tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28664749518039085192011-10-12T23:22:47.551-04:00New Music &amp; News About MusicKaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comBlogger461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-30852643284640528152011-10-12T23:11:00.002-04:002011-10-12T23:22:47.602-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://sweetiesreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/glee-give-a-note-campaign.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 254px; height: 194px;" src="http://sweetiesreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/glee-give-a-note-campaign.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.gleegiveanote.com/vote_details.php?id=159">Vote for Northwest School of the Arts</a> (Charlotte, NC) as the recipient of Glee's grant for school music programs! They really deserve it, plus they are part of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District which absolutely is a mess and doesn't fund them enough.<br /><br />I still have the song from their entry video stuck in my head... so go vote, and then vote again tomorrow when you catch yourself singing the song to yourself. :)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-3085264328464052815?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-42896422050750660322011-10-08T13:54:00.003-04:002011-10-08T14:12:45.426-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vUC2k9pVH6I/TpCOYMbKtjI/AAAAAAAAALE/eF8zIwyr3XE/s1600/tai%2Bover%2Bfor%2Breal.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 456px; height: 319px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vUC2k9pVH6I/TpCOYMbKtjI/AAAAAAAAALE/eF8zIwyr3XE/s400/tai%2Bover%2Bfor%2Breal.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661181277907891762" border="0" /></a>Self-explanatory note from the band above. My rant will follow below:<br /><br />After several line-ups changes over the years, and a big announcement in June saying that members Andy Mrotek (drums) and Michael Guy Chislett (guitar) would be leaving, TAI has finally called it quits. This marks the end of the majority of Decaydance / Fueled By Ramen bands as we know them For example, Fall Out Boy is on indefinite hiatus, Panic[!] At the Disco split in two and is a little indecisive on its name's punctuation, Gym Class Heroes is going strong but not without a little bit of spotlight stolen by "Travie" McCoy (he too, used to be known by a slightly different name) and a little bit of selling out with Adam Levine on their current record.<br /><br />Six of the eleven acts listed on the Decaydance page of Artists (as of 10/8/2011) are acts that have broken up or ceased creating music. Some kind of domino effect is going on here, and at this point, past fans probably don't care because they've been strung along, promised new albums for far too long. Pete Wentz no longer has the magic touch and Fueled By Ramen has been commonly known as an entity within Atlantic Records for quite some time now. The number of people who blindingly join the bandwagon of whatever bands sign to the label is dwindlingly fast. I mostly blame their personal lives - these artists are growing up and while they once were all some sort of circle of friends, they now have different musical tastes and lifestyles (for example, William Beckett from TAI has a daughter) and they don't have that united front of bands on the cutting edge of popular rock music (if that isn't an oxymoron) anymore.<br /><br />I'll miss The Academy Is..., but more so, I already miss the days when the majority of my favorite bands consisted of members who were all alive and together and able to be seen in concert.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-4289642205075066032?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-49345302583456346642011-08-01T22:21:00.003-04:002011-10-08T13:54:02.399-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://imgusr.celebscentral.net/images/users/1/201103/Christina_Perri%7Cchristina-perri-promopics-3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 239px; height: 355px;" src="http://imgusr.celebscentral.net/images/users/1/201103/Christina_Perri%7Cchristina-perri-promopics-3.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>In roughly an hour, Christina Perri will perform in one of her biggest live television performances yet. Of course, it was TV that brought her first single "Jar of Hearts" to life in the first place.<br /><br />Last year, her EP and eventual music video for "Jar of Hearts" gained her fame after being featured on <span style="font-style: italic;">So You Think You Can Dance</span> - and again a little under a year later on <span style="font-style: italic;">Glee</span>. She was named a Vh1 "You Oughta Know" Artist and in May released <span style="font-style: italic;">lovestrong.</span>, her first full-length.<br /><br />Like many writers (and writer she is), she seems to favor heartbreak as her main motif. And she's got that penchant for awKward/artistic capitaLization, or lack thereof. She isn't afraid to use skin as a replacement for paper, however, with more awesome tattoos than there's room here to mention.<br /><br />In describing her time spent in the studio (only slightly more than a month) she said, "I was running back and forth doing the vocals, the piano, the guitar, the harmonies, and the doubles.”<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovestrong.#cite_note-ExaminerInterview-3"><span></span></a><br /><br />Yeah, she's one of those types. The ones who get their dream on with a random breakthrough, and actually deserve it (with those chops, and the actual ability to play and write for multiple instruments? Please, you can't dispute this). A Cinderella story.<br /><br />Judge for yourself if she's got a way with words. The Late Show with Letterman @ 11:35pm August 1st. Or if that's long past when you read this...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size:85%;">"i learned to live, half alive, and now you want me one more time</span>"<br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v_4O44sfjM&amp;ob=av2e">click to listen.</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-4934530258345634664?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-5821842533707583552011-07-27T04:11:00.004-04:002011-07-27T04:37:24.838-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.startrip.tv/amy-winehouse.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 332px;" src="http://www.startrip.tv/amy-winehouse.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Several days after Amy Winehouse's death, her father announced <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2019071/Amy-Winehouse-funeral-Father-Mitch-reveals-hopes-set-foundation.html">plans for a charitable organization</a> bearing her name with a focus of helping addicts. It's certainly a better legacy than the lyrics to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUmZp8pR1uc&amp;ob=av3n">her most famous song</a>. The cause of death remains to be known.<br />'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/demi-lovato-skyscraper.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 341px; height: 192px;" src="http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/demi-lovato-skyscraper.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Speaking of rehab, it's now been two weeks since the release of Demi Lovato's lead single "Skyscraper," the first since her time in rehabilitation for the treatment of eating disorder among other problems. She's come back stronger than ever, and effectively dropped her Disney affiliation. Nonetheless, she can still be seen as a decent role model - if only she'd have taken risks in sharing her story with her fans earlier, rather than risks with her health. She is currently in the studio with Timbaland (according to her <a href="http://popcrush.com/todays-best-tweets-demi-lovato-collaborating-with-timbaland/">tweet</a>) which could play out interestingly. I'll be forever waiting to see if her collaboration with frontman of The Academy Is..., William Beckett, is ever put out into the world, though.<br /><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">"only silence has its ending, like we never had a chance"</span><br /><br /></div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_8ydghbGSg">click to listen.</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-582184253370758355?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-40703106738128184752011-06-18T14:02:00.012-04:002011-06-18T15:30:46.235-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.theacademyis.com/"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 397px; height: 370px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NOqiyrAU38o/Tfz8o4e2W6I/AAAAAAAAAK0/mN85D6nxva8/s400/tai%2Bover%2Bwith.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619644214338280354" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>The Academy Is... is falling apart and losing almost half of their members just like a whole slew of other Fueled By Ramen bands (Paramore, Fall Out Boy, ring any bells?). If you're too lazy to read the letter above, Andy "The Butcher" Mrotek and Michael Guy Chislett are leaving to pursue other creative ventures, for The Butcher, namely a band with the same name as his online art gallery, The Animal Upstairs, and for Chislett, touring as a guitarist for Brooke Fraser. Just conjecture here, but I don't think that this was their idea.