In the biggest development for them since the departure of founding guitarist Marcos Curiel back in 2003, P.O.D. sent out an email today saying they've parted with longtime label Atlantic Records. "We've been proud to be Atlantic Recording Artists, but it's not the same place anymore," says their statement. "For most of our stay, we were blessed by a staff that was gracious towards our vision, faith, and love of music....resulting in more than 7-million records sold. It's time to dream again with a new staff and we leave with grateful hearts."
Sick Of It All are hitting the bricks with The Warriors, The Autumn Offering and Dead Hearts, headlining their first tour behind their newest, Death to Tyrants, and including their 20th-anniversary show on September 17th in their hometown of New York, New York. Here's the initial tourdates:
9/16 Buffalo, NY - The Icon
9/17 New York, NY - BB King's - SOIA 20TH Anniversary Show!
9/18 Baltimore, MD - The Ottobar
9/20 Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
9/21 St Petersburg, FL - State Theater
9/23 Orlando, FL - The Social
9/24 Jacksonville, FL - Fuel
9/26 Cincinnati, OH - Top Cat's
9/27 Cleveland, OH - Agora Ballroom
[AP]
Always worth reading is an interview with Tim McIlrath, main man behind Warped Tour '06 headliners Rise Against; I may not have heard the new one yet, and sold my copy of Siren Song, but damn if Tim still ain't smart. Read.
On the heels of SPB's interview with Rise A, they talked with Ottawa's own My Dad Vs. Yours, whose expansive instrumental music blows my mind(their live show is not to be missed or trifled with). Check out that hot rock action over here.
The new album from Stavesacre, one of the most enduring bands in America for my money, How To Live With A Curse, is purely fantastic. Go find 'The Trouble With Being Born' and tell me they don't still got it. And find their Myspace and befriend them immediately. That's today's Essential Listening, August 11th.
A week from tonight, August 18th, Tom Green, who somehow still has a TV show in the web(really! Who knew?), will host none other than everyone's favourite rapper, Pigeon John. According to PJ's Myspace bulletin of a few minutes ago, he'll appear on Green's show at Mania TV. Hooray for the interweb.
I'm assuredly fetching this one from a store or online somewhere soon: ActionReaction, fronted by ex-Further Seems Forever singer Jason Gleason, has posted another new song from their upcoming debut EP. Check it out over here. [SPB]
Preceded by a two-song single this fall, Lifetime's first comeback album will be out next year on Decaydance Records(owned and operated by Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz). I wonder how many fourteen-year-old FOB kiddies are aware of the band's hardcore roots? But anyway, yeah, Lifetime kills.
If you're really, really bored and also a student of the law - officially or otherwise - you can download the entire lawsuit Hawthorne Heights have filed against Victory Records' owner Tony Brummel over here. I cannot imagine anyone wanting or needing to see this document, but what the hey.
As an addendum to the previous Sick Of It All news, longtime fans and frequent SOIA tourmates Most Precious Blood - who also have a tentative title for their next album, Do Not Resuscitate - will contribute to the SOIA 20th-anniversary compilation, as yet untitled. Others pitching in include AFI, Hatebreed, Dropkick Murphys, Sepultura, Bouncing Souls, Thursday, Napalm Death, Rise Against and Walls of Jericho, for starters. Wow.
I saw a band on The Tonight Show last night, The Panic Channel, who had former Jane's Addiction/Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Dave Navarro within their ranks. How'd this happen without my knowledge?
One of the messages when I turned my phone on today was literally an ad for Snakes On A Plane, the new flick from bad-ass Samuel L. Jackson. I know some idiot friend of mine called my phone and then held theirs up to the computer speaker, but nonetheless it was funny as hell to hear Jackson telling me in no uncertain terms how he'd mess me up if I didn't go see his movie. All this to say, go look at this here, an account of how all kinds of buzz bands are clamouring to be on the soundtrack to this admittedly ridiculously-premised movie. Unbelievable.
Did you know some bastardized version of Guns 'N Roses is on tour over in Europe? True story! What the frig.
My Chemical Romance busted themselves up shooting a video recently and ergo had to shut down a performance in San Diego. Best part of this? The opening sentence of the band's statement on the matter: "There were no car wrecks, monster attacks, or alien abductions." That's rad. [RS]
Sweetdisaster enforcer DJ Omnifik reports that the new offering from the Bay Area's finest, DJ Shadow(can't touch him, y'all), The Outsider, drops this upcoming Tuesday(that's August 15th, kidlets). So go get it.
Posted by mike at August 11, 2006 10:56 PM