The Icarus Line are getting ready to leave town and go on tour forever. Good thing, cos they’re about to die if they spend any more time here awake here for weeks on end. They’re gonna do a couple local-ish shows with the Distillers, then play a SXSW party thingy in Austin (that makes 8 or 9 years in a row now, right?) and then do a month in the U.S. of getting spit on by 13 year olds in homemade Exploited t-shirts with the Distillers. It gonna be like being on The Warped Tour if it was minus about 80 shitty bands. After that they do a headlining UK and Euro tour, Japan, Australia… and then Mars or Uranus or something. Basically they’re never coming home. Les (aka Chef Boy-am-I-gay), their manager/foster-dead-beat-dad, is super stoked cuz now he can concentrate on cooking instead of dealing with parties in his house. Half of the Hollywood population is stoked too. Oh yeah… that album they made, “Penance Soiree”, finally has a release date. It comes out first in Europe on April 26th, and in the U.S.A. on May 4th. Both versions will be slightly different. The Euro and American release will have different versions of the song “Meatmaker”, and the Japanese and double vinyl versions will have a bonus track as well. Buddyhead won’t be putting out the vinyl for this record either cuz instead The Icarus Line gave us a huge penis to jam up our collective anus. AWESOME! THANKS DUDES! The “Up Against The Wall Motherfuckers” single is out now in the UK. This thing has a couple songs from the album, and another song that won’t be. Check it out. Come to one of these shows below to buy the “3 Jesus songs” sampler with 3 tracks from the album. For more (probably way too much) info on The Icky Line, check out this new fan site: http://www.geocities.com/separatethesounds/ This girl knows way more about the band then we do. Sometimes we gotta go check out her site to even know what’s goin on. So yeah, go there cos the real Icky Line site is still in limbo until somebody band related pulls their thumb and/or head out of their ass.

The Distillers / The Icarus Line
March 12 – Anaheim, CA @ House Of Blues
March 13 – Mammoth Mountain, CA @ Canyon Lodge
March 25 – Chicago, IL @ The Metro
March 26 – Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews Hall
March 27 – Cleveland, OH @ Odeon Concert Club
March 28 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Laga
March 30 – Toronto, Cana-duh @ Kool Haus
April 1 – Ottawa, Cana-duh @ Capitol Music Hall
April 2 – Montreal, Cana-duh @ Club Soda
April 3 – Boston, MA @ Axis
April 4 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
April 7 – Washington, DC @ Black Cat
April 9 – Jacksonville, TN @ Jack Rabbits
April 10 – Atlanta, GA @ Cotton Club
April 11 – Nashville, TN @ Exit Inn
April 13 – St. Louis, MO @ Pops
April 14 – Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note
April 15 – Madison, WI @ The Annex
April 16 – Milwaukee, WI @ Rave Bar 2
April 17 – Minneapolis, MN @ Ascot Room
April 18 – Omaha, NE @ Ranch Bowl Entertainment Center
April 19 – Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre
April 21 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theatre
April 24 – Los Angeles, CA @ Henry Fonda Theatre
April 25 – Santa Barbara, CA @ Hub

Speaking of “Penance Soiree”, the songs from the album are already all over the internet now anyway, so download these songs here so you know all the words and riffs when the dudes come through your town. BOOYAH!

This song is about how the music industry sucks. “Spit On It”:

This song is about how New York sucks or something. “White Devil”:

This song is about some girl from New York. “Caviar“:

This song is about some girl who isn’t from New York. “Spike Island“:

This song is about… who knows… probably some girl or something. “On The Lash”:

And this song is about… another fucking girl. At least now we know Joe isn’t gay or something. We think. “Party The Baby Off”:

Oh yeah… speaking of “Party The Baby Off”, The Icarus Line are shooting a video for the song in a couple days. If you are a girl and don’t mind prancing around half naked all day in front of cameras and sketchy long haired dudes, send us an email and you’ll be in the video.

By now you’ve prolly heard of Dj Dangermouse, the hip hop Dj who took The Beatles White Album, chopped it up, made it all jiggy, and threw Jay-Z’s vocals from his Black Album over the top, to make his own… The Grey Album. It’s actually a lot less goofy than it sounds… Soon after the dude put this highly illegal cd out, EMI slapped homeboy with a cease and desist, so somebody else put it up for download at http://www.illegal-art.org/. Get it now while you can kids. Click here

Cave In are getting dropped from RCA. They sound like Isis now.

