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Week of 11/28 Hawthorne Heights have announced the track-listing of their second record for Victory - This Is Who We Are out on February 28th. It goes as such: 1. This is Who We Are 2. Remember Softly 3. The Phoenix Sung So 4. Blessing's Out Reach 5. They Came With Nothing 6. Saying Sorry 7. Quills For You 8. Mockingbirds Help 9. Seasons Lost (IV) You 10. Glamor Bleeds Through 11. Discovery Years 12. One Less Fortunate ----- Matchbox Romance will be headlining the Sub City Take Action Tour this coming year. They will be joined by Silverstein, Amber Pacific and Paramore. ----- The Minus 5 - featuring members of REM, the Decemberists and Wilco - will be releasing their new album The Gun Album on February 7th. ----- Deerhoof will be releasing a vinyl version of their brilliant Runner's Four on Children of Hoof and it will be available through Revolver. ----- ROCKSTAR Energy Drink Presents TASTE OF CHAOS Tour featuring Thrice, Deftones, Atreyu, Thursday, As I Lay Dying, Silverstein and Funeral for a Friend. Dates follows as such: February 16 San Diego, CA San Diego Sports Arena March 1 Norfolk, VA Convocation Center April 1 Portland, OR The Pavilion-Oregon State Fairgrounds April 14 Ottawa Corel Center April 15 Montreal Stade Uniprix ----- Two Gallants will be releasing their debut full-length for Saddle Creek entitled What the Toll Tells on February 28th. ----- Apparently, 311 and former Creed singer Scott Stapp got into a brawl in Baltimore last week. Stapp walked in like 'I'm all Christian and shit, and this is what Jesus would do' and then bunched dudes in 311. Stapp also tried to use his bling cross to stab them. 311 said they smoked him. ----- Sex Slaves will be playing the Creep Crawl in St. Louis on December 17th. There will be Sex and Slaving and the combo of the two, according to sources. ----- Indianola Records have just signed Jacksonville, FL's Lokyata and they will be releasing a record in February. ----- Black Sabbath and the Sex Pistols are among the gang inducted into the 2006 Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame. I guess that the Hall of Fame doesn't really go by talent, since the Sex Pistols has influence but no talent. ----- Negative Progression Records have signed LA's Amity and will supply them with endless amounts of rock star powers. Next month they will be signing Ville and the two will tour as AmityVille and open for Taking Back Sunday. Week of 11/21 Sunset Rubdown has signed with Berkeley, CA's Absolutely Kosher Records after just recently releasing Snake's Got A Leg on Global Symphonic. While a strong band on their own, Sunset Rubdown gets extra attention for band member Spencer Krug playing in Wolf Parade. ----- From Victory: Shane Told, frontman for You want more music awards? Then you got it. The PLUG Awards are currently ongoing with ordinary dudes like you and me voting for bands nominated by hipsters in the industry. The downside is that the same bands are nominated for like a million categories - so all have to win by process of elimination. Also, there are some strange nominations - like Plot to Blow Up as one of the best punk albums? Are you retard? You want to vote. ----- News Flash: LaGuardia Airport still sucks! You would think they would at least paint something so it doesn't look like a third-world county. ----- DMX recently got extra time to his sentence for being crazy because he thought he was Michael Jackson and that he would show up a few hours late for his sentencing hearing. Man, you didn't make Thiller! ----- With its re-release on Columbia, Coheed and Cambria's In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 done went gold last month. Crazy talk. Week of 11/14 The cool as a moose grammy for indie bands The Shortlist has ceased to exist - but apparently Communist China is preventing them from going forward, just like Democracy. ----- Lawrence, KS's Appleseed Cast has signed with melodic punk masters Militia Group Label. A perfect match of love. ----- Morrissey has unveiled his the title of his new record - Ringleader of the Tormentors. ----- Do you want a Gold Postal Service record? Specifically, their Give Up record? Well now you can. Check it out on Ebay. ----- Warped Tour 2006 is slowly coming together with a handful new bands added included Motion City Soundtrack and NOFX. ----- Bayside getting back to getting back: The tragic