New Music – Bruno Mars’ Locked Out of Heaven
You have heard the tease… now enjoy the full song!
CYaN Podcast Episode 23: I Promise It’ll Get Bigger
Good afternoon, internet. Here comes another ruckus filled episode of the Call Yourself A Nerd podcast with Danny and Ricky. In this week’s episode; we talk about more Halo/Blops trailers, the MySpace relaunch, Elementary, and the trailer for Matthew Lillard’s directorial debut in a feature Fat Kid Rules the World. I hope you enjoy it, it was fun recording.
Your Friday Anarchist Playlist
This week has been pretty busy work wise for me and when I need to get s**t done I prefer to do it with three or less chords. It is efficient and keeps me on my toes. So as a special treat I have decided to share my Punk playlist with you and I have ever so thoughtfully divided it into two flavors : Punk Roots and Evolution of… Enjoy!
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Bruno Mars is such a tease… Locked Out of Heaven Teaser Trailer
A little teaser for you Bruno Mars fans. Enjoy!
New Music: Ladies of Hump Day
Bringing you hump day treats with two new singles from ladies who know how to top the music charts: Rihanna and Ke$ha.
Rihanna new single – Diamonds ( Click to listen)
Well this barbados beauty is really working hard. This is her newest single from what will be her seventh album in eight years. Diamonds is a song we probably will be hearing on the radio non stop for the next couple weeks, and not because it is good, but because it is Rihanna. I have only listened through once, but I feel like it is missing something. The lyrics are unimaginative and full of cliche similies and the beat is kind of a let down. I am sure that after a few more listens it will grow on me, but there are only so many ways we are like diamonds… Read More…
Billie Joe Armstrong – Basketcase?
So Uno! is just around the corner and it has many people quite excited. Well, i guess not if you work the set schedule for iHeartRadio. Billie went absolutely Rock Star Diva when his set was cut short due to scheduling overlap. He went on a rant about how he has been here since 1988 ,”I’m not fucking Justin Beiber you motherfuckers!” and continues on for the minute they were allotted. (I enjoyed every nano-second of this rant!)
As a long time Green Day fan I know just how much this band loves their set times. Early 2000s during the Pop Disaster tour they were co-headlining with Blink 182 and Billie did all he could to make sure they extended their set each show. Admittedly I was at those shows to see Blink182 and was a bit frustrated that they were deliberately going over their set time, but hey that’s rock and roll right? This band plays with the crowd and Billy is an all around showman. So when Usher’s set ran over you can imagine how pissed Billy was to find that their set had been cut. You can’t? Well watch this video. Oh and bravo to Gibson, it took 5 swings to decapitate one of their guitars. Can you say craftsmanship?
Album of the Week: Night Visions by Imagine Dragons
This is a band that I took a chance on and it paid off. I had heard “In Time” on the radio over the past week and Danny has been enjoying “Radioactive” which is the second single from this indie-rock band’s debut album Night Visions. I have been listening pretty much non stop to the album this week and reached an overload when “In Time” was covered on last night’s episode of Glee. So perhaps that song will be receiving the Gotye treatment… Let’s not think of that at the moment. Read More…
Feel Good Friday Playlist
Oh my god! I know it is cheesy to say outside of an office environment, but T-G-I-F! This week has pretty much sucked and I have decided that I will not let the little things bring down my Friday. I have kept my head down and busied myself with tedious paper pushing and somehow willed the weekend to arrive.
So as a necessary therapeutic measure, and in celebration, I made a Feel Good Friday Playlist. These playlists have my favorite feel good songs and I hope you check them out and boost your mood.
As with my Flashback Friday Playlist a few weeks back, this playlist comes in two flavors. On your left we have the old school feel and on your right we have the new school feel. Enjoy!
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Foo Fighters on Hiatus
“Well, well, well. The f*cking Reading festival. You guys realize we’ve got a lot of songs to play. It’s the last show of the tour and it’s the last show for a long time.”
If you are going to leave for an indefinite hiatus, I suppose the Foo Fighters have picked the perfect time. They have been touring all over the world in the last year. Their latest album Wasting Light had multiple Grammy wins. Plus, as I have said in the past, this is a band that delivers quality each and every album. I will wait patiently until they are ready to come back. Hopefully, their down time is spent well and they find inspiration.
UPDATE: Dave may have pulled that trigger a bit prematurely as the Foo Fighters still have some shows on their schedule in just a few weeks… Perhaps he was exaggerating??? Lets Pray!
Mixing Gangnam and Booty
Okay, I’m not the resident music nerd, but every now and then I run into some music that I enjoy and must share with others. I love a good song to dance to, but I love even more a good song to laugh to. I hope you all enjoy this mash-up of PSY’s “Gangnam Style” and Nicki Minaj’s “Starships” as much as I did. It should be bumping in the clubs ASAP.
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