Essential Listening for today, November 28th, is Silent Drive and their debut album Love Is Worth It; SD features Bane bassist Pete and guitarist Zach, but sounds little like that venerable Boston hardcore quintet, favouring instead mostly clean vocals(really good work by Zach) and insanely catchy, almost emo tunesmithing. Really well done.
Apparently The Bronx have dropped off the Dillinger Escape Plan/Between the Buried and Me tour, not that I care, because they didn't make the drive to Ottawa for the very first date of said tour anyway. Nor did Horse the Band, for that matter. So whatever. [theprp]
P.O.D.'s new album Testify has been bumped back to a January 24th release date. That's not really news, but what is news is that sweetdisaster enforcer DJ Omnifik(he's the muscle behind this operation) and sweetdisaster Big Cheese will be hitting up the Opera House in Toronto to catch Payable live. We've both been down since the mid-'90s, so this is large for us. Woohoo!
This Just In: God Forbid are crazy good!
Rumour has it a new Head Automatica EP is coming in the not-too-distant future! That has us very excited, because we adored Decadence, and want lots more just like it. And we love talking in third person.
Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top joined Queens of the Stone Age on Jay Leno last night. We would have liked to have seen it, but we were sound asleep.
According to this here, Anberlin singer Stephen Christian is carving out a solo project with the help of Copeland frontman Aaron Marsh, who will produce. I'll be interested to hear it. [pastepunk]
Know The Fully Down? We sure do here at the D, being longtime fans of Ottawa's soon-to-be-biggest emo/metal export. That's why it hurt so to read this. But he does have a point concerning the constant time signature switches. The truth shall set you free.
So U2 were in Ottawa last week, and it was a great show, and now we've done gone and found this link wherein you, the good fuzzy reader, can stream some stuff from their brand-new live DVD that hit stores last week as well. Ifyou're using Windows Media, hit this up; if you're into RealPlayer, you want this, and to simply launch the U2 media player, click here. [Paste]
Posted by mike at November 28, 2005 06:39 PM