The Pink Spiders

The Pink Spiders are a garage punk/ power pop band formed in 2003 and are based out of Nashville, Tennessee. With Matt Friction (vocals & guitar), Jon Decious (bass) and Bob Ferrari (drums), the band has 2 EPs and 3 full length albums to their name.

The Pink Spiders released their first album The Pink Spiders Are Taking Over! in 2004 on SPAT! Records. It was announced that on Fristion's label, Mean Buzz Records, the album would be re-released in 2008.

Then in 2005 the bands debut album Hot Pink, which has a 50's rock vibe to it. A few songs were re-recorded and put on their second debut album. With Hot Pink, The Pink Spiders toured nonstop and became used to life on the road and the chaos that came with it.

Another year went by and in 2006 Teenage Graffiti was released. This album was the bands biggest success with the single Little Razorblade. Little Razorblade was the first single and first music video. Then the music video for Modern Swinger came out shortly after. AP Magazine named The Pink Spider in '100 Bands To Know In 2006'.

After a few years into 2008 The Pink Spiders released Sweat It Out. The first single off the album was Gimme Chemicals. In that same year Decious & Ferrari left and The Pink Spiders still continued shortly after.

While on the Tapped Kegs, Spread Legs & Fertilized Eggs Tour, the band released a tour-only EP, Subterranean EP, which included previously unreleased versions of Gimme Chemicals, Knock Knock, Teenage Graffiti and Sleeping On The Floor.

In 2008, Friction announced that the band was going on an extended hiatus. In that time Friction started focusing on two other projects, Matt Friction & The Cheap Shots and The Dozen Dimes. The Dozen Dimes released their debut album Get Real Gone With The Dozen Dimes!

But most recently in 2010, The Pink Spiders reunited for a concert at The Viper Room in West Hollywood. In March of 2011, The Pink Spiders announced that they would be playing together again. Currently they are on the 2 Legit 2 Quit Tour. They also released the Cherry Chapstick/Sad Style single in March as well.

-Gimme Chemicals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5CniK4_Lc0

Panic! At The Disco

It's hard to believe that it has been six years since P!ATD's release of their first single I Write Sins Not Tragedies off their debut album A Fever You Can't Sweat out. In 2008 Pretty. Odd was released with singles Nine In The Afternoon and The Green Gentleman. But in 2009, half the band went separate ways and left Spencer Smith and Brendan Urie to do what they wanted to musically. And most recently with Smith and Urie Vices & Virtues was released on March 8.

Former member Ryan Ross and Brendan Urie were the main song writers in the band and when they started writing new songs neither of them were on the same page. Ross and other former bandmate Jon Walker wanted to do one thing while Urie and Spencer wanted to another. Neither group wanted to work on each others' songs and eventually Ross and Walker left the quartet.

When the band announced the departure of Ross and Walker, was a total shocker. In an interview with AP Magazine, Ross stated that he was shocked to find out that Urie and Smith were going to keep the Panic! At The Disco name. He also said that they [Urie and Smith] would rather play someone else's material instead of writng their own. But Urie didn't take that personally and was a little shocked himself that Ross would say that.

Vices & Virtues take elements from the bands previous records. The theatricality from A Fever You Can't Sweat Out and the not so theactrical style from Pretty. Odd.

                                                                 
The Ballad Of Mona Lisa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOgpdp3lP8M