<br /><br />Neither leaving musician was a founding member (The Butcher replaced Michael DelPrincipe, the original drummer, and Chislett replaced Tom Conrad, making him the third lead guitarist). TAI has begun to follow suit in the manner of many young(ish) powerpop bands with a revolving door of musicians coming and going for one or two albums each.<br /><br />The majority of lyrics have been credited to singer/frontman William Beckett, and the majority of the music has been credited to Beckett and only-remaining-guitarist Mike Carden, so they seem to be in good hands as far as writing new music goes. Their website features a clip of new material, though there's no hint as to when there will next be an album release. The last formal album came out in 2008, though an EP came in concurrence with their spot on the AP Fall Ball Tour in 2009.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">" i feel the tide is turning, the end of a chapter starts today, do i really belong here anymore anyway?"</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.theacademyis.com/">click to listen.</a><br /></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-4070310673812818475?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-90389263198848785052011-06-18T13:24:00.005-04:002011-06-18T13:50:39.253-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fadedpaperfigures.com/lyrics.html"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 270px;" src="http://f.bandcamp.com/z/37/25/3725945726-1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fadedpaperfigures.com/photos.html"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 270px; height: 200px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/57755509/Faded+Paper+Figures+FPF16.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />In this digital age, many a band relies solely on messy lyric search engines to display the words that accompany their music. Rather than pour over pages printed on glossy paper, we Google for posts by other listeners, which is quite subjective. And while Seal might be okay with any interpretation, some listeners just want to know the true meaning.<br /><br />Which brings me to Faded Paper Figures. Much in the style of The Postal Service, the Californian indie-electronica band features both male and female vocals, punctuated with both organic drums and electro blips. Like the Postal Service's Give Up, their 2010 album New Medium was recorded unusually (in the case of FPF, on both coasts of the United States, in the case of the Postal Service, by mail). And their gorgeous lyrics are gorgeously displayed in one place, with hyperlink annotations to give context for where their got their inspiration. You mean there's someone using the Internet to give rather than take credit? Yes, indeed Faded Paper Figures is something different. If you don't believe me...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">"the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXmKpB9dn3c" target="_new">cold</a> is nice, when love is ice, our <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=H1mkgzI_bwYC&amp;lpg=PA80&amp;ots=a9g4k4mzgA&amp;dq=betsy%20erkkila%20dickinson%20and%20class&amp;pg=PA80#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_new">solitude</a> will warm the room.<br />we'll melt here like <a href="http://mog.com/tracks/mn290107/the-ocean-blue/the-ocean-blue/frigid-winter-days" target="_new">icicles</a>,<a href="http://www.emilydickinson.org/edjv2a.html" target="_new"> electric</a> and lyrical, our solitude will warm the room"<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: right;">...<a href="http://fadedpaperfigures.bandcamp.com/">click here.</a><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-9038926319884878505?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-70486261249976396942011-06-16T21:14:00.006-04:002011-06-18T15:27:09.167-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BEo0jWXl9GA/S5zYCuRX8LI/AAAAAAAAD_c/5G94ngF1zZo/s1600/ButchWalker_ILikedItBetter.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 473px; height: 473px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BEo0jWXl9GA/S5zYCuRX8LI/AAAAAAAAD_c/5G94ngF1zZo/s1600/ButchWalker_ILikedItBetter.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Cover art from the coolest forty-something musician in America, Butch Walker manages to write for his own current band and produce for everyone from female pop stars to powerpop bands (P!nk, Avril, Katy Perry, The Academy Is..., and All Time Low to name a few).<br /><br />After losing his house and all his worldly possessions in a wildfire, Walker pressed on and wrote <span style="font-style: italic;">Sycamore Meadows</span>. He's not afraid to express emotion and he's also not afraid to have fun (check out his spoof of Taylor Swift's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOQAjsi0YQA">"You Belong to Me"</a> - watch from 2:47 to hear the song and skip the shenanigans).<br /><br />The above art belongs to his 2010 effort, and he has a brand-new album, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Spade</span>, in its <a href="http://butchwalkerfansite.com/entries/music/mastering-the-spade">final stages</a> before its release.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">"as i'm waiting for those eyes, to say what's on your mind, i finally think i've found the words to say"</span></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnlpHKQXCps&amp;a=GxdCwVVULXeferpjH1Bn-kpWAi88QJO1&amp;list=ML">click to listen.</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-7048626124997639694?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-19135534550921636762010-12-11T01:07:00.006-05:002011-06-18T02:22:48.600-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://thirtysecondstomars.thisisthehive.net/blog/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 392px; height: 392px;" src="http://zoinks.tv/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/30-Seconds-To-Mars-This-Is-War.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />So I cannot believe that I have yet to mention 30 Seconds to Mars anywhere in this blog, but then again, I cannot believe I hadn't written anything in months either. 30 Seconds to Mars and the hair stylings of Jared Leto (what can I say, I work at a men's salon) have captured my attention recently, particularly since the release of the single Kings and Queens from their latest album, This Is War. The video was exactly what their fans expect: amazing and innovative enough to make your eyes fall from your face or for your body to spontanteously burst into dancing or headbanging - whatever floats your boat. Not to mention, it was free on iTunes for a while, so I loved it all the more.<br /><br />But it is Closer to the Edge that is my favorite song and video so far, if only because I've seen so much concert footage done wrong - whereas 30 Seconds to Mars has it down to a science, or maybe a highly calculated art. If you aren't moved by this then maybe you are <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OyN7PM6Uh4">Heartless</a> (yeah, I got me some Kanye nostalgia).<br /><br />Also check out the video for <a href="http://www.mtv.com/videos/30-seconds-to-mars/601478/hurricane.jhtml">Hurricane</a> if you'd like.<br /><div style="text-align: right;"><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLqHDhF-O28">click to listen.</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-1913553455092163676?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-32883966723898244232010-12-11T01:04:00.007-05:002010-12-11T01:25:38.309-05:00And so he returns.<br />Make that<span style="font-style: italic;"> returned</span>... months ago.<br />It was to be expected yada yada. What I didn't expect was this kind of cinematography from his video I just got around to watching (to my credit, it was over 30 minutes so it took some... momentum/effort/turn around from my typical personality type of 'often A.D.D. procastinator').<br /><br />Some of my favorite screenshots from the video for Runaway:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KT9KolpiJns/TQMUjeRi1fI/AAAAAAAAAJs/G0KgijK9uOc/s1600/kanye.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 348px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KT9KolpiJns/TQMUjeRi1fI/AAAAAAAAAJs/G0KgijK9uOc/s400/kanye.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5549301765505209842" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg5wkZ-dJXA">click to listen.</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-3288396672389824423?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-48409506436885557132010-08-24T19:58:00.009-04:002011-06-18T15:28:46.785-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://trustmeiminaband.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 393px; height: 290px;" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:fTLD8TnTZVDjQM:http://www.pickrset.com/markhoppus/images/IMG00015-20100722-1221.jpg&amp;t=1" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />What do Mark Hoppus and September 16th have in common? ...No his birthday is in March.