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I'm probably the saddest person on the face of the earth for digging bands you'll only find in sorry places like Rock band or Guitar Hero. But I'm excited anyways when I say that the Silversun Pickups are releasing an album, Swoon! On February 11 they announced the release date to be April 14 for the U.S. and Canada, April 13 for the U.K. And yes, I discovered Silversun Pickups from Rock band 2 with their song, "Lazy Eye". I'm going to get away with it too. Click here to hear "Lazy Eye". In case you are unfamiliar with the band, yes, that is a guy singing.

On a side note, here's a list of bands to perform at Rock Fest this year so far: (this isn't a specific order) the Steve Miller Band, Korn, Seether, Whigs, Shinedown, Lifehouse, Blackberry Smoke, Sheryl Crow, and the Barenaked Ladies.

Also While I Was Away

I just keep digging up more news from my favorite bands. I can't believe that I missed the release of Lonely Road, a new album by Red Jumpuit Apparatus (RJA) on February 3! Probably best known for their single "Face Down", I love RJA because of their catchy vocals and thematic lyrics, or maybe just because they give me shivers. Anyways, I haven't gotten to actually listen to anything on their new ablum yet, but the album has already reached 14 on a U.S. album chart. (click here to listen to "Face Down")

Korn is planning to start recording again this year! Although just a rumor, the band is hoping to get to a recording studio in May to release an album by November. On February 12, Korn was also chosen to play at the Rock Fest in Cadott, Wisconsin!

Another random piece of information: Buckethead released an album titled Slaughterhouse on the Prairie on January 30. I'm not sure if you would consider a solo guitarist like Buckethead to be alternative rock, but he works for me. According to the reviews, Slaughterhouse on the Prairie is overall a decent album. It contains a couple of excellent tracks, but loses in its overall rating because it contains several disaster tracks. I love Buckethead, he's such a character. I love him so much that here's a little backround on him:

Buckethead is a solo guitarist who always appears wearing a KFC bucket with an orange sticker containing the word "funeral" in bold black letters and also wearing a white mask. His character is described as a man raised by chickens and who also feels that the chicken products sold in fast-food chains are victims of a chicken holocaust. Buckethead plays a variety of instruments but is best known for his guitar works, which won him the #8 spot on GuitarOne magazine's Top 20 Greatest Guitar Shredders of All Time. I was first introduced to him by his song "Jordan", which was featured on Guitar Hero II for Playstation2. (click here to listen to "Jordan") Yes, I am introduced to a lot of artists from video games such as Guitar Hero, if you haven't already noticed. Lately Buckethead's bucket no longer has the KFC logo on it.

While I Was Away~

Oh my oh my, I must have chosen the wrong time to slack off, because Muse is recording music and I didn't know until now! As of February 3, Muse is in the studio working on some tunes they are scheduling to release in September this year! I

f you haven't been following this blog, you wouldn't know that Muse is my most favorite band of all time. But now you know!

Muse's frontman, Matthew Bellamy, has also mentioned the new album will be including a piece of music that he has been working on for an extended period of time. Bellamy has called this piece of music the "hardest song ever", which it must be since it's in three parts. This "hardest song ever" is planned to be the finale of the album, and Muse is known for having epic finales. The finale to their last album, Black Holes and Revelations, was "Knights of Cydonia" (click here to listen), which was so epic that it made it into Guitar Hero III. Bellamy has also said that in this new album the band is trying to incorporate more orchestrated music. Planned for after the album release is a tour of Europe, starting in France. This is going to be Muse's fifth album, I'm so excited!

My Chemical Romance (MCR) has also been busy while I was away! The Warner Bros. film, Watchmen, is due out this year. On February 1, MCR released a new single which is featured in Watchmen as the ending credits track! And guess what else is featured in Watchmen? Muse's previously released song, "Take a Bow" (from their fourth album, Black Holes and Revelations)! Anyways, MCR's new single is titled "Desolate Row", and is also a cover of Bob Dylan's song of the same name. I'm still not sure if this means that MCR will have the cover of "Desolate Row" on any future albums, but we all know that the single will be on the soundtrack of Watchmen.

Prince is a busy man too! Here's the old news: on January 3, a new website was launched to follow Prince's new song releases, on which songs such as "Chocolate Box", "A Colonized Mind", and "All This Love" have been posted. Here's the moderately recent news: on the above website, Prince released two more songs, "Disco Jellyfish", and "Another Boy". Not shabby for a 51-year old music legend!