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Trohman: new @falloutboy song teaser off the limited edition Believers Never Die-Greatest Hits! http://bit.ly/3g7peZ .

I don't know about you folks out there, but I'll definitely be picking up the physical copy of this album which comes out November 16th in the states and November 17th worldwide. I have become a huge physical album kind of girl so now I just have to pick what package I want. I'm kind of leaning towards infinity. Hello a copy of thew Believers Never Die yearbook?

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Video of the week!

I'm like a proud mother when it comes to bands I've been listening to for a long time reaching a great height. This morning, Parachute played 'She Is Love' on Good Morning America:

This week at Mix and Mark!

...a brand new interview with the great Queen's Club who you may have seen rocking out on the DanceRawrDance tour with some past Mix and Mark favorites in Breathe Carolina and Cash Cash. Last time I saw them was in Cambridge during the tour and they had just gotten signed with Tooth and Nail literally days before. Watch out for the latest and greatest thing out of Kansas City lately here on their myspace and here in the next week!

...the latest artist of the week which just happens to be Mayday Parade! Currently one of the co headliners on the epic AP Ball tour, I recently did an interview with this band to see where they were with everything be it their latest tour plans or the likelihood of being on Warped this upcoming summer...my album review of Twin Atlantic's "Vivarium". It's the debut US release from the scottish based band and is AMAZING. I like to compare them to the UK version of Blink 182 and that's not a bad thing at all! Coincidentally, Twin Atlantic recently got a chance to watch an Angels and Airwaves rehearsal and had the chance to talk to Tom Delonge after (center in the picture)!

also coming up tomorrow I'm meeting Justin Nozuka at his show and interviewing a bit at the show and going to the Forgetful Jones release party this friday in Boston! Have a good week readers and looking forward to what this week brings us in music and life! xo

New Cobra? What's that? <3

It's just one of those days where everyone is being awesome, and thus this girl, yeah me!, is blogging about five times. Stop being awesome people!

One of my easily favorite bands in the biz, the beautiful people in Cobra Starship, are currently finding themselves all over this place and hopefully even more if our interview plans go like they are! They've been featured as one of my biggest guilty pleasures, have had their videos on here and even a review of their recent Boys Like Girls date in Los Angeles that I caught over the good old ustream. They just dropped a little commercial like video to let everyone know that they are dropping some new cobra cam episodes very soon and even included some of their favorite friends, Mr. Pete Wentz and Jack!

Watch out cobras!


New CobraCam.TV Episodes Coming Soon!

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Song of the day. Pa-Pa-Power!

"No we will not destroy you," along with hand claps and the Silverlake Conservatory with it? No one can deny the greatness of the debut album from Dead Man's Bones and my personal favorite from the album being Pa Pa Power, I decided that it was time to implement the on occasion song of the day to the blog. Yes, lately I've started a million new days/themes/but it's definitely pushing me to update more often which is a good thing!

Pa Pa Power, along with some personal favorites like "In The Room Where You Sleep" and "Young and Tragic" are quickly becoming on constant repeat in my head and I was lucky enough to catch their set about two weeks ago at The Middle East. They just finished a select amount of dates on a headlining tour and hopefully they decide to hit the road again soon!

ANOTHER Kevin Lyman Tour?

The man is literally on fire. Kevin Lyman has just announced the initial lineup for the first annual Country Throwdown tour which will be happening May 13th to June 20th. It is the fourth tour assuming annual tour that Kevin has organized, including Rockstar Taste of Chaos, Rockstar Mayhem and most well known and the first one, Warped Tour.

Billboard.com has just announced that the headliners will include country music favorites like Jamey Johnson, Little Big Town and Montgomery Gentry while also featuring acts like Eric Church, Lost Trailers and The Eli Young band. It's still early in the planning stages but already it sounds like an awesome idea. There will be one main stage, two side stages, and a music in the round set up with nine different singer/songwriters.

Already, I thought Kevin Lyman was a complete genius and now even more. I guess Billboard thought the same thing as he will be accepting an award on Thursday for his philanthropic and environmental efforts.

For more on the tour check out: http://tinyurl.com/yajn366

Getting down with A Skylight Drive!

"I want to hear you call my name for the first or the last time" is just a bit of the musical genius I have heard from six of the most personable, hilarious and just plain awesome boys in the alternative music scene. A Skylit Drive, other wise known as Jag, Nick, Corey, Joey, Kyle and Brian are quickly becoming one of the heaviest hitters in the screamo music game today, especially with their latest release "Adelphia" and are still some of the most humble people I know and I was lucky enough to have the chance to sit down with them recently on the tour they just finished out with Senses Fail, Closure in Moscow and FACT.

I last saw them on Warped Tour in Montreal, and definitely enjoyed their live set. Just coming off the release of their latest album, Adelphia, the band was on fire and put on a great show. They come from Lodi, California and have several albums under their belts. Currently they can be found on the road in Europe with past touring buddies Dance Gavin Dance and are playing some California shows to round out the year.

Everything was on the table in this interview including how they believe their latest album effort is doing, how awesome their tour manager is and their favorite acts to hit the road with. The requirements? You have to like partying and don't take Jag's corn dogs. Read on for more!

So last time I talked to you guys, we were at Warped Tour. Have you already gone to Europe, or is that after this?
Joey: No, it's after this.
Nick: Are we on right now?
Yes.
Nick: So this is the real deal. We're going after this tour. Hopefully.

