MMTV

It's a known fact these days that MTV doesn't play music videos any more, they're more concerned about the latest celebrity fads and anything non-music related really.  Gone are the days when you could tune into one of the MTV stations and just watch some cool music videos.

MTV Rocks goes some way into making this better and with the likes of Kerrang!, Scuzz and NME stations in the UK, all is not lost.  But it seems even these stations show more adverts than music videos, but I guess they have to pay the bills somehow.  Still, the music videos they do play are all pretty dated, with the stations seemingly churning out the SSDD.

A few years ago I'd watch these stations a lot, channel surfing between them all and usually catching something cool or something new that I'd then check out more by the band/artist.  These days I tend to make my own music television by surfing the internet.  With websites like From The Basement popping up and Tom Green sticking his finger up at the commercial channels and hosting his own online show, it's now wonder that ratings have been dropping for these television stations.

If I were to have my little slot on somewhere like MTV, at this moment in time I think the following videos would be played.  Here's my MMTV (My Music Telly Vision), why not join me for twenty minutes and check out some cool tunes and videos, all ad free and ready to stream. . .

All You Did Was Save My Life

Our Lady Peace will be releasing their seventh studio album in the near future. Our Lady Peace.net has been teasing and taunting us for the past month or so with the album cover and recently lyrics for 'All You Did' as well as a small in studio video.

The album, entitled 'Burn Burn', is produced by singer Raine Maida and is said to go back to the sound of their first release, 'Naveed'. I really can't wait to hear the new tunes. This band has played a BIG part in my life over the years and are one of those few bands that can speak to your heart and soul.

I found this video on YouTube tonight. It's from a show the band played in March and is one of the first airings of this song.

Busking For Change

Since my recent post about Raine Maida busking in 2007 to raise money to build a school in the Congo, he's only been up to it again. This time with his band Our Lady Peace who, along with many other Canadian musicians, took to the street of Toronto on Thursday to raise money for War Child Canada. Students from across Canada were also busking for change on campus.

Busking for change was inspired by Raine's efforts last October. Check out a fan video of 'Clumsy' that was played on Thursday:

Our Lady Peace are in the midst of finishing up their seventh studio album. Here's what it says on their My Spaz page:

"We've gone about this recording process much differently than any album we've made before. For one, we chose not to work with an outside producer. Collaboration has always been essential to art, especially music, but we felt we needed to keep the collaboration between to the 4 of us. We were very curious to see how the music would end up without any outside influence. "Trust ourselves".... that was the mantra. Safe to say the songs we've recorded so far have been some of the most special and rewarding pieces of music the band has ever put to tape."

Donations to Busking For Change - War Child can be made here.

Raine Maida - "Works Everytime!"

I stumbled across this hilarious video of Raine Maida busking in The Hour (a Canadian TV talk show) offices on YouTube today. Raine is the lead singer of Our Lady Peace and released his first solo album last year, 'The Hunters Lullaby', an awesome album that explores much different musical landscapes to his Our Lady Peace work. In this clip he is playing 'Yellow Brick Road' from that album.

I just love how he keeps a straight face during the toilet scene. Classic! The clip relates to the official video that was released for 'Yellow Brick Road', where Raine busked on the streets of Toronto to raise money for War Child Canada’s School Rehabilitation and Revitalization Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He personally made $22,000, enough to build what is now called the Abala School.

Our Lady Peace are currently in the studio finishing up their seventh album. Raine is taking on producing duties this time himself and says of the album:

"There’s no, "Okay, let’s demo up this and demo this and see what we think." It’s like we have an idea, let’s write, finish it, and record it. That’s one of the things I’ve learned over the last five or six years, is really just to try and capture that moment as best you can. And that’s what we’ve done and probably made the best record yet."

I can't wait to hear the new material.

Raine Maida official site.

Listen to to 'The Hunters Lullaby' in full here.