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Those ‘Freaks on a leash’ have been affected by Al Gore’s Go Green Machine and what better way to give back but by exploiting the most current fad, Bio-fuel! Today they announced they would be producing their own form of Korn branded bio-fuel. And what impossibly clever name are they giving this endeavor? Oh, nothing retarded like Korntastic. Wait. What? They are naming it Korntastic? Uh, whoops. Never mind. Limewire.com writes:
“Korntastic will be a domestically produced alternative fuel derived from plant based energy sources. The product will emit a significantly smaller amount of CO2 than regular fuel does. The band has arranged to have bio-fuel replace gasoline in the 16 touring vehicles on this year’s Family Values Tour. Lead singer Jonathan Davis says “We can’t save the planet overnight but this is our way of saying everyone has to start somewhere. As a touring band it’s our responsibility to start making a difference. We encourage all other bands touring this summer to do the same.””
Uh yeah. Did I mention they also dropped a new album today? They named it Untitled. Yeah, like I said. CLEV-ER. To help them with their apparent drought of ingenuity I figured I’d give them a freebie name for their next album. “Korn presents; Songs of Korntastica or how Korn figured out how to market an environmental fad and capitalize as greedily as possible.” Little long? Naw. That’s Avant-garde. If Fiona can, Korn can. Can… can… oh, I GIVE UP! ITS KORNTASTIC Y’ALL!
Source - Limewire.com
Last Monday night, Rockit Bar & Grill hosted Whitestarr’s premiere party for their new VH1 celebreality TV show ‘The Rock Life.” Whitestarr is a California rock band that is most famously known for their frontman Cisco Adler and his certain assets. Adler is notorious for publicly dating and wooing many of today’s starlets and socialites. Rockit Bar & Grill closed off the upstairs of their restaurant to debut ‘The Rock Life’ when it aired on VH1. After watching the premiere episode, Whitestarr performed for the meager crowd who surprisingly still had the constitution to keep partying after the exhausting behemoth known as Lollapalooza. Whitestarr opened up their set with “Be my bitch” and followed with “Beautiful Thang,” to end their mini-performance with the song “The Rock Life.” After Whitestarr performed, Cisco Adler sat down with me for quick Q&A about the new show and his band.
1) How did VH1 approach Whitestarr to do your own celebreality TV show?
Cisco Adler: “Actually, we approached them. All we wanted to do was to do a show and get out all the pretenses of being famous and show what it is like to be a good rock band.”
Rainbow Jeremy (guitarist) “Spit on it, and improve things.”
Cisco Adler: “Everyone is always telling us that we act like such fools that we would probably make good TV and now my balls have their own reality TV show.
2) So why did Whitestarr decide to host the premiere party for your show at the Rockit bar and grill in Chicago?
Cisco Adler: “We are on tour with ZZ Top and the Pretenders so we decided this was a good as place as any to celebrate the premier of our show.” Read more »
Everyone’s favorite Kentucky dance rock band, VHS or Beta, will set out to tour August 11th to support their newest LP Bring on the Comets (available August 28th). Their tour will begin in Columbus, Ohio and will continue throughout the U.S. I don’t know about you, but I think this is a must-see tour–VHS or Beta are sure to set the The Night On Fire!
Tour dates highlights are:
- New York’s Bowery Ballroom (August 29)
- Rock And Roll Hotel in Washington, D.C. (September 1)
- 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis (September 5)
- Chop Suey in Seattle (September 10)
- Mazzanine in San Francisco (September 14)
- The Casbah in San Diego (September 17)
- The Granada Theater in Dallas (September 20)
- The 40 Watt Club in Athens, Ga. (September 25)
- Headliners in Louisville, K.Y. (September 29)
Tickets are available now at their website! What are you waiting for? CLICK CLICK CLICK!
