Afternoon, everybody. After a protracted wait of interminable months(I can't get anything done reasonably on time; it's a failing I know) the feature piece with Anberlin singer Stephen Christian(a great dude, despite some misunderstandings between us - meh) is up and there for your reading pleasure, 'bout in inch and a half above these very words. Like you could miss the giant ANBERLIN thing. If you like the picture on our homepage now, well, that's a shot of the lake that webmaster extraordinaire Flikkema and his lovely wife Kelly go to on occasion. Pretty, no? Oh, and Anberlin are touring western Canada soon with Mourning September, The Beautiful Mistake and Noise Ratchet; no word on dates in the Ottawa area - or even eastern Canada - but we'll hope anyway.
We also have a review of Next In Line's debut CD over in the reviews section; great band, great record, worth reading and then buying.
Speaking of great bands, Stavesacre have a new song called 'Handful of Words' on the web, so you can hear what they've been up to by clicking on this.
One of L.A. Symphony's solo efforts has landed in a big spot: Flynn's track 'Superstar' has been selected by Nike to be on their website; part of some workout mixtape thing. I don't really care too much about the details because it's Nike, but it is pretty awesome for Flynn and his label.
Essential Listening for today, September 14th, is Give Us Barabbas, the 2002 album that turned out to be the swan song for one of the seminal bands in my existence, The Blamed. Having gone through the hardcore stage(Frail, 21) and the massively-thick guitar action stage(Germany), the band's last two records, Isolated Incident and then this here album, displayed a penchant for noisy, wildly varied rock and roll. Rough stuff. I love it. R.I.P.
Posted by mike at September 14, 2004 11:52 AM