Blank-fest WI 2009

For the third year in a row Blankfest Wisconsin will come to you from Racine's famous McAuliffe's Pub!

As always, bring a blanket or $10 to get in to see Rest of Yesterday (former members of Shameless Place), Madrid, Thunder Driver and Mohr Ave!

If you can't make it, be sure to drop off any blankets to the venue before hand.

It's about the homeless, nothing more, nothing less.

We Need Your Help!

We here at Vinyl & VILLAINS have come upon a situation where we are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

While getting ready to shoot a promo, the camera popped and then started to smoke. Right at the time when we need it the most.

We can get the new one this weekend if we can come up with about 200 dollars. If we have to order it, we won't get it in time for the event at the beginning of December. So here is where we can use your help.

If you send in ONE DOLLAR, the hope is that we get enough donations to get the camera so we can keep things rolling.

So please just click the donation button here on the site and if you can, help out. It pains us to ask, and if we didn't have to, we wouldn't but we need your help.

Thank you.

Transmissions from the Basement: Lost Audition

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The episode in which we see Daredevil's audition tape for Transmissions from the Basement!

Transmissions from the Basement Episode Two

The episode in which Iron Man tries to quit drinking, but runs into some trouble when the Demon Alcohol shows him why he should continue to partake.

Transmissions from the Basement: Episode One

In this episode of Transmissions from the Basement, or TFTB, Ron tries to recruit Green Lantern to help with Iron Man's drinking problem, only to have a secret of his own come to the surface.

Zombieland: A Vinyl & VILLAINS Review

On October 2nd, a film hit cinemas that opened my eyes and reminded me that there ARE original ideas out there. I give you, ZOMBIELAND: A Vinyl & VILLAINS Review

King Leonidas Promo for THE BASEMENT

Here is what King Leonidas has to say about the new program from Vinyl & VILLAINS; The Basement. Ignore the fact that he was hit too many times in the head by Persians.

Tournament Finals!

A little over a month ago, we debuted the Pop Culture Smackdown Tournament! It has been a rousing success.

It started off with the brackets that you see above and there have been some major upsets. It all ends now.

These two "warriors" are now poised in battle in the finals of this pop culture smackdown tournament!

From The Crow who has won some VERY close match ups with The Punisher and Jayne Cobb to The Doctor who has basically walked all over everyone that has gotten in his way.

Who do YOU think will win? Vote today!

Kanye: An Editorial

When Kanye made his comments after Hurricane Katrina, I will admit I kind of thought maybe he might have been hitting on something. Maybe he went about it the wrong way but perhaps he was reaching at something that needed addressing.

Then he pulled the stunt that he did at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Taylor Swift won the award for Best Female Video and Mr West decided to grab the microphone, interrupting her acceptance speech to say that Beyonce made one of the best videos ever. He made sure to emphasize that point. Ever.

Now I respect anyone who has enough balls to get up on stage and speak their mind. Don't get me wrong. This however was wrong. A friend pointed out to me that she may not ever win another award. Look at the state of music today. Success is fleeting. It's not like it was 10 or even 5 years ago. If you have a hit today, you might be flipping burgers with SNOW the next week. It almost pays to stay an independent artist, but I digress from my point. The point that Kanye decided to speak his mind at the wrong time. On someone else's time, that bothers me. Doesn't he have another record to auto tune? Shouldn't he be at the upcoming VH-1 Diva's performance?

I guess my point is, Kanye if you were going for crazy. Congratulations. We needed someone to fill in since we lost Ol' Dirty Bastard.

"Uprising" by MUSE at the MTV VMA's

If you are like me, and if you are reading this site you probably are, you don't really watch the Video Music Awards. No matter who Kanye decides to screw over. So I did a minimal amount of searching and I give you MUSE performing the first single off of their new album that drops on Tuesday, "The Resistance", "Uprising".

iPod Nano vs Flip Mini

Earlier today Steve Jobs announced the new iPod Nano will sorts of new features! We here at Vinyl & VILLAINS will give you the chance to weigh the options, and see if the new iPod Nano will lay the Flip Mini to waste, or will the Flip Mini come out on top?


For this article we are going to use the 120 minute Flip Mini.

Besides the 120 minute recording time, it has an 8GB memory with a price tag of $199. It is not designable and is loaded with accessories like a tripod or under water case. It also has software that allows you to upload directly to YouTube.


The new iPod Nano that was announced today has a multitude of features that you can access but for our purposes we are going to discuss the video recording feature.

The new iPod Nano can hold up to 16 hours of video with the 16BG Nano. Not only does it have all of that, but it also has 15 different effects that you can use on your videos, as well as the ability to upload it directly to Facebook, YouTube, or MobileMe. The price tag on this piece of equipment is $179

So the question is, what do you choose? Do you count in all of the other features that the new Nano has like an FM Radio, a pedometer, as well as its regular iPod features? Or do you just look at the video part and make your decisions with that.

The choice is yours. Which would YOU choose? Leave your comment below.

Retro Interview: Warped Tour Creator Kevin Lyman

This interview was with the creator of the Warped Tour on April 22, 2008. I hope you enjoy.