Apparently the slow fiery car wreck we call Britney Spears has finally gotten in touch with her inner Ryker’s inmate and is ready to cut a bitch. July 23rd, Miss Hit Me Baby One More Time was finally driven Crazy and threatened to kill two photographers who took her picture as she left a Las Vegas spa. According to Yahoo! News:
Spears yelled “I am going to kill you! I am going to f—ing kill you!,” at Andrew Deetz, the photographer who was allegedly beaten by Spears’ bodyguard on Thursday, according to a statement released by their lawyers. The men, Deetz, 24, and Kyle Henderson, 23, said they were preparing to sue.
The men were taking pictures of Spears, 25, as she and her children — 22-month-old Sean Preston Federline and 10-month-old Jayden James Federline — left the spa at the Wynn Las Vegas casino-hotel at about 11:30 a.m., accompanied by two bodyguards.
One bodyguard, Cesar Julio Camera, 37, pushed Henderson against the wall until Wynn security intervened and asked Henderson to leave, the statement said.
As they were about 30 paces away and walking in the opposite direction, Camera attacked Deetz from behind, threw him on the ground and punched and kicked him until security pulled him off. Afterward, Spears ran toward Henderson but was stopped by security, and then threw a baby bottle at him, it said.
Then, in front of several other hotel guests and bystanders, Spears threatened to kill Deetz and said he should get a restraining order against her because she was going to kill him or hire someone that would, it said.
Holy Crossroads! Methinks Britney may have gotten a hold of some ‘roids because her reaction has become a tad bit Stronger. That negativity is Toxic! In case you didn’t notice, I initially intended to write this using as many titles of her singles as possible, but apparently I’m not In The Zone. Hah! Zing, even till the end!
Source - news.yahoo.com
For those who don’t know, Au Revoir Simone have been there for me in so many ways: when I cried during “Grey’s Anatomy,” when I didn’t know who was going to sing the girl part during “Young Folks” at the Peter Bjorn & John show at The Empty Bottle, and when I discovered I enjoyed dancing naked in front of my mirror to the soothing sounds that only the keyboard can make. This Brooklyn electro trio knocked socks and hippie halter tops off with their debut album, Verses of Comfort, Assurance & Salvation.
This past March, Au Revoir Simone released their sophomore album, The Bird of Music, and to celebrate my favorite electronic female threesome (no frat boy fantasies, thank you) Au Revoir Simone was kind enough to answer Superstarcastic’s dreaded Five Questions… Of FIRE! (Editor’s note: There is no fire, nor are the questions dreaded, but our writers do tend to be adjective-heavy.) On with the questions!
1. When historians listen to your CD 1000 years from now, what will they say?
Annie: Whoa! I can’t believe people used round pieces of plastic to put music on!
Erika: Keyboard revival!
Heather: Where are the guitars?
2. If you could play a show w/ any band/musician living or dead, whom would you pick and why?
Annie: ABBA, because I want to be them.
Erika: ELO, because they are geniuses.
Heather: Bjork, because she’s basically, well, god. Read more »
Since Smashing Pumpkins‘ Zeitgeist is all the buzz here at Superstarcastic, I figured I would bandwagon this little tidbit. If you open up your music sleeve inside your properly purchased non-pirated copy of Smashing Pumpkins, you have may have come upon an image of America’s most loved to be hated celebutant.
(waits a second for you to check. )
No, your eyes have not betrayed you. That is indeed Paris Hilton inside your Zeitgeist insert. No, you do not have herpes. But Billy Corgan may. NME.com has reported that Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan took the photos of Hilton, who he had met previously.
Billy Corgan said: “The original idea was we were gonna see if Lindsay (Lohan), Britney (Spears) and Paris would all shoot..(but) Paris I knew personally and hung out with her a few times, and so I asked her…and God bless her, she came, she showed up at 10am on a Sunday morning, sat in the chair, got made up and (I) shot her.”
To you negligent personal assistants out there, this is another situation where someone could have replaced a camera with some form of fire arm and made the world a better place for everyone. Shame on you, Billy Corgan’s personal assistant. Shame on you!
