One of the first punk bands I ever loved was Goldfinger and their 1996 self-titled album, including gems like 'Here In Your Bedroom' and 'Nothing to Prove'; the record was featured in Alternative Press' nostalgic look back at the year '96, and now comes word that Goldfinger have signed to SideOneDummy Records. Good move by them. [Decoy]
Norma Jean's big new album, their third, entitled Redeemer, had a big first week out: 21,334 albums sold in stores, meaning #38 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. How 'BOUT them Southern boys??
...strictly by way of contrast, New Found Glory's Coming Home's first week's sales were between forty and fifty thousand, according to HITS. Hmm.
Former Ironclad Recordings act Since the Flood have jumped up to Metal Blade Records, joining I Killed the Prom Queen, who announced their the other day. Ironclad is owned by Unearth vocalist Trevor Phipps - Unearth are on Metal Blade - you can see this train of logic.
Stop the presses, hold everything: NEW TENACIOUS D.]
Trend riders, heads up: Senses Fail and Saosin are going out on a full US tour kicking off November 25th. No word yet on Canadian shows, but the scene kids will be out en masse.
Justice, apparently, has not been served in the case of the fire in Rhode Island that killed dozens at a Great White show in 2003. [Billboard]
Closet Freak: The Best of Cee-Lo Green the Soul Machine is a best-of rounding some of Cee-Lo(known to almost a million record buyers as the vocalist for Gnarls Barkley)'s work from the Goodie Mob days, including a twelve-year-old collaboration with a very young Outkast and some of his solo stuff. The album drops on Halloween.
His shadow stretches nowhere near as far as his father's, but Wallflowers' mastermind Jakob Dylan is no slouch in the songwriting department either. The Wallflowers left Interscope Records last year after a long association, and during the lull in that side of his life, Dylan has joined Columbia Records and started writing for the new NBC drama Six Degrees(produced by the everywhere-important J.J. Abrams).
Posted by mike at September 22, 2006 02:01 AM