In the last few days a wave of violence has swept the Mexican state, aimed at a subculture of Mexican youth going by the label of emo. This all started about two weeks ago in, the otherwise quiet, colonial capital of Queretaro, when mobs of people attacked groups of emos, in an attempt to force them out of the city’s main plaza. The movement soon spread to the nation’s capital of Mexico City, when emos that were hanging out around Insurgentes Metro stop were attacked by gangs of punks and soccer fans.

Emo kids are easy to recognize due to their highly specific fashion style (black clothes, tight jeans, huge bangs, black eye makeup), as well as behavior. They’re characterized by a general state of depression and a sense of being not understood. Self mutilations and suicide attempts are common among the more hard followers. The whole emo movement has been detested for a pretty long time in Mexico, but up till now was mildly tolerated and ignored. The last drop to fill the glass though, was a recent videocast by popular local VJ, named Kristoff, who expressed a serious dose of anti-emo rhetoric and switched to English to say, on network television, “Fucking bullshit” referring to the emo movement.

Blogs, myspace pages, forums and various other internet websites, in Mexico, are all filled  anti-emo message, proving there’s a somewhat nation-wide spread anger.  Here’s just a few examples:

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The new video, for the pop punk quartet’s latest single, “Always Be,” is set in a Museum, where the band unleashes it’s prehistorical rocking, as two lovers stray from a guided tour. Always be is part of [tag]Jimmy Eat World[/tag]’s latest record Chase This Light, out now.

Over complicated band names are every blogger’s nightmare and all I can say is a lot of people will be glad, that the Vegas quartet have decided to change their name. Well not entirely that is, just that messy exclamation point, that seems to cause a lot of trouble amongst press people, so the band’s name is just “Panic at the Disco” now. Oh and if you though one “!” is bad then check out this band !!! (good luck finding any info about them at Google).

A new name has been granted to PATD’s upcoming sophomore release as well, titled “Pretty. Odd.” Well it was fun while it lasted. Also Panic will be playing their new material live on this year’s environmentally friendly 8th Annual Honda Civic Tour, where they’ll be the headliners. The tour  starts April 10th at San Francisco’s Warfield Theatre and wraps June 14th’s at Anaheim’s Honda Center, full dates and venues will be announced at a later date.

Artist name: Spice Girls
Album name: Greatest Hits
Label: Virgin
Gender: Pop
Release date: November 9, 2007
ZMErating: 8/10
Website: http://www.thespicegirls.com

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The long announced and discussed reunion took place and the next obvious marketing move would be to release their greatest hits. That was easy. What they did was that they played it safe. They are not going to make any new fans and some old fans are going to dislike it, but they managed to bring themselves in the center of attention.
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The Pete Doherty fronted band [tag]Babyshambles[/tag] have just reveled the artwork for their latest single “Delivery“, due to be released on September 17. The cover features a painting depicting teenaged genius poet Thomas Chatterton, by famous pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis. Apparently Pete Doherty was always intrigued by the young poet’s work, who died a tragic death, after he committed suicide at age 17, to escape death by starvation. via NME.

Saturday night ( July 7), the dudes from [tag]Panic! At The Disco[/tag] performed live as part of Summerfest 07 Wisconsin. During their gig, the band played a new track as well, set to be featured on their upcoming yet-to-be-titled 08 album, called “Love Is A Fairytale”. It sounds surprisingly promising, with some skillful piano play by frontman Brendon Urie and some very cool riffs by Ryan Ross. Anyway fun song, with not the best lyrics as we’ve gone used to P!@Disco, the chorus is quite repetitive. “True love, isn’t a fairytale/probably to make-believe/true love like ours/is worth so much more than a diamond ring”.

The video’s quality, from bellow, is crap but i guess you can make a picture in your mind on how the song actually sounds like.

[tag]Fall Out Boy[/tag] gave an outstanding performance yesterday, early in the morning, for The Today Show. In between songs, the band lead guitarist Pete Wentz found the time to answer to a small Q&A interview.

Some questions were very interesting, what stood out to me was the discussion regarding FOB’s next video “Me And You”, which surprisingly will be filmed in Uganda. Pete said they will be traveling to Uganda to film there so that they can directly participate in helping the people there, ravaged by more the 20 years of civil war. Part of the video’s budget will be donated to charity, most likely to a school there says Pete.

