The new record from Further Seems Forever, just came out Tuesday, called Hide Nothing - it's amazing. Not amazing like How To Start A Fire was amazing a year and a half ago, because there's a new singer involved, but man can this band write great songs. I highly recommend it. Personally, I can't stop listening; it hasn't left my person in three days.
Speaking of new stuff, Green Day have a new single out from their upcoming album. Called 'American Idiot'(in keeping with the current trend of anti-patriotism in American recording artists), the video has lots of green paint involved - and the song sounds like it came off 1995's Insomniac album, and that's awesome.
The somewhat regular punkottawa email dropped today, detailing the upcoming shows in the underground around this fair town. Some highlights: Calgary punk band Kiros are in town Sunday night(August 29th), playing with Hartsfield and others. That's at Mavericks on Rideau Street. 6:30pm, eight bucks. I'll be there barring disaster. As well, September 5th my boy Tomo's other band We, The Accused are playing a basement show at 295 Powell St. here in town, opening for a band called Weather(ex-Milemarker, from Chicago). 7pm, five bucks. Word. Oh, and the big Killswitch Engage show on September 15th is sure to be a large draw, considering Eighteen Visions and From Autumn to Ashes are opening.
Lucerin Blue have been recording of late, new album coming out early 2005 if all goes well - not on Tooth & Nail Records, I gather. Tales of the Knife was a good album that T&N didn't really do much with, so I hope the new album does better by the band. They're also playing the giant Harvest Moon festival out in Edmonton(who isn't? GEEZ!), so check out their website for the tour dates they're setting up around their appearance there.
So yesterday on the bus I saw two amazing shirts: one was this head shot of who I believe was Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys(hilarious, but not recommended for children or hard-nosed Christian types), and underneath it just said "I'm crushing your head." I have no idea. And the other one, oh man, it was this brilliant orange t-shirt with MR. T on it, and arching over THAT head shot was "I Pity The Fool!" I can now die a happy man!
There's a pretty good article in Urb magazine on Christian hiphop and its current status, where it's heading and why it is what it is, quoting several well-known figures(KJ-52, Mars Ill, etc), and overall a good read. Sign up for their email list to keep tabs on what's what in electronica, hiphop and tons more. Word!
Essential Listening for August 27th is a huge, huge album: Straight Faced's 1998 epic Conditioned, featuring one of my absolute favourite hardcore anthems of all time, 'Against'. What a riff. I'm pretty sure this came out in '98, anyway. Whatever. It's incredible. Turn it up: I CHOOSE MY OWN ROAD!!
Zao put out a new album recently. It's called The Funeral of God. I'm still enraged that twice now I've been screwed out of seeing them live. But here's a review of the new record anyway.
Man, 'Against' is a killer song! Geez!
Posted by mike at August 27, 2004 04:48 PM