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Paulson to Release Digital-Only EP Christmas Day

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As a follow up to their full length, All at Once, Paulson will be releasing the Digital-Only Calling on You EP next Tuesday, on Christmas Day! The EP features 3 versions of “Calling on You,” but what’s more exciting are the three cover songs that appear on the second-half of the recording. A variety of cover songs have constantly appeared during the band’s live set, and many of them have become fan-favorites, practically forcing this EP to be released.

Track Listing

1. Calling on You (Album Version)
2. Calling on You (A Cappella Version)
3. Calling on You (Mezzir Remix)
4. Wonderwall (originally by Oasis)
5. Party All the Time (originally by Eddie Murphy)
6. Better Off Alone (originally by Alice DeeJay)

Best of 2007: DFO

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Adam Weidman

Top 10 Albums
1. Motion City Soundtrack – Even If It Kills Me
2. The Actual – In Stitches
3. Straylight Run – The Needles the Space
4. All Time Low – So Wrong, It’s Right
5. Limbeck – Limbeck
6. Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
7. The Starting Line – Direction
8. Your Sweet Uncertainty – Your Sweet Uncertainty
9. Alkaline Trio – Remains
10. Four Year Strong – Rise or Die Trying

Honorable Mention
Sherwood – A Different Light
Mayday Parade – A Lesson in Romantics
Boys Night Out – Boys Night Out
Jimmy Eat World – Chase This Light
New Found Glory – From Your Screen to Your Stereo Part II
Coconut Records – Nighttiming
The Spill Canvas – No Really, I’m Fine
Treaty of Paris – Sweet Dreams, Sucker
Scenes from a Movie – The Pulse
Dashboard Confessional – The Shade of Poison Trees
Steel Train – Trampoline

Top EP’s
1. Nightmare of You – Bang
2. American Diary – The Brightest Colors
3. The Morning Light – The Sounds of Love
4. Holiday Parade – This Is My Year
5. Every Avenue – Ah!
6. The Dangerous Summer – If You Could Only Keep Me Alive
7. The Sugi Tap – The Sugi Tap
8. Forever the Sickest Kids – Television Off, Party On
9. PlayRadioPlay! – The Frequency
10. The Spill Canvas – Denial Feels So Good

Best Songs of 2007
1. The Actual – “Between the Bridge and the Chapel”
2. Motion City Soundtrack – “It Had to Be You”
3. Coconut Records – “West Coast”
4. All Time Low – “Let It Roll”
5. The Sugi Tap – “Little Tiny Everything”
6. Four Year Strong – “Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die”
7. Just Surrender – “Your Life and Mine”
8. Limbeck – “Bird Problems”
9. The Starting Line “Island”
10. The Format – “Does Your Cat Have a Mustache?”

Disappointment Albums
1. Cartel – Cartel
2. Saves the Day – Under the Boards
3. Bright Eyes – Cassadaga
4. The Academy Is… – Santi
5. The Used – Lies for the Liars
6. The Rocket Summer – Do You Feel
7. Say Anything – In Defense of the Genre
8. MxPx – Secret Weapon
9. Reel Big Fish – Monkeys for Nothin’ and the Chimps for Free
10. Hot Hot Heat – Happiness Ltd.

“Guilty Pleasure” Album of 2007
Yellowcard – Paper Walls

Best Music DVD
The Format – Live At The Mayan Theatre

Saddest Band Break Ups of 2007
1. The Actual
2. Allister
3. The Early November
4. Spitalfield
5. Hidden in Plain View

Top 10 2008 Anticipations
1. The Matches
2. New Found Glory
3. Taking Back Sunday
4. Hellogoodbye
5. The Loved Ones
6. Head Automatica
7. Bayside
8. Thursday
9. Jack’s Mannequin
10. The Hush Sound

Best Live Show
Straylight Run

Best New Band
We the Kings

Most Overrated Band
Paramore

Most Underrated Band
The Spill Canvas

Top 5 Movies of 2007
1. The Simpsons Movie
2. 28 Weeks Later
3. King of Kong
4. Reno 911: Miami!
5. Halloween

Top 5 TV Shows of 2007
1. The Office
2. Entourage
3. Hell’s Kitchen
4. South Park
5. Little People, Big World

Anticipated Movies for 2008
1. 1-18-08 / Cloverfield
2. Harold & Kumar 2
3. Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull
4. Rambo 4

Final Note: Thank you all for visiting the site, I wish each of our visitors all the best in the New Year!

– Adam

Bryce Jacobson

Top 10 Albums
1. Jimmy Eat World
2. Motion City Soundtrack
3. Anberlin
4. Sherwood
5. Relient K
6. Farewell
7. The Graduate
8. Four Year Strong
9. Angels & Airwaves
10. MxPx

Top EP’s
1. The Dangerous Summer – If You Could Only Keep Me Alive
2. The International Drive – Finish What You Started
3. American Diary –
4. Dropout Year – Best Friends For Never
5. The Years Gone By – On The Verge

Disappointment Albums
1. Cartel – Cartel
2. Say Anything – In Defense of The Genre
3. June – Make It Blur
4. The Receiving End of Sirens – The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi
5. Emery – I’m Only A Man

Saddest Band Break Ups of 2007
1. Spitalfield
2. The Early November
3. Hidden In Plain View
4. Down To Earth Approach

