Today's Musical Discovery of the Day: Atlanta's City Sleeps. Let's hear it for power-pop; I'm such a sucker for it, now and forever. Have a listen to CS over here. 'Prototype', in particular, melted my brain; I haven't been this blown away by a song in a while. How this band isn't absolutely enormous is beyond me. Don't sleep - jump on this trolley now so when they blow huge you can say "I was listening to them way back when".
Bucket Truck, to this day the only hardcore band I've ever heard of from Newfoundland, have finally got a Canadian release date for the record they made two years ago: Favour The Bull will be in stores nationwide August 30th. Produced by the dudes that made Refused's The Shape of Punk to Come album in 1998 and featuring guest vocals from Gorilla Biscuits/Rival Schools founder Walter Schreifel, this'll be a beast of a record.
The first slew of bands confirmed to play this year's Hellfest is up over here; for those of you too lazy to click, some of the highlights include The Chariot, Converge, Hatebreed, Madball, Nile, The Red Chord, Rise Against, Sick Of It All and Stretch Arm Strong. Yes, I read the listing in alphabetical order, if you hadn't noticed. [theprp]
I bet it's not the first time it's happened where this song is concerned, but Winnipeg, Manitoba radio station Power 97 has gotten in trouble with the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Council(CRTC) for broadcasting NOFX's 'Kill All The White Man', which if you haven't heard the song repeats the title no less than twenty-three times, which really irked the CRTC. Guess sarcasm and satire is lost on the powers that be. [punknews]
Two Ottawa bands have put new music on the Big Wide Web; metalheads A Legend Falls and a talented posse of heavy-screamo specialists called Blaisedale. Good stuff coming out of our fair city. [OGS]
Posted by mike at June 17, 2005 10:21 AM