Powderfinger are the to the highest degree successful Aboriginal Australian rock stria of the past decade. Their premature two albums have garnered the Australian super-group niner ARIA (Australian Record Industry Association) awards, including Record album of the Year, Best Rock Album, and Record of the Year respectively for both Internationalist and Odyssey Number Five (their American debut). Vulture Street confirmed Powderfingers status as heavyweights of the Aboriginal Australian music industry when they took home 3 additional ARIAs in late 2003, this time for Album of<br />the Year, C. H. Best Group, and Best Rock Album.

Their latest release has already reached over 5 x Platinum gross revenue in their homeland. In November, Marauder Street volition see its stateside press release, over a year later on its initial debut oversea. With their fifth album (second-only US release), Powderfinger (whose call is derived from the Neil Danton True Young song) emerge matured and self-assured. Its the most defined rock album these good Australian blokes have made however. The only declaration to really identify Vulture Street is &quot;rock.&quot; Proof is strung from the unfastener &quot;Rockin Rocks,&quot; (doesnt very need an explanation, does it), to their number one single &quot;(Baby Ive Got You) On My Mind,&quot; with its massive riffs and heroic pulse.

&quot;Love Your Way&quot; is a impinging ballad that showcases Bernard Fannings voice as hypnotic and accessible as ever. Not to mention his talent for eloquently crafting songs like theyre gold waiting to be mined. The tierce single, &quot;Sunsets&quot; is the most feel-good song on the album and sustains Vulture Street, spell offering a more soulful approach to what these guys let been doing for years. Its a winning combination seemingly landing itself somewhere between Southerly Harmony-era Black Crowes and Shoulder of Giants-era Oasis.

For those keeping tabs, the band has been busy touring and have just added two more than gems to their discography with a limited double-disc These Years: Live in Concert, as well as Fingerprints: The Best of Powderfinger 1994-2000 - both available as imports-only to the US most likely. Look for a US tour in February or March of next year.

What We Said Then

Powderfinger thumbed up from down under, catching my attending in 2001 with a remarkable masterstroke of an album called Odyssey # 5.<br />A record that found itself on many a best-of list that year, screening off songwriting that was textured, truancy as all hell and just rockin enough to find itself beside similar bands (Coldplay, Travis, Grass Early Radiohead) pretty partiality company. Even more charming was the fact that frontman Bernard Fanning possesses a phonation akin to Aussie predacessors Barry and Robin Gibb.

With Odyssey # 5 being a notch or two better than its predacessor, Internationalist, one would have causal agency to expect Vulture Street to stay on this up trend and really come with the goods.

So far the vast majority of the reviews Ive read give all simply insisted that Vulture Street sounded like a set picking the bones of these late releases. For scraps? Expecting this, going away in, Im happy to report that its a fat load of codswallop. The biggest complaint from the critics of the world broad web is that the band has purposely tried and true to rock-up their sound just for the sake of Rocking up the sound. Genial of the Aussie equivalent of Ryan Adams Rock and Roll. I couldnt disagree more.

Yes, Vulture Street finds the band rolling it out at a quicker tempo than usual, only for my money, it possesses mountain of maulers, just as many gracefully textured ballads, catchy choruses and memorable guitar licks - enough to the point where it makes the critics appear as if their gunning for Powderfinger just to make use of the Vulture metaphor. This is an album that fans testament love and newcomers will find wide open blazonry to come in.

Ive got one finger for all of you fickle Powder-f—ing fans wHO dont know a gift horse when it gallops into their lap. Reliable its not quite the bulleseye that Odyssey # 5 is, but its a dart that doesnt stray very far afield from the dart earlier. True fans could capably title this one Odyssey # 6.

Kevin Bobby Jones rated it a 4 as advantageously.

Whats incorrect with a little rock’n'roll and roll, the critics who complained about likewise much rocking are nuts - this record is one of the best Ive heard for some time.

