Good bands go to China, shitty bands sign to Drive-Thru

- 30 Seconds to Mars premiered their new video for 'From Yesterday'. First off, shit is 16 minutes long. I actually sat through the whole thing banging my head on my desk watching Leto's dramatic over-acting. Listen up dude, we all know you're an actor and that you were in Fight Club and shit, but PLEASE save it for the silver screen. Short-film/concept videos are cool every once in a while (not talking to you Fall Out Boy), but it gets old watching you deliver a line followed by a cut to your brother who just stares at you for 5 seconds. Your band is good and your live show is legit, but you already did the short-film theme thing with 'The Kill'. If we're going to have to deal with one of these every time you release a single I'm going to have to start reminding people you were in 'Alexander'.
Here's a clip from the 'Making the Video' on MTV. See if you can hear the part where Jared says, "This was my idea and it's the most mind-blowing thing you'll ever experience. If I could suck my own dick, you know I would."

EDIT: So the 'Making of the Video' was too long to embed, but you can still watch it here.
Here's a little teaser for the video from MTV.




- Universal Music Group is suing MySpace for copyright infringement. For those of you lacking the legal-ease to understand what that means, Universal is suing MySpace for the free promotion of their songs and videos. Besides MySpace, they're also eyeing lawsuits against MTV for the Ashlee Simpson show, the kid down the street with the Fall Out Boy bumper sticker and Godsmack. What does Godsmack have to do with all this? Well, they just suck ass and Universal can't believe they've actually spent money releasing their records.

- Speaking of Universal, Brand New's record comes out tomorrow. Go pick it up. I've listened to it a handful of times and I'm not hearing a 'Sic Transit', 'Quiet Things' or 'Jude Law' but overall it's solid. Be warned though, this album is much more mellow than Deja Entendu, but there's no doubt it's Brand New and it's still worth picking up.
This just in, Universal has filed suit against me for telling people to go buy the new Brand New record. Shit.

- Finally, as if it wasn't completely obvious that Drive-Thru hasn't signed a good band in 37 years, they've decided to run a contest along with mtvU to GIVE AWAY a record deal. The winning band or artist will get an EP and video deal from Drive-Thru and will have your video premiered on mtvU. Go here to enter now, you could be the next Steel Train!!!!!

That's it for now. See you in the pit. I'll be the one laughing at you and your fucking dumbass buddies re-enacting the crane from Karate Kid.

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