<br /><br />How about that this fall on the previously stated day (why can't people find it in themselves to repeat things? September 16th September 16th September 16th) the previously named bassist of blink-182 (Mark Hoppus Mark Hoppus Mark Hoppus - I'm not afraid) will be speaking to you through your television. The new Fuse show has an ego, calling itself "unlike any other music show ever seen on television." The failure of the MTV show, "FNMTV," that Pete Wentz worries me - that show was supposed to be somethin' special, too. We'll see, or perhaps hear, if it's any good in due time (23 days from today actually).<br /><br />...I really wish I actually got the channel on my dinosaur of a TV. Hello Hulu!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-4840950643688555713?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-51640428259365278772010-08-16T11:06:00.011-04:002010-12-11T01:07:10.588-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2010/best-rock-video/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 395px; height: 256px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KT9KolpiJns/TGlX7fCMnJI/AAAAAAAAAGs/1e4VfNwmx54/s400/paramore+background+with+border.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5506028698891754642" border="0" /></a><br />Go vote Paramore's video Ignorance as best rock video for the MTV Video Music Awards on September 12th. They've yet to win a Moonman so I think they deserve it (although I personally like their video for The Only Exception better).<br /><br />Others nominated in the same category include 30 Seconds to Mars' Kings and Queens and Muse's Uprising. Frontwoman Hayley Williams is nominated in three other categories for her contribution to the song and video Airplanes by B.o.B.<br /><br />The new artist category sadly sums up the year's music: a few too many autotuned pop stars (although indie-electronic collaboration Broken Bells isn't painful at all and always preferable Beiber).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">"when i was younger i saw my daddy cry and curse at the wind"</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.paramore.net/album/brand-new-eyes/">click to listen.</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-5164042825936527877?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-91568274976984818362010-08-05T00:42:00.014-04:002011-06-18T02:48:08.617-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myspace.com/automaticloveletter"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 502px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KT9KolpiJns/TFpA5RuzW0I/AAAAAAAAAGk/CvZIwxH6iPY/s400/juliet+simms.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5501781247542909762" border="0" /></a><br />Photo courtesy of yours truly.<br /><br />"Wait what??? You got to see your tied-for-favorite singer* perform live?" Yes, yes I did.<br />Vans Warped Tour Twenty Ten was good to me - I got to see plenty of great artists (Mayday Parade, Sum 41, AM Taxi, The Cab, Anarbor, Hey Monday, Anarbor, and a little bit o' Mike Posner, The Pretty Reckless, and Artist Vs. Poet). Biggest laments: Christofer Drew of Never Shout Never's vocal rest and a time table that was inconsistent as the day went on.<br /><br />Highlight of the day was a photo WITH the above frontwoman. However, my face on a 90 something degree day spent in the midst of a dancing crowd? Let's spare you that gruesomeness.<br /><br />Back to Juliet Simms - she's featured in title track of the latest Secondhand Serenade album (released August 3rd) and the first full-length of her band is in (all the good) stores (that sell (good) music) now. But if you wanna hear her vocal chops, check out the song that first introduced me to her - my favorite song of all time (not saying it to be punny it's the complete truth) - All Time Low's Remembering Sunday.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">*gotta give half of my obsessive love to Hayley Williams of Paramore fame<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erspkBDsTm0">click to listen.</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-9156827497698481836?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-60802361033262165092010-07-13T17:12:00.001-04:002011-06-18T02:27:37.269-04:00http://www.vanswarpedtour.com/warpedtour/bands.asp<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-6080236103326216509?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-32463968029104723542010-07-13T03:30:00.009-04:002011-06-18T02:50:16.390-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=19146&amp;id=9155148324#%21/everybodyelse"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 417px; height: 275px;" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-ash1/v181/60/120/9155148324/n9155148324_425936_8063.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">"What happens when the music industry comes to the point to no return (of money to the artists that is), you're dropped from your label, and Obama is elected president? Make a</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;font-family:arial;" > </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/494415287/lets-make-a-new-everybody-else-record?pos=6&amp;ref=popular">Kickstarter</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> for your next record. Inspired by our current president's 'grass-roots' campaign efforts, the Californian trio Everybody Else decided to take a gamble and see if their fans were like everybody else (sorry, had to go there!) in the world or if they actually saw monetary value in whatever they listened to through their iPod earphones. People (that means you) can pledge any amount of money in return for some kickbutt prizes and the happiness of taking part in financing the band's next album. But if they don't reach their goal of $8,000 by the deadline then nothing'll be donated at all. It seems that people are more than willing to back the band with a twenty dollar bill (fact: Andrew Jackson is the president featured on the front, the burning Twin Towers are the hidden image on the back)."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Their music is suffiently indie and unique to the point where this teenager can't really explain it. With influences ranging from Rooney to Wilco and Petty to Prince, you can hardly blame me. What I can tell you is that the clear, vintage voice of Carrick Moore Gerety is well-showcased and all the better for delivering one catchy lyric after another. And it sounds to these untrained ears like they play their instruments alright, too.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: center;">"you're putting on makeup, you don't believe in love, what are you so scared of?"<br /></div><br /><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/EverybodyElse">click to listen.</a><br /><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/494415287/lets-make-a-new-everybody-else-record?pos=6&amp;ref=popular">click to donate</a>.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-3246396802910472354?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-77095863475846141692010-06-10T21:17:00.002-04:002011-06-18T02:27:24.618-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myspace.com/myaimistruerock"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 344px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KT9KolpiJns/TBGOzi_dhzI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/_SAldPaqSbI/s400/My+Aim+Is+True+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481319237704058674" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">The Georgia band formerly known as Say Vandelay</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-7709586347584614169?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-7897260699922504232010-05-11T22:46:00.011-04:002011-06-18T02:57:00.790-04:00<a href="http://augustanatour.tumblr.com/post/530713526"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 341px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KT9KolpiJns/S-oaRoS_noI/AAAAAAAAAGI/HHGYLmWPkFM/s400/augustana.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470213587572072066" border="0" /></a><br />As the writers of piano rock hit 'Boston,' Augustana managed to make a name for themselves back in 2006. They followed it up with their sensational third full-length, Can't Love, Can't Hurt. But as these five guys are as much road-loving vagabonds as they are musicians, it's been over two years since that release. While I love hearing the chorus of 'Sweet and Low' through the T.J.Maxx speaker's as much as the next shopper, I cannot wait for new material that can allow Augustana to keep their crown of band with the best ballads. Speaking of which...potential new songs go by the following titles:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Stars<br />Someone's Baby Now<br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"></span>Hurricane<br />Make Love<br />Baby Please<br />Steal Your Heart (Away)<br />Borrowed Time<br /></div><br />...promising, no?<br /><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4QrHUKr35A">click to listen.</a></span><br /><br />EDIT: Augustana's latest, a self-titled release... has hardly been released. Personally, I haven't been able to get a hold of the physical copy after going to multiple retailers. I attended a concert where their<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>new CD<span style="font-style: italic;"> ran out at the merch table</span>; bad when you're only midway through a tour.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-789726069992250423?