Archive: 2005

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers have dubbed their ninth studio album Stadium Arcadium, according to Flea, and they plan to release it in April.

“It’s very honest music, and I feel like we improved as craftsmen,” said the bassist Friday at the Spike TV Video Game Awards in Los Angeles, where he and lead vocalist Anthony Kiedis were presenters. “We gave all we had to this album.”

The follow-up to 2002’s By the Way has been a long time in the making, as the Chili Peppers — Kiedis, Flea, guitarist John Frusciante and drummer Chad Smith — wrote and rehearsed for seven months before entering the studio with producer Rick Rubin.

The band is now in the mixing stage, but Flea said there’s quite a lot to mix. “We recorded a huge quantity of music,” he said. “We’re so in the middle of it, so it’s hard to step back and look at it, but we think it’s the best stuff we’ve ever done.”

Source rollingstone.com.

Angus Young, lead singer-guitarist of AC/DC, tops Maxim’s list of the “25 greatest short dudes of all time,” standing tall at 5 feet 2 inches.

NBA guard Spud Webb, at 5 feet 7 inches, is No. 2, followed by Napoleon Bonaparte (5 feet 4 inches), Naim Suleymangolu (4 feet 11 inches) and Yuri Gagarin (5 feet 2 inches).

The magazine, in its December issue, claims to be helping women “begin a long overdue fight against their genetically determined shallowness when choosing a partner.”

Yoda, at No. 6, is the shortest on the list. His height is calculated at 2 feet 2 inches.

Other great short dudes: Martin Scorsese, Jon Stewart, Prince, Kurt Cobain and two of the Hobbits from “The Lord of the Rings” films Elijah Wood and Sean Astin.

The tallest “short dude”? Pro football player Doug Flutie, at 5 feet 10 inches, who is ranked at No. 24.

Source yahoo.com.

The tunes can stir something deep, but that passion comes from a dirty section of your mind.

This was more than a music festival, this was more than a five star cruise, this was more than a performance based nightclub complete with acrobats, DJs, contortionists, abstract artists and otherwise.

Touring behind their new Barsuk Records release, The Weight Is a Gift, Nada Surf will bring their signature vocal harmonies and stunningly catchy melodies to venues across the US and Canada. Additionally they will be the featured musical guests on the December 13th episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and the December 21st episode of Last Call with Carson Daly.

Nada Surf also has the honor of being the only band on an independent label scheduled to perform at the 2005 KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas event. Nada Surf will be joining Depeche Mode, Coldplay, The White Stripes, Jack Johnson, Death Cab for Cutie, The Bravery and Hot Hot Heat at the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles on December 11th. Tickets for this event go on sale Friday November 18th at 6pm. Night Two proceeds will benefit Para Los Ninos and other local Los Angeles charities. Complete details can be found at KROQ.com

Nada Surf Winter / Spring 2006 tour dates:

2/8 Baltimore, MD – 8X10
2/9 Charlottesville, VA – Starr Hill Music Hall
2/10 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
2/11 Atlanta, GA – The Loft
2/12 Nashville, TN – Exit In
2/14 Columbia, MO – Blue Note
2/15 Lawrence, KS – Granada Theatre
2/17 Dallas, TX – Tree’s
2/18 Austin, TX – Emo’s
2/20 Tempe, AZ – Clubhouse
2/21 San Diego, CA – House of Blues
2/22 Los Angeles, CA – Henry Fonda Theater
2/23 San Francisco, CA – Fillmore
2/24 Portland, OR – Aladdin Theatre
2/25 Vancouver, BC – Richards on Richards
2/26 Seattle, WA – Showbox
3/1 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theatre
3/2 Omaha, NE – Sokol Underground
3/3 Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line Music Cafe
3/4 Madison, WI – Annex
3/5 Chicago, IL – Metro
3/6 Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
3/8 New York, NY – Webster Hall
3/9 Boston, MA – Paradise
3/10 Montreal, QC – Cabaret Music Hall
3/11 Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace

For his first-ever solo band DVD, Betts is in brilliant, loveably raffish form, commanding the latest incarnation of his group, Great Southern, with the panache of a skilled bandleader and heavy-wattage country rock star.

Whether you call it underground, intelligent or backpacker it

A place like Las Vegas makes forgetting easy, but Widespread Panic, who have planted so many roots in New Orleans, made it a point to remember this Halloween night.

The Slip have slowly been developing its distinct sound and style since the mid-nineties. The three-piece, made up of Brad Barr on guitars and lead vocals, Andrew Barr on drums and percussion and Marc Friedman on bass, have earned a strong dedicated following in that has been continually growing. Their sound spans everything from free-form jazz to almost pop-flavored power rock tunes and everything in between. A few days into their fall tour, The Slip stopped by Burlington to play a performance that at times, felt like a cozy family dinner and at others a timeless space voyage.