94XPOSED TUESDAY JULY 6TH
1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles met for the first time in the Woolton Parish Church in Liverpool.
BEATLES - COME TOGETHER
HAIL THE VILLAIN - TAKE BACK THE FEAR
Hail The Villain is joining the boycott of BP after the recent oil spill disaster. The upstart rockers say that while they aren’t big on political statements, this is something they can truly get behind. Singer Bryan Crouch tells Noisecreep.com, “We are politically charged people, but as far as being a politically charged band, we don’t like to go out on a limb and talk about things like that unless we know what we’re talking about or feel reasonably passionate about it.” Crouch says the blame shouldn’t lie with just BP. He adds, “I think it’s also Transocean and Haliburton, as well as the American government with the sheer consumption. What really comes out of this is awareness, first of all. Whenever musicians take a stand against something, it helps put the awareness out to hundreds of thousands more people than would be knowing about a cause. Americans need to know that their consumption of oil – 20 million barrels a day – is absolutely absurd.” The vocalist says he doesn’t see this boycott as just anti-BP, but also a stand against the oil industry, and that cleanup results and not financial factors should be the top consideration.
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The Beatles, Metallica and Van Halen are set to compete to see whose video game spin-off will triumph in the Music Game Of The Year category at the Golden Joystick Awards.The bands, who have amassed over 300 million album sales between them, have all released their own branded games over the last 12 months; The Beatles in the form of their much-hyped Rock Band game, whilst Metallica and Van Halen have both put their names to new additions of the popular Guitar Hero series. The Golden Joystick Awards, which are voted for by gaming fans from around the world, are set to take place in London at the end of October and mark one of the biggest dates in the gaming industry calendar. This year's ceremony sees the introduction of the new Music Game Of The Year category. My Pick? OBVIOUSLY Metallica!
METALLICA – ENTER SANDMAN
CAGE THE ELEPHANT – AIN’T NO REST FOR THE WICKED
Why Cage the Elephant: "We were in Knoxville, Tennessee, hanging outside a club after a show—this is probably in 2006," remembers singer Matthew Shultz, "and we saw this guy with a shaved head and a long goatee yelling and screaming and talking to himself. I'm pretty sure he had some mental issues going on. He all of a sudden beelined towards us. Everyone jumped into our car and shut the doors. But I didn't make it into the car. I was stuck outside. I thought for sure the guy was gonna stab me or something, but then he came up to me and gave me a hug. The whole time he was saying, 'You have to cage the elephant, you have to cage the elephant.' Afterwards, I was like, 'We gotta name the band that.'"
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Muse was honored with the O2 Silver Clef Award in London on Friday. Billboard reports the Brit rockers were given the award by Queen's Roger Taylor and Brian May, who called Muse "probably the greatest live act in the world today" and "a magnificent, incredible group." The Silver Clef Awards ceremony also included a charity auction to benefit the Nordoff Robbins music therapy charity, to which Muse offered a custom-made guitar that frontman Matt Bellamy had only played once ever. The band's own booking agent won the guitar with a bid of over $50,000.
MUSE - UPRISING