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-50568508064363999012010-01-23T23:10:00.001-05:002010-01-24T01:34:42.724-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myspace.com/theloandbeholds"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 391px; height: 260px;" src="http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/108/l_505c97a5872941ddabd09d7be606e857.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Indie rock Charlotteans The Lo and Beholds somehow manage to be amazing and true to their roots. I'm not the biggest fan of country music (give me the watered down stuff like Taylor Swift or Rascal Flatts instead please), but Jason Rudisill's vocals are just Southern enough to be sweet and the lyrics' fire (Brunette Shades of Doom) and water (Four Mile Scar) analogies show relationships in a light that country songs and their straightforward stories never could.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >"if it was him who taught you to swim, then why am i still treading here"<br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: right;">click to listen.<br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-5056850806436399901?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-62873133139932891942010-01-16T15:32:00.011-05:002010-01-24T00:56:49.262-05:00<div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myspace.com/amtaxi"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 379px; height: 244px;" src="http://kingsofar.com/files//amtaxi.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Warped Tour 2010 is gonna rock. Automatic Loveletter and The All-American Rejects are back on the <a href="http://www.vanswarpedtour.com/warpedtour/bands.asp">roster</a></span>. <span style="font-family:arial;">Add AM Taxi (formerly called American Taxi) to your mental "must-see sets by bands b<span style="font-family:arial;">eginning with the letter A" list.</span> They claim to be influenced by the likes of The Clash, The Police, and The Replacements. Whatever the method of creating it - the resulting sound is amazing. Go get their free download The Mistake from their upcoming full-length debut with Virgin Records.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">NOW! Please and thank you.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"I am the ambulance that never comes, the antidote you spill, and in the accident I'll be the failure in your brakes."<br /><br /></span></span></div></div><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.amtaximusic.com/">click to listen.</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-6287313313993289194?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-75988666652760750392009-12-01T15:58:00.006-05:002010-01-24T01:05:05.405-05:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tate_dominguez/sets/72157620771490311/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 203px; height: 201px;" src="http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/86/m_7caaa76c0ad0452389e3faf844f861c5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">His MySpace page categorizes his music as lounge/lyricial/new wave. That wouldn't be what I'd call it, but whatever you name it, his sound is brilliant. I find myself wondering why in the world his songs aren't currently being overplayed on Top 40 stations. Maybe I'm a crazed kid whose biased for her own potential hometown hero, but he's one of my favorite Charlotte artists, and trust me when I say that because I've heard what seems like hundreds that certainly don't get endorsement from me...</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"i'm on my way down the love boulevard"</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.myspace.com/jasonjetplane">click to listen.</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-7598866665276075039?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-30077098803717277522009-11-06T17:59:00.008-05:002009-12-01T16:23:13.303-05:00<a href="http://www.rihannanow.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 135px; height: 135px;" src="http://artistmixer.com/images/album-cover-rihanna-music-of-the-sun.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.rihannanow.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 139px; height: 139px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_jyO5ozUKhYY/R-gB4xbR2UI/AAAAAAAAAQs/E24ROFGAYrA/s320/Rihanna_-_A_Girl_Like_Me.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.rihannanow.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 137px;" src="http://superlative1.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/good-girl-gone-bad.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.rihannanow.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 135px; height: 135px;" src="http://www.awkwordsilence.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/rihanna-album-cover-300-102709.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Evolution of a Pop Star.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Perhaps less interesting than say, that the pictorial evolution of the deceased King of Pop, but certainly interesting. Likely a reflection of her personal life, no? Her new single, titled 'Russian Roulette' follows the pattern as does it's video...<br /><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >"then i get a scary thought: that he's here - means he's never lost "</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0KNxTV1bng&amp;feature=related"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEmxxLlsTRE"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click to listen.</span></a><br /></div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0KNxTV1bng&amp;feature=related"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></span></a></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-3007709880371727752?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-36862999045033784102009-10-07T22:16:00.009-04:002010-01-24T01:04:46.872-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lowmorale.co.uk/creep/flash/lm_creep_%28FLASH%29.swf"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 190px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KT9KolpiJns/Ss1UK_2H3sI/AAAAAAAAAGA/DD3pt4VkrOE/s400/thom+yorke+bday.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390056876946218690" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Happy birthday Thom Yorke! Here's a virtual slice of badly drawn (and vegan!) cake for ya.</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Radiohead's singer and multi-instrumentalist, Thom Yorke, turned 41 today, and in honor of that, I'm going to rant about Radiohead's awesomeness. That's a lie, I won't rant about their awesomeness, because obviously you are already aware of it.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">Anywho, in a little less than two weeks Yorke's song Hearing Damage will be released on the soundtrack for upcoming vampire movie New Moon. (The first movie had an amazing soundtrack, and with artists like Thom Yorke, Death Cab For Cutie, Muse, and The Killers on the second movie's soundtrack, we're almost guaranteed a repeat of compilation genius.) But in the meantime, check out this perfectly strange video for the acoustic version of Creep.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">"I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul"<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.lowmorale.co.uk/creep/flash/lm_creep_%28FLASH%29.swf"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click to listen.</span></a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-3686299904503378410?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-53677099694411610192009-10-07T18:34:00.010-04:002011-06-18T02:24:14.387-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://twitter.com/petewentz/status/3241319699"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 344px; height: 344px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bI5-8YnkkFA/Sv0sccjJiFI/AAAAAAAABkw/gTzrqFBBiPM/s400/00-fall_out_boy-believers_never_die_%28greatest_hits%29-2009-front.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Despite Internet rumors abound, Fall Out Boy has not officially broken up and they have also denied allegations of being on hiatus. Back in January, it was hinted that the plans for the band were uncertain as for what would happen once the Believer's Never Die Part Deux tour was completed. Given the nature of the lyrics and video of the eighth track, What A Catch, Donnie, from <span style="font-family:arial;">Fo</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >lie </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><cite></cite></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >à Deux</span>, people began think of the single as FOB's swan song. Recently, bassist/frontman <a href="http://www.cjbk.com/news/music/87/1002039">Pete Wentz announced</a> "the world needs a break from Fall Out Boy."