Bring A Smile To Survive

Angels & Airwaves has almost managed to smitten me completely with their splendid debut album. It's always nice to be overwhelmed once in a while with an album that's close-to solid for nearly 50 minutes. Sadly, it doesn't quite budge the entire stretch to the finish, but as an overall ride it's fresh, daring and often it's downright heavenly. Being a minor fan of Blink 182 back in the day, I still never though mr DeLonge had this sort of ace up his sleeve. I'm very impressed, and I'm already looking forward to where he's planning on riding this spaceship to.

I haven't forgotten about Kasabian. They still do it for me, and I still slow-motion dance to "LSF (Lost Souls Forever)" whenever I get the chance to. Now I just want a new album, fawr facks seiks. And maybe consider changing the artwork?

Evanescence finally has the new album title and date officially announced. It's a big "finally" for me, having loved Fallen for what feels like fifteen years now. The new album has an equally pointless title though; The Open Door. It's release date is set to october 3rd, but I believe I can manage it. Let's hope that the departure of not-missed Ben Moody will lead to less Avril and more Amy. My excitement-meter has been activated.

And If The USA Doesn't Bomb You

It's been a while, which has given me some time to swallow what little pride I have left.
Morrissey's latest album Ringleader Of The Tormentors is actually quite good. No masterpiece, but coming from a place where everything Morrissey smells fishy, then it's a big surprise for me. Everyone is talking about "Life Is A Pigsty", rightly so. It's one of the best depression songs in some time. But the album opener "I Will See You In Far Off Places" is my personal favorite as of yet which is a very good combination of all things dirty and all things stylish. Like marble covered in rust. Yaowza!

Angels & Airwaves. Nobody told me! Why? You bastards. As I speak I'm listening to their debut We Don't Need To Whisper and I'm blown away. What the fuck? You know the feeling when you hear songs so good you can't sit still, but you shake in excitement. Enter Tom DeLonge. I knew he was underrated, but that he could pull this off? Wow. Good shit.

Purchase that made me the happiest this week: cinnamon roll incense! RIP Mitchy-boy.

PS. I added Hackneyed to bloggkartan.se right over here. So now you know, and I have successfully deleted some other knowledge from your brain. Poor you.

Your Mum And Dad Are Scared Of Me

I never said I was legal, but I "got" Tool's new single Vicarious from a friend earlier tonight. First impressions: disappointment. It saddens me to say, but I was expecting a little more from Tool than a mash-up mix of Schism and The Patient, mixed with a little bit of The Grudge. It's not a bad song per se, but it doesn't tickle my balls in any particular fashion. My thought at the moment: if Lateralus had had any fillers; Vicarious could have easily been one. But I wont judge to harshly just yet. There's still an entire album to go, and these are just the very first thoughts. It might be a "grower", I hope it is.

Thanks to the magnificent game Guitar Hero, I've discovered what seems like a pretty sweet band; The Exies. I've taken me time to listen to a little bit of their stuff and it sounds promising. Anyone like these folks? Let'me know.

You Finished My Sentences

Proof apparently got shot to death yesterday. Obviously a very tragic event, but I was not in any way into D12 or his solo music. However, the irony that he gets shot to death when just last year he was depicted getting shot to death in Eminem's "Like Toy Soldiers"-video is almost freaky. I was going to write "spectacular", but not even I reach those degrees off assholism quite yet.

Happier news, bitte! Good news indeed, for us who have the very pleasant pleasure of being able to visit this year's Popaganda festival. Henrik Berggren has been booked to play, which should be interesting one way or the other. Why he doesn't round up his goddamn band at the same time? Hell knows. But it could still be a good show. I know Christopher is almost crying with joy. Cutie.

Even better news. Tyskarna Från Lund is releasing an updated version of their four year old classic World Cup-anthem "Global Fussball OK", which I still mark as the best football song ever written. The new version has been named "Global Fussball 06" to suit the upcoming championship. Since the oversexual musical terrorist Tomas Ledin is recording the official song, I think Sweden will need all the musical help they can get.

Different People Have Different Needs

As you will notice the Google Ads will disappear from here right about a second after this post has been made. Apparently Google thinks I've been using the service badly and therefore erased my account, and the money I had earned on it. I haven't done anything wrong, and I haven't gotten a single chance to get a valid explanation or even to argue my point of view. But no, the money's returned to "the affect advertisers", even though I helped those "affected" sites with quite a lot of advertising. Apparently, it's up to them to erase my earned money because of a reason they can't even name. Apparently, I have either encouraged people to press my ads via this site (Nope), or I have used a clicking program to generate automatic clicks (Nope) or I have in any other way violated the terms of use.
I feel pretty fucked over right about now, I must say. Sure, I have clicked the ads, but only - ONLY - when there has been something there that has interested me. Since the links refer from my site it's only natural that I'll find links that I like and click them. Apparently, doing so makes it okay for Google to erase my account with 85 made dollars on it, without giving me a chance to explain, or even to get a warning before.
If any representative from Google happen to stumble upon this, please know that I feel very cheated by your service. I worked hard to use the ads as wisely as possibly, and I was close to getting a very much needed finanicial boost from it. If you perform a job for a few months and earn a decent stack of money, but don't cash them, and you suddenly get fired - it's still your money. I've done this work for your company, and I earned money to your company. Money, which I was going to get a very small percentage from. Unfortunaly, internet companies such as Google Adsense apparently feel it's up to them to fuck their users in the ass and then drop them like dead cats without an explanation or a dime to show for it.
. Today's song is dedicated to the people that decided to fuck a broke student in the ass for no reason.

Dope - Die Motherfucker, Die

It's Time To React

This entry is going to start with a minor adjustment of something I wrote a month or so ago. The Radio Dept.'s newest single "Worst Taste In Music" is really, really, oh really good. Was about time they kicked out the My Bloody Valentine-style guitars and applied some New Order:ish synths instead. Greatness! Can't wait for Pet Grief now.

Loveninjas is one Sweden's coolest indie-bands. This is just further evidence of said fact.

Supercar. Ever heard of? No? Thought so.
I'll be quick about this: Supercar is fantastic. Supercar debuted in the late 90's and released a number of albums, in different genres, before splitting up just last year with - like all japanese bands - a massive Last Live.
Shame that, since they managed to release quite a lot of amazing albums along the way. It's hard to try and describe the general sound since it varies from laid back pop on Jump Up to explosive garagerock on OOYeah!! to electronica on later works such as Futurama. Nonetheless this is a band you have to discover. Since I'm such a fantastic guy I'm going to tell you exactly where to start as well.

Download these songs: (I don't support illegal downloading, blah blah.. - hah! there, now you can't sue me)
(Am I) Confusing You?
Be
Love Forever
Lucky
My Girl
Walk Slowly
Wonderword

When you have, your life will have gotten a little bit better than it was before. Trust me.