Galaxy Bunch Virus Series 3″ figures by Michael Kwong
The Galaxy Bunch 3″ Virus Series
9 different 3″ minis in Michael Kwong’s Galaxy Bunch Virus Series.
Each piece packed on a blister card and comes with a copper chain.
1500 of each produced; only 500 sets will be sold in the US.
This weeks chance to win 1 Frank Kozik vinyl toy (Monger) if you answer the below question correctly. 1 winner will be chosen at random.
QUESTION: Tenacious Toys is selling a plush version of a microbe that hasreceived a lot of press lately, as it has affected our food supply.The microbe has a 3-part scientific name, what is it?
LOS ANGELES — Mario Lavandeira, known to millions of fans as the gossip blogger Perez Hilton, has a habit of humiliating celebrities he dislikes by doodling explicit images across their photos on his Web site. But he has also long used perezhilton.com to rave about his favorite new music. And now the results of his effusive postings — “you will be foaming at the mouth!” — have attracted the notice of a major record label.
Mr. Lavandeira has been negotiating a deal that would provide him with his own imprint at Warner Brothers Records, a division of the music giant Warner Music Group, he said. This was confirmed by several other people associated with the talks who spoke on condition of anonymity because no deal has been made. The talks are preliminary, and an agreement is not certain, but Mr. Lavandeira could receive $100,000 a year as an advance against 50 percent of any profits generated by artists he discovers and releases through Warner Brothers, these people said.
A lawyer for Mr. Lavandeira and representatives of Warner Brothers declined to comment on the negotiations.
CUPERTINO, California—February 26, 2008—Apple® today announced that iTunes® (www.itunes.com) is now the number two music retailer in the US, behind only Wal-Mart, based on the latest data from the NPD Group*. Apple also announced that there are now over 50 million iTunes Store customers. iTunes has sold over four billion songs, with an incredible 20 million songs sold on Christmas Day 2007 alone, and offers the world’s largest music catalog of over six million songs from all of the major and thousands of independent labels.
“We’d like to thank the over 50 million music lovers who have helped the iTunes Store reach this incredible milestone,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes. “We continue to add great new features like iTunes Movie Rentals to give our customers even more reason to love iTunes.”
Last month, Apple launched iTunes Movie Rentals featuring movies from all of the major movie studios including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Lionsgate and New Line Cinema. Users can rent movies and watch them on their PCs or Macs, all current generation iPods**, iPhone™ and on a widescreen TV with Apple TV®. iTunes Movie Rentals will offer over 1,000 titles by the end of this month, including over 100 titles in stunning high definition video with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound which users can rent directly from their widescreen TV using Apple TV.
iTunes 7.6 is available as a free download at www.itunes.com. iTunes Movie Rentals are available in the US only and are $2.99 (US) for library titles and $3.99 (US) for new releases, and high definition versions are priced just one dollar more with library titles at $3.99 (US) and new releases at $4.99 (US). Movie rentals from the iTunes Store for Mac® or Windows require iTunes 7.6. iTunes Movie Rentals require a valid credit card with a billing address in the country of purchase.
*Based on data from market research firm the NPD Group’s MusicWatch survey that captures consumer reported past week unit purchases and counts one CD representing 12 tracks, excluding wireless transactions. The iTunes Music Store became the second-largest music retailer in the US after Wal-Mart, based on the amount of music sold during 2007.
**Movie rentals work on iPod® classic, iPod nano with video and iPod touch.
Sevendust New Studio Album Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow, With Special Guest Appearances By Chris Daughtry And Members Of AlterBridge
Out April 1st 2008 –Don’t Miss Sevendust As Part Of The First Annual Mayhem Festival with Slipknot And Disturbed.
On April 1,7Bros. Records in conjunction with Warner Music Group’s Independent Label Group are set to release Sevendust’ seventh studio release titled,Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow. Producedby Sean Groove, Morgan Rose & John Connolly in Atlanta, GA at Tree Sounds Studios. Hope &Sorrow will be their second release on the band’s wholly owned record label.
For the first time since Animosity (2001), the band has collaborated with outside artists. Chris Daughtry, a longtime fan of Sevendust’s, will appear on the album as well as members of AlterBridge. Chris Daughtry appears on the track “The Past” while Mark Tremonti of AlterBridge guests on “Hope” and Miles Kennedy of AlterBridge on “Sorrow.” Sevendust felt bringing in some outside friends added a healthy dynamic for the project. Additionally, the band has signed on new management and feels like is a fresh new beginning for 2008.