The Blood Brothers wish they could get dropped from their defunct major label, Artist Direct, but won’t be. Instead, the label is gonna hold em for ransom for awhile, and try to trick some other major label into buying them out of their contract. In the meantime, the band won’t be allowed to release any new material. Play like a pussy, get fucked like a pussy.

If you’re in a band on Dreamworks, you’re probably getting dropped. Bum deal dude.

So yeah, it’s that time of year again already. Actually, South By Southwest doesn’t look so bad this year. Should be loads of fun as always. Last year Aaron destroyed the mini van we rented, and V2 was partying so hard, they didn’t even notice the bill they got for it. Looks like the party’s wherever those dudes are at. So yeah… The Icarus Line are playing some party somewhere on the 20th… we’ll post the info when we get it. Your Enemies Friends are playing the same night with Dillinger Escape Plan and some other fruity bands Tom and Ben manage at Bigsby’s. Yer probably gonna be too busy seeing other bands on the 20th, so you can also catch Your Enemies Friends on the 18th at Red Eyed Fly at 3 in the afternoon. They’re playing the Village Voice party. Calexico is playing too! Fuck Way! (BTW, “Fuck Way” is new slang around here… as in “Yes Way”, and “Fuck Yeah”) If you’re writing all this shit down, here are some other bands you should check out if you are an overpaid industry dipshit pretending to be cool:
All Night Radio, J Mascis, Singapore Sling, Trans Am, TV On the Radio, The Hells, Lion Fever, Whirlwind Heat, The Greenhornes, Fiery Furnaces, British Sea Power, Decahedron, Battles, The Evaporators, Har Mar Superstar, Sluts Of Trust (we dunno if they’re good or not, but they have a killer band name), Death From Above, The Lilys, Myracle Brah (again… sweet band name), Tallboys, Steve Turner, Ted Leo, Year Future, Kill Me Tomorrow, The Gay (no, not Travis), Mission Of Burma, and many many others.

WANT A HOUSEPARTY AT YOUR HOUSE IN AUSTIN TEXAS DURING SXSW? Wires On Fire, Radio Vago, and The Evening need a place to play… if you know a spot or wanna let us throw a house party at your house on Thursday 3/18 or Saturday 3/20 send us an email to buddyhead@buddyhead.com. We have a PA and plenty of party on us.

Your Enemies Friends are headed right back out on tour. We’ve trained them well! They finally finished up the party tour of the year with The Dillinger Escape Plan and The Locust. So many books were read, their vans turned into little mobile libraries. Insane! Check out these well read superstars on the road with The Catheters:
3-13 Palo Alto, CA – Mitchell Park Center
3-14 Reno, NV – Satellite Bar
3-15 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
3-16 Boulder, CO – Club 156
3-21 Odessa, TX – Earl’s
3-22 El Paso, TX – E9
3-23 Albuquerque, NM – Launch Pad
3-26 San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill

Wires On Fire are trying to stay off coke and are playing some shows while we sit on their e.p. til we feel like putting it out sometime in the next few years. Little fuckers have a website now too… http://www.wiresonfire.com.
3/8 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo w/The Starvations, The Checkers, and (We
Are) Vipers FREE BITCH, 18+
3/12 Santa Cruz, CA @ UC Santa Cruz
3/13 some party in San Francisco… we’ll get you the info soon.
3/14 SLIMS with Some Girls (member of The Locust/ Give Up The Ghost), Daughters, Chinese Stars (ex arab on radar – skin graft records)

Andre 3000 of Outkast (the skinny one who wears the freaky dresses and shit) is going to be playing Jimi Hendrix in the Hughes Brothers (Menace II Society) upcoming biopic of the late guitar god. Dude better learn how to play more than those two chords in “Hey Ya” real-quick-like. Him and Big Boi (the fat dude who’s still into hip hop) are also gonna start filming for an “Outkast Movie” soon as well… whatever the fuck that means.

