We're creeping up on sweetdisaster's third anniversary next month, and to celebrate - and ideally in time for the day of - we'll have us a brand-spankin'-new layout from the D's second enforcer Marco, a good Ottawa boy with a degree in graphics design. He's been summarily co-opted by me for my evil purposes, along with erstwhile original enforcer DJ Omnifik. With a posse like this, we unstoppable!!
Anyway.
American Idol fans, take note: contestant Chris Daughtry is putting together a self-titled band(Daughtry, for those not getting it) and releasing a record featuring songs co-written with people from Fuel, 3 Doors Down, SR-71 and Matchbox Twenty. Producer? Howard Benson, which almost guarantees a hit. No release date is known as of yet. I don't care about this, strictly speaking, of course, but it's interesting how much help Daughtry is getting here. [soundthesirens]
Speaking of the '90s, one of my absolute favourite bands from my halcyon days of youth, Gin Blossoms, released a new album last week called Major Lodge Victory. No one will care, because music sure as hell ain't what it used to be in the upper echelons, but dang if the Blossoms don't still rule. I'm gonna go befriend them on Myspace now...except that there's another glitch wherein by attempting to add someone, you wind up in YOUR mailbox. Weeeeird.
Project 86 are keeping surreally busy(is surreally a word?), not content to maybe, you know, get a life after releasing And The Rest Will Follow just a few months ago. No, the band is in the studio recording their next album, which they want out in our hot little hands by early next year. Pro-leeef-ic, ja? [TVU]
Fighting Jacks, who released a typically-unpromoted record with Tooth & Nail a few years ago, had their van and all their gear - I mean all of it - ripped off last week. Twenty large, all told, the Jacks are out. It sucks entirely, having nine years' worth of music-related possessions stolen by some lowlifes. If you're a fan, or just wanna send support, hit up their Myspace page. Time for Christians to act like the name suggests.
I'd heard this, but dismissed it as purely asinine - apparently it's legit, and Elton John does wanna do a 'hiphop' album. "I want to bring my songs and melodies to hip hop beats, a bit like 'No Diggity' by Blackstreet," the singer has said. Wow. [Decoy]
Essential Listening for today, August 26th(happy birthday, Mom!): The Procussions, rapidly rising straight outta Lost Angels by way of Denver, and a song called 'The Storm'. Hit it up here. Illmatic. While you're at it, hit up all the bombs on that page. Amazing.
Word is that the folks at Myspace, having already launched a record label(though the success of that label is up for debate thus far), are thinking about creating a high-profile, glossy magazine. I hope it flops. They need to learn what a little thing I call "failure" is.
Background information on this new Crank flick: not only is The Sleeping's Bee Gees cover pure murder, but the NOFX song picked to be on the soundtrack? 'Kill All The White Man.' Hilarious.
Sounding a hell of a lot like another San Diego band with the acronym AILD, except a little more variety, Solid State rookies Destroy the Runner have some new material up on their Myspace. Not bad, on the whole.
Incubus still exist, which I didn't know.
It's a terrible world we live in when Lamb of God's newest may sell eighty thousand copies in its first week, while Paris Hilton's is predicted between ninety and a hundred grand. Sick.
My sweet Lord, SKID ROW are releasing a new album soon. What is this, Armageddon??
Former Chariot bassist Keller Harbin, as reported here and elsewhere, is now confirmed as the new bass player for the Spinal Tap-esque Every Time I Die.
Everyone's favourite metal heartthrobs, Atreyu, have picked 'The Theft' as their new single. I still will not care.
Darkest Hour and Evergreen Terrace are allegedly putting together a future tour. In related news, ET are here in Ottawa next weekend, September 3rd, opening for Throwdown. If you live here and haven't gotten tickets yet, get your ass to End Hits downtown or call 241-HITS. Geez. C'mon already.
Posted by mike at August 26, 2006 10:39 PM