2007 is now upon us and The 69 Eyes have released their Hollywood album, called simply 'Angels' and it's dripping blood and gasoline. The vision is Mad Max; the world is at the end of a nuclear war but the Helsinki Vampires are coming over the wasteland to save us, armed with blazing guns, tight leather pants and several cases of liquor. Once again produced by the Hiilesmaa/Lee Michaels combo, 'Angels' is the band's ninth studio recording and the flip-side of 'Devils' - the slutty rocker to the seductive sister.

The second single is "Never Say Die" - the video which includes a whole bunch of The 69 Eyes' Hollywood-inner-circle party people as well as mySpace's world famous sleaze queen Forbidden was also directed by Ralf Strathmann and filmed around L.A. in January 2007.

AC/DC are a hard rock band formed in Sydney, Australia in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young. Although the band are considered pioneers of hard rock and heavy metal,[1][2] its members have always classified their music as "rock 'n' roll".[3] AC/DC underwent several line-up changes before releasing their first album, High Voltage, in 1975. Membership remained stable until bassist Cliff Williams replaced Mark Evans in 1977. In 1979, the band recorded their highly successful album Highway to Hell. Lead singer and co-songwriter Bon Scott died on February 19, 1980, after a night of heavy alcohol consumption. The group briefly considered disbanding, but soon ex-Geordie singer Brian Johnson was selected as Scott's replacement. Later that year, the band released their best selling album, Back in Black. The band's next album, For Those About to Rock We Salute You, was also highly successful and was their first album to reach number one in the United States. AC/DC declined in popularity soon after the departure of drummer Phil Rudd in 1983. Poor record sales continued until the release of The Razors Edge in 1990. Phil Rudd returned in 1994 and contributed to the band's 1995 album Ballbreaker. Stiff Upper Lip was released in 2000 and was well received by critics. A new album was announced in 2004 and is expected sometime in 2008. AC/DC have sold an estimated 150 million albums worldwide,[4][5] including 68 million albums in the US.[6] Back in Black has sold an estimated 42 million units worldwide[7] and 22 million in the US alone,[8] making it the 5th highest-selling album ever in the US. AC/DC ranked fourth on VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock"[9] and the seventh "Greatest Heavy Metal Band Of All Time" by MTV.[10]

Western Massachusetts isn't always thought of as an alt-rock hub, but maybe it should be - Northampton boasts a live club on every corner, and there's a long tradition of unconventional and offbeat pop-rock from the region. The members of a'tris met at Berklee College of Music in Boston - and received the first-rate instrumental training there that is so apparent on their recordings - but they've developed their sound and their unique songwriting voice in the Pioneer Valley. From their base in the Berkshires, they've become one of the most reliable club draws in New England and consistent producers of lush, fascinating, irresistible indie rock songs.

The a'tris sound has been likened to that of Coldplay, Radiohead, and other dramatic rock bands, and that comparison is helpful - but only as a direction. a'tris shares with those groups instrumental skill, clever programming, a taste for cinematic grandeur and a progressive sensibility, orchestral overtones, and a frontman with a pure, soaring voice. But principal songwriter Mason Taylor has his own sense of harmonics and pop song structure, and the unusual chord progressions and tricky melodies on Lensing have no easy analog in any other contemporary group. Many of these songs -like the gorgeous "Dark Lotus" - are built around hypnotic near-classical piano patterns and shuffling machine percussion. The ballads on Lensing are as singular as they are magisterial: "Selling Oxygen", another standout cut, marries a dizzy, challenging verse to a powerful and immediate chorus. But pretty is not all they do - guitarist Ben Azar can crunch with the best of them, and much of the programmed instrumentation is delightfully dirty and sonically edgy.

Even when it seems like a'tris is making a straightforward musical choice, there's always a wrinkle or two: "Automatic Doors", the single, is, on its surface, a state-of-the-art modern rock number, ready to be slotted into commercial radio playlists across the nation. Scratch a little deeper, and you'll find curious and suggestive lyrics, a novel harmonic structure, and dazzling instrumental appointments lurking in the shadows of the mix. The members of a'tris are masters of detail: sonic shading, clever samples, half-buried guitar and synth parts that work quiet wonders. "Automatic Doors" is crammed full of these hidden treasures; it's a song that, like most of a'tris's work, rewards repeated plays.

