Miasis
3/23 Michigan Fest
3/24 Cleveland OH Agora Ballroom w/ Craw
3/25 Worcester MA Palladium w/ ISIS, Cancer Conspiracy
3/26 S. Amboy NJ Krome w/ Burnt By the Sun, Manhunt
3/27 Philly PA TLA w/ Starkweather, Burnt By the Sun, more
3/28 New York NY CBGB’s w/ ISIS, Skycamefalling, more
4/3 Seattle WA Graceland w/ Playing Enemy, Eniac, Wormwood
4/4 Portland OR @ Meow, Meow w/ Eniac, more
4/5 San Fran CA The Pound w/ Blessing The Hogs, Eniac
4/6 Los Angeles CA Troubadour w/ CUAD, Eniac, more
4/7 Anaheim CA Chain Reaction w/ Eniac
4/8 San Diego CA Epicentre w/ Eniac, Max Million
4/9 Tucson AZ The Muse w/ Playing Enemy, Eniac, more
4/11 Dallas TX The Door w/ Eniac, more
4/12 Austin TX Emo’s w/ Eniac, more
4/13 Houston TX Mary Jane’s w/ Eniac, more

Victory Records has signed a Long Island band, Taking Back Sunday. Tom’s pissed.

Glassjaw has left Roadrunner, because the label wouldn’t let them tour with Nickelback. They are heading out alone:
February 15th Providence, RI – Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel
February 16th Boston, MA – Palladium
February 17th Philadelphia, PA – Electric Factory
February 18th Washington D.C. – 9:30 Club
February 19th Albany, NY – Northern Lights
February 24th Hartford, CT – Webster Theatre
February 25th Rochester, NY – Water Street Music Hall
February 26th Pittsburgh, PA – Metropol
March 01st Asbury Park, NJ – Convention Center
March 02nd New York, NY – Roseland Ballroom
March 04th Columbus, OH – Newport
March 05th Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room
March 06th Cincinnati, OH – Bogart’s
March 07th Detroit, MI – State Theatre
March 08th Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre
March 09th Milwaukee, WI – Modjeska Theatre
March 11th Minneapolis, MN – Quest
March 12th Iowa City, IA – Main Lounge
March 13th St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
March 19th Portland, OR – TBA
March 21st Eugene, OR – McDonald Theatre
March 22nd Chico, CA – Rose Garden
March 25th Santa Cruz, CA – Civic Auditorium
March 27th La Jolla, CA – RIMAC
March 28th Los Angeles, CA – The Palladium
March 30th Las Vegas, NV – Desert Breeze Skate Park

Hide your Anniversary bootlegs…
Pretty Girls Make Graves are coming to town, and Derek’s way into to wussy music. Oh look they are even gonna let those kids from Orange County, Your Enemies Friends, play a show or two.
jan.7th graceland w/the bloodbrothers. 21 and over
jan.8th SF. bottom of the hill w/pleasure forever.all ages
jan.9th SD. THIS SHOW HAS MOVED TO CLUB XANTH w/your enemies friends.all ages
jan.10th LA. koos cafe w/bullet train to vegas.all ages
jan.11th Las vegas,NV. Tremors w/ the icarus line /bullet train to vegas..all ages
jan.12th LA. the troubadour w/the icarus line..all ages
jan.13th Santa Barbara..the living room…all ages
jan.25th oly all ages
feb.2nd.seattle.old firehouse w/botch /the bloodbrothers

Call Jeff Wood on tour right now 973 879 5165…the Shat Hotline

In even more related Buddyhead news, we need an ad person. We are too busy here getting death threats and lawsuits from crybaby rock stars to be on top of the ads on our website. If you have already done a job like this in the past… like maybe for a magazine, let us know. We don’t need you here full time polishing all of Travis and Aaron’s leather chaps, this is a part time gig. Don’t email us if you’re 14 and think you can handle the job. Also don’t email us if you have no experience with this stuff already. If you do waste our time with your pointless emails, we will find where you live and murder your entire family’s. Email Buddyhead@buddyhead.com if yr down.

For those of you less experienced, if you live in the L.A. area and want to help Buddyhead with some aggravating and tedious shit work, (i.e. intern) then contact Kathleen@Buddyhead.com and we’ll get ya going. Ohhhhh, it won’t be that bad. Maybe you’ll even get a free shirt, slap on the ass, and a chance at catching Travis naked while he gets out of the shower. Come on dude, jump on the grenade… do it for the head.

The February issue of Spin came out and oh boy does it smell like a giant heaping pile of horse dung rotting in the summer heat. It’s almost as bad as last months issue (you know the issue where they put the American Pie 2 soundtrack along with Incubus and Macy Grey in their top 20 albums of the year – people get killed ‘round here for less than that). In this months embarrassment, some “genius” over there, thought it’d be a good idea to run a few pages on the Devil’s henchmen himself, Dashboard Confessional. Leave it to Spin to bastardize the “emo” term even more. Neither one of us read it (who wants to get sick over something like that?), but we both laughed at his new “Planet Of The Apes” haircut. Chris, you better fire your barber champ. Oh, and that article called something like “100 best bands” or whatever is amazingly funny. Not on purpose of course. The Spin staff should all be dragged out into the streets so they can be slapped around with raw fish and then tar and feathered for their crimes against rock n’ roll. The Ramones as the second best band of all time? What paint huffer gave the go ahead on that idea? We know you guys are all about New York pride and shit, but get fuckin real. They put out 67 albums that all sounded the same. Enough with the “Ramones invented punk rock” bullshit. The Stooges and even The Who had way more to do with punk rock, and actually made amazing albums and show up way too late on this list. Sorry to be so anal about something so trivial, but it’s irritating. Fuck New York for always claiming to be originators… ah… sorry for the rant. Also, note to whoever wrote the little blurb on the Mars Volta – Listen up here stud-bolt, you’re blowing it! Their first show was at the Troubadour? How about NO BRO! It was actually at a venue called Chain Reaction in Orange County. Go back to listening to the Strokes, you’ll understand that shit better… after all, they’re from New York.

