In a first, though hopefully not a last, a presidential contender's first name has been used as a euphemism for, well, the horizontal mambo. "I Got a Crush...on Obama," one of the most poplar music-related YouTube videos since Justin Timberlake's "Di** in the Box" SNL skit, features Obama Girl, a scantily clad model who looks like a less-broke-up-in-the-face Amy Winehouse, singing her love for the Illinois Senator. Obama Girl is a model named Amber Lee Ettinger, and the video has been watched more than 500,000 times since it was posted less than 48 hours ago. The song include such gems as "You can Ba-rock me tonight" and "Universal health care reform, it makes me warm." Check it out.

Liars have announced that their forthcoming eponymous album will be relased August 27th on Mute . This is exciting news, and if you do not understand why then I recommend you pick up the groups last 3 albums and see them live whenever possible.

While you are awaiting the new album check out this reworking of "It Fit When I Was A Kid " from electro-Canadians Crystal Castles .

Also, check out this vintage installment of MP3.com's Great Albums with Liars member Aaron Hemphill .

Then read MP3.com's interview with Angus Andrew .

Gang Gang Dance is proof that not all Williamsburg transplants seek skinny pant fame via the regurgitation of post-garage neo-folkery. This band seems to always push the limits of their own sonic possibilities while simultaneously testing the patience and earholes of audiences.

Fortunately GGD is on the road. Even better is that GGD's Brian DeGraw is touring with a personal production studio consisting of a laptop and 2 DV cameras. So, we the end user get to watch the tour diaries Brian is creating, which so far include excellent GGD performances as well as a special cameo from NYC turned SF transplant who moved back to NYC, Mick Barr . Come back Mick - we miss you!

For more just hit up youtube .

Did you know the planet has a fever? Yup, and what cures a fever better than a bloated seven-continent-spanning concert? Tylenol probably, but I digress. Al Gore promised a concert on every continent for his somewhat dubious Live Earth concert(s) and thanks to some instrument-weilding British Antarctic Survey scientists, that promise will be fulfilled.

Since it's Winter down there, no planes or boats can get in or out, meaning this "indie rock-folk fusion band" will be playing for the 17 other South Pole castaways--outside on the ice in possible minus 10-degree Celsius temps, mind you.

via the Bay Area's bastion of journalistic integrity, the SF Examiner

Shanter and Conan get the chopped and technofied treatment in this hysterical music video based on Wild Bill's 160mph Sunday drive.

Badass new video from a badass new album.

The Horrors - "She Is The New Thing"

Yay for old being new again!




Watch for more special features with THE HORRORS on MP3.com in the coming weeks.

Queens of the Stone Age have confirmed two weeks of U.S. tour dates in support of the release of Era Vulgaris out June 12th via Interscope Records. The "Duluth Tour" as it has been coined starts July 22nd in Costa Mesa, CA. The small venue tour then makes its way to the north, heading east to such places as Missoula, MT, Fargo, ND and of course Duluth, MN. The fun doesn't stop there! Queens of the Stone Age continue to make their way to the south with stops in Little Rock, AR and Oklahoma City, OK.

The Duluth Tour
7/22 - Costa Mesa, CA - OC Fair
2/24 - Chico, CA - Senator Theater
7/25 - Eugene, OR - McDonald Theater
7/27 - Boise, ID - The Big Easy
7/28 - Missoula, MT - Wilma Theater
7/29 - Billings, MT - Shire Auditorium
7/31 - Fargo, ND - Playmaker's
8/01 - Duluth, MN - DECC Arena
8/04 - Indianapolis, IN - Egyptian Room
8/07 - Memphis, TN - New Daisy Theater
8/08 - Little Rock, AR - The Village
8/10 - Tulsa, OK - Cain's Bathroom
8/11 - Oklahoma City, OK - Diamond Ballroom

Queens of the Stone Age haves also released an alternate video for their first single "Sick Sick Sick". 

 

What could be worse than Shakira reworking AC/DC's "Back in Black" live?

Well, Celine Dion doing "You Shook Me All Night Long," of course.

