Mastodon Announce New Album Title, People Go Apeshit

I am a complete d-bag fan of Mastodon, but I have read so many blogs and articles about the new name of Mastodon's next opus as if it were the second coming of Dio. I know why people are enamored with Mastodon, they are good, they are funny, creative and have a highly anticipated album due out this year, but get a room. In a world full of critics, bloggers and opinions I refuse to speculate whether or not the new album will be more like Remission or Crack the Skye, I just don't care yet. That's an easy way to raise your expectations too high.

The Hunter, as the new album will be known, will be a good album from a good band. Will it change my world like Leviathan, I am not sure, but I am not pinning all of my hopes and dreams on it, nor would I hate Mastodon even if it is nothing but farts and whistles.

BTW, I googled The Hunter and this came up, i see the album cover now:

HD Radio Primer

So I made the announcement the other night on the show about a new station hitting the dial in Austin, NO CONTROL Radio! You are thinking right now, wait, isn't that the name of the show we listen to every Friday? Is that going away? WTF is HD radio? Calm down, I have been working hard to figure out how to lay it all out for you, but I will start by explaining a bit about the last question, and as we get closer to a true launch date, give you the fine details about our new station.

HD radio has been around for a few years, but has been slow on the uptick for consumers. We all know what HD TV is by now, well, HD Radio can be defined in a similar way, better sound quality, less drop outs, but really it is a way for radio stations to offer some cool little extras for their audiences. Itunes tagging, title/artist info, traffic info, weather updates, and of course HD side channels for completely different music.

Itunes tagging allows you to hear a song hit a button and when you sync your devices, buy the music you heard on the radio automatically. Data channels will offer cool extras for your displays, road closures, artist facts and information and contests for stations. Side channels can be completely different format of music or talk added to your favorite stations regular programming.

Of course you have to have an HD radio, but they are becoming part of the regular fabric of devices already in our wheelhouse, car stereos, Ipod docks, portables and coming soon (hopefully) smart phones. So metalheads, be ready! We will have the ONLY metal station in the country very soon, many have tried on the web, but we get to do it for real...more details coming soon!

Lady Gaga Loves MeTal: Now Mashed

So we have discovered that Lady Gaga is a closet metal head, or not so closet by her tweets and the cover of her new album Born This Way but now there is a pretty wicked mashup from Wax Audio that sounds like a pretty decent representation of what would happen if they did her new single as a duet.

Honestly, I am not a huge fan of Gaga's music, but I completely respect her ability to hypnotize the young audience, manage her stardom and career in a relatively controled way. Intelligent and unafraid to admit that hers is not the only music that inspires.