So here’s the first studio song from Them Crooked Vultures, “New Fang”, and it doesn’t suck AT ALL! Not that I expected anything less from these three musicians. But this song, which is also going to be the first single from the band, gets an A fucking plus! It does its job and I have proof! Listen up here kids: The first time I put this song on my stereo my girlfriend went into a trance and just started dancing to the beat and grinding me like a professional dancer! And I’m not talking about a ballerina. Think more along the lines of Crazy Girls in 1990 right before punk broke and Kurdt Cobain ruined it for everyone! I was lucky my iTunes had this song on repeat cuz by the second time this jam kicked in both my clothes and my girlfriend’s clothes were in a pile a few feet from us and her dancing turned into both of us moving to the beat of the song on the floor. Now that’s what a rock n’ roll song is supposed to do! Get inside you and give you that warm fuzzy feeling that makes you wanna love the one you’re with! I even found you an mp3 so you can play it on your iPod while you work out at the gym Patrick Bateman style, you sick fucks.

Them Crooked Vultures – “New Fang” MP3

Finally, a record I’m excited about.  For those of you who have been living under a rock the past few months, Them Crooked Vultures is Josh Homme on guitar/vocals, Dave Grohl doing what he does best – beating the living shit out of the drums and John Paul Jones (Yes, THAT John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin), the first “supergroup” to actually live up to its nickname in a long time. “New Fang” will be the lead single from their debut full length record which is gonna be self-titled, will hit stores (and websites) November 17th, 2009 via Interscope Records.

I’m gonna bet that Robert Plant and Jimmy Page are sitting up in some bitchin’ castle on the English countryside totally fucking bummed that John Paul Jones just fucking lapped them a few times in cool points. And you know John Paul Jones was quick to facial those dicks when they called him up for the Led Zeppelin reunion too, prolly went something like this…

JPJ: “Hello? Yeah this is JPJ? Oh hey Jimmy and Robert…. Wha? A Reunion? Nah, I don’t think I have time. I think I’m gonna go start a little rock band with DAVE GROHL ON DRUMS and maybe JOSH HOMME WILL SING AND SOLO PEOPLES’ FACES OFF! What do you old fogies think about that, eh?” And to be honest that’s what those cock suckers get for doing that “Unledded Jimmy Page and Robert Plant” horse-crap and then have the balls to call the album “No Quarter”, which is a song John Paul Jones wrote. Plus you can almost hear how much Dave Grohl wants to stick it to those old men for picking Jason Bonham over him for that one-off Led Zeppelin show too. Ok, maybe I’m making all this Jimmy Page & Robert Plant beef up in my head… either way, if “New Fang” is any indication as to what the rest of this band’s record sounds like I think it’s safe to say we’re in for a real treat in a few weeks.

And then the rest of the treat is gonna be when they roll through Los Angeles finally for a live gig, crossing my fingers that I somehow slide in to see that. Mini Mansions, which features Michael Shuman (aka Mikey Shoes) who’s the current bass player of Queens of the Stone Age, and was the bass player of Wires On Fire, just did a two week stint opening for Them Crooked Vultures (sweet fuckin’ gig, eh?) and said that Them Crooked Vultures killed it every single night. Damn, I’m jealous… sounds like a pretty damn good time.

Before they hit the road with Them Crooked Vultures, Mini Mansions did a tour with another band that shares their hometown of Los Angeles– Autolux. Talk about rad tours, right? Well you wanna know the secret? Mini Mansions write great songs, period! Sonically Mini Mansions’ sound is a slightly stripped-down, rotating-instrument, Beatle-loving three piece rock band. And there’s nothing wrong with loving The Beatles in my book. These dudes have a really good eight song album out that they recorded in three days in Hollywood at the beginning of the year. You can pick up a copy of the limited 500 they made from the band’s website HERE for a mere $5 (plus shipping, so you might as well pick up one of their shirts while you’re at it). But I’m excited because Mike texted me the other day to tell me that Mini Mansions are actually in the studio right now recording a new record this week. I can’t wait to hear what they cook up, I’m sure it will be nothing short of amazing. In the meantime check out my favorite two songs off their first release.

Mini Mansions – “Seven Sons”

Mini Mansions – “The Great Escape”

And if you’re still hungry for more info on Them Crooked Vultures, I stumbled across this clip of Josh Homme on some dork’s radio show from England by click HERE.

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