There's a slew of emails in our inbox, so we'll just plow through them sequentially.
Firstly, bedlamsociety, purveyors of rock and roll outta Ste. Catharines, ON, among other things have won a Juno award in the form of Alexisonfire taking home Best New Band honours at the Winnipeg ceremony a couple weeks ago. As well, new albums are in the near future from AoF guitarist Dallas Green and the sophomore effort Trainwreck from Boysnightout. BLS also put together a pretty good mixtape CD featuring an insane variety of artists that they're giving away at all kinds of shows and fests cross-country(I got mine in Montreal last month). There's interviews on the site with Walter Schreifels and Darkest Hour, and reviews, and and and...yeah, check it out.
Two new bands on Underground Operations are putting out new records - on the same night! Brat Attack and Dead Letter Dept. are doing a dual-CD-release show April 23rd at Toronto's Comfort Zone, and Ottawa's own Forty Cent Fix are among the openers. I'd go if I lived there.
Some hiphop news in the form of the masterful L.A. Symphony crew: the new album Disappear Faster is due out sooner than you think, and they're doing some touring in the western US:
Sat. April 23rd
Knitting Factory
Hollywood, Ca.
w/The Procussions and others
more info. TBA
Fri. April 29
Smart City Grinds
635 N. Azusa Ave.
Azusa, CA 91702
w/Future Shock & Cal Logic
Info: 626-633-1448
Sat. April 30th
Flatrion Theatre
1089 13th Street
Boulder, Co.
Sunday, May 1st
Mesa Theatre and Club
538 main st.
Grand Junction, CO
970-241-1717
Mesa Theatre
Mon. May 2nd
Skaggs Catholic Center / Juan Diego High School
11800 S 300 E
Draper, UT
Tues. May 3rd
Cheyenne Hills 7505 Us Highway 30
Cheyenne. Wy.
Thurs. 05/05/05
Underground Cafe
Roseville, ca
Fri. May 6th
The Underground Modesto
Modesto, Ca.
[L.A. Symphony]
Life In Pictures' debut By The Sign of the Spyglass is now out on Pluto Records' affiliate Clockwork Recordings. Listen to some stuff over here, and keep an eye out for LIP to invade your town in 2005; they'll be doing a lot of touring.
Horse the Band's next album is tentatively titled Super Horse The Band(how awesome is that??), and it will not be another Pluto release; the band has departed for another label. That's confirmed. Which label, however, is not. Yet. Anyway, Matt Bayles will produce the new album, and it will probably kill.
In the wake of Martyr A.D. suddenly dropping off their tour with Agnostic Front and subsequent breakup(it happened real fast), SoCal legends No Innocent Victim have been added as replacement openers, so if you're in Southern Cal and you happen to see a flyer for this, go go go. I know for me, July 2nd in Bushnell, Illinois will mark my one and probably only time seeing NIV live. Woohoo!
Brand New have been forced to pull out of their headlning slot at next week's Bamboozle Fest in Jersey(April 29th); replace them are none other than Thrice. [absolutepunk]
For the Roman Catholics among us, there's a new Pope, as if the entire civilized world didn't already know.
Stretch Arm Strong(what a great band) are calling their upcoming major-label debut Free At Last...which begs the question: free from what? Anyway, James Paul Wisner and Ryan Greene will do the production/mixing, respectively, and there's some demo material up on the web over here. More of the classic SCHC. Whee.
...that's 'South Carolina Hard-Core', for those who are clueless right now.
Posted by mike at April 19, 2005 10:19 PM