Poopstock making a stop in Dallas? Not quite, but Dallas was treated to another classic performance by St. Louis’ favorite shitty band, Kings of Leon!

Kings of Leon cut short a concert in Dallas last night, when frontman Caleb Followill suddenly told the audience his voice was “100% wrong” and that he felt too hot as temperatures reached the 90s. In a rambling speech, he said he would go backstage to vomit and drink a beer, then return to play three more songs. He didn’t come back to the stage.

Oh no way, we’re totally shocked. Who would have thought that this band of douche bags would play a few songs and then just bail in the middle of a concert? It’s definitely not like these assholes have done this twice now or anything. Oh, there is one little difference between St. Louis infamous Poopstock and the latest ear turd the fellas laid in Dallas: Kings of Leon don’t think the Dallas fans are idiots.

[Jared Followill, brother and fellow band member of Caleb] later wrote: “I love our fans so much. I know you guys aren’t stupid. I can’t lie. There are problems in our band bigger than not drinking enough Gatorade”

F*ck. You.

Oh so this time you have a problem with your lead singer bailing on shows in the middle of them because he’s a drunken dickhead who is little more than a poorly copied version of every crappy boy band member who thinks they are a real artist because they can play guitar and drink for inspiration like all the others they read about on Wikipedia, but is actually the latest dropping in the everlasting bowel movement that the bankrupt music industry has squatted down and pooped out on the chest of America year after year…but that last time in St. Louis? That excuse was real. No seriously you guys! There was a problem with bird poop! We’re totally serious! We Swear! Even if we didn’t have sources that we strongly believe telling us that there was definitely no “bird shit” situation on the stage that fateful night in St. Louis and the band was, in fact, spending most of their pre-show moments bitching about being here and trying to figure a way out of the show, we still wouldn’t believe these assholes.

So Kings of Leon, the band that between beer, vomit and “bird poop” must go through more tight white v-neck t-shirts than a whole summer at the Jersey Shore, thinks St. Louis is full of dummies, but Dallas, those are the fans you shouldn’t try to fool and apologize profusely too over Twitter? Well that’s pretty annoying, but there are silver linings to all of this. One, maybe a few less people will be fans of these pieces of crap and two, we’re just delighted to be able to use our “birds poop on Kings of Leon” graphic one more time.

via Wall Street Journal

Recap of Poopstock coverage: Kings of Leon Are a Bunch of Little Bitches; Because a Bird Shit on Kings of Leon, They Shit on Their St. Louis Fans; Translating Kings of Leon’s Poopstock Memo; Poopstock: Kings of Leon Announce PR-Fixing Concert

We aren’t just “America” here in St. Louis, we’re Middle America, the “Heartland”, right in the center! If someone would to motorboat lady America’s giant boobs, their nose would be rubbing St. Louis. As such, we love the Fourth of July and all the crap that comes with it: funnel cakes, tank tops, cut off jean shorts, washed up 90s bands playing loudly, and fireworks. Oh and if you think our patriotism is as fleeting as our love/hate relationship with Cardinal relief pitchers, it’s not! It doesn’t wear off with sweat, it doesn’t fade in the sun…but it does apparently wash off in the rain.

“Due to current weather conditions in the St. Louis metropolitan area, Fair Saint Louis regrets to announce the cancellation of tonight’s Maroon 5 concert and the US Bank/Enterprise fireworks. All other activities are likewise canceled. We are now focusing on having a great 4th of July celebration with Montgomery Gentry. “

Fairgoer, Kayla Weber was disappointed. She says, “We have been looking forward to this for six months for Maroon 5. And we came all the way out here for this and now they’re cancelling it, ridiciulous [sic].”

So all it takes to squash a celebration of freedom is rain. Not that we disagree mind you, nothing makes you hate everything, including your country, more than having soggy feet. You say you can “walk it off” or “eh, it will dry.” No. No it won’t. Then you’ll get home and pull off that nasty wet sock, look at your wrinkled white feet and we’re willing to be the last thing you want to do is do that loud “Wooooo!” thing at Jumbotron with an American flag picture on it.