The new Trans Am record is totally fucking bitchin. Go buy it. Don keeps playing it through the tv (cuz he doesn’t own a stereo… or anything else) and it sounds way better than anything on TV we’ve heard. So yeah we’re like listening to Trans Am most of the day… how fucking hip is that bitch? Sam Velde told us they’re taking Battles on tour in June. For now, here’s some dates in the month of March for the Am.
March 13 Richmond / Alley Katz
March 15 Nashville / The End
March 16 Knoxville / Pilot Light
March 17 Memphis / Young Avenue Deli
March 18 Dallas / Gypsy Tea Room
March 19 Austin / Club Deville – INSOUND party

Speaking of Trans Am… we’re having a fucking Trans Am contest… WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!

That’s right all you have to do is send us an email to buddyhead@buddyhead.com with “TRANSFUCKINGAM CONTEST” in the subject and tell us why we should let you be one of the five lucky dudes or dudets that win! One person will win their entire cd catalog, a signed poster, and their new album “Liberation” on lp and four other almost as lucky persons will win their new cd!!! You’ll be the hit of the dorms with that shit! Peep Thrill Jockey’s webplace http://www.thrilljockey.com/

Adrienne from Radio Vago has a new band with a bunch of dudes we don’t know called, Shoot Out the Lights (www.shootoutthelights.com), and they will be playing every Tuesday in March at the El Cid. And for free even! Like holy-cow! El Cid is on the East Side of LA and they serve delicious margaritas we hear… basically who’s picking us up and buying us drinks every Tuesday is what we’re trying to say. El Cid is located @ 4212 W. Sunset Blvd.† Doors @ 9pm† (8pm on March 23rd) 21+
March 2nd – Thom Chacon, Grand Ronde, Helen Stellar
March 9th – Adlib, 400 Blows, I Am Loved
March 16th – Body, The Blood Arm, The Living Science Foundation
March 23rd – The Willowz, Viva K, Squab, The Main Frame
March 30th – Hot & Heavy, The Red Onions, The Neptunas

STABBED IN THE SQUARE OF THE BACK!
In local developments; way too many sources have revealed that Travis and Joe weren’t actually fired from the Booty bar for packing the house, playing the best music in town, and spray spitting hipsters with blasts of whiskey as they were originally lead to believe. The jokes on us! Turns outs the real reason they got the boot was the creepy bar manager guy wanted to sleaze his way into Joe’s then-but-now-ex-girlfriend’s vagina so he gave her their Saturday nights and $150 bucks. What a cheap fuck. Hey, if we knew that’s all it took, we could have started some kind of fundraiser benefit to keep her off dick. Hollywood clichés never cease to amaze. Ummmm….. two AIDS tests please?

THIS SATURDAY AT THE M BAR IN HOLLYWOOD – FREE RED STRIPE BEER, LIVE MUSIC, AND OTHER STUFF MAYBE
Speaking of… Every Saturday night we are now at M Bar where one or more live band(s) plays a short set. There’s FREE ALL YOU CAN DRINK RED STRIPE BEER (“the taste of Jamaica!”) til midnight, and DJ’s Steve Aoki & Travis Keller, rapping and rocking you (in that order). M Bar is located at 1253 Vine St. in Hollywood (Vine and Fountain).
Upcoming Shows @ M BAR
3.13 Nantucket Suicide (Lost Angeles), Totimoshi (Oakland – on tour with The Melvins), Riff Random (from Australia), Fantasys Core (Japan), and The Maximus (Japan).

Last Saturday at M Bar The Washdown, our homies from Florida, got their van towed cuz they parked in the Office Depot parking lot across the street. If you’re gonna come to M Bar, don’t park there unless you don’t want your car or van anymore.

Comets On Fire, east coast band via San Francisco that’s real heavy-ish pyschedelia, just signed to Sub Pop. Way to go Sub Pop! If you wanna hear them now, their first record is out on some label and it’s called ‘Field Recordings From The Sun’.

