The GRIDLINK - "Orphan" Karaoke video contest submission deadline is TOMORROW! Upload your video and post the link in the comments on the original contest blog post. There's an Orphan/Amber Grey LP test press (and more!) in it for the winner (chosen by Jon Chang himself!).

Currently occupying the top of the heap (by default) in the Gridlink Karaoke Contest is Dillon Ashcroft (with some help from Tim Iweerks). Watch his entry below then get cracking on your own. We need grindcore related entertainment around the office. Otherwise Mark starts watching Willow Smith on Oprah.





Also, check out his music as Machinoir
http://www.myspace.com/machinoir


You can order/preorder Gridlink stuff in the Hydra Head Shop.

GRIDLINK (the greatest grindcore band in the world as crowned by Grind and Punishment) are set to release their new record Orphan on March 29th 2011 on LP/CD/Digital. Preorder it here.

Long belated, here is the final installment of Big Business youtube karaoke. The boys go out with a bang, belting out "We Are the World." It brings tears to our eyes, which roll down our cheeks and into our beards, feeling cold on the unexposed skin. It's like looking into the future, Big Business is grey haired, but still full of life and inspiration. Wait, it's 2010, it is the future. We already passed a space odyssey, judgement day, and the original transformers. Where the hell are all the robots?

This week's Big Business Karaoke selection is the penultimate (second to last) in this weekly series. So before we get to the finale, here is the infamous internet meme "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley, as sung by Big Business' bearded bassist, Jarred Warren. Now you can Rickroll your friends with a Big Business twist! Tell them it is a video of an attractive, scantily clad person, and delight in their chagrin when it is actually Jarred making laser sounds and doing high kicks with Toshi Kasai on tambourine.

For this week's installment Jared expertly butchers "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum, and still manages to look and sound so good.


Coincidentally, the same song was featured this week on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, as Sweet Dee drunkenly sang to the hitchhiker who was driving her new car on the Gang's road trip, just prior to her dumping her piss jar out the window, splattering Mac's face in the back seat. Did you know Dee and Mac are actually married in real life? Same with Charlie and the waitress. Crazy, right?

In this installment, Toshi takes on Steve Miller Band's "The Joker" (often mistakenly referred to as "Space Cowboy"). Mark Thompson occasionally blocks the camera with his tropical cap.

In this installment Jared croons "Lady in Red" by Chris De Burgh. Watch for cameos by Mark Thompson, Aaron Turner of Isis, Jay Bennett (the writer, not the dead guy from Wilco), and more.

In this installment, Coady belts out Kiss' "Beth." Enjoy.



Here are the Lyrics if you want to sing along:

Beth, I hear you callin'
But I cant come home right now
Me and the boys are playin'
And we just can't find the sound
Just a few more hours
And I'll be right home to you
I think I hear them callin'
Oh, Beth what can I do
Beth what can I do

You say you feel so empty
That our house just ain't a home
And I'm always somewhere else
And you're always there alone

Just a few more hours
And I'll be right home to you
I think I hear them callin'
Oh, Beth what can I do
Beth what can I do

Beth, I know you're lonely
And I hope you'll be alright
cause me and the boys will be playin
All night

Today's Big Business karaoke clip is "Always on My Mind" by Pet Shop Boys. Jared takes the mic, with Toshi and Coady backing him up on tambourine!



By the way, the inventor of karaoke never patented his idea and has missed out on about $100,000,000. Woof. Sounds like something we would do.

You may have already seen this if you are subscribed to our youtube channel, but here is the Hydra Highlight reel of the Big Business Karaoke party at Vacation Vinyl.



Almost every Hydra Head staffer makes an appearance. Not Chel, he didn't show up because he doesn't do well in confined spaces, and not Cox because he is (almost) always behind the camera catching the rest of the crew's idiosyncratic mannerisms.
Also, Big Business is in it.

On August 4th, 2009 Big Business entered Vacation Vinyl on a mission: to placate a vinyl storefull of people wanting to hear them sing songs that are nothing like the head battering heaviness that they usually play while bathed in the cool glow of a television screen displaying lyrics. Here is their version of Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car, led by a guy named Preston.



We should have more clips soon.
Also, Big Biz totally destroyed last night at the free show with Torche. Just so you know.