The saddest part of Sunday’s rain out wasn’t the temporary loss of patriotism, but was the concerts that people missed. Sure people like Kayla were bummed about headliners Maroon 5′s show getting cancelled, but worse yet, local band (and friends of the site) Option//Control won a vote to make it on stage Sunday, but the rain washed that opportunity away which is a total bummer. Can we bring back those shows?! No, we can’t. Not really. But we can link to the two bands in the correct order to simulate a concert that was washed down the drain like so much red, white and blue facepaint:

Our first act are here because of their rabid fan base, great songs, putting girls in lingere in the background of their videos and the fact that I see their name when I look at the lower left of my keyboard, lets give it up for Option//Control!

…are you ready?! We can’t hear you! We said, are you ready for the next act?! Yeah! They need no introduction! You know who these guys are! Maroon 5!!!!!

(…singing the Backstreet Boys. This is them right? We thought they had more members than this, but it does sound pretty much the same, so we rolled the dice.)

via KSDK

Last Friday, the 22nd, while the rest of you were cowering in your homes because thunder is scary, our intrepid man about town, The Paparazzo, took in a show at The Firebird. The show featured the Chicago-based band “In Tall Buildings”, but our guy says the whole show was great.

You can see the full photo spread on The Paparazzo’s flickr set, and as for the headliners, you can download two free songs (which are both pretty great).

Here’s a photo of each act with links to their site.

“In Tall Buildings“

“Lord Huron“

“Rural Alberta Advantage“

Justin Bess is a drummer for local metal band Aegaeon, which we think is pronounced “never-heard-of-you”, but we love this video of Bess killing it on the drums.

Check out Aegaeon’s band page for more videos, a distinct lack of Bess as their drummer, and photos of them looking like they’re unhappy someone is taking their photo. Standing still for a second is so not metal.

Update: Here are their more updated Facebook and Twitter pages (the photo thing still applies in both cases).

via Reddit: St. Louis

We haven’t done one of our ever so popular 10 question interviews in a while so it’s way past time for that to return and we can’t think of a better person to bring it back with than local rapper Corle 2 Da. Yes, that Corle 2 Da. The very one we (in)famously took a few shots at, and who later dropped us a line to let us know that he can take a joke, which is awesome! So in honor of that particularly scarce skill that we can only hope others learn from [Editor's Note: Looking at you Loesch, Jaco, Marlow, religious people and fatties!], we shot a few questions his way to get a little better understanding of the man behind the YouTube videos.

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Punching Kitty: Lets get right to it! We famously reviewed your “So St. Louis” video, but to be fair, it’s done quite well on YouTube with well over 20k views. Has the response been as good as YouTube makes it seem?

Actually the response from “So St. Louis” has been very good, it is doing well on youtube, as well as it was just nominated for video of the year by RFT.  Haha you guys got a few good ones in on me on that review…but it’s all good, gotta take the good with the bad….no thin skins….

PK: You had at least 823 different locations in that video, how long did it take to film?

The video for “So St. Louis” took about 4-5 total days to shoot…we were really on the move all over the city…but it was all a learning experience, and I would say overall it turned out good, for having little to no budget.

PK: The new video is “Digital” which leads off with a chase scene of sorts. Where did you film that?

The chase scene in the “Digital” video was shot in a server building in St. Louis.

PK: How much was “Digital” influenced by Weird Al Yankovic’s “It’s All About the Pentiums“? Weird Al is like the Beatles to all rappers right?

That Weird Al Yankovic song is actually pretty funny, I had no idea that video existed until I watched your link…so unfortunately the “Digital” song was not influenced by Weird Al, but i can definitely see why someone would think that or even ask that question.  Lol another good comparison!

PK: Give us a little background: How long have you been at preforming? Where are you from?

Background on Corle 2 Da…I was born in Alton, reside in Belleville, and have been performing locally around St. Louis, The Eastside (Illinois),  Chicago, and Memphis since 2003.

PK: Can you explain the story behind your name?