Rikki Rachtman, of Headbanger’s Ball and Love Line fame, is now selling cars at McKenna Volkswagen in Huntington Beach CA! He told us that all Buddyhead readers will get a good sized discount just because he “likes our little operation”. If you’re really nice, maybe he’ll give you one of his Poison headbands! Call him up and tell him Buddyhead sent you. (714) 842-2000

Recent studies show that going to “indie-rock” shows does in fact pay off! After seeing At The Drive-In only a few times, some “energetic” kids from Seattle started a pop punk band called Vendetta Red. They played a few poorly attended west coast shows, made some ties to the “Christian emo scene”, then out of nowhere their “investor” who had been paying for their lives over the past year or so, stirred up some “major interest”! They quickly became the major label flavor of the month, sending every A&R person who wished they’d signed At The Drive-In scrambling. So anyhow, the boys from Vendetta Red finally cashed in on what’s hot and signed to Epic this week for more money than any other unheard of band ever has. Somewhere around 3 Million dollars. Yep, even more than the Strokes. And yes, WAY more than At The Drive-In did a few years back. Which looks good on paper… but when it comes down to it, unless those dorks end up being the next Guns N’ Roses, they’re gonna feel the pain of large corporate rock dongs sliding slowly up their tail pipes (without Vaseline mind you). And making it that big ain’t gonna happen for these posers. Hey… all you self proclaimed “hip” and cool “indie” kids, this is where your culture gets hijacked and sold back to you as the “real deal”, when in fact it’s the same old suits trying to repackage the same old shit with new bells and whistles like white boy afros, tight pants, and “hip” thrift shop threads ala the Strokes. Hopefully for Vendetta Red, they don’t mind being told what to do for the next few years of their lives. By the way, Epic will be laying off people this week as they lost millions last year. Bummer.

In other major labels not making money news, Virgin Records will be merged into Capitol by August. The poor sales of Jagger and Kravitz have sealed Virgin’s fate.

The Icarus Line are heading out to destroy the majority of Europe over the course of the next 2 months. Not only does that mean good rock music will be proliferated across the globe, but it also means more spelling mistakes on Buddyhead for you internet dorks to endure, seeing as how Aaron “grammar nazi” Icarus will be hangin out with Euro’s while we suck dick to keep the phone turned on. To coincide with their European tour, a single for “Feed A Cat To Your Cobra” will be coming out in England next month. The cd version will include “Kill Cupid With A Nailfile”, so you superfan dorks out there can go buy that and stop bugging us about repressing that seven inch we put out. For more info and news, check out their newly updated website: www.theicarusline.com If you feel like beating up Aaron for not liking Limp Bizkit or something, here is where he will be every night for the next 2 months:

January
11 Las Vegas, NV – ?
12 Hollywood, CA – Troubadour
22 London, UK – 100 Club
23 Rotterdam, NL – Nighttown
24 Amsterdam, NL – Milkweg
25 Paris, FR – la Boule noire
26 Bordeaux, FR – tba
27 Madrid, SP – Gruta 77
28 tba
29 Barcelona, SP – Garage
30 Lyon, FR – Pezner
31 tba

February
01 Milan, I – Benario Zero
02 Turin, I – Hiroshima
03 off
04 Koln, D – Underground
05 Wiesbaden, D – Schlachthof
06 Zurich, CH – Gaswerk
07 Fribourg, CH – Fri-son
08 Weinheim, D – Café Central
09 Munich, D – Metropolis
10 Vienna, AU – Flex
11 Berlin, D – Knaack
12 Hamburg, D – Logo
13 Munster, D – Gleis 22
14 Gronigen, NL – Vera
15 Den Bosch, NL – W2
16 Kontich, BG – Lintfabriek
17 off
18 Portsmouth, UK – Wedgewood Rooms
19 Manchester, UK – Hop and Grape
20 Newport, UK – TJ’s
21 Northampton, UK – Soundhaus
22 Leeds, Cockpit
23 Oxford, UK – Zodiak
24 Colchester, UK – Arts Center
25 London, UK – Mean Fiddler
26 off
27 Glasgow, UK – King Tut’s
28 Dundee, UK – On Air East

March
01 Belfast, UK – University, Mandela Hall
02 Dublin, IR – New Breathe
03 Cork, IR – Old Oak
04 Galway, IR – GPO
05 Limerick, IR – Hi Stool

We got some more shirts are up in the store… new styles soon. Click here to give us your loot.

Alien Ant Farm, Fenix TX, Glassjaw, and Local H are rounding out the monstrosity of ass lineup that is the Sno-Core tour aka “Bro-Core” tour. Right now Aaron Icarus is in a feather dress with war paint on chanting around a fire with pictures of his god, Freddy Mercury, praying for an avalanche of great proportions to rid the world of these 4 musical cancers.

Winona Ryder hasn’t been stealing much lately.

Speaking of wrong, Vagrant Records signed Paul Westerberg. Paul, you’re going to hell now.

Spiritualized will release “Do it all over again” as the next single from Let it come down in February/ March 2002, coinciding with their UK tour dates. The release will be backed by new tracks, which the band are recording at the moment. Do drugs.

