Mariah Carey’s Monster First Week: Mariah’s new album moved 463,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, making it the pop diva’s biggest debut sales week ever. Only a handful of artists in the past year have sold 500,000 out of the box in the first week, hence, this is an amazing story.
Yoko Ono Randomly Wages War: Yoko Ono, the queen of peace, is ready to pick up her rifle and sue the filmmakers of “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” for the unauthorized use of John Lennon’s song, “Imagine.” “Expelled” documents how teachers and scientists alike are being ridiculed daily, denied tenure and even fired believing there is evidence of “design” in nature and challenging the current orthodoxy that life is entirely a result of random chance. It’s a bad day for Darwin…
It’s A Beautiful Day: 10 Years has a new video for their single Beautiful which has become an instant hit on Youtube, making it the #1 most watched rock video for the day. The video was directed by Paul Boyd (The Cult, Blind Melon) looks at the co-dependent atmosphere spawned by the Lindsay-to-Britany-to-Paris media-merry-go-round that has swept up the paparazzi and American tabloid culture. The female lead in the new clip is Rebecca Ginos, the significant other of Maroon 5 lead vocalist Adam Levine. The new album “Division” will be released May 13th.
Recommended Listening: Endlessly by 7th Son.
great friggen song and video—love it!
Really? 7th Son? I seriously clicked the link three different times to make sure it wasn’t a mistake. Seriously, what about this band could have possibly inspired you to even consider suggesting them?!
They sound like any of the hundreds of late 80s knockoff bands who saw their debut in the bargain bin one month after release. Terrible lyrics, cheesy music, zero originality and about 20 years too late.
Okay, I’m tired of busting your balls with virtually every post anymore — believe me, that’s not what I come here for, I come here to find decent new bands — but I also realize I’m not giving you any alternatives.
So from now on, anytime I publically knock one of your picks, I’ll try to offer what I feel is a better alternative. I don’t have the time or resources that you have to discover new music, but at least I won’t feel like I’m all problems and no solutions.
My first pick is one I’ve sent you a number of times and, for whatever reason, you’ve refused to post: The Matt White Band. Good voice. GREAT songs. Solid musicianship. A bit deriviative? Sure. But at least he’s derived from an artist who’s been popular in the last 20 years. I’d suggest any of the songs on his MySpace, but “Too Many Lovers” was the track that I first heard.
http://www.myspace.com/mattwhiteband
What Jalan said
Okay..
I’m a hip hop guy.. but I do listen to everything…
I wonder what you guys think about this band…
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=6785939
Sure, they’re commercial.. but I think they’re very polished and could definitely see them on TRL….
your opinions…..???
Beautiful—-now thats a song!
and the clock keeps ticking……
The talk of derivative is very common on here…and here’s a question. This is a band that commonly both industry and audience say “well, you don’t sound like anybody.” For industry, that seems to be a bad thing. People want to easily say “oh, you sound like Metallica” or “oh you sound like Coldplay” – and I think labels do as well.
This is a band that has been featured on this blog in years past, and I’m curious to see if you readers think the band “sounds like” somebody…
http://www.myspace.com/theswear
I don’t think there’s anything particularly special about Matt White. Sounds kind of like Inside Wants Out-era John Mayer, but without everything that makes Mayer a star (namely the hooks, the looks, & the personality).
Seventh Son is good, but out of touch. Avenged Sevenfold & Co&Ca do the same thing, but they have a fresh take on it. Seventh Son, with all of the cheesy 80’s production ideas, just comes across as stale. The track Time To Burn is great, with all of the Pantera influence, but the rest is just kind of cheesy.
Expelled has been ripped to shreds by everyone & their mom (the ny times review was a good read, & there are several really interesting responses on youtube). I’m actually curious as to how they use the song… I just don’t see a point in dissecting one of the great songs of our time from a creationist point of view in a movie that’s supposed to be about academic religious persecution. Looks like the film will soon be 25 seconds shorter.
Um, what happened to my comment?
7th son rocks man these guys are all solid players and i love the fact they are writing the modernized 80’s songs. i def dig this band keep rockin fellas
check this band
http://www.myspace.com/janicedollband