If you hadn't already noticed(and we wouldn't blame you if you hadn't given how long it's been), a NEW INTERVIEW is up. Woohoo! New interview! It's right above, about an inch above these very words!! Steve Hindalong is a great dude for talking to us. Go read it. And there'll be more, and more regular, content in future.
Winnipeg's Every New Day(once technical punk, now metalcore, on Florida's Hand of Hope Records) are in town August 8th...well, in town down in Kemptville, which is in town enough. Show goes down at North Grenville Community Church, six pm, seven bucks. Summer's End and Daggers Bearing Notes are also playing, among others. Props to Dave Leibold on the tip.
...and what's this I see at punkottawa.com? Sigur Ros is coming to Ottawa? And playing the Bronson Centre? Interesting.
If you've heard that Further Seems Forever are breaking up, they're not. Shows are scheduled clear into September. Just because they're not playing every festival known to mankind this summer doesn't mean they're toast.
Transition is a fun band I heard for the first time today. If you like pop rock you might dig them too.
Spoken(big bad Arkansas!) have a new song up on their purevolume page; it's got Cory from Norma Jean doing some rather unnecessary screams. Decent song. [IVM]
In Bands I'll See In Two Weeks news, MxPx and Relient K are doing a co-headlining tour this fall, apparently with Rufio and Tsunami Bomb opening.
In what could become a real ugly situation, Chevelle bassist Joe Loeffler, who'd been reported as taking a break from the band for the summer, has asserted that he was, in fact, canned. Does the fact that the other two dudes in Chevelle are his own brothers complicate things? Ouch.
Talk about a blast from my past: Disciple are gonna blow huge with their new record, apparently. Check this out. [rockrebel]
Apparently, Thrice's new DVD is pretty friggin' good. And of the nine songs that are also included(b-sides and such), there's a cover of the Beatles' 'Eleanor Rigby'. I have to hear this!
Apparently the Rolling Stones, when they're not playing hugely-hyped shows in Ottawa(August 28th - their second show here and first since 1965), are also doing their first record in eight years. How 'bout them geezers. [aversion]
As long as they keep writing fun little songs, I don't care who they punch out: Matchbook Romance apparently brawled with ejected Warped Tour fans who'd been kicked out of the previous day's festival in Montana. As a result, MR missed the Salt Lake City Warped date. I love stories like this.
This happened last week right here in Ottawa(on the Queensway, if you're that curious), and apparently our United States friends have found the humour as well. Gotta love our fair city making the news in such dubious regard.
Posted by mike at July 19, 2005 09:34 AM