One of the best rock CDs Ive ever owned! When I get bored, I pull out &quot;Vulture Street&quot; and give it another listen. At the same time as the supergroup release of U2s CD (which I enjoy, besides), and the chronic pabulum of rap and American English Idol flow releases on radio play, its a crying shame that these blokes ar not getting the airplay that they deserve in the States. Even the rock jockies over here havent heard of this band! Incredible! But, thats the American music machine for ya…Im doing my best to raise this new CD (stressful like blaze to get the local rock stations of the Cross to play some cuts off of &quot;Marauder Street&quot;), to get a new generation of rockers a perceptiveness of real rock and roll. Longsighted live Big Company, AC/DC, Foreigner,

The Who, The Cult, LED Zep and so on…oh yea, 5 Stars! Hope to see these wonders from down under on their tour in 2005! Keep on rockin!!! -Frank

As an Aussie myself i may be slightly biased to the Powderfinger, but would i really be off the brand in my overwhelming amount of praise would whatsoever one truly be pained. No. That is because this band truly does and gives all and more of what a rock striation is meant to give, with its string of songs making even the most hearty of RnB lovers turn and federal Bureau of Prisons there heads to a new line.

Powderfinger really have up there act with Vulture Street and Odyssey #5 is a mere memory. Although with songs like My Happiness Odessey did deserve all kinds of praise, Marauder gives all that and more, inside Australia all most the entire album has been released as individual singles and all have been number i. So with credentials such as these who lav help simply sing its praises with all the noise of a stone album, excuse the platitude.

Personally, i give this album 9 stars*********. And if you havent already gone and bought this album i suggest you do so right now, or dont call your self a rock enthusiast.

In 1999 the little known power station of the New York hard core scene, Life of Suffering, tragically went their ramify ways. Mirthfully guitarist Joey Z. and Stuck Mojos Corey Lowery on sea bass, guitarist John the Divine Fattoruso and singer Erik Rogers, Stereomud have made an album that slams with all the savagery of Sevendust, Disturbed and Life of Agony.

Track 2 entitled &quot;LeaveÓ finds Stereomud setting the tone of the record album pounding out crunching guitar riffs and great vocals. On tracks like &quot;Old Man&quot; and &quot;Get Me Out&quot; the guitar shreddery has the signature of Life of Agonys, and on the first single &quot;Pain&quot; and &quot;Steppin Away&quot; Erik Rogers displays a vocal prowess and concordance unheard of in todays rock world. Its hard to allege if Stereomud will seduce a bad impression, among the embarrassment of new metal bands, but this is a great record book and deserves mass recognition. So for those of you wHO loved LOA or precisely one of those in search of a majuscule rock album worthy of your collection, Dont pass this nonpareil up.

For fans of Sarah McLachlan and especially Tori Amos that think the sun rises and sets with those two female singer-songwriters, rent me cast off open the curtains and enlighten you as to the wonders of Kate Bush; the person likely most responsible for for making their deuce careers possible. If it hadnt been for Kate Bush, Amos would in all likelihood still be a nobody today; I honestly believe that. Non that I dont like Amos, simply from 1980-89, Bush was the queen of female art-rock. No woman in the Eighties even came close to equaling her genius or influence. Four-spot albums (Never for Of all time, The Dreaming, Hounds of Love and The Sensual World to be precise) equated into four masterpieces.

Oddly sufficiency, its about as if these albums have been forgotten by everyone except critics and music obsessives like myself. Part of that Im sure has something to do with her ego seclusion and semi-retirement after her ane and only misfire, 1993s The Loss Shoes. Since 93, Vannevar Bush has dedicated herself to being (as liberals nag their ears) a wide-cut time stay at home wife and mother. In that 12-year span, Bush had only made one public appearance (in 2001 to go for the Classical Songwriter chime at the Q Awards) and had many questioning if thither would of all time be some other Kate President Bush record.

