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The Veronicas Remake “4ever” to Show Dangers of Drug Use

Michelle — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:18:07 +0000

Sure, the Veronicas aren’t the first pop starlets to take the good-girl-gone-bad route… they’re not even the first twins to do it (yeah I’m looking at YOU Mary-Kate and Ashley O). But after the release of the Veronicas’ debut “The Secret Life of…” in the US, the Aussie twins became over-sexed, over-gothed and WAY under-nourished, emerging for their second album “Hook Me Up” looking as if they had arrived to vie for the attention of Bret Michaels on “Rock on Love.”

Anyway, this is all old news… what I’m here to discuss is “4ever 2009″ – a new version of their very first single “4ever” – which really shows just how much has changed in only 4 years. They look about 10 years older, sound like they’ve been smoking a pack a minute, and look like they’ve snorted enough booger sugar to build a snowman. The only similarity is really the lipstick. For the record… I actually don’t hate these girls. But the transformation is just too uncanny to not point out. See for yourself:

The Veronicas “4ever” (2005)

The Veronicas “4ever 2009″ (2009)

Burn Down the Mission: On Fire or Burnt Out?

Michelle — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:24:40 +0000

Burn Down the Mission is an R&B tinged pop rock band, named after an Elton John song. Listen to the song “Run” below:

My first thought was that only band I could think of who really fuse pop-rock-R&B this way was a band I saw open for Plain White T’s several years ago called The Hatch… hmmm, whatever happened to The Hatch? Apparently they changed their name… to Burn Down the Mission! Sneaky!

Burn Down the Mission’s debut album (under that name, at least), Caroline, was produced by Warren Huart (Kris Allen, Augustana, The Fray) and mixed by Mark Needham (The Killers, Metro Station).

Rivers Cuomo Explains Weezer’s “Raditude” Problem

Michelle — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:30:55 +0000

When Weezer announced Raditude as the title of their upcoming album, music nerds far and wide had a serious Raditude problem and thought the band needed a Raditude adjustment. We don’t know what fans expected… this is a band that has released not one, not two, but three eponymous albums so far, the last of which featured their fearless lead Weez-er in a cowboy hat and mustache on the cover. Tongue-in-cheek is the name of the game and album titles are just another place for Weezer’s silliness. Face it: long gone are the heart-on-sweater-sleeve days of Pinkerton.

Nonetheless, Rivers Cuomo explained just where their Raditiude came from in an interview with a Spin… and it turns off The Office’s Rainn Wilson, Cuomo’s sometime collaborator, had a hand in it: “He has a super-rock persona,” Cuomo said. “When it came time to find a title for the Weezer album, I asked him what he thought the ultimate album title would be and he said ‘Raditude.’”

“The sound of Raditude is fun, high energy pop rock,” Cuomo said. “‘I’m Your Daddy,’ has an up vibe with the same, heavy Weezer guitar riff but with a little electro influence. And ‘The Girl Got Hot’ — that’s kind of a witty, party jam.”

Raditude strikes October 27.