Remember those Superbowl commercials? Or did ya have too much beer? If you can recall after what quarter the Justin Timberlake Pepsi commercial aired (below), you just may win some 6-packs of Pepsi! Simply email your answer to me, brittany@synthesis.net.
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In a ceremony this afternoon, this year’s recipient of the prestigious LEAST MATCHED OUTFIT OF ALL TIME EVAR award was announced. The winner was none other than myself, Daniel Taylor. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank those who made this unexpected honor possible: American Needle for my HELLA SAACK throwback Expos cap, the rock band Health for their fabulous American Apparel…uh…apparel, Trucker for the baby blues, and the Urban Outfitters in Lawrence, KS for the clown shoes, $14 on double clearance!!111
It may not feel like it in many parts of the US, but spring and summer music festivals aren’t that far off. The lineup for this year’s Sasquatch Festival, held at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, WA. Leading the bill will be R.E.M., The Cure and The Flaming Lips UFO Show. Notable support includes M.I.A., Flight of the Conchords, David Bazan (of Pedro the Lion) and The Breeders. This year’s festival will also include a comedy tent with a lineup to be announced. Full list of bands available after the jump.
A photo, supposedly leaked this weekend by Hillary Clinton campaign staffers, showing Barack Obama dressed in a piss poor Oompa Loompa costume is stirring heated debate by exactly no one outside of television pundits, political bloggers, and every one else who is making money off prolonging the drama of the presidential primaries to the point where even most partisans are switching the channel to FUSE to watch the new Paramore video and logging off of Dailykos in favor of icanhazcheezburger.com. Seriously, can someone win already?
Most days, our Synthesis Band of the Day comes via the fine folks at Sonicbids, or from browsing the internetz for bands from far-flung locales. But today we are honoring a band hailing from right here in our hometown, who are doing their best to spread their love for blazing metal riffs and undecipherable-y pissed vocals not just throughout the country, but throughout the world!!11. This band is The Makai.
Once upon a time there was a dude named Brandon who would bring badass metal shows to town, and was possibly the biggest fan of heavy music ever to have lived in the Northern California area. Despite his dashing good looks and his brutal vocals, he had difficulties finding disciples to follow him on his journey to metal superstardom. But ever so slowly, after blowing through every drummer in Chico and the surrounding 5 counties (including yours truly), not to mention a litany of guitarists, bassists, second vocalists and hangers on, Brandon found his ideal bandmates — veterans of the local metal, hardcore, crust and punk scenes — and the Makai was formed. They wasted no time in stacking ultimate fame, getting signed to Seventh Rule and releasing their debut full-length The End of All You Know. After touring the US last summer, The Makai are at present on a plane to the Old World, set to make their European debut in the Dutch city of Utrecht on the 27th. For more on The Makai, check out a couple interviews with the band in the Music Archives on good ol’ Synthesis.net. Or if you’re a member of the European Union check the band live on the following dates and be sure to ask them about their Arrowhead Water sponsorship.
There were seemingly a million mermaid dresses on the red carpet this year, but one stood out as the queen of them all. The stunning Marion Cotillard stole my heart with her uniquely eloquent dress (Jean Paul Gaultier) and charmingly humbled acceptance speech to boot:
I tried to find the acceptance speech on YouTube, but no luck. You’ll just have to rewind it on your TiVo. Nice job on the dress though, huh?
