A ton of restaurants have been throwing around free grub this summer… I guess it’s to stimulate the food economy or something, i dunnow. We’ve had Krispy Kreme’s doughnut giveaway, 7-11’s free mini Slurpees and McDonalds gave us some shitty chicken-breakfast-thing that apparently tasted like plaster and sandpaper.

The Cheesecake Factory, not to be out done, has decided to be kinda cheap about the whole ‘Free Food 08′ thing and are offering slices of cheesecake for $1.50. I was thinking this was no big deal until I remembered the last time I had a slice, which was probably the best dessert I’ve had in years. Fuck it, their press release can do this better than I can.

Celebrating “30 Delicious Years,” The Cheesecake Factory is serving up several sweet initiatives throughout 2008.

To kick-off the anniversary celebration and in commemoration of National Cheesecake Day on July 30th, 2008, The Cheesecake Factory restaurants will offer every delicious slice of its more than 30 varieties of cheesecake with a dollop of nostalgia by featuring all cheesecakes at $1.50 per slice, limit one per guest, dine in only, on that day—as they were when the restaurant first opened in 1978.

In addition, a special, limited edition cheesecake, the 30th Anniversary Chocolate Cake Cheesecake, will be introduced on July 30th with $0.25 from the sale of each slice sold this year benefiting the national hunger-relief organization, America’s Second Harvest – The Nation’s Food Bank Network. Additional activities will be announced throughout the year.

On a side note, America’s youth obesity problem and the rise of childhood diabetes are the worst they’ve ever been. Keep that in mind when you’re stuffing your children’s faces with that pie. /rant .

Fearless Records is probably one of the sickest labels around, and we’ve hooked up with them to give you free shit in honor of this summer’s Warped Tour. Here’s what you get: posters from Fearless bands that are on Warped, CD’s from Alesana, Every Avenue, Mayday Parade, and Video Matt’s current band crush, The Maine. In addition, you can have as many of these damn Korn vinyls as we can give away… they make great frisbees. Check out this poster for everything I just told you, then sign up right HERE

Has anyone else noticed the banner ads floating around this site repping the Synthesis Digital Magazine? Well, it turns out that if you click on it, or right HERE for that matter, you get to actually download this sweet ass digital zine, complete with embedded audio and video. How the hell did we manage to do that? Magic. Mother f**king Magic.

Enjoy.

Blogger Perez Hilton wants to use his “talents” to start a new record label and save the music industry. His first task will be to do whatever it takes to revive the CD. His ideas for doing so include lowering prices of CD’s to something like five dollars and creating large partnerships with worldwide companies. His main goal is to get the public to start purchasing music again. With all the easy ways to get free music and the availability of downloads I wonder if his ideas will take off?

He wants to follow in the footsteps of Apple, Inc. creating popularity for small-time bands and artists featured on their commercials, like Feist. His partnership ideas include teaming with such large corporations as Wal-Mart and Target. I’m not so sure how these corporations will feel about partnering with an obnoxious individual who got his name from socialite Paris Hilton.

For more info on Perez check out his juicy celeb rumors on his blog site: http://www.perezhilton.com

In what is interesting news to some, Ozzfest, which was once a lucrative touring festival, and later a “free”, half- assed touring festival, has now been downsized to a one day metalfest of sorts. My guess is bands finally realized that paying upwards of $80,000 to play for free on a nationwide tour is not worth it anymore. On the positive side, the lineup for one day show (held in Dallas, Texas at Pizza Hut Park) will feature performances from some pretty impressive bands; Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Serj Tankian, Hellyeah, Jonathan Davis and others. Kids that love outdated music and washed up, used-to-be-in-a-big-band-but-have-to-play-less-important-solo-music are stoked.

Show up at any McDonalds in the country today, buy a soda, and get a free “Southern” fried chicken sandwich or breakfast biscuit. Not a bad promo for two new products. Only problem is that if you don’t eat McDonalds on any regular basis and now cash in on some free fried what have you, I would be willing to bet that you’re going home with a mean case of the shits.