Plain White T’s new single, “Hey There Delilah”, recently received a makeover courtesy of the wildly popular Kevin & Bean show on Los Angeles radio station KROQ. A song, written and recorded by producer Psycho Mike, titled “Hey There Vagina” was the most requested song on the station since it debuted Tuesday.

While there were no complaints from listeners, the stations legal team has banned the show from playing the popular parody, claiming it was “indecent.”

Gossip site, TMZ, has a copy of the song and you can check it out here.

Granted, the lyrics are somewhat NSFW, particularly if you work at Focus on the Family.
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With the news that Maritime is still active and planning the follow up to their acclaimed 2006 album, We, The Vehicles, we managed to finagle some exclusive information about the record including the art and track listing. The record is titled Heresy and the Hotel Choir and is due out October 16, 2007.

The disc is due out this fall and will feature 12 new songs. The artwork also reunites the band with Jason G. who previously played with the band members in Promise Ring. Along with members of that influential act, the group also includes veterans of Cap’n Jazz.

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Acclaimed producer J Robbins has posted a lengthy and comprehensive rant about the current state of music mastering on his website. Specifically, citing the the tendency of many engineers to produce music louder in attempt to push the effect as higher quality.

I’m not saying it’s wrong to want your record to leap out of the speakers; far from it. But I am saying by playing into “the loudness wars” you are allowing people you’ve never met – the prime movers of the highly expoitative mainstream music industry, who are deeply invested in the logic of dick-size comparison – to define what “leaping out of the speakers” means, and often to the detriment of your music and the degradation of the hard work you and your colleagues have put into it.

You can check it out here. We’ve seen the issue of over-compression and the “loudness wars” discussed recently in a campaign launched by Britain’s leading studio engineers.
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Beastie Boys have launched a full album stream of their new, instrumental full length. The record is titled The Mix-Up and is due out June 26, 2007. The trio has not released new studio material since 2004’s To The 5 Boroughs but in the interim released both their second hits compilation, Solid Gold Hits and the guerilla-filmmaker style live DVD, Awesome: I Fuckin’ Shot That! DVD.

You can check out the whole thing right here.
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Darkest Hour have posted the first video from their upcoming full length for Victory Records. The record is titled Deliver Us and is due out July 10, 2007. It is the follow up to 2005’s Undoing Ruin as well as their rarities compilation, Archives which was released in 2006.

The album’s artwork was designed by John Baizley who also produced art for the upcoming record from Pig Destroyer.

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