Best news I’ve heard all year
Though technically it’s too late to be classified as a Christmas miracle, according to Chris Cornell’s Twitter, the greatest rock back of all time, Soundgarden, is getting back together.
Praise the Lord!
This by far is the greatest news I’ve heard all year. They broke up in 1997. Chris Cornell hooked up with the members of Rage Against the Machine to form the band Audioslave. Though I enjoyed Audioslave, they were no Soundgarden.
I just have to see them perform live.
Creepy gay kid who lost ‘American Idol’ acts creepy at American Music Awards
Adam Lambert, the runner-up on season 8 of American Idol, performed at the American Music Awards last night. The award show was televised by ABC. During Lambert’s performance, he made out with a male keyboard player and forced a female dancer’s head to his crotch in a sexually suggestive manner.
At least she looked to be female.
Make no mistake, Adam Lambert is one creepy dude. That fact that he’s gay has nothing to do with it. Anyone – gay or straight – that walks another human being on a leash like they were a dog on stage in front of millions is a creep.
You know why Kiss is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Gene Simmons is perturbed that Kiss isn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Evidently he mouthed off about the supposed snub on his crappy reality TV show, Gene Simmons Family Jewels. Not that I would ever watch it and I’ve been known to watch quite a bit of crappy reality TV.
The reason Kiss isn’t in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is because they aren’t a real band. They may have played their own music and sung their own songs, but they never created real music. They created theater. It was all about putting on a stage show.
When they wore costumes and face paint, people cared about Kiss. When they took off the face paint and just wore regular clothes, people could care less about Kiss. When they put the face paint and costumes back on, people suddenly cared again.
Kiss belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame about as much as the cast of Cats or any other Broadway production that relies on make-up, costumes, complicated light shows to perform does.
I’ll be the first to admit that there are a few bands in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that probably shouldn’t be there. My guess is that Gene Simmons has been such a raging douche for so long to so many people that he’s not very popular with some of the people with involved with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
If it makes him feel any better, maybe he could go to Spencer’s at his local mall and bask in all the Kiss merchandise. Maybe he could make Spencer’s his own little hall of fame.
Scars on Broadway
I was listening to one of the rock channels on Sirius the other day when I discovered a band I hadn’t heard before, but one I really enjoyed. They are called Scars on Broadway and I thought they had a sound that sounded very similar to System of a Down. There is a reason for that. The band consists of two members, System of a Down guitarist Daron Malakian and drummer John Dolmayan.
Their debut self titled album Scars on Broadway was released this past July.
I read that the band got it’s name not from that famous street in New York, but from the not so famous street with the same name in Glendale, California. Evidently there are some old lamp posts up and down Broadway with strange swastika looking symbols on them. It’s the basis of the song Funny. Next time I go home to visit, I’ve got to check them out.
They were going to call the band Swastikas on Broadway, but that would just be silly.
It’s far and away the best album I’ve heard all year. I highly recommend it.
Clay Aiken is a Gay-American
Former American Idol season two runner-up Clay Aiken wants the world to know that he is gay. Not that anyone didn’t already know this bit of information. What’s next, will American Idol season two winner Rubin Studdard announce that he is fat and black?
I don’t think so.
Aiken is to appear on the cover of People magazine with his newborn son along with the caption “YES I AM A GAY-AMERICAN SO DEAL WITH IT YOU ASSHOLES” or something like that.
I say good for him. I think people hiding who they are is just silly. Not that I don’t understand why they feel the need to do it. Hating on people because their gay is one of the very last refuges for small minded people that are predisposed to ugly prejudices.
This doesn’t change anything. I’m sure that anyone who considered themselves a Clay Aiken fan before this announcement will go on being a Clay Aiken fan.
I like free music
Nine Inch Nails is giving away their new song Discipline. All you have to do is go to this website and enter your email address along with your zip code and through the magic of the Internets, they will email you a special code that you can enter to download an MP3 of the song.
Free is good. Long live free!
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