accident early Halloween morning that took the life of Bayside drummer John “Beatz” Holoran and seriously injured bassist Nick Ghanbarian was devastating to the band, their families and friends. After spending the past two weeks mourning their losses, singer/guitarist Anthony Raneri and guitarist Jack O’Shea will be rejoining the Never Sleep Again Tour tonight in The Never Sleep Again Tour presents some of Victory Record’s hottest acts, with powerhouse ----- The Cure are planning to head into the studio this January to work on their latest record - which at last count is 1291. ----- Belle & Sebastian will be releasing their new record The Life Pursuit in February through Matador. But the question is with all the members tangents and distractions in the past years, will it be as good? ---- Sidenote: The Goodwill is still looking for a front, um, person. ----- As a follow up to the below, Sony Music has decided to recall all those XCP CDs (now they are a real American company like Ford) and give you a backrub. But will they buy you all new computers for their errors, only if you like Yugos. On an even eviler note, Sony plans to copy protect all of their CDs by next year. ----- Sony Music - the massive music label that owns all these smaller labels that you don't realize - has been trying to destroy your computer and your life. And now they want to make it worse. Sony was putting this anti-piracy software XCP on CDs so you can't act like you were in China and started a piracy business. But it turns out this software installs all this spyware on your computer and leaves it vulnerable to viruses and molesting by the man. So, Sony was getting flack and gave you option to take it off, but then apparently this option actually may fuck up your computer worse. There is class-action lawsuit in California, but the weird German guy at the head of the music section says that everything is cool as a moose and Sony are just good people. Microsoft is going to try to help us little people out, which actually may work out. We just realized that we have gotten a bunch of CDs with the technology to review - so if Sony fucked up our computers, I will personally go and fuck them up. Below is a list of some CDs known with the technology: Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia) Also, possibly these: My Morning Jacket, Z ----- Toledo, Ohio's The Fury have changed their name to We Are the Fury in order to be stopped from being touched by hairy men. ----- Heavy Metal Parking Lot will be coming to DVD soon. So, instead of reliving fantasies on the internet, you can do it in other mediums. Get your mullets together to rock. ----- Following on the heels of Infiniheart, Chad VanGaalen will be releasing a DVD with animations set to his music. Most of it involves bunnies running away from crazy dogs - well maybe that's what it'll be. ----- Brooklyn's Hockey Island have changed their named to the Squaak in order to avoid being lumped in with the Hockey Night on Lookout Records even though the Island has been around much longer. Even with the new name they still are interested in rocking your balls off. Week of 11/7 TAKING BACK SUNDAY LAUNCHES “DON’T CALL US….WE’LL CALL YOU” Click here for to sign up for Taking Back Sunday’s mailing list: http://www2.fanscape.com/takingbacksunday/signup.asp ----- More absurdness from Pat Robertson: WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson told citizens of a Pennsylvania town that they had rejected God by voting their school board out of office for supporting "intelligent design" and warned them Thursday not to be surprised if disaster struck. ----- From Billboard.com: The new 50 Cent movie "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" has been pulled from a Homestead, Pa., theater where a man was fatally shot even though officials said they do not know whether the film was a factor in the slaying. ----- Yellowcard guitarist Ben Harper will no longer be playing with the outfit in order to concentrate on his label Takeover Records. ----- Shirts for a Cure has offered a special one to support Bayside after their accident. Below is the press release: Baltimore, Maryland – November 8, 2005 – The Shirts for a Cure Project, along with the help from members of Bayside, has created a special memorial Bayside shirt which will help raise money and awareness for the John Holohan Memorial Fund. Early on the morning of October 31st