The Music Elitist

So Josh Freese has a new CD out. If you don’t know who Josh Freese is, he is a studio/session drummer who has played for A Perfect Circle, The Vandals, Devo and most recently Nine Inch Nails (until last year). Apparently the guy has a pretty great sense of humor. Check out the different album packages he has available. My favorite is the one that costs $75,000:

• -Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
• -T-shirt**
• -Come out on tour with me for a few days.
• -I write, record and market a 5 song EP about you and your life story.
• -Take home any of my drumsets (only one but you can pick which one)
• -*Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from TOOL’s Lamborgini OR we play “quarters” and then hop on the Ouija board for a while.
• -If you have a band, I’ll join it for a month….play shows, record a CD together, have a swim party, etc…. or none of the above. We could also just sit in yer basement and jam old Van Halen.

OR

• If you don’t have a band I’ll be your personal assistant for a month (4 day work weeks….10 am to 5 pm) and then we take a limo down to Tijuana and I’ll show you how it’s done (what that means I can’t legally get into here, right this minute). If you don’t live in LA but are in the USA I will come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks.
• -Take a Flying Trapeze lesson together in the San Fernando Valley and then Robin from NIN and his wife make us raw lasagna.

It’s times like this I wish I had ridiculous amounts of disposable income so I could see if he would actually do all this stuff. Anyone want to loan me $75,000? And by loan I mean, give some money I don’t have to pay back.

This really shouldn’t be shocking news to anyone, but Amy Winehouse’s record label has reportedly rejected the new songs she wrote during her 3-month vacation in St. Lucia.

A source said: “Amy was very productive during her stay in St. Lucia. She wrote a lot of songs, but the majority of them just aren’t hitting the mark. She seems to have ditched her trademark vintage soul sound and is now heavily influenced by reggae. Her bosses don’t think it’s a wise move to change her style so sharply and have told her that.”

The source added to Britain’s The Sun newspaper: “It is crucial Amy’s return is handled properly. If she puts out a record that is in any way half-baked, that could severely damage her long-term prospects, so everyone’s focus at the minute is getting it right, even if that means telling Amy some things she probably won’t want to hear.”

I like how this source described the attempt as “half-baked.” Anything Amy has written in the last year or so couldn’t really be anything BUT half-baked in my opinion. In fact, I’d be willing to bet she doesn’t even remember writing most of those songs.

So it turns out Jennifer Aniston wasn’t a fan of John Mayer’s twittering. Just more proof that she’s a dumb bitch because John Mayer’s Twitter is rather entertaining. Here’s what The Daily Mail said:

A friend of the 40-year-old actress said she was unimpressed he found time to write random ramblings on the site, but not to contact her.

A pal claimed in America’s Star magazine: ‘John suddenly stopped calling her or returning her e-mails and when she would finally catch up with him, he’d say, “I’ve been so busy with work. I’m sorry I haven’t had time to call you back.”

‘Jen was fuming. There he was, telling her he didn’t have time for her and yet his page was filled with Twitter updates.

‘Every few hours, sometimes minutes, he’d update with some stupid line. And in her mind, she was like, “He has time for all this Twittering but he can’t send me a text, an email, make a call?”‘

The couple decided to end their romance just days after Jennifer returned to the U.S.

Hmmm..I can’t imagine why John Mayer would find Twitter more interesting than talking to you, Jen. Maybe its because you never stop talking about that dude you use to be married to who left you for the hotter chick who likes to adopt children from other countries. Or maybe its because you said previously mentioned dude’s name in bed with John once.

Big Boi was interviewed at SXSW over the weekend. Looks like we can look forward to some solo material, but more importanly, a new OutKast album (that hopefully won’t be as disappointing as Idlewild):

On Thursday night, Big Boi planned to perform new material at SXSW. For the last two years, he’s been working on his first solo album, to be titled “Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty.”

“The longer the better to me,” said Big Boi of the long process. “Let the music marinate, get time to soak up the vibe.”

