Read And Rock: Bands

1) Poison
2) The Runaways
3) The Cure
4) Ramones
5) Beatles
6) Led Zeppelin
7) Aerosmith
8) White Lion
9) Pink Floyd
10) Tesla

Read And Rock: Favorite Songs Of The Moment

10) Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold
9) I Can't Get Enough by Rooney
8) Going Under by Evanescence
7) Love Song by The Cure
6) Paris (Ooh La La) by Grace Potter and The Nocturnals
5) Bury Me Alive by We Are The Fallen
4) Undo It by Carrie Underwood
3) Airplanes Part Two by B.o.B. Feat. Hayley Williams and Eminem
2) The Remedy by Jason Mraz
1) Love The Way You Lie by Eminem Feat. Rihanna

Album Releases: July 2010

Monday July 5th, 2010
Kyle Minogue: Aphrodite
Mystery Jets: Serotonin

Tuesday July 6th, 2010
Enrique Iglesias: Euphoria
Bret Michaels: Custom Built
Juvenile: Beast Mode
Kelis: Flesh Tone
Picture Me Broken: Wide Awake
Robert Pollard: Moses On A Snail
Texas Hippie Coalition: Rollin'
Thieves Like Us: Again & Again

Saturday July 10th, 2010
Prince: 20Ten

Monday July 12th, 2010
Autechre: Move of Ten

Tuesday July 13th, 2010
Crowded House: Intriguer
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse: Dark Night Of The Soul
Fat Joe: The Darkside Vol. 1
Ice Cube: I Am The West
Tony Lucca: Rendezvous With The Angels
The Maine: Black & White
Panda Bear: Tomboy
School Of Seven Bells: Disconnect From Desire
Sun Kil Moon: Admiral Fell Promises
Sting: Symphonicity

Tuesday July 20th, 2010
Big Head Todd & The Monsters: Rocksteady
Sheryl Crow: 100 Miles From Memphis
Frazey Ford: Obadian
Honor Bright: Action! Drama! Suspence!
These United States: What Lasts

Tuesday July 27th, 2010
Charlotte: Medusa Groove
Lachi: Lachi
Red Wanting Blues: These Magnificent Miles
Savannah Jo Lack: Knitting Songs
The Shimmies: To All Beloved Enemies

Artist Of The Week: Monty Are I

Current Members:
Stephen Aiello (lead vocals, guitar)
Justin Muir (drums)
Ryan Muir (vocals, trumpet, guitar)
Andrew Borstein (trombone, keyboards, vocals, keytar)
Mike Matarese (bass)
Former Members:
Greg Johnson
Nick Salisbury
Albums:
Thanks For The Metal Sign (2000)
Monty's Fan Club (2002)
The Red Shift (2005)
Wall Of People (2006)
Break Through The Silence (2009)
Singles:
Dublin Waltz (2006)
Between The Sheets (2007)
One In A Million (2009)

-Monty Are I used to be called "Montys Fan Club" and "Monty"
-They are from Cranston, Rhode Island
-They won Takeover Records "Sign My Band" contest on MySpace but ended up signing with Stolen Transmission and were upstreamed to Island Records
-They also won the WBRU Rock Hunt in 2002 and the Ernie Bell sponsored Battle Of The Bands in 2003
-Monty Are I have been involved in 5 Vans Warped Tours
-They have toured with many bands including Saving Abel, Just Surrender, Secondhand Serenade, Anberlin, My Chemical Romance, Story Of The Year, Sum 41, Taking Back Sunday, Yellowcard, Hawthorne Heights and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
-"In This Legacy" is featured in the Xbox/PS2 games ATV Offroad Fury 4 and Tony Hawk's Project 8
-The band is named after their band instructor Arthur Montanaro. "Are I" is a pun on "RI" which is Rhode Islands postal abbreviation
-Stephan Aiello is 27
-Justin Muir is 28
-Ryan Muir is 28
-Ryan and Justin are twin brothers
-Andrew Borstein is 27
-Mike Matarese is 27
You can follow the band on various sites including:
Myspace:
www.myspace.com/montyarei
Stephen: www.myspace.com/gnrstabb
Justin: www.myspace.com/whatladder
Andrew: www.myspace.com/andrewborstein
Ryan: www.myspace.com/likealighthouse
Mike: www.myspace.com/mikemat
Twitter:
www.twitter.com/montyarei
Stephen: www.twitter.com/StephenAreI
Justin: www.twitter.com/justinarei
Andrew: www.twitter.com/andrewarei
Ryan: www.twitter.com/RyanAreI
Mike: www.twitter.com/mikearei

Information from:
http://www.wikipedia.com/
http://www.montyarei.com/
www.myspace.com/montyarei

Read And Rock: Albums

These albums are all somewhat recent. They were released in 2009 or 2010.

