Just a quick show plug before we take the Nestea Plunge into today's news: Joel Gelensye, a guy I grew up with in the wastelands of eastern Ontario, is playing a rock show November 11th at the Bronson Centre(211 Bronson Ave. here in Ottawa). Openers are onlyforward(Montreal) and Hello Kelly(Orangeville, Ontario). onlyforward features Dave Martel, younger brother of the dude from downhere(one of Canada's premier pop/rock bands, in our humble opinion). Mary Simon is opening up the show. Should be a good time; c'mon out. Oh, and onlyforward bassist Roy Vuorela spent time in Montreal's punk/hardcore scene. This should be interesting. Check onlyforward out over here.
Almost two years after they signed to Atlantic Records, Vaux have still not released their debut for the label thanks to the usual tomfoolery that happens in the big time - and they're sick of it. The band told punknews.org that they're in the "separation process" with Atlantic. Good for them. Screw the majors, not to sound all indie-elitist. Here's their statement for now: "Currently we are in the midst of the 'separation process' with the label and are awaiting the outcome. This includes regaining ownership of our album Beyond Virtue, Beyond Vice that was scheduled for a November 8th release date. With all that has recently happened there is no 'official' release date for the album, but we feel very confident that we will get the album back and be able to put it into the hands of our fans very soon. Despite all that has happened, the band is tighter than ever and feels very positive about the situation." Ick. [buzzgrinder]
I like this one: Metal Blade Records(which has a lot of bands I'm not gonna bother listing) owner Brian Slagel, aside from being a metal enthusiast, is also apparently a diehard, way-out, nutso hockey fan. And he's acting on it: besides being a longtime sponsor of a number of Central Hockey League teams in out-of-the-way places, he's now helping out with the CHL's On Edge weekly radio show, as well as the Ft. Worth Brahmas(never even heard of that team, and I grew up on hockey), whereby the team will wear Metal Blade-sponsored warmup jerseys while MB videos play on the scoreboard. I for one think this entire thing is awesome, and there's even more that I'm too lazy to report! Rad. [truthexplosion]
One album that came out semi-recently that's impressed me despite what I figured ahead of time is Evergreen Terrace's Sincerity Is An Easy Disguise In This Business; for whatever reason, I've always like ET, but not really anything out of the ordinary(they are named for The Simpsons home address in Springfield; points for that). When Sincerity hit me, though, I was quite taken. To that end, check out the video for 'New Friend Request'(awesome!) over here. Enjoy.
I was in HMV the other day killing time and happened to see the follow four albums on the listening post, in this order: the new Switchfoot, Kelly Clarkson, Christian pop starlet Kristal Meyers(Avril disciple) and Alicia Keys. Well then. I remember when Christian bookstores were the only place to get music even remotely associated with Christianity. Apparently we've come a long way.
Found a link to the Figure Four reunion set in Winnipeg a couple weeks ago(dubbed Live at the Collective); regardless of the rumour mill, I still think this band's done. But unexpected reunions are always fun anyway. This file takes a few minutes to obtain, and the sound's about as good as live sets usually are, so this is for completists only, I guess, this ten-minute batch of chestnuts. Of which I include myself. Yes.
Shoot the Moon: The Essential Collection is the last effort from the defunct Face to Face, arguably the most influential punk band of the last fifteen years. Nineteen tracks plus two unreleased songs make up the best-of, which has all the usual tricked-out features, but surprisingly is not a DVD. Weird. It's due out November 1st.
These songs were posted almost a month ago, but I had no idea the band even existed: The Almost is the side gig of Underoath drummer Aaron Gillespie, and there's a couple songs over here. Badda boom badda bing.
Posted by mike at October 29, 2005 11:42 AM