Here's some news!
...that's what we do here, anyway.
Christian ska-punk fans from back in the day will be happy to hear that The Dingees are back in action; their myspace page is regularly updated, and while there's no word on a new record or touring(refer to their three Tooth & Nail releases from the late '90s-early '00s), this is progress, no? [IVM]
Also from IVM comes extremely exciting word that the long-dormant Dogwood, who've been relatively inert since their 2004 best-of Reverseandthenforwardagain, are writing a new album. Woohoo! And apparently they'll be in Canada in August, though I'm guessing that isn't Ottawa. Likely some college-campus thing in the midwest.
X-Men 3 did over a hundred million bucks over the weekend, twenty million more than The Da Vinci Code(good book, by the way; I devoured it). I've heard X-Men sucked, and yet the reviews all lavish praise upon it. What gives here? And apparently the head of FOX, Tom Rothman, has confirmed that there'll be a fourth installment, possibly with even more after that. So much for the 'final frontier' hype.
Underoath, prepping for the release of Define the Great Line in a few weeks, have slapped up the finished version of 'Writing On The Walls' on their purevolume page.
The two new Zao songs I've heard are brutally heavy, especially 'Physician, Heal Thyself'. Wow.
Posted by mike at June 1, 2006 03:10 AM