Previewing the 6 tracks that make up Ugly Kid Joe's new EP, Stairway to Hell , it sounds like, with the exception of "Another Beer", the band - who hasn't released any new music in 15 years - is straying away from the jokey stuff ("(I Hate) Everything About You") and the lighter stuff ("Cat's in the Cradle"). Of course, UGJ always was a hard rock band that just happened to release singles that mainstream radio played, so it shouldn't be a surprise that the new material has a hard and heavy sound [...]
That's right. The reunited Ugly Kid Joe have released a video for their new single, "Devil's Paradise," and while the video is ridiculously terrible, the song is... fine. I mean, my expectations for this reunion were way lowered by last year's unlistenable "Love Ain't True," and, really, I'm kind of just excited that these dudes got [...]
UK rockers, get ready to do some dancing and some headbanging at Donington Park this year. The line up for the 10th annual Download festival was recently announced and the line up is rather big for fans of hard rock and metal. Headlining this whole shindig are Metallica, Black Sabbath and The Prodigy. You've also got Chase & Status, Biffy Clyro and Soundgarden providing support (even though I think Soundgarden should be a headliner but that's just me.) Other bands appearing include Tenacious D, Machine Head, Lamb of God, You Me At Six, Trivium, [...]
Soundgarden just posted this on their official Facebook page . In addition to the five names only just released by Zane Lowe, there are nine others - co-incidentally, the same number of names set to be announced by Daniel P Carter later tonight. Did someone in Soundgarden's camp post the wrong picture? OOPS. **UPDATE** It's now been pulled from Soundgarden's page ( we got a screengrab though ). Do you think that make it more or less legit? Heaven forbid we speculate (Yes). As you can see above, the nine new [...]
It's no secret that I love Ugly Kid Joe, and got totally excited when the band announced their reunion last year. And so it was with great excitement this morning that I learned that UKJ have not only recorded a new six song EP, but that one of the songs from said EP, "Love Ain't [...]
THEY'RE BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC K. Has it really been 14 years since an Ugly Kid Joe release? Well, no worries, the guys got back together this year and have recorded 6 songs for an EP which they hope to release at some point. Here's one of the songs that came out of those recording sessions, "Love Ain't True". Yeah, you love it, baby!
I love music, but I am first and foremost a fan of comedy. If you were to spy on my iPod, you'd see that I spend 90% of my time listening to Joe Rogan and Adam Carolla's podcasts. Music is cool and all, but you can only hear so much before the novelty wears off [...]
When Ugly Kid Joe released their debut album 'America's Least Wanted' there wasn't a kid in my class who couldn't air guitar to the single. Brilliant to believe this charted as high as #3 in the UK singles charts back in the day but there was a spark in this and other singles the band [...]
Photography by DarkMagoo ... Can you imagine that there was ever I time that I 'defended' Bon Jovi over Metallica in the schoolyard? So what that I was only 11 when I did that. I must been've stoned out of my fucking skull trying to convince people that those poodle haired assfaces were anywhere near the acknowledged kings of thrash metal. Anyway, that time has long gone since. What hasn't gone though is my undying love for the crappy music genre that's called Hair Metal ! It's not that I play this [...]
Buried in a press release about Whitfield Crane doing a guest gig/Dio/Peter Steele/Paul Gray multi-dead-musican tribute show with Costa Rica's Sight of Emptiness* was this awesome news from Mr. Crane: "It's ON — UGLY KID JOE is back. We are talking about doing shows next year, in addition to studio time. I'm stoked." I don't know what's up [...]
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Through amazing mind-reading technology created by the MetalSucks Mansion Monkey affectionately known as "You Worthless Retard," MetalSucks was exclusively able to listen-in on Joey Belladonna's most private thoughts while he contemplated whether or not to return to Anthrax.* What follows is a transcript of those thoughts... Okay, Joey. Now, let's be rational. Let's think this [...]
:: We've been wondering whether to be happy or sad about the fate of Fall Out Boy the last few months. Well it looks like happy time . Huzzah! :: Frances Bean will make her vocal debut with Weird Al , which means she already has more street cred than her mom. :: Jersey Shore 's Snooki is everywhere these days - even at the Grammys, interviewing Phoenix like a good guidette . Italian-American stereotypes are funny. Because they're true. [...]
The other day I made my desire for an Ugly Kid Joe reunion known. Two of you, Kuranes and wormdrive66, seemed in favor of such a reunion, while one of you, David was against the idea - and no one else mentioned it in the midst of speculating about who's gonna be on Ozzfest 2010. So, [...]
Friday Five : \ˈfrī-(ˌ)dā,-dē ˈfīv\ : On the sixth day of every week I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes and share my five and drop a little knowledge and insight for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, sometimes there isn't. Sometimes we have guest, but most of the time it's just me. The rest is up to you, our friends and readers! Fire up your media player of choice and share the first five random track of your shuffle in the comments. The Five : Ani [...]
Puh, das Jahr 2000 ist inzwischen schon wirklich lange her. Und meine musikalische Sozialisation war damals noch lange nicht abgeschlossen. Aber fangen wir mal noch etwas weiter in der Vergangenheit an… Was bisher geschah Mit vier steckte mich mein großer Bruder in ein Holzfällerhemd und ließ mich darin zu Smells Like Teen Spirit „performen". 1 Überhaupt hörte ich Anfang der 90er größtenteils die Musik, die meine großen Geschwister mochten – Metallica, Guns'n'Roses, Ugly Kid Joe usw. Nicht schlecht für ein Kindergartenkind, würde ich [...]
A few weeks after starting this blog I was joined by a good friend, Puppet Show . In fact, one of the reasons I began blogging was because he went away on vacation and left me with no one to talk to about music! He co-blogged with me for a while in those early days and as he was my sole source of music conversation at that time, I often went to him with my random and embarrassingly stupid questions. I've been begging him to come back and do some posts. He's finally agreed to recount his story of [...]
Q. How many record execs does it take to change a light bulb? A. First of all, before we change anything, is the light bulb really burned out? Maybe we just need to breathe some life into it; repackage it, maybe the light bulb could do a duet with somebody in hopes of getting some crossover [...]
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There are just some songs that are so good/bad that need some well deserved and long overdue play on my iTunes. Todays playlist is a little collection of those. Enjoy: TLC - Waterfalls Presidents Of The USA - Lump Polaris - Hey Sandy Snow - Informer The Cardigans - Lovefool Ugly Kid Joe - Everything I Hate About You [...]
And thankfully, Sergeant D of MetalInquisition is inclined to agree: Let's be perfectly clear: If you don't like Nitro, you're not my fucking friend. Obviously Nitro are completely ridiculous, but I 100% non-ironically love this band as Skullkrusher and Lucho Metales [other MI writers] can attest to. They had the biggest hair, the highest screams, the [...]
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