Whassup. Essential Listening for today, February 28th, is a UK hardcore band called The Break In; they're on Suprise Attack Records, and 'Coffin Dodger' is a massive song, as you'll hear soon after clicking over here. Rock the frig on. Surprise Attack's also re-releasing some old Shockwave and xDisciplex AD stuff later this year. [SPB]
So Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed has a little side gig called Icepick, who sound exactly like their name, and who have a new song up over here that features some lil' ol' rapper named Ice-T. Violent Epiphany(natch), the band's debut, will drop in April on Jasta's Stillborn Recs label, featuring guest appearances from members of Madball, Sheer Terror, Agnostic Front, Dropkick Murphys and 100 Demons.
Boston and area, pay attention: this year's New England Metal & Hardcore Festival has released an initial lineup, so if you're around the Palladium in Worchester, Mass. the weekend of April 28th-30th, check out some highlights of the action thus far: The Black Dahlia Murder, Cryptopsy, A Perfect Murder, Bloodlined Calligraphy, Ed Gein, Inked In Blood, Nodes Of Ranvier, Protest The Hero, From A Second Story Window and xLOOKINGFORWARDx. xLFx happen to be my favourite hardcore band of late.
My Republic is the name of Good Riddance's seventh album; it'll be out June 13th on Fat Wreck Chords.
Stretch Arm Strong will be heading out on tour opening for Sick Of It All later this year; here are the first few shows:
5/12 Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep
5/13 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
5/14 Phoenix, AZ @ The Brickhouse
5/15 Las Vegas, NV @ Jillian's Neonopolis
5/17 Los Angeles, VA @ The Roxy
5/20 San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
5/23 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
5/26 Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Sound
5/27 Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre
A new band called Between The Wars played their first show together in November down in Jersey; the outfit features Tim Shaw of one of my favourite hardcore bands, period, Ensign, on vocals, along with Bill Henderson(Thursday, The Procedure. The band's debut will be out soon on Think Fast! Records. I can't wait. In fact, I'm going to add them as Myspace friends immediately!! You can too by making with the clicky-clicky over here!
A slew of the many bands who've joined Abacus Recordings in the last year or so are heading out on the first-ever Abacus Recordings Tour; taking part are Sworn Enemy, Ion Dissonance, Bleeding Kansas, Caliban and Embrace The End. Check here for the shows.
Hey, how many Myspace friends you got? Maybe fifty? A hundred? A thousand if you're completely addicted and never leave your own page? Maybe your favourite hardcore band has like four or five hundred. Guess how many Fall Out Boy have? Eight hundred thousand. Got that from Rolling Stone.
Matisyahu's star is rapidly rising: the Hasidic reggae star guested on P.O.D.'s latest album and is being namechecked far and wide. Get the goods on the dude whose website is literally hasidicreggae.com(and whose breakthrough was Live at Stubb's, a live album recorded - ironically- at a Texas barbecue joint) over here.
If you're already missing Pedro the Lion, check out Halifax, Nova Scotia's Wintersleep; they've been at it for a year already, and they're getting their name out there. Check them out here in Ottawa Friday night(March 3rd), and listen to 'em over here.
From the Treasure Trove of Awesomeness known as sweetdisaster supporter Kayla comes this picture. I certainly hope it's real.
Posted by mike at February 28, 2006 03:19 AM