The Dillinger Escape Plan are currently cooling their heels, working on the followup to 2004's Miss Machine, and waiting around for guitarist Ben Weinman to recover from surgery to repair an injury he sustained in a car accident about a year ago. He spent months not on tour with Dillinger, with another guy who used to be in Fenix TX replacing him - still don't get that - and now spends six hours a day on a 'constant passive motion machine' rehabilitating. Whatever that is. [MTV]
Another New Jersey band, hardcore veterans E-Town Concrete, are calling it quits after eleven years; the band's last show will go down at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ.
A Life Once Lost are headlining an east-coast/midwest tour kicking off in April. Cephalic Carnage, Through the Eyes of the Dead and Scarlet will open up. That's pretty loud, that there lineup.
Louder Now is the hotly-anticipated new album from Taking Back Sunday; due out March 25 on Warner Brothers, the album now has some touring going for it, as TBS are headlining a cross-country road trip. No word on openers, but here're the dates:
3/31 - Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theatre
4/1 - Salt Lake City, UT @ In the Venue
4/3 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
4/4 - Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
4/5 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
4/6 - Los Angeles, CA @ The House of Blues
4/8 - Las Vegas, NV @ The House of Blues
4/9 - San Diego, CA @ The House of Blues
4/10 - Phoenix, AZ @ Marquee Theater
4/12 - Dallas, TX @ The University of Texas
4/14 - St Louis, MO @ Pop's
4/16 - Chicago, IL @ The House of Blues
4/17 - Detroit, MI @ Clutch Cargo's
4/18 - Cleveland, OH @ The House of Blues
4/20 - Greensboro, NC @ Greene Street
4/21 - Norfolk, VA @ The Norva
4/22 - Baltimore, MD @ UMBC RAC Arena
4/23 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero Theatre
4/25 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
5/5 - Boston, MA @ Avalon
5/6 - Rochester, NY @ Gordon Field House
5/7 - East Rutherford, NJ @ Meadowlands Sports Complex (Bamboozle Festival)
By far the busiest man in music, Mike Patton, recruited AOR songstress extraordinaire Norah Jones to appear on one of the thirty-eight new projects he has coming down the pipe; Jones apparently curses up a storm - quite contrary to her image as the wholesome piano-caressing jazz crooner. Innnneresting.
This summer's Sounds of the Underground tour could possibly have a variation on the usual mishmash of American/Canadian bands that all kinda sound the same: Polish death metal beasts Behemoth are in talks with the organizers to be part of the tour. "I hope this summer will be a breaking point for us," frontman Nergal told MTV. "Having a festival like that for five weeks, it would be a great experience for us to do it. I really hope it happens." In related news, my boy Nick D.C. is in Poland currently, on a work-placement program. Whassup, boy??
Posted by mike at February 20, 2006 04:35 AM