Coheed & Cambria will be making two stops in Oklahoma later this spring.

Anyways, Coheed & Cambria released a new music video on their MySpace yesterday for "The Broken" off their upcoming album "Year Of The Black Rainbow." This album, their fifth, drops April 13th and will serve as a prequel in their Amory Wars storyline. Prior to its release, Coheed will embark on a world tour that will include two stops in Oklahoma -- Cain's Ballroom on April 30th @ 7pm & the Diamond Ballroom May 1st @ 7pm. Cain's tickets are slightly more expensive, priced at $29 as opposed to the Diamond Ballroom's price of $25.

This video is epic -- basically a sci-fi nerd's wet dream. There are giant mechs, airships, a massive battle, and explosions. It's well edited and syncs up nicely with the song. In short, this is the best Coheed video since "Welcome Home." You don't get to see the band play, but this gritty, futuristic battle sequence is absolutely dazzling and plays well with the band's grand space opera theme. Enjoy!

What'll these guys think of next? Fingers crossed for giant robot dancing. Or maybe synchronized skydiving...

I'm going to go ahead and preemptively answer some of the questions you will likely have about the video while not revealing too much of its contents. Yes, it is a one shot sequence. Yes, the members of OK Go had help. Caltech scientists, MIT Media Lab, plus about 55 to 60 people from Syyn Labs (including some folks who worked on the NASA Mars Exploration Rover program) helped the band design and build the contraption. The video took about 60 takes for the machine to function properly with it taking 30 people up to an hour to reset it. It took 6 months, from concept to finish, to complete the video (two months of planning plus four months of design and filming). Get excited. Science rocks. Enjoy!

"I'll do whatever it takes to be an Alpha Chi." Instant classic. Tosh wasn't too kind to the greek system, but it's all in good fun.

If you go to the University of Oklahoma, you probably remember the hilarious YouTube video featuring OU's own crying in a car after she'd been reprimanded for trying to "make it snow." According to her testimony on Tosh.0, she'd had a drink or two so making it snow involved spraying a fire extinguisher up and down the halls. Her lovely sisters had the presence of mind to record her melt down and the video went viral. From what I hear, the girl was a good sport about her abrupt rise to internet infamy (note: thick skin comes in handy on Tosh.0).

English neo soul indie rockers, The Heavy

That night, the English quartet was backed by the horns section of the Dap-Kings, the same band that collaborated with Amy Winehouse on her Back to Black album (you can thank them for Rehab's classic soul vibe). Anyways, the performance was so stellar David Letterman himself requested an encore, which marked the first time he'd ever requested an encore from a band on his show. He and Paul Schaefer even contributed in a call-and-response section during the second performance of "How You Like Me Now." Combined with providing the background track for Kia's Super Bowl ad, 2010 is shaping up to be a good year for The Heavy. Enjoy the video!

As if you needed more reasons not to watch MTV. Sock monkey on a jet ski + The Heavy? I could get used to this.

Cookies aside, here are 5 of my favorite car ads that rock along with their respective background tracks in full. Enjoy!

This pic of Johnny taken from Colin Athens‘ Flickr page

The Mercury let the cat out of the bag a few weeks ago on end hits, but for those of you that didn't hear....SUPRISE! WE GOT A DRUMMER!  the ridiculously talented Zach Richards of the band "Party Girls" will be joining us on our upcoming tour starting with the 26th in tacoma!  will post video's soon so you all can see how hard he slays! Hologram Jams+Live Drums=super awesome live show.  Can't wait for you all to see!

Sadly, no more Pretty Girls Make Graves members are in the band, but I hear they're all working on other projects.

Yeeeaah!! Get excited!

About every week, I'm going to list 3 albums and post 3 songs that I've been listening to recently. However, 1 album and 1 song is decided by you, the reader! Here are the categories:

Palin's Facebook note had over 10,000 comments last time I checked. I'd browse through a few if I didn't think it would crash my browser.

Palin responded with the following in a Facebook note:

People are asking me to comment on yesterday’s Fox show that felt like another kick in the gut. Bristol was one who asked what I thought of the show that mocked her baby brother, Trig (and/or others with special needs), in an episode yesterday. Instead of answering, I asked her what she thought. Here is her conscientious reply, which is a much more restrained and gracious statement than I want to make about an issue that begs the question, “when is enough, enough?”...

Say what you want about A7X's image or style; they are unquestionably skilled.

"I want our fans to know that with Jimmy in our hearts, our journey to record has officially began. Jimmy helped leave this world an amazing gift and now it's our job to make sure to deliver that gift to our fans. We asked Jimmy's all time favorite drummer Mike Portnoy to record on behalf of him. Mike said it would be an honor and without question that’s what Jim would have wanted. Its comforting to us that someone like Mike, who is undoubtedly revered as one of the best drummers in the world, held such respect and adoration for the Rev's abilities.