Sevendust has been announced as part of the first annual Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival, a riotous road show packed with some of hard music’s most influential artists and a plethora of the genre’s most exciting young voices. The tour is set to kick off July 9th at the White River Amphitheatre in Seattle and will hit 30 cities in the U.S. and Canada between early July and late August (full itinerary to be announced in the coming weeks). Sevendust joins headliners Slipknot and Disturbed along with Dragonforce, Mastodon, Airbourne, Black Tide,Five Finger Death Punch and more.
“It was a challenging and exciting to write. We’ve spent so much time with angst over our career that is was nice to in a good head space for a change while working on this project.” Morgan Rose, Drums
“There was a really relaxed vibe in the studio this time around. I think Hope and Sorrow shows a different side of Sevendust. Heavy but yet still growing in a direction that explores a lot of different things musically for us. I’m excited about the album.”LaJon Witherspoon, Vocals
Confirmed Track Listing For Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow
To my surprise when I opened my latest bag of goodies from the goodpeople at vicarious, I discovered In Your Honor, with an originalrelease date of 2005; this isn’t by any means a new CD I am reviewingit because I love those foo fighters so much I couldn’t resist anangsty trip down memory lane with those anthemic, bittersweet songs.
As usual I will grace you with a pearl of wisdom from wikipedia, thistime not about the band per se, but their namesake. Did you know theterm “Foo Fighter” was coined by allied aircraft pilots in WW2 todescribe UFOs seen flying over the skies of Europe?! Well I did not. Perhaps I am dumb.
Back to the matter at hand, I absolutely adore everything about this 2disc album. The elaborate Americana infused album artwork is awesomeand appeals to my old school Americana obsession. There is also abuffalo which makes a few appearances in the artwork, not much I cansay about him but… he’s cute!Disc one begins with In Your Honor, the awesome prolonged guitar andfeedback filled intro sends chills down my spine because I know whatscoming next; the gravel throated words of Mr Dave Grohl. I still can’tdecide if he’s singing or shouting at me through my speakers but Ilike it either way.I feel the entire album has a much more late 90s rock feel thansomething that was released in 2005. Perhaps that’s because Iassociate most angsty rock with the 90s.
This album makes me want to listen to ash and reminisce over old times. The perfect sountrack to”one of those days”.Moving onto one of my favorite songs of all time, DOA, I almostcouldn’t wait to hear that guitar intro and those dark, creepy, catchylyrics. “It’s a shame we had to die my dear. No one’s getting out ofhere alive, this time” is always something I’d expect to hear from TheMisfits rather than Dave Grohl, but he sings it well.The beginning of disc two is like a dark, rock lullaby. Mr Grohl issinging me into a sad sad sleep but I still can’t stop listening. If I didn’t know better I’d think this is the kind of thing you release when an angel visits you in your sleep to tell you that you’re aboutto be assassinated and you want people to mourn in those last,miserable songs you ever sung.
Then the crooning beats of Virginia Moon kick in which instantly liftmy spirits and make me wish I was dancing in a black and white movie.Norah Jones’ voice fits perfectly with Dave Grohl’s to make a songthat could melt the heart of a hardened criminal. Wow I love thissong.I am going to cut off my review here before I drive everyone insanewith my babbling but, in conclusion, this is an awesome, well-loved,anthemic album. Capable of evoking every emotion you have.
Rock royalty, princess Frances Bean Cobain makes pretty much her limelight debut in the pages of this month’s Harpers Bazaar.
Although steadily around the Hollywood scene since birth, Frances has kept a low profile through most of her youth-this is the first time I believe she really puts it out there. For the spread she dresses up and re-enacts scenes from the films “Evita”, “Beauty and the Beast” and “Grease”. Check it out here
Flavor Flav and cable network VH1, which airs his Flavor of Love reality series, are teaming up to find an aspiring producer to help create his new single. The competition, called “VH1’s The Track with Flavor Flav,” launches today (February 20) on flavorffloveworld.com. To enter, participants must submit an original audio composition without vocals between now and March 13. At that point, Flav will select three finalists who will go up against each other in an online poll. The winner will then work with the Public Enemy hypeman to record and produce his new single. All contestants must be 18 years or older and live within the continental U.S. A grand prize winner will be announced on April 1. Visit flavorffloveworld.com for more information.