<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />All this information still would still leave me hopeful, but being made aware that a greatest hits album named after their recent tour (Believers Never Die) is coming out in November gives me a bad feeling in my gut. My personal opinion is that singer Patrick Stump is going to work at the solo album that so many h<span style="font-family:arial;">ave encouraged him to put out and Wentz will continue being a jack-of-all-entertainment-industry-based-trades (as for the rest of the band, uh good luck with the rest of you lives...). As parting words, however, I'd like to include that Wentz told Paste Magazine <span style="font-family:arial;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;">There's nothing worse than when you like a band...and you can totally tell that...they just felt like they had to put out a record."<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"I've got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match, what a catch, what a catch"</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span> </div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpx7ZSZQniI"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click to listen.</span><br /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-5367709969441161019?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-4996069175065930412009-09-16T03:25:00.003-04:002011-06-18T02:27:07.378-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://store.fueledbyramen.com/store/show/PAXEU"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 399px;" src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kq2obrtvr61qzori2o1_r2_500.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The Academy Is... is releasing what has been referred to as The AP/EP (an EP brought into being through Alternative Press magazine) and has now been revealed as being a five-song release titled Lost in Pacific Time. (Funny misconception: a few days ago I saw a <a href="http://twitter.com/billbeckett/status/3802763622">tweet</a> posted by TAI frontman William Beckett reading: "</span><span class="status-body" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="entry-content">Enjoying my Sunday, listening to new TAI EP masters... I can hardly wait for this to come out!" and then just now saw on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Academy_Is...#Masters_EP">Wikipedia entry</a> for The Academy Is... that the new EP was called Masters. M</span><span class="entry-content">asters are the finished songs on a record not the name of the EP.)<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;">It's coming out in time for The Fall Ball Tour featuring The Academy Is... and Mayday Parade (as well as Set Your Goals, The Secret Handshake, and You Me At Six). One song is currently being streamed off of the AP website.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.altpress.com/modules/dsp_mediaplayer.cfm?pathXML=xml_mp3.xml&amp;track=0">click to listen.</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-499606917506593041?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-83638006396020918522009-09-14T14:44:00.007-04:002009-09-17T21:25:19.649-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.vinylpulse.com/vp_pics/MTV_moonman_pgod/front/MTV_MOONMAN_FRONT2_b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 237px; height: 272px;" src="http://images.vinylpulse.com/vp_pics/MTV_moonman_pgod/front/MTV_MOONMAN_FRONT2_b.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">Despite an overdose of Lady Gaga, some catastrophes as costumes, and the whole Kanye inte</span><span style="font-family:arial;">rjection...the</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> show overall was okay. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">It was balanced out with performances by Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Muse, and P!nk (on a trapeze!). </span><span style="font-family:arial;">It's winners seem to have deserved their awards (I have to say I'm grateful that the nominated My Life Would Suck Without You by Kelly Clarkson didn't take home a Moonman). Make sure to see the list of winners and their corresponding <a href="http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2009/winners.jhtml">video clips</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Or watch the Michael Jackson tribute - a heart-warming <a href="http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/436439/madonna-pays-tribute-to-michael-jackson.jhtml#id=1620604">speech</a> from Madonna and the music video <a href="http://www.mtv.com/videos/misc/435991/michael-jackson-tribute.jhtml#id=1620604">montage</a> and choreog</span><span style="font-family:arial;">raphy in his honor.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-8363800639602091852?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-49477257715945125202009-09-10T15:44:00.005-04:002010-01-24T01:01:21.591-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://manager.thedave.com/store_assets/product_images/075679980878.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 218px; height: 218px;" src="http://manager.thedave.com/store_assets/product_images/075679980878.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">If you've seen the cover of A Lesson In Romantics, then you might have noticed a reoccurring umbrella!<br /></span></span> <div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" >Anywhere But Here</span><span style="font-family:arial;">, set to be released October 6th.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Track Listing:</span> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Kids in Love</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Anywhere But Here</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The Silence</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Still Breathing</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Bruised and Scarred</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Save Your Heart</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Get Up</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />Center of Atte</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">ntion</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />I Swear This Time I Mean It</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The End<br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-4947725771594512520?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-89513197370918137782009-09-08T16:56:00.005-04:002009-09-08T20:26:30.307-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.boyslikegirls.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 399px;" src="http://www.drivenfaroff.com/wp-content/2009/06/boys_like_girls-love_drunk.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I'll be the first to admit that BLG is a band of "sell-outs," and maybe they have been from their start with their self-titled debut last year - but its especially obvious now with the created-for-radio single Love Drunk (the hook is "I used to be love drunk but now I'm hungover"). But where their songs used to be catchy emo lyrics sets to run-of-the mill pop-punk, they have added some variety into the mix. With a standard structure ballad featuring Taylor Swift</span> (Two Is Better Than One), a song that sounds sto<span style="font-family:arial;">len from Switchfoot (Someone Like You), and a song breaking the six-minute mark (Go), Boys Like Girls changed it up some. As a guilty fan of them, I have to admit that they are worth keeping up with - I'm already interested to know what they do with album #3.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"yeah she's got a boyfriend and I've got a rock band"</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RxlYeomB6k"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click to listen.</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-8951319737091813778?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-63746693123287602882009-09-08T16:20:00.010-04:002011-06-18T02:25:05.113-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.altpress.com/features/chalkboardnsn.htm"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 491px; height: 327px;" src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/21962703/nevershoutnever+ukulele.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Missouri-born Christofer Ingle started out playing in a coffeeshop just four short years ago at the age of fourteen and last year he made it all the way to performing on MTV's canceled (but legend<span style="font-family:arial;">ary!) show Total Request Live. With only some demos and EPs under his belt (under the alias of nevershoutnever!), he has yet to create a full length album, but his music is has millions of </span></span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.myspace.com/nevershoutnever">Myspace</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> hits and some diehard fans that will vouch for his talent. He sounds like the typical Youtube star, and he's got a scene hairstyle to fit the stereotype, but he has a standout quality in his sincerity. Even if you were to find his high voice and lovey-dovey lyrics to be sickenly sweet, you've got to appreciate that multi-instrumentalists and singer-songwriters of his caliber are hard to come by these days. Check out his new cover of Yesterday. He admits himself that he can't quite stack up to The Beatles, but he has made an attempt.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"all we ever did was move around, I was always the new kid - never the cool kid. all I ever wanted to do was to fall in love"</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ba-qp5oquU"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click to listen.