We joined forces with our friends at Seagate/Maxtor, Universal Records and AbsolutePunk.net to launch an exclusive contest leading up to this weekend’s Bamboozle Festival! Check it out and enter to win. The contest runs through Saturday morning, May 3.

Also - Seagate just announced they are the first hard drive manufacturer worldwide to have shipped 1 billion hard drives! Imagine this: the 1 billion hard drives equates to approximately 79 million terabytes, able to store 158 billion hours of digital video or 1.2 trillion hours of your favorite music.

Friday we got an advance of the new OLD 97’s album, Blame It On Gravity and being longtime fans of the band, we were super-eager to tear through and disect the band’s first set of new tunes in 4 years.

As if that wasn’t enough, later that night, Rhett, Murray, Ken and Philip ended up on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno performing a new song “Dance With Me”. It was almost too much Old 97’s greatness to absorb.

DOWNLOAD: 3 songs from Blame It On Gravity at Amazon.
PRE-ORDER: Blame It On Gravity | Blame It On Gravity: Deluxe Edition

Blame It On Gravity tracklisting and tour dates can be seen after the jump. (more…)

A few weeks ago, we put out the bulletin that WHAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS was playing a free show in Las Vegas that was going to be simulcast on www.deeprockdrive.com.

During that live performance, the band ripped into a cover of Billy Joel’s song “You May Be Right”. You can give a listen to a cover of the best song ever to serve as the theme song to a 90’s sitcom based on the writings of Dave Barry ever.

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MP3: What Made Milwaukee Famous :: “You May Be Right”

ANTI-FLAG have put together an action-packed video for the song “The Bright Lights Of America” from their album of the same name.

It has pretty much everything one could posibly need in a music video.
- Rollerderby? Check
- Anti-Flag at Rollerderby? Check
- Multiple countries represented? Check
- U.S. Women being the “Bruisers”? Check
- General Ass-kickery? Check
- Cameos from Tom Morello? Check
- A theme so subtly done that some could probably think it’s pro-American? Check

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=32804161

  Photo: Vincent Li
CARBON/SILICON recently met up with the gentlemen of ISSUE ORIENTED at a posh hotel (see above photo of Mick Jones) to record an interview for episode #31 of their podcast, which is available now. Head over to the Issue Oriented website or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes to check out the interview with these punk rock legends.

There are a few symbols and abbreviations in the Yahoo! Fantasy Spots league every manager should know. For example, a ‘x’ symbol next to a player right before game time is a helpful heads-up and means that player is not in the starting lineup. If caught in time, a manger could replace the player with someone on their bench so they don’t lose out on potential points for the day.

An abbreviation every manager knows but FEARS is ‘INF’. This is short for ‘infinite’ and it relates to a pitcher’s ERA and WHIP after they get SHELLACKED. Some of us in the office use INF as a figure of speech now. Unfortunately, a couple of us saw the INF this weekend on our fantasy leagues (ex. Dan with Eric Gagne and Elles with Joba Chamberlin yesterday afternoon). Here’s the recap on Week 3: (more…)

Tune in tonight to enjoy the smooth sounds of GOLDFRAPP, we can only hope she wears a pirate hat for this performance.

A few weeks ago OWEN (stage name of Mike Kinsella) came to Berklee College of Music and put on a terrific show. He played a great mix of new and old songs, leaving the crowd shouting for more. About ten seconds after his last song Owen announced that he was paid a ridiculous amount for the show and decided to play two more tracks before he left. 

Check out a video of Owen performing “Possum for a Peek” after the jump. (more…)

A few years back 50 CENT put out a video game called Bulletproof, and he’s now readying the follow up, Blood on the Sand. Now I am going to briefly explain the premise of this game, which is 100% real.

In fact, you can check out the screen shots on MTV.com. 50 Cent and the G-Unit visit an unknown country in the Middle East to play a benefit concert. Believable. At said concert all hell breaks loose after the concert promoter refuses to pay 50 for his performance. After being threatened by 50 Cent and crew, the promoter gives them a diamond-encrusted skull, obviously. Then it really starts to go down when they are ambushed before leaving the country and the skull is stolen! Instead of leaving the country, 50 cent and the G-Unit take upon themselves to go rogue and gain back the skull.

How awesome will this game be on a scale of 1 to 10?

The Misfits at Warsaw

Jon Landman look alike on Polar Bear Club’s Kit

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