Courtney Love played two L.A. shows (more like spectacles) a few weeks ago in support of her new album “America’s Attention Whore”. For some reason, we went to both shows. Hey, it’s like a car wreck, you always slow down and take a look. The first show was at The Viper Room at 3PM during the day and was taped for the Kevin & Bean show on Gayroq 106.7 FM, so Courtney was stoked cuz she got to talk more than she had to play her guitar. That show was a bit torturous because her and her hack band played a few songs three times before they “got it right” for the radio. The second show was at The Roxy the next night and was as close to a proper show as C Love can get. She even told Travis she wanted to bite his dick off during “Miss World”.

Careless Talk Cost Lives, our favorite mag here at Buddyhead, is now sadly defunct. Don’t cry, a couple of the creators of that magazine have just started a new one called “Loose Lips Sink Ships” (which Stevie stole from an Icarus Line song but won’t admit it). Check it out. The first issue is out with Mark Lanegan and Liars on the cover. Send the two Steve’s an email letting em know how grateful you are for putting together a no bullshit music lovers magazine! Represent! Click here for their website.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are out on tour for a while. We told em if they didn’t put Beehive & the Barracudas on the LA show we weren’t gonna let them hang out with us anymore. While they’re gone we’ve been throwing raging parties at Karen and Solana’s new house in Silverlake. They don’t know it yet, but they’ve got themselves one hell of a party pad! Just don’t tell em to look in the ice trays.
March 1, 2004 Newport, KY Southgate House (w/ Ssion, Entrance)
March 2, 2004 Chicago, IL Metro (w/ Ssion, Entrance)
March 3, 2004 Madison, WI Barrymore Theatre (w/ Ssion)
March 5, 2004 Omaha, NE Sokol Underground (w/ Ssion, Beep Beep)
March 6, 2004 Lawrence, KS Granada (w/ Ssion, The Chromatics)
March 7, 2004 Oklahoma City, OK Diamond Ballroom (w/ Ssion)
March 9, 2004 Tuscon, AZ Club Congress (w/ Beehive and the Barricudas, Entrance)
March 10, 2004 San Diego, CA Soma (w/ Kill Me Tomorrow, Entrance)
March 12, 2004 Pomona, CA Glass House (w/ Beehive and the Barricudas, Entrance)
March 13, 2004 Los Angeles, CA Henry Fonda (w/ Beehive and the Barricudas, Entrance)
March 14, 2004 Los Angeles, CA Henry Fonda (w/ Starlight Desperation, Entrance)
March 16, 2004 San Francisco, CA The Filmore (w/ Har Mar Superstar, Entrance)
March 17, 2004 San Francisco, CA The Filmore (w/ Har Mar Superstar, Entrance)
March 19, 2004 Seattle, WA Neumo’s (w/ Shoplifting, Entrance)
March 20, 2004 Vancouver, BC Commodore (w/ Shoplifting)
April 11, 2004 Glasgow Barrowlands
April 12, 2004 Birmingham Carling Academy
April 13, 2004 Manchester Academy
April 15, 2004 London Forum
April 16, 2004 London Forum

The Stooges are makin a new album and Jack White is playin bass on it. No shit man. It’s offical, Jack White won the lottery.

The Beastie Geezers are making a new album, and if you care, yr probably still wearing ringer tees. Dork. Our own Ian Rogers (he fixes our computers and his baby momma runs our store) is overdubbing some ass farts for the new record as you read this.

Korn’s pissed no one bought their last album so they thought they’d trick kids into liking them by calling their new single “Y’all want a Single?” and made a video which takes stabs at the music industry. This might not be a shitty idea if all of you fat asses weren’t already millionaires and incestuously involved in the industry.

Don’t go see that Jesus movie unless you’re really into watching four hours of latin and Jesus getting the shit kicked out of him. Shit’s brutal and mad boring.

Helmet’s a band again.

Love & Rockets are getting back together… That sounds way better than The Cure making a new album. Maybe they can burn Rick Rubin’s mansion totally down this time.

Some chick named Sylvia got canned.

If you run a “webzine” you are a huge fucking dork. Just so you know.

Steve Dim Mak is a model. Click HERE.

Blockbuster is banning the new issue of AP from their shelves due to NOFX being on the cover. We think everyone should ban AP from their shelves due to every cover they’ve had over the past year.

We knew that Bright Eyes kid was gay. Click HERE and HERE.

This dude went on tour with Les Savy Fav, you know that was a wild party. Click here.