Thankfully for George H.W. Bush fans, the 12 class wait is over with Aerial; a double album that for music dorks like myself is ane of the most hoped-for releases of the class. The first disc entitled &quot;A Sea Of Honey&quot; is the more song-oriented of the deuce discs and it starts off with a bang with &quot;King Of The Slew,&quot; a song thats full of lush electronics, pounding drums, skank-filled reggae guitar riffs, lyrics good of wonder about Elvis and the legendary sledge Rosebud, delivered courtesy of Bushs mighty and compelling as ever vocals. The rest of &quot;A Sea Of Honey&quot; is very laid-back to say the least, and deals with topics such as a human being obsessed with pi on the suitably titled &quot;Pi,&quot; her boy Bertie on the suitably titled &quot;Bertie,&quot; and on how to be inconspicuous on the (you guessed it) fittingly titled &quot;How To Be Invisible.&quot; All these songs on &quot;A Sea Of Honey&quot; are pretty good, merely nothing is as impressive as the album opener.

Which leads us to the second base disc coroneted &quot;A Sky Of Honey.&quot; &quot;A Sky Of Honey&quot; is a nina from Carolina part conceptual piece built around revenant motifs of laughter, light and song (the cover of this album is a soundwave of an actual european blackbird song). &quot;Sunset&quot; is the crown jewel of this put featuring Chaparral and a piano suite until well-nigh the four-minute mark, and thats where the outstanding flamenco guitars and a chorus of male vocals start to hover about. &quot;A Sky Of Honey&quot; on the whole is likewise very likable, but at times, parts of this disc tend to be too mellowed and careworn out for its possess good.

To say Aerial is ambitious would perhaps be the understatement of the yr. Would it have been better if Bush had taken the best parts of both discs and had trimmed it downward to one? Probably, simply Aerial is still a thing to be wanted by fans such as myself, and is a damn fine album from one of the sterling female singer-songwriters in the history of music.

I became a fan of Bush years ago when I first heard that song Babushka - since then Ive bought all of her albums demur for the Red Place, which my boyfriend had and I didnt peculiarly like either. Just picked Aerial up a twosome days ago and am just wading into it, but so far so good. Kate has always been one of my biggest musical influences and her suspension was way too long, thank God its over.

Kate Bush is one of the true Godesses of strain. How nice it is to have a new to heed to, At long last!

The Mighty Quin gemini (known to their growing legions of fans as Tegan and Sara) are back with another song cycle of their uniquely skewed, gumptious folk/pop. For those unfamiliar, Tegan and her identical twin sis Sara hail from Canada where they enjoy a celebrity that far eclipses the &quot;college wireless darling/poised to break big&quot; status that has been hard north Korean won down here in the 48 next.

The sisters are open about organism lesbian and their lyrics often revolve around defending their nature as considerably as the hardships that come with maintaining love relationships amid the insanity of their constant touring, recording and writing. Both write in equal measure and sing lead on the songs they pen. To the untrained ear distinguishing between the two is hopeless, but with both vocalizing harmony as frequently as they do it doesnt matter often.

Tegan and Sara play a stigma of largely up-tempo indie pop rock music influenced by the novel wave bands of the late 70s and early 80s from the most popular The Cars, to the nearly obscure Gruppo Sportivo. The Con finds the gemini veering toward a more contemporary heavy akin to The Shins, The Decembrists, and Death Cab for Cutie. Which is for sure no surprise as the album was produced by Death Cabs Chris Walla (Whos likewise produced the Decembrists) and Ben Sharp of Weezer and the Rentals.

Tegan and Sara made their most unerasable Mark with the strain &quot;Walking With a Ghost.&quot; The strain was covered by The White Stripe and became the title of the EP they released ‘tween their last two albums. The sung bears an undeniable similitude to Missing Persons &quot;Walking in LA&quot; and the Quins also sound a secure bit like MP frontwoman and former Zappa singer Dale Bozzio.

Fans of Tegan and Sarah tend to be the sort of devotees that worship Ani DiFranco, and to these The Con volition fall like Mannah from heaven, as for me, Id count it their strongest tone ending so far. Unfortunately it doesnt give an obvious single, so Id be surprised if this is the phonograph recording yields a song that brings them a fresh breed of top 40 fans. The album is also a bit uneven in that it has two distinct halves. The first half is characterized by their trademark toe-tappers, while the second half slows into far more than plaintive songs, with arrangements that are obviously brought on dining table by their producers. I didnt suffer a trouble with the change up in styles, it only seemed like it would have been a lots better idea to have mixed them up, or else of having an record album that literally shifts into low cogwheel half direction through and stays in that location.