Bayside’s van hit a patch of ice and flipped outside of Cheyenne, WY. Drummer John “Beatz” Holohan lost his life in this tragic accident. SFAC has pledged to help raise money for a memorial fund which has been set up in Holohan’s name. To view and pre-order this special memorial shirt please visit the following link: www.shirtsforacure.com/sample.php?id=105 The Shirts for a Cure Project features limited edition t-shirts from various bands to aide The Syrentha Savio Endowment (SSE) in its efforts to provide funding for chemotherapy and other medication for underprivileged women who cannot afford the growing expense of fighting breast cancer. Since it’s inception in 2002, SSE has already raised more then $250,000 and awarded grants totaling more then $100,000 to organizations in Washington D.C., Philadelphia and Los Angeles. ----- From Nasty: BEASTIE BOYS Beastie Boys have announced the completion of AWESOME: I F**KIN' SHOT THAT!, the band's debut feature theatrical film. Directed by longtime Beastie Boys collaborator Nathaniel Hornblower and produced by Hornblower and Jon Doran, AWESOME: I F**KIN' SHOT THAT! will be released worldwide by THINKFilm in Spring 2006 following significant festival presentations early next year. AWESOME: I F**KIN' SHOT THAT! is a first not only for Beastie Boys, but for the entire concert film genre: A feature film shot by audience members. On October 9, 2004, Beastie Boys handed out 50 cameras to audience members at their sold-out performance in New York's famed Madison Square Garden. These 50 different passionate perspectives shot from the point-of-view of the audience take the viewer deep inside the world of a live Beastie Boys show, capturing the experience from a variety of perspectives in a way no film has ever done. While Beastie Boys Mike D (Michael Diamond), Adrock (Adam Horovitz) and MCA (Adam Yauch) star in AWESOME... the film was photographed, as Yauch says, by "a bunch of untrained camera operators. But that gives the film sincerity. The people that shot it were feeling it." "'Awesome' is the only word that can describe the experience of watching this film," says THINK theatrical division head Mark Urman. "It's totally modern and witty aesthetically, but also fabulous to watch and listen to." Sackman adds, "We have been pursuing this film aggressively since we first read about it and think that Adam, Jon, and the rest of their team at Oscilloscope Films are the equal of any filmmaking team we've worked with when it comes to having a vision and realizing it to its best and fullest potential." Yauch added "I'm glad that the film has found a home with THINK. S**t has been bubbling for a minute and now THINK is gonna light a match." As documented on the Solid Gold Hits being released by Capitol this week, Beastie Boys have enjoyed arguably the longest-running career in hip hop, spanning from their 9-million-selling 1986 album Licensed to Ill through the critically acclaimed and multi-platinum Paul's Boutique (1989) and Check Your Head (1992) through their recent trifecta of #1 albums, Ill Communication (1994), Hello Nasty (1998) and To The 5 Boroughs (2004). In 2000 a two-DVD anthology of the band's visual work-including such as Hornblower-directed works as "Intergalactic," "Body Movin'," "Alive" and others--was released by the Criterion Collection. It remains the only music-video anthology released by the noted archival brand. An AWESOME: I F**KIN' SHOT THAT! DVD is slated for release through THINKFilm next summer. ----- In another rough week for drummers, Japanese-noise rock kings DMBQ's drummer Mana "China" Nishiura was killed in a van accident on the New Jersey Turnpike. Besides from rocking DMBQ, China also pelted the skins for everyone's favorite Shonen Knife. The other members of the band were injured, but not severly. Not to make light of the situation, but if I was a drummer in band on tour, I'd wear some pads and a helmet when traveling. ----- The both cool and annoying website myspace.com has hooked up with Interscope to develop a new label called myspace records. They will be releasing a compilation cd soon featuring such bands as AFI, Dashboard and Weezer. Week of 10/31 Two follow-up statements to Bayside's accident: Anthony Raneri of Bayside talks about the events of October 31st, and their plans for the future: The worst day of my life is over. It lasted 72 hours, but it's over. I know now that everyday for