Caught Toronto rapper Kardinal Offishall downtown last night; it was a corporate gig commemorating the launch of Hullo, a versatile answering service created by an Ottawa-based company. Check it out if you're interested, and this just in: Kardi knows how to throw a rap show, kids. Pictures on the web over here. And check out a crazy(pun intended) remix of Gnarls Barkley's breakout hit over here. Wild.
Getting ready to tour all over the place with Tool, Isis(or, as someone once referred to them, "Is-is") have put a new song called 'Dulcinea' online over here. The upcoming new Isis album is called In The Absence of Truth, due October 31st. Incidentally, and in no way related, Dead Poetic's Vices is scheduled for that Tuesday too. How exciting! [noisetheory]
Friends of Isis, actually, in the form of Converge, will beat Is-is to the punch by releasing their new album No Heroes a week earlier, on October 24th. That record will destroy us all.
Word has gotten around following their departure from the Warped Tour that Underoath are either losing members or outright breaking up - not the case, according to manager Randy Nichols, who emailed AP with this statement: "I thought you might be curious to know that Underoath did not break up [and] no one has quit or left the band," says Nichols. "[They] are about to get back on the road again and do all their touring for the year, and next year, too." Included in that massive touring run is September 26th here in Ottawa, so go get tickets ASAP.
I've never heard of this flick, but Crank comes out in theatres September 1st, and get a load of the soundtrack: featured are NOFX, Rocket From the Crypt, Refused, Canadian schlock-rock band Loverboy(what the hell?) and freakin' Jefferson Starship. As well, our friends The Sleeping contribute a cover of the Bee Gees' 'Stayin' Alive', and since you all must hear this song, it can be streamed over at the movie's Myspace page. Word up to the Sleeping!
By the way, The Smoking Popes, who are absolutely, without-a-doubt better than your stupid band, have posted TWO NEW DEMOS!!!! WOOO! Check out the action over here. Quickly! Giddyup! Something about Josh Caterer's voice and his subtle way with a turn of phrase makes everything he does musically simply irresistible, in my opinion.
Fomer bassist for The Chariot Keller Harbin is being touted as the replacement to recently-departed Every Time I Die four-stringer Chris Byrnes, who quit last weekend. Harbin - or whoever winds up joining ETID - will become Bassist Number Six since the band's inception in 1998.
In a recent interview with the intrepid lambgoat.com, two members of Bleeding Through and Unbroken's Steve Miller said they've started a new band called March of the Damned, saying it's "very noisy, almost Cursed sounding...we're taking a lot of older nineties west coast hardcore." Innnnteresting. [SPB]
T-minus twelve days before Strike Anywhere come back to Ottawa! Make sure you're all ticketed and going!
From the three new songs up on their Myspace page, New Found Glory appear to have jettisoned entirely their punk/hardcore roots, meaning I'm not gonna be down with their new album as much as I always have been, going back to 2000's self-titled record. Gone are the gang vocals and breakdowns. Hmph. Just an observation.
Quoth half of Gnarls Barkley, DJ Danger Mouse, on his collaboration with Cee-Lo Green: "This record wasn't deliberate on either one of our parts. We didn't worry about who would listen to it or what station would play it. We were just trying to impress each other." St. Elsewhere has since sold over 600,000 copies in the USA alone. Way to guy, guys. [Rolling Stone]
Two notes related to the big D: sweetdisaster enforcer DJ Omnifik(pictured here spinning drum 'n bass tunes in downtown Ottawa) is about to become my roommate in our pleasant little suburban townhouse. As well, a new layout for the mag is in the works. Stay tuned.
Posted by mike at August 25, 2006 09:05 PM