Its ironical that if I had to tell you what The Stills sounded like, I would have to say that they sounded like a mixture of what Interpol is doing today, sundry with a lttle piece of what Echo and the Bunnymen were doing twenty years ago. Which is funny becuase Iíve seen The Stills live twice already, once when they opened for Interpol, and some other when they opened for Echo and the Bunnymen. Go figure. It is also patent that The Stills ar very familiar with The Cureís Boys Donít Squall album. At that place are a few songs here where itís nearly impossible non to set about singing the lyrics to ìJumping Person Elseís Trainî or ì10:15 on a Sat Nightî proper over the top of the music that The Stills have created hither. But in that location are two things on Logic that are very noteworthy. First gear, is Dave Hamelinís ferocious drumming. Piece watching these guys live or listening to this album, itís always the thing that pops right out at you. Second, is their single ìStill in Passion Song.î By far the best song on the album, it stands out beyond the repose because of Oliver Croweís hot bass line duing the chrorus of<br />Tim Fletcherís bleating lament &quot;Iím still in sexual love!&quot; If youre a person that just canít get sufficiency of that dark new wave sound, then The Stills are definitely a band worth checking into.

Korn aforementioned it topper! This is the record album that will either make or better them. True theyre a well established act, simply in todays ever ever-changing musical market place, longevity is becoming harder to reach. Korn seems to realise that they need to cash in on the crop, in front nu-metal goes the way of 80s glamour rock and becomes a mockery of itself. Unsatisfied with the musical style of music they helped to create, Korn has set proscribed to reinvent themselves, and the resultant role is a powerful and almost industrial Korn crossbreed.

The patented Korn munch takes on something of a Gothic turn qualification Untouchables peradventure their best and heaviest work to date. Their preoccupation with hip hop influences nevertheless, Korn is a straight rock band and do not meet from the watered-down interchangeablity that to the highest degree modern metallic element does. This is milestone as comfortably as a natural step forward for a very great ring.

add my comment around korn

what or so them there the best fucking band that negotiation about how being fucked up and hurt john turn you into something hateful

like me i be given to start the felling of shakingness when i automatically here their birdcall when it starts and i sexual love it just it some how takes a carry of me not only there euphony but the hat that i get inside which my favorite song to that situation would be wake up hate

you wouldnt even imagin the fucked up things i guess of when i hear this band but graven image knows i would never try to kill somebody or myself thats wrong but simply to think of it and picture it in your idea is fine

but no i wouldnt want to kill someone

i bank belive my mother thrue my korn cds away

she says its the devils music and that some people chamfer handle the lyrics nooky her its not actully them its the hatred she has placed privileged no wonderment im so fucked up + she also says its non actully their music its the devils hes the one wHO actully makes their music and he wants us to come and take heed so that way he can guide are sole

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I have to foreword this critique by locution I am a brobdingnagian Ani Difranco fan. I believe she is one of the most important singer/songwriters of our day.

Putting a new Ani Difranco CD in the stereo is a unique experience because you hold no idea what its going to sound like. By incorporating a ska-based horn section, Ani has taken hitherto another unexpected turn–this fair sex can do no unseasonable. The album contains all the characteristics of the other albums and you can always tell its Ani, merely this album, like all the others, has its own smell.

The songs are guitar-based and hold true to that ill-scented finger style that defines her music. She is one of the most incredible guitar players recording today. The vocals ar beautiful and powerful and the lyrics, as always, brilliant.

I was introduced to Anis music by a friend and Id like to return the favor to the readers. If you appreciate humourous and insightful lyrics joined with challenging vocals and avante garde guitar playacting, (and ar not easily offended by profanity and strong political views), you need to hear this girl play. Go corrupt Little Pliant Castle, Dialate or Non A Pretty Girl. You wont be disappointed.

What toilet I say–Im a sucker for wench bands, Belly, Hole, PJ–and whatever happened to The Breeders and Julianna Hatfield–I miss those gals. Piece we anxiously await their reappearance, Frogpond has leapt into the girlie water system and with any fortune theyll make themselves a splash.

