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Thursday, July 31st

Four Year Strong - Bada Bing! Wit’ A Pipe! Video

Band: Four Year Strong Song: Bada Bing! Wit’ A Pipe! Album: Rise or Die Trying Label: I Surrender/ Decaydance Records

Artist With Lots of Money Buys Fake Sex Pistols Shirts

I’m tired of hearing how $20 for an artsy T-shirt is expensive. Heck, even our $10 Buzzgrinder T’s ain’t moving! But have some compassion for Damien Hirst. The man tried to buy some late 70s punk rock shirts and got ripped off.

“Some time ago, (Damien Hirst), a life-long fan of the Sex Pistols, paid £80,000 for a large collection of Vivienne Westwood designed T-shirts (pictured) which he believed dated back to the late 1970s when the iconic fashion designer sold her wares from a small boutique at the end of the King’s Road called Sex and then later Seditionaries. Hirst has now discovered that they are fakes.”

That’s over $150k for some ooooold school Sex Pistols shirts. Maybe he’s never heard of Hot Topic.

Image from Tree Hugger.

Tom DeLonge Bigger Draw Than Sky Eats Airplane At Warped Tour

Another lovely write up from Warped Tour, this time from Montage Mountain which is the Pennsylvania stop, I think. Writes Lisa Sokolowski:

After exiting the shuttle, concertgoers passed a volunteer handing out “Stop animal cruelty” booklets next to someone grilling and selling hot dogs.

Loving it already! I can almost smell the irony!

Instead of struggling record labels walking around selling albums for a buck, handing out samplers for free, it’s more of a cattle call from behind the tent, hoping someone will walk over and drop some cash. Tip jars for merch guys sprouted up more often.

Wait, don’t merch guys just mooch off groupies? D’OH.

… there were almost more people waiting on line for Tom DeLonge’s John Hancock than checking out Sky Eats Airplane.

The term “John Hancock,” for you non-US readers, means his signature. And the term “Sky Eats Airplane” means “band not as important as a guitar player that used to be in Blink 182.”

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Forecastle Fest: Pomegranates

Cincinnasty, representin’ up in the Ville!

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J-Roddy Walston Heading Out on the Road

As you can see from the video, J-Roddy Walston and the Business can bring it live (even though the bassist looks like that creepy 40-year-old metal dude who can’t string three words together to form a sentence… you know the guy), and the possibility of seeing J-Roddy in Cincinnati AND Lexington has me drooling. Dates are after the jump.

J-Roddy Walson and the Business - Stop, Rip and Roll

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Morning Buzz: Lazarus A.D., Alkaline Trio, Morrissey

:: Scary Kids Scaring Kids keyboardist talks about the band’s upcoming album. Hint, it’s sooo much better than the last one.

:: Muxtape might get shut down? Naw, really?

:: Lazarus A.D. signs to Metal Blade.

:: Straylight Run is done recording its EP.

:: Headline of the day: Morrissey In Israel.

:: Alkaline Trio will be touring with Rise Against, Thrice, and Gaslight Anthem. Click MORE for the dates. (more…)

Trenches Signs to Solid State

Trenches, Jimmy Ryan’s (ex-Haste the Day) new project, signed to Solid State.

So we are super excited to officially announce that we have signed with Solid State Records and have a new album coming out called “The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole” on September 16th! We’ve put up a brand new song on our page from the album called “Sacrament.”

Wednesday, July 30th

Fucked Up Wasn’t Happy With Jade Tree

Be sure to keep up with the ever-evolving Jade-Tree-is-a-bad-label saga.

Fucked Up — some band that is apparently really good, yet their name is stupid so I’ve never heard them — will be releasing The Chemicals of Common Life on Matador in October. If you follow the band, you know that they were formerly on Jade Tree. Their blog explains the reasoning behind the label change.

We did our part by recording a good album and doing a lot of touring, but as soon as the record came out they dropped off the face of the earth — the two main people behind the label got second jobs midway through our contract and were never at the office, and we started having trouble ever getting in touch from them, and also ever figuring out what exactly they were doing for our record.

Apparently they aren’t the only ones in this boat. (more…)

Forecastle Fest: Margo and the Nuclear So and So’s

They were good at music.
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Four Dead in Denver, Colo. — Or Something Like That

Early Tuesday morning, four people were found dead in their homes. Officials say each victim died from complications related to old age. Johnny Rockersmith, a student at Rocky Mountain High, said, “It was a typical day, but those people still died. It’s just weird.” Local police declined to comment.

A bit misleading? OK, OK… Let’s talk about honesty. Let’s talk about yellow journalism. That big-name five buck newspaper you buy every week? Yeah. I’m sick of good people being tricked into reading garbage stories because of stretched truths! We’re all just forced to care since “it made the news,” and we’re still waiting for Walter Cronkite to push that button he has attached to our cerebral cortex, designed to stimulate national sympathy.

So if you’re tired of being lead around by the nose, stick with Buzzgrinder. We sort through the garbage and bring you the good stuff, fresh and fast as we feel like it. That’s why I joined up.

By the way, I’m the new guy. Deal with it.

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