Best New Bands
1. The Graduate
2. Four Year Strong
3. We The Kings

Top 10 2008 Anticipations
1. Anberlin
2. New Found Glory
3. Underoath
4. +44
5. Number One Gun
6. Hit The Lights
7. Bayside
8. Hellogoodbye
9. Taking Back Sunday
10. Thursday

Top 5 TV Shows of 2007
1. Entourage
2. House
3. The Office
4. Family Guy
5. Prison Break
6. Smallville
7. My Name Is Earl
8. Chuck
9. Pushing Daisies
10. Heroes

Top 10 Movies of 2007
1. Transformers
2. Live Free or Die Hard
3. 300
4. Hot Fuzz
5. Knocked Up
6. Ratatouille
7. Superbad
8. The Bourne Ultimatum
9. Gone Baby Gone
10. I Am Legend

Anticipated Movies for 2008
1. The Dark Knight
2. Indiana Jones 4
3. James Bond 22
4. Cloverfield
5. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
6. Wall-E
7. X-Files 2
8. Rambo 4
9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
10. The Happening

Nick Singleton

Top 5 Albums
1. John Mayer – “Continuum (Special Edition)”
2. Paramore – “Riot!”
3. Cary Brothers – “Who You Are”
4. Fall Out Boy – “Infinity On High
5. Iron & Wine – “The Shepard’s Dog”

Top 5 Songs
1. “Here It Goes” – Jimmy Eat World
2. “Gravity” (Live) – John Mayer
3. “Six Feet Under The Stars” – All Time Low
4. “Ride” Cary Brothers
5. “Your Life and Mine” – Just Surrender

Disapointment Albums
Cartel – “Cartel”
Saves The Day – “Under The Boards”

Best New Band
Farewell

Top 5 Movies
1. Knocked Up
2. Transformers
3. Superbad
4. Alpha Dog
5. I am Legend

Top 5 TV Shows
1. Entourage: Season 4
2. Scrubs: Season 7
3. Flight of the Conchords
4. The Office: Season 4
5. Heroes: Season 2

Top 5 2008 Anticipations
1. “The Dark Knight”
2. “Entourage: Season 5”
3. “Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull”
4. Panic! at the Disco
5. Taking Back Sunday

Valida Prentice

Top 5 Releases
1. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
2. The Shins – Wincing the Night Away
3. Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
4. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
5. M.I.A. – Kala

Biggest Let Down
Stars – In Our Bedroom after the War

Saddest Break-Ups
Nickel Creek
Rufio
New Order
Spitalfield
Jurassic 5

Most Anticipated in 2008
1. Coldplay
2. Nada Surf
3. Gnarls Barkley
4. The Police
5. Fenix*TX / Oasis (tie)

Andrea Hubbell

Top 10 Albums/EPs/LPs of 2007
1) Metro Station – Metro Station
2) Cobra Starship – !Viva La Cobra!
3) We the Kings – We the Kings
4) Paramore – Riot!
5) Dropout Year – Best Friends For Never
6) Amber Pacific – Truth in Sincerity
7) The Used – Lies for the Liars
8.) The Hint – When It Gets Dark Enough
9) Powerspace – The Kicks of Passion
10) The Almost – Southern Weather

Disappointment Albums
1) Cartel – Cartel
2) Sum 41 – Underclass Hero
3) Good Charlotte – Good Morning Revival

Best Live Shows
1) My Chemical Romance
2) Cobra Starship
3) Metro Station
4) The Academy Is…

Best New Bands
1) Metro Station
2) We the Kings

Most Overrated Band
Fall Out Boy

Most Underrated Band
Madina Lake

Top 2008 Anticipations
1) Panic at the Disco
2) A New Found Glory
3) Taking Back Sunday
4) The Cab
5) Leathermouth
6) The Hint

More lists will be added soon.

Hawthorne Heights’ Casey Calvert Died Of Accidental Mixture Of Medications

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An article on MTV reports that Hawthorne Heights’ Casey Calvert died of accidental mixture of medications.

Hawthorne Heights guitarist Casey Calvert died due to the “acute combined effects of opiate, citalopram and clonazepam intoxication,” according to the results of an autopsy released Monday (December 17) by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Washington, D.C. He was found dead in the band’s tour bus outside the 9:30 club in the city on November 24.

The autopsy listed Calvert’s death as accidental, though a spokesperson for the chief medical examiner added that it was brought on due to “substance abuse.” The opiate referred to in the report wasn’t specified, but often, any drug that acts on cell receptors — including strong prescription pain relievers such as fentanyl or oxycodone — are referred to as “opiates” or sometimes “opoids.” Both citalopram (also known by the brand name Celexa) and clonazepam (also known by the brand names Klonopin and Rivotril) are prescription drugs, the former an antidepressant and the latter used to treat seizure disorders and panic attacks.

A spokesperson for the medical examiner’s office declined MTV News’ request to elaborate on the results of the autopsy.

Hellogoodbye Single Goes Platinum, New Album in 2008

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Hellogoodbye‘s single “Here (In Your Arms)” from the album Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! is now certified platinum. “Here (In Your Arms)” is the first platinum selling record for Drive-Thru Records and is a crowning achievement for the 10-year young label, not only as an indie but in today’s difficult business climate. Next year, the quartet will begin writing a follow-up full-length album for release in 2008.