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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dillinger Escape Plan is gonna tour with Slipknot.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We’re getting one of these for Shat.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wires On Fire are on tour. They’re selling hand numbered and homemade versions of their EP because Lookout “Nada Hermano-ed” us on pressing the real ones in time. It’s cool though, cos they’ll be ready as soon as the kids get home. Indie rock rules! Live the dream kids! Check out their website you internet sluts – http://www.wiresonfire.com .
August 5th, Thursday- Greensboro NC @ College Hill Sundries w/
The Letters Organize
August 4th, Wednesday- Atlanta @ Drunken Unicorn w/ The Letters Organize
August 5th, Thursday- Greensboro NC @ College Hill Sundries w/
The Letters Organize
6th, Friday- Richmond, VA – TBA
August 7th, Saturday- DC – TBA
August 8th, Sunday- Baltimore @ Ottobar
August 9th, Monday- Philly – TBA
August 10th, Tuesday – Philly, PA @ Tritone w/ DJ Terrydactyl, T Mobile, and Prime Meridian, 1 more TBA
August 11th, Wednesday- New Brunswick, NJ @ Basement Show w/ Listless Lovers
August 12th, Thursday – Brooklyn @ TBA
August 13th, Friday- Dayton, OH @ Elbos w/ Wet Leather and The Vitamin
August 14th, Saturday- Louisville, KY @ Keswick Democratic Club w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Daughters, and Read Yellow
August 15th, Sunday- Clevelend @ Scene Pavilion – Strhess Fest w/ Thursday, Finch, Converge, etc.. www.strhessfest.com for more info
August 16th, Monday- Pittsburg – TBA
August 17th Tuesday- New York, New York @ Knitting Factory w/ Dillinger Escape Plan, Drowningman, and An Albatross
August 18th Wednesday- Indianapolis – TBA
August 19th Thursday – Toledo, OH @ Masonic Temple w/ Planes Mistaken For Stars and Since By Man
August 20th Friday – Milwaukee, WI – @ Knights of Columbus Hall – Robot Mosh Fest w/ Undying, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Since By Man
August 21st Saturday- Denver @ Laramir Lounge w/ The Starvations *DAYTIME SHOW
August 22nd Sunday- Salt Lake City – TBA

Aaron manages Shat now. Shatmania is about to happen.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I wrote this for readmission to school…

What I’ve Been Up To Since I Left School

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Creed broke up… finally. Even Jesus is stoked.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lakers in 5 bitch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WIN A FREE DVD OF RENO 911 (COMEDY CENTRAL)
Yep, we’re giving away three DVD’s of Comedy Central’s Reno 911 which hits stores on June 9th. Send us an email to buddyhead@buddyhead.com with “I WANT SOME RENO BABY” in the subject and tell us why you should win this nice nice prize prize. Click here to watch a preview of that show.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Fader came out with another killer issue of ads.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This movie looks awesome too. Click here.

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

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

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

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

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

Canyon broke up. Sam Velde is pissed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Having trouble writing songs? Get this shit, click here

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jade Tree is STILL putting out emo records.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Here’s Glen Friedman’s take on the Black Flag reunion. We didn’t go to that shit cos we knew it was gonna be uber wack. It wasn’t Black Flag. Of course Black Flag isn’t Black Flag without Greg Ginn, but it’s also not the “first four years” Black Flag when you don’t have key members from the first four years on the stage. No Chuck Dukowski? Keith Morris? Total fucking rip off man! Greg Ginn needs to get off his fucking high horse and quit tripping. Oh well, instead he chose to embarrass himself in front of thousands of people. Oh yeah, here’s Glen’s take on the situation:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

That little box on the main page of our site asking you to enter in your email address actually works now. So if ya wanna get occasional updates straight from the Buddyhead HQ, drop in yr info peckerhead. DO IT FOR THE SCENE BRAH!

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

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

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

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

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

Verbena is breaking up. Nobody cares.

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

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

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

The new Shins record on Sub Pop rules.

