Song Of The Day: AWOLNATION, "Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)"

NEW AWOL, KIDS!!!

From 2015, here's AWOLNATION with "Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)."

Enjoy!

New Music Fridays: AWOLNATION, "ThisKidsNotAlright"

First Listen: ASHELLNATION, "Snail"

Since I love AWOLNATION and a good parody, I love this creation from The Pet Collective 2x^2.

AWOLNATION, "Kill Your Heroes"

Free Six-Track EP From AWOLNATION

AWOLNATION wants you to have a happy holiday and is trying to help by giving you a free six-song EP. And all they want in exchange is your email address!

Here's the tracklist:
1. "Silent Nation"
2. "MF"
3. "Sail (Live)"
4. "Not Your Fault (Live)"
5. "Soul Wars (Live)"
6. "Burn It Down (Live)"

"Silent Nation" is actually AWOLNATION's awesome cover of "Silent Night." If you're interested, head on over to their site and start downloading!

First Look: AWOLNATION, "Not Your Fault"

Here's AWOLNATION's new video and it's pretty freaking cool.



BTW, they're MTV's PUSH Artist of the Week.

AWOLNATION Does Leno

AWOLNATION played The Tonight Show on Friday night. In case you missed their performance of "Sail," here it is:

The Man Behind The Astronaut Mask: Our Interview With AWOLNATION's Aaron Bruno

AWOLNATION's Megalithic Symphony is one of my favorite albums of 2011, so I was really excited to talk with the man behind the astronaut mask, Aaron Bruno. He spoke with us about surfing, the first album he ever purchased, pornography, and his amazing music videos.

First things first, how did you come up with the name AWOLNATION?
Instead of saying where exactly it came from, I'd rather just explain what it means to me, if you don't mind.

OK. That would be great.
To me, absent without leave is taken as a negative thing in a lot of cases. It's common to think about a military situation, but that's obviously not where I'm coming from. To me, it's a place you can escape to musically and where you can listen to this record and feel like your day's a little better and escape to, sort of like a drug. Or like you need the record like what got me through high school and my upbringing when I was an insecure weird kid and going through puberty.*

In a nutshell, it's just a place for people to escape to. A lot of people feel that way, that need music or unfortunately in a lot of cases, some people turn to drugs. Some people turn to hiking, mountain biking. For me, it's surfing most of the time when it's not music. A lot of people feel the same way as far as needing something to turn to to get through the day. If this record I made can help anyone do that, that's always been the goal. Music has definitely done that for me.

You've played both Jimmy Kimmel and Austin City Limits this past month. How crazy is your life right now?
You could use that word, but I would say more stressful than anything. When was the last time you watched a band perform on a show and said, "Wow! That was fucking awesome!" It very rarely happens because you're not playing in front of your bitchin' fans where people are doing stage dives and singing along, you're passing the mic to the audience and people are jumping and slam dancing and moshing, all that stuff. You're playing for cameras and that's not what I signed up for at all. It's my least favorite thing in the whole world to do. Having said that, it's a really good opportunity for people to hear the song and get the message across, so you've got to do it. It's extremely stressful because what's the main thing you hear when you see a band on TV? The vocals, way too loud.

Now we're about to do this thing for FUEL TV, it's called The Daily Habit. We're also doing Jay Leno three days after that. It's pretty insane but I feel most comfortable playing shows, so it's not that big of a deal. I don't feel that different than I did before all this happened, I just feel very lucky and humbled by the whole experience.

AWOLNATION Does Kimmel

AWOLNATION appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night. In case you missed it or want to relive it, here ya go:

"Sail"

"Not Your Fault"

SmackTalk Victim: AWOLNATION, "Burn It Down"

Hello and welcome to Smacktalk, where each week we attack mock critique a music video or movie trailer. This week, we're taking a look at the video for AWOLNATION's "Burn It Down." Hope ya love it!



Dufmanno: The People's Court!



Dufmanno: Is that Samantha Ronson?

Chag: A guilty filthy soul is a crime? Time for me to take a trip to Canada to hang out with Randy Quaid!



Dufmanno: The accused embodies everything I ever wanted or needed in a man circa 1983-85.

Chag: You know, I had that same haircut twenty-six years ago. We all did.



Chag: Is that Rusty Burrell?



Chag: Please tase him, bro!



Dufmanno: Lightning flying from the fingertips is SO Emperor Palpatine. Or Anna Wintour. Or God.

The Weirdgirl: I wonder if he learned those crazy eyes from School Of Rock?



Chag: Should've tased him, bro. Now you're an MTV Video Music Award.



Didactic Pirate: Lasers, a bald mannequin and jury ninjas. I'm already totally on board.



Dufmanno: This guy is like a super mad scientist combo of a young Carey Elwes, Spandau Ballet, and Duran Duran's stylist. I think it goes without saying that I like him.



Dufmanno: What's he going to do to that secretly sexy lady with the librarian glasses and come-hither look?



Dufmanno: She's going to be a mermaid with a nice military jacket obviously.

The Weirdgirl: Bringing to life all those naughty Ariel fantasies for his lawyer.



The Weirdgirl: Bringing another fantasy to life for his lawyer! Transgender lightning!

Chag: Wow, Weirdgirl. I totally missed that the first time through.



The Weirdgirl: Booty shaking! And cheerleaders. Our legal system has been improved. I'd watch Court TV if every case was like this.

Didactic Pirate: More lasers AND cheerleaders? This just became the best halftime show EVER.



Dufmanno: Tame ninjas? What's the point?



Chag: Rusty busting a move!

The Weirdgirl: Lasers improve everything.



Chag: Why do I suddenly want a Coors Light?

The Weirdgirl: I know I'm supposed to be critiquing this but I'm blinded by the awesomeness.

The Weirdgirl: I seriously need to get me some booty shaking moves so I can be a groupie.



Chag: Cheerleaders having a pillow fight? Here's the music video you've been waiting for your entire life, 13-year-old me!

Didactic Pirate: Dude, this exact same thing happened to me when I went to go dispute a traffic ticket last week.

Dufmanno: The cheerleader pillow fight almost distracted me from that awesome sparkle guitar!

Dufmanno: I love this video, and the song is on FIRE! Can you imagine this live?

Chag: Agreed! The song kicks major ass!

Didactic Pirate: You know why the lead singer explodes in the end? Because he's got too much AWESOME coursing through his system. This song is great.