This afternoon I got an e-mail from a colleague alerting me to the fact that the term Joonas.net seemed to be a hot Internet search term, and being that the Jonas Brothers have a very similar name we initially thought this must be a new fansite dedicated to Nick, Joe and Kevin.
When I went there, I found that to be the exact opposite of what it actually is. You see it appears to be some robot-like site that generates the message: "The requested document is totally fake. Even tried multi. Nothing helped. I'm really depressed about this. And it goes on and on in about being a depressed robot or web server or something you seems to be having some sort of identity crisis: I mean, it's not your job to listen to my problems, and I guess it is my job to go and fetch web pages for you. But I couldn't get this one. I'm so sorry. Believe me!"
OK, OK, we believe you. And we're actually just sort of bummed that it's not a Jonas site, but instead some mysterious site run by a guy named Joonas in Finland. (This is true. We did our research.) Unfortunately that's all we know at this point, but we're thinking he's either an artist who is pranking us, or that Joonas is really some sort of depressed Web server. If it's the latter, we're here to talk!
No Doubt have been in the music business (some call it "the biz") for enough time now that they know what they're doing. You might even call them veterans. But they need your help on their summer tour.
When Gwen and the boys get up on stage to play their first hit, "Just a Girl", the video playing on the big screens will be you. And your friends. And your pets.
The band is asking you to do your best impression of Gwen from way back in '95 and upload footage of yourself for them to use on tour. Complete details and submission can be found at NoDoubt.com. The deadline is May 1, so get shootin' and uploadin', even if you're just a boy.
Pretty cool, huh? We thought so too. And it got us thinking that we'd heard this idea before. Lo and behold, MTV News met some crazy No Doubt fans back in 1997 who had the same idea. They dressed up like Gwen, went to a show and even got to meet the band.
FROM MOVIESBLOG.MTV.COM: There are plenty of things the Internet is great for. Like, for instance, watching zombies battling sharks underwater.
But what it's really amazing at is taking today's news and remixing it while it's still today's news — like, oh, let's say, the f-bomb-tastic Christian Bale tirade from the set of "Terminator: Salvation" that has been lighting things up over the past 24 hours.
Continue reading about the musical remixes of Christian Bale's on-set tirade at moviesblog.mtv.com...
Earlier today, the Newsroom (OK, pretty much just me and producer Daniel "Monty" Montalto) was abuzz with excitement about the happenings over on Mastodon's official Web site. Seems the Atlanta prog/thrash/tech metallers had placed a countdown clock on the page, and it was rapidly, well, counting down, due to hit all zeros at noon ET.
And when we finally got to the zero hour, what would be revealed? Information about the band's long-awaited new album, Crack the Skye, a concept disc based on (depending on what you read) the life of indestructible Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin, the art aesthetics of Tsarist Russia, astral travel or Stephen Hawking's conceptual theories on Wormholes? The secrets of the Birchmen of Blood Mountain? Webcam footage of the slaughter of a snow leopard? Knowing Mastodon, truly any of those things were possible.
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Maybe it's Pitchfork's fault. The notoriously lacerating blog that famously posted a wordless review of Jet's 2006 Shine On album accompanied by a nine-second video of a chimp urinating in its own mouth and then topped that with a review of the Black Kids' 2008 debut that featured a picture of two sad pug dogs and the word "sorry" helped set the stage for the micro album review.
Now, thanks to the just-launched, Twitter-ific review site Musebin, the days of the 500-plus-word, navel-gazing, "serious" album review by opinion-bloated rock critics could be going the way of HD DVDs. How can the Robert Christgaus of the world compete with such pithy 140-character takes on albums like Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy that opine: "Chinese Democracy: What a piece of f---ing sh--," as well as "It took Michelangelo 4 years to paint the Sistine Chapel. It takes Axl 15 to sh-- on a CD, and gravity was on his side." Read more...
Remember back in April, when we told you that MySpace was starting a new MySpace Music service that would offer a boatload of streaming major-label music and videos, DRM-free downloads and links to concert tickets and merchandise? Well, there's still no word on when the thing might actually launch, but the site announced on Sunday that it had locked down four major sponsors for the venture: Sony Pictures, Toyota, McDonald's and State Farm. Because if there's anything the kids love, it's eating burgers in their Priuses while watching "Spider-Man," secure in the knowledge that they are fully insured.
Read more about the new MySpace Music deals here.
That totally awesome theme mix you were making, in which all the song titles are girls’ names that start with “M,” is gonna have to wait for now. Popular playlist-uploading site Muxtape announced on Monday that it's shutting down for a "brief period" while it sorts out an unspecified "problem" with the Recording Industry Association of America.
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There are a few things we know about Kanye West: He's not afraid to call people out for having squid brains, he needs anger management enhancement, he's kind of a perfectionist when it comes to his stage show, and, oh, he's really as in love with bad-ass cars and uncomfortable, but wickedly designed seating as he claims on his KanyeUniverseCity blog.
How do we know this? Well, as with so many things 'Ye-related, because he told us in an angry post on said blog. Yesterday, West took to the site to refute suggestions that he employs a "ghost blogger" to fill the oft-updated site with pictures of busty models, futuristic architecture and clothes you can't afford.
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By John Ochoa
Is it possible that MTV has launched an all-out war between crazed fans of the Jonas Brothers and Tokio Hotel?
When our sister blog Buzzworthy published an entry seemingly comparing JB fanatics with TH devotees, the site's dear readers almost killed each other (in the blog sense, that is). The original Buzzworthy post was actually talking about the official addition of the word "fanboy" to the Merriam-Webster dictionary and hinted that JB and TH fans may be the ones to thank.
But then things got out of hand ... really out of hand. Karleigh and Katie Santry, who run JonasBrothersFan.com, even say that angry Tokio Hotel fans started posting inappropriate material on their forums, including pornography and violent photos. "Morbid stuff," as the girls described it.
The Jonas site has removed all the nasty images, and Buzzworthy even tried to reconcile the fighting fans. After much trash-talk, it looks like a peace may have been forged. Come on, gang. We're all in this together. Can't we all idolize in peace?
By Steven Roberts
What can we say about Shan Foster? The former Vanderbilt shooting guard — nicknamed "Sugar Shan" because his shot is that sweet — was named the 2008 SEC Player of the Year. He left Vanderbilt as the school's all-time points and three-point leader. He was named as a second team All-American by The Associated Press.
To top that off, he was selected 51st by the Dallas Mavericks in the 2008 NBA Draft. There's nothing bad we can really say about Foster ... well, except maybe that he shouldn't quit his day job.
Video of Foster singing joyfully hit the Web last week, and let's just say he can't wait to play in the NBA! The video starts off with amateurish B-roll shots of pictures of Foster lying on the window sill. It then pans down to the floor for a look at his backpack and basketball in the corner, before it's raised back up to Foster playing his keyboard, attached to his Mac's Garage Band.
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