Give us money.

Important… Do Buddyhead a big favor and call up Fly PR as many times as possible at (323) 667-1344. Tell them to stop calling Travis’s house every day to see if we got the new (insert shitty band that no one cares about here) CD, we don’t give a fuckkk! Try calling at all hours or maybe talking in other languages.

Wednesday, January 9th, 2002 and Thursday, January 10th, 2002, will go down on the timeline of Rock N’ Roll history. On Wednesday, Aaron Icarus and Travis entered a studio in the capital records building that has been involved in creating epic masterpieces by legendary artists such as the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, and Radiohead and payed an engineer about $1000 to compile songs with titles such as “tit fuck” “i threw up on her cunt” and “fuck, i stepped in shit”… that’s right, we mastered the “best of” Shat album. Thursday we mastered the Revolution Smile album. Both are gonna fuck you up.

Shat is going on tour! Well, sort of… Jeff Wood is going on the Dillinger Escape Plan tour to drink beer, pick up chicks, and play some random shows. Shat is only going to perform when Jeff gets real drunk, so bring him lots of booze. We’ll announce the Shat shows as they come up on the Dillinger tour. They’ll be at random, so you probably want to just fucking quit your job working clean-up at A.J.’s Male World Video, and follow the tour around the country like some fucking hippy, but it’s Dillinger and Shat not the Grateful Dead so it’s bomb. Botch, Playing Enemy, and Buddyhead’s own Your Enemies Friends are doing much of the West Coast. Also performing on all of these dates are Darkest Hour, who as you see from this picture are way into fat old gay dudes. If that’s your bag too, head out to these spots for some love.
1/24 Old Bridge, NJ / @ Birch Hill Night Club
1/25 Williamsburg, NY @ North Six
1/26 Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Laga
1/27 Baltimore, MD @ Otto Bar
1/29 Richmond, VA @ Alley Katz
1/30 Winston Salem, NC @ 533 Uprisings
1/31 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade Music Park
2/01 West Columbia, SC @ Uncle Doctors
2/02 Memphis, TN @ Premier Palace
2/04 Tampa, FL @ Orpheum Theatre
2/05 Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room 3045 N. Federal Highway)
2/07 Tallahassee, FL @ The Cow Haus
2/08 New Orleans, LA @ The Shim Sham Club
2/09 Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s
2/10 Austin, TX @ Emo’s
2/11 Dallas, TX @ Canyon Club – Bronco Bowl Theatre
2/13 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
2/15 Tempe, AZ @ Boston’s
2/16 Las Vegas, NV @ Tremors (YOUR ENEMIES FRIENDS)
2/19 Pomona, CA @ The Glass House (W./ BOTCH, YOUR ENEMIES FRIENDS)
2/20 Los Angeles, CA @ the Troubador (W./ BOTCH, YOUR ENEMIES FRIENDS)
2/21 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall (w./BOTCH)
2/23 Portland, OR @ Meow Meow (W./ BOTCH, PLAYING ENEMY)
2/24 Seattle, WA @ Graceland (W./ BOTCH, PLAYING ENEMY)
2/27 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
2/28 Kansas City, KS @ El Torreon
3/02 Chicago, IL @ Fireside Bowl
3/04 Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
3/05 Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theatre
3/06 Syracuse, NY @ Armory High
3/07 New Haven, CT @ Toad’s Place

Some white belt Locust worshipping Canucks who call themselves Hot Hot Heat, got signed to Sub Pop. Great! Another fashion rock band, wonder why you guys are going bankrupt over there. Speaking of…. HOW ABOUT PAYING TRAVIS FOR THE MURDER CITY DEVILS SITE HE BUILT YOU FUCKING CHEAP BASTARDS ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO?!?!?! Anyhow, the hockey loving spock rockers are gonna record an EP with some dude who wishes he was in Built To Spill (Chris Walla from Death Cab For Cutie) and it’ll be out in March on Sub Pop. If you are bored check out their website (http://www.hothotheat.com) for some videos of them lip syncing and dancing around like fruitcakes on top of buildings in tight clothes. It’s worth a laugh. Make sure to watch the singer guy, he does these great hand movements that even Richard Simmons himself would be proud of.

So, Steve-O from Jackass figured that he’d rather be “friends” with us (and use us to shamelessly promote his new dvd’s), rather than kick our asses for making fun of him and having thousands of kids email him. Our new buddy wanted us to pass this little message onto you kids:
Hey Everyone. This is Steve-O again.
Here’s the deal, I’m releasing the first uncensored videos to star myself, Johnny Knoxville, Chris Pontius, Wee-Man, Preston Lacy and others. The release date is now January 15th. There are two of them: Don’t Try This At Home: The Steve-O Video, and Don’t Try This At Home Presents: The Career Ending Footage of Steve-O. We had a significant battle getting our television commercials past the censors. All the different commercials (60 seconds “clean” and “dirty” and 120 seconds “clean” and “dirty”) are now cleared and I’m totally stoked on them. We also rounded up Johnny Knoxville, Chris Pontius, Jeff Tremaine, Dimitry Elyaschevich, Rick Kosick and myself to record an absurd commentary “special feature” for the DVD. Look for that special feature to upset people more than the videos themselves. I hope everyone has DVD players! Judging by how many e-mails I received after you guys decided to post my e-mail address on your website, I thought it would make sense to send you this message and request that you post on your website the following e-mail address: steveovideo@homail.com where anyone can send an e-mail to receive pre-release information within a couple of days. Other news you may want to include is that I’m no longer homeless and MTV officials have announced that we will be beginning the production of Jackass: The Movie in January and the movie will be in theaters everywhere late in 2002. The entire cast of jackass will star in the movie and the budget is ridiculous. Our first trip is to Australia to film with Steve Irwin (the Crocodile Hunter). Wish me luck guys. I’ll get back to you guys with more info and mail you my videos.
touch soon,
Steve-O.
steveovideo@hotmail.com

Jesus-metal band Zao broke up 3 shows into their tour with the Juliana Theory, while on stage. It’s Brett Detar’s fault. It’s always his fault. If you like Zao and Jesus you should fuck that dude up.

