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Artist: Chemical Brothers
Song: Midnight Madness
Album: Brotherhood
Label: Freestyle Dust/Virgin Records
Wrench In The Works recently uploaded a new track, One Foot Out of Hell. I emailed vocalist/guitarist Mehl and asked him to shed some light on what it was about.
One Foot Out of Hell is about wanting more out of life than to just get by, but instead wanting to use your life and talents to create and contribute to beauty. It’s about trying to accomplish this by yourself, and on your own terms while failing completely miserably at it. Nights and days start to pile up and run together and it seems even the smallest trophies of the day are out of reach. One Foot is also about screaming out to the sky for help, and in turn being filled with the gifts of love, power, and grace. Gifts you possessed all along, but could no longer see or feel by yourself.
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Jon Foreman of the band Switchfoot talks about mixing things up at their shows:
“We really don’t try to do the same show twice,” he said. “We feed off the audience’s energy and that affects how the show goes. We perform mostly our own stuff but every now and then we’ll thrown in an ironic cover. The other night, we did Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love.”
Video of them performing this ironic cover after the jump. (more…)
So you’re Walls of Jericho and you’re going to put out a new album.
Ben Schigel (Drowning Pool, Chimaira) as producer: Check.
Playing on a good tour: Check.
Decent label with decent distro: Check.
A somewhat iconic name in the modern hardcore scene: Check.
Available on iTunes: Ummm… not exactly.
First week sales of The American Dream: about 2400 copies.
Believe it or not that’s good enough to enter the “Billboard charts at #11 Top New Artist, #41 Independent Albums, and #53 Hard Music Albums.” Good lord. Does no one buy CDs these days?
Saul Williams wrote a nice little essay (and by “little” I mean almost 2000 words) about why he let Nike use List of Demands for a commercial and then goes off on a save-the-world tangent:
I see no glory in ‘preaching to the converted’. Furthermore, I believe fully in the power of music and have branded my work with it’s own conscientious stamp and stomp of attitude fueled to steal the show in the face of the nonsensical. Quite simply, it was clear to me that people would not be rushing to the store to buy Nikes after seeing that commercial, but rather rushing to youtube or itunes to hear or download the song. I even imagined those who would be rushing to blogs to question how I could allow this to happen and the subsequent discussion of the ethical treatment of factory workers and how new minds would be informed and enlisted in the struggle for ethical change.
Whoa, Saul. Too many words. You can just say, “I wanted to get people who watch TV to check me out so I can challenge them to think more.”
He goes on to say we should “challenge ourselves beyond cultural traditions” and something about “ignorance rather than wisdom”… I don’t know, I wasn’t paying attention. And then there was something about how being vegan can save the planet that actually kind of made some sense, scarily enough. Read it yourself if you have the time.
I’d be more concerned that the song has nothing to do with what the point of the commercial seems to be. (more…)
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Keith Buckley of Everytime I Die breaks the hearts of youth group kiddies everywhere when wrapping up an interview:
No stories, anecdotes, puns, riddles, anything like that?
Not really, I’m actually a little off today. I was up drinking with Norma Jean until like five this morning.
From the inbox: Bazillion Points Publishing has a book in the works on the history of prog metal, written by The End Records’ Jeff Wagner.
Scheduled for release in autumn 2009, the book will detail the common movements of pioneers like OPETH, WATCHTOWER, VOIVOD, ATHEIST, DREAM THEATER, PSYCHOTIC WALTZ, CELTIC FROST, SIGH, and FATES WARNING — metal bands who have gone against the tide of tradition and conservatism. Linked by a desire to push heavy metal forward, these varied bands with a couple hundred other black sheep form the hard-to-pin-down category of “progressive metal.”
Included will be a chapter on the genre practitioners’ fetishistic employ of ugly, but great sounding, instruments.
Photo by adelelai1231.
The guys in Secret Lives! Of The Freemasons recently posted on their Myspace blog about how they would like you to bring them free things if you make it out to a show. Here’s the list:
We ALWAYS NEED!
Cigs(menthol and non)
Green(that wacky tobacky)
Food(anything that dosn’t go bad too fast like Ramen, Penut butter and stuff like that)
Hugs(come on!)
Movies(got any old dvds you don’t watch? we’ll watch them!)
Money(buy a fuckin’ shirt!)
Ah, remember the days when bands didn’t have to beg you for stuff? Well, they are on Victory Records, so it’s not like they can afford necessities like food or cigarettes. Tony Brummel, give one of your bands a hug once in a while. It’s the least you can do for exploiting them to make excessive amounts of money.
Frédéric Leclercq, of DragonForce, sure knows how to give a good interview. First, he touches on his geeky (and illegal) side:
“I have all my emulators…my ROMs, yeah. Illegally downloaded! (laughs) No, I have them at home. What was the name of that one? Eh, Turbografx? Yeah, Turbografx-16. All the old ones, Nintendo and Genesis.”
I wonder what Mr. Leclercq’s reaction would be to someone’s collection of illegally downloaded DragonForce albums? I’m sure he wouldn’t be quite so giddy. Of course, I could be wrong, too. Maybe he’s into that “screw the record label, download our albums” kind of thing.
Well, secondly, when asked if he had any final words to wrap up the interview, he laid this gem:
“Sorry, not very funny today. I feel like I have to puke. My final words? I have diarrhea.”
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