Smashing Pumpkins Debuted "Owata" Short Film on Yahoo! Music


Smashing Pumpkins have released a new music video for the track "Owata." The track itself is the tenth song released as part of the colossal 44-track effort titled Teargarden By Kaleidyscope.

The track was discovered by fans on Yahoo! Music before the band acknowledged the video's release via their Twitter account.

The "Owata" video directed by Robby Starbuck, features wrestlers Cheerleader Melissa, Shelly Martinez and Raven and according to a prior press release, is the first-ever video to be filmed with the Red Epic M camera, which is also now being utilized by James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic) and Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings, King Kong.)

Corgan expressed the band's excitement at being on the cutting edge of technology, saying: “I have waited and waited to make the right video for the right song on Teargarden…, so I’m really excited that we are coming at this aggressively with the newest technology that’s out there. With the concept we have at hand, which is based on brutal Japanese style of women’s wrestling, we’ll need to get super clear close-ups to tell the story properly.”

SEE ALSO: Exclusive: On Set Pictures from Smashing Pumpkins “Owata” Video Shoot




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[DOWNLOAD] Jane's Addiction - "End To The Lies"


 “End To The Lies” from the forthcoming album The Great Escape Artist. The Great Escape Artist will see a release date in September 27, 2011. Before that the bandhas offered Free download through their Official Site The download also available here.

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[DOWNLOAD] Bush - "All My Life"


Bush have a new song titled "All My Life" available for free download thanks to EA Sports. The song is set to appear in EA's new game NHL 12'. This also happens to be your first taste of the London group's new album The Sea of Memories, which is set to drop this September. Grab "All My Life" by clicking download link below.


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[WATCH] Foo Fighters - "Walk" 6/5/2011 Live at 2011 MTV Movie Award


Foo Fighters performed "Walk" at 2011 MTV Movie Award.

Watch the video below.

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[WATCH] Foo Fighters - "Walk" Music Video


 Official music video by Foo Fighters performed "Walk".

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Video Review: Foo Fighters' 'Walk' Video 'Falling Down' All Over Again

 New music video by Foo Fighters is a humorous take on intense 1993 Michael Douglas "Falling Down" film. Lets figured out the similarities and differences.

 The Foo Fighters' new "Walk" video is a near re-creation of the 1993 film "Falling Down," the oft-disturbing portrait of the prototypical "angry white male" (as portrayed by Michael Douglas, complete with crew cut and short-sleeved work shirt) who is pushed to the brink by what he views as society's decay — immigrants, crime, greed, bureaucracy, the fact that McDonald's stops serving breakfast at 10:30 a.m. — and goes on a violent rampage as a result, culminating in a stand-off with police and his death. Only, you know, funny.



Michael Douglas as Bill Foster in "Falling Down"
Foo Fighters frontman, Dave Grohl in "Walk" video
Yes, "Walk" — which premiered Thursday (June 2) on MTV.com — is a bit strange: a humorous take on a film that a) most people probably don't remember, and b) wasn't all that humorous in the first place.

"Falling Down" scene

 It opens with frontman Dave Grohl (who, besides his long hair, is a dead-ringer for Douglas' Bill Foster with his horn-rimmed glasses and striped tie) stuck in a traffic jam of suck: a snotty kid stares at him from the back of a station wagon; bumper stickers proudly proclaim "Bieber is my Co-Pilot," "Thank You, President Bush" and, rather hilariously, "Coldplay"; well-heeled jerks kick back in their cozy convertibles.


 And, much like Foster, he snaps, leaving his car on the freeway and beginning a trek across Los Angeles, carrying his guitar case with him.

 
 We then follow him as he is pushed closer and closer to the edge, thanks to an ever-extending chain of society's annoyances: his iPhone dies, a clerk at a convenience store refuses to give him change to make a call and he can't find a payphone. Of course, unlike "Falling Down," Grohl's reactions and his interactions are played up for comedic value.

"Falling Down" scene

 He doesn't smash up a Korean-owned grocery store, shoot up a fast-foot restaurant or stab a white supremacist. Instead, there is a rather humorous karate fight with some gangbangers (fellow Foos Taylor Hawkins and Chris Shiflett), and he drives a golf cart into a lake. 

"Falling Down" scene

 And, unlike Bill Foster, Grohl's voyage of carnage doesn't end with a climatic showdown with police at Venice Fishing Pier, but rather at a Foo Fighters' practice, where he and the band tear through the remainder of the song before the police come crashing in.


Grohl gets tazed. The band poses for pictures with the officers. It is funny


 Those not aware of "Falling Down" will probably view this as another in a long line of funny Foos clips. But for those who've seen the film (which can be polarizing, to say the very least), it's sort of impossible not to view "Walk" through the prism of the original. And that's why it's a weird thing to watch. Funny? Sure. A slightly odd choice? Most definitely. Then again, the Foo Fighters have long defied conventions, and with "Walk," they continue down that path — with some silly costumes, of course.


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Daniel Johns & Josh Wakely : TEDxSydney 2011


Photo by TEDxSydney | Date Taken: May 28, 2011 |  Location: Sydney, NSW, AU
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