In an interesting move, Thrice have put a portion - a portion, now - of their first single from the upcoming Vheissu album, 'Image of the Invisible', as a 'locked portion'; the entire track will be 'unlocked' after 100,000 downloads. Weird. You can do your part over here. [punknews]
Essential Listening for today, September 6th: Municipal Waste have busted out of Richmond, Virginia(home to about five thousand killer bands) with their Earache Records debut Hazardous Mutation; this is rad '80s thrash - and check out the cover art!! Listen up! Oh, and this band also features former Burnt By The Sun drummer Dave Witte, if that's an extra incentive.
I can't remember if we posted this already, but Cartel's new album Chroma is up in its entirety for streaming over here. Great rock and roll.
Quick show update: next Monday night barring change of plans will find me at Club SAW(67 Nicholas, downtown) watching Breather Resist and Coliseum - and if you're sitting there going, "Um, who are they?", they're both real loud bands. As well, a good Ottawa band called Die Nameless(coming correct out of the mean streets of KANATA!! YEAH!) are opening up.
Apparently those who bought Hellfest tickets via PayPal or through their local record stores - a good percentage - are still awaiting refunds, while those who got their ducats through the venue have been refunded already. More on that as news gets out.
If you're in California/Nevada, you might wanna check this out: Flogging Molly are taking Maxeen and Canada's own Danko Jones on a small tour:
9.13.05 SAN FRANCISCO, CA The Fillmore
9.14.05 SAN DIEGO, CA House of Blues
9.15.05 ANAHEIM, CA House of Blues
9.16.05 LAS VEGAS, NV House of Blues
9.17.05 LOS ANGELES, CA House of Blues
pastepunk dot com: still among the very best reviews in the punk/hardcore scene!
By the way, Green Day was in town last with Jimmy Eat World in tow; Jimmy played well as the opening act, and then Berkeley, CA's finest simply destroyed for two solid hours. Granted, they didn't find three and a half minutes during those two hours for 'When I Come Around', but it was by far the most fun stage show I've seen in a long time. There's your quickie review.
Posted by mike at September 6, 2005 09:34 PM