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

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

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

Zwan broke up. Nobody cares.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

David Spade text messages while pissing in urinals.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finch fucking sucks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Speaking of Vincent Gallo… GLASSJAW FUCKING SUCKS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shane from Playing Enemy is in love with Alex Newport.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE ICARUS LINE – Friday, March 14 @ La Zona Rosa -11:00 p.m.
RADIO VAGO – Saturday, March 15 @ Privilege – 8:00 p.m.
SHAT – Saturday, March 15 @ Fox and Hound – 12:00 a.m.

Oh, and if you’re one of those major label types with an expense account, you should make sure to find us and buy us food and drinks. And email us any party invites we may need. BOOYAH.

The Icarus Line have been rather diligent as of late. It shows… don’t it? Don Devore of Ink & Dagger, Lilys, etc., is the new bass player. Lance decided to pursue his lifelong dream of being a kindergarten teacher. We wish him the best. The Captain is back on drums as well. Troy Boy thought the band “wasn’t goth enough”, and has decided to be a full time goth male dancer at a nearby Hollywood strip club. The first show with the new rhythm section will be in Austin this weekend at South By Southwest… which happened to be Captain’s last show with the band exactly a year ago. Odd. The band is hitting the road to work out new tunes in towns in Holland you can’t pronounce, England, and on a west coast US tour with Yeah Yeah Yeahs for all you normaloids. Check it out:
4/8 – Nijmegan, Netherlands – Doornroosje
4/9 – Haarlem, Netherlands – Patronat
4/10 – Groningen, Netherlands – Vera
4/11 – Camber Sands, UK – Kerrang Weekender
4/12 – London, UK – Underworld
(with Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
4/17 – San Diego, Ca – The Scene
4/18 – Los Angeles, Ca – Henry Fonda Theatre (with Radio Vago)
4/20 – San Francisco, Ca – Bottom Of The Hill
4/21 – San Francisco, Ca – Great American Music Hall
4/24 – Portland, Or – Meow Meow
4/25 – Seattle, Wa – Showbox
4/26 – Vancouver, BC – Richards on Richards

The Icarus Line’s debut album, “Mono”, is also being re-released on Buddyhead. It should hit stores before summer. The new version of the album will include some slight changes in the artwork, which were the band’s original concepts. The cd will also be enhanced and feature an updated version of the “Feed A Cat To Your Cobra” video. Also slated for release in the near future is an album containing all of the band’s early out of print 7 inches, e.p.’s, etc…. even their demo too. But first out in the UK on Sweet Nothing Records, will be another single from the “Mono” album, “Love Is Happiness”. They think they’re prolific now.

Radio Vago are heading out to Euro-land as well with The Mars Volta. But first, they have a couple U.S. shows this week on their way out to Texass and back. L.A. show too. Check those out:
3/11 – Tempe, Az – The Clubhouse
3/15 – San Antonio, Tx – SIN
3/20 – Los Angeles, Ca – The Troubadour
(with The Mars Volta)
3/31 – Copenhagen Vera
4/1 – Berlin S036
4/2 – Prague Rock Café
4/3 – Vienna Flex
4/4 – Zagreb Mochvara
4/6 – Bologna Estragon
4/8 – Barcelona Razzmatazz 3
4/9 – Madrid Moby Dick
4/11 – Paris La Boule Noir
4/12 – Brussels AB Box
4/13 – London Astoria
(with Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Icarus Line)
4/18 – Los Angeles, Ca – Henry Fonda Theatre

Shat have recorded 4 new songs that will be included on the next Shat record. ALL OF EM ARE SOLID GOLD SMASH HITS. Download these demos and feel the future of rock.
“What Do You Think Christina Aguilera Is Doing Right Now?”
“I Fucked Your Wife”
“Hermaphrodite”
“Shit On Her Tits”

Oh yeah, Your Enemies Friends are the only Buddyhead band not playing SXSW this year. They had to cancel cos they still don’t have a keyboard player. Cut the shit and email them.

That Honda Civic Tour isn’t real.

Call up Coolio and ask him where the party is at? We’ve called him every night for the past week, and every time he says he’s headed to the party but he’s stuck in traffic on Sunset. His number is (310) 245-4959.

Fred Durst posted on his website that “AGREEANCE is a word according to the OXFORD-ENGLISH DICTIONARY”. Yeah, it’s a word, but the catch is the last time people used it was in 1415… it’s doubtful the fat one was at home reading the old testament one night and figured he throw that into his vocab rotation. No Bro, you’re still an idiot. Black people are glad you’re white.

