Watch this performance very closely, because it may contain clues as to what comes next in the "rock that sets the
TRL contingent's dialing digitals aflame" pantheon. German band Tokio Hotel, who
Kate had a run-in with a few months back, made their American TV debut yesterday, and if anything, they're instructive in the way that they're something of a MySpacian melting pot, visually: the Shotgun Messiah haircare aesthetics on the lead singer, the laid-back Abercrombie-bro style exhibited by that other guy, and the dreads worn by the lead singer's brother combine to turn the band's visual profile into some sort of ragtag comic-book army. And their shyness in interviews should serve as some sort of camouflage for an
unrelenting musical assault, right?
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Remember those halcyon days when we came to know and love ADiehardFOBFan as the grand wizard of all Jonas Brothers-directed malice? Well, according to MTV News there's a new anti-JoBro sheriff in town. And its name is Hundreds Of Angry Tokio Hotel Fans.
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Having been present at the Tokio Hotel fan mob incident back in March, my younger sister knows only too well the horrors of the band and its overly enthusiastic fanbase. Which is why she was so taken aback by a sighting at her suburban Houston high school:
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The German goth-pop band Tokio Hotel is like some sort of nightmarish blend of Evanescence, t.A.T.u., and the Jonas Brothers, with just a hint of Adam Duritz's dreadlocked aesthetic thrown in for good measure. It's the kind of band that would never exist without the Internet, and I'd have remained blissfully unaware of its existence if not for a fateful run-in with its fanbase on Tuesday morning here in Madrid, which, thanks to my uncle, was captured on video as a record of what might be the most unwarranted mania in the history of pop music. And that's including LFO and Limp Bizkit.
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