A series of attacks on dyed-hair, eye-makeup-wearing emo kids began in early March when several hundred people went on an emo-beating rampage in Querétaro, a town of 1.5 million about 160 miles north of Mexico City.

The next week, shaggy-haired emo teenagers were harassed again by punks and rockabillys in the capital, prompting police protection and a segment on the TV news. Most recently, a Mexican newspaper reported that metal heads and gangsters have warned Tijuana's emo kids to stay away from the town's fair next month.

"It's a great clusterfuck for the American mind's idea of Mexico," Arellano said. "This teaches the rest of the world that Mexico is not just a bunch of cactuses and sombreros."

emo mexicans look so thunderdome

Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico | The Underwire from Wired.com

New Jersey's Black Clouds (formerly The Golden Dawn from 2004-2005) play bracing hard rock with soaring melodies and dynamic arrangements. Hard, loud and impossibly catchy, the band has won a loyal following by lighting up clubs in New York and New Jersey since their genesis in the Spring of 2004. They have also played in Las Vegas, as well as Canada.

The Black Clouds feature chief songwriter and producer Dan Matthews on lead guitar and vocals. Marcelino Garcia plays rhythm guitar, Chris Conner plays bass guitar and Gregg LoCascio fills out the quartet playing drums and providing backing vocals.

With a self-financed, produced and recorded album released in January of 2008, mixed and mastered in Seattle by Jack Endino, The Black Clouds have high expectations for the year. Jack Endino is best known for his work with Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney.

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The Sex Zombies at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch, NJ.

Including Vile's mind blowing solo!

YouTube - Simon Says Fuck You / Cock Donor - The Sex Zombies

Like Soul Dracula, only Starship Trooper.

YouTube - Hot Gossip and Sarah Brightman - Starship Trooper

Now that's entertainment.

YouTube - Star Wars Trumpet Stacy Hedger

The Sex Zombies - MEANY Fest - Mean Fiddler 100607

Saatchi & Saatchi/London has a new print/poster campaign in the U.K. that cleverly employs four dead rock stars – Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, Joey Ramone and Joe Strummer – as Doc Martens endorsers. “We wanted to communicate that Dr. Martens boots are ‘made to last,’ ” explains writer Andrew Petch, “and we discovered that these idolized musicians wore them. Showing them still wearing their Docs in heaven dramatized the boots’ durability perfectly. And, as images, they feel very iconic.” As for the legal implications of enlisting the support of this particular fab four from beyond the grave, Petch says the images have been cleared for use in the U.K. only, in an arrangement with Corbis, supplier of the original photographs, which have been enhanced by photographer Dimitri Daniloff and retoucher Christophe Huet.

All these guys were so eager to do commercials when they were alive, right? Copyright lasts almost forever after you die, who owns your likeness when you kick?

The Daily Swarm - Who own your likeness when you kick?

A number of MemeStreamers will remember becoming acquainted with Johnny Strange several years ago in NYC while HOPE was going on. A gang of us dropped in on him in the studio, hung out for a few, and (of course) caused a bunch of trouble. We wound up getting trapped in an elevator, kicked off the roof of a building by the Secret Service, and completely fucking plastered at the Molly Wee. It was a fun night.

Anyway, some of you are already in tune with The Strange, and some of you are not. All of you need to cruise over to Johnny's MySpace page and download his latest tracks. Otherwise, rock n' roll will die, and it will be all your fault.

Do you want the death of rock on your conscience? I didn't fucking think so... So, go and buy some tracks from an independent artist that doesn't suck, or shut the hell up and stop complaining about the current state of music.

Eventually we will get an Internet radio kinda thing going on that makes it possible to taste bands' music beyond little clips, without having to initially buy whole tracks. It will be recommendation driven, so you can depend on the hip to clue you into stuff. You'll wind up paying for it somehow too, so indie artists can actually make some money. Bands have all kinds of expenses. Stuff like guitar strings, whiskey, condoms, and pot.

In the meantime, while all this is getting worked out, buy some tracks from independent artists occasionally. Seriously.

Johnny Strange | Download these tracks, or rock n' roll gets it...

Rattle wrote:

Johnny Cash's longtime lakeside home, a showcase where he wrote much of his famous music and entertained U.S. presidents, music royalty and visiting fans, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday.

Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, lived in the 13,880-square-foot (1,289-square-meter) home from the late 1960s until their deaths in 2003.

"So many prominent things and prominent people in American history took place in that house -- everyone from Billy Graham to Bob Dylan went into that house," said singer Marty Stuart, who lives next door and was married to Cash's daughter, Cindy, in the 1980s.

Stuart said the man who designed the house, Nashville builder Braxton Dixon, was "the closest thing this part of the country had to Frank Lloyd Wright."

When Cash moved there, the road was a quiet country lane that skirts Old Hickory Lake. Kris Kristofferson, then an aspiring songwriter, once landed a helicopter on Cash's lawn to pitch him a song. Roy Orbison was his next-door neighbor for a while.

The landmark video for Cash's song "Hurt" was shot inside the house.

"It was a sanctuary and a fortress for him," Stuart said. "There was a lot of writing that took place there."

Richard Sterban of the Oak Ridge Boys lives on the same road as Cash. "Maybe it's the good Lord's way to make sure that it was only Johnny's house," Sterban said.

I fell in to a burning ring of fire
I went down,down,down
and the flames went higher.
And it burns,burns,burns
the ring of fire
the ring of fire.

RE: Fire destroys Johnny Cash home - CNN.com

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared. It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."

Does Richards have a son? If so, he's in for a big treat one day...

Keith Richards Snorted His Own Daddy | Dlisted