The fruity synth player from the Faint (Flock of Seagulls 2001) is in a Carls Jr. commercial. He’s the dude spraying the restaurant counter while the other guy is trying to eat his $6 burger. Sounds real Hiroshima-Nagasaki!

The new Anthrax album entitled “In The Mail” will be out next month.

Sonic Youth are working on their new release (time to start saving up for drugs), as is Ween (likewise).

Adam Pfahler’s (from Jawbreaker) wife, gave birth to their second daughter on Halloween. Her name is Stella. In his recent newsletter he stated:
“I’m planning on doing another record with J Church for Fat Wreck Chords. The bonus is that Kelly Green (formerly of Pee) will be singing, too. In other band news, I’m also playing with Richard Baluyut (Versus), Mikel Delgado (Little Deaths) and Lorna Goldie Lithgow in a band going by the name of Wysall Lane (Richard’s former solo project). We’re thinking of changing the name, however. Any suggestions? The Jawbreaker compilation ETC. is finally done and will be out in mid-2002. I know I’ve been promising a release date, but I don’t have one yet. I swear I’ll let you know the specifics when I get a date. Lastly, I just negotiated getting Dear You back. It’s anyone’s guess how long all the paperwork will take, but it will be on Blackball Records and come with an extra track on an enhanced CD with a video. Whew!” We all just got massive boners.

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

MTV has two new shows coming out this season… oh boy is right. One is called “Stung” and it’s being called a “Candid Camera type show with Red Man and Method Man”. The second one is a real world type show about Ozzy’s family. Weird is right. Jack better wear some Buddyhead shirts or he’s off the team.

Gary Busey is out on $50,000 bail for abusing his wife.

Morgan Lander from Kittie listed the Icky line’s record as her #3 album of 2001 on www.shoutweb.com’s artist picks. Click here. Hit dat shit!

Gideon Yago was out in the City Of Angels for New Years. His activities consisted of record shopping at Amoeba, spinning records as the ball dropped with Travis at Vida, a touch of intoxicants, sticking his tongue down the throats of emo girls, and basically raising hell. The ruckus even spread to one of his fan sites… click here.

Victory records sold Snapcase for $1.7 mil. Call them at 1 888 4 HRD COR and ask them if Tom can borrow some money for whores.

Download the Frank Black and the Catholics live show from August 25, 2001 at the Lowlands festival in England. It’s pretty Hiroshima-Nagasaki! Click here.

Christina Aguilera’s new album is expected to be out sometime around June. Who cares… someone get us that fucking sex tape. NOW!

Creed’s favorite band, Boy Sets Fire (or the artists formerly known as Boy Hits Car) are pretty wack… right? Well, just when you thought they couldn’t get any lamer, they go out and prove you wrong by booking a tour with the jock-punk kings, Pennywise. Have fun at the brodeo guys. If you would like to see thousands of jocks booing a band off the stage for “not being fast enough” and “fags”, go to one of these shows…
jan 16 Newport Music Hall- Columbus, OH w/ Pennywise
jan 17 Bogarts- Cincinnati, OH w/ Pennywise
jan 18 State Theatre- Detroit, MI w/ Pennywise
jan 19 Riviera Theatre- Chicago, IL w/ Pennywise
jan 20 The Rave- Milwaukee, WI w/ Pennywise
jan 21 Quest Club- Minneapolis, MN w/ Pennywise
jan 23 Club Laga- Pittsburgh, PA
jan 24 Fletcher’s- Baltimore, MD

The singer guy with the creepy weird mustache from Korn, Jonathan Davis, had a nervous breakdown while recording the steaming pile of shit they’re gonna package with a cartoon cover, called the new Korn album, and sell millions of to America’s lower bracket of I.Q. holders. From what we heard, mustache guy was in the studio alone doing vocals, the rest of the band was out buying new Adidas jump suits or something wack, and he just lost his shit. He wants to now pushback the album, go back into the studio and redo all of his vocals with the entire band present. Music sucks.

Speaking of Korn, that fatass bass player they have is putting out a solo hip hop record. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it many times in the future… just when you think things can’t get any worse… they surprise you and really start sucking on the donkey’s salty sweaty balls. http://www.fieldysdreams.net

Kris Roe of the Ataris finally got tired of being the chubby kid with a bald spot and shaved his head.

Goldfinger’s guitar player quit the band and now they are trying to find a replacement from their fans, but all their fans are like 12 and couldn’t even chew gum and walk at the same time, let alone play an instrument, so we’re not sure what the fuck they’re thinking there…

Biz Markie will have a cameo in Men In Black II. We’re hoping he ends up playing a guy who disembowels and mutilates Will Smith, but as it turns out he’s going to be a space alien who teaches Will Smith how to beatbox. Weak.