</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-6374669312328760288?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-9067001946943992712009-08-30T20:41:00.006-04:002009-09-08T20:25:10.802-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.altpress.com/features/davemelillo.htm"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 392px; height: 261px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KT9KolpiJns/Sps_NOufm5I/AAAAAAAAAFo/IAFxiupjT3E/s400/delete+later.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375960076720774034" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">byebye CIWWAF (I'm very glad that I won't be using that acronym as much anymore)</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />So many band break-ups, so little time to properly mourn all of them. But in the case of Buffalo, New York's Cute Is What We Aim For break-up (due to lead singer Shaant Hacikyan's ego), a surprisingly few number of fans are actually upset. Given </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >that they released such a strong debut</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch</span><span style="font-family:arial;">) and then came out with the highly commercial and far less creative Rotation, many fans gave up on them a while ago. But the good news is that bassist Dave Melillo is likely going to go back to his solo career, and that seems to me to be have more talent than Cute ever did.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >"I've got birds in my ear, and a devil on my shoulder and what's a crush to do? what's a crush to do?"</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/davidmelillo"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click to listen.</span></a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-906700194694399271?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-16443339253410801382009-08-11T20:56:00.012-04:002011-06-18T02:24:47.996-04:00<object height="255" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hT3zCj3F1d4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hT3zCj3F1d4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="255" width="420"></embed></object><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >The official video can be found <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfBHv5IwBd0">here</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The band that brought the radio hit of <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Drops of Jupiter</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> (and lots of other songs of less popularity but equal caliber</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"> like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Meet Virginia</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">When I Look To The Sk<span style="font-family:arial;">y</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;">, and </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Calling All Angels</span><span style="font-family:arial;">). Now Train is back with a fifth album (Save Me San Francisco) to be released October 27th, their first CD in years.</span> But judging by the folksy first single, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hey, Soul Sister</span>, it was worth all that wait.</span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >"</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance five-hour phone</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> conversation</span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >?"</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /><a href="http://www.trainline.com/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click to listen.</span></a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-1644333925341080138?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-74776612758845247032009-08-11T08:37:00.004-04:002009-09-08T20:24:34.993-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myspace.com/alltimelow"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 409px; height: 409px;" src="http://cdn.buzznet.com/assets/users16/katiejrod/default/damned-if-ya-damned-if--large-msg-124508896627.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">Wanna watch the best band </span><span style="font-family:arial;">ever to come from Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland on TV? </span><span style="font-family:arial;">(If the catchy choruses of All Time Low aren't enough of a reason to watch, keep in mind that they are quite possibly the ONLY band from Lutherville-Timonium that you will ever get the chance to see on TV.)</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> All Time Low is performing the song <span style="font-weight: bold;">Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't)</span> from their new album, Nothing Personal, get ready to sing along.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Late Night with Conan O'Brien on Thursday, August 13 at 11:35/10:35c on NBC<br /></span></span><div style="text-align: right;"><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/alltimelow"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click to listen.</span></a><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-7477661275884524703?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-41968240578548481452009-08-11T00:59:00.006-04:002009-09-08T20:24:03.836-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ncm.com/Fathom/ConcertsAndMusic/WarpedTour.aspx"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 339px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3438/3760168216_02efab7ae5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >The 15th anniversary of Vans Warped Tour</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > isn't gonna go down without a bang. After completing the coast-to-coast tour of the U.S., Warped Tour is coming to movie theaters as a one-night only event. </span><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_lblEvent_Description" style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >(<a href="http://www.ncm.com/Fathom/ConcertsAndMusic/WarpedTour.aspx">Sources</a> say 3oh!3, The All-American Rejects, The Aggrolites, Bad Religion, Blink 182, Ice-T, Katy Perry, NoFx, Ozomatli, Pennywise, The Decaydance All Stars, Rise Against and Underoath will be part of it.) Whether you are a Warped veteran or never gotten around to seeing it, this two-hour event is something that you don't want to miss if you like live (well - almost live) music. <a href="http://www.ncm.com/FathomContent/PDF/Participating%20Theatres%20VWT.pdf">Participating theaters</a> will be showing it Thursday, September 17.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-4196824057854848145?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-48864592116817496722009-07-31T12:25:00.005-04:002011-06-18T02:26:01.955-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myspace.com/paramore"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 251px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KT9KolpiJns/SnKkBqolDoI/AAAAAAAAAFI/UrfiDEwEWe4/s400/brand+new+eyes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364530454682996354" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">brand new eyes will be out September 29th</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.spin.com/articles/first-listen-paramores-new-album">read album review</a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">"where's your gavel? your jury? what's my offense this time?"</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.purevolume.com/paramore"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click to listen.</span></a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-4886459211681749672?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-34805443848646831992009-07-31T10:18:00.002-04:002009-08-15T11:36:26.905-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.rhapsody.com/bright-eyes"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KT9KolpiJns/SobV4oCIVDI/AAAAAAAAAFY/PuVDGPECLt8/s400/Conor+Oberst+%28playing+Lua+%40+Coachella%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370214774481638450" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Conor Oberst is retiring the band/moniker Bright Eyes</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> of which he is the mastermind behind. Bright Eyes has been creating indie folk for fourteen years and has become the most well-known of Conor Oberst's work. In rece<span style="font-family:arial;">nt years he has ventured away from it with a self-titled solo album and the more recent album Outer South put out by Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band. One final Bright Eyes album will still be released in 2010</span> so hold the sadness off until you hear Conor's melancholy lyrics.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >"language just happened, it was never planned, and it's inadequate to describe where I am"</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.rhapsody.com/bright-eyes"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click to listen.</span></a><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-3480544384864683199?