the rest of my life will be a piece of cake to wake up to, I'm just glad that I get to wake up to them. On Halloween I lost my best friend, big brother, mentor and band mate. I find a lot of comfort in knowing that I had a best friend, big brother, mentor and band mate in the first place, when so many people will never know what it is like to have someone as magical as Beatz in their lives. I'm so lucky for that and so lucky that I survived this thing to tell everyone about him. Anyone that knew Beatz fell in love with him instantly. Whether you were his brother, his wife, his friend or you met him for five minutes. This letter, this week and the rest of my life is not going to be a mourning of a lost life, but a celebration of a wonderful one. He will live forever in all of our hearts and in the music he created so passionately. On behalf of Bayside, everyone in the Bayside/Victory camp and the Holohan clan, I thank you all so much for your support through all of this. I have to thank the members of Hawthorne Heights, Silverstein and Aiden, all of their crews, everyone at Victory, our manager Nate Albert and our families and friends for everything they have done since the second this happened, to get us past the last few days. Our guitar tech Nicky Raneri, tour manager Scott Robinson, guitar player Jack O'Shea and I are all home safe. Nick is going into surgery in a couple of hours and will make a full recovery; our drum tech Dan Marino is out of surgery and we hope to get him home by the end of the week. Every one of the fans, the press and any other company or person that has gotten in touch with us has just been amazing and it's all that support that got us through this. On November 16th, Jack and I will be flying out to St Petersburg, FL to join up with the Never Sleep Again Tour. We will be playing an acoustic set that night and every night through the end of the tour on December 11th. We loved this tour. Beatz loved this tour and this is something that we need to do for ourselves, for our band and for John Beatz, who would kick my ass if I didn't finish up what he gave his life for. After that, we will be taking the holidays off, as planned, and then getting back on the road again as a band in 2006. Aside from the next two weeks, we can not let this situation slow our band down or cancel one more show or tour. All any of us ever wanted to do was play music and make this band into something that people would know and love. That hasn't changed and we can't let it. Beatz wouldn't have it any other way. It will take me a long time to get the horrible images from that night out of my head and it will take some time for my friends Nick and Dan to get their asses out of bed, but I will, and they will and life will move on with only the happier memories of my best friend. Thank you all for your support. The whole Bayside camp and the Holohan family are living on it right now. Please look into the John Holohan Memorial Fund. It's not about money; it's the thought that counts. For all of us and his family to know that he made a huge impact on the world is all we have right now. Thank You, Anthony Raneri & Bayside A statement from Nick Ghanbarian, bassist in Bayside: I'm laying here in the hospital, awaiting my surgery tomorrow. To clear up any questions, I broke my back ( L4 vertebrae ). I'm very lucky to not be paralyzed. I was thrown through the window of our rolling van, after hitting a patch of ice. I have a full torso cast on, keeping my back straight. I just started eating again so now I can take some percoset which helps with my intense back pain. All in all, Ill be ok and the minute I can have a bass in my hand and be playing in front of people again I will. It’s all I know how to do and the only thing that makes me happy. Once hearing about all of the support from friends, bands and fans, my spirits where immediately uplifted. All we have in this world are each other, and in times of tragedy, you find out who is by your side until the end and who is bullshit. Thankfully our music community surrounds us by mostly heartfelt people who are going out of their way to help us in our time of need and to help us keep our dream alive. John Beatz was someone I looked up to, yet I walked beside him as a contemporary. I learned from him as he learned from me. We started playing in bayside 14 months ago and have both realized that our whole lives had been lived to