Do you guys know who you're going with on this tour?
Brian: We're going with Dance, Gavin, Da-a-a-a-nce.
Joey: We don't really like them though.
Brian: They're terrible musicians.
That's really really sweet of you.
Brian: I'm just joking!
Jag: Yeah, they fart on our pillows.

I know the tour is just starting but how has it been so far?
Brian: Fantabulous.
Corey: Dooing
Brian: Corey says its been dooing.

You guys released Adelphia in June. How has it been going so far?

Nick: I think more and more time goes on, like more people are starting to get down with it. I think at first not everybody was on the Adelphia train.
Joey: It's like Christian Bale movies. The first time you watch it, you kind of think it sucks but you just keep watching it over and over again. Oh this might rule, or it might not.
Nick: Not that everyone didn't like it right away, I'm not really sure. Just maybe we're progressing, the tours were going on have been awesome, more and more kids are coming out. It's really sweet!
Brian: Totally sweet bro.
Joey: Bill Murray sweet.
Brian: You can quote Joey on that one.


Who are you some of your influences?
Corey: Oprah Winfrey.
Joey: He watches Oprah a lot. I'm really into Maury because I think he has a real talk show. Yeah I used to watch Ricki Lake every night at like two in the morning.
Brian: Montell Williams.
Joey: Brian likes more of the african influences.

Who would be your top three acts to tour with?
Brian: Closure in Moscow
Who you're already on tour with.
Brian: Who we're already on tour with.
Joey: Breathe Carolina.
Nick: Yeah we've toured with them. We can check both off them off the list.
Corey: I think we're down to tour with anybody, anyone that's cool and fun. Or who likes to party.
Joey: I really like fact actually too because they don't speak english.
Not at all?
Nick: That's not the only reason we like them.
Joey: Yeah. They're really funny though, all they say is the same two sentences.
Jag: We can't really like repeat what they do know. We haven't been the best influence on their English. We'll start teaching them nicer things through out the tour.
Joey: We're starting them out small.
Jag: How to rowl up the crowd, have to say curse words and everything.
Where are they from?
Nick: Japan.
Joey: They're all in their thirties but they look like there twelve years old.
Jag: They're seriously all thirty and they look like they're sixteen. It's all that rice.

What's your favorite part of touring?
Jag: Just playing.
Brian: Kids coming out, the reaction from the crowd.
Joey: Nick hurts himself usually every night on stage.
Brian: Yeah, he has a black eye right now. He did that all on his own.
What did you do?
Nick: I tried to make up a cool story of what had happened but I couldn't think of anything so i'll tell it to you straight because I like you, you're cool, we could be friends and stuff. I was throwing my guitar around, trying to look cool, went to take it off and I ended up just smacking myself right in the face and the whole crowd went "oh!" at the same time.
You should really make something up!

Jag: Then there was almost the time he died on Warped Tour. He almost tripped over a box. We're up like nine feet, he tries to jump over a box, almost falls over.
Joey: There were probably a thousand kids there and they all just went "wooo!"
Nick: And then on this tour, the first night, I fell really heard, I wiped out.
First night.
Jag: He made it look cool though.
Nick: I did.
Joey: By hitting a security guard in the face.
Nick: Well see that wasn't the cool part. I made it look like I was trying to jump into the crowd.

What's the craziest thing a fan has ever given you?
Jag: Someone gave me-
Nick: What kind of fan are you thinking of? There have been some weird things...
Brian: One time, these girls gave us clay dolls of each and everyone of us at Warped Tour.
Nick: They were like real action figures.
Brian: Yeah, we like have a skylight action figure.
Jag: It was the highlight of my life.
Brian: I totally played with mine for like a long time.
Joey: We couldn't figure out which ones were Nick and Joey though.

What are you addicted to?
Joey: I'm addicted to having fun.
Joey and Brian: Yeah, we're addicted to partying.
Brian: That's for the record.
Joey: Dancing also.
Corey: Herbs like Paprika and oregano.
Brian: We actually don't do drugs. We try to stay away from all the hard shit just you know cause cause it just messes up your body and your mind.
Joey: We just know a lot of people that have gone down that path..and they're all in this band.
Nick: I'm too good looking for that.

If you had a million dollars, what would you buy?
Brian: House, party house or a yacht, a party yacht. That could be a house. I would buy like a bunch of movies, dvds, video games, that kind of stuff.
Nick: I would buy world peace.
Brian: What if you could really buy that? That would be awesome.

What's your favorite treat?
Joey: Just being with my friends on the road.
Brian: Yeah, hey that's a good answer. That's a good treat. Just being around friends.
Nick: Joey thinks we're friends.
Brian: And our driver Chad.
Jag: Chad's awesome.Look how good looking he is?
So you guys don't have to drive the rv at all, you can just sleep.
Brian: Yeah he's pretty good looking. He's awesome.
Jag: Nobody lights up your life like Chad.
Corey: He's a good babysitter.
Chad (the bus driver): I'll tickle you before I tuck you in or I'll just tickle you or make you one of Jag's corn dogs when he's not around.
Jag: Yeah I heard about that. I was going to talk to you about that later. Not just one but two!

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You can catch the boys on tour in two days around Europe with Dance Gavin Dance, and at a few home state shows in California to round out the year. Also, You can find "Adelphia" along with their other albums all on itunes and check out their tunes on their myspace.