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Twitter response to the new Limp Bizkit album @Freddurst strangely supportive...

Limp BIzkit's lead singer Fred Durst dropped this late-breaking lesson in eloquence earlier today. If like me, you were waiting for the @ reply barrage - something of crowdsourced cease and desist - to to hit, then you're still waiting. Shockingly, the responses have been encouraging for this new Limp Bizkit album (and I did multiple Twitter searches), here are some of misguided tweets:

@freddurst BRING ON THE GOLD COBRA ! ! ! First day buyer.

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Юрий Чернавский - Здравствуй, Мальчик Бананан

Я как-то раз с утра звонил одной девчонке,
Но как ни наберу — гудки короткие.
И вдруг из трубки вылез маленький мальчонка,
Не больше спичечной коробки.

Я очень испугался и спрашиваю «Ты кто?»,
А о-о-он залез в стакан.
Напился и ответил, спрыгнув на тахту:
«Я мальчик Бананан.
Ту-ту-ту».

Здравствуй, мальчик Бананан.
Ту-ту-ту.
Здравствуй, мальчик Бананан.
Ту-ту-ту.
Здравствуй, мальчик Бананан.

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01 Здравствуй, Мальчик Бананан.mp3 (16350 KB)

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Concert-goers forced to stand in the lobby at Pixies shows in NYC...

That's the view of the front lobby area at last night's Pixies show at Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC. Those red beacons of light are the exit signs over the front doors. Most of the show attendees you see here are standing there because that's as close as they could get to the stage.

According to some commenters at Brooklyn Vegan, you can call Ticketmaster and they'll give you a partial refund based on the fact that the Doolittle Tour shows happening at Hammerstein this week were egregiously oversold. Likewise, some people are being told by Ticketmaster to basically take a hike ("all sales are final"...guh).

Either way, I'd like to know who the greedy merchants responsible for this are - The promoters? The venue? The band?  (say it ain't so...)

My advice to anyone going tonight, get to Hammerstein unreasonably early tonight.

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Them Crooked Vultures, you guys are good at naming rock songs...

I'm halfway through my first listen to the Them Crooked Vultures album, released today. It's not rocking my socks off yet. However, some of the song titles are priceless:

Caligulove

Mind Eraser, No Chaser

Interlude With Ludes

And there's something strangely appealing to 'Warsaw or The First Breath You Take After You Give' too.

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The Cult

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Rock-n-roll

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Did you know Rick James and Neil Young had a band?...

The moral of the story is that there is a definite possibly that had Rick James not been arrested for deserting and thrown in the brig for a year in the mid-60s, the band Buffalo Springfield might have never happened...

In 1964, Rick James was on the lam in Toronto after going AWOL from the Navy. He decided to hide out by pursuing Rock n' Roll stardom. James would eventually form a band among which included Neil Young and future member of Steppenwolf keyboardist Goldie McJohn - who I'm not familiar with, but I really like his rock name.

The band was dubbed the Mynah Birds and had a Stones-esque aesthetic to it. Spinner.com wrote, "The result was the curious sight of a black American imitating a white Englishman imitating a black American." They came real close to breaking it big with Motown. And the group actually traveled to Detroit and recorded an albums worth of material with Smokey Robinson.

Then, James got pinched and put in jail. The record got shelved, and Young made moves for the coast.

Here's a taste of one of Mynah Bird tunes that only recently became available as part of a Motown singles box set:

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2 Weeks of Tunes Vetted (a bunch of good music links)...

I don't know that I'm going to make too many friends with this video, but the song rocks - the junkyard shenanigans going on are admittedly disturbing. Here's White Denim's 'Shake, Shake, Shake'...

Here are links to White Denim and the rest of the bands I liked that I checked out over the course of the last two weeks:

White Denim: http://www.myspace.com/whitedenimmusic
JEFF The Brotherhood: http://www.myspace.com/jakeandjamin
Surfer Blood: http://www.myspace.com/surferblood
Parts & Labor: http://www.myspace.com/partsandlabor
We Are Country Mice: http://www.myspace.com/wearecountrymice
The Happy Hollows: http://www.myspace.com/thehappyhollows
The Depreciation Guild: http://www.myspace.com/thedepreciationguild
The Feelies: http://www.myspace.com/thefeeliesband
Blind Pilot: http://www.myspace.com/blindpilot
Neon Indian: http://www.myspace.com/neonindian
Oddisee: http://www.myspace.com/oddisee720
Parlovr: http://www.myspace.com/parlourmontreal
Beast: http://www.myspace.com/beastsound
We Are Wolves: http://www.myspace.com/wearewolvesnoussommesloups
Think About Life: http://www.myspace.com/thinkaboutlife
Bound Stems: http://www.myspace.com/boundstems
Golden Silvers: http://www.myspace.com/thegoldensilvers
Royal Bangs: http://www.myspace.com/royalbangs
Electrelane: http://www.myspace.com/electrelane
Titus Andronicus: http://www.myspace.com/titusandronicus

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AC/DC are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by Scottish-born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young.

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-AC_DC are an Australian rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by Scottish-born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Although the band ar 1.mp3 (1070 KB)

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NEW AMERICAN MOB U.S. Tour Starts Nov. 4th

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