The story behind the name….ok, to make a long story short, I used to go by the artist/stage name of Corleone Da Hustla, after a few years with that I wanted to switch it up, as well as shorten it up, so I shortened Corleone to Corle, dropped off the “Hustla”, and the 2 comes from well like pt. 2, rebirth, sequel, whatever…so basically in a nutshell that is how i came up with the name Corle 2 Da, pronounced (Cor- Lee Two- duh) for those who didn’t know….

PK: Clearly you’re a cardinals fan. What you do think about the Pujols situation? Is he going to stick around?

Pujols situation is crazy! I believe it would be best for him, his career, the Cardinal Organization, and Cardinal Nation if we get him signed before SPRING TRAINING!!!! It will be a sad day in St. Louis if Albert Pujols signs a multiyear contract with another team and doesn’t retire a Cardinal……

PK: You’ve given visual shoutouts to the RFT in both “So St. Louis” and “Digital” is this interview our first step in getting a Punching Kitty appearance?

Ah a Punching Kitty appearance…in an upcoming video I’m guessing, well it is definitely a possibility, the RFT has been real supportive of my work and I appreciate that.  I saw you won an award at RFT web awards as well didn’t you?  Really though, they are great at recognizing people and topics in the community.

PK: How many blueberry muffins do you think you could eat in an hour?

I could probably eat about 25-30 blueberry muffins in an hour, that would also depend on the size of the muffins and if Milk was included!

PK: Good answer!

PK: So what’s next? Where do you go from “Digital”?

After “Digital” we will be shooting the next single which is called “Movement”  it will be a darker video…a bit more grimy, but it should be a great video, then after that look for something for the LADIES!

PK: …so it’s a grimy video called “Movement”? Um…we may have already seen that. Came out a few years ago…we think it was called “Corle 2 Girls 1 Cup”

PK: Seriously though, thanks again for the time man and good luck in the future! Anything else you want to add?

I would like to shout out to all the guys at Media Outlaws, Hollow Wear, and Red River Ent. that help me make it happen! Shout out to Punching Kitty!

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Did you just feel that?! It was us, getting mad cred.

First, before we get to the meat of this little ordeal, we want you to know that KSDK brought us this story from Frank Wiley reporting live from downtown St. Louis last night.

Why? No clue. None of this had anything to do with downtown St. Louis. Maybe Frank had to smoke or fart or something so he took his work outside. It added nothing to the story of a local rapper suing ESPN, but maybe if you hit your head really really hard or take a day and drink nothing by antifreeze it might make more sense.

Anyway, some local rapper you haven’t heard of is suing ESPN because they played his song on their widely watched national TV network.

Local rapper and music producer Michael “Dutch” Jackson says ESPN used his music without his knowledge or permission.

Jackson filed a 31-page lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District, last week. He says ESPN, Amazon and And-1, a basketball apparel company used his unreleased song, “I Am the Greatest,” to promote its product. Now, he’s looking for financial compensation, and notoriety.

After a clip of him bobbing his head to his own song like Kevin Federline kicking it to Popo Zao back in the day, “Dutch” claimed his unreleased song was “leaked” and then And-1 Studios used it in one of their basketball highlight clips, ESPN aired in and then Amazon sold the video online, so they’re all getting sued! All he wants is an undisclosed amount of financial compensation…and to be on KSDK. Halfway there! …plus after all of this he’ll have the contact info for ESPN, Amazon and And-1 Studios so he can call them back and beg them to use his other songs he’d be happy to “leak” to them.

“I know if I steal from somebody, I’m going to jail. It’s not right,” said Jackson.

If he’s right and has proof, he’ll get a little settlement and his song will be scrubbed from their clip allowing “Dutch” to take his beer money and head back in to obscurity. Meanwhile Mike Bush has your back Dutch because this shiz is straight whack yo! Right Mikey B?! Holla atcha boy!

Word.

Ugh. Seriously, we’re all dying out here for something to report on this week. If one of you could crash your car through a Jack in the Box or go dress up like a clown and sucker punch kids at a mall or something that would really help us all out.

via KSDK