PETA’s throwing the annual “sexiest vegetarian” poll, with names ranging from Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy) to writer Jonathan Safran Foer to Rob Zombie. Last year winners were Natalie Portman and Benji Madden (Good Charlotte). The polling form gives a good chance to rummage through an extremely long list and find your heroes are vegetarians, which gives them extra extra points. Link.
1. Lindsay Lohan cited for drunk driving. Again.
2. Having a self portarit pic you took when you were 14 appearing on a porn movie DVD cover is nothing new!
3. Will a Nine Inch Nails song be the official theme for Hillary Clinton’s Campaign?
4. In celebration of Rolling Stone’s 40th Anniversary, we’ve handpicked the 40 albums they got wrong. Each and every one of these gems deserved their greatest praise: 5 Stars. Justice is served. Well, kind of.
5. Creed’s Scott Stapp has been arrested once more for being the violent punk that he usually is. tsk tsk tsk.
6. The Wall Street Journal is celebrating 40 years of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the classic Beatles album. With ‘Sgt. Pepper,’ the Beatles indulged their whims — and changed rock forever.
7. Stream the new Smashing Pumpkins track, Tarantula!
8. In case you’ve missed it (now how can that be?!): Before you head on to the next hardcore show just across the street, read the complete guide to surviving the mosh pits. Trust me, it will make you safe - just like wearing a condom, but without the sex part.
9. Check out Spool.fm - a cool new online music player which lets you invite your friends and listen to the same track at the same time.
10. Rapper Foxy Brown returns with a new album, called “Black Roses“.
11. What does Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump think of chimpanzees?
12. We love the Hype Machine, the service that aggregates music from top music blogs. Anthony Volodkin, the man behind the plan, is answering some questions regarding his creation.
13. The all-new Simpsons movie theme song will be recorded by Green Day, now what-do-you-know.
14. “People Who Complain About KISS Merchandise Cut My Lawn And Pick Up My Garbage“. Gene Simmons is hiring.
15. Southern Hip Hop - it’s time to shine! A new TV show is dedicated to the goodness of that south jam.
16. Yes, it’s official: CREAM to reunite.
17. No rest for the Deftones: it seems they are working on a new album, and Chino Moreno is putting life back into his Team Sleep.
18. Woop. No 50 Cent for you, well, not until September, that is.
19. Did R. Kelly and Usher steal “Same Girl”? The answer, my friends, is…
20. One of the most beautiful YouTube videos I have ever seen is getting very popular in the last couple of days. It features nothing but art - showing paintings of women made by great classic artists. I guess this is what slideshows were meant for in the first place.
500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael - Raffaello, Titian - Tiziano Vecellio , Sandro Botticelli , Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Antonello da Messina, Pietro Perugino, Hans Memling, El Greco, Hans Holbein, Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov , Peter Paul Rubens, Gobert, Caspar Netscher, Pierre Mignard, Jean-Marc Nattier, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov, Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky, Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov, Antoine-Jean Gros, Orest Adamovich Kiprensky, Amalie, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Édouard Manet, Flatour, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, William Clark Wontner, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Comerre, Leighton, Blaas, Renoir, Millias, Duveneck, Cassat, Weir, Zorn, Alphonse Mucha, Paul Gaugan, Henri Matisse, Picabia, Gustav Klimt, Hawkins, Magritte, Salvador Dali, Malevich, Merrild, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso.
Happy Monday!
Fall Out Boy spokesman, Pete Wentz, is apparently opening a new bar in New York’s once-cool now-trendy and fratty East Village neighborhood (face it - the new east village is in brooklyn). The bar, on A and 11th st. is called Angels & King, but the tactful Fall Out Boy bassmaster also uses AK-47 as a name for the joint.
New York Mag has some quotes:
“Despite his public makeout sessions with Ashlee Simpson, Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz complains that when he goes out, bouncers don’t recognize him. And even if they do, his whole entourage usually can’t go in with him. “And I’m not the kind of person that’s like, ‘All right, I’ll meet up with you guys later,’ ” he says. “It’s like, what’s the fun in going out to a place if you’re just sitting around in a VIP lounge with a bunch of other people on their BlackBerrys?”
