The New Kings of Leon Song Inexplicably Sounds Like Sammy Hagar

Download: Kings of Leon - "Sex on Fire"

Look, I know that Kings of Leon were denied years of rockin' because of their fundamentalist upbringing (or so the legend goes), but couldn't some kind, forward-thinking soul have steered the boys clear of the red rocker? To be fair, Mr. Hagar did invaluable work with the Clinton administration regarding federal regulation of the speed limit and all that jive. But does anyone think that the man constitutionally incapable of driving 55 should be an influence on today's up-and-coming, edgy rock bands?

Apparently, the family Followill does. How else to explain "Sex on Fire", the second single from their upcoming fourth album Only By The Night? After a rather unassuming, but still quite pleasant, guitar-riff intro recalling the VU-revivalism of earlier this decade, "Fire" quickly goes south by amping up the cheese. The main problem is the vocals. For some reason, the band decided that Joe Cocker + Sammy Hagar = RAWK!. And I'm here to tell that it doesn't. It just doesn't. Also, the song is called "Sex on Fire". Bad idea to have a song title whose immediately reaction is a combination of "ouch" and "no". One shot, mas tequila? No. No Mas.

Hopefully, Only By The Night will consist more of songs like "Crawl", which smartly combined Bjork and The Who.

This song blows goats. I have proof at the top of the post. Or stream it at the band's MySpace Page.

Also, get a load of this, from the band's Wiki page (all errors remain from the Wiki page itself):

Nathan, Matthew and Jared all remain single. Caleb, married to famously incredible Stephanie Shanks, they will be expecting thier first child together this Winter, but it is sure that the unborn child could also be fartherd by anyone of the Followill's. Stephanie, who is ace at nuts, hasnt yet talked about the night spent with the Followill's, but good friends Alexis Baker and Gary parkin are certain that Stephanie wont give a shite as they are all sexy bastards!

Wha-wha-what?

Then watch this instead:



Kings of Leon MySpace Page

High School Cheerleading Squad Does Dance Routine To Shearwater

Download: Shearwater - "Red Sea, Black Sea"


Not even joking. Matablog posted this two days ago, and it's definitely worth watching, as the choreography is as impressive as the song choice is surreal. Which is to say, very. I'm not sure what high school this is--the warrior logo is more than a little generic--but I will say that I've been colored impressed. The song the routine is choreographed to is from Shearwater's last album, Palo Santo, and it's called "Red Sea, Black Sea."

Rook, Shearwater's upcoming album, is available on June 3rd.

(Jonathan Graef)

Glorious Monster Offshoot To Appear In "The Real World: Hollywood" (Also: Perez Hilton Digs The 1900s?)

Download: Glorious Monster - "Photographs"
Download: The 1900s - "Georgia"

Minneapolis and Hollywood are opposites in many ways, not the least of which includes climate--MPLS, after all, has something called "Cold Weather". But the two cities are about to have at least one thing in common: the music of Glorious Monster, the electro-pop duo from the land of 10000 lakes. The conduit for such a connection? Why, it's "The Real World". Yes, the television show that started out as an earnest, if convoluted, look into the lives of twenty-somethings that has gentrified to an even more convoluted orgy of twenty-something drinking-and-screwing themselves into an orgy of stupid. How is this possible? I'll let Brian from GM do the explaining.

via MySpace:

Hello World,

So, as many of you may or may not know, we here at Glorious Monster also write music for many other things. One of these things is a Neo-Disco Electrono-Rock project that we had not yet revealed to the public.

However, one of the songs we wrote for this project, "Take Off Your Pants (and Dance)", is being featured tonight on the new episode of MTV's Real World Hollywood. A "feature" means they use the vocal version, a significant amount of the song, and they give us a little drop down box during the show as the track plays that tells the viewers the name of the song, band, and album.

This created a small problem for us, as the fine people at MTV received a song from us that we are yet to release.

So if you are feeling juvenile and want to watch MTV tonight, look out for "Take off your pants (and dance)", by The Skeptics (our production team name).


Are we going to release this new neo-disco electrono-rock project under the artistic signature "The Skeptics"?? No, in fact, that shall remain our title as producers, but the song should really be attributed to the band name "Man is Doomed".

Because of the sudden placement of one of our new unreleased songs, we were forced to hastily and crudely assemble a myspace page for "Man is Doomed". It will get better, we promise. Also, we have updated the Skeptic Music page with new(er) music from Glorious Monster, Man is Doomed, and some recent film music we wrote as well.

Listen to Man is Doomed (as well as "Take Off Your Pants (And Dance") at the band's MySpace Page and The Skeptics here. Incidentally, do a Google search for "Man Is Doomed". Lots of fun to be had there.

We're not judging--the economy blows goats (I have proof), and the bills have to get paid somehow. Still, "The Real World"? Does it really have to be "The Real World?".

Yes. It does.

In other WTF-worthy news, PEREZ HILTON DIGS THE 1900S!?? WHA-KABOOM!(JON GRAEF'S HEAD EXPLODES).

Read P4k's take on one of 2007's best albums, Cold And Kind, here

Glorious Monster MySpace Page
The 1900s MySpace Page

(Jonathan Graef)

Pavement Referenced In "Get Fuzzy" Comic Strip

Download: Pavement - "Summer Babe (Winter Version)"
Download: Pavement - "Here"

Via the Matablog. Don't know if you can see, but one of the characters in this comic is wearing a Pavement T-Shirt. Wow.

(Jonathan Graef)

Bob Dylan's Cadillac Commercial

Not to state the obvious, but he's come a long way since Dinkytown, hasn't he? Still, it's no more absurd than the Victoria's Secret ad he did a while back.

(Jonathan Graef)