Hot Hot Heat post new track on Myspace.

What worse fate could there be than to toil in a band forever chasing that elusive post-ironic, pseudo-indie crossover dance hit?

Perhaps being in said band, fronted by a guy with quite possibly the most infuriating white boy afro this side of Wolfmother?












Now that's some fucking whack ass 2002 shit. Here's how the white boy afro is done in '07. Take notes.




http://www.myspace.com/hothotheat

http://www.myspace.com/wolfmother

http://www.myspace.com/mikamyspace

http://www.supercuts.com

Motorola to introduce the iPhone's slutty friend.

Hoping to capitalize on some of the pent up sexual frustration of all you iPhone lusting geek chics, Motorola could introduce the hotter, cheaper, less sophisticated, and more er... available LAZR as soon as next week.

Just imagine how foxy you'll look nonchalantly chatting on one of these while rubbing your thighs together at the clinic. RAWR.


http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/24/the-motorola-lazr/

The Offline Guitar Archive

In an effort to spite aspiring musicians that can't learn things by ear, the National Music Publishers Association has served up a cease and desist letter to the user-generated guitar tab repository, OLGA.

People that spend hours butchering Metallica solos at Guitar Center are bummed.


http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/03/music_publisher.html

B@mbi Like You've Never Seen Her Before!!!

All we're doing is linking you to the story.

Which means we're not "asserting" anything,
we're just "juxtaposing"
which is like
"totally legal"
as opposed to
"barely legal."

I Am Not In Austin

Yes, the rumors are true: I am not in Austin for SXSW right now. As hard as that sobering fact is to believe, it's true. But I'm OK, really I am. Just because I'm not backstage at Amy Winehouse's showcase at Eternal tonight, or, for that matter, getting blazed with Slug from Atmosphere at Emo's while Denmark electro-delic dream-hoppers Under Byen are hypnotizing hipsters, there's no cause for alarm. No, I won't be at Stubb's when Bloc Party faces the heat of an underperforming second album and all sorts of questions about Kele's sexuality at Stubb's ’round midnight. I will most definitely miss nu-school shoegazers Asobi Seksu when they get blissy with it at The Parish II (1AM). I will miss each and every show by any band that bloggers ad infinitum will have you believe are the Second Coming of (insert iconic band name here) and saviors of all that is good music for at least the next couple of weeks. I'll see none of it. Unless, of course, it ends up on YouTube. God, I need a drink...

Sellin' Out...

It feels icky when I have to hear Iggy pimp himself out to Carnival Cruise lines (Lust for life + seniors on vacation is NOT punk yo')...but I can appreciate some no name band lending their tunes to hock y'know....whatever. And that's where sites like this come in handy......hear a song, find it here.

Now would someone please tell me what the electro track playing on the new Cadillac Escalade is?

Thanks, mgmt.

Jake Gyllenhaal to Prove His Manly Hetrosexuality In New Spandex-Intensive Role

David Fincher's favorite whipping boy is finalizing a deal with New Line that will have him starring in a big screen send up of DC's Captain Marvel, ending the years of teasing his hordes of comic-loving fans with the possibility of seeing him screaming "Shazam!" in red tights.

Gyllenhaal will finally have a chance to put behind him the Lance Armstrong-loving, baby-hating, drag-wearing image that he's spent the last few years developing and find that tough guy that he's been looking for.

This takes us all one step closer to seeing Jake swooping in to save his Katie Holmes-annihilating sister in some on screen magic that would elicit a mix of wonder and "Aww.." from an audience blown away by just how darn cute those Gyllenhaal kids are.

Side dish

Unicorns Get D.U.I.s Too

Just because you have a little 'corn on your head and inspire millions of five-year-old girls, a grip of LARPers and a few hipsters, that does not give you license to get wasted, crash into a light post and then use some poor guy (with five previous D.U.I. convictions) as a scape goat. You hear me, Mr. Unicorn?!!! You are sick. Sick, I tell you! That's right. Who's feeling magical now suckah.

Love Of Diagrams Prep New Album, Tour With Ted Leo

It would seem that the loss of NYC post-punkers Interpol to the majors has left perennial indie outfit Matador Records feeling a little lacking in the "something gloomy you can dance to" department (sorry Belle And Sebastian.. we love you, but we've chosen darkness). Enter new signees Love Of Diagrams. The trio, hailing from Melbourne, Australia, fuses the angularism of Gang Of Four and PiL with Antonia Sellbach's call-and-response vocals that harken back to glory days of no-wave (think The Slits/The Au Pairs with a dash of Siouxsie Sioux for good measure). With an ever-growing list of prominent bands they've supported (Sonic Youth, Electrelane, Stereolab, etc.) and their forthcoming album Mosaic (due April 10th) generating healthy buzz in the blogosphere, we predict big things in 2007 for these modern lovers.

Tourdates (all shows w/ Ted Leo And The Pharmacists):

03-28 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts
03-29 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
03-30 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle
03-31 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
04-01 Orlando, FL - Social
04-02 Miami, FL - Studio A
04-04 Baton Rouge, LA - Chelsea's Cafe
04-05 Houston, TX - Numbers
04-06 Dallas, TX - Gypsy Ballroom
04-07 Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa
04-09 Tempe, AZ - Clubhouse
04-10 San Diego, CA - Epicentre
04-12 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
04-13 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre
04-14 San Francisco, CA - Slim's
04-16 Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre
04-17 Seattle, WA - Showbox Showroom
04-18 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards
04-20 Boise, ID - Venue
04-21 Salt Lake City, UT - Club Sound at In the Venue
04-22 Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre
04-23 Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck
04-25 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
04-26 Madison, WI - Club 770
04-27 Iowa City, IA - Picador
04-28 Chicago, IL - Metro
04-30 Detroit, MI - Magic Stick
05-02 Toronto, Ontario - Mod Club
05-03 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
05-04 Boston, MA - Avalon
05-05 New York, NY - Webster Hall

Listen: Love Of Diagrams - "The Pyramid" (from their forthcoming album Mosaic)

http://www.loveofdiagrams.com (Official Site)
http://www.myspace.com/LoveOfDiagrams (Myspace)
Matador Records

Black Sheep Moan

Following in the great tradition of films from New Zealand, the New Zealand Film Commission is going to take the zombie film in a direction that had only previously been suggested by British scientists with the release of Black Sheep.

From the movie's synopsis: "On a vast New Zealand sheep station, a reckless genetic engineering experiment goes horribly wrong, turning sheep into bloodthirsty killers." This may not seem especially scary in parts of the world such as Los Angeles where sheep per capita is relatively low, but in places like New Zealand, where sheep outnumber people 12 to 1, or in sheep-baiting vehicles parked at the drive-in, it's a real cause for fear. The synopsis didn't mention if a zombified Chris Farley ends up as delicious sheep fodder in the flick.

Check out the trailer for all the fuzzy frights.

Black Sheep - trailer

Black Sheep - official website