New material up in the Album Reviews section. We just keep on keepin' on around here, no?
This Just In: according to source Fat Mike(you're famous now!), the new record from Death From Above 1979 owns everything and everyone, including you and your family and your pets and houseplants. So there. Check it out. It's called You're A Woman, I'm A Machine....nice. Real nice.
Observe, the depths of delusion to which illusionists can sink. The following is a quote dealing with magician Roy Horn(half of Siegfried and Roy), concerning that whole attacked-by-his-own-tiger-and-mauled-to-within-an-inch-of-his-friggin'-life deal last year: "In an interview with Maria Shriver, Horn said he fainted on stage during the fateful performance and that the tiger was only trying to help him by dragging him off stage." What? Excuse me? You're that friendly with your tiger? Your tabbycat, maybe, but let's be real: this tiger wanted some Royflesh. Geez. [Relevant]
Better Than Ezra are releasing a live DVD soon. Wait, who? Better Then EZRA? As in the band I was listening to when I was SEVENTEEN? That's so rad. Remember them? 'Good'? Great band.
R.E.M. are coming to Ottawa soon. Anyone else going? I really wanna. So are Metallica. I don't think I care.
Another bit from Relevant's masterful online portion: "In honor of all our Canadian readers, congrats on winning the Hockey World Cup. Canada beat Finland 3-2 the other night. To our Finland reader—we feel your pain." That's gold. And yes, we did go - ahem - UNDEFEATED the entire tournament.
Hot on the heels of appearing in Ottawa twice in the last year and a half(no one showed up the first time, the second time they fared a bit better), De La Soul are wrapping up their new record, The Grind Date, due out October 5th. Dope.
Also coming to Ottawa, November 10th at the Corel Centre: the Beastie Boys. Good floor tickets will run you fifty-six dollars; no word on opening acts yet, but there're unsubstantiated rumours around that it'll be Talib Kweli, in which case the heart attack commences immediately. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, September 18th. Here's hoping they still have the decency to do 'So What'cha Want' live. Props to sweetdisaster enforcer DJ Omnifik for the info.
The title to U2's forthcoming album, their first since 2000: How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. That's straight off their website, so you betta wreckanize.
Behold: a review of the new Terror disc One With The Underdogs. I happen to like the album - especially 'Not This Time'; what a riff - and Roy Culver seems to think it doesn't measure up their live show...well, I've never heard a band sound as good on CD as they do live. It's very hard to do. [bandoppler]
Pedro The Lion is awesome. Control = one of my favourite records - still.
Posted by mike at September 17, 2004 01:15 PM