Cue: Shameless Promotion

It's a bit last minute, but if you're gonna be awake at midnight tonight, I'm gonna be doing a special edition of my radio show frmo 12-2AM to help out with the lockdown. I'll be keeping Nick Luchko company while playing the usual kickass music. So go ahead and tune in!!!

==TJ==

Face the Day Like You Did Before

I generally try to keep my personal life out of this blog, because it just hasn't seemed appropriate whatwith the LJ and Facebook. But this past week has been one of those weeks where everything gets affected, especially the music. In light of all that's gone (wr)on(g), I offer you a sampling of what I've been listening to these past few days. Downloads to come later for some tracks.

Oasis - Live Forever
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out
Daniel Powter - Bad Day
Secondhand Serenade - Vulnerable
Snow Patrol - Make This Go On Forever
The Fray - How To Save A Life
Jack's Mannequin - Into The Airwaves
Hinder - Better Than Me
Dashboard Confessional - Standard Lines
Daughtry - Used To
Something Corporate - Forget December
Ronnie Day - Coming Home Soon

There's probably some more, but that covers the bulk of it. One more thing; music brings out a lot of emotions in me, but very few pieces of music can bring me to tears (the ones that can...we don't talk about). Ronnie Day's debut album, aptly titled The Album, came damned close to being one of those. If you can get your hands on The Album, buy it. Till then, check out his myspace, it gives you just as good a glimpse. He's playing Penn's Landing on the 29th with Dashboard and a bunch of others as part of MTVU's concert series...looking into trying to go to this one...

That's all.

==TJ==

Remembering the Fallen

"It's Better to Burn Out Than Fade Away"
~Kurt Cobain (quoting Neil Young)



"Layne is irreplacable, not only as a singer, but as a person. We all loved him".
~Jerry Cantrell (on Layne Staley)

RIP Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley

Nirvana - Come As You Are
Alice In Chains - Heaven Beside You

==TJ==

Linkin Park Single Leaks...Well, sort of...

Clearly some people just couldn't stand to wait the last few hours before Linkin Park released "What I've Done", the first single from Minutes to Midnight. With only 60 more minutes to midnight on April 2nd, the song has found it's way onto the internet. I don't have an mp3 of it available yet as I'm on a foreign laptop that doesn't have the proper recording software, but I can offer you this youtube link of the song. The video I found has lyrics (misspelled, but there nonetheless) and some random pictures that may or may not be officialI've been listening to it every few minutes, and I honestly think its lived up to all the hype that the band has built up for it. Much more poetic than anything they've done before, and the lack of Mike Shinoda's rapping is noticed, but not felt. It's official; my hopes for Minutes to Midnight are up in the stratosphere now. May 15th can't come soon enough.

I'll be back tomorrow with an mp3 of this. Yes, I know I still owe you tracks from Cassadaga and a few other goodies, and I promise them all when I'm on my own computer tomorrow. Till then enjoy.

==TJ==

Update: Kevipod and Idolator saved me the trouble of ripping my own copy of the track, so all I have to do is sendspace it and everyone's happy. Idolator had a jolly old time bashing this track to shreds, but then again most music blogs are at the point where if a song doesn't feature Bright Eyes, Timbaland, or Arcade Fire, it's relegated to the crap bin. Viva la Mainstream!!