Average attention span of Italian GNR fans? 13 Years.

"Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-no album!"







Italian GNR fan site, www.gnronline.it, is shutting down in protest of Chinese Democracy not being released on March 6th as previously promised by Axl Rose, citing a "lack of respect, clearness, and mutual loyalty."

However, teaching Axl such a hard, albeit well deserved lesson comes with a steep price. The "community of 3500 users who have been maintaining daily relationships and friendship through this website for many years" will now have to seek refuge on the hundreds of other GNR fan sites on the web.


But more interestingly, are these guys all just hanging out pissing on a wall or what?









http://www.nme.com/news/guns-n-roses/26931

Menudo: Parte Dos: Mas Tripa, Menos Musica

You know what's funny about Menudo (aside from the spandex, headwraps and Ricky Martin's red pants)...it's really a weird band name.

I'm sorry. I can get down with Maná or whatever...but Menudo? It's a soup with parts of cow or pig that most people normally don't like to eat (except my dad...and this guy).

Who started that discussion y'know?*
I can see it now...cue dream sequence...

Drunk underaged teenage guy: Oye hermanos, tengo un idea gran por un nombre de banda...
MENUDO. Entiende? Es como sopa pero...es sexy tambien.

No, it's not sexy. Not sexy at all.
Anyhow, long story short, MTV thinks it is and is launching a search for the next Menudo. I like the part that says that participants have to be 15 and "appear to be less than 19." I'm sure that'll get interesting.

*Ok, actually one of the dude's sisters did but I like my version better: "At the group's second rehearsal Díaz's sister entered the driveway of the house the group was rehearsing at, and puzzled by finding five young boys dancing and singing in the garage, she loudly exclaimed: '¡Qué mucho menudo hay aqui!' ('What a lot of young folk we have here!'); the phrase stuck, and the group was thus named Menudo."

**My friend Jimmy adds that if you combine the stories then you could get something like "Young boy soup." Well, well, Ricky Martin...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070308/music_nm/menudo_dc

New iTunes 7.1 Features Full Screen CoverFlow

Christmas came late (or reaaaaly early?) for us Mac users who have their systems set-up to automatically detect updates -- a new version of iTunes came down the ol' digital chimney the other day that allows for FULL SCREEN CoverFlow. Simply click the new icon that has appeared to the right of the CoverFlow control bar and the scroller goes full screen with your album artwork becoming larger than the average size CD (think about as big as a 45 RPM record sleeve). It's nice to see that somebody still cares about album artwork in the age of digital downloads and dwindling record sales.

iTunes

New Uffie Track - "Dismissed"

We're still far from a full length album from precocious potty mouth Uffie via Ed Banger, but in the meantime here is the newest song from the French/American electro rapper, again produced by longtime boyfriend/DJ/blocker feadz.

Dismissed
*from her earlier Hot Chick ep here a few more

In Charge

Hot Chick

www.myspace.com/uffie

US Government Condemns Real Country's Former Actions Against Fake Person From Different Country

In what's sure to come out as a preparatory move for the planned sequel the State Department has issued their annual human rights abuses report, and have taken the bold steps to condemn the actions of the Kazakhstani government against their most famous "citizen", Borat. The report states that the government has become increasingly restrictive on free speech, and uses the loss of http://www.borat.kz/ in 2005 as one of its prime examples.

The long standing oppression of Borat by the Kazakh government will not be unavenged by the US, who have vowed that they will not stop until every single Kazakhstani man, woman, and child has heard "Very nice!" screamed by a drunken frat boy at least 200 times, bringing them up to the level of first-world Borat over saturation.

Borat seen as human rights victim by U.S. government

It's Just A Flesh Wound

In an attempt to become the 'Black Knight' of the underground hip-hop game, Definitive Jux rhyme-smith Aesop Rock has released the title track from his forthcoming release "None Shall Pass" (due out "early 2007"). The track shows up on the new Def Jux compilation "Definitive Swim" (a collaboration between Definitive Jux and Adult Swim). We're not sure if brother Aesop has been turning to the classic 1975 comedy "Monty Python And The Holy Grail" for lyrical inspiration, but we do know that the new album features John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats -- and that movie had at least, like, one or two goats in it (not to mention a killer rabbit and invisible horses), so they're totally related.

Listen: Aesop Rock - "None Shall Pass"


Aesop Rock (Definitive Jux)

http://www.myspace.com/aesoprockwins (Myspace)

Guess You're Stuck With Hearing Common People On Your iPod

Here's your dreams for a Pulp reunion. Here's Jarvis Cocker smashing those dreams into a million pieces or...making a catchy statement for rhetorical effect just so NME will cover it. Here's me having his babies anyway. Don't hate.

Cold Case Files: The Big Bopper

The remains of the Big Bopper were recently exhumed and an autposy performed to dispel the rumor that he had actually survived the plane crash and died looking for help.

Jay Richardson, aka Big Bopper Jr., was on-site and not only watched forensic anthropologist, Dr. Bill Bass, open the coffin, but subsequently observed his examination. "Dad still amazes me 48 years after his death, that he was in remarkable shape," Richardson said. Um... Creepy?

Said Bass, "There are fractures from head to toe. Massive fractures. (He) died immediately. He didn't crawl away. He didn't walk away from the plane."


Now, I'm no expert, but do you think anyone could have walked away from this?












http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070307/ap_en_mu/big_bopper_autopsy

Jarvis and Beth Ditto at the NME awards.

You know how when you have multiple groups of friends organized into neat, tidy categories, and then somehow people from the different groups start hanging out and things get weird...?

Cursive premieres "Big Bang" video.

Aging indie rockers are stoked. Oh, er... And I'm stoked too.

http://www.spinner.com/2007/03/06/video-premiere-cursive-big-bang/


Catch Cursive with Mastodon, Against Me!, and lots of goatees, facial piercings, and body odor in the perhaps the strangest tour of the spring:

May 1 - Los Angeles, CA @ Wiltern LG
May 2 - San Francisco, CA @ Warfield
May 4 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Ballroom
May 5 - Seattle, WA @ The Fenix
May 6 - Boise, ID @ Big Easy
May 8 - Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
May 11 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Myth
May 12 - Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre
May 13 - Detroit, MI @ State Theatre
May 14 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
May 15 - Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus
May 17 - New York, NY @ Roseland Ballroom
May 18 - Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
May 19 - Boston, MA @ Avalon
May 21 - Columbus, OH @ Lifestyles Pavilion
May 22 - Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s
May 23 - Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
May 25 - Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
May 26 - Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle