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It’s almost my birthday! Actually, THAT’S A BIG LIE because my birthday’s in November, but it feels like it’s almost my birthday. Why? Because in four days Viva la Vida comes out, and once again, the world will be perfect. I think I’m going to throw my own personal Viva La Vida dance party in my bedroom on Tuesday morning (now that I think about it, Tuesday’s actually my mom’s birthday). Its seems to me like the world, and not just my world, is revolving around Coldplay, and I’m ready to be a lemming and follow the trend— that is unless the album’s terrible, though that’s doubtful.

First of all, my favorite Sirius satellite radio station, Alt. Nation, station #21 for those of you who care, is having Coldplay take over the station for the next 10 days starting at 6PM EST today. That means it will be all their picks all the time!

Then, there’s the fact that everyone in my family is excited for this album which is a rarity. Our musical tastes vary from Coltrane to Soulja Boi, so for all of us to agree on one band is an accomplishment. My brother walks around the house singing “Viva La Vida” and my dad blares the stereo every time he hears “Violet Hill” on the radio. I love it all, and I’m a bit obsessed with their military jackets, though it is a bit reminiscent of My Chemical Romance’s marching band jackets for The Black Parade.

Oh, and has anyone seen that Apple commercial with Coldplay. I’m sure you have because it’s on TV ever five seconds, and you’re probably inadvertently humming, “I used to rule the world/ Seas that rise when I gave the word, Now in the morning I sweep alone/ Sweep the streets I used to own,” or is that just me?

Among all these great Coldplay achievements, though I’m not sure if they really care about my family’s taste in music, there’s THIS…

Chris Martin and Will Champion were being interviewed by BBC and Mr. Martin decided he wasn’t comfortable with the interview and walked off the stage. Part of me sympathizes with him because I know interviews can be monotonous and many reporters are rude and ask idiotic questions— yes, there is a such thing— but there are better ways to handle that than walking off the stage. Some of my favorite interviews occur when a musician is fed up. Sometimes sarcasm is a better defense than abstinence. So, next time, Chris, just make the interviewer look like an idiot and the people who are your fans will laugh and those who aren’t don’t matter to you anyway.

In other, non-Coldplay news, Vampire Weekend is playing at Central Park tomorrow and if I don’t have to work, I’m totally going. I suggest you go to if you’re anywhere close to NYC. Get the details here.

Photo Credit: Coldplay’s myspace

There is just something about the bass that gets into the very depths of my soul and makes me want to move in the most erotic way possible. I don’t care what type of bass your talking about, stand up, acoustic, jazz, electric, as long as it’s string and has a deep melodious sound I’m there. Death Cab For Cutie’s new song from their upcoming album Narrow Stairs (May 13th), “I Will Possess Your Heart”, has one of those bass lines that takes over.

I first heard the song on Sirius satellite radio, Alt. Nation 21, while driving to school. The song is sort of haunting as Ben Gibbard (with his ultra-cool glasses) eerily sings, “How I wish you could see the potential, the potential of you and me / It’s like a book elegantly bound, but in a language that you can’t read - just yet” and as he breathely warns “I will possess your heart” , but by the time the second verse comes around, the seed is already planted, and you’ll be humming the song all day.

I just watched the 8-minute-long video for the song, and though 4 minutes of watching a girl travel the world is fairly painful to someone stuck in the US but yearning to travel, the video is beautiful and you really get the full effect of the tantalizing bass line. My only question is why are the guys in an ice box freezing their asses off? Guitarist, Chris Walla, looks like he was turning into a popsicle the entire video.

Are you a Death Cab fan, and if not, who are you listening to?

For more information on Death Cab For Cutie visit deathcabforcutie.com or myspace.com/deathcabforcutie

I’ve been super busy, for some apparent reason, and that has definitely effected my blogging. Though I try to write good content as often as possible, I’m constantly emailed by PR people trying to get their clients message across, and to be quite honest, many of the messages are really good. I, unfortunately, haven’t really had the time to fully research everything, but I’ve decided to give you, my fabulous readers, a chance to make the executive decisions for yourself. So, here are the deets from best of the best press releases I’ve received this week:

• For those of you who haven’t seen it, here’s Madonna’s new music video for “4 minutes” with swoon worthy Justin Timberlake and master-producer Timbaland (they come as a pair). You can buy the video on iTunes so you can watch it anytime you want to perfect the dance moves.

• Do you wan to win a trip to Brazil? Of course you do. So, head to caressbrazilian.com, the website for Caress‘ newest collection of Brazilian Exotic Oil Infusions body washes. All you have to do is go to the website, download Nicole Scherzinger’s remake of Duran Duran’s song “Rio”, and make a video for the song. Though only one person can win the grand prize of a trip to Brazil, thirty finalists will win exciting prizes such as: spa treatments, iPods with Brazilian music or a year supply of Caress. My goal would be Brazil though!

• Yup, I’m talking about them again! Temposhark’s new music video for “Blame” is out, and it sort of rocks. The video is completely different from “4minutes”, less JT, less pelvic thrusting, but it has a whole lot more creepiness thanks to the animated characters created by the fantastic artist, Motomichi Nakamura. Watch the video, feel the goose flesh:

• In non-PR news, well sort of, Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are officially engaged, which is super cute. Congrats! And, I’m sure their publicists would like you to know, Ashlee’s new album Bittersweet world comes out on April 22nd and Fall Out Boy are going to get back into the studio in a couple months.

That’s it for now. Maybe if I feel like I’m neglecting the publicists next week, I’ll do this again.

p.s. Is it only my computer, or is youtube being really screwy?

My ears are swooning. For the past couple of hours I’ve been listening to the new Panic at the Disco album, Pretty. Odd., and the new album from The Raconteurs, Consolers Of The Lonely on repeat. I know everyone is probably thinking, how exactly do you put those two bands together or better yet, “If you like The Raconteurs how can you like Panic at the Disco?”

Well the first of all, I’ve decided to throw these two odd ball bands into a playlist together because both of their albums came out today (along with Gnarls Barkley’s and Temposhark’s albums). And secondly, I happen to like Panic at the Disco, so scorn me and cal me a fan girl, I don’t care.

Consolers Of The Lonely is totally fresh and full of that Jack White-y amazingness (does that make sense to anyone else?). I love how The Raconteurs (Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence, Patrick Keeler, and Jack White) can take you from fun, riff heavy “Solute Your Solution” to manic, screeching, dirty rock like in “Five On The Five” to haunting country covered blues in “Carolina Drama”. If you liked Broken Boy Soldiers then you’ll definitely like Consolers Of The Lonely, for that matter if you just liked “Steady As She Goes” or “Level”, I’d suggest you pick of these guys new album.

Now, Panic haters can stop reading, because I’m about to compliment them. Though Pretty. Odd. is completely different that A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, they dropped the synth heavy beats with the ‘!’, I can honestly say I like it just as much or even more. Sure, Ryan Ross seems to love writing nonsensical lyrics, they now sound eerily similar to The Beatles, and the video for “Nine In The Afternoon” is an obvious nod the St. Pepper, I can’t help appreciate that they decided to do something different than their last album (a big risk that could alienate their fan base). I think Brenden has finally figure out the proper vocal range for him, and Ryan’s voice is very 60s pop, which makes me smile a bit to myself. My favorite songs out of the bunch are “Northern Downpour”, “Pas de Cheval”, “Behind The Sea” (yes the one Ryan sings), “Folkin’ Around”, and “Mad as Rabbits.”

Did you buy either of these two CDs? What are you’re thoughts? What other new CDs do you like?

For more information on The Raconteurs visit: theraconteurs.com or myspace.com/theraconteurs. For more information on Panic At the Disco visit: panicatthedisco.com or myspace.com/panicatthedisco.

A couple of days ago I was asked to pick songs that would go well with runway videos. I decided to go with stuff that was not only walkable but, unique and pleasing to, well, me! One of my picks was “The Beautiful People” by Marylin Mason, sure there’s nothing pretty about Mason, but the song is ironic and it has an awesome beat. Later in the day, I was still thinking about good songs, when this song from a band called Temposhark came on my ipod.

The song was called “Joy”and its off of their upcoming full length album The Invisible Line (out March 25th), and it almost describes my love hate relationship with fashion to a tee:

In this black whole… So impressive, so beautiful/ As fast as a bullet, my heart is full/Its so impressive, so beautiful/ As fast as a bullet, my mouth is full/enjoy, joy, joy, joy

Though the song is obviously not about fashion, I’d say it is about obsession, and fashion happens to be one of mine. The guys of Temposhark also happen to be quite the fashionable bunch. Robert Diament (the lead singer) was feature in UK Vogue, score, and Rob along with writing partner Luke Busby traipsed across the pond to attend NY fashion week last September, double score!

Aside from being drawn to the obvious fashion sensibility that seems to come so natural to boys from the UK, I can’t help but fall into a trance due to the Depeche Mode-esque sound and repetitive lyrics especially in “Not That Big” an heart wrenching break up song starting from the first verse when Rob “puts his jeans back on” and the chanting chorus of “you’re not big in my life”.

In all honesty I’m not a big fan of electronica. But The Invisible Line has “hit me like a hurricane” and been in steady circulation on my ipod since I first received the album.

For more info on Temposhark visit www.temposhark.com or www.myspace.com/temposhark.

Favorite Songs:

• Battleships
• Knock Me Out
• Joy

Listen to “Crime” off Temposhark’s upcoming album The Invisible Line.

So, Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes fame has a blog. (Did that sound professional?) Anyway, as I said, Travie has a blog, and its chock full of pictures of his adventures with stupid/funny blurbs, videos about god knows what, and the meaning of life, or not! But, that’s not the important part. Travie also has this little side project going on with Nick Scimeca called Tequila Mockingbird, and he posted a song for your listening pleasure on this blog of his.

The song is called “Brooklyn Basement”, and Travis says, “it came from living in louis logic’s basement in bushwick, it was soooooo cozy and soooooooo depressing, kind of like this song”. I don’t really find it that depressing, but I do love how near the end, the smooth, sort of electro R&B beat gets turned into this trashy, electro, garage beat, and just as soon as it came, it was transformed back to the slow R&B, fuck-me beat. If this song is any representation of what the EP will be like, I’m so there!

Also on the blog is a remix 5G did of the Gym Class Heroes song “Biters Block”. I couldn’t tell you who 5G is, but the remix is boss. Apparently, they remixed the entire As Cruel As School Children album with a bunch of Daryl Hall and John Oates songs, which is pretty awesome. I assume this will be coming out sooner or later because Travis said they were already finished with this little project. I hope that means sooner!

If you want to experience the radness of Travie’s blog for yourself, go to www.traviesblog.com.

~ Mary J. Blige - Growing Pains

~ Lupe Fiasco - The Cool

~ Various Artists - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [Soundtrack]

~ Chingy - Hate It or Love It

~ 3 Doors Down - Citizen Soldier [Digital Single]

~ Jaheim - The Makings of a Man

~ The Morning Of - Digital EP

~ The Lives of Famous Men - Modern Love, the Wooden Vehicle

~ Gasoline Heart - What Now

~ The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Medium Rare

~ Daft Punk - Daft Punk Alive 2007
~ Nelly Furtado - Loose: The Concert
~ The Killers - Don’t Shoot Me, Santa [CD-single]
~ Wyclef Jean - Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant
~ Various Artists - Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis [CD/DVD]
~ The Libertines - Time for Heroes: The Best of the Libertines
~ Sly Stone - Family Soul Sessions: The Rare 45 RPMs ‘63-’66
~ David Bowie - David Bowie Box Set
~ Automatic Loveletter - Recover [EP]
~ T Pain - No Love Without Pain
~ Shipwreck - Rabbit in the Kitchen With a New Dress On
~ Promise of Redemption - When The Flowers Bloom… [Digital Release]
~ Blake Lewis - Audio Daydream (ADD)
~ Billie Holiday - Rare Live Recordings 1935-1959 [box set]
~ Brian Melo - Livin’ It
~ Scarface - MADE

Unfortunately, there isn’t really any good albums coming out today. All I would really suggest would be the As Tall As Lions EP, Into The Flood. It’s coming out only as an mp3 download so head to iTunes, Napster, or Rhapsody if you want it. Also the Future Sex/Love Sounds CD/DVD Deluxe Edition comes out today. Justin Timberlake is always good for a bit of swooning! Though I can’t suggest a whole list albums to check out, I have a better alternative.

It’s the new White Stripes music video for “Conquest”. The video isn’t as amazing as some of their other videos, but its good for a few laughs, and I love, I mean LOVE the song. I makes me want to do the paso doble, except I have absolutely no idea how to. Here’s the video; watch it, love it!

~ The Gorillaz - D-Sides
~ Jordin Sparks - Jordin Sparks
~ Craig David - Trust Me
~ The Kunks - The Kunks
~ Genisis - Live Over Europe 2007
~ Melissa Ethridge - The Awakening Live [CD/DVD]
~ Interpol - Our Love to Admire [CD/DVD]
~ The Format - B-Sides and Rarities [MP3 Download]
~ Anberlin - Lost Songs
~ Fall Out Boy - Infinity of High [CD/DVD]
~ Spice Girls - Greatest Hits (limited US release)
~ Freeway - Free At Last