In other retard related news, Limp Bizkit will also be performing 2 songs live at Wrestlemania in Seattle on March 30th. They didn’t say who was gonna actually play guitar, but we’re sure any of those beef jerky eating steroid-beefcakes could figure out those mosh riffs in a second.

The DFA are having their balls licked by every major label dude in town trying to get a piece of The Rapture. Everybody’s gonna be rich.

The pigs are gonna take Travis’s Honda away. We’re not getting rich.

Someone send us the new Nick Cave record. If you’re a stupid kid, go buy the “Junkyard” record by The Birthday Party.

Led Zeppelin’s “How The West Was Won” 2-CD live audio set and 2xDVD which will have some of the same shows on video, will hit stores May 27th. Finally we can all get stoned and watch some live Zeppelin footage without having to see Jimmy Page dressed up like a knight on a horse.

Kudos to Kathleen Wilson of Seattle’s “The Stranger” for publishing Buddyhead gossip and not giving us credit.

Interpol just inked a deal with “LA Style” hair gel for $10,000 and a free lifetime supply. They’re stoked.

Everyone is huffing the dong of The Whip. They are the new Karp / Joe Preston of the Melvins and Thrones band. They sound exactly how you think they would.

Frankie’s underage drinking parties in Seattle got shut down by the liquor board. Now Damian (Playing Enemy) and his buddies are going to have to cruise junior high schools or Interpol shows to get burger.

The Weakerthans signed to Epitaph.

That rapper guy who’s making Eminem even richer, 50 Cent, is gonna put out another record real soon. This record will be some sort of “bootleg” collection, and the intro will have mtv’s goldenboy, Gideon Yago sampled from one of his mtv news reports. Gideon is down like that.

By the way, if you listen to 50 Cent, and you’re over 12, shame on you.

Is it just us or does AFI sound like Poison with Danzig singing? Email their bass player Hunter and ask him what his favorite Poison record is… we’re guessing he’s had “Unskinny Bop ” in his walkman lately. His email is insanestalker@aol.com.

Turbonegro’s new record is still the most anticipated release this year. Someone better send us a copy! They are taking JR Ewing on tour too. If you live over there though you prolly already know cuz there isn’t much else to do besides shovel snow.
27.05.03 – Stavanger @ Siddishallen
28.05.03 – Bergen, Haukelandshallen
29.05.03 – Trondheim @ Nidarøhallen
31.05.03 – Oslo @ Oslo Spektrum

The Burning Brides are still on tour with Audioshit.
Tue 03/11/03 Austin, TX Austin Music Hall
Wed 03/12/03 Dallas, TX Bronco Bowl
Fri 03/14/03 Mesa, AZ Mesa Amphitheatre
Sat 03/15/03 Las Vegas, NV Hard Rock Hotel – The Joint
Mon 03/17/03 Hollywood, CA Hollywood Palladium
Wed 03/19/03 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
Thu 03/20/03 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
Sat 03/22/03 Seattle, WA Paramount Theatre

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yeah Yeah Yeahs signed to Interscope for 14.7 kajillion dollars.

Read a Shat interview here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Starlite Desperation is back together.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bill Hicks was one cool motherfucker! Click here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Also… THE BUDDYHEAD STORE HAS BEEN RE-STOCKED. That’s right kiddies, all your favorite Buddyhead t-shirts are for sale once again in all sizes on our store. We’ve even added a new t-shirt to the store for you to spend your drug money on. Besides the shirts, you can order the new Radio Vago ep RIGHT NOW, BEFORE IT HITS STORES. Also, if your local store sucks balls and is too afraid to stock the Shat album, you can get that in our store now as well. Check it out. Oh yeah, if you live overseas, the deal we give on shipping is KILLER. For some reason it costs you foreign fruitcakes the same amount in shipping as it does in the U.S., so GO OFF. Click here.

