My parents sent me The Blind Boys of Alabama's Go Tell It On The Mountain album today! I love my folks.
A non-chronological followup to our posting of Upcoming Ottawa Shows earlier today, because this week's XPress had some new stuff:
- Sum 41 are bringing No Warning and Montreal's Unwise(crazy good live band; I saw 'em two weeks back with Not By Choice) through town on Sunday - three days from now. I won't be there.
- J-Zone and Louis Logic are playing a Large Hiphop Show at Babylon(317 Bank St.) with openers - catch 'em all now - Skratch Bastid, Applied Science, Rugged Intellect(new Ottawa crew) and Periodic Trends.
- 2Live Crew are returning to the capital - not that I care. That's February 11th at Babylon.
- And the killer finale: guesting at the '05 DMC elimination here in town April 1st at the Capital Music Hall - your friend and mine, Rjd2. I'm officially having a stroke over here.
Before we proceed, let it be known to one and all that my boy Chris has 'Lowrider' as the ringtone on his cell phone. Word.
In an attempt to distract us all from how terrible Meteora was, Linkin Park donated ten thousand bucks to the tsunami relief effort in southeast Asia. Great gesture. The record still sucks. Oh, and the Canadian government's donation has been upped to $425 million as of today. Truly something to be proud of.
Toronto rapper Manafest, aka Chris Greenwood, has a new album dropping in April, called Epiphany; it'll be out on Tooth and Nail Records, which we'd heard was in the works but hadn't confirmed til this exact second. T&N are also re-releasing his debut, My Own Thing. All the information is right over here. [sphereofhiphop]
A little correction from a previous post: The Fully Down are playing Zaphod's Saturday night, and doors are at eight, not nine as we'd stated. As well, The Shotgun Rules are opening up(straight outta London, Ontario), not The Shotgun Message, as we'd also stated. We're kinda stupid around here. The hawk-eyed reader catching our miscues is none other than Samantha, who better be at the show Saturday!!
This sickened me, and since it is becoming more and more prevalent in "the scene", as the cool kids call it, read it. It concerns a band called Fire When Ready(Equal Vision Records, I believe), but the link leads to an admittedly out-of-date Christmas card photo. Take note of the dude far right - that's Aaron Scott of Marathon! Wheee! You can go read an interview we did with him in our interviews section. Wow, this got misdirected. Anyway. [buzzgrinder]
Some very advance Warped Tour stuff: Emery, .hopesfall, Boys Night Out and Yesterday's Rising have been confirmed to play the Smartpunk Stage later this summer.
G'night.