So Thursday the 9th was sweetdisaster Big Cheese's 26th birthday(I'm referring to myself in the third person here, try to keep up), and it's been a nice couple celebratory days as they are every year - until I get a phone call from a fellow internet-nerd friend informing me that Pennsylvania's The Juliana Theory, long one of my favourite bands, have ended their schtick after nine great years, a slew of full-lengths, a couple EPs, a split or two, and a best-of, with their latest album Deadbeat Sweetheart perhaps rivaling 2000's Emotion Is Dead as the band's finest. A short, simple statement for the attention-deficit crowd(right here! me!) is followed by a rather lengthy explanation over on the band's website, featuring the following - and very telling - phrase: "Personally, as fans of music, if a band or artist that any of us loves puts out a record that we don't like, we still stay loyal to that artist and await the next record. Looking around now at the ADD society that we live in, things just are not that way any more." Happy birthday to me. This sucks more than when Reach the Sky broke up right around my 22nd birthday. Booooooo.
We got an email here at sweetdisaster HQ last week from Transparent Productions, apparently a concert promoter out in California; how we got on their mailing list we have no clue, but check this out: among a ton of shows, ranging from Third Day gigs to the upcoming second Tooth & Nail Tour(good tour, check that out if it comes to your area), there's this FishFest(you hear us) going on in late March in Irvine, CA, featuring the likes of Newsboys, Pillar, Hawk Nelson and...John Tesh? What the blazes? That guy?? Something's clearly amiss here. But there his name is, sandwiched in between Pillar and some woman named Natalie Grant. So weird.
Blood & Ink Records, forever prolifically signing bands, have brought in Albany, Georgia's With Blood Comes Cleansing and their "well-crafted metallic
sound and powerful vocal presence". Mmhmm. We'll see. They've toured with Imperial and are heading out soon with Becoming the Archetype, so there's your cred. Check 'em out for yourselves over here.
If you have MTV, tune in to Headbanger's Ball tonight at ten to catch the world premiere of the new Demon Hunter video for 'Undying'. Word up.
Switchfoot have a bunch of shows coming up with hot UK band Athlete, who apparently rocked Zaphod's here in Ottawa a couple months ago:
03.15.06 Bakersfield, CA Fox Theatre
03.16.06 Las Vegas, NV House of Blues
03.17.06 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theater
03.18.06 Albuquerque, NM Sunshine Theater
03.20.06 Tulsa, OK Donald W. Reynolds Center
03.21.06 Fort Worth, TX Ridglea Theatre
03.23.06 Austin, TX Stubbs Bar-B-Q
03.24.06 New Orleans, LA House of Blues
03.25.06 Nashville, TN War Memorial
03.26.06 Huntsville, AL Spragins Hall
03.28.06 Dahlonega, GA Memorial Hall
03.29.06 Orlando, FL House of Blues
03.30.06 Boca Raton, FL FAU Center Auditorium
03.31.06 Jacksonville, FL Florida Theatre
04.01.06 Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues
04.02.06 Greensboro, NC War Memorial Auditorium
04.04.06 Baltimore, MD Sonar
04.07.06 Atlantic City, NJ The Borgata Music Box
04.08.06 Hartford, CT Webster Theatre
04.11.06 Burlington, VT Flynn Center (performing arts)
04.12.06 Clifton Park, NY Northern Lights
04.13.06 Rochester, NY Water Street Music Hall
04.15.06 Columbus, OH LIfestyle Communities Pavilion
04.19.06 East Lansing, MI MSU Concert Auditorium
04.21.06 Maryville, MO Bearcat Arena - NW MO ST
More news some other time soon.
Posted by mike at February 11, 2006 06:08 PM