It's been a while since we've had Dashboard Confessional news to convey, but absolutepunk has word of a Rolling Stone piece on the Florida quintet recording the followup to 2004's A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar in Toronto with Daniel Lanois(who's produced U2 and Bob Dylan, among others). The band scrapped an entire album's worth of new material in February, as it sounded "too safe". "People who were already Dashboard fans probably would have liked those songs," singer Chris Carrabba said. "And people who weren't would have had the same complaints as ever." I haven't even heard the last record yet, but we do have a review over here.
If you liked Kanye West's breakout debut album College Dropout(this after years of his producing massive hits for other cats), and you don't mind giving out e-info, you have the chance to stream the entirety of his new joint Late Registration(continuing the college theme, apparently) over here.
Burlington, Ontario lads Silverstein put out a new record recently - and Discovering The Waterfront has sold over twenty-six thousand copies, landing it at #34 on Billboard's Top 200. How 'bout that.
One of my longtime favourite punk bands, Side Walk Slam(we'll have pictures of their Cornerstone performance up ASAP, we swear it!), are changing their name to Run Kid Run for some reason. I don't like it, but hey, no one asked me. Apparently Tooth & Nail Records is gonna put a big promotional push behind their new record, which is more than T&N has done in the past for a band that's put three albums out on their label.
A couple weeks ago we reported that Society's Finest will be taking the rest of the year off, so I don't know how certified this news is, but saveyourscene over in Italy is reporting that the Texas metal band will record a new album in December with Andreas Magnusson producing, and a release date of spring 2006 is rumoured.
Some information now about everyone's favourite soap opera of a metal band, Zao(read our interview!), and their upcoming DVD: it was done with longtime friend/manager Ryan Downey(you may have seen his work in Alternative Press, among other places), and the first disc is a two-hour documentary with all the usual stuff, while the second features two full live sets, one from the Strhess Tour with Bleeding Through and the other from the band's own Praise the War Machine tour. Following Zao's upcoming tour with Unearth, they'll retire to their hometown in Pennsylvania to prep their second Ferret Records album, due out next year. There you go.
I've had my first exposure to Portland's Inked In Blood(Facedown Records) this morning; not sure how they've escaped my ears thus far, but they're not bad at all. Check 'em out over here. I like the vocals a lot.
And while we're talking Facedown bands with killer vocalists, dig on some new Nodes of Ranvier. Smokin'.
Day of Contempt have a new album out, and from reading this review, it would seem that the band I saw live two summers ago has changed a whole lot. Back then they sounded like an Australian version of Throwdown(who headlined that particular tour and brought DoC with them). Interesting.
Interview with one of the catchiest rock bands on the planet: Minus the Bear, who have a new album called Menos el Oso('Minus the Bear' in Spanish, if you weren't aware) coming real soon.
Posted by mike at August 26, 2005 09:05 AM