Breath easy internet, I have returned to my blogging post. Over the last week and a half I’ve been journeying up the Pacific Coast with Bear Hunter . As it turns out, when I try and write on my laptop while in the van I start to puke all over my band mates — hence, my absence from Synthesis Blog. Over the next few days I will be recounting my harrowing journey (in between fascinating posts about pop stars getting busted for drugs, children with weird growths on their bodies and general paranoid-paranormal fodder). Get ready, dear readers. Get your asses ready.

Here at the Synthesis the employees loooooove their coffee in the morning. Our downtown Pete’s Coffee location must thank the lord above for their close proximity to our office because their pockets get lined with cash on a daily basis out of the deal. I, however, am a weirdo and don’t drink coffee. I love the smell, but the taste, the fact that it makes me shit my guts out, my fear of yellow teeth and coffee breath, and the fact that I don’t need another vice in my life have always made me steer clear.

This is why people like me love the fact that the Synthesis and Red Bull work together. I have my own solution to getting my caffeine fix. I take one of the free Sugar Free Red Bulls out of our little Red Bull fridge they provided us, down that shit in about 2.2 seconds, then just sip on water for the rest of the morning. In about 22 minutes I have pleeeeeeeenty of energy to do things like write this blog. Plus it is a great cure for a hangover if you add three Advil in to the mix. Fuck with it!!

Check out Synthesis Sweepstakes and enter the SPRFKR contest! You’ll get fitted in some artsy tee’s or win posters, buttons or stickers! The artwork is AMAZING and he is a Synthesis favorite:

More at his MySpace. SUPER + FUCKER = badass work. Love it!

Just posted two new interviews to the homepage: Wyatt Nation’s chat with former Black Flag guitarist and SST Records honcho Greg Ginn, currently touring with two of his new projects Jambag and the Texas Corrugators, and new Synthesis contributor Spencer Rouse’s feature on the Chicago Afrobeat Project. Check them out on the front page, along with new reviews of TopR’s Marathon of Shame DVD and Alkaline Trio’s Agony and Irony, which hits stores tomorrow.

So I just got done slapping a bunch of new features up on the frontpage, and since this blog seems to be made of FAIL today maybe you should try your luck over there. Check out new interviews with Todd Snider, Spinto Band, Bryn Loosely of Buffalo Creek and even one of my own shitty bands. West by SwanOf course, they’re not as exciting as Video Matt’s Warped Tour interviews but hey, what is?

As if it wasn’t enough that Protest the Hero frontman Rody Walker came to Chico a month or so back and rocked an acoustic jam in Managing Editor Ryan Prado’s apartment, posed some tough questions for Paramore and sat down for his own Q&A sesh with Video Matt, he’s now acting as a roving correspondent for Synthesis.net at this year’s Warped Tour. Check out his interview with From First to Last above, and subscribe to our stupid YouTube channel so we can spam you with our shit ALL DAY!