Holy crap.
...for those wondering why I'm so worked up, you all need to download a song called 'Message Beneath Contempt' by Swedish heavyweights Raised Fist. This song will completely obliterate what's left of your mind - if you've taken all our previous orders here about downloading this or that mind-crushing number from this or that amazing band. If you haven't, boy, are you out of the loops. My boy Ryan's band Is Grace Enough opened up for these dudes last year, and I was in Michigan and therefore missed it. One of my biggest regrets.
Okay: it's very last-minute, but a dude I know has four adult tickets to Worshipfest going down tomorrow through Sunday that he wants to get rid of at the price he paid: sixty bucks. There are also four kid-priced tickets at forty-eight dollars each. If you wanna go, I'm gonna risk my own rear end here: 867-5858 is my number here in the city; call that number and you'll be connected to the dude in question to handle all the particulars. No stupid calls, please.
The Fully Down were part of the Warped tour festivities in Washington, D.C., yesterday, and sweetdisaster supporter Jordan A. Friggin' Baker was quite impressed by the Ottawa sextet with the tri-guitar metal assault: "THE FULLY DOWN, from Ottawa, Canada ripped things up on the Kevin Says stage - they won the Alternative Press Warped Tour contest and easily proved their worth."
Word!
One Cross, soon to be known as Manic Drive(wonder what that name is about - someone find out for me), are hitting a bunch of festivals across the land this summer. Notable dates include Family Fest with Toby Mac and Skillet, happening down in Kitchener, Ontario August 15th(website here), Wired For Jesus alongside Lucerin Blue and Fighting the Fall August 20th in Cambridge(that'll be a fun show) and more fun stuff. All the particulars can be found over here.
Speaking of Ontario bands slogging their way to stardom, Midday Blackout are gonna be playing at Worshipfest this weekend out at the Nepean Equestrian park, and to pump up the volume as it were, they'll be interviewed on CHRI FM tonight at nine. 99.1 on your radio dial. Check it out and hear the new single 'Interstate Seven' from the long-awaited debut full-length.
Keep your eyes out for yet another Ontario band, this one not Christian or contemporary(not that there's anything wrong with that Jerry Seinfeld): Financial Panther is up and swinging, featuring two members of Alexisonfire with two dudes formerly of Rise Over Run. Props to my boy Phil on bass for the heads-up. There's a seven-inch on the way from FP, and though their first show won't be til December, you gotta figure that's plenty of time to build a buzz. Woohoo!
This just in: Haste the Day aren't from Ohio. They're from Indiana. See, I knew that posting it whenever it was I posted that, but again I went against that still small voice in my head. When will I learn to listen to that voice?? Man. Our extremely insincere apologies. Except to the band, if they read this. Then we're being sincere.
In Back In The Day news, R.E.M. have a new studio album coming out October 4th entitled Around The Sun. Speaking of the sun, wasn't their time in it done a long time ago? Just a thought. Great band way back though. [absolutepunk]
Here's a weird bill if you're in the NYC area: Senses Fail and My Chemical Romance opening up for legends Face to Face at Irving Plaza on August 22nd. And Senses Fail will be here in Ottawa September 17th opening for Underoath, a production brought you in(a very small) part by us here at sweetdisaster. Be there.
Yaaaay skate-punk: Goldfinger's new single 'My Everything'(I think I hate the title of the song already) has been posted at their website. The new album is called Disconnection Notice, hitting stores January 5th of next year. Awesomeness.
Ottawa band If Tomorrow Comes(what up Mariful) has a new slab coming out "sometime in August" called We Share This Burden; you can hear a single from said slab right over here. [ChamberSpinsThree]
In a related bit, Quebec hardcore artistes Forsaken Trust have split up. Three years they ran. Not bad in this day and age.
Enjoy Worshipfest this weekend, those of you going. Everyone else, catch you Monday probably. Peace.
Posted by mike at August 5, 2004 04:01 PM