AK-47 is expected to open on April 30th. Now there’s a place you can go if you never want to meet me. Stereogum has some info as well.
Fall Out Boy, perhaps the busiest punk pop band on the circuit, have just released a new video for Thnks Fr Th Mmrs, the second single (third if you count “The Carpal Tunnel of Love”) off of the chart breaking Infinity on High.
Here’s Thnks Fr Th Mmrs:
And if any of you need another dose of Pete Wentz, Fall Out Boy’s bass player, lyricist and spokesman, who sometimes likes to take cellphone pics of his naked body and send it to everyone, here’s a video chat he did recently with Blink 182 frontman, Mark Hoppus. Link.
The New Yorker’s esteemed music writer, Sasha Frere-Jones, published an article about Fall Out Boy. It’s always interesting to read highbrow media deal with lowbrow bands, and Mr. Frere-Jones does a very good job. Favorite excerpts:
““Infinity on High,” the new album by the Illinois rock band Fall Out Boy, débuted at No. 1 four weeks ago and has sold two hundred and sixty thousand copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The group’s previous album, “From Under the Cork Tree” (2005), has sold 2.5 million copies. Few pop acts are currently selling millions of records, and hard-rock bands, once a staple of the American top ten, rarely figure in the upper reaches of the charts.”
and
“Every time Stump’s music surges hopefully upward, Wentz’s words pull the song back down, his admissions of untrustworthiness inoculating listeners against the urge to romanticize: “They say I only think in the form of crunching numbers, in hotel rooms collecting Page Six lovers” (from “Thnks fr th Mmrs”). Wentz is emo’s Woody Allen, unable to enjoy his increasing fame and determined to lampoon himself before someone else does.”
Link.
From internet fame to mainstream reign, here are the FOBs doing the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, the highest honor a rock musician could get. Pete Wentz, is - of course - shirtless as usual.
Fall Out Boy’s blog, probably written by kingpin Pete Wentz, links to a hilarious youtube video featuring some mainstream TV station’s report on emo music and the “dangers” of it. This video thought me, for example, that the hair on one eye thing symbolizes seeing the world through a one sided view… or at least that’s what Mr. Sheriff says. Here’s the emo report:
How much proof does it take to convince music execs that downloading doesn’t hurt their business? We had this story, and this one, and even this one. And now, here’s the last chapter in the Fall Out Boy record leak story: Infinity on High, released on February 6, just made its way to the #1 (!) spot at the Billboard US album chart. Time for RIAA to wakeup.
I’m getting obsessive about this, but they just might be the biggest internet band in the world: Fall Out Boy is now allowing users to listen to Infinity on High in its entirety. After writing here about the different ways Fall Out Boy coped with the recent album leak, I am satisfied with my old conclusion: this leak business only did good: to the band and to its audience (not me). To listen to FOB’s new album, log on to http://falloutboy.islandrecords.com/listening/. I’m going to take my time with this one.
Oh, and Streetunes has the Dance Dance, and the Sugar we’re going down ringtones. You know, so you can impress your friends.
I am not sure you want me to state my opinion of Fall Out Boy’s music. BUT, since I am a positive, generous kind of person, and I understand that the world does not revolve around me, I am posting a recent Fall Out Boy music video, for “This ain’t a Scene it’s an Arms Race”. And joking aside, I have to say this video is pretty funny: it starts out with the band doing a boring music video shoot in front of a dummy crowd made out of carton figures (could this be some kind of statement about the nature of Fall Out Boy’s fan base?) then the band goes off to record a new song with a leading hip hop producer: they all stand in a dark recording studio, surrounded by hip hop moguls with brown bagged forties and mean stares. But you wouldn’t believe what happens next! Homeboys start digging Fall Out’s music! It rocks out! Later on, a perverted old man gets emo “pretty boy”, Peter Wenz, to strip and a gang of horny girls download the pictures and are wowed by Pete’s package. The saga continues, but I’m done with the play by play. Check it out yourselves:
Here’s Fall Out Boy’s video for “This Ain’t a Scene It’s an Arms Race”: