If you like drum and bass music(and some of you do, I can feel it in my very marrow), check out some Dieselboy, like this here CD The 6ixth Session that I swiped from sweetdisaster enforcer DJ Omnifik. He'll get it back, when I'm done grooving to it.
Floodgate Records outta California has signed Forever Changed, from Florida. I knew I'd heard this name somewhere before but I was at a loss until I read the press release in my email box and saw that Nick Roccanti manages the band, and then it all fell into place. Nick is the brains behind hardcorechristian dot com, and a longtime associate of mine. So here's to Forever Changed rewriting the annals of rock. The band has toured extensively on an indie basis, opening for bigger names and honing their chops, and they'll be entering a studio somewhere in October aiming for a spring 2005 release. Word.
The latest(so far as we know) release through Strikefirst Records is that of Bloodlined Calligraphy, an EP called The Beginning of the End. Watch for it.
The three members of Jane's Addiction who aren't vocalist Perry Farrell(who has his own things to deal with, what with Lollapalooza falling apart last-minute earlier this week) are regrouping in another band with another vocalist who I've never heard of. This is after Jane's put out a pretty mediocre comeback album last year and then imploded again. [aversion]
Some interesting news out of the MxPx camp(a longtime favourite of mine, and probably yours too): the band has called it quits with their label home of the last six years, A&M Records(which was bought out by one of the giant labels a few years back anyway). Where will Seattle's beloved trio head now? Time will tell. *cue dramatic music* There're rumours afoot that they might go to Fat Wreck Chords after they put out an EP with them several years ago, or Tooth and Nail, where they got their start. Hmm.
As of June 23(that's three days ago, kiddies), the new record from Underoath had sold in excess of ten thousand copies, which is amazing from an underground band like them. Feel free to make cheapshot remarks about genre-hopping....NOW!
Some new music from Society's Finest is right over here. Get on it. The band's next album will be out at the end of August, and I hope it's even half as good as The Journey So Far, because that'd be enough for the likes of me. And when you're done that, here's some new Further Seems Forever too. Take that!
Posted by mike at June 26, 2004 03:48 PM