The first of the spring thunderstorms(quasi-thunderstorms) rolled through Ottawa today - hooray for nature.
Some news and notes from Tooth & Nail, Smallman and Floodgate Records, respectively:
Run Kid Run(the new incarnation of longtime favourites Side Walk Slam - get it?)'s "debut" album This Is Who We Are comes out on the 16th of this month, but absolutepunk has six of the new songs to listen to. Run on over there, now, y'hear??
The Classic Crime's T&N debut Albatross hits a week later on the 23rd, but hit up purevolume, that bastion of bands galore, to hear four cuts in advance. As well, if you choose to preorder the album at Tower.com, you'll get a free t-shirt! Rad.
The above two bands plus Spoken will be joining A Change of Pace for a nineteen-date tour later this month; check your city's alt-newspaper to see if it's swinging through your town.
mewithoutYou have finished their third album, again with producer Brad Wood behind the boards, and are heading out on tour with Thursday, whose brand-new CD A City By The Light Divided just hit stores Tuesday, and Minus the Bear. Dates are over here.
Our Mercury have not broken up; in fact, contrary to the rumour that they themselves started, the band are touring with the likes of From Fiction, Ghosts of Modern Man and The(International) Noise Conspiracy.
Choke and Ghosts of Modern Man both have new videos in rotation at MuchMusic and MuchLoud. Watch them.
Winnipeg's own Comeback Kid are in Europe as you read this doing shows with Raised Fist(who, incidentally, finally have a new album out on the 23rd); they're coming home in a couple weeks, and in July there'll be a farewell show for departed vocalist Scott Wade, as well as a big tour at the end of the summer - no word yet on that.
Moneen, quite without my notice, have released The Red Tree to good reviews; it's snaking up the charts here in Canada with the help of Vagrant Records' support worldwide. I should buy it. HMV has it for $9.99.
We here at the D predict big things for Transition, whose Floodgate debut Get There is out very soon; Mike Herrera of MxPx produced, and I get the sense that there'll be an MxPx/Reel Big Fish/Transition tour this summer, if I'm reading signs correctly.
Forever Changed have announced their impending breakup, but their final album Chapters is done and will be available at the last shows/tour before being made available in a limited kind of way via retail in July.
Floodgate is sponsoring the new Relevant Magazine stage at Cornerstone Festival this summer. The lineup will be announced soon, but I likely will not be there. Booooooooo.
Posted by mike at May 4, 2006 05:00 PM