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Tacoma Rock City
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Posted by Ernest Jasmin @ 03:04:48 pm

... Amy Winehouse and now Travis from Gym Class Heroes for being involved in concert scuffles this week that make his own "Tim McBrawl" incident in Auburn pale in comparison. Jeez! It's gettin' so you can't throw stuff or yell slurs at the singer without winding up on the receiving end of a musical smackdown. What is this world coming to?

Categories: alternative/indie
Posted by Ernest Jasmin @ 02:47:54 pm

They just posted some more solo dates for Ed over at PearlJam.com. But there's still no Seattle date. What's up with that?

Posted by Ernest Jasmin @ 12:34:36 pm

Rockstar's Mayhem Festival kicks off at Auburn's White River Amphitheatre on July 9. And the most exciting part of that is the return of the mighty Mastodon, as far as I'm concerned. That's why I was on the phone with Troy Sanders early in the a.m. today, right before he and his Mastodon crew headed back into an Atlanta studio where they're laying down new tracks with super-producer Brendan O'Brien. So look out for clips of Sanders talking about the new disc, which he says will be colored by more '70s prog-rock and psychedelic influences, among other things.

But as one of three people on the planet that don't yet need "Guitar Hero" 12 step, I didn't realize who the festival's biggest hit might be. My home skittle, pop culture writer Bill Hutchens, tells me that his boy and his friends are all crazy for the Dragonforce. That's thanks to the insanely difficult to master number "Through the Flames" from GH3. Oh, and Bill tells me what that knucklehead in the video pretends to be doing is impossible. I'll take his word for it. Funny, though.

Posted by Ernest Jasmin @ 10:07:19 am

Here are the answers to yesterday's trivia challenge. Avoid spoilers here.

1. Johnny Cash, M. “Ragged Old Flag”
2. Toby Keith, I. “American Soldier”
3. Team America, G. “America, @#%@ Yeah” (hilarious, for the record)
4. John Mellencamp, B. “Our Country”
5. Alan Jackson, O. “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)?”
6. Grand Funk Railroad, D. “We’re an American Band”
7. James Brown, N. “Livin’ in America”
8. Neil Diamond, L. “America”
9. Darryl Worley, H. “Have You Forgotten?”
10. David Bowie, E. “I’m Afraid of Americans”
11. Smashing Pumpkins, C. “United States”
12. Montgomery Gentry, F. “You Do Your Thing”
13. Woody Guthrie, A. “This Land is Your Land”
14. Morrissey, P. “America Is Not the World”
15. Brooks & Dunn, K. “Only in America”
16. Sugarland, J. “Everyday America”