HundredPennies

The boys work their way through even more iPhone, video games and movies.

iPhone

• Gav and Stu camp out to get their iPhones, while everyone else is sick of iPhone (Photos)
• Gav and Stu pick their favorite iPhone Apps from the App Store: Remote, Shazam, midomi, Twittelator
• Moshi iPouch (link)

Video Games

• No spring update for the 360
• Woo! E3 (link)
• Fallout 3 gets shot down by the OFLC (link)

Movies

• Stu reviews Hancock
• Quantum of Solace trailer is out
• Tropic Thunder AND Rain of Madness
• Pineapple Express
• …and more

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Despite the general opinion that Weezer haven’t released a great album since their early days I still stuck by the band up to their last effort, Make Believe. After traded in their catchy rock riffs for cheesy synthesiser laden ballad’s this release was pretty forgettable & left me wanting more old school Weezer tunes.  When I heard the fun upbeat single Pork & Beans (more on that later) from their latest release I was actually pretty excited about the rest of the songs as it sounded like it would be a return to form for the band.

Some really great music tours have been recently announced for Melbourne so I thought I would write a post to keep track of them all (the calender on this site seems to have disappeared).

Coming up this Friday is the Strung Out & No Use For A Name show at Billboards. Tickets are still on sale ($39) from Oztix and considering they’re over here for a whole month & playing plenty of shows there’s no excuse not to check out this sweet double header act. Check my previous post for further details

I’ve been meaning to write a review for the new Donot’s album for quite a while (it was released way back in March), but since there’s no local distributer for their records in Australia I took me awhile to obtain my copy.

Despite the fact that they’ve been kicking around since 1993 and have released 5 fantastic albums these five German punk/rockers have yet to crack the the mainstream market outside of Europe. If you haven’t heard of them before then I would suggest listening to their massive 31 track Best Of / b-side / Live album The Story So Far: Ibbtown Chronicles. It was always going to be hard to top this record but the Donots have really outdone themselves with their latest effort titled Coma Chameleon.

Optus today went out and announced the plans and cost of an iPhone. So how much will this hot new tech gadget cost?

Pre-Paid:

$729 for the 8GB model.

$849 for the 16GB model.

This is about how much everyone was thinking the iPhone would cost a long time back before the clever lads at Apple announced that it would be available at $199 world wide.

As we now all know the $199 cost was with the phone on a 24 month contract. The only way to get the phone uncontracted is pre-paid. If you do get the pre-paid version it can be unlocked from the Optus network for $80 allowing you to use it with another provider.

After Offspring released their atrocious 2003 Splinter album I had pretty much given up on the band and thought they had gone the way of the dinosaur.

I was therefore surprised (and dare I say excited) after I saw them headline this year’s Soundwave Festival where they played a number of nostalgic tracks from their Smash & Ixnay albums and a couple of new songs. After hearing them live I was even a bit hopeful (secretly withheld of course) that their upcoming release would regain the credibility they’d lost with earlier craptacular singles Pretty Fly and Original Prankster.

Since I’ve been so Thrice crazy on hundredpennies lately I thought I would tackle some other recently released albums. There’s plenty to get through including new stuff from Weezer, Less Than Jake, Alkaline Trio, The Donots, Trial Kennedy and Offspring’s latest which I’ll be covering today. Keep checking back in the coming weeks if you want the lowdown on any of these albums and if you want me to cover any particular one first leave a comment & let me know.