We know the reason Queens of The Stoneage broke up, but we ain’t gonna tell cos we don’t wanna get beat up. Those dudes are fuckin huge man.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Har Mar got dropped. Surprise.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anyone seen Kool Keith lately?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mudhoney is still cool.

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

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

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

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

Could Audioslave suck any worse? We vote no.

Aaron watches Sports Center.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Beehive and the Barracudas are touring the U.S. this Spring. This will be in support of their new LP titled “In Black Love” to be released in June on Swami Records. We can’t wait.
June 3rd @ Modified (Phoenix, AZ) w/ Dismemberment Plan
June 4th Tucson, AZ
June 5th Austin, TX
June 6th @ Rubber Glove (Denton, TX)
June 7th @ Fat Cat?s *formerly Mary Janes (Houston, TX) w/The Pattern
June 8th @ El Matador (Atlanta, GA)
June 11th @ King?s Barcade (Raleigh, NC)
June 12th @ The Otto Bar (Baltimore, MD)
June 13th @ The Khyber (Philadelphia, PA)
June 14th @ Mercury Lounge (New York, NY) w/The Pattern
June 15th @ North Six (Brooklyn, NY)
June 20th @ The Black Cat (Washington, DC)
June 21st Pittsburg, PA
June 23rd @ Grog Shop (Cleveland, OH)
June 24th Detroit, MI
June 25th @ The Empty Bottle (Chicago, IL)
June 26th @ Rocket Bar (St. Louis, MO)
June 27th @ Brick’s (Kansas City, MO)
June 28th @ Larimer Lounge (Denver, CO) w/Apples In Stereo and Creeper
Lagoon
June 29th @ Kilby Court (Salt Lake City, UT)
July 1st @ Graceland (Seattle, WA) w/The Husbands
July 2nd Portland, OR
July 4th @ Hemlock Tavern (San Francisco, CA) w/The Husbands
July 5th Los Angeles, CA
July 6th San Diego, CA

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

The Icarus Line are going to New York to play a few shows in the city, stalk Moby, steal some more pedals from Gideon Yago, and eat some dogs. Also, if you live in NYC, print out the flyer below and consider yourself part of our street team and hand those fuckers out. Here’s the show info:
5/8 @ Irving Plaza (with Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
5/9 @ Pianos
5/11 @ Luxx in Brooklyn

Your Enemies Friends are finishing up the recording of their debut album this week, and it sounds muy killer. That one will be out on Buddyhead real soon… Stay tuned kids.

The Stooges slayed at Coachella. Besides Aaron pointing at Trent Reznor and telling everybody that walked by, “Look, that’s Trent Reznor”, that was the only good part of the whole festival. Oh, I guess Primal Scream was awesome too. But then again we missed the Blueman Group… that could have been way bomb for all we know.

Oh yeah, White Stripes played too and the sound sucked. Jack White’s real name is John Gillis. Which if you’re keeping score ain’t all that cool. Meg White’s real name is… Meg White.

Burning Brides are too tired to tour anymore, so are canceling their appearances on their current tour. Looks like the party’s in Philly now. Someone buy us some mother fuckin’ plane tickets to Philly!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are gonna be on Conan O’ Brian this Friday. Conan better get ready to have beer splattered all over him by Karen and then have his photo taken by Nick. It’s gonna be a party either way.

Nada Surf’s label, Barsuk, had a marketing meeting recently and in that meeting they specifically said to not service our site with their record because “Buddyhead’s attitude fucking sucks.” The funny part is we already got a few copies sent to us in the mail. But hey, dudes over at Barsuk, don’t worry, we weren’t planning on reviewing it anyways cuz we already sold em and bought some weed with the money. By the way, the people who work at Barsuk are a bunch of PUSSIES.

Self proclaimed punk rocker, Casey Chaos, from that wack metal band Amen, just wrote the forward to a new book on the shelves called ‘Nu Metal’. Fitting right? Next time you’re at Barnes & Noble, pick it up, it’s worth a chuckle or two.

This is too funny… there is actually a music management company called “BRO MANAGEMENT”! Don’t believe us? Give em a call @ 310-393-4567

Call up MTV VJ Benji from Good Charlotte on his cell phone 571-237-4820 and tell him that when he wants to spike up his bro-hawk, the egg yokes are supposed to go in his hair, not in his mouth… FATASS!

