The upcoming U2 album has a name - tentatively: Vertigo. rockrebel reports that several websites containing 'U2' and 'Vertigo' have been registered by a Dublin, Ireland-based web company - owned in part by U2 bassist Adam Clayton's brother. Pretty ironclad, I'd say. The record comes out in November, and is produced by Chris Thomas and Steve Lillywhite(longtime Dave Matthews Band cohort).
Speaking of DMB, one of the dudes from Switchfoot's road crew last night was Dave Matthews' live sound tech for years. What up to RYAN! What a dude. Oh, and this has just been handed to me: over in Europe the soundtrack to Spider-Man 2 features a Switchfoot song. Apparently there are eleven different official soundtracks to this movie. Holy global merchandising scheme. I kinda feel bad because on this continent a song from uber-terrible band Train is one of the lead singles from said soundtrack. We're getting shafted.
Former Five Iron Frenzy ringleader and vocalist Reese Roper has lent his vocal talents to up-and-coming band Showbread's new record. No details to speak of, but Roper flew out to California or someplace to record with the band - and I've heard lots about this band over the last six months or so. Anyone know if they're worthy of the hype?
Fear Before the March of Flames have wrapped up their followup to last year's Odd How People Shake record; the new slab is called Art Damage, and it'll come out September 7th on Equal Vision Records. Killer band. [aversion]
The only band I've ever seen that got shut down by police(maybe I need to get out more or something), The Mad Caddies will make their live-album debut later this year as part of Fat Wreck's Live In A Dive series - and get this: the show in question was St. Patrick's Day in Toronto. Oooooh, Caaaanadaaaaaa!!! The record comes out on September 7th(that date again).
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Back up the trolley. What is this I hear about No Innocent Victim re-forming? NIV? What? The very first hardcore band I ever heard? I'm very very very very very very excited now. Here's hoping that they can fulfill my decade-long dream of playing in my backyard! [hardcorechristian]
Project 86 and Pillar are heading out on the Where Do We Go From Here tour, sponsored by...Best Buy. Uh oh.
punkhardcore outta Toronto got screwed by some advertisers reneging on payment, so now they're in the hole three grand. They need some help. Hit up the site to offer some. Word.
Boysnightout drummer Ben(no last name needed!) has decided that he'd rather teach and further his education than be a drummer in a band, so to that effect - he's leaving. So long. His replacement will be former Fordirelifesake(I've heard that name EVERYWHERE!) skinsman Brian Southhall. My dad's a teacher, so I respect Ben's career choice.
That is it for today's news. Here's hoping I get some more interviews up soon. Like, oh, I don't know, Anberlin, Comeback Kid and Zao. You'd think that'd be impetus enough, really. Oi.
Posted by mike at July 8, 2004 04:18 PM