1) "Awake" by Skillet (2009)
2) "For Your Entertainment" by Adam Lambert (2009)
3) "Ursa Major" by Third Eye Blind (2009)
4) "The Fame Monster" by Lady Gaga (2009)
5) "Kiss And Tell" by Selena Gomez and The Scene (2009)
6) "Believe" by Orianthi (2009)
7) "Almost Everything I Wish I'd Said The Last Time I Saw You" by Wakey! Wakey! (2010)
8) "Grace Potter And The Nocturnals" by Grace Potter And The Nocturnals (2010)
9) "Tear The World Down" by We Are The Fallen (2010)
10) "If I Had Hi-Fi" by Nada Surf (2010)

Read And Rock: Music Videos

1) Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dani California"
2) Foo Fighters "Learn To Fly"
3) Blink-182 "All The Small Things"
4) Fall Out Boy "I Don't Care"
5) P!nk "So What"
6) Eminem "We Made You"
7) P!nk "Stupid Girls"
8) Taylor Swift Feat. T-Pain "Thug Story"
9) Chris Brown Feat. T-Pain "Kiss Kiss"
10) Fall Out Boy "Dance Dance"


All of these videos are more on the funny side which i'm sure you know if you've seen them. :)

Artist Of The Week: P!nk

Full Name: Alicia Beth Moore
Birthday: September 8, 1979
Studio Albums:
Can't Take Me Home (2000)
Missundaztood (2001)
Try This (2003)
I'm Not Dead (2006)
Funhouse (2008)
DVDS:
P!nk: Live In Europe (2005)
P!nk: Live From Wembley Arena (2007)
P!nk: Live In Australia (2009)
AWARDS:
Grammy's-
(2001) Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals "Lady Marmalade"
(2004) Best Female Pop Rock Vocal Performance "Trouble"
BRIT Awards-
(2003) Best International Female Artist
MTV Video Music Awards-
(2001) Best Video For A Film "Lady Marmalade"
(2001) Video Of The Year "Lady Marmalade"
(2001) Best Dance Video "Get The Party Started"
(2002) Best Female Pop Video "Get The Party Started"
(2006) Best Pop Song "Stupid Girls"

-P!nk was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania
-She joined her first band in high school which was called "Middleground"
-She began performing in clubs when she was 14
-P!nks first single was "There You Go" off of her first album "Can't Take Me Home"
-"Can't Take Me Home" was certified double platinum in the US
-The song "You Make Me Sick" was featured in the movie Save The Last Dance
-The song "Split Personality" was featured in the movie The Princess Diaries
-P!nk was the opening act for 'N Sync on their American tour for the summer of 2000
-In 2001 P!nk recorded a cover of "Lady Marmalade" for the movie Moulin Rouge with Christina Aguilera, Mya, and Lil' Kim
-P!nk named her 2nd album Missundaztood because she thought people had the wrong image of her
-In 2003 the song "Feel Good Time" was featured in the movie Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle where she also made a cameo appearence as a motocross race ramp owner
-"Try This" which was P!nks 3rd studio album sold 3 million copies
-"U + Ur Hand" and "Who Knew" off of the album "I'm Not Dead" both went #1 on the pop chart
-P!nk is the #1 Pop Song Artist of the Decade according to Billboards Decade End Chart
-P!nk says her album "Funhouse" is her most vulnerable album to date
-She has had 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 US
-P!nk has sold over 30 million records worldwide
-Billboard Top 40 Money Makers in Music List of 2010 showed that P!nk was the 6th highest paid artist of 2009
FUN FACTS
-In 2001 P!nk met Carey Hart at the X-Games
-In 2005 P!nk proposed to Carey during a motocross race by holding up a sign that said "Will you mary me" on one side and on the other "i'm serious!"
-The two were married in Costa Rica on January 7, 2006
-After a seperation P!nk and Carey are back together (They were never legally divorced)
-If she weren't a singer she'd be a party planner
-P!nk and her friends play a game that's called BDG where each person names one thing they want to brag about, one thing they desire, and one thing they're grateful for
-Her 5-carat diamond wedding ring embarrasses her, so she usually wears it turns around so the rock is facing down
-Her go to karaoke song is "Just The Way You Are" by Billy Joel
-When she wants to blow off steam she runs, sings, yells loudly or boxes
-She is a prominent campaigner for PETA
-She plays herself in the movie Get Him To The Greek

Information from:
http://www.pinkspage.com/
http://www.wikipedia.com/
Cosmopolitan Magazine Vol. 248 for June 2010