Boy oh boy–where to start. First gear of all, I should begin by saying that<br />maybe Im not the best military personnel to publish this bit. Why? Comfortably, for starters, I<br />wouldnt call myself an greedy Beastie Boys listener. I like them quite a bit,<br />just I dont follow them religiously which is the case with many of their<br />fans.

Still, I jumped at the chance to realise these guys in an intimate venue (Ive<br />seen them a couple of other times on a much bigger scale), and for only $2 I<br />might add.

Unfortunately, the great Kyle England couldnt make it because he was on<br />another assigning, so confrere music reviewer Ryan Slack and I decided to go<br />on this little adventure along with his niece Danielle.

Now having co-created this site with the virtuoso Boneman, I am, once in<br />for a while, afforded particular privileges. Videlicet press certification for various<br />events (Sundance, CineVegas, ShoWest etc.). Regular though Zboneman.com has<br />steadily adult in terms of readership, we ar hardly a notable site in the<br />eyes of MTV (hopefully, that volition change someday), therefore, the three of<br />us attempted to receive tickets to this event the old fashioned way; WE CAMPED<br />OUT! Not that I mind all that much. In fact, waiting for hours in lines to<br />obtain tickets to senior high school profile entertainment events (be it movie premieres<br />or concerts) tin can be slews of playfulness. Ive done it for years (bivouacking out for<br />everything from R.E.M. and U2 tickets, to Hoosier State Jones and Star Wars<br />premieres), and most are fond memories. In fact, there ar plenty of<br />times when Ive skipped press options all together so that I toilet experience<br />a given event as a fan instead than an entertainment author. After all, it is<br />my love and rage towards the arts in the end evolved into this web site<br />venture. I too am a fan in every sense of the news.

We knew that acquiring into this show would be no easy task. The concert would<br />take place at the Huntridge (an sometime school venue beloved by Las Vegas<br />residents) at 7:00 P.M. on June 9th 2004. MTV had issued an announcement<br />stating there would be a limited telephone number of tickets available to fans (nearly<br />tickets went to various radio post giveaways countrywide). They would not<br />earmark line-ups prior to 7:00 A.M. (actually, they said they would discourage<br />line-ups before 7:00 A.M.), and would distribute wristbands at 9:00 A.M.<br />There were conflicting reports as to how many wristbands would be granted out.<br />Ab initio, I had heard it would be in the neighborhood of 400. It would be a<br />point of accumulation of 2 tickets per person. In the end, they only gave kayoed around 185<br />wristbands.

Ryan, Danielle, and I decided to run into the locus around 1:30 A.M. (being that I<br />had done the camp out thing before, I knew the &quot;discouraging&quot; factor would<br />be minimal–I was correct). Upon arriving at The Huntridge, we immediately<br />realized we werent alone in our mentation; &quot;the earlier the better.&quot; There<br />were over hundred people there already. While attempting to park, we were<br />notified that the tickets were already asleep. This was irritating as we (and several others) were under the impression that wristbands wouldnt be<br />issued until 9:00 A.M. At least, every ad I had read on the show suggested<br />such. So, based upon what security told us, I decided that it<br />probably wasnt true, and they were simply saying that in the interest of<br />crowd control.

We did end up parking and sure enough, it began to look more and more like<br />there would be more wristbands. As we joined the crowd of the great unwashed hanging out in the Huntdridge parking lot, it was clear that it would be an fabulously wild evening. Most of those wait were quite drunk, and many were of the–how should I put<br />this–fast approaching belligerence. This is to say there were plenty of loudmouths and<br />much slurred speech. It was also surprisingly chilly which is odd granted it was Las Vegas in the middle of June.

So there we stood for the next six hours. As the minutes passed, the crowd<br />grew, and before prospicient, it was obvious that there wouldnt be a great deal order when<br />it came time to getting the wristbands. In fact, there were lot of people<br />trying to merge with the front of the line undetected. Of course, those of<br />us wHO had been there for hours were well cognizant of the slime-balls trying to<br />weasel their way to the front of the channel.

