Essential listening for today, February 24th, is Most Precious Blood's 2001 debut Nothing In Vain. It's fast, loud, hard and furious. And intelligent. All the prerequisites for a great hardcore album. And to think I've yet to hear their apparent masterpiece, last year's Our Lady of Annihilation! Imagine what I'd say about that one!
A lot of news via email from Floodgate Records, the most important being that apparently February 22nd-28th is National Pancake Week. Your guess is as good as mine as to whether we're all required to gorge on pancakes. I'm down for that idea, personally. Other news from Floodgate's camp: Number One Gun just finished a video for 'The Starting Line', and are touring like madmen with the likes of John Reuben, Ace Troubleshooter and Bleach...exciting news that Cool Hand Luke are just about done with their sophomore label album The Fires of Life, said to feature a lot more piano(here's hoping they haven't gone totally Coldplay on us)...and finally, newest label signing Mourning September are hitting the studio March 10th to begin recording their debut album with producer James Paul Wisner(Glasseater, Further Seems Forever). Should be good.
Ontario what up! One of our fair province's better bands, Lucerin Blue, have been picked up for booking by The Agency Group, one of the most well-known agencies around. Good things will happen. Maybe they'll even come play Cap City sometime now.
Long-running local band Midday Blackout have a show Thursday night, February 26th at Zaphod's(27 York St. down in the Byward Market), opening up for Steve Gardiner(ex-ThermoCline). Five bucks, eight pm door time. C'mon out.
Remember Jimmie's Chicken Shack? I do! And they have a new record coming out April 27th, and it's called Re.Present, and even though it's got that bald dude from Staind on it I won't hold that against them. [theprp]
How 'bout this here: P.O.D. are headlining a tour beginning May 1st with openers Blindside(such a great band), Lacuna Coil and Hazen Street, who I've never heard of in my entire life. I'd catch this tour, 'specially since DJ Omnifik and myself were SCREWED out of seeing the P.O.D./Linkin Park tour in January. BOOOOOOOO! Dates for this new jaunt to come shortly.
From punknews: "Today has been dubbed Grey Tuesday, courtesy of hundreds of websites worldwide. The websites, organized by Downhill Battle, are protesting EMI's cease-and-desist order on DJ Danger Mouse, who recently released The Grey Album.
"The Grey Album is a remix record of mythic proportions - the music from The Beatles' White Album and the rhymes from Jay-Z's The Black Album have been fused together as one new album. EMI has essentially banned distribution of The Grey Album, both physically(only 5000 copies were made) and electronically, threatening anyone who hosts the MP3s with legal action.
"Today, hundreds of websites have uploaded the record in full in protest, and hundreds more have turned their colors grey in support of the cause. To find out more information on this issue and locate what sites are supporting Grey Tuesday, head to GreyTuesday.org."
sweetdisaster has a copy of The Grey Album, the source of which we'll not divulge. More on this later.
Tomorrow night Three Days Grace are playing Jay Leno; be on the lookout for the mohawked guitarist rocking an Is Grace Enough t-shirt! Yeeeaaah baby!!
onegoldenspoon are apparently covering Canadian Music Week in Toronto later this spring. The memories flood back. *reminisces*
Posted by mike at February 24, 2004 05:35 PM