I'm pretty excited.
Wanna know why?
Hey! Get back here.
Anyway.
The Saturday Night Sound Fix next week(May 14th on CHRI 99.1) will be hosted by sweetdisaster's Big Cheese himself; it'll be my first solo flight, as it were, so I'm a mixture of terrified and relaxed. Listen in if you're into the urban/hiphop stuff. Although tonight I was able to wangle a spin for Anberlin's 'Paperthin Hymn'. Great song.
Sportsnetnews is on behind me, and if what I just heard is correct, San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds, like he wasn't under enough press scrutiny for his steroid issues/home-run record chase already, might also be a tax evader. Nice.
A band my roommate loves, The Offspring, aside from headlining this year's Warped Tour, are also putting out a best-of CD/DVD set this summer. A new song called 'Can't Repeat' will be on many many radios near you in a matter of weeks, along with a video that MTV and MuchMusic will run into the ground until all of us want to move to Antarctica just to get away from it all. [absolutepunk]
Posted on some random message board I came across was word that at a recent Pedro the Lion show, singer Dave Bazan dropped a hint that the band will be recording a new album in the near future. Didn't Achilles' Heel, like, just come out? I haven't even heard it yet. Geez. Bazan is a busy boy, between Pedro and his little side project Headphones(reputedly really, really good).
A news/reviews/opinion site I'm quite fond of, punknews.org out of Toronto, has also formed a record label called - duh - Punknews Records; the label's first signing is a band called Somerset from Minnesota. Their first album was recorded last November(with a guy who recorded Nada Surf! Great band) and will be out on Punknews in the next couple of months. Go punknews.
One of the scads of new bands Tooth & Nail Records has signed recently, Number One Gun, have apparently recorded a new album that has the label people salivating. I remember N1G's debut album and how it didn't really grab me that much, but that's just one man's opinion.
Apparently if you hop on a United Airlines flight through May, if you tune into the in-flight radio programming, you can get a listen to the latest stuff from The Militia Group. Never heard of this type of promotion, but Copeland's new record is on TMG and it absolutely blows me away.
Musical Discovery of the Day: Burlington, Ontario's own Out of Options. Yaaaaay power pop.
Posted by mike at May 8, 2005 03:15 AM