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Dean Blundell's Sausagefest

Sausagefest, happening Friday August 14th, 2009, featuring

The Salads (AKA the Sausages)

USS

Moneen

top secret headliner!!!!!

5pm for the BBQ, 8pm for the show!

Sounds like a good tour this year – you can only go if you win tickets through the edge.  Everybody try and win so we can go :-)

Vans Warped Tour 2009

Well, It’s coming to that time to start gearing up for one of my favourite events of the year – the Vans Warped Tour!!!

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This year the tour is celebrating its 15th anniversary!

The Toronto show is scheduled for Friday July 10th, on the concrete parking lot floors or Arrow Hall.  This years tour is reportedly featuring fewer bands with the idea of giving each band an additional 10 minutes to play.  Bands rocking the various stages include, but are not limited to:

3Oh!3, A Day To Remember, A Skylit Drive, Aiden ,Anti-Flag,Attack attack, Bad Religion, Bayside, Big D and the Kids Table, Black Tide, Breathe Carolina, BrokeNCYDE, Chiodos, Dance Gavin Dance, Dear and the Headlights, Escape the Fate, Flogging Molly, Gallows, Hit the Lights, I Set My Friends On Fire, In This Moment, InnerPartySystem, ivy league, Jeffree Star, Less Than Jake, LIGHTS, Longway, Madina Lake, Meg and Dia, Millionaires, NOFX, POS, Saosin, Senses Fail, Shad, Shooter Jennings, Silverstein, Sing It Loud, Streetlight Manifesto, TAT, The AKAs, the architects, The Devil Wears Prada, The Maine, The White Tie Affair, There for Tomorrow, Therefore I Am, TV/TV, Underoath, VersaEmerge, Westbound Train

Of these bands, it appears that Saosin is the headliner

Heads up for those wanting to score early bird tickets, Thursday is your last chance to order one from Early bird ticket also come with a compilation CD and a limited edition hologram ticket.(Toronto show only has 50 early bird tickets left as of this post)

feel free to comment on your favourite warped tour band, or talk about other fun warped tour stuff!

Mark's Top 5 Bands to See at the Warped Tour

1)  Story of the Year

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2)  Gym Class Heroes

3)  Madina Lake

4)  Mayday Parade

5)  The Color Fred

Notable mentions: A Day To Remember, Angels and Airwaves, Katy Perry, Dodger, Street Drum Corps

watch them all play at the same time! ha

check em out

I got you both beat

I had to get in on this – one of my favourite 80s tunes with a typically quirky 80s video that you can laugh at.

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Wakestock 2008

It’s that time again for one of my favourite events of the year – the world’s largest wakeboard festival, the Wakestock World Series!  This weekend long festival takes place July 24-27.  The 2008 band lineup has been finally released, and as of right now includes:

Friday July 25
CAVALERA CONSPIRACY
DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
THROWDOWN
AGE OF DAZE
KATLEEN TURNER OVERDRIVE
FAREWELL TO FREEWAY
DEAD AND DIVINE

Saturday July 26
GZA & RZA of WU-TANG CLAN
HOT WATER MUSIC
SILVERSTEIN
CLASSIFIED
REBEL EMERGENCY + More TBA

Sunday July 27
METRIC
WE ARE SCIENTISTS
DRAGONETTE
LIGHTS
CRASH PARALLEL
SHAWN HEWITT + More TBA

Included with the live music of these bands is the wake boarding talent of the world in the WWA World Series competition, the Billabong pro railslide competition, the oakley launch pool, pro skate demos as well as the Island of the Ams contest, discounted merch tables, pro freestyle moto-x, and the famous bud light bikini contest.  There are also several after-parties thrown in the heart of downtown Toronto.  The early bird cost of a weekend pass costs $49.50.  After June 22nd however the cost rises, with each individual day costing similiar to the original early bird cost of the entire weekend.

Filter – Anthems for the Damned

Earlier in May of this year, the band Filter released their fourth album – “Anthems for the Damned”. I believe it to be quite a solid release. The content focuses largely on issues surrounding the state of the world today, with a strong anti-war message (as depicted by the first single, Soldiers of Misfortune). There are a number of hard hitting tracks (eg. In Dreams, The Take, and the powerful What’s Next) mixed in with some softer more emotional tunes (eg. Lie After Lie, Only You) and their more typical industrial pop songs (eg. Kill the Day) similar to Take A Picture, from their “Title of Record” release. Below I’ve included the video for Soldiers of Misfortune.

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Fun facts about Filter:

Fun fact number one – their bassist will no longer be with them as he is part of the US army reserve, and is shipping off to serve in Iraq

Fun fact number two – frontman Richard Patrick is brother to Robert Patrick, the actor that played the role of the T-1000 in Terminator 2, among many other movie and tv roles

Fun fact number three – Richard Patrick was a touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails in their early career

SCREAM, AIM, FIRE!

Bullet for my Valentine is releasing their new album, “Scream, Aim, Fire” next week. Here is one of the best tracks from it called “Forever and Always”. Hope you like it.

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Recipe for Success!!!!!

DANE COOK – one of the funniest guys ever!!!
JESSICA ALBA – one of the most attractive girls ever!!! Together, how could you go wrong???

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SURVIVOR CHINA

Premiers Thursday Sept. 20th

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Looks like there are some cool people playing this time too. In terms of the boys looks like I’ll be cheering for Erik the Musician, and in terms of the girls, Amanda the hiking guide. Who would you cheer for?

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