Call up Willa Ford on her cell phone and tell her to quit dropping our names around town. 813-732-3482

E-mail the guitarist with no eyebrows and stupid dreadlocks in Murderdolls, Tripp Eisen, at anthraxislam@hotmail.com

Sharon and Ozzy put their reality TV star son, Jack Osbourne, in rehab for smoking too much pot. They should have just gone to the root of the problem and sent the kid to fat camp.

Out on June 16 is the Minor Threat demo tape (cd single/7″). This demo tape was recorded 3 or 4 months after Minor Threat formed in Don Zientara’s basement. 8 songs are included here, ‘Minor Threat’, ‘Stand Up’, ‘Seeing Red’, ‘Bottled Violence’, ‘Small Man, Big Mouth’, ‘Straight Edge’, ‘Guilty of Being White’, and ‘I Don’t Want to Hear It’. The Minor Threat live DVD is still being worked on and looks likely to be completed by the fall. Aaron’s shaking he’s so excited.

Wal-Mart shut down Nathan from Creation Is Crucifixion’s site, Hactivist.com. It seems that punk rock is actually doing damage finally. Keep up the good work and post all your scams and use them. Donate to Buddyhead so we can keep the struggle alive suckers.

Thanks to ourselves, These Arms Are Snakes are getting huge. They will be on tour with Jucifer this spring.

Buddyhead will soon be racing Tokion Magazine in a cannon ball run style cross country car race. More on this real soon.

According to Corey Murchy of Minus the Bear and Corey! Kori! Cory!, their tour is making those Led Zeppelin shark fucking stories seem tame. Some of the debauchery has landed one fellow in jail in Florida while another functioned for two days completely blacked out. Go see them on tour and ask Corey for the whole story that he will not tell us.

Bluebird had 3 guitars stolen in Leeds, England on April 28 after a show at “The Cockpit”.
The guitars were as follows:
fender telecaster. sunburst. (american standard issue)
fender telecaster. black (worn out finish). (squire issue).
hagstrom superswede. red nicked finish.

Also a sony video camera with US power supply in black bag.

Any info would be appreciated. please email: info@bluebirdsounds.com

BLUEBIRD UK/EUROPEAN SPRING TOUR:
Date City Country Venue
25th April 2003 Newcastle-Great Britain Stage II
26th April 2003 Nottingham-GB Rock City
27th April 2003 Cambridge-GB Junction
28th April 2003 Leeds-GB Cockpit
29th April 2003 Edinburgh-Scotland Liquid Rooms
1st May 2003 London-GB Astoria
2nd May 2003 Wolverhampton-GB Wulfrun
3rd May 2003 Dublin-Ireland Music Centre
4th May 2003 Cork-Ireland Fred Zeppelin
6th May 2003 Portsmouth-GB Pyramid
7th May 2003 Cardiff-GB Coal Exchange
8th May 2003 Manchester-GB Academy
10th May 2003 Brussels-Belgium Botanique
11th May 2003 Cologne-Germany Prime Club
12th May 2003 Hamburg-Germany Schlaithof
13th May 2003 Berlin-Germany Knaach
14th May 2003 Vienna-Austria Flex
16th May 2003 Geneva-Switzerland Usine
17th May 2003 Tilburg-Netherlands O13
19th May 2003 Paris-France La Boule Noir
20th May 2003 Amsterdam-Netherlands Melkweg
21st May 2003 London-GB The Metro
22nd May 2003 Sheffield-GB Corporation
23rd May 2003 Glasgow-Scotland Cat House
24th May 2003 Middlesborough-GB Play @ The Empire
25th May 2003 Nottingham-GB Old Angel
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4/25-5/20 supporting HELL IS FOR HEROES
5/21-5/25 Headlining

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Finch fucking sucks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Speaking of Vincent Gallo… GLASSJAW FUCKING SUCKS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shane from Playing Enemy is in love with Alex Newport.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Yeah Yeah Yeahs signed to Interscope for 14.7 kajillion dollars.

