This Town Needs Guns - Animals

Listener - Wooden Heart

Listener is an odd band. Its does have the typical lyrical format. Or even a singer at all. Its all done in an odd spoken word style. Dan Smith does the vocals and if you've been following what I post at all you would recognize his voice from the most recent video from The Chariot that I posted not too long ago. I've been listening to the album for a while now and I thought maybe the vocals would get old after a while but it works so well with the music. Have a listen for yourself.

Cerebellion - Inalienable

Not sure what it is about this band that I dig. I guess for me its a throw back type sound to the days when I started to listen to heavy music. I definitely get a Nonpoint, Dry Kill Logic feel. Check it out.

Cowboys and Aliens Trailer

The teaser for the new movie staring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford. Directed by "Iron Man" director Jon Favreau. I had my doubts and the premise still seems kinda weird to me but it looks to be shaping up nicely.

Green Lantern Trailer

Holy Grail

"My Last Attack"

All Hail DIO!

Here's footage from the upcoming live Heaven and Hell DVD. Heaven and Hell is basically sabbath with Dio as the lead. Unfortunately Ronnie James Dio died this year of cancer. So this DVD will quite possibly be the last professionally shot stuff to come out of Dio preforming. This man is a God of metal. His pipes rival any singer of any day. I dare you to disagree.

Suicidal Angel - Bleeding Holocaust

I might not be a super fan of the lyrical content of this song. But the shredding is pretty damn good. So deal with it and don't be a douche. The song is short and sweet but the rift is just... man its pretty sweet. Suicidal Angel will release Dead Again on Nov. 19th.

British Sea Power new song.

British Sea Power has a new album coming out in January called Valhalla Dancehall so they are sharing the first single as a free download. I thought I would offer it to whoever was interested.

Beady Eye - "Bring the light" video

If you recognize this singers voice its because he is Liam Gallagher of Oasis fame. This song doesn't really do it for me. They even kinda look bored in the video. I mean if your gonna make a music video look like its fun!!! Its nice seeing one of the members of Oasis doing something worth while with his time. For all the crap they've talked in the past, they sure don't put out much content. Enjoy "Bring the light".

NME - Beady Eye, 'Bring The Light'

The Human Abstract

Heres the new track off the new album by "The Human Abstract" due out in 2011. If your a fan of metal you should listen to it. Theres a very real chance this link will be broken in a couple hours. I apologize if thats the case. I'll activity try and keep a working link up.

Underoath - Disambiguation

I've never been a fan of Underoath. Nothing against their music it just isn't really my style. Its like, if it plays on random I won't skip it but I wouldn't choose it myself, type things. So does the new album stick to the format, or does it move on to main event territory.

Underoath are a hardcore and who have metal influence. Which most call metalcore but I won't but them in the genre. The problem with there style is its beginning to sound dated. I could probably play 14 bands over them and you wouldn't be able to pick one or the other as a certain band unless you were a die hard fan. Disambiguation does a better job of updating that sound and it sticks out from the rest of their discography. It still doesn't really move them forward in that great leap that they so desperately need. I had the feeling while listening to the record that "Its gonna get better next song" and that feeling never went away. Its not that the content is bad. Songs like "Illuminator" and "Who Guard the Guardians" really stand out as the best on the album and some of the best songs I've heard from this artist and similar ones as well. The album just struggles to "wow" the listener. You get to the end feeling like this is "Old Hat". Which is a shame because this album had a lot of potential.

Maybe if they took a little more time this album could have been a home run, but it ultimately falls short. I give "Disambiguation" 3 ambiguations out of 5

01. In Division
02. Catch Myself Catching Myself
03. Paper Lung
04. Illuminator
05. Driftwood
06. A Divine Eradication
07. Who Will Guard The Guardians
08. Reversal
09. Vacant Mouth
10. My Deteriorating Incline
11. In Completion

Chinese build 15 story hotel in 6 effin days!

Heres time laps footage of the amazing feat. From what I understand the building is pretty safe and all. Its just amazing to see. They all look like ants.

Thanks Lady Ga Ga

This is what we get in the Kesha and Lady GaGa era of "music". This girl does a terrible job looking sexy at all. Not sure if its the ridiculous thing she's wearing or the fact that she actually sings "Like a shot gun needs an outcome, I'm a prostitute, you gonna get some." I shit you not those are the lyrics. I mean at least shes being honest.

Without further adieu here is Lykke Li’s "Get Some"

Lykke Li - Get Some (Director: Johan Söderberg) from Lykke Li on Vimeo.

New Micheal Jackson song.

So there is some controversy over whether or not this is actually zombie Jackson. I'm sure there are people out there who can do his voice flawlessly so I guess the jury is still out. All in all the song isn't terrible. I mean I hate auto tune but it could be worse. This song does remind me of all the Micheal Jackson jokes my friend Steve tells. I think its the whole part about "Holding my hand". I guess at least it doesn't say "tiny hand"

Todd in the shadows - "Like a G6" review

This guy is really funny.

