Artist: butch walker

Now normally I'm not a fan of writing reviews about singles, but lately several cool songs have come across my desk. Although the majority of them can be classified as alternative and indie music, there is a cool New York hard rock band worth mentioning. I hope you enjoy my random selection Fun - We Are Young From the moment I first heard "We Are Young" I knew I listened to one of the best songs of 2012. Yes, only a few weeks into the new [...]

So, this band is very, very new to me but after watching this brilliant video for the song, "Synthesizers," featuring Matthew McConaughey as Wooderson from Dazed and Confused, you can count me as a big fan. Please enjoy this amazing video, song and Mr. McConaughey in his only good role to date.

Butch Walker makes musical confections, sweet rock candy that cuts through the sour indie rock landscape. Once upon a time this stuff made you a star, but now it just makes you a cult hero to folks who want to enjoy new music but who don't subscribe to the new musical paradigm. Big hooks, big drums, sly words, plentiful beer, willing girls and cunning song craft all wrapped up in a shiny box and bow. It hits your body first and then works its way to your brain. A sugar rush in all the right ways.

Butch Walker, as previously stated, can do no wrong. This video is obviously no exception. It bucks trends, makes fun of (pop) cultural stereotypes, and features the one and only Matthew McConaughey reprising a famous role. With the help of The Films' Michael Trent, Walker has created yet another great album to add to your collection. This is one of the singles from The Spade , which came out in August. Enjoy! Lyrics after the jump... everybody's writing songs with synthesizers but I [...]

Check out the video for "Synthesizers" , the latest single from Butch Walker and the Black Widows' album, The Spade . Yes, that is Matthew McConaughey reprising his role as the super cool David Wooderson from Dazed and Confused. Butch Walker and the Black Widows - "Synthesizers"

Matthew McConaughey reprising a role from the past? A Ron Jeremy cameo? Music by the perpetual underdog Butch Walker? Awesome. Hating on synthesizers? Meh.

Matthew McConaughey reprises Wooderson character from Dazed & Confused for this new video by Butch Walker and the Black Widows . Sweet! Track's not too shabby either. Synthesizers by ButchWalker

** In case you were wondering, Wooderson is one of my top five favorite movie characters. Shit, everything Matthew McConaughey has ever done is fine because he was Wooderson (including all those shitty romantic comedies, seriously). Alright, alright, alright... * BUY Butch Walker and the Black Widows ' Synthesizers ' :: FACEBOOK

"Synthesizers" is found on The Spad e http://butchwalker.com/

There's something funny about Matthew McConaughey singing the lyrics to Butch Walker & the Black Widows ' "Synthesizers." Perhaps it's because the lip-synching involves his reprisal of the"Dazed and Confused" character David Wooderson, who has, indeed, stayed the same age. Still wearing those '70s duds and burning one down, he's got the young girls following him around in a modern club setting this time around. After taking in the extra eye candy like the creep he brilliantly was in the 1993 stoner comedy, he stops to say hi to the bartender (who should look very familiar) on his way [...]

Click here to view the embedded video. Featuring Matthew McConaughey reprising his role as David Wooderson from Dazed and Confused .

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Don't feel too bad if you've never heard of Butch Walker. The musician/songwriter/producer and now author even admits himself that he will always be a mid-level entertainer, someone big enough to sell out clubs, but not a well known enough draw to pack stadiums. You have, whether you realize it or not likely heard his [...]

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Apologies "My love is like a blanket That gets a little bit too warm sometimes I wanna wrap somebody in it Who can hold me in his arms Cause when it got a little too hot in there He was always stepping out for air and he froze Oh he froze" I usually try to just choose a few lines, but I liked this whole verse. Another pandora find here. Has a little bit of that twangy feel to it, but not [...]

words & photos by Chris La Putt Butch Walkter in Brooklyn "Well, I left the town of sinners, redneck priests and meth lab stalls To find myself a few more just like me The option's pretty skinny and the order's pretty tall To swim the hippest waters in the sea Somewhere in the sticky city, driving back and forth I found myself a squat in Williamsburg Nobody seemed the same sincerely this could be [...]

For last week's Photo Caption Contest we offered up a signed Rush lithograph, commemorating their brand new triple-boxset Sectors. And the winner is: fugsspot: "Um, Ethyl? You know how Death follows us all, getting closer every day? Don't look now, but hurry the hell up please!" This week we're giving away a copy of Butch [...]

Producer Butch Walker has worked with the likes of Weezer, Katy Perry, Pink, Avril Lavigne , and Panic! at the Disco. In his new book Drinking with Strangers: Music Lessons from a Teenage Bullet Belt , Walker gives readers a clear yet comical view of what the music business involves – drugs, internal fighting, greed, swindles, booze, and the waiting for promises that will never be fulfilled. When describing how he rose to the middle, Walker talks honestly about the fragile balance found between achievement, selling out and [...]

Not only does musical superhero Butch Walker, herein dubbed "The Devin Townsend of pop," have a new album out - The Spade, which I've somehow entirely neglected to write about until now even though it's been out for weeks - but the ex-Southgang guitarist has an autobiography on the way too! Butch Walker, his very own [...]

You'll never be disappointed when the band's got a bottle of Jameson on stage. Alright, maybe that's not true, but in the case of Butch Walker and the Black Widows , you will NEVER be disappointed. Saturday night at the Beachland Ballroom was a night to remember. The thing about Walker is he encapsulates everything you're looking for in a musician. He's delicate and nuanced one song, and boisterous the next. He's rock 'n roll laced with enough blues to make a grown man cry. He's up there loving his job, this much [...]