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Hello friends and others. I am off on a mini-vacation tomorrow (see above picture). When we get back from Mexico the plan is to finish packing up our house and move to Vancouver...finally. Life will be pretty wild over the next few weeks so I highly doubt that there will be much new music posted up here. As a present, here is a playlist that I will be listening to while sitting by the pool, eating tacos, drinking chi-chi's and playing some serious Scrabble. Till then... 1. Dirty Gold - California Sunrise [...]
As we move into a new year, one of the strangest pieces of news has been revealed. Album sales in 2011 actually went up for the first time in almost a decade. Granted it was mostly due to Adele's incredibly popular album...that still proves that the album as a musical format is still very viable. And while all the news articles still like to pronounce the death of rock and how pop has
The Offspring have announced that they will be headlining Japan's Punkspring Festival . Also appearing will be Sum 41 , New Found Glory , Suicidal Tendencies , All Time Low , and more. The festival is scheduled to take place over March 31st in Tokyo, and April 1st in Osaka.

I was never much of an Offspring fan back in the 90's . Thought they were too frat boy rock for my taste back then, but not too long ago we had a 90's theme party at The Vagabond and in the process of getting music for that event I got a couple of Offspring tracks "Self Esteem" and "Come Out and Play" . Thought those tracks aged well. They sounded good some 17 years later. Anyways randomly a few weeks ago I got sent an Offspring [...]

"Tell me why, I don't like Tuesdays...." Man, I don't know, there's just a rash of bad news today around the music world. Here's a taste of Bad News. - Electro whizbang Producer DJ Mehdi died at a party while celebrating his 34th birthday, when a mezzanine gave way and crushed some people. That's Bad News. - Grammy award winning rapper T.I. is going back to prison . He had been apparently serving time for violating probation in a weapons case. That's Bad News. - A concertgoer [...]
Noodles of The Offspring spoke to Italian fan site Offspring.it at the I-Day Festival in Bologna, Italy last Sunday. Noodles talked about progress on the band's follow up to Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace : We're shooting for really next year… and we should have it done by the end of this year you know, and then really next year we'll start moving on working on the artwork and all that… Since their last album in 2008, the band released [...]

¿Vamos con otra serie de recomendaciones ? Claro, como cada sábado. Esta vez, como siempre, tratamos de hacer un poquito de cada cosa. Randal decidió elegir básicamente una de las mejores bandas de la historia de la música con Queen , Jackie va con Sondre Lerche , César con The Offspring y yo con Archers of Loaf , entre otras cosas, lógico. Archers of Loaf, "Web In Front" Un poquito de música sin tantos arreglos y sonido que parece improvisado, con coros que están [...]

Si apre oggi , sabato 3 settembre all'Arena Parco Nord di Bologna l 'Indipendent Day 2011 . Oggi on stage Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, White Lies , The Wombats , Morning Parade e Heike Has The Giggles. Domani suoneranno The Offspring , Simple Plan, No Use For a Name , Taking Back Sunday, Face to Face , If I Die Today e Adam Kills Eve. Continua a leggere I - Day Festival 2011: due giorni di rock a Bologna con Arctic Monkeys, i Kasabian, White Lies, Wombats [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List Merge As the students among us head [...]
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Tweet Watching 'live' performances on the TV or Internet is a bittersweet experience. You feel pleased that you don't have to miss out but at the same time you're made even more aware how much you're missing out. You can relax on the sofa, rather than stand for seemingly unending, back aching hours. You can crack open a beer not purchased for £4.50. You can stay dry with no fear of British weather falling from the sky or British teenage urine falling from a passing beer can / urinal. [...]

Watch as The Offspring perform Pretty Fly For A White Guy and Self Esteem at this weekend's Reading Festival. Half the fun of watching this clip is the super-engergizing crowd in attendance.

With the saddening news of a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair just under a week ago, which took the lives of five people and left dozens of others injured, it's devastating to report another similar incident at a major festival. Just under an hour ago, the Chateau stage at Pukkelpop , Belgium collapsed due to adverse weather conditions. The Associated Press reports that at least four people have been killed, as equipment fell from the stage as Smith Westerns were playing. Their frontman Cullen Omori took to [...]

With the saddening news of a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair just under a week ago, which took the lives of five people and left dozens of others injured, it's devastating to report another similar incident at a major festival. Just under an hour ago, the Chateau stage at Pukkelpop , Belgium collapsed due to adverse weather conditions. The Associated Press reports that at least four three people have been killed, as equipment fell from the stage as Smith Westerns were playing. Their frontman Cullen Omori [...]
Today is Frances Bean Cobain's 19th birthday. Time flies, right? In celebration of Miss Frannie, we've compiled a list of hot rock 'n' roll spawn. These people have at least one rock star parent ... Continue reading "Frances Bean Cobain And The Other Nine Hottest Offspring Of Musicians" >

Dal 25 agosto al 19 settembre torna al Parco Nord di Bologna la Festa dell'Unità , con un programma che anche quest'anno sarà ricco di musica e spettacoli. L'Arena ospiterà i grandi eventi, tra cui spicca l' Independent Day , il più importante festival rock di fine estate in Italia, che torna a Bologna dopo lo straordinario successo dello scorso anno (circa 35.000 ragazzi invasero Parco Nord per la due giorni di musica con band come Arcade Fire e Blink 182). Il 3 settembre porterà a Bologna Arctic Monkeys [...]

What could be cooler than having a band write a song about you in tribute? Well, as long as the song is complimentary of course. Here's some toonage that fits the subject! Toonage: "Grant Hart" - The Posies "Strummerville"- Stiff Little Fingers "The Replacements" - Tommy Womack "Johnny's Gonna Die" - The Replacements (live July 1982)

It's been a while since I put together a Classics post. After all these years of turning my musical tastes in circles, a good punk song can still bring a smile to my face. Here are a few of them that are rock solid after many layers of dust are removed. *If this isn't your cup of tea, come back later and I will post some nice, fluffy, folky stuff. Free mp3: Social Distortion - Don't Drag Me Down [...]
Today, ace pop-music architect and Beach Boys talisman Brian Wilson turns 69. In his nearly 50-year (!) wake of music he has helped give rise to generations of shameless copycats and other revere... Continue reading "Happy Birthday Brian Wilson: His Modern Indie-Rock Offspring" >

If you happened to be watching popular comedy-drama Offspring on Channel Ten last night, you may have noticed that there was some particularly awesome music at the 1:13 mark. Well, that was Hidden Shoal's very own City of Satellites with the track 'Control', taken from their stunning debut album Machine Is My Animal . If you visit the Channel Ten website via this link you can stream the show. Keep your ears peeled for some Australian dreampop in the background.