The New Bayside Song Is Amazing

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How do I know this? Because someone was kind enough to post a high-quality video of them playing it live. That someone was ever-so-kind, weren’t they?

Because I am kind and benevolent and not evil [though some would argue that is absolutely untrue] I am going to share it with you:

Ah, Bayside. This band is incapable of wrong-doing in my world. A world that is full of wrong-doing.

Ian Curtis’ Tombstone Stolen

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If anyone needed proof that there are assholes in this world, I present for your consideration:

At some point on Monday or Tuesday, Ian Curtis’ tombstone was stolen from Macclesfield Crematorium, where he was laid to rest in 1980 after committing suicide. What kind of creepy, screwed up person do you have to be to steal a grave marker? I don’t care if it is a famous person’s or not, for the record — that sort of thing is sacred.

His grave was often visited by fans who left gifts and tokens for the dead singer:

How someone could just waltz up and steal the marker is beyond comprehension.  The police in the area say they expect people to know who did it and to find the stone, but they have no leads at the moment.  I hope they find it soon, return it, and destroy the people who did this.

It’s one thing to be a jerk, but there’s something about disrespecting the dead like this that really gets me.

Alkaline Trio Vists the Wild West

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Hmmm…  I still think this album is a bit of a grower, even though Alkaline Trio is one of my favorite bands ever.

The video is a bit strange because it looks like some kind of western, and doesn’t really fit the song…

But… it’s Alkaline Trio and I want to know if it is even possible for them to do wrong. And I don’t think it is. I just think I have to hear these songs live before I truly embrace them.

What do you guys think of the new album?

Sue it! Sue it Good: Devo Sues McDonald’s

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In other news, the guys from Devo are approximately 1,078 years old, according to this photo evidence:

Anyway, it seems that back in April, McDonald’s had music-era themed Happy Meal toys based on American Idol characters.  [Really? That’s amazing… how ever did I miss such a hot collectible?] One of them was “New Wave Nigel,” and he was wearing the “copyrighted energy cap” that Devo is known for, as well as an outfit that looks like the ones Devo wear.  Now, McDonald’s could argue New Wave Nigel had been in prison for drug possession, when it came to the outfit… the hat would be a bit harder to get around.  They could invoke LEGO, but having worked with them at an old job, I can safely say you don’t want LEGO even sightly miffed at you, much less suing your burger-peddling ass.

The suit also contends that New Wave Nigel’s song sounded like a Devo song.

Gerald Casale, of the band, said: “We’re in the midst of suing them… they didn’t ask us anything. Plus, we don’t like McDonald’s, and we don’t like American Idol, so we’re doubly offended.”

I don’t like McDonald’s and I don’t like American Idol. Please, oh please, let one of them offend me so I can sue them and maybe get myself a nice little house.  Honestly, all I need is a little one-bedroom with air conditioning….

Little Baby Ticketmaster Is Out On Its Own

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Here are some things I didn’t know:

Ticketmaster is currently owned by another company;
Ticketmaster is $750 million in debt;
The company that owns Ticketmaster, LAC/InterActiveCorp, just dumped them and now they have to run on their own.

I’d really like to know how a company that charges nearly half the face value of a ticket in fees and “convenience charges,” while having exclusive rights to all the tickets for thousands of venues, is in debt. All they do is print tickets. They even have a charge if you choose to print your own ticket, for some reason or another. I’m not a business specialist or anything, but I’d like to see their operating costs and business plan, to see if there is anything in there about employees sitting around just burning piles of cash.

According to Paste magazine, the flying solo Ticketmaster will be even more evil than the current one.

Ticketmaster says it’ll take this opportunity to change its business model. Among the ideas on the to-do list include a bigger international presence, offering ticket resales to complete with StubHub and eBay, and helping to support and market artists who are increasingly turning to ticket sales as their main source of revenue.

How the hell does a company that sells tickets… also have a ticket re-selling business?

And while I hate Ticketmaster with a glorious passion and would like to strike them down with a flaming sword, I can’t think of a company I have more vitriol towards than StubHub, home of $900 floor tickets for My Chemical Romance and home of $500 Cure tickets.  All the good seats for both band’s NYC shows sold out before I could get them, but there was an abundance of great seats on StubHub for anywhere from 3 to 12 times the face value.  Yep, Ticketmaster really needs to get involved in that.  While increasing their international presence so they can screw even more people!

