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I just recently discovered the awesome We Have Signal show.  Essentially it's just one of those fancy public access shows that feature different bands playing some music, sort of like the Alabama version of Austin City Limits.  I'll let them give you the specifics.

We Have Signal is APT’s new live episodic music program filmed exclusively at the BottleTree Café in Birmingham, AL. The series features new and innovative bands from around the state, the country and even the world. A new episode of We Have Signal airs weekly at 10PM on Thursday nights, followed by encore presentation of the previous week’s episode at 10:30. Each week’s new episode also airs at 11PM on Sunday evening.

What's nice about the We Have Signal shows is that they are shot beautifully and feature a lot of bands I'm into, which leads us to Blitzen Trapper.  Here the band plays the hits, make bad jokes, and play some new tunes.  Enjoy the awesome.

Blitzen Trapper doesn't have much of a tour schedule coming up aside from a few gigs on the other side of the pond, but they will be appearing at both Bonnaroo and High Sierra this summer.   [via back in 15 minutes]

Continuing his reign as the king of awesome late night show musical guests, Jimmy Fallon had the legendary Allman Brothers Band in last night for a visit.  The band ripped the snot out of The Whipping Post as per usual.  Personally I'm not the biggest Warren Haynes fan but I could watch Derek Trucks play guitar for hours.  I even have done such a thing. 

The Allman Brothers start up their usual New York shenanigans March 11th at the United Palace Theatre.  The stupid Beacon allowed for a scheduling conflict with Cirque du Soleil or some crap.  Estupido.  Either way you can catch the magic live in person via Ticketmaster or live over the internet as Moogis will once again be streaming all of the shows.  Awesometown.   [via the audio perv]

Unfortunately Broken Bells visit to The Late Show with David Letterman didn't feature their cover of Crimson and Clover, but we did get some nice footage of the band doing its thing.  To noone's surprise the band performed their single The High Road, which makes sense considering that is the one with a video for now.  As one might expect they sounded great.

If you like what you heard from the Letterman performance or even back when the free stream was still alive and kicking, the debut Broken Bells LP is available now through all the normal channels.  Here's a link to amazon if you are into that kind of thing, the mp3 download of the album is only 4.99   [via the audio perv]

If you like watching individuals perform at the highest level in any given profession, you surely appreciate the work of the subject of this week's Tribute Tuesday, a Mr William Zabka.  Blessed with the good looks of a teddy bear and the machismo of the mythical Rico Suave, Zabka stole every scene he was in, which wasn't really that crazy considering he was the all time coolest high school dude ever.  Luckily youtuber bapettit made this fine piece of art above titled The William Zabka Trilogy so we can all relive the glory that is Zabka.

And holy smurf weed Daniel-son.  I just checked the IMDB page and apparently Zabka is in Hot Tub Time Machine playing a guy named Rick!  If he is the bad guy in the movie paying homage to his former dominance I may just start crying.  Truth be told I already am because of the Elton John section of The William Zabka Trilogy.

The High Sierra Music Festival announced their initial lineup shortly after the much publicized iPad announcement.  You may remember the clever little iPad parody video they used for that announcement.  Well it seems like the people with High Sierra are really getting a kick out of it because they essentially used the same bit for their first batch of lineup additions.  There's an act for that!

The latest additions were teased last Friday with a youtube clip of Willie Nelson and Ray Charles doing Georgia On My Mind.  Fitting then that Widespread Panic and The Black Crowes lead the list of additions.

Widespread Panic
The Black Crowes
Lotus
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
The Mother Hips
Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons
The Radiators
The Pimps of Joytime
Truth & Salvage Co.
Coryell, Auger, Sample Trio
New Fangled Wasteland
Orgone
Chris Chandler & Paul Benoit
Living Folklore

These bands will be joining Super Hella Awesome favorites The Avett Brothers, Dr. Dog, The Slip, Surprise Me Mr Davis and many more.  For the complete lineup visit the official site.

This is happening now, sorry for the late heads up but it just started.  How about some live video of The Avett Brothers from a Border's bookstore in Ann Arbor?  If you are having trouble watching the stream feel free to head over to The Avett Brothers facebook page for the original version.  Awesome.

Um, wow.  So what we have here is a rap that was made for Best Buy.  All the relevant topics are touched, appliances on Monday, new release Tuesday, how to be a good salesmen.  My hope is that Best Buy simply shows this to all new employees and then the rest just takes care of itself.

How awesomely nerdy out of place is the white guy in the yellow shirt.  He's trying to be as hip as he can it's just not his specialty.  I love it.   

Also, Best Buy is a drug come and get your hit.  Awesome.  [via gawker]

My main complaint with Lost aside from the whole not making sense thing is that they don't have a kickass opening credits thingy.  Luckily we do have the internet which means that someone somewhere has done their own awesome version.  Here we have scenes from the show cut to the Baywatch intro which obviously means we have a healthy serving of awesome. 

Apparently Sophie makes a lot of these Lost videos.  If you're in to Miley Cyrus or Lost you might enjoy the video below which features Hurley doing stuff set to Party In The USA.   [via warming glow]

This video really has everything you are looking for in a Kids Incorporated Monday.  Awkwardly matched song and theme, in this case The Heat Is On and working out.  Group dancing which of course naturally happens regardless of the situation or locale.  Inspired lip singing, terrible fashion, and of course the voices of angels.  Enjoy Ryan Lambert and the rest of the gang taking on the Glenn Frey hit as only they can.

Unfortunately at this time I can neither confirm nor deny whether or not the heat is in fact on.

Raaaaaaaandy is back with the newest track off his upcoming mixtape project with Dave Sitek, and this time he's got a story to tell.  The story of course is that of Justin Bieber and how he stole his song Baby from Raaaaaaaandy.  Figures that he would resort to those kind of actions considering he was willing to lay the first blow in the violent attack on the We Are The World legacy.

If you want to hear how the original track sounded before that pretty little boy came in and gangstered it you can check it out below.

Baby Baby - Raaaaaaaandy (ft DJ Ol' Youngin)