There's a lot of Facedown Records news lately; here are some highlights in point form:
- Comeback Kid are heading out on a massive tour with Bleeding Through and Between The Buried and Me, with Martyr A.D. also appearing here and there. The show will be in Ottawa at Babylon May 5th, and I just realized that til five seconds ago I thought it was the 4th. Oops. The Canadian leg of the tour is as follows:
May 4 - Montreal, QC @ Salle L'X w/ Between The Buried And Me
May 5 - Ottawa, ONT @ The Babylon w/Between The Buried And Me
May 6 - Toronto, ONT @ Kathedral Room w/ Between The Buried And Me
May 7 - Guelph, ONT @ Trashateria w/ Between The Buried And Me
- Nodes of Ranvier are hitting the tour circuit with Glass Casket and Crematorium; the itinerary is too long to list here without running the risk of losing the attention-challenged readers among you, so hit up Facedown's site(up top there) for that.
- Strikefirst Records, Facedown's subsidiary, is going strong. Yesh.
- Both nights of the Facedown Fest a month ago in California were sold out; the shows were filmed for an upcoming DVD, so be on the lookout for that.
Omar of The Mars Volta has a solo project wrapped up; it's called A Manual Dexterity - Soundtrack Volume 1, and it's scheduled for release in July. As well, Omar has a film project under the same name. [buzzgrinder]
The annual Tulip Festival(so named because roughly a million and a half tulips around Ottawa's downtown core bloom at the same time - funny how these things work out) is coming around the bend; every year the music is kinda different, but this year's edition features some great bands. Check it out:
May 15th: Billy Talent
May 17th: Moonlight Graham
May 21st: Recoilers/Constantines/Department of Foreign Affairs(ex-Pop Shove its)
May 23rd: DJ Rise Ashen
Mat 24th: Wide Mouth Mason
I think the all-concert pass goes for twenty bucks before May....6th, I believe. You don't wanna miss these shows. It all goes down in Major's Hill Park beside Parliament Hill. I'll be there for as many shows as I can.
Caedmon's Call, one of my favourite acts period, have a best-of out called Chronicles: 1992-2004. The album is about twenty tracks, featuring a lot of the best-loved songs from their twelve years cranking out intelligent acoustic pop and some new/unreleased stuff. I already own all the records, but for those who don't, this is a good start. What a great band.
This here is the first real interview I've read with the guys in Symphony In Peril; I like their band and their album from last year, but I never really knew much about them aside from their vocalist being ex-Zao. Read and learn, kids!
Posted by mike at April 8, 2004 03:56 PM