A Day To Remember - What Separates Me From You

I kinda liked the last release "Homesick" by A Day To Remember. Its not really my style but I found it a mindless fun that you just need from time to time. Does their new album have the same charm or does it fall flat?

It falls flat. This is one of the laziest sounding albums I've ever heard. It just feels like the band is going through the motions and recording some pop punk for the 15 year old girls who like to listen to them. That's really disappointing. I was hoping that they would build on the sound from their previous work but they've regressed from that once enjoyable format. Any one of these songs could be a theme song for a wrestling PPV or on a commercial for Hot Topic. Here's hoping that they are just in a funk and that the next album will at least be tolerable.

What Separates Me From You gets 2 yawns out of 5

01. Sticks & Bricks
02. All I Want
03. It’s Complicated
04. This Is The House That Doubt Built
05. 2nd Sucks
06. Better Off This Way
07. All Signs Point To Lauderdale
08. You Be Tails, I’ll Be Sonic
09. Out Of Time
10. If I Leave

The Ocean - Anthropocentric

The Ocean have been busy this year. They've released two full length albums and toured all summer. That's not something that happens very often. The truly amazing park is they've released two great records back to back. That never happens.

"Anthropocentric" was suppose to be the bands return to a straight forward progressive format. For the most part it is, but when the two albums were pitched originally the first album Heliocentric was suppose to be this big. larger than life sound that would over shadow the second record when played at the same time. I can't say they did that but that's not bad at all. The longs are long, change as frequently as is to be expected by progressive bands. The title track of the album is over nine minutes alone and the album has ten tracks total. If your a fan of metal or hard rock and are interested in something that you can just sit and appreciate you couldn't do much better than "Anthropocentric".

Thank god for 2010 man. Last year was one of the worst years in metal and thanks to these guys this year continues to excel in bringing us some albums that are sure to be classics one day.

"Anthropocentric" gets 4.5 hard to spell names out of 5

01 Anthropocentric 9:24
02 The Grand Inquisitor I: Karamazov Baseness 5:02
03 She Was the Universe 5:39
04 For He That Wavereth… 2:06
05 The Grand Inquisitor II: Roots & Locusts 6:33
06 The Grand Inquisitor III: A Tiny Grain of Faith 1:55
07 Sewers of the Soul 3:44
08 Wille zum untergang 6:02
09 Heaven TV 5:03
10 The Almightiness Contradiction 4:34

Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer

Ok so if your not up to speed I'll open with this. Cee Lo Green is a vocalist who has worked with people like Danger Mouse. Most people know him from Gnarls Barkley's song "Crazy". Now that we have that out of the way...

This album is amazingly fun. It has this party feel to it thats hard for me to put into words. I guess its the feeling when people listen to pop music and want to dance? This album makes me want to dance. Not that I ever would... but if anything was going to make me dance it would be this. There are a couple R&B staples that exist on the record such as the intro and some of the "skits". None of those things really take away from the album but it would have been an improvement just to have music without the riff raff. One of my favorite properties of the album is the production quality. I'm sure it was made with computers and blah blah, but I never feel like a band isn't playing one of the many well put together songs. Probably the most important thing I can praise this album for is the lack of any rap. I was really impressed I went 4 or 5 songs without hearing one rap verse and even more impressed when I got through the entire thing without it. It says something about the caliber on the vocal work that Cee Lo Green wanted on this album. It really is a good time to had by all.

I was worried about this one. Its not often that I find something that I enjoy in this genre. Cee Lo delivered more than just a great album but in my opinion the best R&B album to come out in 20 years.

"The Lady Killer" gets 5 fuck yous out of 5

1. The Lady Killer Theme (Intro)
2. Bright Lights Bigger City
3. Forget You
4. Wildflower
5. Bodies
6. Please (Feat. Selah Sue)
7. Satisfied
8. I Want You
9. Cry Baby
10. Fool For You (Feat. Phillip Bailey)
11. It’s OK
12. Old Fashioned
13. The Lady Killer Theme (Outro)
14. F**k You

The Forecast - Some things never change.

it's inside of three weeks 

and I'm a boat out to sea

with no sails

I tried drinking nights away 

it just brought on longer days 

and blackouts 

sleep well my dear 

I'm waiting for your call it wont be long

'till were hanging hopes from the stars

just call 

sleep's been coming hard for me 

because when I dream

it's of you 

from the first day I made mistakes 

and now I'm trying to pave my way

to your heart

sleep well my dear

sleep well my dear

I'm waiting for your call it wont be long

'till were hanging hopes from the stars

just give me this 

a slow dance

a last chance 

to tell you everything you need to hear

because the phone calls 

won't let me look you in the eyes

so I can tell you 

sweetie

please stay

a slow dance

a last chance 

to tell you everything you need to hear

because the phone calls 

won't let me look you in the eyes

so I can tell you 

sweetie

please stay