Now on to what you really came here for…

Is that mall punk band Good Charlotte still tripping or what? Do these dudes think that nobody will notice that some of the lyrics from their new “hit” are directly ripped off from Chris Rock’s “Bring The Pain”? Or are they just too dense to come up with their own material and think that nobody would care too much? We’re lost on this one. On top of that, what’s up with the guitar player always wearing a Silverchair shirt? Word on the street is that he has a Silverchair tattoo as well. Did this guy not get the memo that SILVERCHAIR FUCKING SUCKS?! I think another good indication of where these dudes are coming from is a story from that dude Benji or whatever his name is called… we think he’s the one that dresses really “punk”… y’know… recently approached a girl who was a big fan of The Damned. After he approached her, she pointed to the Damned pin he was wearing and said, “I met Dave Vanian last night, cool huh?” The Benji dude looked at her all puzzled and said, “Who?” Then she said, “You know… the singer for The Damned.” Benji replied with, “Oh.” Perfect.

By the way, did anyone happen to read the Good Charlotte interview in AP this month? You gotta read it if you are in need of a good laugh. In it these dorks talk about how their fan-base is made up solely of 15 year old girls. They then go on to defend this by saying something along the lines of 15 year old girls have it tougher than they ever thought. Yeah dude, those snot-nosed spoiled mall kids that beg their parents to buy them your retard music are really roughing it. Punk is dead.

The Promise Ring broke up (because not as many people bought their new record as they thought would) and about 37 people care. We’re pretty sure half those people work at Epitaph too. The other half are all bald, in the closet, sensitive, furry sweater wearing, Midwestern dorks dialing their local help hotlines right now. Lots of crying bald men… sad.

We’re also pretty certain that one of the others that really took the Promise Ring breakup hard was Blake Swarzenbach of Jets To Brazil. Jets To Brazil recently cancelled their upcoming U.S. tour and gave some weird excuse why. The truth is that Blake recently had a nervous breakdown while watching children play with birds outside of his Brooklyn apartment. The sight reminded Blake of the days when he and Davey Von Bohen (is that the guys name for real?) held hands and fed pigeons and discussed how cool it would be to have birds on the cover of an album. Blake loved rubbing Davey’s bald head. LOVED IT. Our investigations have found The Promise Ring breakup to be the real reason for Blake’s freakout episode, and the bird thing just sent him off the deep end. Chill Blake, it’s gonna be ok… emo will live on!

Also in the mentally unstable rock artists club is none other than Karen of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s. Nobody really bought that “We can’t tour Europe right now cos we’re recording an album” b.s. did they?

Word on the street is that Enrique Iglesias wants to hit David Cassidy’s daughters gap real bad. Problem is the little Cassidy is like 15. Enrique, keep your dick in your pants bro, and stop creeping us out.

Somebody stop Taproot. Anyway, anyhow. Make it STOP.

The Mars Volta are currently laying down tracks for their debut album with Rick Rubin. They are recording the album in that old house where those people died or something. Right now Mr. Rubin is tracking drums and giving them that drum sound we’ve heard on the System Of A Down records that is super killer… NOT.

Also set to bust into the studio with Rick Rubin soon are those Swedish kids International Noise Conspiracy. Word on the street is that the band will be bought out of their Epitaph contract to bring the noise via Rubin’s label. If Rubin can make that Chili Peppers guy sound like he can sing, he might be able to help Dennis. Probably not though.

On even more Rick Rubin related news, the big bearded man has recently quit working on the Limp Bizkit album. Supposedly the shit finally hit the fan. The rap / metal band gave Page Hamilton of Helmet fame an obscene amount of money to come into the studio and play cheesy riffs over and over all day while the tape ran. The group thought they could find pieces of the riffs to loop and build songs off of. After that didn’t work, Fred Durst thought he could just learn how to play guitar himself. After Rubin sat watching this idiot try to hold a power chord for 2 months, he quit.

This dude is the reason you have to hear about 12 different shitty nu metal / nu emo bands. Call him and tell him to die. (201) 424-2230. His email is nowaync@aol.com.

Christina is dirty. Jeff Wood stared at this picture for 7 hours straight yesterday. Click here.

Is Courtney Love seriously wanting the public to believe that there was absolutely no mention of her in her ex-husbands diary? You’d think that if you married somebody, there’d be all kinds of stuff. At least maybe a little? CRAZY. 4 million dollars sure is a lot of loot!