get us to this point, so we spent the time working our asses off and making sure that that this band was going to succeed in what we wanted: having people hear our music. With his passing, we realize he paid the ultimate price as all of us would have or else we wouldn't have been beside him. We live for rock and roll and when you believe in something enough, sometimes you die for it. What I want everyone out there to realize is the sacrifice every member of every touring band makes. Safety, money, health etc. All of these things are a distant second to our music. People get vans, trailers, equipment and other personal items stolen, we play in unsafe neighborhoods, we travel far distances in sometimes unsafe vehicles and unsafe weather. My point in all of this is that we are a community, not a business. Support and understanding with an open mind are what's most important in our lives. Not record sales. Whether or not you like a band you must realize that bands are giving their all for what they love, including their lives. Showing your faces at shows and talking to us and letting us know you appreciate the music and the hard work is infinitely more important than the business side of things. I'm happy to have my life, I'm happy to have known John and I'm happy to still have a band. Please give your time and respects to John’s family and wife. All he ever did was speak of her, and every ounce of energy he put into his life was for her. Hopefully we can all have love like that in our lifetime. See you all soon Nick ----- Franz Ferdinand is covering Air's "Sexy Boy" on their release for single "Walk Away." ----- Morrissey is looking to release his latest album this Spring on Attack. The current title is Ringleader of the Tormentors. ----- The release of Vaux's next record Beyond Virtue, Beyond Vice has been suspended indefinitely. The record was going to be the band's major label debut on Atlantic. But, after some management changes and the usual bullshit, Atlantic decided to shelve it. It still baffles me why a label would pay for a record to be made and then not release it. Vaux is working to get the rights to the record back from Atlantic. ----- Though they may have some nice designs, the Lawrence Group are a bunch of assholes. What do you expect from a firm started in Lawrence, Kansas. We all hope that their St. Louis office gets cancer, the bird flu or SARS and dies a quick yet horrible death. ----- Scott McClellan is a pussy! ----- The Game has been arrested at a mall in Greensboro, NC for disorderly conduct and swearing will signing autographs - and also for his crew intimidating police. Sounds like the police were looking for something to bust him for. ----- Bayside's drummer John Holohan was killed in a van accident yesterday when they hit a patch of ice in West Virginia on the way to a tour spot with Aiden, Silverstein and Hawthorne Heights. Go to Victory for more info. ----- Belle & Sebastian will be releasing their sixth album The Life Pursuit in February in the UK. ----- Metal Blade Records is sponsoring the Central Hockey League, one of hockey's minor leagues. Thaht is pretty awesome. Week of 10/24 This bares repeating or posting: E-mail from FEMA Director Brown's Press Secretary to Marty Bahamonde, FEMA regional director stationed in the Superdome, August 31: "Also, it is very important that time is allowed for Mr. Brown to eat dinner. Gievn (sic) that Baton Rouge is back to normal, restaurants are getting busy. He needs much more that (sic) 20 or 30 minutes. We now have traffic to encounter to get to and from a location of his choise (sic), followed by wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc. response e-mail from Bahamonde: "Just tell her that I just ate an MRE and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome along with 30,000 other close friends so I understand her concern about busy restaurants. Maybe tonight I will have time to move my pebbles on the parking garage floor so they don't stab me in the back while I try to sleep." ----- For those of you who were late with getting in your Thursday t-shirt designs, well you lost. Baltimore, Maryland – October 26, 2005 - Thursday and The Shirts for a Cure Project (SFAC) are happy to announce the winner of the “design the next Thursday shirt” contest. After pouring over more then 200 entries from all over the world, the band has, after much deliberation, picked a winner!
