Does this Cover Bum You Out?
I’m not sure why, but the cover of the new Dashboard Confessional album really bums me out. Maybe it’s b/c it totally looks like an outake from an episode of The OC or something like that. Or maybe it’s this cover in combo with the 30 second spots for the Matchbox 20- or Coldplay-worthy video for “Don’t Wait” I keep seeing after watching an episode of The Hills on MTV.
Well, We’re Just a Wet Dream for the Webzine
Oh. My. God. Panic! at the Disco at Nokia Theater here in New York was SO MUCH FUN!
Nora asked me how old Brendon Urie was and I exclaimed, “19 or something like that,” to which she responded, “Ok legal!” (Unlike YOU Teddy Geiger!) Ryan Ross and his adorable little painted harlequin face and rose-encrusted vest was so cute I wanted to put him in my pocket and take him home. I think this girl I spotted in the front row of the crowd (below) would agree with me when I say “Ryan Ross 4eva!”
As I’m sure you already know, Panic! is touring with the Lucent Dossier as a part of their act (below). These vaudvillian performers dance, disrobing, and cause general freakish sexiness onstage at any given time during the act. There was a LOT of stripping and leg spreading…at times I kinda wanted to cover some of these young kids’ eyes!
During the intermission they told “secrets” about the band members, including telling the crowd that Brendon is still a virgin…which prompted a weirdish enthusiastic squealing from the sea of girls in the audience. They also distributed Polaroids of the band members to the lucky kids at the front of the crowd. When they jokingly said that you could have the Polaroid for only 1 dollar, I saw about 500 teenage girls start thrusting dollar bills into the air, reaching over the barrier, waving their Washingtons like they were at some kind of pre-teen stripper joint. I have never in my life heard a group of young girls screaming SO LOUD in my ear.
Maybe they were shrieking so much because I kept singing along to all the songs. I could just hear them mentally asking each other, “um, who’s that old lady singing all the words? Umm.. SCARY!” I heard a seasoned 16 year-old complaining that she was “too old for all of this” and about all the 13 year-olds who were pushing in the crowd. It was like looking into a mirror of my own grumpiness!
Brendon is an excellent front man, gliding from one stage to another with elegant dance moves, looking mighty fine in his slim-fit pants and white ruffled shirt. His voice sounded great, just like how it does on the album. When he started the choreographed dancing with Lucient Dossier toward the end of the set I almost died inside. And do I even need to mention he’s quite the looker? Nope, didn’t think so.
In the last five minutes of the concert, all hell broke loose, with security guards rushing to the middle of the crowd for some unknown reason, then a dude somehow getting onstage, and doing a stage dive as one of the stage crew guys ran after him, then Brendon Urie jumping into the crowd–all in a span of 60 seconds. When Brendon finally got back on stage, his suspenders had been ripped from his body. It’s like someone passed around some crazy pills and everyone took them all at the same time.
I stood right next to the stage the whole time and almost lost my crap while dancing with Nora to “I Constantly Thank God For Esteban”.
Nothing could have made this show any better…except maybe a $20,000 windmill which couldn’t fit in Nokia Theater.
Here’s the setlist according to the email I received after texting Wiredset:
1. Introduction 2. The Only Difference Between Martyrdom And… 3. Time To Dance 4. London Beckoned Songs About Money Written… 5. Karma Police (cover of Radiohead) 6. Camisado 7. Nails For Breakfast, Tacks For Snacks 8. Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without… 9. Intermission 10. Cabaret 11. I Write Sins Not Tragedies 12. Tonight Tonight (cover of Smashing Pumpkins) 13. There’s A Good Reason These Tables Are… 14. I Constantly Thank God For Esteban 15. Fav Things
The Dresden Dolls (below) and the Hush Sound opened up as the support band for Panic!
Grills = So Scene?
Move over eyeliner and black and white striped tshirts–PAUL WALL’S GRILLS from Houston are SO SCENE. Check out Panic! at the Disco’s “Merch Dan” rocking his pair:
A baller’s gotta do what a baller’s gotta do!
Yes, it does say, “MERCH DAN” on it in blue!! That is SO fly.
Eva Chavela Rocks the Box
According to a friends bulletin she posted, our dear little Eva is now one of the models on the new boxes of Manic Panic Hair Dye! Yay!!! Eva hasn’t seen it yet (she’s making a special trip to Hot Topic this weekend to check it out), so if you’ve gotten a peek of our favorite faux redhead on the box and have a picture, send it along!
“Emo, pop-punk, whatever you want to call it, is dangerous” Says Brandon Flowers
Both Jesse and Matt pointed me to what could be the greatest quote ever muttered by Brandon Flowers of The Killers.
In addition to calling emo and pop-punk “dangerous”, he also tells the NME in this week’s issue, that people don’t realize what they are “getting [themselves] into with Fall Out Boy” and that he just wants to “beat all those bands to death.” Um…I know your band is called The Killers, but don’t you think this is taking it too far?
I gotta be honest with you, I really have no idea what any of those quotes mean…How is emo/pop-punk a threat to society as a whole? I’m not quite sure. Unless he means they are cultural terrorists…but then does that make him a cultural fascist? And I thought the Killers/FOB feud had already been resolved…Oh well.
