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I'm not sure what sort of fabulous prizes The Wombats have in mind for their funny-face challenge, but I bet you it'll be something kick-ass, like an autographed copy of their new album , or a dead fetus on a scimitar. I really don't know how those two even correlate, but they're the first items that came to my mind (in reverse order, by the way), when I thought of "awesome prizes." So give it the old college try and upload your V-sponses of your best Ed Golden-Gee faces [...]

Mudhoney have been around long enough that they can just sit back and laugh at the ridiculousness of the fervor of anger that some people have for the music industry: It sounds like a stoner/laizze-faire approach to tackling the beast, but you know something? They're right - who cares what some crappy mainstream band like Good Charlotte or Simple Plan (sorry, I'm getting my own frustrations out here) is making, despite the obvious lack of talent. You've just gotta [...]

Attention indie bands: if you ever happen to find yourself on tour with The Medic Droid , be REAL nice to them, unless you enjoy waking up to an 83x113 scrotum Great prank guys, but there's two problems here: The prankers have to endure just as much glossy cock and grundle as the prankees in the end. It's kind of like the old Mallrats Stink Palm kamikaze prank - you're taking it just as much as you're giving [...]

Shark Thought of the Day For Thursday: We'll know when we're in a recession when Chinese moms start telling their kids to eat their veggies because there's starving kids in America. Longer blog post to come, hold your horses

One thing I don't understand is why we have a Food Network, a Travel Channel, and a Style Network, but no Cleaning Channel or Sex Network, which would seem obvious. I think it's high time we created these, but to save money and airspace, combine them into one - The Cleaning Sex Network, with shows like "Getting Anal In the Kitchen."

Paul Revere. John Adams. Samuel Adams. The Shark. What do these 3 great Americans all have in common? We all made significant marks in Boston. For the former, it was during the Revolutionary period like 230 years ago, so no one really cares what those assholes did. Luckily, I made my mark 48 hours ago, so it's still fresh in the minds of Bostonians, and relevant to Americans. Now despite the fact that I'm from New York City, and we have this little rivalry , I'm not a Yankees fan, so I don't hate Boston [...]

I have witnessed the ongoing thread about Nickelback signing to a "3603 deal with Live Nation and thought I should throw in my two cents. First, maybe it's because I'm Canadian but I can sing approximately half the lyrics to any Nickelback song and hum the rest of the tune that I don't know the lyrics to. That is neither here nor there but I fail to see how Live Nation, a company that owns and operates The House of Blues and London's Wembley stadium is in any way to be considered an "indie" label. So, [...]

Today's late update is NOT brought to you by procrastination for once, but rather, a much needed mini vacation taken by yours truly to Boston , the birthplace of that whole pesky "independence movement" of the late 1700's. I'll get to the highlights of my trip in tomorrow's blog, but speaking of violent uprisings of the late 1700's, did you know that today is also Bastille Day in France? We've even got a special Bastille Day theme on Our Homepage [...]

Mudhoney on the music biz : "If you think about the whole thing - like "music industry", what that phrase might even represent - I don't give a shit." Midnight Juggernauts on philanthropy : "It was when Michael Jackson was going through one of his bouts of controversy and we thought we'd have a benefit concert for him." The Heavy on the indie explosion : "It's like a DIY ethic. It's almost like a punk thing. But the problem is it just [...]

You may have heard about the Guitar Hero challenge around here which we're all very excited about. I am not playing on team UI, but I will be cheerleading. In fact until recently I didn't even have a tv, let alone Guitar Hero. In order to better support my team though, for moral support, I have begun playing. That's the only reason, I swear. I had played before at other people's houses, but unboxing an addictive video game in your own house is quite a different thing! I have joined the 21st Century officially. I have [...]

The Shark mentioned he is offended by the idea that Nickelback achieved some level of musical credibility by affiliating with Live Nation and going indie . As you might have guessed by now, Freebird almost spat coffee at the screen in order to shout, "Bullshit!" Now let's underline that I am not a Nickelback fan. Previous to reading their Wikipedia entry five minutes ago, I could not name one song by them. I assume I have heard them but I couldn't tell you anything about their music. So this defense is not out [...]

If you're a regular follower of this blog, then you know that Uncensored Interview totally has a thing for Telenovela Star , and it's not just because they were one of our first interviews , or because Maggie works as our photo editor (and my personal Guitar Hero III cheerleader), or even because of their star turn several months ago on As The World Turns : No, we love Telenovela Star for so many other reasons, some [...]

Man, it's so hard to find a good music video these days. Since most stations don't play any videos, and those that do ( The Station That Shall Not Be Named ) censor the good ones , it's hard to weed out the awesome from the You Tube kid in his basement. The indie artists have a lot to say about this-it's one of the most popular topics of the interviews. The Bastard Fairies have it right, in my opinion, that the internet is bringing back awesome music videos: Seemingly [...]

Bad news, it seems like God died this week, because there's no way He, in all his eternal wisdom, would ever let THIS ever happen on His watch: Nickelback have become the latest band to sign a deal with Live Nation. The group will join Madonna, U2 and Jay-Z at the organisation, who will handle almost all of the band's affairs, including global recording, touring and merchandise. The deal, which could be worth as much as $70 million, is for three albums [...]

I find it interesting that these BONOBO CHIMPS have virtually no violence because they spend all their time getting busy. Interestingly these chimps are the closest animal relative to HOMO SAPIENS and we share 98% DNA. This makes it so clear now why me and my boyfriend "BZ" were fighting all weekend. We haven't been having enough sex. And we were actually fighting about not having enough sex. Of course BONOBO CHIMPS might be more inclined to fight [...]

I've been a fan of News Groper ever since someone linked me to their awesome Fake John Mayer blog a few weeks ago, so I was really psyched when the bosses informed me that Greg Galant , the brains behind the site, would be sitting on the uncensored couch for an interview. Here's Greg with more on News Groper: Isn't that [...]

The Teenagers on language : "We are allowed to be vulgar because of our accent. We can say 'fuck you' and it sounds sweet." Joseph Arthur on motivation : "I never really try. I think that's the key to most creative endeavors." Langhorne Slim & The War Eagles on health care : "I could live with a goiter." Jessie Baylin on Guitar Hero : "I played for like nine hours straight. I didn't eat [...]

Listening to the lovely Jessie Baylin wax poetic on inspiration on this dreary Monday morning has, in turn, inspired me to try something I've never done before - not spend a red cent this entire week. Ok, to be honest, I'm also flat broke, so I guess that probably "inspired" me just as much as Jessie did, but that doesn't take anything away from the challenge at hand. Actually, it's not really a challenge, considering the only way I can really fail is if I rob a bank or panhandle, [...]

Does anyone else find it odd that America's Hat . Canada has its independence the same week we do? It's almost-I mean I am not insinuating anything here-it's almost as if they are COPYING their big brother America. Not too independent, are we, Canada? That's why we call it INDEPENDENCE DAY here and not America Day, Canada! But enough with the Canada jokes. In honor of new blogger theperrytrain , I thought I'd confess. Most of us Americans deep down do want to be Canadian. Well, no. We want Canadian stuff, while still being [...]

Could the Fourth of July weekend go by without your blogger Freebird commenting? That would be unamerican! The Shark mentioned that the Chevy Silverado made him, like Dead Confederate, patriotic. I have to call bullshit on a Brooklyn boy knowing about pickup trucks. And monster truck rallies are popular in all of the midwest? I don't know that they are that well attended in St. Paul, MN or Chicago, but they have them pretty frequently here in NYC. Freebird here thinks that if you're gonna love America, you gotta love all of it. And that means [...]