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Radiohead's new album In Rainbows comes out on October 10th. What makes this a big deal is twofold:

1) Radiohead is not on a label. They're releasing this album on their own as a digital download on their website.

2) The price? It's up to you. No really. It's up to you.

Why this is something to be watched:
A Record Price for a Radiohead Album: $0 - Los Angeles Times

Pay What You Want - Time Magazine

Radiohead bends Record Industry Over Conference Table and Goes To Town - Best Week Ever

So, anyway, in honor of this and because Radiohead is one of my all time favorite bands, I give you a musicspam. All songs are hosted on my webspace, so right-click save. Comments are awesome, especially because I love a) talking about music, b) talking about Radiohead, and c) talking about how much of an impact this is going to have on an already struggling industry that's based itself on an increasingly obsolete business model and which is being shaken up left and right by the new media.

To sum up:
1) Radiohead is awesome.
2) The new album comes out on 10/10/07.
3) The band is letting you decide how much you think their music is worth.

( pablo honey )

( the bends )

( ok computer )

( kid a )

( amnesiac )

( hail to the thief )

( b-sides and covers )

So, okay, below the cut you will find the set list from the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre show on Friday night. To go along with the setlist, I've included live versions of all the Muse songs, the entirety of the JFK speech they excerpted from, and Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" which Muse didn't exactly cover, but they played the riff and it was AWESOME.

( Muse set list: 9/21/07 )

And oh, Muse. You have all the subtlety of a brick to the head sometimes. *hearts you*

The text of the US tour intro to "Take a Bow"
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.

For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice.

It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no secret is revealed.

That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.

I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people..., confident that with your help, man will be what he was born to be, free and independent.

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and in somewhat related news: ladysorka put up pictures from the pit at Street Scene of TAI, Jack's Mannequin, Panic, and Muse.

Hm. My mom bought me a pullover hoodie. I do not approve! But it is an appropriate fall-weight in So Cal hoodie. My life, so hard.

raveninthewind asked for Muse acoustic and doing covers, however dodgy.

( I think I may have way too many versions of Feeling Good. Oh well! 19 songs under the cut. )

I *have* "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" and yet it just came on KROQ and I stopped everything I was doing to listen. WTF brain? Also, yay! Is FOB being played on KROQ again? Because that is pretty freaking super.

Anyway. I keep...forgetting how not alternative rock IOH is until I hear it up against other music in that same genre. It's not structured the same, it's not orchestrated the same, it's not sung the same, it's not produced the same, none of it. I don't know a lot about the production process, but what FOB does in terms of their production values is a lot closer to pop and hip hop in terms of how clean it is. Which really, let's face it, isn't a surprise considering they got *Babyface* to produce "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" and Patrick's own production style seems to head closer to that direction than anywhere else and Butch Walker does the same thing on some of the albums he produces. Oh, pop rock. I heart you so.

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SO CAL PEOPLE. Is anyone other than ladysorka and me going to Street Scene next Saturday? Or, you know, to the Muse show the night before? Saturday acts are Muse, Panic at the Disco, TAI... and others. GCH is on Sunday (*fist of fury*)

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In my continuing mission to bring you all music, I want to point you to a couple of things that kroq is doing.

1) KROQ of the 80s - All day every day, alternative rock of the 80s.

2) LA Invasion is tomorrow and being webcast on the website. Acts include: Smashing Pumpkins, the FOO FIGHTERS, Velvet Revolver, Chris Cornell, Cypress Hill, Paramore, Hot Hot Heat, Against Me, Perry Farrell, and Kid Rock.

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Patrick Stump is The Best. I do not understand how he is real, but whatever. Patrick Stump is my secret girlfriend, y'all, and I'm not ashamed to say so.

( pictures - aka Patrick Stump, How are You So Hot? )

okay, no more pictures, but! now video!

"Dust My Broom"/Even Tours Get the Blues - right click save if you didn't before. Just Patrick singing the blues in hotass video.

( youtube videos embedded behind the cut )

Songs! Right click save.
Hum Hallelujah - Infinity on High

Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division cover) - My Heart Will Always Be the B-Side to My Tongue

So Sick (Ne-Yo cover) - acoustic session at some radio station.

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music listened to during the composition of this post: "Undone (Sweater Song)" - Weezer, a song by SOAD/Serge Tankian that I don't know the name of, "Darling Nikki" - Foo Fighters (note to self: track down download of foo fighters + cee lo doing this song), "Dream World" - Rilo Kiley, "Let Down" - Radiohead, "Sorrow" - Bad Religion, "Knights of Cydonia" - Muse, "Like a Stone" - Audioslave, "Misery Business" - Paramore

Music for Geeks at a Con. Yes, Amy and I are nerdcore enough TO HAVE A MIX.

