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Today we have to remember also the death of Sid Vicious.

He odded on heroin in the night of February 2^nd 1979.

                               

He wasn’t a big musician. And he was an asshole for sure.

But his look and his “always on the edge” kind of life are what made the word PUNK mean FREEDOM.

 

 

R.I.P. Sid!

Every day we get new users and every week we make deals with bands or labels or stars or newspapers or gnomes,

but today we launched the Buzznet page of one of my all-time favorite bands Tsar.

Formed in Los Angeles in 1999, Tsar recorded their self-titled debut record in the famous Ocean Way Studios on Sunset Blvd with a Grammy-award winning producer.

That record was great, but this year they followed it up with a far more rockin far more punkier far more intense cd called Band Girls Money.

Two of the songs have already been picked up by sponsors. The title track was in a Nestle/Napster commercial, and the tune "Straight" was used by Nissan for an Xterra spot.

Billboard raved, Rolling Stone gave it three stars, hell even Pitchfork didn't hate it which is saying something for a relatively unknown band that skateboards the tightrope over glam and pop without comeing across as fey.

Today they were interviewed by Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones on 103.1 here in Los Angeles, tomorrow they will play at the world famous Tower Records on Sunset at 6pm and at 9:30p they will rock the legendary Roxy theatre just down the strip.

Now here's the good part...

Then they will load up their bus and drive across the country to tour for a month with model/actress/rocker Juliette Lewis and her band The Licks

and they will take pictures and upload them to their page on Buzznet and you will see it all if you add Tsar as your friend and log on every day.

But wait, theres more!

Because Tsar and Marc and I go way back, all the way back to college days, we set something up with their record label TVT Records (home of crunk) where we will be hosting a Buzznet/Tsar contest!

There will be 10 winners.  All 10 will win a super exclusive 7" single of "Band Girls Money" that I dont even have. Thats how rare it is. Serious,

But the Grand Prize winner gets a killer mobile phone whose retail value is so large that i dont even have that many zeros on this keyboard.

All you have to do is take a picture of Tsar, take a picture of you attending a Tsar show, OR take a picture of you wearing some Tsar merch or infront of a Tsar poster or rocking out to their cd or doing anything Tsar-related.

Then add the Buzzword "TSARFAN" to the picture and from those pics we will choose 10 winners.

The grand prize winner will be chosen by the band itself when it returns to LA next month sometime after its show at the Troubador in West Hollywood.

More details about the contest and the prizes will be up on the Tsar page soon. So send in those pictures and Good Luck!