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-51290647713954453142009-07-30T19:43:00.007-04:002009-08-11T01:19:01.146-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myspace.com/cobrastarship"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 307px; height: 307px;" src="http://www.shrednews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/cobra.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Mark your calendar: Cobra Starship's new album comes out August 11th.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">With the single <span style="font-weight: bold;">Good Girls Go Bad</span> the band has managed to get a lot of mainstream success (the song peaked at #7 on the Billboard charts and is #4 on iTunes this very second). There is the typical backlash from their original fans who have been dancing to their music since the Snakes On A Plane days, but it isn't irrational. Cobra chose to record with Leighton Meister, co-star of of the TV teen drama Gossip Girl. The girl can sing, I'll give her that. But along with her voice, she's brought 'posers' which leads to crazy forums and angry fans. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">The lesser-known truth? Frontman Gabe Saporta watches the Gossip Girl. That might just explain it (though it doesn't explain why a twenty-nine year old male watches it...that kid ain't growing up anytime soon).</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"I heard that you were trouble, but I couldn't resist"</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: right; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/cobrastarship">click to listen.<br /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-5129064771395445314?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-13240598895129127232009-07-30T18:15:00.006-04:002009-07-31T02:26:19.692-04:00<div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myspace.com/cartel"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 362px; height: 271px;" src="http://www.aolcdn.com/aolr/cartel-400a-051507.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >The Georgia band, Cartel, has released a single</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Let's Go</span>) from their upcoming album Cycles<span style="font-family:arial;">. This album is on Wind Up Records rather than Epic Records as it was with their last album (their first album, Chroma, was with The Militia Group).</span> Another big difference is that their third album is being recorded in a fairly stan<span style="font-family:arial;">dard way while the second album was recorded in twenty days for MTV's Band In A Bubble experiment</span>. We'll have to wait until October 27th to find out how this affected the new sound.</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >"</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">all we have is who we are and all we know is pretending</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >"</span><br /></div></div><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/cartel">click to listen.</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-1324059889512912723?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-55668874852835361492009-07-30T17:04:00.003-04:002009-07-31T02:26:48.927-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myspace.com/taylorswift"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 245px; height: 366px;" src="http://www.dwightmccann.com/NashvilleToYouProject/TaylorSwift061606/large/0023.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"As soon as I put out my last album, Fearless, the next day I was writing for the next album."</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=830m1zEwWgo">Taylor told MTV</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span>that she's already planning her third album but also that she would like to spend awhile working on i<span style="font-family:arial;">t.</span> In the meantime, fans are expecting a rumored re-release of Fearless.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"he'll never fall<span style="font-family:arial;"> </span>in love he swears, as he runs his fingers through his hair</span><span style="font-family:arial;">, I'm laughing 'cause I hope he's wrong</span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >"</span><br /></div><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/taylorswift"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click to listen.</span></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-5566887485283536149?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-74619669232993179292009-07-30T14:08:00.005-04:002010-01-24T01:05:56.098-05:00<object width="420" height="255"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jfhxsu6yFlU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x006699"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Jfhxsu6yFlU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x006699" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="420" height="255"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Sugar Glyder is an unsigned band from North Carolina</span> and they are really talented. They are unpolished and all the better for it. A second full-length from them (Poor Baby Zebra) was released in June</span>.<span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > <span style="font-size:100%;">This video isn't too bad for what I guess to be a low-budget production.</span><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >"the air is tasting different now my friend"</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/sugarglyder"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click to listen.</span></a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-7461966923299317929?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-54679966076872041932009-07-29T19:25:00.006-04:002009-07-30T20:15:02.261-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myspace.com/themaine"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KT9KolpiJns/SnDazamUT2I/AAAAAAAAAC4/_Ql1NCJJtTY/s400/warpedtouretc+003.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364027733046480738" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myspace.com/themaine"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KT9KolpiJns/SnDazFkRjMI/AAAAAAAAACw/Czvj28hR2rc/s400/warpedtouretc+001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364027727400766658" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">photos I took of John Ohh from The Maine at Warped Tour in Charlotte</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"I remember every night we spent on weekends, with good friends"</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/themaine"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click to listen.</span></a><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-5467996607687204193?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-25712725698547485782009-07-29T10:56:00.010-04:002009-09-17T21:23:14.679-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myspace.com/maydayparade"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 330px; height: 312px;" src="http://www.livethescene.com/img/scroller/mayday%20parade.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">With a new album, Anywhere But Here, coming out October 6th, Mayday Parade is busy times ten. That hasn't stopped them from being a part of</span> <a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.altpress.com/specials/theaptour/">The Fall Ball tour</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">p</span>ut on by Alternative Press, however. You can listen to the title track now on their Myspace. They say they haven't changed up their sound much, but I don't think they would be cowards if they made an entire album of A Lesson In Romantics b-sides. When you get it right the first time you don't need to be extra adventurous.</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"secret love, my escape, take me far far away, secret love are you there? will you answer my prayer?"</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/maydayparade"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click to listen.</span></a><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-2571272569854748578?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-81625003978578746222009-07-28T19:02:00.016-04:002010-01-24T01:10:04.982-05:00<object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/psuRGfAaju4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/psuRGfAaju4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="420" height="255"></embed></object><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >The first full length from Owl City, </span><span style="font-family:arial;">the electronica pop project of Adam Young</span>,<span style="font-family:arial;"> titled Ocean Eyes was released July 14th and actually reached number two on iTunes that week. He's got a coast-to-coast tour lined up starting in September. Is music created in Adam's parents' basement worth all this hype? I'd say so. With its sugary lyrics and cutesy synthesizer bings, and even an adorable duet thrown in (<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Saltwater Room</span>), your teeth will be rotting out of your head...in the best way possible.<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">"why do I tire of counting sheep when I'm far too tired to fall asleep?"<br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI4JLa0hbUw">click to listen.