Speaking of loot…. Who the shit is going to be dumb enough to buy the new Nirvana record? If you don’t already own all the Nirvana albums, punch yourself in the face because you are a RETARD. And its not like that new song is worth the price for this thing. Download that shit bitch. Won’t it just be on the box set anyway? “Been A Son” is on this? Are you tripping? That song blows. Let’s not even get started on some of these other picks too. Who’s the retarded pig that came up with this track listing? Whatever. The Japanese version apparently has six extra tracks, so maybe the Japanese aren’t tripping as much.
The tracklisting for “Nirvana”
1) You Know You’re Right
2) About A Girl
3) Been A Son
4) Sliver
5) Smells Like Teen Spirit
6) Come As You Are
7) Lithium
8) In Bloom
9) Heart-Shaped Box
10) Pennyroyal Tea
11) Rape Me
12) Dumb
13) All Apologies
14) The Man Who Sold The World

When Queens Of The Stoneage played at The Palladium in Los Angeles a few weeks ago, the members of QOTSA were wondering, “Who let the transvestite backstage?” Their bubble was later burst when someone realized it was just Davey Havok of AFI (aka The Dark Prince of Pop Punk) in full makeup and Hot Topic Danzig goth gear.

Those goofy new wave spock rockin’canucks known as Hot Hot Heat signed to Warner Brothers. The dude over there who signed them is the same guy who also brought such promising bands as Glassjaw and The Used to the label. Killer place to make your home dudes.

Zach De La Rocha and the remaining members of Soundgarden have formed a new band called Ragegarden. It’s like Audioslave meets the Fat Boys. Wayyyyy dope. Speaking of Audioslave, they did some collaboration with DMX for some movie soundtrack. 14 year old kids in Oregon are creaming their pants.

John of Rocket From The Crypt / Hot Snakes fame will be doing the music world a huge favor next month by re-releasing the currently out of print album “Yank Crime” from his former band Drive Like Jehu on his own label Swami Records. The disc will also contain the very out of print Jehu 7 inch that came out on Merge Records years ago. BOO YAH!

The Locust have signed to Epitaph Records. About 63 dorks with white belts, bad acne, stupid haircuts, and profiles on makeoutclub care. Signing to Epitaph means the band automatically is sponsored by Hurley now, so the dudes are changing the look up a bit. They look sorta like Offspring with baja shorts and bucket hats. But they’re keeping the white belts. 2 months from now every spock dork will be wearing baja shorts with white belts. You heard it here first.

MCA is currently trimming the fat. Tommy Lee and Midtown both got dropped. About 63 people somewhere in Arkansas currently pulling their dicks outta their sisters care about Tommy Lee getting dropped, and about 48 fat emo/skate girls in Arizona with Avril Lavigne shirts on care about Midtown getting dropped. Wow, big surprise those guys didn’t write the next Led Zeppelin IV album.

Kill Rock Stars recently bought the Born Against catalog from Mr. Sam Mcpheeters. Apparently Sam is over running his label. Bummer.

How weird are those new Nissan commercials with The Stooges song “Tv Eye” as the soundtrack? Yeah, it sucks when you gotta watch skiers, but nothing beats hearing Iggy scream at you while you’re waiting in the doctors office.

The Halo Friendlies, that all girl band on tooth and nail, are in some other car commercial too. Weird?

The Mooney Suzuki have also joined the commercial club. They’re selling Nikes or something. Oh yeah, these guys are STILL trying to tell everybody they are in their early 20’s when they are well into their 30’s. Don’t buy that shit.

Chris Rock’s “Bring The Pain” is on dvd now and it rules. Someone at Dreamworks better hook us up with some motherfucking copies. Don’t trip.

That rasta emo band Coheed and Cambria already broke up. About 26 people care.

Cedric is emo. www.emogame.com

The Explosion are still having their dongs huffed and assholes licked clean by every major label dickhead in town.

Tomahawk will be recording their next record for Ipecac in Los Angeles with Joe Barrisi in November and December. That dude who sings who used to be in Red Hot Chili Peppers or something is going to try his hardest not to pee on Rick Rubin’s beard!

The Ataris are in the studio right now recording their major label debut. Word on the street is that they are already %50 over budget and they still have half the record to complete. Columbia, their label, has already cut them off, so they had to go borrow money from their old label, Kung Fu. The best part is at least they don’t sound like Nofx anymore. Apparently now they sound more like The Strokes.

