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Road Warriors 25

If you don’t think time flies, consider this: Guns N’ Roses’ classic Appetite For Destruction album is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its release this week. To commemorate the event, most of the original lineup is getting together tomorrow night at the Key Club in Los Angeles for a reunion of sorts, and while it’s unlikely that singer Axl Rose will be on hand, it hasn’t been ruled out either.

Tori Amos is hitting the road in support of her American Doll Posse album, beginning October 9 in Albany, New York and running through mid-December. A bunch of the shows will be recorded live for future “bootlegs.”

Garth Brooks was just added to the lineup for the Martin Luther King, Jr. benefit on September 18 at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. Others on the bill include Queen Latifah, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Carlos Santana. The purpose of the show is to raise money for the MLK memorial in Washington.

The Arcade Fire has added a New York City tour date to their fall itinerary, Saturday October 6 at Randall Island. LCD Soundsystem will be the support act on the tour, and here are all of the confirmed dates Continue reading »

Censored video of the week: The Exies

While our own Mojo Flucke was not too jazzed about the Exies’ latest album, A Modern Way of Living with the Truth, this song and video intrigues us. Inspired by all of the celebutante’s boorish antics of late (Paris, Nicole, Britney, etc.), the band recorded a new song, “God We Look Good (Going Down in Flames,” and edited the video themselves on their tour bus. The clip has already been pulled from YouTube (it’s been replaced with an edited version), though unless they went through it frame by frame, it’s tough to say what they found to be so objectionable. Some scantily clad women, some drug references, some bad words (maybe; we couldn’t really tell). Sounds like a typical day at the office for us. Either way, the clip doesn’t say anything we didn’t already know about our vapid celebrity culture or the Unstoppable Killing Machine that is George W. Bush (spoken with a hint of sarcasm), but the clip is definitely still worth a look.

To video the video, click here. Be patient, the clip is over 30MB in size, so it’ll take some time to load.

Band I’ll be seeing at Lolla — Daft Punk

My experience with electronic acts live is pretty hit and miss. I love the Chemical Brothers, but the live versions of “Out of Control” and “Setting Sun” they played when I saw them in 1999 (Fatboy Slim was the opening act, and he KILLED) made me depressed. Where’s the big drum track? Where’s Noel? Where’s Barney? It just wasn’t right.

I am seriously hoping that is not what Daft Punk is like in concert. They’re closing Lollapalooza on Friday night, and I want these guys to freaking BRING IT. And they damn well better play this song.

Daft Punk — “Aerodynamic”

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