My third MOGiversary came and went. It was in mid-October when I was, um, preoccupied with some medical issues - as in trying to walk like a normal bipedal humanoid again - and relocating from L.A. back to San Francisco for the holiday season. Well, mission accomplished, although a couple more months of physical therapy will be necessary before I'm running wild again. But this is as good a plac...
2009 mtvU Wood Award Winners Woodie Of The Year - Kings of Leon After the release of their latest album Only By the Night it's hard to remember the Tennessee-bred Followill boys were ever tenuously linked to the Strokes. Long live the Kings! Best Video Woodie - Matt and Kim - Lessons Learned Directed by Taylor Cohen, Otto Arsenault The video for "Lessons Learned" opens with Matt and Kim c...
Last night at the Monster Cable/Beats by Dre “Club Beats” launch at the NYC Union Square Best Buy, Dr Dre was put on the spot with two serious questions! And he delivers answers:“When are we gonna’ hear Detox?”AND“What’s your stance on the Game and 50 situation?”Dre also introduced Club Beats, his new venture w/ [...]
I usually traffic in artists that have 1 or 2 posts on MOG, but it was Vancouver,British Columbia, Canada interviewer Nardwuar ,along with Lykke Li (well over 200 MOG posts) who hipped me to a modern iteration of an obscure Stax tune by an obscure Stax artist, Wendy Rene.During the interview with Lykke Li, Nardwuar presents the Swedish (and sweetish) pop singer (in all his interviews, nard' is ...
Dipping a toe into Cody B territory, the Wingate label was, along with Ric-Tic, a subsidiary of Golden World Records, the label formed by Ed Wingate and boxer's widow Joanne Bratton in Detroit in 1962, and considered in its early years a rival to Motown. Indeed, most of the musicians playing on Golden World Sessions were Motown sidemen moonlighting; for a fuller history of the label and its sta...
Slipknot - Snuff - Slipknot has a great rock track here that could still appeal to mainstream radio. Lovin this. 8/10 Click below to listen (not the original video) Share on Facebook
Last Saturday many concerned Americans watched in horror as the House passed the healthcare reform bill. If this bill makes it through the Senate, it would massively overhaul the way healthcare is delivered in this country. Today, obviously, we don't have a perfect system, but this legislation takes all the mistakes we are making with healthcare and makes them worse. Most of what is wrong wi...
Here’s some fantastic news from Vinyl Vintage News:Rolling Stone talked with Bruce Springsteen’s manager, Jon Landau, to find out what the Boss does after two years on the road.First up is a deluxe box set of the 1977 album Darkness on the Edge of Town. Much like the Born to Run box from 2005, the Darkness box will include a remastered version of the album, a documentary on the making of the L
Interview: Rihanna Admits She Still Missed Chris Brown ‘Alot Of Reminders Like Hotel Rooms’ [Audio]Rihanna - I Don’t Hate Chris Brown’s Music Share on Facebook
After much delay and anticipation, the video premiere for Beyonce's Hype Williams' directed "Video Phone (Extended Remix)" featuring Lady GaGa is here a few hours ahead of its 12am premiere. Now we are going to get crazy flack for this but WHAT IN THE HELL! Yes, the video is definitely hot and the women look really [...]
Rolling Stone talked with Bruce Springsteen's manager, Jon Landau, to find out what the Boss does after two years on the road.First up is a deluxe box set of the 1977 album Darkness on the Edge of Town. Much like the Born to Run box from 2005, the Darkness box will include a remastered version of the album, a documentary on the making of the LP and live footage from the 1978 tour that supporte...
"From Now On We Are Enemies", another new tracks on Fall Out Boy's greatest hits compilation album "Believers Never Die". I just want to be better than your Your head's only medicine I just want to be better than your Your head's only medicine A downward spiral just a pirouette Getting worse til there's nothing left What good comes of something when [...]
Who?Old-school punks Cock Sparrer may not have achieved the notoriety of peers like the Angelic Upstarts, the Sex Pistols, and the Clash, but they've certainly lasted longer. Couched in working-class anthemry and catchy rock riffage, the band's classic cuts are as resonant as anything written by any of the bands above. And I Care Because?- Their brand of Oi! is couched in straight-laced Rock n'...
DJ Willis - Top 25 - 11/20/2009 1 - Lady GaGa - Dance In The Dark 2 - Jack Ingram feat Patty Griffin - Seeing Stars 3 - Star Pilots - In The Heat Of The Night 4 - Creed - Rain 5 - Our Lady Peace - The End Is Where I Begin 6 - Dirty Money feat Diddy, Jim [...]
We all still remember the troubled brilliance that was The Decemberists' latest effort 'The Hazards Of Love'. It was a huge record that propelled them further than any of their previous work had done before and was so cohesive, they even decided to play the entire thing, song-for-song, on their promotional tours.