Tonight in LA the Cro-Mags (Jam) are playing at 7pm at 1615 Vine st in Hollywood. The afterparty is literally AROUND THE CORNER at Beauty Bar on Cahuenga and I'll be DJing punk and hardcore from 10:30-midnight... There's free beer and it's sponsored by Independent Trucks. Should be ridiculous.

This is all part of the release party for the awesome Radio Silence book, and more info can be found here : www.radiosilencebook.com

Gooooo!

Years ago we used to do a thing called "When The Summer Ends", which is basically a contest and community huddle-up where everyone posts stuff about their summer. It can be photography, writing, painting -- anything at all that best describes your summer.

Obviously a contest named after an American Football lyric is a killer idea - but we made it even better this year by sweetening the pot a little bit. The winner (to be decided by MOC staff) will get two tickets to the Voodoo Festival in New Orleans October 24-26! (NIN, Lil Wayne, REM, N*E*R*D*, Panic at the Disco, Dashboard Confessional, Butthole Surfers, Fishbone!!!, etc...)

More info on the fest: www.thetenthritual.com

Sound good? Then get to it! Post your ideas right in this thread: www.makeoutclub.com/boards/1/t opic/651941

We are looking for the best representation of summer as expressed through poetry, prose, photography, artwork, sculpture, art, dance (you can post a youtube of an interpretive dance), however you see fit. The theme has to be associated with summer but can be anything like: summer love, the end of summer, summer nights, summer heartbreak, the beginning of summer, etc.

If you upload artwork you might want to write a little something about your theme to help the judges out. Good luck!

Last night comedian Sacha Baron Cohen crashed the Agatha Ruiz de la Prada's fashion show in Milan by walking the catwalk in character as "Bruno" to promote his new film "Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male."

Dude kills me every time.



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It's not often I wake up to 15 missed calls and 20 text messages these days... In fact I would say it never happens anymore. But something happened last night in NYC that warranted it. Something that triggered memories, blew minds, and made everyone want to talk to everyone else before, during, and after... MBV apparently fucking destroyed NYC last night, and I'm wondering why the hell I didn't go.

From Billboard:

"They came, they played, they conquered. Actually, they destroyed. Or maybe they did something to us that we can't really even describe. Whatever happened, My Bloody Valentine's performance last night in New York is already going down as the most affecting thing that a lot of people have ever experienced."


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Antony and the Johnsons have just released a trailer for the title track from their forthcoming EP “Another World” out October 7th on Secretly Canadian.

Definitely get into this sneak peak... This material and EP precedes the full-length album due out in January called "The Crying Light"

Not in years has their been such a mysterious, enigmatic, and memorable vocalist as Antony Hegarty.

Antony and the Johnsons emerged onto the international stage in 2005 with their breakthrough I Am A Bird Now. The group were awarded the Mercury Prize in the UK and toured the world. Since then Antony has collaborated on tracks with Bjork for her latest album Volta, appeared in the Leonard Cohen documentary I'm Your Man, featured as vocalist with Hercules and Love Affair, recorded for the Todd Haynes bio epic of Bob Dylan: I'm Not There, and collaborated with Charles Atlas on a European tour of their stage spectacle Turning.

Our hearts go out to Travis Barker and DJ AM and to the families of the four that passed away in the plane wreck in SC last night.

Travis and DJ AM remain in critical condition.

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Anthony Pappallardo and Nathan Nedorostek just finished what might be the most intellectual and personal look at American Hardcore... ever.

It's called "Radio Silence: A Selected Visual History of American Hardcore Music" and it rips. By gathering interviews, photos, zines, clippings, home-made t-shirts, flyers, and other ephemera from personal collections of hardcore kids focusing on the years between 1978-1993, this look into the often misunderstood space between punk and grunge ... into the real blood and sweat of a subculture at it's dawn is both moving and nostalgic. If the American Hardcore film was "Black Flag", then this book is "Antioch Arrow" or "Embrace". I hope that analogy works for you.

You aren't reading a dude's opinion on a "scene", rather, this book makes you feel like you're experiencing a memory - with contributions from the people that lived it (among them Dave Smalley, Jeff Nelson, etc).

There is an all ages release party and show (Mind Eraser is playing) on October 3rd in NYC, and selected photography from the book will be on display at Riviera gallery in Brooklyn through the end of October.

For more info on the book, the party, and the opening, click here: www.radiosilencebook.com

PHOTO: Antioch Arrow at 915 E. Street. San Diego, California. May, 1993; Photograph by Cameron Campbell [using Jeff Winterberg’s camera]

Richard Wright, founding member of the legendary Pink Floyd, passed away earlier this morning at the age of 65 from complications with cancer.

Wright is best known for his contributions to Pink Floyd's 1973 epic Dark Side of the Moon, writing the tracks "The Great Gig In The Sky" and "Us And Them"

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This will either mean a lot to you, make you laugh, or sicken you - either way, it's happening. Absolute Punk had it up today via "fans report". Apparently at the Reggie and The Full Effect show in Chicago recently, Dewees confirmed that a Get Up Kids reunion is not a rumor but in fact true, complete with a Spring Tour planned for 2009.

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Legendary game creator Will Wright (you might know him, he created a little title called The Sims) has finally released the long awaited Spore, a game that ushers the player through 5 sand-boxy worlds where you begin as a microscopic amoeba and eventually evolve into a space-traveling creature. With millions of possibilities in the Creature Creator (and millions of players sharing their creatures online) this game could be the perfect time sink to distract every kid during their crucial "back to school" season -- at least until the World of Warcraft expansion is released on November 4th, right during exams! *Evil Laugh*

Have any of you played this yet, or downloaded the free Spore Creature Creator trial? If so, share some of your creature pics with us!

(I still remember the ridiculously offensive shit my friend Andy did with Sims and photoshop back in the day...)

Download the Creature Creator here!