To view the winning entry and pre-order the shirt please visit the following link: http://www.shirtsforacure.com/sample.php?id=102
To view and pre-order this special shirt please visit the following link: http://www.shirtsforacure.com/sample.php?id=101 ----- How is it possible that Ashlee Simpson would enter this week as the number one record. Just more proof that people have terrible taste. ----- Poisson guitarist C.C. Deville has been sentence to 80 days in jail and bunch of other junk for a DWI. These 80s cock metal acts are really taking their comeback seriously with going to jail and all. ----- Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo is heading back to Harvard to finish his B.A. in English this Spring (for a June graduation). Cuomo has been going back and forth from Harvard over the past decade or so. If he was in Government, I could give him some tips, but oh well. If your parents, etc. give you flack that rock and education don't mix use this as exhibit A. ----- Sleater-Kinney has cancelled their upcoming European tour because of guitarist Carrie Brownstein's wicked allegeries that have caused a couple of hospitalizations. She has been advised to not travel nor get the Bird Flu from Europe. ----- From EVR: On November 15th, Armor For Sleep will release a full-length DVD movie entitled, "A Comprehensive Guide To Touring." The 90-minute long DVD was shot over the last year by filmmaker Joey Borden, and includes photos, cast and crew bios, live footage, and interviews. Check it out for an in-depth look at Armor For Sleep at home, on the road, and everything in between. WATCH THE DVD TRAILER: Quicktime: http://www.equalvision.com/media/video/evr115- armordvdtrailer.mov Windows: http://www.equalvision.com/media/video/evr115- armordvdtrailer.wmv ----- Rapper Cam'ron was shot in both arms during a carjacking in DC. They only wanted his Lamborghini, so I don't know what the big deal is. ----- One of Eazy E's sons Lil Eazy will be releasing an album on January 24th entitled The Prince of Compton featuring a cameo by Ice Cube. ----- Rilo Kiley's frontwoman Jenny Lewis will release her debut Rabbit Fur Coat on January 24th. Naturally, Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard and Conor Oberst will be assisting. ----- The Mars Volta will be releasing a live record Scabdates recorded between 2003 and 2005. I thought it was already released, under the title Frances the Mute, but apparently that was in the studio - ha ha! But seriously, Mars Volta rip live at least as well and usually better than recorded so this should be sweet. Week of 10/17 Fielding (Militia Group) will be doing a 'residency' at the Silver Lake Lounge in LA each Monday night in Novemeber. In other TMG news, the label just signed Controlling the Famous out of LA. ----- As a vastly interesting way to promote the band, the Ditty Bops have put out a pinup bikini calendar featuring members Amanda Barrett and Abby DeWald in different scenarios with bikes and bikinis (naturally). This is probably as close as we get to indie rock porn without being porn or indie rock. The ladies' ditties are about as hip as hip can get. Check out the calendar and the band. ----- As we noted previously, ultramarathoner Dean Karnazes was going for 350 miles continuously at the 2005 Saturn Relay and he accomplished the feat in 80 hours. A glorious achievement indeed. At the same time, the apparent rivalry between Karnazes and Pam Reed seems to be upped a notch thanks to this Outside magazine article. Just seems some people are grumpy pants. ----- Tristeza's new album A Colores can be heard through an ecard. ----- Jim O'Rourke of Sonic Youth has decided to take a hiatus from the decades old noise outfit in order to concentrate his time on directing and working on films. Hopefully, this won't disable the band, but given their incredible history of ingenuity it is doubtable such a shift would. ----- Hey everyone-Travis from The Goodwill here. I just wanted to let everyone know that we have decided to part ways with vocalist Brian Barbuto. This decision did not come easy but we knew it was the right decision to make. There are incredible 'things' just around the corner for The Goodwill. We are extremely excited to share this with all of you when that time comes. So until then, thanks again to everyone who has been sharing this incredible journey with us; but keep in mind that you haven't seen a damn thing just yet! ----- In some non-music related news, this past weekend UNC scored the number one rated power forward in the class of 2006, Brandan Wright. Most scouts believed that UNC would not get Wright after securing Deon Thompson (no. 3 center) and Alex Stepheson (no. 13 center). Now Carolina has the number one rated 2006 prospects for point guard, shooting guard and power forward. The verbal commits, including Wright, Thompson and Stepheson, are Tywon Lawson (no. 1 pg), Wayne Ellington (no. 1 sg) and William Graves (wf). They can officially committ in the early signing period beginning on November 9th. Save for competition from Ohio State's stacked 2006 