I realize the price of tickets isn’t the most pressing concern in the world for most people, but I will say this: there have been shows that I wanted to see, but would have lived without seeing, that I was about to buy tickets for and at the last minute, didn’t.  When two $20 tickets end up costing $65 or $70, it really does make it easy to say, “ah, nevermind… I don’t need to go that badly.”

I’d love to see Ticketmaster go under and individual venues finding new ways to sell tickets for a reasonable fee, but in reality, I’m sure the government will bail them out or something if it really came to that.

I Am Ghost Announces Summer Tour

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If you live on the West coast or the South, you’re set. If you don’t, you’re not. Yes, this means I am having massive amounts of angst over not being able to see them and likely hear the new songs any time soon, but I am sure videos will get out there to hold me over until they get their butts to the East coast.

The band is currently in Baltimore, MD recording the new album, due this October. It looks like they’ll be hitting the touring circuit as soon as they’re done with the recording. They’re taking a bunch of different bands with them on different dates, but Eyes Set to Kill will be doing the whole tour with them.

If you’re lucky enough to get to go to one of the dates, do let me know how it went. This is one of my favorite bands — both musically and as people. I’ve never seen a band quite as interested in, and as cool with, their fans as these guys are.

Here’s hoping this is the year they break big, because they deserve it.

The dates:

Reggie and the Full Effect Tour on Sale

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Do you want to see the last-ever Reggie and the Full Effect tour? If you are so inclined to do so, the tickets are on sale now, here.

But that’s not all — the really big news here [for me, anyway] is the support band — Leathermouth. I didn’t manage to get a much-coveted ticket to their show at the Knitting Factory last year, and I can see no reason whatsoever why I wouldn’t go see them at least in NYC and Long Island. It’s Frank Iero. Fairly up close and personal, since none of the venues on this tour are behemoth or anything of the sort.

Squeal. This totally makes up for the lack of My Chemical Romance touring for the next year or two, doesn’t it? I suspect a lot of the people at the show will bug me, because while I will fully admit to being a Frank fangirl who just wants to touch him inappropriately [I did, after all, sort of pet his back when I met him and posed for a photo with him] — Leathermouth rocks. And the band sounds nothing like My Chemical Romance. You really need to like screamo-hardcore to be into them. I happen to, so it’s a double-dose of awesome for me.

I’m getting twitchy just thinking about what kind of awesome will be brought by Leathermouth…..

Alternative Press Makes Me Sweat

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Why? Because the cover of the next issue features, amongst other people, Max Bemis… tied up with rope.

It’s not that I am some dominant freak [quite the opposite, to be honest] but the way I see it is, if I am ever to have my dream date with Maxim Bemis, it would require him to look just like he does on that cover.

Mrow.

Want to see?

Damn.

Sorry posts have been sporadic… life and the things you have to do sometimes get in the way of the things you want to do and love doing.

Quick Link: Video of Max Bemis on His Pet Peeves

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Okay, here’s what we have:
01. Max in a tank top
02. Max looking a bit scruffy
03. Max explaining his pet peeves, which are really somewhat abnormal pet peeves, as they go.

Naturally, I need to share the link, as I’m pretty sure we’re all in need of some new Bemis content around here:
Max Bemis’ Pet Peeves.

As always, amazing.

New Dance Gavin Dance Songs

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Ooh! After all the turmoil and sudden departure of Jonny Craig [seriously, I saw them two days before he left the band and everything seemed fine with them], I was wondering how this band’s new stuff would sound. And now I know: awesome. Kurt Travis’ vocals are really good and while the band does sound different, I might go out on a limb and say they sound better.

There are three new songs on the band’s MySpace: “Me and Zoloft Get Along Just Fine” [hey, good for you, that stuff makes me batshit crazy and led to some of the worst weeks of my life], “The Robot With Human Hair” [oh, man, I love that song title], and “Alex English.” Go listen here.

The band’s new album will be in stores on August 19th [why do we have to wait so long? It’s done, I want it now!] and they’ll be touring with a bunch of good bands including Four Letter Lie this summer. Not that I get to see them, since they aren’t coming anywhere near here. That seems to be the standard for tours these days, though….

It’s good to know there are enough new releases on the slate for this summer/autumn that I should be able to do my standard-issue top 20 this year. I was afraid I’d have a repeat of 2005, where I couldn’t even get 10.