You Asked for More Daniel Isaac, You Got It Dudes
Ok so I just happen to find this video short of “Smokahontas” featuring Mr. Daniel Isaac up on YouTube.
Our favorite Groom gets angry over a 4 dollar pack of Smokahontas cigarettes. Oh and be warned, the video has a lot of cussing, so you might not want to have your computer speakers up too loud when you play the vid.
Wow. Hellooooooo Academy Awards!
WATCH: “Smokahontas” featuring Daniel Isaac and Phil Babcock
Wentz + Magic = Brilliant
Today, courtesy of Jeff, I discovered the greatest television show ever, “Real Magic TV“. It’s basically some dude who does magic tricks with musicians and then interviews them. Check out this clip of Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz talking about his love of Lifetime television made for TV movies.
In more Wentz news, Clandestine Industries will release a “Stay Gold” black hoodie with gold glitter detailing as a limited edition sweatshirt. Keep an eye out when it goes on sale. Here’s a preview of the merch, modeled by Pete (looking kinda…hot???):
Unrelated, but still awesome, is this review Jeff wrote about his adventure to Nassau Colesseum to see Taking Back Sunday (STRONG ISLAND, REPREZENT!), Angels and Airwaves, Head Automatica, and The Subways. I love the part where all the kids BUM RUSH THE STAGE like a pack of mad crazy wolves. I so wish I could have been there, but I had a date with Keane and Ryan Adams.
Also check out Fuse’s “Tattoo Stories” from Warped Tour featuring Motion City Soundtrack, FOB, and more.
Daniel Isaac, You Are Killing Me
Seriously, Daniel Isaac, not only are you the hottest guy to ever be in a music video (The Groom in “I Write Sins, Not Tragedies” by Panic! at the Disco), but you are also talented? Look at you shooting the video for your buddies, The Panic Division. AND YOU ARE TWENTY-TWO YEARS OLD!
This is making my head explode. You really better have like girl voice, tell offensive and bad jokes, smell funky, or have some other unattractive thing about you because this is too much perfectness for me to handle.
I hate you.
Love These Screams Like I Do
Tonight I went to the AFI show at New York City’s Roseland Ballroom. It was insane. First off they had the most beautiful stage set up I’ve ever seen. All of the amps and speakers, and the drum kit were painted a frosty white color. The row of amps looked like pristine washing machines. (I swear!)
As soon as the band came on stage the crowd went CRAZY. I was in the photo pit and half the time you had one eye on the band and one eye on the crowd to make sure you didn’t get your head wacked off by someone’s flying body.
Speaking of flying bodies, during the set some dude–I have no idea who he was–but some guy with a baseball hat on and shorts and a tshirt RAN ACROSS THE STAGE, past Davey Havok, and LEAPT INTO THE CROWD. I was standing directly in front of him, and as soon as I realized that “oh my god, this guy is going to jump” I ducked down because I knew if I didn’t he would have knocked me to the ground in his effort to stage dive.
I saw the most adorable 5-7 year old kid in the front row with a MOWHAWK.
AFI have so much energy live it’s incredible. Singer Davey Havok, decked out in all black with white suspenders and the most AMAZING hot pink glitter eyeshadow this side of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, prowls around the stage like a tiger, and then jumps up on top of one of the white risers at the front of the stage at any given moment, then perches on there like a crow, serenading the crowd while whiping the microphone between hands. When he’s not perching, he’s standing with his arms swung up high over his head, posing like the master of ceremonies to this freak show. Guitarist Jade Puget whips around the stage, leaping and rocking out. Bassist Hunter is calm and collected while keeping rhythm, and drummer Adam Carson beats those heads like no tomorrow.
Openers Nightmare of You played to an already crowded house at 7:30. I couldn’t believe so many people were at the show that early! When they started playing “My Name Is Trouble” the crowd cheered and danced along. And I loved when lead singer Brandon Reilly asked if anyone was from Long Island because I got to cheer, “YEAH STRONG ISLAND!” for the first time in a loooonnng time. Haha.
Dillinger Escape Plan was like a whirlwind of “WHAT THE?”. They came on stage and I didn’t even have time to process what was going on because everything was happening so damn fast. One moment lead singer Greg Puciato was on stage, the next he was standing in front of me…the only thing was by that time I was up in the balcony! He had somehow climbed up to the second story and I swore that he was just about to jump as he looked down at the crowd when a security guard came up behind him and tackled him. He and the security guard started arguing, and Greg ran off through the backstage area and back onto the stage where he told the audience that the security guard was pissed off and that he was now naming him “Phil”. Oh that crazy Phil!
The group of dudes in the middle of the crowd who insisted on doing moves from Mortal Kombat totally amused Lizzie and me throughout the DEP set.
AFI play another sold out show at Roseland Ballroom tomorrow night with Nightmare of You and Dillinger Escape Plan.
I Love This Photo Heading More than Anything Right Now
Check out this hilarious heading and photo that Lawrence wrote/shot while in Spain:
“This is what it would look like if you cloned Mikey Way and made him run with the bulls in Pampalona”
