Foo Fighters Play New Album Live, New Single Details Emerge

OK, everyone. Apologies for the disappearance; shortly after we came bursting back out of the gate in 2011 the official VLM laptop saw fit to commit seppuku and needed to go in for repairs. But within the last 24 hours the Foo Fighters ramped up promotion for their new album, and not even a blown [...]

Foo Fighters, Panic! at the Disco offer clips of new music

Edit 01/18 1:31 PM: See below. Today saw two bands with highly anticipated albums due for release in 2011 tease fans with new music. First, the newly re-exclamation pointed Panic! At The Disco offered up a thirty second clip of “The Ballad of Mona Lisa”, from their upcoming third album. Check it out below: The [...]

What I’m Watching – The Social Network

This was intended to go up late last week, before the film cleaned house at the Golden Globes, but ’twas not to be. At any rate, my thoughts on the film are certainly unchanged.

Social Distortion Offer Stream of New Album…With A Twist*

Social Distortion is streaming their new album Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes, and is offering fans incentive to listen to the stream…

Kanye West + Jay-Z Offer Up A Large “H.A.M” in Advance of Watch The Throne

We’ve hoped for it for years, we’ve been excited about it for months, we’ve been chomping at the bit for it for days. And now, we finally have our first taste of Watch the Throne, the forthcoming collaborative album between Kanye West and Jay-Z. “H.A.M.” (which stands for “Hard Ass Motherfucker”) sounds exactly as grand [...]

Viva La Mainstream’s Essential Albums of 2010

It’s a few days later than I intended, and I’m sure after I post it I’m going to curse myself for forgetting one, but here it is, VLM’s Essential Albums of 2010. As usual, these aren’t ranked, there’s no particular order to the list, just a rundown of the albums that made 2010 a solid [...]

What the Hell Happened to You?

…um, hello? Is this thing on? Yeah, it’s me, TJ. I’m back. Where the hell have I been, you ask? Well, that’s a valid question. In short, I put Viva La Mainstream on hiatus for the month of December, because I needed to figure out what the hell I was doing. Some of you who [...]