</a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-8162500397857874622?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-30660160894968579202009-07-28T14:32:00.002-04:002009-07-30T18:00:57.641-04:00<span style="font-family:arial;"></span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.purevolume.com/">Purevolume.</a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">O.M.G. (I'm a teenage girl, I have a right to say that) This site is the perfect combination of signed and undiscovered bands. You can create a playlist of your favorited songs. Reliable tour information, commenting, and streaming songs are all available on each band's individual page.If I haven't sold yet, occasionally a band will put up a downloadable demo. The only thing better than music is free (and legal) music!</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.youtube.com/">YouTube.</a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Uh yeah. I'm pretty positive that you've heard of this one. But do you use every feature to the max? Quicklists, Playlists, and Favoriting - all brilliant. Note: If you don't have an account GET ONE NOW. But music videos, and not just the official ones, but interesting ones <span style="font-family: arial;">like Daft Punk's </span><span style="font-family: arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cYWfq--Nw">Harder Better Faster Stronger</a></span> with hands (just look it up if you haven't already) and cool photo slideshows that must've taken hours of rifling through Photobucket. There's some undiscovered singer-songwriters looking to make it big and some horrible cover artists, variety.</span><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.letssingit.com/"><br />LetsSingIt.</a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The best lyric search engine out there, though not perfect by any means. Search by artist, album, song title, or lyric and you're guaranteed to find any popular lyrics. I personally listen to some obscure stuff and it won't always be on LetsSingIt, but when it is, the lyrics tend to be the most correct. And it definitely satisfies me, the grammar queen to find very few (none that I recall) misspellings!</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.last.fm/">Last.fm.</a> <span style="font-family:arial;">This site offers more than the typical information on bands (bio, loads of pictures, news, events) because it comes along with the handy "Similar Artists" feature. That's right, type in your favorite band and they'll give you a list of potential new favorite bands. Plus, people tag the bands with the appropriate genres, which can really help if you're clueless.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-3066016089496857920?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-15739945423567315362009-07-28T12:01:00.011-04:002009-07-31T02:29:03.220-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.myspace.com/panicatthedisco"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 399px;" src="http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/82/l_2c5e55372dee435b82fd27866f181d78.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" ><br />The exclamation point is back!</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Panic! at the Disco (formerly Panic at the Disco) seems to be flip-flopping an awful lot - and not just when it comes to punctuation. They just dropped two of their four members (Jon Walker and Ryan Ross left, leaving only Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith) this month due to creative differences and such. And their music has seemed to come full circle. Their 2005 debut, A Fever You Can't Sweat Out was pop-punk through and through, so they definitely shocked fans with Beatlesque sophomore album Pretty. Odd. It seems that their newest single is more like their original material. Make your own opinion of the song, but I think that its title <span style="font-weight: bold;">New Perspective</span> is appropriate.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">"who cares divine intervention I wanna be praised from a new perspective"<br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.myspace.com/panicatthedisco">click to listen.</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-1573994542356731536?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-17234018145976837212009-07-28T11:50:00.014-04:002011-06-18T02:25:38.970-04:00<span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.pickrset.com/markhoppus/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 163px;" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/97075347/New_Blink-182_Logo_bigger.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The first blink-182 tour since their reunion</span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> is this summer/fall</span> with opening acts The All-American Rejects</span></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">, Fall Out Boy, Weezer, Panic at the Disco, Taking Back Sunday, Chester French, and Asher Roth. Of course, not all bands</span> will play all shows. Follow the link below to find the show closest to you and find out which bands are playing it.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.pickrset.com/markhoppus/?p=1091">tour schedule</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> (leads to Mark Hoppus' blog)</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Please note that tour dates changed in the event of the death of Travis' friend Adam Goldstein (also known as DJ AM</span>).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"I fell in love with the girl at the rock show"</span></span><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-1723401814597683721?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-82232073061079416262009-07-27T23:41:00.000-04:002009-07-29T10:47:07.684-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.altpress.com/apmag/253.htm"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 235px;" src="http://www.altpress.com/images/issues/cover_253_1aug09_md.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.altpress.com/apmag/253.htm"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 235px;" src="http://www.altpress.com/images/issues/cover_253_2aug09_md.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Warped Tour aka "Punk Rock Summer Camp"</span> is celebrating it's 15th anniversary and with bands like A Day To Remember, All Time Low, Underoath, Forever the Sickest Kids, The Devil Wears Prada, Bouncing Souls, and 3Oh!3 playing, you don't want to miss out. I went to the Charlotte, NC show and I can promise you that it's worth the 20 bucks (and all the stupid fees). When you get there drink lots of water and get ready for your ears to explode!</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> In the meantime, check out the special Warped edition of AP magazine with two covers.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-8223207306107941626?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-30492038444002685632009-07-27T21:40:00.015-04:002009-07-30T20:16:27.703-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.paperrival.com/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 357px;" src="http://store.photofinishrecords.com/prodpics/PR_covermini.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Tennessee indie rock band Paper Rival</span> seems to be on some sort of semi-hiatus but that shouldn't stop you from giving a listen to the music that they have released so far. My personal favorite song is <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bluebird</span>.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">"I could see myself cursing at the ocean with nothing new to say, I've got a grievance with commotion</span>"</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.paperrival.com/"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">click to listen.</span><br /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-3049203844400268563?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2866474951803908519.post-44615859213045432602009-07-27T19:23:00.004-04:002011-06-18T02:26:50.783-04:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;font-size:180%;" >Actor Meets Actress</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.purevolume.com/sayvandelay"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 362px; height: 330px;" src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o44/fallingdoll/frontcover-5.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Six song EP featuring unsigned band Say Vandelay.</span> The band has a gig playing the Kevin Says stage on Warped Tour all summer long so check them out if Warped hasn't hit your town yet. They have got something special and are just starting to get recognition for it. Energyenergyenergy.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">"my heart used to beat for you, but now it's asleep"</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: right; font-family: trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.purevolume.com/sayvandelay">click to listen.</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2866474951803908519-4461585921304543260?l=hear-it-all.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kaylahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03925392330474755530noreply@blogger.com