Our official theme song, combining many of our favorite things! Like Big Daddy Samuel L Motherfucking Jackson! Snakes! Genetically mutated snakes on a plane! and also AHAHAHA COBRA STARSHIP!
Snakes on a Plane (Bring It) - Cobra Starship

Superman and Green Lantern ain't got nothing on us.
Sunshine Superman - Donovan

I'm just saying, you've gotta kind of respect a band that rhymes erotic with atomic.
Superhero Girl - Eve 6

This song is too good to be true.
Believe It or Not (theme from The Greatest American Hero) - Joey Scarbury

Our capes are at the cleaners!
Supahero - Aceyalone and RJD2

A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, God said, "let there be Comic Con," and there was, and it was good.
Science Fiction Double Feature - Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (from The Rocky Horror Punk Rock Show)

Here comes Superman from Never Never Land
Cartoon Heroes - Aqua

We are *totally* kings of the impossible.
Flash! - Queen

Use that evidence. The evidence of SUPERNESS. HI, I AM TOTALLY MADE OF CHEESE.
My Hero - Foo Fighters

We are super and we can do anything.
Superman - The Academy Is...


This video = SO MUCH MORE HILARIOUS now that I know who the hell these people are. OH TRAVIS YOU ARE SO ADORABLE. YOU CANNOT RAP BUT YOU ARE ADORABLE.

Man, I am incredibly fucking crankypants today due to various things, not the least of which is my nephew being a shit, but one of the things that makes me feel better is music. So here, music by the Foo Fighters because Dave Grohl is made of awesome. Also, seriously you guys, they're dorky enough that the band is named after "mysterious aerial phenomena." *hearts them*

( Foo Fighters: 1 cover song, 3 acoustic tracks, and the live album. Track listing under the cut. )

So, I totally did not introduce my shiny shiny icon of joy and happiness which combines two of the things I love most. *points* donella gave it to me! She is awesome! It is music! and it is super! Who doesn't love music that is super?

That said:
(via sendspace)
For What It's Worth - Rise Against (covering Buffalo Springfield, from AOL Sessions Under Cover)

Suicide is Painless - Manic Street Preachers (covering the MASH theme song, from Forever Delayed: The Greatest Hits)

I Just Want To Have Something to Do - Garbage (covering The Ramones, from We're a Happy Family: A Tribute to the Ramones)

Under the Bridge - Gym Class Heroes (covering Red Hot Chili Peppers, from Punk Goes 90s)

Start Today - Fall Out Boy (covering Gorilla Biscuits, from Tony Hawk's American Wasteland)

GO TO LOLLAPALOOZA OMG MUSE IS GOING TO BE THERE. GO GO GO GO. MUSE! GO SEE!

Other reasons you should go to Lollapalooza: MUSE MUSE MUSE OMG MUSE. THE ROOTS. LUPE FIASCO. *cough*

Iggy and the Stooges! Patti Smith! Snow Patrol! Interpol! G. Love and Special Sauce! Amy Winehouse! Yo la Tengo! The Fratellis! Ted Leo and the Pharmacists! Ninety billion other people!

ETA: man, I have to admit, I love flailing around like a spastic dork to System of a Down and Rage Against the Machine. I think I might actually have to go buy Guitar Hero because...um. I am that person who would love playing it.

*looks around carefully*

*throws horns*

*runs away*

And then there were renegades.

So, you know. There's this guy, right? And his name is Butch Walker. And I like him.

A lot.

The way the rest of bandom seems to like Panic? That is how I like Butch Walker. Except with less gay porn. Also he's older.

Musically, Butch Walker runs the gamut from alt-country ("Rich People Die Unhappy") to power pop/rock ("Suburbia") to full on ubersincere (and gorgeous) ballads ("Cigarette Lighter Love Song," "Take Tomorrow"), to harder rock ("Lights Out"), to T-Rex inspired glam ("Hot Girls in Good Moods"). I may not have known that The Who and the Guess Who were different, but I do know that Butch Walker is *good* and has earned his entirely rabid and kind of crazy fan following.

Anyway! Butch Walker is a singer, songwriter, hot shot producer of power pop/rock, and an enormous dork. For the bandom people: he produced Santi for TAI as well as their cover of "Superman" on the Sounds of Superman compilation and also "Don't You Know Who I Think I Am" for FOB *and* he does backup vocals on "This Ain't a Scene, It's An Arms Race," "Hum Hallelujah," "Bang the Doldrums," and "You're Crashing, But You're No Wave." And he was at the BMI panel with Patrick.

For non bandom people: Butch writes songs for and produces Pink, Avril Lavigne, American Hi Fi, Bowling for Soup, The Donnas, SR 71, Stroke 9, and a whole mess of others. He was named Rolling Stone's Producer of the Year in 2005. He used to be in a band called Marvelous 3 and *their* hit song (obv. written by Butch) was called "Freak of the Week." Now he tours solo, with various members of American Hi Fi, the Let's-Go-Out-Tonites (more about them later), and sometimes Avril Lavigne plays drums for him.

He's just totally awesome and I love him to pieces. So, thank you for Butch Walker, Patrick. If I loved you for nothing else, I'd love you for leading me to him.

I know, I know, this is a lot of text to read, but I REALLY LOVE HIM, Y'ALL. I have lots to say.

( rock! vocal! power! music and pictures behind the cut )

( music videos and live performances. )

( videos for songs that Butch wrote or co-wrote )

( more pictures, studio cuts and a song by the Marvelous 3 )