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Jade gets down to the nuts and bolts of songwriting and getting good sound for Crash Love with EQ Magazine in this new interview. Check out the entire interview online here.

AFI's Jade Puget and Hunter talk to UltimateGuitar.com about Crash Love (and their songwriting process for it), choosing producers, their solo projects (Blaqk Audio and Hunter Revenge) and of course, what they look for in a guitar (a couple of the quotes might be mixed up on this part when they have Hunter talking about a new Gibson Cloud (YUM!) that Jade later refers to planning to bring on tour :)

Jade - "I’ve always loved shredding but I haven’t tried to bring too much of it to AFI ‘cause it’s not really appropriate. It gets corny if you do it too much. There’s only one other AFI song in the 11 years that I’ve been in this band where I’ve really shredded. And that was a couple of records ago. It was a song called “Dancing Through Sunday” on our Sing the Sorrow album. So I think doing it rarely makes it more impactful. So if all of a sudden you go a few years and all of a sudden you do another solo, it’s a rarity. So it’s not like, “Oh, he’s doing another solo.”

Hunter: "Let me interject this – as for basses, I had Fender send me just a variety of stuff and I have over 20 basses in my collection. I brought everything to the studio and I would sort of do shootouts between things and it ended up coming down to this brand new stock P bass that Fender sent me that sounded better than everything. Even like these basses from the ‘50s and stuff. So I ended up using that on almost everything."

Great stuff... along with an interview with Adam recently by one of his gear sponsors about drum tracking on Crash Love, it's always nice to read more about the song writing process and musicianship by the guys in the band who don't hppen to be the lead lyricist/vocalist :)

You can read the entire interview here on Ultimateguitar.com

Davey Havok shares photographs of his art collection and some insight on being a musician with Juxtapoz Magazine. He also shares some tidbits of info about AFI's upcoming tour and gives advice for young artists and musicians. 

Read the interview here on JUXTAPOZ Art & Culture Magazine.

You can find the "Deluxe Premium" CD bundles of "Crash Love" he mentions in the interview, containing 12 limited edition prints by Camille Rose Garcia, each inspired by a song from the album, in AFI's webstore.

To see more art inspired by the music of "Crash Love", check out the Flickr group for AFI's UK fan art contest that was announced on Veronicasawyer.com last week.

I just needed to post to say I am ridiculously excited to be seeing AFI at their Album release party next week.

I am not posting with capslock, because capslock is wholly insufficient to express my feelings about this. 

Please imagine me standing on my chair squeeing with excitement. If your pets are running about the house as if hearing some hypersonic whistle, they are probably hearing me.

Oh, and there's a chance I may be taking photos.

And I get to stay over at Mark's house and play with Moo.

I have no words left, so I'll just wave my arms emphatically.

In an interview with Zane Lowe, Muse states they’re likely to feature on the soundtrack to New Moon - the latest installment of the Twilight series.

Singer Matt Bellamy revealed: “I spoke to the director yesterday (and) he wants the track I Belong To You, the sort of vaudeville piano track. He wants a rendition of that but the only thing with the new film is they want the songs to be exclusive to the film. So he’s asking if I mind doing, or if we mind doing an alternative version of it.”

Asked if they were up for it Matt said: “I think it’s alright- if it was one of the main tracks on the album I would never do it. But it’s actually one of the weirder tracks on the album. (It’s) one of the can't believe we got away with it kind of tracks. I think it might be worth giving it a go cos it’s a track that might not get played live very often… one of the obscure tracks off the album so it might give that track some life that it wouldn’t have otherwise.”

Muse’s hit Supermassive Black Hole featured in the first Twilight film- giving the three piece exposure in the States.

Dom from the band said: “It’s opened it up in some kind of way, millions of people listening to Supermassive Black Hole that have probably never heard our band before- which is not a bad thing.”

He added: “They have all gone bloody vampire mad over there seriously, it’s crazy!”

MTV2 will be broadcasting the interview between Zane Lowe and Muse tonight at 10PM.

"Interspersed with their videos plus the new tracks live, we got Muse on the brown couch and Zane found out all about their future plans."

Sourced from: http://www.mtv.co.uk/film/twilight/news/154660-exclusive-muse-for-new-moon-soundtrack

Do you think the song fits with New Moon's storyline? If you're a Muse fan how do you feel about their music being included on the Twilight soundtracks? Do you see the benefit to the band of greater exposure, or does it just make you RAGE WITH THE FURY OF TEN THOUSAND SUNS?

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Want to get a chance to meet the band or snag an autographed copy of their upcoming album, Crash Love? AFI has announced two new contests for UK-based fans  on VeronicaSawyer.com that you'll want to check out!

The first is a lyric competition. The band wants you to listen to the tracks provided on the contest widget (click on "Listen" for the list of songs already posted), read the lyrics, then draw, photograph, sketch, or create a comic page or a tattoo of your interpretation of the lyrics. They've set up a FLickr group to upload your entries, and new songs will be posted each Monday. 

The second contest is to win 1 of 5 autographed copies of Crash Love by forwarding the contest widget to as many people as possible via posting it on your social networking profiles, blogs, bulletins and by emailing it to friends (it's also embed-able, but please don't spam other people's notes/comments on Buzznet :)

On September 10, AFI released a free download of "Fainting Spells," an unused song from Decemberunderground sessions that will be released on deluxe editions of Crash Love... a surprisingly different song that's been described as "Awesome", "Strange" and "Mind blowing" by some Buzznetters.

On his blog, Shy Boys Win, Jade posts:

"As you know, the lyrics to the chorus of Fainting Spells are pretty difficult to figure out. I even had to email Davey the other day to ask what they were.

So let's have a contest to see who can come the closest to figuring them out (just the chorus lyrics). I've already given you one line. This contest will be great because I don't have any prizes and someone from the our camp will probably post the actual lyrics before everyone can guess, but REGARDLESS....take a stab at it."

Should this song have been included on Decemberunderground? What do you think of Fainting Spells, and what's your guess for the lyrics of the chorus?