Tom Petty is pissed. His new album, as always, totally rules. Buy it. Besides bringing the rock, he’s dropping mad knowledge. Props to mtv.com for showing some balls for once and putting up Tom’s rant on their site besides the latest word on who Britney Spears is dating. This is important enough for you to read the whole thing…

The man who told the world “I Won’t Back Down,” “Don’t Do Me Like That” and “Don’t Come Around Here No More” doesn’t need any assertiveness-training course. Tom Petty’s determined, sometimes defiant attitude has collided with the music business throughout the years. For instance, in 1982 Petty recorded Hard Promises with the Heartbreakers, only to find that his then-record company had plans to use his name to initiate a new, higher $9.98 list price for albums. Petty withheld the tapes and threatened to retitle his record $8.98 in protest.

That same spirit is alive and well on Petty’s latest album, The Last DJ, which takes a hard look at the lack of moral grounding in the music business. The title track has kicked up considerable controversy, with some radio stations seeing the song as a slap in the face and banning it. But Petty is not just biting the hand that feeds him. Music is only the beginning of what’s pissing him off these days. “The Last DJ is a story about morals more than the music business,” he says. “It’s really about vanishing personal freedoms.”

1 Radio is not even worth listening to
“I don’t really give a flying fuck about any of it. I’ve tuned out. But I was elated when my song was banned. I mean, nothing could have complimented me more than to hear they just banned it at such-and-such a station because it’s anti-radio. Now, in 2002 to have a song banned that doesn’t have a dirty word, doesn’t advocate violence — it’s fascinating, you know. Like, what are you afraid of? No record has ever been made that was more pro-radio, you know.

“I remember when the radio meant something. We enjoyed the people who were on it, even if we hated them. They had personalities. They were people of taste, who we trusted. And I see that vanishing. I thought it was a good metaphor to start the album.”

2 All anyone thinks about is money
“You don’t hear any more of, ‘Hey, we did something creative and we turned a profit, how about that?’ Everywhere we look, we want to make the most money possible. This is a dangerous, corrupt notion. That’s where you see the advent of programming on the radio, and radio research, all these silly things. That has made pop music what it is today. Everything — morals, truth — is all going out the window in favor of profit.

“I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem. You know, I saw a billboard in New York I wish I had photographed. It was for the TNN network. It said three words against a patriotic background of red, white and blue – BIGGER, YOUNGER, RICHER. Now, I find that fascinating: ‘Bigger, younger, richer.’ This whole idea of being wealthy has gone too far. I never ride in a limousine, you know. I feel gross if I get in a limousine. One good thing about the Sixties was it sort of was the opposite back then. You looked silly trying to appear rich.”

3 It’s ridiculous to make people pay twenty dollars for a CD
“It’s funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can’t afford the music. I’m not condoning downloading music for free. I don’t think that’s really fair, but I understand it. If you brought CD prices back down to $8.98, you would solve a lot of the industry’s problems. You are already seeing it a little — the White Stripes albums selling for $9.99. Everyone still makes a healthy profit; it might get the music business back on its feet.”

4 Only a complete greedhead would charge $150 for a concert ticket
“My top price is about sixty-five dollars, and I turn a very healthy profit on that; I make millions on the road. I see no reason to bring the price up, even though I have heard many an anxious promoter say, ‘We could charge 150 bucks for this.’ I would like to do this again and maybe come through and not leave a bad taste in people’s mouths. I was at one of our gigs recently, and I was just stunned driving in that it cost thirty dollars to park your car. It’s so wrong to say, ‘OK, we’ve got them on the ticket and we’ve got them on the beer and we’ve got on everything else, let’s get them on the damn parking.’ You got to care about the person you’re dealing with.”

5 Record labels don’t care about artists
“An act like ours wouldn’t even be around today if someone hadn’t brought us along and let us make mistakes and grow at our own pace. Today it seems that if you don’t have a hit — or even if you do — they have no use for you the next time. It’s like, ‘Well, why wait for these guys to come back with another hit when we can bring in somebody else?’ It’s an asinine way to conduct yourself. These people are looking at balance sheets, not music. Most people involved in putting this music on the air or bringing it to us aren’t really listening to it.”