Eric Ekman's strange and beguiling "Automatic Doors" clip demands repeat engagements, too. The band plays their song in a backyard; they plug into amplifiers and perform as commuter trains roar in the background. We follow a sunny-day trip of a young man in his early twenties: he begins his walk through the suburban neighborhood with easy nonchalance. But then the world around him begins to exhibit bizarre characteristics - the portrait of George Washington in the center of a dollar bill on the ground speaks to him, painted flowers on a fence twist in the wind and grow wildly, and strangers on the sidewalk speak to him as if they know him well. Ekman increases the sense of destabilization by slowing the footage down ever so slightly; it imparts a strange dreamlike feel to the scene that perfectly matches a'tris's rich tapestry of sound. By the end of the clip, the main character is utterly bewildered; when he reaches the backyard where the band is playing, he looks through the slats of a picket fence and finds nobody there

Although their brand of wild-eyed, tuneful garage punk is unlike anything else in contemporary indie, the Black Lips have still been the talk of the underground for the past year. The Atlanta quartet's explosive, raucous stage show has earned them notoriety (and rabid fans) wherever they've played, and the recent VICE Records release of the all-live Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo has only solidified their rep as a ridiculously exciting gigging group. Recorded in Tijuana - that capital city of licentiousness - Los Valientes captures a group on the brink of self-immolation, playing insanely-catchy garage punk tunes with the vigor and zeal of rock and roll evangelists.

The Burden Brothers are a Dallas-based rock band.

The band was formed by singer Vaden Todd Lewis (formerly of Toadies) and drummer Patrick "Taz" Bentley (formerly of Reverend Horton Heat, Tenderloin, and the Izzy Stradlin Band) in 2002.

The band can be regarded as a Texas rock supergroup since its members were all members of other Texas-based bands (of varying success and popularity) before joining the Burden Brothers. Guitarists Corey Rozzoni (formerly of Clumsy) and Casey Hess (formerly of Doosu and Jump Rope Girls) and bassist Zack Busby (formerly of Slow Roosevelt and Halls of the Machine) round out the band.

We've written before about how much we love it when a member of a band doubles as the group's video director. It always seems to us that the resulting clip is playful, enjoyable to watch, and true to the spirit of the song. When the video is conceptualized by the group's principal songwriter, the fit between lyrics, sound, and image invariably becomes even tighter. Danny Chaotic is the frontman and ideologue behind the Chaotica project, and his video for "When She Falls", the lead single from Prison Of Decay, fits the track perfectly. It's fast-paced, voyeuristic, confrontational, aggressive, and humorous, and its portrait of a decadent, media-drunk superstar feels instructively hyperbolic and all too current. Like so many disgusted by contemporary culture, Chaotica loves to watch the inevitable self-immolation and fall of those overnight celebrities; unlike others who are more squeamish about their schadenfreude, they're not ashamed to say so

He also dominates the song. "When She Falls" is a scathing put-down of a media-fabricated "puppet-girl" celebrity and a de facto declaration of independence from the usual starmaker machinery. The musicians punctuate Danny Chaotic's vitriol with rapid-fire machine beats, squalling lead guitar, hooky-abrasive synthesizer, and overdriven bass. In the "When She Falls" clip, Danny and Chaotic howl away in tight quarters: a tiny "stalker room" lined with photographs of a fictional fashion-television star. Danny Chaotic kicks hard against the claustrophobia generated by the setting - and in so doing, he lashes out at the confining elements of a culture dizzy with self-congratulatory gestures. We see the young woman in action, too: abusing her fans, her butler, and her cosmetologist, privileging her dog over other human beings, teasing the spectators on the runway, gabbing on her hot-pink cellphone, and drawing rapt attention for doing very little. A renegade paparazzi photographer (most likely the one who created the "stalker room") gets into her bedroom at night and catches her at an inopportune moment; but besides that, she is in complete control of her surroundings. She's a comic caricature, for sure, but she's not too far removed from actual celebrities whose activities are closely followed by American television viewers. No wonder, then, that Danny Chaotic and his band react so fiercely to her monumental excess.

Chevelle (pronounced sh?-VELL) is an alternative metal/hard rock band from Chicago, Illinois founded in 1994 by brothers Pete and Sam Loeffler with the later addition of Joe Loeffler in 1996 (who was replaced by the Loeffler's brother-in-law, Dean Bernardini). The band's name refers to the Loeffler brothers' father's favorite car.