Looks like we appeal to Slipknot and Nickelback fans now! Some dude from roadrunner put us on his best of 2001 list. Send us some promos we can sell at Amoeba for drug money dude. http://www.roadrun.com/wildcard/
Scot Stiglich – sales
In no particular order, Top 11:
Fu Manchu-California Crossing advance
Kevin Tihista’s Red Terror-Dont Breathe A Word
Muchacha-Plug In And Go
Motley Crue Autobiography
Woolworthy-Blasted Into Ashes
Delilahs 8th Anniversary Party
Local H-Here Comes The Zoo
Buddyhead.com
Cheap Trick at Double Door
Zeke-Death Alley
Slipknot-Iowa

That dude from Bush is finally gonna tie the knot with Gwen Stefani. Her bass player is still kicking himself. Jeff Wood promises to get their kids strung out and pregnant.

Blur is heading back into studio to record a follow up to 13 with Fatboy Slim producing. Sounds sketchy.

Anal Cunt broke up.

Music4autobahns just put up some video interviews with Walter from Rival Schools, Hot Water Music, Matt Skiba from Alkaline Trio and Ian Mackaye from Fugazi. Also, if you look in the archives there is an Icarus Line interview and a Buddyhead one as well. Click here.

Pro skater and raging drunk, Daniel Shimizu, found himself serving 9 hours of jail time this week after the pigs caught him and some friends skating a skateboard park without pads and helmets. Aaron Farley was there filming (without a skateboard mind you) and got slapped with a ticket. Safety first boys!

Saves the Day was on Conan O’Brien. They do not know anything about rock n roll. Hopefully you fruitbaskets set your vcr’s to capture the gay.

Epitaph finally got a clue and dropped the Voodoo Glow Skulls. They are currently trying to trick other shitty labels into signing them. Hey guys, we’ll put a record of yours out if you don’t mind doing another split with Hickey.

Jessie Turner is sober again! He’s also filming a new movie out in New York this week. Email him and let him know you think he’s just as funny when he’s sober. He needs a little cheering up. jessie@buddyhead.com.

The Impossibles broke up….. again. That’s what you guys get for covering At The Drive-In.

Damien Jurado is trying to get released from the final record of his contract with Sub Pop cause they want to continue to bend him over the hood of their Camaro. Oh yeah, and they are in breach of contract. Rumor has it, he’s going to end up on Secretly Canadian.

Orange County’s premiere all-ages venue, Koo’s Café, has closed it’s doors. Looks like bands touring through this area will have to find another place to get ripped off at while the hordes of weird looking pimple faced heavy set kids with dyed black hair will also search for a new place to stare at each other.

Mos Def is going to be in 3, count them, 3 movies in the future. Hopefully, none of them will star Method Man or Redman.

The Cassettes (featuring Shelby from Frodus) are playing two shows on the wrong side of the nation. Dates below. Peep the website for mp3s. www.thecassettesmusic.com
January 16th – Brooklyn, NYC – Club Luxx w/ The Witnesses (Ex-Rondelles), and Main Man. Doors at: 9pm, The Cassettes play first! For info goto: www.clubluxx.com
January 24th – UVA The Pud House, Charlottesville, VA – Art opening and rock show, w/ The Devil Is Electric, The Remotes. Doors at: 10:00 pm, For info email: Wendy (wjh2b@cms.mail.virginia.edu).

That techno raver dork who’s responsible for shit like Nsync’s “pop”, BT, got his Los Angeles home studio broken into while he was playing grabass in London for Christmas. The thieves made off with thousands of dollars worth of equipment and all of his new recordings. Good. Maybe they weren’t in it for the cash. Maybe they are superheros who have been sent to this planet to fight the evil that is shitty music.

Princess Superstar is going on tour. If you like hot white girls who rap with Kool Keith, you might wanna check her out.
1/15 Seattle, WA @ Crocodile – live performance
1/16 Portland, OR @ Satyricon – live performance
1/17 San Francisco, CA @ Justice League – live performance
1/19 Los Angeles, CA @ Knitting Factory – live performance
1/21 New York, NY @ Veruka – DJ set
1/26 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory – live performance
1/28 New York, NY @ Veruka – DJ set

Some kid who is putting out a picture disc comp emailed us and asked if we’d post a blurb about it. He said Shat isn’t on it but that it’s “for the cause” or something. So I guess you should buy it. It’s called – Satellite City Launch#001 “Masculine Make-Over”, benefit for Boston-based crisis center. It comes out in January 2002 (which is now!) and it’s a 12″ Picture Disc featuring unreleased or live tracks by Submission Hold, Kid Dynamite, Eulcid, Stephen Brodsky, Onelinedrawing, the Dillinger Escape Plan, Rocky Votolato, Homage to Catalonia, Last Days of April, Jane Speed, Bluebird, and Sharks Keep Moving. Contact Brian_SatelliteCity@hotmail.com for more info on how to support the scene.

The Suicide Machines, Poison the Well, and Catch 22 are going on tour. Aaron Icarus is way fucking pumped for this because he loves ska and moshing. He also likes when dudes touch his weiner.
1/22 Jacksonville Beach FL @ Freebird Cafe
1/23 Gainesville FL @ Market Street Pub
1/24 Orlando FL @ The Social
1/25 Fort Lauderdale FL @ Freez
1/26 St. Petersburg FL @ The State Theater
1/27 Tallahassee FL @ Cow Haus
1/29 New Orleans LA @ Shim Sham
1/31 Austin TX @ Emo’s
2/1 Dallas TX @ Galaxy Club

