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Spongebob Metalpants

Sometimes a video comes along that is too perfect. Job for a Cowboy synced up with Spongebob Squarepants is perhaps that video. There has been a long history of videos being synced up to cartoons, from G.I. Joe Body Massage or He-man singing the 4 Non Blondes. So without further adieu, online video greatness:

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Weekly News Wrap Up

Major labels consider HULU partnership. (rollingstone.com)
Led Zeppelin are over. (musicradar.com)
Microsoft Zune about to become extinct. (rollingstone.com)
New Anthrax album due out in June. (aversion.com)
Gene Simmons launches Canadian record label. (simmonsrecords.com)
Telefon Tel Aviv member died. (cmj.com)
Debut album for Incredibad. (thelonelyisland.com)

This Week in Videos:
Puscifer Announce Tour Plans

Blitzen Trapper - “Furr”

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Your Attention Needed: Andy Yorke

artist - Andy Yorke
    Artist:  Andy Yorke
    Courtesy:  Natalia Kutsepova

Welcome to a new addition to Strong and the Loud. Once a month, at the end of the month, we will be introducing a new artist in place of our regular Band of the Week. This new artist will be an artist whom we feel is deserving of more attention than what they are currently getting. In other words, artists who are already signed to a major label or get regular air play, won’t be featured here.

Ironically, our first deserving artist is someone,

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Playlist

It is almost that time of the year, Grammy award time. The most useless, yet somehow meaningful awards of the award season. In honor of these prestigious awards, here are some of our favorites nominated this year, Part 1:

Kings of Leon - “Sex on Fire”
The Mars Volta - “Wax Simulacra”
DragonForce - “Heroes of Our Time”
Jack White and Alicia Keys - “Another Way

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Franz Ferdinand - “Tonight:Franz Ferdinand”

band - Franz Ferdinand
    Band:  Franz Ferdinand
    Album:  Tonight:Franz Fer…

I am beginning to realize that good first impressions are not all they’re cracked up to be. Unfortunately, the new Franz Ferdinand album is one of those occasions. The album, “Tonight:Franz Ferdinand” starts strong with its first track, the first single, “Ulysses”. The song delivers on lead singer, Alex Kapranos’ word:

“It’s for that lonely hour gently rocking yourself waiting for dawn and it all to be even again.”

“The last record was fast, furious, frantic, 150 beats per minute. It was like a teenager

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1. Metallica
One
2. Nirvana
I Hate Myself and Wan...
3. Blind Melon
No Rain
4. Sublime
What I Got
5. Jeff Buckley
Hallelujah
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