class (um, man-child Greg Odgen), many believe UNC's class is one of the best in the past decade. Naturally, it is too bad these guys couldn't help this year's team - though we expect good things from Tyler Hansborough, Danny Green, Bobby Frasor, Marcus Ginyard and Michael Copeland in the upcoming months. Week of 10/10 Bright Eyes will be releasing a live record entitled Motion Sickness through Conor Oberst's own Team Love. But are going to have go to your favorite indie shop (or Team Love) to acquire it as Oberst is saying peace out to the megastores like Satanmart. ----- You can stream the entire new record from Deerhoof, Runner's Four, through an ecard. ----- Saddle Creek has recently signed Two Gallants to their roster and are planning an early January release for their debut record What the Toll Tells. ----- News Flash! Your Mom Goes To College! ----- The Strokes have announced that their new album First Impressions of Earth will be released on January 3rd, 2006. It will be very interesting to see this record's impact given the qualified reaction to the Strokes' sophomore offering. ----- Victory brethens June and the Junior Varsity will be doing an acoustic in-store show at Scotti's Record Shop in Gilette, NJ on October 14th at 3pm. This is just in time for the kids to get out of school and then after you get a free shave (as everyone does in Gilette, NJ, right?). ----- Outkast will be releasing their new record Idlewild on December 6th and it serves as the soundtrack to their new film by the same name. Let your imagination run at the possible sounds. ----- From EVR: The highly anticipated DUDESTORM TOUR featuring an amazing lineup of Fear Before The March of Flames, Bear Vs Shark, The Fall of Troy, and Since By Man has started and is in full effect!!! Visit http://www.equalvision.com/dudestorm and add yourself to the roll call. Post a photo and your Myspace link and meet up with other fans who will be at the shows! Dudestorm is all about friends. Hang with your bro's/ladies, and make new pals, so get on out there people! Dudestorm runs through November 6th. Tickets are available through http://www.equalvision.com/dudestorm/ DUDESTORM TOUR 10/10 - Roseville, CA @ The Underground Cafe ----- Trustkill Records is starting a film company with video director Darren Doane, which will no doubt feature films about naked chickens.
Week of 10/3 Scars of Tomorrow have reported that they didn't break up, so don't be a jerk. They just had some replacement pieces and are looking forward to their new album The Horror of Realization being released on October 18. ----- The Darkness are plotting the release of their new record One Way Ticket to Hell...And Back on November 29th. Lead singer Justin Hawkins has spent much of the in-between time in rehab for alien juice. ----- The Gorillaz sold out in hours a series of five shows in Manchester, England next month. Opening for the cartoons is Amityville, NY's De La Soul with their hip, cool flow. ----- Bright Eyes cancelled their St. Louis show at the Pageant because it is run by the evil Clear Channel; Conor Oberst's arch enemy. Instead, Bright Eyes will play at the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO. Not cool, Oberst. We want action in STL, not in the middle of MO. ----- Portland-based Expunged Records will be releasing a tribute album to the late Elliott Smith, entitled To: Elliott From: Portland. As you might imagine all of the contribution artists are from Portland. This includes the Decemberists, The Helio Sequence and Eric Matthews. ----- A couple of weeks we misreported that ultramarathoner Dean Karnazes was to run 300 continous miles at the Saturn Relay. In fact, Karnazes will be attempting 350 miles! Holy shit! That is 88 miles longer than he ever ran before. Again, you got to check this out! ----- Although their last record City of Evil was a bit of a pseudo-metal-fest dude, Avenged Sevenfold is getting on their horse for a two month tour in support of City of Evil. Saosin, Death By Stereo and Bullets and Octane are supporting. Fri-10-7-05 San Diego, CA Soma ----- Low has released a remix of their Monkey EP that is up for sale on iTunes. It will also be released by the band's Chairkickers Label later this year. Week of 9/26 INSOUND is having a back to school love fest. Through October 31st, if you answer their daily quiz you'll get a 25% off coupon for their store. ----- The Scottish four-piece Sons & Daughters are doing another hodgepodge U.S. tour opening for Bright Eyes and Franz Ferdinand. Hopefully they rock out harder than they did last year opening for the Oranges in Chapel Hill. ----- Want to be part of the OC? Now you can - at least get your photo in their senior yearbook. Click here for more information on how to be cool. ----- Everyone's favorite Bay Area noise oddities Deerhoof are offering a free record for download. Well, it is sort of their record. It is in fact a cover album by a bunch of artists of favorite Deerhoof songs. Get it here! In real Deerhoof news, the band is releasing their new record The Runner's Four on 5RC/KRS on October 11.
