New Jersey's Life In Your Way, a hardcore-underground veteran band, just took a step up: Floodgate Records has partnered with the band's label(Indianola) to rerelease their latest Ignite and Rebuild into the Christian market while Indianola maintains the general-market distribution. Good for the LIYW guys, who've been compared in the past to the legendary Shai Hulud. [pastepunk]
Stretch Arm Strong are releasing Free At Last in north American on the 13th(that's next Tuesday, kiddies), and a variety of other labels in other parts of the world; there's also a new website in full effect, featuring the new video for 'The Sounds of Names Dropping'. Go check all that goodness out! And this interview!
Petra is coming! October 12th! Dominion-Chalmers United Church downtown!! I'm excited.
I'd forgotten, but MuteMath, one of the brightest, best new bands to come out of the Nashville Christian Machine in a long time, are from New Orleans, and as such were directly affected by last week's horrific events. Singer Paul Meany: "Well, to say the least, this past week has been extremely emotional for all of us, but thankfully we're all fine. If you've been watching the news, I can tell you we're definitely some of the fortunate ones. We've had a place to reside with our immediate families until it's safe to return home. We're hoping to be able to get in sometime this week to at least assess any damage to our homes, which we're still unsure about. To all of you who have been emailing or calling us to find out how we're doing, thank you for caring. The reaction and response of so many people on the outside of this disaster has been amazing. New Orleans has essentially, through the course of one hurricane, been transformed into a small third world country. It will take more than a government program to rebuild. Anything any one of us can do to directly help the victims, I think, is what s going to make the difference." To that end: go here and here. As someone on the radio said last night, don't forget about these people - because you may already have. Remember that. [JFH]
Posted by mike at September 11, 2005 04:13 AM