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Halloween Costumes You're Guaranteed to See This Year
October 30, 2012 in Heard Mentality
Jena ArdellStory and Illustrations By: Jena ArdellEach Halloween you see scads of folks wearing the same costumes. Last year it was the damn black swan, and meanwhile Slash and the LMFAO guys...
Fan Landers: Do I Deserve More Money Than My Lazy Bandmates?
October 25, 2012 in Heard Mentality
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The 25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers
October 25, 2012 in Heard Mentality
By: Jason RocheHalloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then,...
Adam Ant Isn't a Goody Two Shoes Anymore
October 18, 2012 in Heard Mentality
Is My Band Accidentally Aiding a Right-Wing Extremist?
October 17, 2012 in Heard Mentality
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Top 10 Most Unreadable Metal Band Logos
October 16, 2012 in Heard Mentality
Ten bucks if you can read this back to usBy Alee Karim Once upon a time, extreme metal bands opted to contort their logos into the most stylized mutations possible as...
Ask a Failed Musician: So, You Think You're Ready to Tour?
October 12, 2012 in Heard Mentality
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Our Producer Stole Our Demo!
October 12, 2012 in Heard Mentality
[Editor's Note: Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a...
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Top 25 Greatest Orange County Bands of All Time: The Complete List
October 11, 2012 in Heard Mentality
Fu ManchuGo ahead, call us a bunch of culture-less, lily-white suburbanites with a partiality to flip-flops and right-wing politics. Those kind of labels never cease to amuse us. Because one...
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The 15 Most Ridiculous Band Photos We've Seen This Year
October 09, 2012 in Heard Mentality
By Daniel Hill Here at Heard Mentality we see literally one shitload of press photos every week. Many of them stick to a template: Gather all band members together, shoulder to...
Ask Fan Landers: Should I Publicly Humiliate My Bandmate For What He's Done?
October 05, 2012 in Heard Mentality
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Ask a Failed Musician: Success is Influence
September 27, 2012 in Heard Mentality
Black Flag: Very influential, not always critically praisedBy: Daniel Hopkins[Editor's Note: Welcome to Ask a Failed Musician, in which I will help struggling musicians make sense of their careers and even offer some...
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Ask Fan Landers: Either She's Your Girlfriend or Your Roadie, Not Both
September 26, 2012 in Heard Mentality
[Editors Note: Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is...
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Here Are the New Rules for Internet Jukeboxes
September 26, 2012 in Heard Mentality
Does this look like Michael Bolton to you?By John Seaborn Gray Used to be you'd have to hit bar after bar until you found just the right jukebox, which promptly became your own...
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Myspace Was Better Than Facebook (For Music)
September 20, 2012 in Heard Mentality
Star ForemanSkrillex built a fanbase on MyspaceBy: Moses SumneyWith Facebook's stock and growth rates skydiving, it's time to say something that should have been said a long time ago: Myspace was better....
Advice to Every New Band: Stop Putting Out Albums
September 19, 2012 in Heard Mentality
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The Five Best Concerts in O.C. This Week
September 17, 2012 in Heard Mentality
2Chainz--See WednesdaySee Also: *Free Ticket Wednesday: She Wants Revenge at the Observatory*The Hives - The Observatory - September 11, 2012 [w/Video]*Jim Norton Wants to Sleep With You, if You Can...
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She Wants Revenge - The Observatory - September 14, 2012
September 17, 2012 in Heard Mentality
Ryan Cox / OC WeeklyShe Wants Revenge By: Ryan CoxSee Also:*FIDLAR On What It's Like To Party With The Hives *The Best Of Coachella: Sunday, April 22, 2012 *Ceasefire - House of...
How Hollywood Movies Led to Genocide: The Act of Killing at the Toronto Film Festival
September 11, 2012 in Navel Gazing
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Top 10 Black Artists Who Should Go Country
September 11, 2012 in Heard Mentality
[Editor's note: Country Time is a new biweekly column for our sister music blog in Seattle, celebrating that city's favorite musical genre: mainstream country.] By: Mike SeelySee Also:*Kanye West and 50...
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Threesomes at the Toronto Film Festival: Critic Karina Longworth Weighs In
September 10, 2012 in Navel Gazing
By Karina Longworth This is a blog post about two movies that were screened for the press within the first 24 hours of the Toronto Film Festival, both of which feature...
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15 Burning Man GIFs That'll Make You Wanna Go Next Year
September 06, 2012 in Heard Mentality
By Josh "CuriousJosh" Reiss See Also:*Five Things an EDM Diva Learned at Burning Man*The Fantastic People of Burning Man*FYF Fest 2012: A Complex Portrait of the SoCal Music SceneEditor's Note: Maybe...
Top 5 Awesomely Silly Dancing GIFs From the Outside Lands Festival
August 14, 2012 in Heard Mentality
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The Kills - The Observatory - 8/9/12
August 10, 2012 in Heard Mentality
Ryan CoxThe Kills BY: Ryan CoxSee Also: *Free Ticket Tuesday: The Kills at the Observatory*Iron Maiden - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - 8/9/12*Of Monsters and Men - The Observatory - 8/8/12The Kills The...
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Duran Duran Speaks: John Taylor Says Twitter Helped Bring Their Fanbase Back to the '80s
August 08, 2012 in Heard Mentality
Stephanie PistelDuran DuranBy: Liz OhanesianSee Also:*Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy Move*Duran Duran: Still Hungry*Young the Giant are OC's Next Great BandDuran Duran...