Week of 9/19 The Bouncing Souls are planning on releasing around Xmas a double live disc featuring some of their top songs - and we only hoping that "I Like Your Mom" is on it. ----- After putting out the box set of shiznit, the remaining estate of Nirvana will be releasing a rarities and demos disc entitled Sliver on November 1st. The big-to-do is that Sliver will include three unreleased tracks. ----- Everyone's favorite indie label Saddle Creek is releasing a compilation disc entitled Lagniappe with all proceeds going to the Red Cross' Katrina relief (and maybe now Rita's as well). The thirteen-track disc will feature songs from Bright Eyes, the Faint, Cursive, Criteria, etc - so basically the entire Saddle Creek family. We are very interested in the Maria Taylor-Andy LeMaster combo. ----- The sweet Shirts for a Cure project is trying to enlist you, the fans, to design Thursday's new shirt. You can email a design to thursday@shirtsforacure.com before October 4th, 2005. Besides from being hip and cool, the winner and runnerup get a bunch of Thursday material. ----- Favorite indie rock heart-throb Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley is set release her debut solo record entitled Rabbit Fur Coat on Conor Oberst's Team Love label during the winter. We for one, can't wait!
Week of 9/12 One of two non-music related news items this week is that Ultramarathon Man Dean Karnazes will be attempting to run 300 miles consecutively (that is, without stopping) at the 2005 Saturn Relay Race. After running 262 miles (10 marathons) during this race last year, Dean will be reaching for a new record at 300. To read the press release on this click here! ----- The other non-music item deals with another athletic individual. The phenomenally-tall Sun Ming Ming (7'8") is asking for help for paying for surgery for a possibly life-threatening brain tumor - that is partially the cause for his height. Sun came to our attention during the lead up to the 2005 NBA Draft as he tried out for NBA teams. The belief is that with the removal of the tumor, Sun will a. be alive and b. be able to play in the NBA, thus making him the tallest player ever. There is a website set up to help at www.savesunmingming.com. We posted some photos of Sun in the appropiately-titled Crazy section of this site. ----- Cave In is setting out in support of the new album Perfect Pitch Black (Hydra Head), an album reportedly to draw more on their early metal awesomeness (can anyone say fucking "Crossbearer") and less on the I'm-more-spacey-than-though. Below are the dates: 11/27 - New York, NY - Knitting Factory ----- The Decemberists' awesome Picaresque record is being released on vinyl - 2XLP - and contains five extra songs - "The Bandit Queen," "Bridges and Balloons," "Constantinople," "The Kingdom of Spain (Version Prescott)" and "The Bandit Queen (Version Prescott)." The LP is being released by KRS & Jealous Butcher. ----- T.A.T.U. news? The Russian pseudo-lesbian duo is about to release a new album entitled Dangerous and Moving on October 11. Even stranger is that Sting and Richard Carpenter make guest appearances. ----- Straylight Run will release a six-song EP entitled Prepare to be Wrong on October 4 on Victory Records. This will be followed with a month tour opening for Simple Plan. If that doesn't get SR into the kids' minds then nothing will. ----- Everyone's "favorite" emo band Copeland has won the latest of Yahoo! Music's "Who's Next?" Competition. In winning the competition, Copeland gets a featured spot on Yahoo! Launch page and few pounds of free cocaine in order to issue them officially into rock-star status.
Week of 9/5 Cursive reports that super-fab stringmaster Gretta Cohn has said goodbye to the group and headed back to NYC to rock her own mic. Maybe she could meet up with Conor and do her thing? ----- The Gorillaz are going to do a world tour as 3-D holograms - that's fucking cool. ----- CMJ is gearing up and we could care less. Why can't there be a cool musical festival where only a few people show up, or at least you could be able to get into the shows you want to. ----- No Idea Records is releasing one of the best splits ever on vinyl! Der split is Alkaline Trio/Hot Water Music that was originally put out by Jade Tree. Check it out at No Idea Records ----- Jade Tree is switching distro from Mordam to Touch-and-Go. How does that effect you? Probably not in the least.
Phil Anselmo on Dimebag Darryl's Death
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