Bob Dylan is going on tour. Freakin' right! I hope he's coming to Ottawa, but let's be honest, if he even comes to Canada it'll be Toronto-Montreal-Vancouver-out, as always. Anyway, support will include Foo Fighters, The Raconteurs and more. Wow. [buzzgrinder]
Pop-punk kings Relient K, aside from releasing a new album in a couple months, are getting the royal re-release treatment from their label: Gotee Records will be putting out 'Gold' editions of The Anatomy of Tongue In Cheek and Two Lefts Don't Make A Right...But Three Do, remixed and remastered by boardmeister JR McNeeley.
Speaking of remastering, I finally picked up the re-done version of Converge's seminal Petitioning the Empty Sky, replete with live material and a liner written by notable metal maven Chris Gramlich, whose work we've read in Exclaim! magazine for years now. The album is dope, and even more so for the nicer sound this time around. Not that Boston's most underrated metal act could be called "nice", but you get the point. Shut up.
Fresh from touring their asses off as part of the Sounds of the Underground and Warped tours all summer, Horse the Band still get points for being succinct.. Hilariously antagonistic. Oh, and they explain why drummer Eli's out too.
I like Stick To Your Guns just fine - an incendiary mix of Sick Of It All and Throwdown - but they've literally just sent out four Myspace bulletins in the space of twenty minutes. Enough is enough.
And SPEAKING of Throwdown, Orange County's straight-edge kingpins rolled through Ottawa over the week, delivering their customary tight set, even though sound was rather off this particular afternoon. Zao and Maylene and the Sons of Disaster blew everyone away, while Evergreen Terrace, also hurt by poor sound, still managed to make me move my buns. Which is pretty good 'cause I'm so painfully white.
Beatmaker Banksy has apparently - allegedly - replaced 500 of Paris Hilton's CDs with his own work. I'm not sure exactly what's going on here, but it's an excuse to print here, replicated in unedited form, a Myspace bulletin from Dangerdoom, aka MF Doom and Danger Mouse:
"Waxploitation, the management company for Danger Mouse, can confirm the rumors that the 'DM' referenced on the Banksy/DM Paris Hilton CD is in fact Danger Mouse. Danger Mouse and Banksy are believed to have met whilst shopping for disguises in a Soho joke shop. The only comment they have so far offered on their remix is "Its hard to improve on perfection, but we had to try." That's friggin' awesome. Oh, and Danger(also known on the down-low as Brian Burton of Atlanta) was on Charlie Rose last week on PBS - the one late-night talk show sans a band, gimmickry or hijinks of any sort. Danger proved himself a very intelligent, well-spoken guy, especially on the subject of his latest(huge) success with Gnarls Barkey. Good for him and Cee-lo.
As well as picking a new drummer(that again!), The Agony Scene have signed with their third label in as many albums; the band announced a deal with Abacus Recordings(wow, are they ever signing loads of kickass bands this year) after leaving Roadrunner. TAS' label debut will be out next year. [theprp]
Make that five Myspace bulletins from Stick To Your Guns. Geez.
The Solid State Youngbloods II tour will go down in October, featuring The Chariot, August Burns Red, Destroy the Runner, Twelve Gauge Valentine and Inhale/Exhale all aboard. That is one hell of a lot of new-school American metalcore. Too much for this jaded scenester, I daresay, though obviously I'm going if it comes to Ottawa. And on the subject of August Burns Red, they're coming back to town for the second time with Walls of Jericho and Bleeding Through. C'mon out.
Tons of new shows(gonna be a busy autumn) are listed over here. Get on it.
Posted by mike at September 5, 2006 09:47 PM