Don't know if we already reported this, but Society's Finest are writing a full-length record with plans to record it later this winter(February/March-ish). I hope the production doesn't bury their awesome sound. And speaking of SF, their vocalist Josh Ashworth spent some time in Zao, and I retrieved a copy of that massive collective's self-titled album, and it is truly as sick as I remember it. Yes. [buzzgrinder]
New Found Glory are doing something they're calling the Back to Basics tour, with opening acts Reggie and the Full Effect and Eisley. This tour will see NFG playing small clubs and the like again, and my entire reason for relating this news is my shred of hope that it'll bring them back to Ottawa again after I missed them two months ago. DOH! If you wanna read all about it blah blah blah, click this.
The Take Action tour: check the lineup. Plain White Ts, Anberlin, Hawthorne Heights, Head Automatica and Sugarcult. Wierd bill. Man, I love Anberlin.
Victory Records has signed some band called Aiden. Why do I care? Because my girlfriend's brother-in-law's name is Aidan. Close enough.
Oh yay: Bane are gonna have a new record out in the spring! Produced by Brian McTernan! I'm excited. Work commences next week, apparently. [lambgoat]
If you're not doing anything Saturday(New Year's Day) and you live here in Ottawa, c'mon out to Surface around and watch Illo and Kid SL drop the most amazing hiphop attack in the city. There's a bunch of others playing the rave, notably headliner Trevor Walker, but I'm going for the hiphop.
How's this for a cryptic online breakup note, this from the now-defunct A18: "It's over Jonny. No Last show. No nothing. Some of us cared too much. Some of us couldn't care less. Thanks to those who were there for us. We love you." Weird.
You know what truly massive band I've discovered this month? 100 Demons. Holy breakdowns everywhere.
Speaking of unholy breakdowns everywhere, behold: Throwdown - lost a guitarist, have a new album(Vendetta) coming next July. There you go.
You a drummer? Like the metal? Wanna play for a band signed to the mighty Abacus Records? 'Course you are/do. So! Now that we've straightened that out, The Abandoned Hearts Club outta Toronto(featuring this bassist dude Erik I interviewed years ago when he was in Moneen) are looking for a new drummer. Send your floods of email over here! Whee! I proudly display my AHC matchbook on my computer.
One of my favourite bands of the last couple years, Winnipeg's Comeback Kid, are putting out their Victory Records debut Wake the Dead on February 22nd, and that makes it an ideal birthday present for yours truly, should anyone care to make a small donation to moi. [theprp]
An underrated band on Pluto Records down in the Lone Star state(that's 'Texas', kids), called Please Mr. Gravedigger, are releasing an EP March 29th. It's called Throw A Beat, and we'll all love it.
I sincerely hope that you Ottawa kids aren't doing anything March 8th, because it'll have to be postponed/canceled/torched, on account of the Atreyu/Norma Jean/Unearth/Scars of Tomorrow tour that'll be hitting the Capital Music Hall that night. Ye gods, that'll be good. And the next night at the same club is the Rise Against show! And March 3rd is Underoath in Montreal! I can't contain myself!!
...in case you live somewhere other than Ottawa and kinda wanna know where else Unearth et al. are heading, here:
February 08th Anaheim, CA - House of Blues Anaheim
February 15th San Antonio, TX - White Rabbit
February 16th Houston, TX - The Meridian
February 18th Covington, KY - Madison Theatre
February 19th Winston-Salem, NC - Ziggy's
March 02nd New York, NY - Spirit Performance Center
March 07th Montreal, QC - Spectrum
March 08th Ottawa, ON - Capital Music Hall
March 09th Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre
March 10th Pontiac, MI - Clutch Cargos
March 11th Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall
March 12th Grand Rapids, MI - Orbit Room
March 13th Chicago, IL - House of Blues Chicago
March 15th Cleveland, OH - House of Blues Cleveland
March 16th Milwaukee, WI - The Eagles Club
March 17th Minneapolis, MN - The Quest
March 18th Lawrence, KS - Granada Theatre
March 19th Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
March 20th Salt Lake City, UT - Lo-Fi Cafe
March 22nd Seattle, WA - Graceland
March 23rd Portland, OR - Meow Meow
March 24th San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
March 25th Sacramento, CA - Colonial Theatre
March 26th Santa Cruz, CA - The Catalyst
March 29th West Hollywood, CA - House of Blues Los Angeles
The Chevelle slash Helmet tour I would kill to see will in fact be in Canada: Toronto on February 19th, venue to be confirmed.
I was just talking to the lovely Mikyla about this yesterday: when're Thrice gonna come out with a new record? There's information on that very topic right over here. You're welcome.
This blows my mind completely: a new scream/grind project comprised of - get this - members of Glassjaw, Thursday vocalist Geoff Rickley, a dude from Kiss It Goodbye and another dude from The Number Twelve Looks Like You and a guy from Eyeball Records in Jersey?? That's insanity!! A GRIND project with a dude from THURSDAY IN IT? Get real. I can't wait to hear it. This is from Alternative Press, so I hope it's credible. [punknews]
And just for the sake of memory, check out this interview with Rickley that I edited years ago for another 'zine; it was 2001, I believe, or 2002, and the interview was in Pittsburgh. Yes.
It was probably a matter of sheer odds: legendary gore/grind band Nasum's lead vocalist is among the many thousands that are missing following the disaster in Asia this week. God, please grant them peace in this time of unrest, Nasum and the many others in their situation.
Yeeeeesss: new Strike Anywhere song called 'Asleep' is available over here. Modern agitated punk at its very finest - go now.
How's this for something to do on New Year's Eve: checking out The Weakerthans opening for The Tragically Hip, in a hockey arena, in Hamilton, Ontario? I LIKE it. If you actually do wanna go, it's at Copps Coliseum in H-town, Weakerthans go on at quarter after nine, Deck 31st.
An interesting tidbit, at least to me: The Chariot's frontman Josh Scogin(yes, the one who used to be in Norma Jean) is actually producing new labelmates' As Cities Burn's new Solid State Records album in the new year. How 'bout that. [OGS]
In some extended tsunami-in-Asia coverage, an update on how much Canada is committing to helping: we've upped the ante from four million bucks to forty. Good.
Posted by mike at December 29, 2004 07:32 PM