6 Filthy lyrics make me sick
“I’m frustrated by what I hear. Maybe it’s not meant for me. Personally, I’m way too bright for a lot of the hip-hop lyrics to affect. I’m much too smart to think that jewelry or how cool I am is really going to change much about my personality. If you’re dumb enough that it entertains you, have a great time. But I am seeking more than that.

“When I was a young rock & roll star, I was really fascinated and shocked at times by the power that I had, by the power of my words, and shocked that it can be taken wrong. I don’t believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. And I think a lot of these young kids are going to have to learn the hard way before they realize that you can actually do some damage if you’re being careless or frivolous in what you’re saying.”

7 Only a sick culture would sexualize young girls
“It’s disgusting. It’s not just pop music, it’s fashion, it’s TV, it’s advertising, it’s every element of our culture. Young women are not being respected, children aren’t being respected. Why are we creating a nation of child molesters? Could it be that we’re dressing up nine-year-old women to look sexy? And even if we’re wrong, let’s not do it anyway. I really don’t put it past these advertising people to say, ‘Well, look, we made a lot of money when we brought the nine-year-old out and made her look like a hooker. Let’s do it again.’ ”

8 Why are we rewarding people for being rich?
“Getting back to the whole issue of ticket prices: We don’t do the Golden Circle/VIP thing. I don’t see how carving out the best seats and charging a lot more for them has anything to do with rock & roll. A lot of the time, some corporation’s bought up these seats with someone’s money who doesn’t even know it’s being spent — and they are going to use it to entertain clients. A lot of the people who buy these seats don’t give a damn about the music — they’re going to get a waiter. What you see from the stage is a group of people just talking to each other, not really interested in being there at all. And the poor guy who really is interested, he’s sitting way in the back.”

9 And TV is worse
“I think television’s become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television. It’s damn dangerous. TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It’s downright bad for your health now, and that’s not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health. The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit. They will make a movie about murdering their kids, you know? And they’ll put the guy who killed them on TV. And before long, he might even have his own show.”

10 A lot of artists are as greedy as the industry
“Let me say this so it’s definitely in the story: I don’t think the industry is entirely to blame. Let’s face it: The music industry has always been laughably corrupt, always. It’s the artists themselves that often cause problems. Artists aren’t necessarily business people. And they aren’t neces-sarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just want to make some music, but there is a lot of greed among artists as well. Whether or not we know it, we are all to blame. I think it’s time — starting with the artist — to try to be a little more responsible and aware of what goes on in our name.”

Your Enemies Friends are out on tour with The Donnas. It’s a real wild tour. Last night we heard both bands stayed way up past their bedtime cos they couldn’t finish their scrabble game early enough. Did we mention they have a new website?
Mon Oct 28 Vancouver, BC Richard’s
Thu Oct 31 Minneapolis, MN Ascot Room The Quest
Sat Nov 02 Cleveland, OH Agora Ballroom
Sun Nov 03 Detroit, MI The Majestic
Mon Nov 04 Buffalo, NY The Continental
Tue Nov 05 Pittsburgh, PA Club Laga
Wed Nov 06 Toronto, ONT The Opera House
Thu Nov 07 Boston, MA Middle East
Fri Nov 08 Off in NYC
Sun Nov 10 Brooklyn, NY Warsaw
Mon Nov 11 New York, NY Bowery Ballroom
Tue Nov 12 Philadelphia, PA The Trocodero
Wed Nov 13 Washington, DC Black Cat
Thu Nov 14 Winstom-Salem, NC Ziggy’s
Fri Nov 15 Atlanta, GA Masquerade
Sun Nov 17 Orlando, FL Sapphire
Mon Nov 18 Tampa, FL Twilight
Tue Nov 19 Ft. Lauderdale, FL The Culture Room
Wed Nov 20 Tallahassee, FL Floyd’s
Fri Nov 22 New Orleans, LA Shim Sham Club
Sat Nov 23 Houston, TX Fitzgerald’s
Sun Nov 24 Austin, TX Emo’s
Tue Nov 26 Phoenix, AZ NileTheatre
Fri Nov 29 Los Angeles, CA El Rey
Sat Nov 30 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore

Jeremy Weiss put the emo down for a minute and posted some Your Enemies Friends photos up on his website. They rule, check em out. (1)(2)(3)

