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The Used

The Used’s new album ‘Lies For The Liars’ debuts on 5/22/07.
MySpace made The Used a feature artists for the whole week, in order to make their album much bigger than any of their previous ones.
The new album is said to have a ‘Classic Used Sound’ along with a new ‘Hip-Hop Rock sort of beat’. If you go to The Used’s MySpace, you can see that there really is quite a few new songs that are catchy, as well as songs that are new age and up to date. This new genre of The Used will bring a whole new crowd of listeners.

The Used Tour
5/19 - Claremont, California

5/20 - San Diego, California

5/25 - Brisbane

5/26 - Melbourne

5/27 - Sydney

5/30 - Amsterdam

6/1 - Nurburg

6/2 - Nuremberg

6/3 - Berlin

6/5 - Hamburg

6/6 - Copenhagen

6/8 - Lisbon

6/9 - Madrid

6/12 - Barcelona
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6/29 - Pomona, CA

6/30 - Ventura, CA

7/1 - Mountain View, CA

7/3 - Vancouver B.C

7/4 - Vancouver B.C

7/5 - Salt Lake City, Utah

7/8 - Denver, Colorado

7/11 - Phoenix, Arizona

7/12 - Las Cruces, New Mexico

7/13 - Selma, Texas

7/14 - Dallas, Texas

7/15 - Houston Texas
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* 6/29-7/15 is Warped Tour

LINKS:
Official The Used MySpace
The Used’s Official Site

MySpace Band Blog

MySpace Video to Launch Branded Channels

MySpace has announced the launch of a new section within MySpace Video featuring premium content from the top news and lifestyle brands relevant to the community. In the coming months, MySpace Video will launch “branded channels” for its global network with news outlets including National Geographic, The New York Times, Reuters, and lifestyle outlets including Animation Show, The Daily Reel, Expert Village, Flow, FOX’s IGN Entertainment, Kush TV, LX.TV, Octane TV, Ripe TV, Studio411, VBS.tv (from the makers of Vice Magazine), and Young Hollywood.

All branded channels will live inside MySpace Video and will contain varying video content offered by each respective partner. In response to user demand, the initial set of MySpace Video branded channels focuses on the categories of news and lifestyle.

Branded news channels within MySpace Video will include:
National Geographic: The National Geographic Channel and National Geographic Digital Media will provide MySpace with award winning short-form content drawn from National Geographic’s vast archives and latest television productions, including new episodes of acclaimed series such as Explorer, The Dog Whisperer and Naked Science. Produced specifically for the web, this content will include extended interviews and web-exclusive clips as well as news of the planet, tips on green living and installments from Atmospheres, scenes of incredible beauty from around the world.

MySpace Band Blog - New Smoosh Video
Smoosh plays a cover of ‘This Modern Love’ which is written and played by Bloc Party.

Kohoutek festival 3/07 at Claremont College California playing Modern Love by Bloc Party

MySpace Band Blog

FACTS of the Day:

- BJORK’s pet goldfish appears in the video “Epic” by Faith No More.

- BLINK 182’s Tom Delonge’s first instrument was the trumpet.

- BLINK 182’s first drummer was Scott Raynor

- Dark Side of The Moon (a Pink Floyd album) stayed on the top 200 Billboard charts for 741 weeks! That is 14 years.

Bjork

- BOB DYLAN -No other single music artist has had a more profound impact on popular music, and yet over the last 20 years he has only made two quality albums. His album “Time Out of Mind” won a fistful of Grammys. He also appears on a soundtrack to the TV show “The Sopranos”.

- BRITNEY SPEARS’ song “Dont let me be the last to know” was written by Shania Twain.

- No one knows where Mozart is buried.

- The voice of Tony the Tiger is Thurl Ravenscroft, who also sang the “Rotten Mr. Grinch” song in the movie, “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas”.

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I figured some interesting stuff like that would make you interested in some stuff or something hah.
Lemme know how you feel.
-Michael

MySpace Band Blog ~ Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight

The much-delayed Minutes to Midnight is Linkin Park’s third album, coming four years after sophomore effort Meteora and seven since Grammy-award wining debut Hybrid Theory.

Shinoda, Brad Delson (lead guitar) and Rob Bourdon (drums) more than a decade ago, Linkin Park’s ranks and music swelled up with the addition of Bennington, Dave Farrell (bass) and Joe Hahn (turntables), leading to the release of debut album Hybrid Theory, which won the Grammy award for best rock album and has sold more than 15 million copies to date.

Lyrics?
“I close both locks below the window/I close both blinds and turn away/Sometimes solutions aren’t so simple/Sometimes goodbye’s the only way. *

So how is it!?

Although I hate to say it, but the experiment is largely a failure, with Shinoda-led shouty tracks Given Up, Bleed it Out and In Between a tired throwback to the band’s earlier heights, as well as sitting uneasily next to the more melodic Bennington’s harmonies. The main problem with Minutes to Midnight appears to be this lack of cohesion, despite the CD booklet’s handy insets explaining what each song represents for the band (What I’ve Done apparently works on “many levels”).

The Hip-Hop sounding Linkin Park just isn’t what people wanted. Aw darn.