We successfully managed to weed out unwanted guests, but on that point were lot<br />of alleged fans wHO did wield to sneak into a line they had no business<br />beingness in.

The closer it got to 7:00 A.M., the more the latent hostility and pressure built.<br />With about an hour to go, a good lX of us were packed in like sardines<br />approximate the ingress gate, a situation worsened by the several late arrivals<br />trying to bust their way of life to the front of the line.

I experience to let in, the guy in presence of me made that last hr more than<br />enjoyable as he was baked off his butt. His stupid &quot;Im so high!&quot; giggle put<br />a smile on my face, even if I did become increasingly irritated by the fact<br />that he kept dumping his coffin nail ashes on my shirt. For a moment, I was<br />distressed that he might go down fire to the guy wire in front of me.

About deuce minutes ahead we were to be let inside, some dull ass threw<br />coffee into the crowd. No, it wasnt hot but it made a mess of things<br />(albeit not nearly the mess hall a bibulous moron made when he spit his beer at<br />the back of my head). In a pathetic act of retaliation, some poseur-punk<br />rock chick with a rainbow colored mohawk decided to throw intellectual nourishment back towards<br />the direction the burnt umber came from. Of course, when you have a bunch of<br />wasted individuals throwing bullshit at each other, the situation tin can only become<br />worse. It did. Non but five seconds later, a beer bottle went flying<br />thorough the air. Miraculously, the bottle did not hit anyone.<br />Regrettably, after it crashed into the concrete, a piece of drinking glass flew<br />through the air and smacked into the side of some guys face (a guy who–in<br />a gaga drunken rage–claimed to be an ex-Navy Seal). Uncalled-for to state, he<br />wasnt happy about it. As the blood slowly began to dribble from the gash in<br />his cheek, he lunged towards the back of the line to witness the stunned<br />quarterback wannabe that drew first parentage. Sadly, this furious case-by-case didnt<br />experience to see the show, as the line began to move the hour he headed out for<br />revenge. You gotta take in those Pestilent Sins.

By dint of divine interposition, Ryan, Danelle and I found ourselves<br />making it through to the bracelet area (we were in the first-class honours degree 40), and this<br />was despite the fact that hoards of people wHO had just shown up, managed<br />to get towards the front of the line.

After waiting about another 15 minutes, the group of 100 or so people<br />who got into the wristband area were given another piece of information. We<br />were told that the watchstrap would only get the person wearing it, into the<br />show. This later initially organism informed that a wristband would make you deuce<br />tickets. Bummer!

Anyway, we were precisely pleased to get the damn wristband, and more<br />importantly, we were glad to make it out alive! Following this hale ordeal, we decided to get a few hours of sleep. Boy did that feel good.

Now, we at long last get to the depict itself.

We arrived back to the venue at about 6:30 P.M.

As we waited in pipeline, passer-bys would come up to us and offer up obscene<br />amounts of money for our wristbands. Of course, if the wristbands come off,<br />no show up. Besides, I had no interest in selling afterwards the infernal region I went through<br />to get the damn matter in the first place.

After just about an hour, we finally got inside the locus. The Huntridge has been<br />in Vegas for years, and as I declared earlier, possesses great sentimental<br />value, particularly to the plethora of concert loving locals. Its an old<br />place, merely small, providing an intimate vibe (with a content in the neighborhood<br />of 1000 people).

As the lights mmed, the place went absolutely cracked. This was the moment<br />everyone had been waiting for, and whats more, it wasnt overly crowded.<br />Sure, there were a lot of people there, but there was plenitude of room move<br />around. At the very least, it certainly wasnt Coachella crowded.

After a few moments of darkness, Mix Master Microphone hit the stage and dazzled<br />the crowd with his fabled spinning skills. After an impressive, just<br />rather protracted solo bit, the Beasies hit the stage, evoking deafening cheers<br />from the crowd (thank God for earplugs).

I have to admit, that the rush was extraordinary. For the first five minutes<br />of their set, I was convinced that the hold off was worth it. Simply then, the hype<br />died down, and what I was left hand with was a pretty disappointing read. It<br />wasnt bad intellect you, but it for certain wasnt the awe-inspiring functioning I<br />was hoping for.

