Hi everyone,

After a long hiatus, the blog is finally back up and running. There’s still some spam to clean up, but I think I’ve fixed all the glitches, and everything has finished moving and whatnot. Some things seem a little wonky, so I’ll keep an eye on everything, but yeah, now the entire site is finally on a brand new server - not just the forum. Hooray!

I apologize it took so long. There were a few bumps in the road, so to speak. It will still be a few days before we’re in the swing of posting updates. I think I’m just going to pick up here and go on, and for all the news you may have missed or details or whatever else, go here to the Information forum. The forum’s been up almost the entire time.

Thanks for all of your patience!
Gyn

Freak out, Midwesterners! Tokio Hotel just added another date to their October mini tour. BEHOLD:

Oct. 27 // Columbus, OH // Newport Music Hall

And not to be all ME ME ME, because really it’s all about YOU YOU YOU, but I personally feel extra ‘cited because I was born and raised in the Buckeye State — MIDWEST STRONG! Three up, three down!

So in honor of O-town, please enjoy three classic videos by Ohio’s finest musical exports, and feel free to use them on your Road Trip To See Tokio Hotel In Ohio Mix CD : The Pretenders‘ “Brass In Pocket,” (which is all about being reizvoll), Whip It, from everyone’s favorite de-evolutionists, Devo, and The Breeders‘ “Cannonball,” which still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up when I hear that bass line.

Now get to work making those Georg, Gustav and Tom mini wax statues!

source: buzzworthy

Scary Celebs
Not sure what to be for Halloween? Take inspiration from these stars’ strange style and you’re sure to cause a fright — or at least a laugh.

Going rocker this Halloween? Take a cue from Tokio Hotel’s lead singer and get goth.

source: cosmogirl

On a video from backstage before the presentation, members talk about the nervousness on stage and lapses infront of the public.

The Tokio Hotel, one of the new sensations of emocore, is formed by German boys with up to 21 years of age - and the two creators of the group, have no problem in assuming that the errors that they do on stage.

The twins Tom and Bill Kaulitz (guitarist and vocalist, 19 years) created the band when they had only 12 years old. Today, after a huge success in Germany (there were about 5 million CDs sold), the band reap the fruits of the launch of its first album in English, Scream.

In a video filmed the scenes of a show, Tom talks about the nervousness before they go up on stage, after the launch of the second CD in German, Zimmer 483. The guitarist, Bill and Georg Listing (bass, the oldest of the group), talk about the mistakes in front of the public. “Tom, you missed a note in “Rette Mich” in the last show. There are three shows you can not stay without making mistakes. I am sure that today you will not pass without mistakes too!” Says Georg to his friend of the band. Tom, joking, says that “it’s bad talk about that just before a show!”.

The video has English subtitles. Click here to watch.

Bill in Tussauds
Lead singer of Tokio Hotel became the youngest person to be honored in the wax museum Madame Tussauds. His statue was being displayed in the museum’s German section. See more about it.

source: rollingstone

It maybe is because of the time changes - the tools to do and give music are on the hand of everybody - or just on the recorders marketing. But the guitars world is full of precocious people. If you like or not, the «emofreak» German band Tokio Hotel is full of it. The twins Bill and Tom Kaulitz, had 15 years old when they left the school, because of their first album (2005).

The twins of Tokio Hotel stopped studying when they were 15 and they lived a crazy story. Their first album, “Schrei” was rescheduled on the 2005 Summer Holidays and had more than 500 thousands of copies sold. When they come back from Summer Holidays, they had a platoon of jornalists waiting for them for taking photos and make interviews.

- We couldn’t stay there. Was a fast success. We had to “give up” from our family, friends. But I don’t exchange my life. I love to do music - admits Tom.

