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The Nightmare Before Christmas Revisited By Various Alt And Indie Rockers

brandon — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:42:22 +0000

Get ready goths and Evanescence fans, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas is celebrating its fifteenth anniversary. As part of the spooky fanfare, Billboard reports that Walt Disney Records is putting out Nightmare Revisited, a collection of covers, re-recordings, and new material inspired by Burton’s Jack Skellington-fronted animated musical. I haven’t actually checked, but it might be the only soundtrack in history to include Marilyn Manson, RJD2, Danny Elfman, Datarock, Polyphonic Spree, and Plain White Ts. (Or any combination of the aforementioned that includes RJD2, too.) Warning: Korn’s also involved. As are All American Rejects. The tracklist:

MySpace Bulletin: Mediocre Goth-Pop Musicians Wanted

Stereogum — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:23:26 +0000

With this weekend’s unceremonious dismissal of guitarist John LeCompt and drummer Rocky Gray, the Evanescence body count is at three since the release of second LP The Open Door, making Amy Lee the control freaky Martha Stewart of the goth-pop set. But the real reason we keyed in on the fallout is for the parties’ amusing employment of MySpace to clear the air. First LeCompt aired his thoughts and took his shots at Lee (via MySpace):

New Evanescence Video – “Sweet Sacrifice”

Stereogum — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:30:14 +0000

We don’t usually write about Evanescence unless Robert Smith is involved. But the band’s new vid leaked its way out of the iTunes music store, and we figured one or two of you guys might wanna see the eyeliner set’s princess of pain get devilish in this hell-set clip of fire and red satin dresses. Best leave the volume off, though.

Korn Cover Radiohead, Cure

Stereogum — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:38:55 +0000

Korn announced the release of their MTV Unplugged album back in November, but we had no idea they were angling for our hearts and minds by covering The Cure (with Robert!) and covering Radiohead. Via FMQB:

Recorded in New York on December 9, the Unplugged disc features appearances by Amy Lee of Evanescence and Robert Smith of The Cure. Lee contributes to the performance of “Freak On A Leash” and Smith appears on a version of his own “In Between Days.” KoRn also covered Radiohead’s “Creep” for the disc, which will be released on February 20. The Unplugged special is slated to debut online first on February 10, then on MTV on February 17.

Sorry Korn, still not enough; we blame you for music in the late ’90s. Jonathan Davis and Robert Smith together, we could see that; Robert likes Peen Wentz, after all. But oh man that “Creep” is gonna be great! “‘Cause I’m a … DHOOM-da-dha-DHOOM-da-dha-EEMA.” Get psyched.