Morning kids. Hope you had a good, blessed week; sorry we pretty much ignored you during all of it. Our bad.
sweetdisaster Big Cheese is switching companies effective next week, so wish me luck...I'm thinking maybe I should stop using first-person and third-person in the same sentence. My mother, the established journalist, would have my head. Ah well.
My boy Ian Stanger and his rock and roll band The Fullblast are hitting the touring bricks as you read this, heading to Sudbury tonight, the 18th of November, to play at the Sudbury Arts Council. In a few days Edmonton's Drive By Punch will join the Blast, and the entire caravan will trek out to Canada's west coast and back. MAN, those shows will be hot. Check the itinerary:
11.18.05 - Sudbury, ON @ Sudbury Arts Council
11.19.05 - Thunder Bay, ON @ Kilroy's
Joined by Drive By Punch:
11.21.05 - Winnipeg, MB @ West End Cultural Centre
11.22.05 - Regina, SK @ The Exchange
11.23.05 - Red Deer, AB @ The Vat
11.24.05 - Lethbridge, AB @ Travelodge
11.26.05 - Vancouver, BC @ Pub 340
11.27.05 - Whistler, BC @ The Boot Pub
11.29.05 - Banff, AB @ Wild Bill's
11.30.05 - Calgary, AB @ The Warehouse
12.01.05 - Vegreville, AB @ Vegreville Social Club
12.02.05 - Calgary, AB @ The Gateway Pub
12.03.05 - Saskatoon, SK @ The Louis Pub
12.04.05 - Edmonton, AB @ Reds
12.07.05 - Sault Ste. Marie, ON @ Foggy Notions
A short tour with Protest the Hero and Boys Night Out will follow in December. Word. Check the new album from the Blast, Short Controlled Bursts, over here.
Illinoisemongers(see how I worded that? I'm awesome!) Park have a bunch of new stuff up on their purevolume page; I hung out with those guys at Subway downtown with Moneen, back in the day. Not that that's any reason for you to listen to 'em. Listen to them because they're rad.
Some new albums/bands to watch for:
1. Thirty Nights of Violence - the new project from soon-to-be former Belvedere drummer Graham Churchill, this is a not-quite-hardcore hardcore band.
2. Spoken, Last Chance to Breathe - more Linkin Parkish poppy screamo - dig it.
3. Nodes of Ranvier, The Years to Come - massive, monolithic metal from the Dakotas. Sickness.
4. Othello - new-to-ninety-nine-percent-of-you rapper from the USA; sweet rhymes and beats. Worrrrrd.
And now, the news.
Next year's Taste of Chaos tour kicks off February 15th, 2006; here's the lineup thus far:
Thrice, Deftones, Atreyu, Story of the Year, As I Lay Dying, Dredg, Silverstein, The Receiving End of Sirens, Pelican, The Confession, Adair, Street Drum Corps, Greeley Estates, Millionaire
Ta da! [hxc]
Speaking of Nodes of Ranvier, as we were earlier, they're touring with The Banner:
12.01 Grand Rapids, MI @ Ten Bells Nightclub
12.02 Shamokin, PA @ The Capitol
12.03 Utica , NY @ Utica Resonance Center
12.04 Portland, ME @ The Station
12.06 Providence, RI @ The Living Room
12.07 Philadelphia, PA @ The Syndicate
12.08 Virginia Beach, VA @ Sweet Caroline's
12.10 Marietta, GA @ Swayze's
12.11 Orlando, FL @ The Back Booth
12.12 Jacksonville, FL @ Thee Imperial
12.13 Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
12.14 W. Palm Beach, FL @ Ray's Downtown
12.15 Tallahassee, FL @ Big Daddy's
12.16 Memphis, TN @ The Complex
12.17 Lexington , KY @ Club Revolutions
One of my favourite bands from high school(ah, the '90s!), Gin Blossoms, will enter the famed Ardent Studios in Memphis, TN on December 1st to record their first album in...geez...like what, six years now? It'll be out in the middle of next year. [truthexplosion]
Heads up if you have tickets to see My Chemical Romance and Thrice in Quebec City November 28th; MCR has had to bail on that show citing scheduling conflicts, promising a makeup show "as soon as humanly possible".
Hardcore kings 100 Demons are booking tours all over the globe, as well as writing a new album that'll be out in 2006 - and I read someplace that a tour happening very soon has been like mostly cancelled or something. So if you're looking to go see 'em, might wanna look into that. Aight? Aight.
I've heard mixed reviews of Potemkin City Limits, the newest from Propaghandi, but lambgoat really, really really likes it. I gotta hear this record.
I know that somewhere out there is a sweetdisasterite who thinks Neil Young(hey, Propagandhi and Neil Young, two artists who call Winnipeg home, awesome) is the most amazing musician out there - and he arguably is. His new album Prairie Wind is being hailed by some as his best since 1972's Harvest Moon, and you can stream the entire thing at his website. [buzzgrinder]
If you're down with Facedown Records and their crew of wrecking ball bands(Bloodlined Calligraphy, No Innocent Victim, etc), check out some pictures from their first-ever Facedown Fest - East Coast style!
Wow, who'd have seen this coming? Zao's next album for Ferret Records - I still can't believe I'm saying this - will apparently be produced by legendary Chicago agitator Steve Albini - who, to my knowledge, has never worked with a band as heavy as Zao, but I could be wrong. Quoth drummer Jeff Gretz: "The new album will be called The George Lucas Neckfat." I'm pretty sure he's kidding, but it's still funny.
Turns out myspace.com's fledgling record label(what, you didn't know??) is an imprint of Interscope. I was wondering when we'd find out which major label was financing it. I predict huge failure.
If you're down with Payable on Death from waaaaaaaay back(I am), P.O.D. are playing in Toronto December 14th at the Opera House. Check it out. I just might be there with sweetdisaster enforcer Omnifik.
More sometime this weekend. C'mon back, now, y'all hear?
Posted by mike at November 18, 2005 01:53 PM