Read a Shat interview here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Starlite Desperation is back together.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bill Hicks was one cool motherfucker! Click here.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who said mall punk getting huge wouldn’t come in handy? The Icarus Line and Radio Vago have cancelled their San Francisco show on December 5th cos New Found Glory wanted to play a show at Bottom Of The Hill on the same night, and gave The Icarus Line a shitload of money just to NOT play. Killer. Looks like The Icarus Line are going to the Bahamas!

Speaking of going to the Bahamas, looks like Travis will be too after the ebay auction of his Jimmy Eat World platinum record ends. Don’t trip kids, go and bid on this thing NOW. Oh yeah, to clear up some confusion, the record being sold is platinum, not gold. It just looks gold in the photo cos it’s a digital photo. Don’t trip. Oh and if you’re in Jimmy Eat World, DON’T GET MAD DUDE. We still have love for the JEW. Speaking of not tripping, make sure to bid on Aaron’s guitar too. There’s nothing wrong with the thing… it plays like a champ. It’s just that Aaron doesn’t need another guitar with a humbucker pickup on it. Bid on these gems now so these two can come back from the Bahamas with straw hats, dumb tattoos… the whole shabang!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=925396919
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The Troubadour show on the 7th is of course still on. Click here for the flyer. Make sure to check out all the shit we are selling at the show, including the very last of the At The Drive-In / Murder City Devils split 7 inches from a couple years back that had songs re-mixed by Mike D of Beastie Boys and “The Tick” (aka Latch Brothers). We’ll also be debuting some Buddyhead hats, and selling all kinds of shit, not to mention raffling off test presses of The Icarus Line / Burning Brides 7 inch, and Radio Vago test presses. Who has raffles anymore? Freak it.

It looks like somebody pulled their head outta their ass. The new Primal Scream album has just been released in the U.S. through Epic. Hopefully it’s cheaper than 20 bucks now.

That stupid goofy white rapper kid, MC Paul Barman is spreading rumors about himself that he’s opening for Robin Williams on some non-existent comedy tour. That shit ain’t for real so don’t buy into this guy’s crap. Robby knows white guy rap is wack, Paul just wants attention. Hey Paul, want some attention? Go play in the streets douchebag.

The singer from Amelia Earhart Found Alive has developed an appetite for getting it on with Suicide Girls (that porn site http://suicidegirls.com/). Normally that wouldn’t that great of gossip but the singer is a girl so that means this is some crazy girl on girl action and who doesn’t like that? She’s got good stickers on her guitar too. http://aefa.8m.net/Images/10.jpg

The bear is the new dolphin. Somebody tell Troy.

Did we mention that crack is STILL back? Fuck yeah! We we’re waiting til we were cool again!

There’s some sort of music industry convention happening in LA this week. We don’t know much about it, but we do know that Buddyhead contributor Tom Apostoloupoulos will be speaking on a panel called “Gays in the industry”. Kudos to Tom for finally coming out of the closet recently. Email him and give him a pat on the back! toma@buddyhead.com

People in New York who know Ryan Adams say that he’s losing his shit very rapidly. He apparently has a sick amount of fish tanks and a pet scorpion. This is typical because it’s really not that interesting, like his music. Brian Wilson he’s not.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are currently buying over the counter painkillers down under. That’s right they are in OZ fuckin shit up.

The Firm is going bankrupt. Keep your fingers crossed kiddies.

Spitfirevolver finally broke up. 3 kids somewhere in Texas are bummed.

Oh yeah, Kathleen rules the school for editing all the old record reviews. Muuuah!

BIG WINNERS
So, just to prove we aren’t a bunch of liars. We said that we were going to be giving shit away and we really did this time! We said we were giving away some Flaming Lips lithographs, and 7 inches of their “Do You Realize” – picture disc and that skateboarding dvd called “Fruit of the Vine” (click here.). All you had to do was email us at buddyhead@buddyhead.com with a good reason you should get this crap for free and you win. It was that’s simple. And you blew it. Below are the people who won. They are the winners, you are the losers.

FLAMING LIPS WINNERS:

Tiffany Lee
Claremont, CA

Scott Heisel
Rockford, IL

Adam Christensen
Rochester, NY

Jason Parks
San Diego, CA 92107

And this guy won the skateboarding DVD.

Ryan Stewart
Columbus, OH