He’s still tinkering with it in the studio but expects it to be out around June or July. Guests on the 16 tracks include Jamie Foxx, T.I., George Clinton, Lil’ Jon and OutKast partner Andre 3000. Several singles have already been released, including the Obama-inspired “Sumthin’s Gotta Give” and the new “Ringtone.”

Andre 3000 is also prepping a solo album. Once he’s finished, Big Boi said they’ll get together on a new OutKast album. Their last album was 2006’s “Idlewild” for their musical film.

I love OutKast. I actually loved everything they had done up until Idlewild. I don’t know, maybe it was just me, but it seemed like the record just took a backseat to the film (which I heard was also not that great). Maybe since they don’t have a movie to think about this time, the record will turn out better. We can only hope.

Alkaline Trio has launched a remix contest on Indabamusic.com for their song “I Found Away”. Just go to the site and download the individual instrument and vocal tracks.

Deftones bassist Chi Cheng is still in a coma from a car accident back in November. His bandmates have set up a blog and donation site to help Cheng with his medical bills. Please help out if you can.

This screenshot a Bang Bros. video showed up on oh hey dannyk. today. Looks like the girl in the video likes All Time Low. Wonder if she leaves the shirt on the whole time.

UPDATE: Found out this chick’s name (well, porn name at least) is Natasha Nice. In case anyone cared.

This is the most unbelievable load of crap I have ever seen in my life. Two high schoolers from the Bronx were interviewed about what they thought about the Chris Brown/Rihanna situation. First the girls said that when the incident was originally reported, they were sure the tabloids had to be lying about it. Then when they saw the pictures they actually said “She probably made him mad for him to react like that, you know, like, bring it on?”

Yeah, I’m sure something Rihanna did was good reason for Chris Brown to “punch her in the face with his right hand while steering the vehicle with his left hand. The assault caused Rihanna’s mouth to fill with blood and blood to splatter all over her clothing and the interior of the vehicle.” I know high-schoolers are pretty dumb, but good Lord. How infatuated with a male celebrity do you have to be to think that something his girlfriend did must have been good enough reason to hit her…repeatedly? Ridiculous.

Check out the list of songs Mark Hoppus has been rehearsing for the tour. Nice to know someone else has handwriting as bad as mine.

If you have never heard BrokeNCYDE, consider yourself EXTREMELY lucky. I have heard some bad music in my time, but this may very well be the worst. I am going to try and describe it as best as I can for you so you don’t actually have to go listen to it. Take beats that sound like they were Lil Jon’s throw-away tracks and screamo vocals and you have a BrokeNCYDE song. Add to that the fact that these terrible songs are performed (and I use the term “song” loosely) by four untalented, neon-wearing suburban white kids from New Mexico (when was the last time you heard good music from New Mexico? …or anything good for that matter). Can’t get worse right? Remember how I described them as “white kids”? Yeah, well these white kids like to use the “N” word. They say it in their song “Bree Bree” apparently. I refuse to listen to it, I’m just going by what that article says.

Now you would think, music this terrible can’t possibly have any sort of large fan-base. Well, if you click their link above (make sure to quickly pause the player so as to avoid bleeding from the ears) and scroll down a bit, you’ll notice that they have OVER 178,000 FRIENDS ON MYSPACE! How ridiculous is that? AND they are also scheduled to be on this year’s Warped Tour. Which REALLY disappoints me because the line-up was actually pretty good this year. But honestly, I refuse to go to Warped Tour this year if the money from my ticket will in some way support BrokeNCYDE. Will Angelos at Loud Hawk Press is calling for a boycott of Warped Tour until BrokeNCYDE is taken off the tour. Send Kevin Lyman an e-mail if you wanna help get them kicked off Warped Tour. Please be respectful if you do decide to e-mail as they are more likely to take you seriously that way.

P.S. – For any African-Americans offended by this band, here’s where they will be for the next few months. Go wait for them outside the club and let them know how you feel about their lyrics.