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Friday, February 27, 2009

Lonely Island Interview

Posted by Beasley on 02/27 at 10:36 AM

Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg are Lonely Island
Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg are Lonely Island

Funny music usually sucks. Most of the time it’s either not very funny or not very musical. Lonely Island has made an album that’s both. I didn’t think they could do it. Boyhood buddies Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone are funny guys. Their digital shorts are the best skits on SNL, and their multiple Internet hits suggest they’re at least a tad musically inclined. But a full album? No way they could pull it off. Yes way? Incredibad hit No. 1 on iTunes, and I’ve listened to it three times since it dropped. I’ve never listened to a full Weird Al album. When “The Dudes” called, I had to answer. Check below to see their thoughts on everything from West Coast hip-hop to Joe Montana to removing jizz stains from your pants.

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

MSTRKRFT - “Bounce” Ft. N.O.R.E. & “Click Click” Ft. E-40

Posted by Beasley on 02/25 at 11:48 AM

Dirty electro went mainstream hip with Justice. MSTRKRFT is bringing electro into mainstream hip-hop. Hailing out of Toronto, the duo - Jesse Keeler (formerly of Death from Above 1979) and Al-P - has enlisted various big label emcees to rap over their blaring farty synth party beats for the group’s second full-length album Fist of God. N.O.R.E., who put out one of the best hip-hop albums of the ‘90s, lends his talents to “Bounce,” the first single off the album, while West Coast legend E-40 drops lines on “Click Click.” Fist of God drops on March 17. Check above for the music video to “Bounce,” and after the jump for “Click Click.”

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Monday, February 23, 2009

Blue October Exclusive Webisodes: 3 & 4

Posted by Beasley on 02/23 at 05:22 PM

Blue October is for the children! Well, maybe the clean version of Approaching Normal is. The band shows us what goes down in the studio in the final two webisodes of this exclusive series. Check after the jump for the finale.

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Blue October Exclusive Webisodes: 1 & 2

Posted by Beasley on 02/17 at 05:29 PM

Rock stars are real people, too. Blue October, the platinum selling band behind “Hate Me” and “Into the Ocean” is coming back with a vengeance in 2009, and they want you to know that making hits isn’t easy. In an exclusive set of videos, the first two of which we give you right here, we go behind the scenes with the band to find out what makes them tick. Check after the jump for video #2, and come back in a week for #3 and 4.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Making of the Music Video - Blue October’s “Dirt Room”

Posted by Hess on 02/12 at 09:50 AM

Platinum selling alternative rockers Blue October are coming back with a vengeance in 2009. Their fifth studio album Approaching Normal will hit shelves at the end of March, and if you’ve been paying attention you’ve already caught the music video for lead single “Dirt Room” (check after the jump). The song has been blowing up on rock radio stations across the nation, and we’re not surprised. We’ve got the making-of video right here and we’ll be rolling out a set of exclusive behind-the-scenes vids with the band over the next couple weeks. Stay tuned.

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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Lineup Wars: Bonnaroo vs. Coachella

Posted by Beasley on 02/03 at 05:03 PM

Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney

There was a time when the Bonnaroo kids would sit at one lunch table and the Coachella kids would sit at another. Then something happened. Phish disbanded, Radiohead played Bonnaroo in 2006, and since then the hippies have been going hip. The Coachella kids have drifted themselves, ironic mustaches going post-ironic, and now mostly shaved altogether, and musical purviews have broadened. The organizers of Coachella and Bonnaroo are banking on the continuation of these trends, while hoping to retain a bit of what made the premier American festivals special in the first place. Finally, the biggest jam band ever will play what was once the biggest hippy festival, and Coachella has again stocked its lineup with unknown bands on the cutting edge. But each has gone more mainstream, more old school and more gray area than ever before.

In 2009 the two festivals will play host to a handful of the same artists such as TV on the Radio, Band of Horses and Girl Talk. Only one festival boasts NIN and the other claims Amy Winehouse will show. With Bonnaroo releasing its first of two major lineup announcements today and Coachella’s lineup all wrapped up, we take a look at some of the major musical showdowns and tell you which festival comes out on top.

Bruce Sprinsteen (Bonnaroo) vs. Paul McCartney (Coachella)
The mainstream hits the festival circuit in this battle of headlining rock ‘n’ roll legends. Having played at Obama’s inauguration and halftime at Super Bowl XLIII, Bruce has been the only constant on the world’s biggest stages in 2009. Does that make Bonnaroo this year’s third biggest stage? Maybe so. Let’s not forget though, that Paul McCartney is a Beatle.

Edge: Toss Up

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Making The Video: Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Posted by parker on 02/03 at 04:25 PM

After their Gold certified (2006’s Don’t You Fake It) album and countless months out on the live circuit, Florida melodic-rockers The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus took some much needed time off. But their rest wouldn’t last long as they went back into the studio with Howard Benson (Incubus, My Chemical Romance) and the stunning results are finally hitting stores this week on their new album, Lonely Road.

In this UGO exclusive check out some behind-the-scenes footage taken at the filming of the band’s new video for their ripping single “You Better Pray.”

Lonely Road is out this week on Virgin Records.



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Friday, January 30, 2009

Linkin Park Says ‘Eff You’ to Hurricanes

Posted by Beasley on 01/30 at 03:31 PM

Linkin Park is teaming up with online philanthropy site SocialVibe.com to help the victims of the 4 hurricanes that slammed into Haiti last August. Those asshole hurricanes left thousands of people who were just trying to have a good time in the gutter. Help ‘em out by adding the SocialVibe app to your facebook page or whatever you use and give your friends the chance to drop some digital pennies for the cause. Add more SocialVibe friends than anyone else and you’ll win a trip to L.A. to party with the band as they record their new album. And you thought Bono was the only musician that thinks hurricanes are d-bags!



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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Eagles of Death Metal Interview - Part 1

Posted by parker on 01/22 at 01:55 PM

Jesse Hughes is a rock devotee in the sense of a practicing Buddhist partaking in Kung-Fu exercises of agility and strength. He knows rock ‘n roll as lifestyle and posture, more than an abstract musical genre. Hughes, and his absent partner Josh Homme (of Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss fame), have crafted an ode to the caricature of c*ck-rock started by Jagger and his ilk decades ago. In their third studio album, Heart On, they continue the slippery slide into tongue-n-cheek debauchery with a side of stoner riffs and rolls.

Our very own Matsen caught up with Hughes not long ago at the infamous Bowery Ballroom in downtown Manhattan. What follows is part one of a hilarious and very rock n’ roll interaction.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Jack’s Mannequin Behind-The-Scenes Video #5

Posted by Beasley on 01/13 at 04:43 PM

In the final installment of the series, Andrew McMahon performs an acoustic version of Jack’s Mannequin’s hit song “The Resolution.”

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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Jack’s Mannequin Behind-The-Scenes Video #4

Posted by Beasley on 01/07 at 03:26 PM

The guys do some in-bus calisthenics and put on their game faces before a sold-out show in the second to last installment of the behind-the-scenes series.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Jack’s Mannequin Behind-The-Scenes Video #3

Posted by parker on 12/30 at 04:01 PM

This week: Check out what life is like for Casper, the tour manager.

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