Weezer’s going out on a nationwide hunt for the perfect 13 year old Asian girl that’s boyish enough to be mistaken for Data from the Goonies. They’re taking Saves the Day, cause Rivers heard one of them is part Asian. If you’re into Lord of the Rings or illegal child porno, you should go to one of these shows, you’ll have a bomb time.
2/5 – Charlotte, NC @ Cricket Arena
2/7 – Rochester, NY @ Blue Cross Arena
2/8 – Lowell, MA @ Paul E. Tsongas Arena
2/9 – Wilkes-Barre, PA @ First Union Arena
2/11 – East Rutherford, NJ @ Continental Airlines Arena
2/12 – State College, PA @ Bryce Jordan Center
2/14 – Hamilton, ON @ Copps Coliseum
2/15 – Montreal, QC @ Molson Centre
2/21 – Nashville, TN @ Municipal Auditorium
2/22 – Raleigh, NC @ Entertainment & Sports Arena
2/24 – Tampa, FL @ Ice Palace
2/25 West Palm Beach, FL @ Mars Music Amphitheatre

Weezer also just put up their new website. Check it out at http://www.asianexxxtasy.com/. Also, they just said in the new AP that they are going to be more like Judas Priest. We’re guessing this means they aren’t gonna suck anymore and Rivers is finally coming out of the closet.

Har Mar Superstar has assured himself a nice toasty spot in hell. He’ll be opening for The Strokes on their next tour. Har Mar said that’s he’s gonna be getting a geri-curl especially for that tour. Sounds like he’ll fit in just fine.

Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s new album is coming out March 5th 2002. FREE ODB.

CMJ named Vagrant label of the year. We now name CMJ dipshits of the year.

Mark “the snake” Brickey formerly of The Enkindels moved to Buffalo, NY and started a new band with members from Buried Alive called “The Holy Angels”. Mark is still old and wack. http://www.theholyangels.com

Dan The Automator signed to MCA Records.

The Weakerthans will play 4 consecutive nights in February to celebrate their 5th anniversary. The bummer is you have to be in Canadia to see them, yep all the shows are in Winnipeg. No thanks.
Royal Albert: Feb 21
Pyramid:Feb 22
Wellington’s:Feb 23
West End Cultural Center: Feb 24

Cave In is going to on a tour of Europe because Stephen needs to update his shit porn collection and Adam can’t get enough of dutch hookers.
1/6 Germany Munster Gleis 22
1/7 Germany Bremen Schlachthof
1/8 Germany Hamburg Hafenklang
1/9 Germany Berlin Wild at Heart
1/10 Germany Monheim Sojus 7
1/11 Holland Rotterdam Waterfront
1/12 Belgium Kontich Lintfabriek
1/13 England Birmingham Capsule
1/14 England Glasgow 13thNote
1/15 England Leeds Josephs Well
1/16 England Derby Victoria In
1/17 England London Underworld
1/18 Belgium Hasselt Muziekodroom
1/19 Germany Osnabruck Ostbunker
1/20 Germany Saarbrucken Hellmut
1/21 Germany Munchen Backstage
1/22 Switzerland Wil Remise
1/23 Switzerland Geneva Usine
1/25 Spain Barcelona Razzmatazz
1/26 Spain Madrid Gruta 77
1/27 Spain Basque Cntry
1/28 France Toulouse LR
1/29 France Besancon Cylindre
1/20 Italy Pinarella di Cervia Rock Planet
1/31 Italy Ponderano Babylonia
2/1 France Paris La peche
2/2 Holland Tilburg 013-popcentre w/ quetzal
2/3 Holland Arnhem Goudvishal w/ quetzal
2/4 Holland Amsterdam OCCII w/ quetzal

Dylan Roadie (ex-Icarus Line roadie\metal head\Gabe from Murder City’s brother) and his butt buddy Frankie from a band called The Super Magnificent Action Trio who Frankie says is really good (we have no idea, he is too stoned to send us a demo) have been throwing what they call “the best parties in Seattle” lately. They live above a certain rock club and throw the after parties for the band’s they like (the anniversary/pretty girls/super magnificent action trio, ugly casanova/les savy fav/mars volta/international noise conspiracy/rival schools/the hives, and the next one is the ron jeremy show after party). All the parties begin at 2am and are some serious Boogie Nights type shit including a full bar, bartender, dance party dj’s, a disco ball, Dylan and Frankie dancing around in silver thongs, and a make-out room! You have to have an invitation to get in (and we’re not sure how you get one cuz well… we don’t live in Seattle), because if you don’t, the bouncer (Gabe from the Devils), will crush your head. Anyway, after the Death Cab For Cutie show a couple Fridays ago a nameless employee of Sub Pop got so crazyfaced drunk she barfed on the stairs and the carpet and ended up face first in her own puke. Later on that night she kept the party going by attempting to piss on Dylan’s record collection but failing and pissing all over the carpet, kitchen floor and Frankie’s shoes. And the fun didn’t stop there, she then plopped out a string of four turds in a straight line, sat in them and continued to fart. Sub Pop sure knows how to pick em.

Speaking of Seattle, the newest Seattle supergroup, Minus The Bear, is heading out on your soon. They feature members of Botch, Kill Sadie, and Sharks Keep Moving. Go to their show and tell Dave he’s un-bomb for pussing out on Aaron Icarus’s offer to kill random hookers the last time he was in town.
January 18 – Graceland – Seattle, WA.
January 19 – Blackbird – Portland, OR.
January 20 – Moxy’s – Chico, CA.
January 22 – Tremorz – Las Vegas, NV.
January 23 – Muse – Tucson, AZ.
January 24 – Casbah – San Diego, CA.
January 25 – Spaceland – Los Angeles, CA.
January 26 – Gypsy Lounge – Lake Forest, CA.
January 27 – Bottom of the Hill – San Francisco, CA.

