All photos by Bill Shouldis
Our writer Bill Shouldis attended the ROCKSTAR Mayhem Festival in Strong Island on Wednesday. Hordes of metalhead, young and painfully old, made it out to the gigantic concert to see bands like Slipknot, Disturbed, Mastodon, Walls of Jericho, and Dragonforce. Check out more pictures after the jump.
I wonder what Bonnaroo’s people were thinking when they couldn’t get Led Zeppelin to play. ‘Well, hmm, they just aren’t budging with our multi-bazillion dollar offer? Bring in the lesbian version pronto!’ Actually, on a sidenote, I don’t think any of the girls in Lez Zeppelin are in fact lesbians. I also love how some editor at the AP, who probably didn’t have his late night coffee intake at full capacity, saw the Lez and screamed Led!
No big shocker among the headlining acts Pearl Jam, Metallica and Kanye West, but some of LNWF’s favorite bands are there, such as Against Me!, Battles, Minus The Bear and Mastodon.
Check out the rest of the lineup after the jump.
After all that bullshitting over pimpin’ our rides and giving already spoiled brats their own sweet sixteen birthday party, MTV’s hilarious new show Human Giant lets us all know that there is still an ounce of life left in the network (just an ounce, though).
However, the show isn’t slaying in the ratings department. So, MTV gave the boys free reign for twenty four hours at the studio this past weekend and put them up to the challenge of getting a million hits on their website.
The boys not only reached well over a million hits (1,212,651 hits to be exact), guaranteeing a second season, they invited some of their favorite comedians and bands along for the ride.
MTV has now posted all the musical performances from the marathon, including Mastodon (fresh off their performance with Against Me! the night before at Roseland), Ted Leo, and The National, among many others.
Human Giant is on every Thursday at 10:30pm on MTV. Your life would be so much better if you watched it. LET’S GO!
As far as I’m concerned, the lineup of Mastodon, Against Me! and Cursive is the best bill touring this spring. Each band is awe-inspiring and immensely powerful and having them all together was something to witness. Going in, I knew it would be an odd and interesting mix of people. Both factions of Against Me! fans (the same with Mastodon) and perhaps even angry Ozzfest-loving, Hot Topic-fanatics booing Cursive. These predictions were all proven correct, among other things.
Days after announcing the dates for their uber-tour de force with Mastodon and Against Me!, Cursive has released their video for “Big Bang.” The song is off of last year’s Happy Hollow (Saddle Creek).
It’s very simple and primitive but yet you can’t stop watching it. Check it out below.
And if you haven’t picked up your tickets yet for their upcoming tour, you can do it here
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