Comeback Kid. Strung Out. More. A week from today, September 30th. Hit up punkottawa for details. Awesome.
EXTREMELY interesting news to kick off your weekend: Bad Religion are listed on their label's website as playing here in Ottawa, November 17th at the Capital Music Hall. The entire Canadian tour(Ottawa's the last stop) looks pretty solid, and there are unsubstantiated rumours that Anti-Flag are opening up. Keep an eye on punkottawa.com.
Good Lord. Throwdown touring with Soulfly? Geez. Tour dates over here, if you're interested. I'm not. Boo Soulfly. [hxc]
Hilarious: Stretch Arm Strong were joined onstage at CMJ in New York City last weekend by the legendary George Clinton(yeah, that one). I would have loved to see that.
Spitfire, having reformed earlier this year(the first band I saw at Cornerstone, doncha know), have re-signed with their last official label, Hamilton, ON's Goodfellow Records. A brand-new album will out early in '06, and the label's website says, and I quote, "Be prepared to be melted." Good enough for me. I'm stoked.
A little rap news: Pettidee(he was featured on DJ Maj's second mixtape album a few years back) has signed with Beatmart Recordings, founded by Todd Collins of Gotee Records fame. This is all good until you hear that Pettidee's debut will be called Thug Love. Ouch. [cmcentral]
Hawk Nelson: cute little pop-punkers gone all Hollywood on us. Geeeeeeeeeeeeeez.
I don't care who says what about cliched, overdone metal: our boys As I Lay Dying(see interview above, can't possibly miss it), took the top honours at the San Diego Music Awards. Amazing, considering the competition: Unwritten Law and Switchfoot, among a couple others. Congratulations, dudes. [truthexplosion]
Local boys The Fully Down have posted two new tracks from their upcoming Fearless Records debut Don't Get Lost In A Movement on their purevolume site. As expected, killer tunes.
Props go out to Dashboard Confessional frontman Chris Carrabba; last weekend when the band were in Toronto opening for some piddly little band called U2(oh yeah those guys), Carrabba took time out to play a club show in downtown TO for about a thousand people, with the proceeds going to Hurricane Katrina relief in the southern US. Apparently it was a full-on two-hour set. Nice.
Roadrunner Records is celebrating their 25th anniversary this year by doing something unique: pretty much everyone who's ever been in any band anywhere near Roadrunner have collaborated on a bunch of new songs. To hear this metal madness and see the huge list of participants, roll on over here.
Check this out: Alexisonfire covering Moneen's 'Passing of America'! Awesome. The two bands will release a split on the label, Dine Alone, in the near future. And I saw Moneen a couple weeks ago and their drummer Peter Krpan is one of the smoothest, most agile drummers I've ever seen in my life. Holy cow.
Well now. In the Underoath interview that you all hopefully read when we published it a while back, it was mentioned that Minus the Bear's Matt Bayles was hopefully going to produce Underoath's next record - not no more: it's been reported that Adam D(Killswitch Engage guitarist, producer of a whole lot of records you love) will instead handle production duties. The album will be out next year.
Posted by mike at September 23, 2005 11:51 AM