Dead Poetic, whose album of last year(New Medicines) remains one of my favourites released in '04, are going out to play their first shows in six months, alongside Brandtson, Classic Case, As Cities Burn(whose debut Son, I Loved You At Your Darkest is in stores now, incidentally) and The Beautiful Mistake. The tour kicks off this Friday at The Furnace in Syracuse, New York. Check out the website for the entire itinerary and try to catch a show, because this is a great bill. I'll be seeing DP - maybe twice - at Cornerstone.
On that note, round-trip airfare for this Canadian to Chicago's O'Hare airport cost me over five hundred bucks after insurance/medical/taxes. Outrageous.
Later this summer(post-Sounds of Underground tour), Every Time I Die will be hitting the road with The Chariot and The Red Chord. I bet it'll hit Ottawa too! [absolutepunk]
Well then. It's rare that I pay much attention to current or former big-time rock bands around here, but the Smashing Pumpkins are apparently back from the dead. Ringleader Billy Corgan hasn't said whether any of the old faces(including Montreal's Melissa Auf der Maur on bass) will be back though.
More bands have been confirmed for this year's Hellfest.
Two dudes have left Dead To Fall, adding more and more credence to the local myth that once bands come to Ottawa, it's all over. Except, of course, for Shai Hulud. [saveyourscene]
I have no idea how this managed to escape my notice - I'm so shocked that I'm still thinking it's a hoax played somewhere, but Training For Utopia are working on a third album, with a release set for this fall. What? How did I miss this? They're ONLY one of my favourite bands. If this is true, I'm gonna be REAL excited. Oh, and since we're talking about TFU and its various alumni, why don't you go see how the lads at Asterik Studio are doing?
This right here, found on a 'zine I won't mention, is exactly what sweetdisaster lives to combat: ignorance. This is in reference to Calgary punk band Kiros playing the Warped tour this year(they'll tear it up too). Observe: "vans warped tour isn't Christian...I don't think so anyways...aren't they Christian..or are they "Christians in a band??" I despise such closed-minded thinking.
...and from that to "good Christian music" if that anonymous poster is "correct": Indie Vision has word that a new band from one of the dudes who used to be in Unashamed(man, that takes me back) is called Tetzel Would Be Proud is online; check it out over here.
I was just thinking last week what had happened to Fighting Jacks, from Oregon, and now I read here that they're writing new material. So they're still a band! Good. They always reminded me of Eve 6 but with far larger...um....yeah...anyway. They're better.
The Redemption Song are doing the weekend-warrior thing concerning touring while they work on their upcoming Facedown Records debut - and I for one am excited. Go find their last proper release - Plays In Stereo - and hear what you're in for.
Posted by mike at June 22, 2005 09:28 AM