Rocks Off's 2010 Predictions: The Fate of Owl City, Chingo Bling vs. Chamillionaire, the Next Twilight Soundtrack and Madchester In Katy

By John Seaborn Gray Wed., Jan. 6 2010 at 3:00 PM

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Adam Young of Owl City will mystify the scientific community, yet surprise no one in the music community, when he is hacked in half in a freak sawmill accident, and it's discovered he is filled with gummi bears.
The Arcade Fire/Flaming Lips feud is resolved when, completely unprovoked, both bands team up against Japandroids.
Marc Brubaker of Prairie Cadets, Justin Nava of The Last Place You Look, Bryan Jackson of Black Congress and Josh Wolf of Hell City Kings will all join forces when they accidentally discover a common hidden passion: happy hardcore techno. The project will be called Pl@sticecst@tic and will reveal Nava's true singing voice: an ear-splitting falsetto.
Chingo Bling and Chamillionaire will engage in an epic rap battle, kicked off when a rumor reaches Chamillionaire that Chingo has referred to Chamillionaire's rhymes as "stupid." (It will be discovered later that Chingo meant "stupid" in a good way.) After several diss tracks which receive high critical praise for both artists, the feud comes to a mind-blowing conclusion when both parties concede defeat to Fat Tony.

Madchester will be briefly revived in Katy (yes, the one in Texas). Few notice, although in an interview, the Stone Roses' Ian Brown responds to the news by saying, "Uh... that's great, I guess?"
Everyone hates the new Arcade Fire album, but loves the new Creed album. This happens shortly after Satan takes over in late summer.

A primal wolfman will be hunted in the New Jersey area for mauling several people and pets. Once the creature is finally captured, it will be discovered to simply be Glenn Danzig. Again.

The Snakecharmers take an unexpected turn into explicit novelty music with their new album release, A Big Fat Blues Dump Right In Your Fucking Mouth. Sales are lackluster at best.

Animal Collective is revealed to be a computer simulation designed to provide optimal entertainment to people who breathe more marijuana than oxygen. The simulation stops releasing mediocre, derivative music when it is taught the true meaning of friendship.

Ian Curtis comes back from the dead, but unfortunately is immediately killed and indescribably violated by the newly resurrected GG Allin.
Several members of the Rocks Off team will form a spacey lite-rock jam band with a positive message called And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Hugs.
Members of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Does It Offend You Yeah, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! tour together in a supergroup called the Naysayers.

The next Twilight film goes in a somewhat different direction with a soundtrack featuring Passion Pit, MGMT, LCD Soundsystem, !!! and others of a similar ilk. All fighting will be replaced with vampire dance contests. The film will be called The Get-Down Funky Fang Jive Band's Ecliptical Boogaloo.
Although universal health care is still just a dream, President Obama makes strides with a new social program designed to counsel and rehabilitate ex-emo kids.
Similar to the way their cobwebby site was intended to compete against Rocks Off, 2995.com puts together a successful music festival to compete with Free Press Houston's Summerfest, marred only when the Houston Press' entry improbably wins the contest to name the festival. Please buy tickets to Assfart Dickbutt Shitfest 2010!

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