The Burning Brides are out on tour with The Anniversary right now. Translation: The Burning Brides are out blowing the Anniversary off the stage every night. Yeah we’re pretty sure Dimitri was tripping balls when he agreed to do this tour.
Tue – 10/29/02 – Savannah, GA – Velvet Lounge
Wed – 10/30/02 – Orlando, FL – The Social / Sapphire Supper Club
Thu – 10/31/02 – Boynton Beach, FL – Viper Room / Club Ovation
Fri – 11/01/02 – Tampa, FL – The Orpheum
Sun – 11/03/02 – Houston, TX – Mary Jane’s
Mon – 11/04/02 – Austin, TX – Emo’s
Tue – 11/05/02 – Denton, TX – Rubber Glove
Fri – 11/08/02 – Los Angeles, CA – The Troubadour
Sat – 11/09/02 – San Diego, CA – The Casbah
Sun – 11/10/02 – Costa Mesa, CA – Chain Reaction
Mon – 11/11/02 – San Francisco, CA – Slim’s
Wed – 11/13/02 – Portland, OR – Satyricon
Thu – 11/14/02 – Seattle, WA – TBA
Fri – 11/15/02 – Vancouver, BC – TBA
Sun – 11/17/02 – Salt Lake City, UT – TBA
Mon – 11/18/02 – Boulder, CO – Tulagi’s

The Roxy in Hollywood has Shat as their hold music.

CMJ is an excuse for people who work in the “music industry” to have a paid vacation to New York so they can shove a bunch of blow up their face, try to get their fuck on with other people who work at labels as secretaries or something, and pretend to actually watch bands. Let us know how it turns out.

If you’re heading out to CMJ make sure you catch at least one or two good shows… On 11/1, make sure to roll by the Tribeca Blues where Philadelphia’s Need New Body are playing with Bluebird, & Arab On Radar. Also, Shat is playing with Isis and Dalek at Tribeca on Halloween as well. After the show, Shat is playing the after party at Don Hills. That’s where you want to be kids. Shat mingling with super models.

Glen Friedman is having a photo exhibition on November 2nd (7-10pm) at 549 west 23rd street, (downtown) LA,CA 90007 (info: 213.765.0248). Who knows. If you’re lucky maybe Glen will even be there to talk about how he was always in the right place at the right time cuz he could afford to with that huge trust fund he ended up with. For more details: http://www.sixspace.com

Bluebird’s new record Hot Blood is out on 11/5 on Dim Mak Records. It’s got blood all over the back and you know how cool blood is. Did we mention that Bluebird features former members of Amen and Yuckmouth?!

Those wild and crazy Swedes, The International Noise Conspiracy, are taking Bluebird on tour.
Mon 10/7/02 San Francisco CA Slims
Tue 10/22/02 Los Angeles CA Palace
Wed 10/23/02 Pomona CA The Glass House
Thu 10/24/02 San Diego CA The Scene
Fri 10/25/02 Tempe AZ Bash On Ash
Sat 10/26/02 El Paso TX Club 101
Mon 10/28/02 Denver CO
Tue 10/29/02 Kansas City MO
Wed 10/30/02 Chicago IL
Fri 11/1/02 New York NY
Sat 11/2/02 Boston MA
Sun 11/3/02 Easthampton MA
Tue 11/5/02 Philadelphia PA
Wed 11/6/02 Columbus OH
Thu 11/7/02 TBA
Fri 11/8/02 Knoxville TN
Sat 11/9/02 Chattanooga TN
Mon 11/11/02 Savannah GA
Tue 11/12/02 Tampa FL
Wed 11/13/02 Gainesville FL
Thu 11/14/02 Baton Rouge, LA
Fri 11/15/02 New Orleans LA
Sat 11/16/02 Jackson MS
Sun 11/17/02 Denton TX
Tue 11/19/02 Austin TX
Wed 11/20/02 San Antonio TX
Thu 11/21/02 El Paso TX
Fri 11/22/02 Flagstaff AZ
Sat 11/23/02 Lake Havasu City, AZ

Vincent Gallo likes Glassjaw? Weak.

There are tons of bands that still suck…and you still like them. You should have that checked out.

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