The Beasties were hardly tight. It could be argued that this was their showtime<br />live depict in quite sometime, merely I have to say; after visual perception them terzetto<br />times, they dont come across as a premiere live play to me. I revel their<br />records and they certainly take some tricky songs, simply their stuff doesnt<br />translate particularly well in a live format. The Beasties rhythm and sense of timing seemed a little off on this particular evening.

Energy wise, they were fine. They seemed happy to be at that place, save for Adam<br />Yauch who looked surprisingly world-weary much of the clip. Still, I love the<br />guys voice, which provides a nice contrast with the rest of the Beastie<br />crew.

The arrange consisted of tunes from the lately released To the 5 Boroughs<br />(read Kyles review on the music sir Frederick Handley Page) and songs from their lengthy back<br />catalog. I wasnt frightfully impressed by their song choices. They did do<br />&quot;Whatcha Want&quot; and a couple of other classics (sadly, no &quot;Sabotage&quot;), and ended<br />with &quot;Intergalactic&quot; off of Hello Nasty. And in case anyone is questioning, they<br />did not do &quot;Fight For Your Right&quot; (they seldom do), which is fine, because<br />that sung dynasty was more of a party anthem, and doesnt really represent what the<br />band has become.

The Beasties likewise took some obvious locoweed shots at George Chaparral, but they were<br />predictable and non particularly effective. At least when John Wayne Coyne of The<br />Fiery Lips pulled similar such antics at Coachella, he gave a little<br />sixth sense and background into why he was saying what he was saying.

Overall, the whole thing was surprisingly uneventful, and the Beasties even<br />had to start over on a couple of tunes, as they had to catch them simply right<br />for the MTV camera crews that were hanging around in every corner of The<br />Huntridge Theater.

I suppose it sounds like I detested the show. I rattling didnt. I just expected<br />more. Save for the genius that is Commix Master Mike, I establish the demo as a<br />whole, surprisingly clumsy and I didnt feel whatever kind of a connection with<br />the band. Sum up to this the fact that they only played around fifty-five<br />minutes (less, actually–if you count the do overs and encore down time).<br />But and then, what the hell was I expecting. The depict only price $2! You could do<br />much worsened for $2.

Im still a fan of the Beasties and Ill always buy their records, only quite<br />frankly, I dont need to see them live once again. After this and their Coachella<br />localise last year, Ive just come to the realisation that these guys ar a<br />better studio band.

My hats off to MTV though, for throwing this thing together. Its a pretty<br />cool deal for the fans.

You probably think this write up is a bit on the crazy side given I fagged more<br />prison term on the build up rather than the evidence itself. The truth is, the &quot;waiting<br />for the wristband&quot; experience was more of an venture.

The Beastie Boys 2$ Bill Concert will breeze on MTV2 on Sunday, June twentieth. Im<br />definitely going to check it out so I can see how they redact the thing<br />together. If your looking for me on TV., Ill be the dorky looking one<br />stage left with the Zboneman.com beanie hat, jumping up and down like a<br />madman. Ryan and Danelle will be the becalm, attractive ones standing adjacent to<br />me.

It seems that existence a rock ‘n’ roll star is not sufficiency for U2s Bono. He now wants to total screenwriter to his resume. Apparently, Million Dollar Hotel is a project hes had in the back of his mind for quite some time.

This soundtrack features two new U2 tracks. &quot;The Ground Below Her Feet&quot; is a terrific song that has a more organic good than the tunes that were on Pop. Likewise, theyve included a song called &quot;Stateless&quot; that seems to be divine by U2 of the past. In addition to these songs is &quot;The First gear Time&quot; from Zooropa, and a track by Milla Jovovich.

Theres a luck of Book of the Prophet Daniel Lanois featured on this record as well. To top that off, is the account which, with its jazzy, saxophone driven sound, sounds very noir.

The One thousand thousand Dollar Hotel soundtrack is an above decent effort but more than anything, I recall its just a mouthful to take fans excited about the new U2 release, which, with whatever luck, should be released sometime in June.