'Bout time we get our 'spects: starting in January at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, there'll be an exhibit honouring the Warped Tour, the longest-running annual festival. Gear, clothing and other miscellaneous crap will be enshrined at the Hall. "It's a great honor for the Hall to recognize the success of Warped, and I know it's a special thing for a lot of the bands," said Warped founder/guru Kevin Lyman. Items were donated by bands ranging from old-schoolers NOFX right up to the likes of My Chemical Romance(how a band with three proper albums somehow has earned this is beyond me, but who the hell asked me in the first place?). [MTV]
A band with a couple of stupidly catchy tunes that even this jaded hipster likes have been tapped to headline the next installment of the Take Action Tour: The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus will play last every night on the sixth edition, starting in February; no other acts have been announced. The tour benefits the Youth Assistance Hotline, raising over a hundred thousand dollars with last year's effort. [aversion]
Anyone remember Hotornot.com? I never once saw it myself, but I heard about it lots a year or two or three ago, and now Cartel have ripped off the theme for their latest single "Honestly"(by far one of the catchiest of the year). Check it out over here.
According to a post by drummer Jimmy Chamberlin, Smashing Pumpkins are nose to the grindstone working on their upcoming "comeback" album. For anyone who's interested.
I saw them live in 2001 before any of you fools even knew the name, so there, scenesters!!! Ahem..um...Rise Against are going the DVD route, pledging to have one in stores before the end of this year; Generation Lost contains Warped '05 interview footage and live stuff from Los Angeles earlier this year. Rock rock on. Release date is December 5th, just in time for your punk-ass Christmas.
Jimmy Eat World frontman Jim Adkins is a wiseass.
Hatebreed rolled through town last night on the Core Across Canada II tour with Sworn Enemy and Scars of Tomorrow(big ups to openers Outnumbered, who I've loved since I first heard them years ago), and they retained their crowd as the loudest band I've ever heard, and I've heard hundreds. Eighteen hours later and I'm still half deaf. Well done.
November 21st is a good day, as The Devil and God Are Raging Against Me, the newest from Brand New, comes out that day. Check out 'Sowing Season', up now on their Myspace. [punkhardcore]
Posted by mike at October 26, 2006 03:49 PM