-Went to Gig Life tour Monday in Buffalo. Show was great, will post review after
-Thursday Audio interview up later today
-Got to help Introduce IllScarlett with Josie Dye at Cutting Edge Music Festival last night. Boo-yah!
-More shit to come/write about, stay tuned....
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK UPDATE:
Mark Hoppus of Blink 182 got a chance to sit down with Motion City Soundtrack on the First Day of Blink's headlining tour. Hoppus was album to get the name out of the band for their much anticipated fourth album and first on Columbia Records. The album will be called My Dinosaur Life.Here is the article below:
Seriously, the guy can multitask.
So it came as no surprise
that last week, when MTV News was in Las Vegas for the kickoff of Blink's reunion tour, he decided that
he should interview Motion City Soundtrack — the night's opening act, and a band
he's worked with in the past — because, you know, he can!
Of course, we let him do it — and it turned out that he was really good. So
good, in fact, that he got the guys in MCS to reveal the top-secret title of
their upcoming album (which Hoppus produced), by employing an old trick we
professional journalists like to call "the bum rush."
"I just worked with them and produced their new record, which is titled My
Dinosaur Life," Hoppus said right off the bat. "Is that what it's
called?"
"I think so," MCS frontman Justin Pierre
responded, a little bit dumbfounded. "Currently we're having inter-band
discussions between This Dinosaur Life, My Dinosaur Life, This Is My Dinosaur
Life, His Dinosaur Life, Her Dinosaur Life, Their Dinosaur Lives. But I'm
partial to My."
"I think My is good," Hoppus shot back.
"Can we firm it up right now? My Dinosaur Life."
And firmed up it was. So,
having just shocked the band into revealing one closely guarded secret, Hoppus
got right to work on prying another bit of information from the band: Perhaps
getting them to say something shocking about the new record? (What we in the biz
call the "pull quote.") And once again, he struck gold.
"I think it's an awesome record," guitarist Joshua Crain said. "It's definitely a
step up. Not that Commit This to Memory [the band's breakthrough 2005 effort] is
a bad record, I love that record. I just feel that we got a little more aggro on
this one."
Emboldened, Hoppus then moved in for the kill.
"What was it like to have two gnarly, defining rock
moment milestones in your career," he asked, clearly setting the trap. "Commit
This to Memory and My Dinosaur Life — both that are almost as big as Nirvana?"
"Words can't really express it. I'm stumped,"
Pierre said. "You know what, though? It feels good. One day, with a little help,
you guys can get there." What can we say? Hoppus is a total pro. Is there
nothing he can't do?
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