Tokio Hotel recorded two German albums and, when it was needed, they recorded a English album. Bill, the androgynous vocalist, doesn’t speak well the language, but he trained it. In 2007, “Scream” was reschuled on USA and was well received by the audience, who were always comparing them to Paramore.

source: oglobo

Written by Megan Broyles - Argonaut
Monday, 06 October 2008

Tokio Hotel won the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist on July 9. Why, among all the truly innovative new artists existing on the Earth’s surface, would a teen-pop quartet from Germany take the cake?
It’s because the girls love them.

Bill Kaulitz, the band’s lead singer, has been described as the anime version of Project Runway’s Christian Siriano. Kaulitz carries his 18-year-old eyeliner-ed self with a boy band swagger akin to glam, goth and emo — however that adds up.
His distinguishing feature is his electro shock hair that stands about a foot tall, if not higher. Every member of the band has their own niche to fill and girlies to be idolized by.

Tom Kaulitz, Bill’s younger twin brother and guitarist, dons blonde dreadlocks, a lip piercing and flat bill caps. The remaining two bandmates (who don’t appear to have the same priority as the twins in the public eye) are Gustav Schaefer on the drums and Georg Listing (bassist). Gustav and Georg take on the roles of Volcom Stone skater and long-haired-boy-next-door, respectively.
“Scream,” Tokio Hotel’s 2007 release, perfectly exemplifies what it feels like to be 14 years old through adolescent lyrics and sound that can best describe the makers as “bad boys with a soft side.”

The title track from the album is an anti-authority anthem instructing the oppressed listener to “scream it out loud.” Tokio Hotel dredges up memories of early Good Charlotte in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Besides the obvious twin superstar connection, both bands’ messages are strikingly similar in how outrageously easy it is to follow — no tricky musical business here — and mostly emotional, sticking in the hearts of young, impressionable female listeners.

Tokio Hotel can expect success. No matter how unsavory their musical contributions may be, a technically or comparatively, they are trendy enough to snatch the spotlight for fifteen minutes with a palatable — at best — generic sound. Emotion (or hormones) fuels the incoherent translated-from-German lyrics and dramatic instrumentals.

Nothing can take away from the fact that somewhere someone is listening to Tokio Hotel and feeling better about their own life. At the end of the day, a smiling fan of Tom and Bill Kaulitz is happy. If the fans are happy, there’s nothing left to say.

source: uiargonaut

Tokio Hotel interview excepts from Buzznet. Tom Kaulitz is not a fan of Miley Cyrus‘ face. Your goal was to break through in the United States. Do you have the feeling that you have attained it?

Tom: Frankly, none of us four expected that there’d be so many fans at our concerts. It has always been sold out and the public was as crazy over there as in Europe. I think, we have fulfilled our contract. The mission is accomplished in a way (laughter).
Georg: We all feel to have managed to achieve something great. I don’t think that before us a German band has met such hype in the USA.

Yet, one can slow a bit down the enthusiasm of your American success: during your promo there, you have sold only 100,000 albums, while the goal was to reach 500,000..

Bill: You’re right, despite our efforts, ‘Scream’ has not really taken off in the U.S. charts. Frankly, I don’t know what the reason is. We have done our best to make our music known to as many people, but the US market is very difficult to access for foreign artists. However, without wanting to sing our own praises, selling 100,000 albums is still enormous for a German band. We are not disappointed by this result.

Tom: What we enjoyed the most was to receive an MTV Video Music Awards for Best New Artist. We didn’t expect that at all since we were in competition with Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry or Taylor Swift, who are far more popular than us over there. To receive this award was a real shock. To date, it may be the best reward we have received for our career. In addition, I must say that I really enjoyed seeing the confused puss of Miley Cyrus when the winners, in other words us, have been announced.. (laughter)

You don’t seem to have taken her to your heart..

Tom: On the one hand, I am not a fan of what she does, plus, she doesn’t have the physical criteria that I look for in a girl. So, everything is said. (laughter)
Bill: Tom talks bullshit, as usual! He is an uptight fan of “Hannah Montana”, I’ve have already caught him watching some episodes secretly. (laughter)
Tom: We will settle that tonight. Secretly..

source: oceanupped

source: th ofc