Essential listening for today brings you some hiphop flava: last year's Underground Rise album/compilation Vol. 1: Sunrise/Sunset. I call it a compilation because it's basically the mother of all posse-cut albums. This is the one that features a track called 'One Voice' featuring all of both Deepspace5 and the Tunnel Rats. Wow. Something like seventeen MCs in all. Oh, and amazing cover art.
I stopped by CD Warehouse(1383 Clyde Ave. for those in Ottawa's west end what a cheap, cheap plug) to see what was up besides my boy Jeff being back from spending a year and a half with his band Circuit, and I almost, just barely stopped from, walking out with the live album from Rage Against the Machine. Holy crap. There's this minute and a half of ambient crowd noise and intro, then four counts on the drums and then POW! 'Bulls On Parade' is unleashed on Los Angeles. Man, I miss Rage.
Also discovered on this little mission was the fact that Nas guests on the new Korn record; it was almost enough to make me check the track out. Almost, but not quite.
OOOOOOH YEAH, BABY!! Illect's newest recording artist is none other than LA Symphony kingpin Flynn Adam Atkins! His third solo record and debut for Illect will drop in the springtime. That's right!! Werd.
Interesting twist regarding Canadian sales of the new In The Name of Love: Artists United For Africa compilation: apparently due to certain legalities, the album will still be sold here, but the proceeds will go to a Canadian charity. Check this word from CMC Distibution exec Tony Cooper: "Originally the album was being produced in conjunction with World Vision (U.S.) to support their efforts in Africa to help fight AIDS. We have recently found out that this only applies to the U.S. and cannot be sold in Canada. As a result we are forging ahead but with the proceeds going to World Vision Canada. This means that a lot of the legality of the record needs to be worked out before CMC can release it into the market. It will be the same songs, done by the same artists but the benefit will go to a Canadian charity instead." Innneresting.
If anyone but Relevant had posted this I wouldn't have cared, but, well, I don't know how true this here is...
Former Underoath guitarist Octavio Fernandez has a new band called Anam Cara, and they've just signed with Strikefirst Records, along with another SoCal band called Trauma. I've yet to hear anything from Strikefirst that really blew my mind. Good, but not great, y'dig? [hxc]
This here makes us here at sweetdisaster proud; scroll down to #39, babies. [rockrebel]
Posted by mike at February 14, 2004 04:31 PM