Wanna see something rad that every local 'zine should think about shamelessly copying? I've never seen this done before: check this here out and go to the little calendar on the lower right side of the site, and then run your cursor over the various dates in yellow - to see what shows are on that day! Awesome. As if Australia is getting Terror and Comeback Kid and we're getting squat.
You know who's a good Australian band that my boy Ryan won't quit raving about? I Killed The Prom Queen. Yes.
Oh, and to rub salt in the wound, Madball are also gonna be Down Under:
Tue Feb 15 White Sands Hotel, Perth
Wed Feb 16 Uni Bar, Adelaide Lic / All Ages
Thur Feb 17 Corner, Melbourne
Fri Feb 18 The Rev, Brisbane
Sat Feb 19 Manning Bar – Sydney Uni, Sydney Lic / All Ages
Sun Feb 20 Cambridge, Newcastle
Stupid lack of shows around here!
...however, the first nine days of March will be epic. Check it: the 3rd in Montreal - Underoath and Killswitch Engage, along with three others. The 8th in Ottawa - Unearth and Norma Jean, among others, and the 9th also in Ottawa - Rise Against and Belvedere! Legendary.
An interesting email arrived from the fellas in Lucerin Blue, the most salient point being a new song they've slapped online over here called 'Photograph Of A Crime Scene' - sounds pretty good for an 'early demo', as they refer to it. The new album, The Dying Words of A Failed Artist, should be out mid-spring.
I found a link to a minute-long clip of some new stuff from Soilwork, but since it sounds exactly like everything else they've released, I'm not gonna bother mentioning it here. If you're that hardcore a fan, you'll find it somewhere anyway.
If you're the wealthy sort, or just looking for information, or not wealthy and still wanting to help, the Canadian Red Cross needs you. So do over a hundred thousand families in southeast Asia. Prayers, finances, more prayers. Do it. The death toll is 156,000 and rising.
Hilarious, but true: Motley Crue are once again a functional rock band, and touring Canada. This has all the information, including when in Canada and where - Ottawa is among the stops! - as well as the new greatest-hits album Crue are pushing. I still can't get over this.
Switchfoot have upwards of forty new songs written for their next album, which will begin the recording process in...well, how 'bout that? They're in the studio right as you read these very words. Creeeepy. [Relevant]
Kudos to punknews, who've allegedly branched out, creating PunkNews Records. My nonexistent project Feels Like Tuna will be their first release. Not. [punktastic]
This is a review of the new Brandtson offering, Send Us A Signal, and before you read it, know this: I bought their first or second or third album, Letterbox, with my Christmas money on a hunch, and I was pretty disappointed. I wish Myk Porter would bring back Six Feet Deep - one of the first hardcore bands I ever heard in my life. Hopefully Brandtson have improved with time.
Someone, I'm not gonna say who, but someone, as I see here in front of me, has compared Park's No Signal album with MxPx. What? That's lunacy. Two great bands, zero similarities aside from both being made up entirely of white people.
Posted by mike at January 3, 2005 09:38 PM