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In a game of HORSE, Lebron James lost miserably to now known as the trick shot master, David Kalb. According to Sports Illustrated,

“James was on an outdoor court at Venice Beach to take on David Kalb in a shooting game, mostly of trick shots, although James’ outside shooting touch was way off. At one point, he grinned and said, “That wind.”

Kalb won the matchup with James in an online contest, “LeBron’s Trick Shot Challenge sponsored by Cub Cadet.”

Kalb’s bag of trick shots including one where he bounced the ball very high in the lane, raced around the goal post, caught the ball as it came down, and tossed it in the basket. James missed his try, and after losing the first game, declared best two-of-three. Each made, among other shots, left-handed free throws, but Kalb went on to win the second game as well.

After he missed his final shot, James tossed the ball away in mock anger.”

Either way, Lebron James is still the best…

Jack’s Mannequin has announced dates for an intimate club tour this fall in which the band will play their new album, The Glass Passenger, in its entirety. Passenger drops Sept. 30 on Sire, and is the follow-up to 2005’s Everything In Transit.

Here are the dates and venues:

Dates & Venues
October 14, 2008 Atlanta, GA-The Loft
October 15, 2008 Charlotte, NC-Visulite Theatre
October 17, 2008 Orlando, FL-The Social
October 18, 2008 Ft. Lauderdale, FL-City Limits
October 19, 2008 Tampa, FL-The State Theatre
October 22, 2008 Dallas, TX-Palladium Ballroom
October 23, 2008 Austin, TX-Antone’s
October 26, 2008 Tucson, AZ-The Rock
October 27, 2008 Los Angeles, CA-The Troubadour
October 28, 2008 Los Angeles, CA-The Troubadour
October 31, 2008 San Diego, CA-House of Blues
November 2, 2008 San Francisco, CA-Slim’s
November 5, 2008 Denver, CO-Bluebird Theatre
November 6, 2008 Omaha, NE-Sokol Underground
November 7, 2008 Minneapolis, MN-Varsity Theatre
November 9, 2008 Chicago, IL-The Bottom Lounge
November 10, 2008 Cleveland, OH-Grog Shop
November 11, 2008 Grand Rapids, MI-The Intersection
November 13, 2008 Toronto, ON-The Opera House
November 14, 2008 Montreal, QC-Le National
November 16, 2008 Hartford, CT-Toad’s Place
November 18, 2008 Philadelphia, PA-The Fillmore at the TLA
November 20, 2008 Washington, DC-9:30 Club
November 21, 2008 New York, NY-Blender Theatre at Gramercy
November 22, 2008 New York, NY-Blender Theatre at Gramercy

There are tons of reason why I hate Fall Out Boy and I could add a couple of more reasons from the title of this blog, but I will refrain and just provide the facts…

Fall Out Boy has revealed the first single from their upcoming record, Folie A Deux. You can find “I Don’t Care” here.

The song will be in the upcoming teen road trip comedy, “Sex Drive.” Sources say the song was written for the movie itself.

Folie A Deux is “deux” out November 4 on Island/Decaydance.

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On October 23rd, at the Living Room in New York City, Micah Dalton along with Tyler James and Nathan Angelo, they will be performing at the CMJ Showcase! For those of you who may not be so familiar with CMJ (or College Music Journal), they do a lot of things like track college radio and highlight “what’s next” in music, so this is kind of a big deal for Micah.

To grab some of Micah’s merch and albums check it out here…

It seems all the cool kids are starting to join Twitter in hopes of finding a mass following. Rebuilt Records have just made the jump and are totally worth checking out and signing up to follow to get all the hot updates of whats going on over at Rebuilt. You can check out their twitter page here. To be able to follow them and many more just sign up to follow and you can even get those updates on your phone, which personally I think is rad that is why I have an account as well…Check them out

YACHT - Summer Song from Jona Bechtolt on Vimeo.

The Whigs and Tokyo Police Club are playing next week on September 10th here in Athens, GA at the 40 Watt venue, and I am cannot express how stoked I am about this show. With that being said I was scanning their websites to see what been going on and I came across this one band, Smoosh. I know what you are thinking. They are just a bunch of young girls from Seattle, whoopee doo. I did some listening and researched them some and really began to fall in love with this band of sisters. The drummer of the band, Chloe, was actually a protege of Death Cab for Cutie’s drummer, Jason McGerr, so now you know they are legit.

I think you guys should really check them out since these girls are not your typical girl bands. I mean they are from Seattle so I mean they are born into the indie scene. Check out these live video’s below. If you watch it long enough you can see them do a cover of Bloc Party’s, Modern Love…They are good just deal with it

Heroes Season 2 was released back in August 26 so here is a reminder to go get that to catch up before season 3 begins on Monday, September 22…

Today, The Office Season 4 was released on DVD…Go get it

If you haven’t heard Cute Is What We Aim For is a terrible band…

So terrible all the members are quitting…

“To all our fans who have had questions about my leaving the band - First off, I want to thank you for supporting me during my time with the Cute, as well as now. I also want to thank you all for congratulating me on my decision, and your words of encouragement have meant the world to me. Let me put the rumors to rest for you - I simply left the band because the personality conflicts and daily drama made it impossible for me to live a peaceful, happy life. I made it clear to Shaant that I would be leaving and explained why. I assure you that no one came looking for me. Shaant, Dave, and Jeff know fully and without a doubt that they left me no choice. There should be no question whatsoever. I will miss touring, playing my drums daily and the incredibly wonderful people I met along the way.

Thank you all again, because without you, I would have never made it this long.

I am comfortable with my decsion and am confident that I did all that I could, working to the best of my ability. I am walking away with my self respect and my dignity in tact.

Good luck to Cute, I wish you nothing but the best.”

Bassist Fred Cimato left the group in October 2006, only to be replaced by Jack Marin, who also quit mid-tour in April 2007 only to be replaced by Cimato. Cimato again quit the band earlier this year, with David Melillo stepping in for him. As of now, the band is continuing on their Canadian tour with Simple Plan and Metro Station with a fill-in drummer (dates below); no permanent replacement has been revealed yet

The only reason people watch weightlifting during the olympics is to see something ridiculous happen…well it did….