bandoppler brings us March 25's intstallment of Your Music Review. Quick-hit reviews of Dizzee Rascal, The End, Decahedron and a few more. Some, um, questionable language involved here, so parents, mind your kiddies' habits online. As well, check out this interview with Spin senior writer Andy Greenwald, who's written an acclaimed book called Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers and Emo, focusing on the co-opting of the original D.C. emo scene into mainstream oversaturation. Good read; the book was apparently inspired largely by Dashboard Confessional's meteoric rise to fame. I remember my former partner in crime coming back from the States in the spring of 2001 raving about this guy on a stage in Pittsburgh with a stool and an acoustic guitar. Back in the day.
Essential listening for today, an overcast Ottawa afternoon when I should probably be out looking for work: Blenderhead's swan song, 2000's Figureheads On The Forefront of Pop Culture. Hefty title, with a great album to back it up. Man, I miss Blenderhead. This was angular, shifty, almost-emo-before-emo-got-enormous stuff.
You wanna know what sucks? All I wanna do is check out radiotakeover once in a while, and yet because I use subpar computers, the news and whatever else simply doesn't appear onscreen. C'mon! Well, I guess I've done my bit by linking for all y'all with GOOD computers.
I saw actress Jill Henessey on The Late Late Show last night; did you know she's Canadian? Anyone that hot has to be. She can sing too! I think I'm in love.
Alternative Press put out their annual 100 Bands You Need To Know issue or somesuch; some highlights worthy of the ink include Moneen, Atmosphere, The Stills, The Weakerthans, Mae, Maxeen, Funeral For A Friend, Nora, Senses Fail, Roy, Every Time I Die and Killswitch Engage. All good bands you should be listening to.
A couple Canadian dates have been added to the As I Lay Dying tour with the aforementioned Killswitch Engage; nothing in Ottawa though. Doh! *keeps praying* [hxc]
Unsung: The Best of Helmet 1991-1997 is in stores now, and you should probably be running out to get it, considering this is one of the seminal bands of the last fifteen years we're talking about here. The compilation features stuff from all four studio albums, plus the 'Just Another Victim' collaboration with House of Pain circa 1992 or so. I want it bad. A new Helmet record will hit later this year!
If you were and are a fan of the dearly-departed Five Iron Frenzy, you'll wanna be reading this here. I'm stoked.
Some new music from Eighteen Visions and Ottawa's own Buried Inside: here and here, respectively. Oh, BRING the ruckus. [lambgoat]
You know your Christian rock band is big when: MuchMusic posts your shows in their Canadian Concert Listings, as is the case with Switchfoot's shows in Toronto and Montreal(April 14th and 15th). Oh yes.
This year's Projekt Revolution Tour(Linkin Park's now-annual trek) is to be avoided at all costs this year, with one exception: Downset are playing! This isn't official yet, but they're playing the second stage with, um, D12, and a whole lotta irrelevant-to-me acts are playing main stage. [theprp]
Nonpoint have signed with Lava Records; this means their new album will be out July 13th through that label. No title yet. Nonpoint are so great. Remember 'What A Day'? What a chorus!
I just listened to Emery's debut The Weak's End earlier today, and now here's a video for the first single: 'Walls'. [punknews]
Kenny Bridges, vocalist for Moneen, apparently has some "piano thing side project" going on; he'll be maybe recording a seven-inch for it at some indeterminate point. Vague enough for you?
In May of last year, Pigeon John rocked Babylon to its foundations, and the opener was this female MC from somewhere named Ndidi, and this morning(at some ungodly hour) on RapCity I saw her in a video with this other female MC, and the track was killer. Check this stuff out.
pastepunk is flat-out awesome. So much better than us it's ridiculous. Go! Now! They'll sing! And dance! And entertain you!
Isn't THIS intriguing! *quakes in anticipation*
virtualfrequency has been given a new look; head on over and see what you think, and get the latest on the hiphop music, industry and gadgets out there. This site is run, I believe, by DJ Maj. Booyah!
Posted by mike at March 31, 2004 03:54 PM