Here’s a snippet of the interview ( don’t forget the read the whole post here):

Q: So you guys are going to be doing something on July 12 that you’re really passionate about. Tell us about that.

Wentz: We stumbled upon this organization called Invisible Children and they kind of bring the plight of children to the foreground, like impoverished children around the world but specifically focusing on Uganda where there is like a crazy situation with child soldiers. There’s a civil war that’s like one of the longest running civil wars in Africa right now and you can actually get a great backstory on it if you just watch “The Last King of Scotland” which is a really great film that has like kind of the backstory on Uganda. But we’re actually going over there with Invisible Children and we’re going to shoot our next video for our song “Me and You” over there and we’re going to shoot it on 24p cameras and donate the money that we were going to use in the video for the film or the video to a project over there, I think towards a school I think, I’m not 100% sure but we’re going to go over there and actually right now currently people live in these displacement camps which are like 1 square mile big and its just terrible conditions, like the sanitation and everything is just disgusting and atrocious there and people have lived there for like 20 years and stuff like that so we wanted to kind of see it first hand. Because its so hard to like disengage and actually kind of emphathize with people you know or whatever, you can think about it in your head but its easier to do when you’re actually there and can experience it and it is part of the adventure too so we’re excited to go there.

Here’s one for all you FOB fans out there, it seems they’re set to perform this Friday in New York at the Rockefeller Plaza.

The emo rockers will play a gig as part of their appearance on NBC’s The Today Show and fans are invited to join the show as spectators free of charge. Here the catch though, the show’s really early in the morning, at 7 AM, so if your a late sleeper forget about it. The spacing is extremely limited so i guess you’ll have to come even earlier then that, but hey it’s worth it, right ?

NBC studio adress: 30 Rockefeller Plaza
(49th between 5th & 6th Avenue)
New York, NY

The forth single to be extracted from [tag]My Chemical Romance[/tag]’s hit record “The Black Parade” is it’s eleven track “Teenagers”, set to be released on July 9.

Single tracklist:

1. “Teenagers”
2. “Dead! (live in Berlin)

The video for teenagers premiered on the 28th of May, and ran on all MTV channels. In the video we can see the band playing Teenagers in a empty high-school auditorium with cheerleaders behind them (this is the second school themed video by MCR) . As the video progresses and the chorus starts singing, groups of teenagers swarm through the auditoriums locked doors, fact that leads us to believe that the video has been inspired by a great lot from [tag]Pink Floyd[/tag]’s “The Wall”.

After that the cheerleaders put on gas masks and start dancing on the stage, while the teenagers put their fists in the air and move them by the songs beat. The teenagers grow ever restless and eventually take over the stage and takes the band’s instrument, inspiring a sense of terror within the band, hence comes the tracks popular phrase: “Teenagers scare the living shit out of me”. The video has also some strong influences from [tag]Nirvana[/tag]: “Smells Like Teen Spirit”.

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A few days ago goth rock star [tag]Marilyn Manson[/tag] released a shocking statement in which he publicly criticized [tag]My Chemical Romance[/tag], accusing them of ripping him off.

“I’m embarrassed to be me because these people are doing a really sad, pitiful, shallow version of what I’ve done.If they want to identify with me then here’s a razor blade. Call me when you’re done and we’ll talk.”

Marilyn’s “Mutilation Is The Most Sincere Form Of Flattery”, a new song on his Eat Me, Drink Me album, was especially writen for the Gerard Way fronted band. “Hey, there’s no rules today/You steal instead of borrow/You take all the shapes that I make/ And you think that you thought/All the thoughts that I thought/Don’t you?” (from the lyrics of the song )

Gerard Way responded to Marilyn accusations, releasing a statement in which he claims that the goth symbol’s little imputations are nothing else, and here i have to agree with him, then little airs of stardom and marketing schemes “We still haven’t found someone that has knocked us down that we need to take seriously. If Elvis Costello said we sucked we would think about it a bit but usually it is comments from someone with a new record to promote so the remarks ring hollow.”