We wouldn’t believe it if we wouldn’t have seen it with our own eyes. While we were on tour with Cave In and The Icarus Line in North Carolina, Cave In took the night off and played a show with The Strokes down the street. Cave In played great, but the crowd didn’t seem too receptive. None of us had ever seen The Strokes, so we checked it out, but they proved to be just what we were expecting. Nicely dressed but boring as all fuck. The funny part came when we walked outside and noticed that the side of The Strokes tour bus got tagged with “$uckn Dick$”. Someone had copy-cat our tag (the one we did on Cave In’s Ryder truck at the begging of the tour click here) and yet outdone us with the dollar signs and size. We were so impressed we took photos (click here to view em). Oh well, nothing daddy won’t pay for.

Aside from getting free paint jobs, The Strokes, have also spawned a bizarre tribute band that play Casio-style keyboard versions of the group’s songs. “The Diff’rent Strokes” – who deliberately spell their name the same way as the ’80s sitcom starring Gary Coleman – are to release their EP ‘This Isn’t It’ next month. The EP re-creates the original album sleeve and instrumental versions of ‘Last Nite’, ‘Hard to Explain’, ‘The Modern Age’ and ‘Is This It?’ Sounds pretty boring. The musicians behind The Diff’rent Strokes have so far refused to identify themselves. The EP is out on December 3 on the Guided Missile label. Maybe they are the taggers.

“Guns n’ Roses”, more like Axl and a bunch of dorks, decided to play another show in Vegas this New Years. This time it’s two shows at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. And just like last year when we attended the snore fest, no Slash, no Izzy, no Duff, not even the drummer with the Muppet haircut. You get a fat Dizzy, a dude wearing a fucking chicken bucket on his head, a tubby Axl, a dude from the Replacements who thinks he’s Duff, a guy from Nine Inch Nails (who looks like he’s still in Nine Inch Nails) and a drummer with a backwards baseball cap on from Primus. But hey, it’s still better than most of the other shit. We can’t lie; we’re a little bit excited.

We’re fucking excited! From what we’ve heard, Rocket From The Crypt isn’t breaking up and they aren’t letting that clown from Reel Big Fish in the band like we thought. Ok, great. Now what we’re excited about… The mother fucking HOT SNAKES will be going in the studio to record the follow up to Automatic Midnight in December! The line-up for the recording will be the same, and just like the first one, the new record won’t have any bass on it. Our shorts are moist already.

Interscope was trying to pull a power move over the Puddle of Mudd timeslot for the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas. They were trying to steal Bad Religion’s time slot for Puddle of Mudd. They told KROQ that they would get Fathead Durst to come out on stage with his pants hanging off his ass and do his pseudo mock rapping thing with them if they could have BR’s time slot. But in the end the old punk rockers win out over fat headed “fake-Nirvana” bands.

During the filming of the “What’s going on video” with the blindfolds apparently Fred Durst and Justin Timberlake refused to wear bandanas that said “Gay” on them and stormed off the set. Insecure boys?

The Knot’s (Slipknot) London/Sire imprint label, Maggot Records is getting shut down. 14-year-old chubby kids in orange jumpsuits who give themselves names like “Filth” and “Tub of Shit” are going to have someone’s ass for this.

Corey from Slipknot is starting a side project called Superego. No word on if they wear stupid masks or not.

Jack Black is hosting Saturday Night Live January 19th. Maybe the show will actually be funny again. Oh, and guess who’s playing that night as the musical guest… Yep! You’re favorite (four car) garage band, The Strokes. Seems like they could have just killed two birds with one stone and had The D play.

Chris Carrabba (aka soul-less white devil from the hate group known as Dashboard Confessional) recently took all the money little fat girls have given him and bought a new Audi TT! Yep an Audi TT. You know–those cars that rich mom’s who are clinging on to youth buy. It’s like the female corvette. And the best part is, he got the convertable, so his head fits.

Jimmy Eat World is in the Christmas mood already. They recently rushed into the studio to record a cover of a George Michael X-Mas song. And it ended up as an “E-Greeting”. The scary part is, I don’t think they were joking. Click here

New old-hardcore-guy band. Vic (Inside Out / 108), Alan (Quicksand), Gavin (Die 116 / Pry), and Shaun (Excel) have come together to form “The Projectors”. From what we hear, they are making some kickass tunes and will be recording an EP in mid November… we’ll keep you posted.

That new “Ex-Sunny Day” project with Jeremy, Will, and Nate is going to be called “The Fire Theft”. It’s apparently named after a common idea found in ancient mythology. Someone look that up for us.

Jay-Z did MTV Unplugged with The Roots as his backing band. Where is the justice? When does Kool Keith get his unplugged?

The Campfire Girls are playing a few shows around LA. Silverlake lounge (Sunset and Silverlake blvd. in Silverlake) this Wednesday at 9:30 with James Hall. Cover is $5. They are also throwing a Campfire Girls X-Mas party at The Three of Clubs (Vine and Santa Monica blvd. in Hollywood) there is no cover and they will be playing an extended set of new and old material. Show starts around 9:30 also.

Kid Rock got another Guitar stolen. Nate? His custom-made Gibson guitar was discovered missing at customs when he arrived overseas this week. Kid Rock was going to perform for American Servicemen as part of an MTV/USO holiday television special. The stolen guitar is painted with the Stars and Stripes across the body. Also missing is a handmade rhinestone and beaded guitar strap, embroidered with the name “Rock.” “I just want to get it back,” Kid Rock said. Atlantic Records is urging anyone with info about the guitar’s whereabouts to call 212-707-2051. We urge everyone to call and claim that they have the guitar.

