mewithoutYou are awesome. My favourite part is where it's mentioned that the band are writing their third album, to be recorded starting next month. [rockrebel]
So former Creed frontman-turned-Christian-music-hopeful Scott Stapp was acting like an idiot recently. Happy Thanksgiving indeed. At least I have an excuse to mention the almighty 311!(Click the link.) How in the blazes did Creed sell thirty million records? Including one, in 1997, to me??
More evidence, kids, that crime doesn't pay: there have been a number of bands(and it's apparently growing) who have gotten it into their thick skulls to approach companies known to sponsor the annual Warped Tour traveling punk festival, claim that they're booked for the 2006 edition and oh, by the way can we have some free stuff? Tour founder/voice Kevin Lyman told MTV, "We're already aware of a couple of bands that have been telling companies they're playing Warped, and we're finding out about more every day. And when we do, those bands are banned from not just next year's tour, but all future editions of Warped. We don't tolerate fraud." As the article points out, Lyman deals with almost all of the sponsoring companies on a face-to-face basis, making it easy for said companies to simply approach him about their suspicions. This proves my point: a lot bands are comprised of morons.
Essential Listening for today, December 6th(nineteen days til Christmas!), a band not comprised of morons, is Boston's Endway, whose propulsive, emo-influenced guitar rock has hooked me this cold evening. Check 'em out over at their(improved!) purevolume.com site. Apparently pv.com has undergone a facelift since last I was around.
It was a year ago Thursday(December 8th) that 'Dimebag' Darrell Abbott was gunned down onstage with Damageplan in Ohio; 24-year-old Nathan Gale was indentified as the assailant by police on-scene, who ended it with a single shotgun blast to Gale's head. The incident shook our entire heavy-music community, and a year later, MTV has a piece involving a slew of Abbott's friends and fellow musicians. A tribute, one year later. Apparently a recent Nickelback single begins with a 24-second guitar lead performed by Dimebag before his death, not that that's any excuse to be listening to Nickelback.
Speaking of Nickelback, as we sadly just were, they're gonna do a headlining Canadian tour in the new year. Support? Live. Remember Live? 'Lightning Crashes'? Holy crap, I'm old.
So Kid Rock is playing some pre-Super Bowl shows in Detroit, the city hosting the event next month...wait a second here, Kid Rock is still alive?? [MTV]
What the frig is THIS all about? Aside from a chance to mock Christianity, which is nothing new or offensive? I have my doubts as to the factual basis of this story.
Truly, a low-profile but originating band in the Seattle grunge scene of fifteen years ago, is reforming; led by singer Robert Roth and containing ex-members of Screaming Trees and Soundgarden, the band will put out a new album next year. This might seem a fearsome prospect, but it couldn't be worse than than other ex-Soundgarden effort(I'm looking at you, Audioslave). [aversion]
Lookout! Records made the news a couple months ago when Green Day made public the fact that they'd reclaimed their back catalogue(we're talking like ten years ago here) from the California label, citing business malpractices on Lookout!'s part; now The Queers have followed suit, removing their work from Lookout! and planning to reissue it all with Asian Man Records. Screeching Weasel and Avail have also parted ways with Lookout!, a label that looks like it's headed downward with no stop in sight. Yikes.
A little baseball news - because that's clearly what y'all come here for: my beloved Toronto Blue Jays have dug real deep into the wallet, to the tune of $55 million dollars, to sign free-agent starting pitcher A.J. Burnett. This on top of another huge deal to get closer B.J. Ryan last week. Now all we need is Full House alumnus D.J. Tanner and we're golden!!...............................................okay, that reference sucked. But the Jays will be a heck of a pitching team in '06, if 'you get what you paid for' has any meaning.
Posted by mike at December 6, 2005 05:56 PM