Our longtime friends at Indie Vision Music on the left coast have redesigned their website! Slick.
Slow Coming Day, who put a good but overlooked record with Tooth & Nail a few years ago, are relocating from SoCal to Seattle to write a new album. Does this mean that they're rejoining the Nail stable? Don't know.
From the Columbia Missourian, via rockrebel, a quote that almost perfectly sums my feelings on "Christian" music: "It seems that the notion of the Christian industry is to find a cleaner alternative to what's in the mainstream. Often, by the time they have an alternative out there, the trend has run its course. The copy is never as good as the original." Amen! Be innovative!
They can say what they will in their various bland statements, and the overall concept is interesting, but with Kutless becoming the first internationally-successful Christian rock band to align with an automaker - in this case Suzuki - it's still all about the greenbacks.
Some background info has arisen over P.O.D.'s decision to bail on Atlantic Records after seven years; frontman Sonny Sandoval told Launch online about the band's dissatisfaction: "All the people got fired, all of a sudden everybody that set up the record, well, now nobody's there, and all the top dogs are gone, and it's like, so they have no personal attachment to the record," he said. "Why are they gonna work it if they had nothing to do with it? And that's kind of their mentality?" Rumour has it Payable may be headed to Tooth & Nail Records, owned by EMI.
A new movie about Kurt Cobain, About A Son, is set to make its debut at the Toronto Film Festival September 10th, after which the makers, journalist Michael Azzerad and director AJ Schnack, hope to take it nationwide. The rundown is over here.
Killswitch Engage bassist Mike D'Antonio expounded at length to MTV recently about the band's upcoming third album As Daylight Dies(how very melodramatic!), including saying that KsE plan to be on the road for much of 2007, including shows in Alaska and Hawaii. Busy lads. Hope Ottawa's included!
I can't help but wonder if this kid is for real.
Alexisonfire's new record Crisis hit stores yesterday. Try to go catch them here in Ottawa soon with Every Time I Die and Cancer Bats.
A great pop rock band known as Cartel are playing live on Jimmy Kimmel tonight. Show's at midnight EST. [Relevant]
As has happened often before, I could insert my own smartass remarks here, but I couldn't touch the original humour, courtesy of Relevant mag: "There are 'cat-killing' urban raccoons loose in Washington state; even worse, there seems to be a swarm of overly sensational news reporters working in the area! Here are some quotes from the article: "Raccoons are cute, until they kill one of your cats." "[Residents] even started a Raccoon Watch after having an emotional neighborhood meeting attended by about 40 people. 'It was a place for people to mourn and cry.'" And here's the best: "'I'm afraid of them,' she said of the raccoons. 'I carry an iron pipe with me when I go out at night,' she added." Gold!
Posted by mike at August 23, 2006 10:55 PM