Gibby (the perv who runs that kiddy porn site makeout club dot com www.makeoutoutclub.com) threatened to sue some kid named Jarrett Estes (he does a site called wangout club dot com www.wangoutclub.com) because Jarrett copied Gibby’s layout. Hey kids, yer both fruitcakes.

Ben Folds’ song “Bizarre Christmas Incident” (originally titled “Santa is a Big Fat Fuck”), which got rejected from “The Grinch” soundtrack last winter, is now available at his website in real audio (or on audiogalaxy.com on mp3 – you pick). It’s also being released as a radio-only single.

Jimmie’s Chicken Shack broke up. Shit!

New York art show you need to attend. On December 14, 2001 – January 19, 2002 (opening party with famous people, free wine, and free cheese is Friday, December 14, 6-9 pm) at the Mark Pasek Gallery (122 Suffolk Street | New York NY, 10002 | 212 388 0631 | markol@rcn.com | Gallery hours Thurs – Sun 1 -7 pm). Come check out art by Brian Montuori (he played keyboards in the Dillinger Escape Plan for a bit and had a brief fling with David Bowie), Wes Lang, and Jansson Stegner. The theme of the show is women and oil paint.

Courtney Love, Tom Morello, Chris Cornell, and Morrissey, among others, were all seen swinging from the nuts of the International Noise Conspiracy when they played at the Roxy on Dec 3rd in Hollywood.

The singer of Creed has been comparing his Jesus rock band to Led Zeppelin. Someone better explain to that dude that his band is more like a Pearl Jam cover band.
Pitch Weekly (from Kansas) recently ran an article on the latest Cave In/Icarus Line stuffs. Click here.

The Boston Phoenix ran an interview with Travis. Click here.

Glassjaw is leaving Roadrunner Records for Ross Robinsons I AM record label. Supposedly the people at Roadrunner don’t know this…..oops.

Gene Simmons has a book coming out. In it he talks about how he’s banged 4600 beautiful women and what bags of shit his band mates are. Old comic book collectors who think they like rock n’ roll are stoked. I’ll wait for the Motley Crue movie to come out. By the way, if you haven’t read it yet, pick up the Crue book, it’s insane.

The Mangina and Tom (Gary Busey) are in a just filmed episode of the Sopranos. The scene takes place in a shitty New Jersey bar with a shitty band playing. Look for Tom sporting a “Shoot Pigs in the Face” t-shirt and the Mangina is rocking his new Mullet Bro-hawk thing. Tom said that when he gets real famous he’s buying a fleet of bomb purple cars.

James Hetfield of Metallica is out of rehab. Someone needs to let James know that rehab is for quitters and big pussies.

Someone sent us this picture of a band called Rickets Madcore where one of the members is rockin’ out with a Buddyhead “shoot pigs in the face” shirt on.

Some band called “The Slags” is playing at Don Hill’s in NYC on Dec. 19th, Wed., right after Bebe Buell’s set. Why did we post this? Only so you can go to Don Hill’s and watch Jeff Wood mack upon girls in his new suit.

The new Hopeless “50th Release” comp has everyone’s name that voted on the songs on the inside sleeve. Jeff Wood’s name is in there. The only reason to own it.

The Black Halos haven’t broken up. We said they did. But they didn’t. Leave it to us to fuck it up.

We were the last to find out about this too. In the “like anyone who’s not in the band cares” category, the new Dag Nasty cd will be out on Revelation records, not Epitaph. And yes, it is the “Can I Say” lineup.

The word on the street is that DreamWorks signed AFI. The band hasn’t confirmed yet though. The bidding war went on for a while; they probably got a pretty sweet deal. No word yet if DreamWorks will re-release their current record, “The Art of Drowning” (Nitro Records).

Gabe from The Murder City Devils said the Atari’s “suck ass”.

The singer of Guttermouth (and author of some the best 6th grade poetry this side of Epitaph) broke his ankle last Saturday while they were playing. Be careful when doing those choreographed jumps brah.

Lots of Evaporators and Goblins music is availible in the MP3 and real audio formats (in the “Evaporators and Goblins” section) on nardwuar’s website. Click here.

Someone decided they wanted Jeremy’s camera bag more than he did, so they took it. The stage of The Glasshouse during The Hive’s set was the last place it was seen. If you stole it you are going to die.

Saves the Day will be on Craig Kilburn show Thursday Dec. 13th. Tune in if you like things in yer butt.

Jessie Turner will be filming a new “teen” movie next month for the WB as soon as he gets out of a weekend drug rehab clinic in Hawaii. We wish him the best.

The Benjamin’s broke up. Damn.

Scott Weiland got busted by the pigs for drugs again. We need to get him a “Shoot Pigs in the Face” shirt.

Buddyhead isn’t funny anymore.

Guns N’ Roses still doesn’t have Izzy playing guitar.

Guns N’ Roses still doesn’t have Duff on bass.

Guns N’ Roses still doesn’t have Slash on guitar.

Brian Wilson is going on his first-ever European tour. The dates will be his first-ever performances as a solo artist outside the US and Japan. Wilson will perform some of his greatest hits including a selection from the much celebrated recording, Pet Sounds, backed by a 10-piece-band.
Confirmed 2002 European Tour Dates
1/20/02 Annexet Stockholm, Sweden
1/22/02 CCH 1 Hamburg, Germany
1/23/02 ICCa 1 Berlin, Germany
1/25/02 Armadilo Glasgow, Scotland
1/27/02 Royal Festival Hall London, England
1/28/02 Royal Festival Hall London, England SOLD-OUT
1/29/02 Royal Festival Hall London, England SOLD-OUT
1/30/02 Royal Festival Hall London, England SOLD-OUT
2/1/02 The Point Dublin, Ireland