 

 

How's that for alliteration. In his continued downward spiral towards complete cultural irrelevancy and self-destruction, bad-Christian and uber-douche Scott Stapp allegedly hurled an Orangina bottle at his wife's face. So, not only did he commit atrocities on a global scale by subjecting millions to vomit-inducing faux-religious meathead alt-rock, but now he's (allegedly) subjecting his poor wife to his drug-fueled raging mommy-issues. Hey Scott, the entire world is over you.

This isn't saying much, but Human Giant is without a doubt the best show MTV has aired in a long time (Pimp My Ride is a close second, but that's for another post). However, like all good shows, this one's in danger of being cancelled, so the suits at MTV let Rob, Paul, and Aziz take over the channel starting today Friday, May 18 at 2pm and program whatever they want for 24 hours to help save it. I'm a little confused--does this make sense to you?

Whatever the case, they enlisted super-cool friends like Ted Leo and Mastodon to fill up the time and need 1,000,000 hits on the Human Giant/MTV website or else it's back to 24-7 "My Super Sweet Sixteen" episodes. Still confused? Me too. Anyway, Ted Leo was awesome as usual--check out his performance of Me and Mia here.

Watch sub-cultures collide as Lil Jon pimps out the ride of twin Swedish metalheads.

By now we all know that Paris Hilton is going to jail. But what is she doing to bide time before her 45-day stint? Well, smoking pot and continuing to drive on a suspended license, or course. The Daily Mail (the UK equivalent of the NY Post) posted snapshots of Paris backstage at Coachella puffing on a sizable joint right before checking out Willie Nelson's set (I made that last part up). The UK gets the scoop again when The Metro posted pics on May 9 of Paris sneaking out in her blue Bentley. Live it up, Paris. Live it up.

Enjoy the new video from Björk

Watch this clip of Dweezil talking about the making of father Frank's Apostrophe and     Overnight Sensation from this new Eagle Rock Entertainment release: Zappa, Frank: Apostrophe  / Over-Nite Sensation Classic Album DVD

Without going into logistics, sometimes one or two squares of toilet paper just doesn't cut it. Sheryl Crow, however, is saying "tough sh*t" (pun intended), and is suggesting putting the limit at "only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required." I assume this limit would be for public restrooms with some sort of auto-dispenser, because enforcing a one-square rule in private homes would be Orwellian beyond Orwell's wildest imagination.

Crow and Laurie David (the environmentalist wife of Curb Your Enthusiasm's Larry David) are touring college campuses to raise awareness of Global Warming--because college kids are too busy binge drinking to go see An Inconvenient Truth, I'm guessing. Crow wrote on her website, "I have spent the better part of this tour trying to come up with easy ways for us all to become a part of the solution to global warming" and this is the crap she's come up with. It's not surprising, coming from a vastly overrated singer-songwriter who deals in generic light-weight poop, I mean pop. OK, enough sh*t talk.

Read the BBC News article here

Now all you QOTSA fans can get the jump on the group's forthcoming album, Era Vulgaris. The band is currently offering a stream of the song "3's & 7's" from the QOTSA site, but only for a limited time.

Era Vulgaris will hit the streets June 12th.

Ok Go will be the musical guests on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno this Thursday and Friday, the 19th and 20th, playing one song each night. A two-day engagement of this sort is not unheard of in the history of late night television, though it hasn't happened on The Tonight Show since the Jack Paar era, when a young Hugh Downs so captivated the nation with his Fiddler's Jig that he was invited back a record nineteen straight times and then named Secretary of the Navy.

Maybe we can get OK Go on enough times to become President?  I know they have something to wear.

But unlike Peter Bjorn and John, we do care about old folks--especially ones that kick rock-'n'-roll butt. The Zimmers are a novelty act for sure, yet this band of very-senior citizens can chew up and spit out derivative hacks like Jet--and without any teeth, no less (cuz they got none). Check out the video footage of the Zimmers recording the Who's "My Generation" and overdose on irony when 90-year-old band leader Alf sings, yeah, you guessed it, "hope I die before I get old."