Reggie and The Full Effect Plot Farewell Tour Hardcore/pop/punk/comedians Reggie and The Full Effect have announced their final tour ever. The tour begins August 20th in Orlando, FL and is in support of the their fifth full length album “Last Stop: Crappy Town.”. For those of you who don’t know, Reggie is the brain child of former Get Up Kids keyboardist James Dewees, and is known for their hilarious, outlandish (yet strangely grounded) heavy metal/ pop performances. While I’m not exactly sold that this will be the final Reggie tour, it has been rumored that Dewees will become a permanent keyboardist of My Chemical Romance, whom Dewees toured with for their last album. The tour will feature support by Frank Iero’s (My Chemical Romance) side-project Leathermouth and will stop at the Avalon in Hollywood on August 26th. For those of you who have never seen the Full Effect in their live glory should take this opportunity before the band goes the way of the dodo.
Chinese Democracy Leaks
So you may have heard that Guns ‘N Roses have an album called “Chinese Democracy” that they have been working on for around 13 years. In those years they’ve had tours; they’ve had release dates; they’ve even had a few songs show up here and there. Every six months or so Axl Rose will state that the album is almost done and that it should be out by the end of the year. While most Roses’ fans hope and pray frankly I think that “Chinese Democracy” may never see the light of day. Why release an album when you can get more fan fare not releasing it? And don’t let him fool you: Axl is all about fanfare. Plus, unless it sells like 10 million copies and win 12 Grammy’s it will be looked like a failure. Frankly, I get so sick of his grandstanding I think that people should stop paying attention to Axl, yet as I write an article about him I guess I’m just as guilty as anyone else.
Anywho, it was revealed last week that nine of the “mastered and finished” songs from “Chinese Democracy” were leaked onto the net. Axl of course was appaled, and wanted blood (I’m sure he just hated being in the news). The site that released the nine-songs, Antiquiet, was theatreatened by Axl’s lawyers and even the FBI showed up to demand the original files (website head Kevin Skwerl apparently had already deleted them at labels demands). The point of all this: Axl got his name in the papers and we got more hype on “Chinese Democracy.” Guess we’ll see what next week brings.
Coldplay Sells Records A Lot of Records
Coldplay, one of the most popular crossover rock act that doesn’t rhyme with “Icklenack,” had a giant week of record sales last week. “Viva La Vida,” the bands fourth studio record, sold 721,000 records in its first weekend, which is the best first week of sales for a rock album since hey, Coldplay’s 2005 opus “X & Y.” Big news for the record industry. Huge news. Looks like they can stay in business at least one more week.
“Viva La Vida” is the second best debut of the year with Lil’ Wayne’s “Tha Carter III” selling over a million copies two weeks ago (it slipped No. 2 this week with a still peachy 309,000 units sold). The soundtrack to the Jonas Brothers-led “Camp Rock” debuted at No. 3 with 188,000. Slightly annoying/ slightly catchy “I Kissed A Girl” singer Katy Perry took the number nine slot with “One of the Boys.” And the Offspring had their best selling weekends in years as they debuted at number 10 with “Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace.”
R.I.P George Carlin
Comedian George Carlin passed around Sunday night at the age of 71. He was a brilliant, brilliant man. Along with Bill Hicks he was one of the best counter culture comic of all time. Because of him there are comedians like David Cross, Patton Oswalt and Chris Rock. He took observational comedy to levels it has not reached since. He took a mundane topic like “stuff” and made it into a hilarious rant on consumer culture. “Seven words”? Classic. Made up words? You can’t not laugh. He was brilliant in “Dogma.” Great in “Bill and Ted.” His books got me through my first year of dorm life in college. My only hope is that somewhere out there some Larry The Cable Guy fan will stumble upon one of Carlin’s records and realize that real comedy doesn’t come from stupid fart jokes, but from the ridiculousness of a consumer culture obsessed with goods, services and a morality that makes the populous dumber and convoluted each day. He will be missed.
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