Still one of the best 'zines reviewing records out there: the kids at pastepunk.com know whassup.
While he's still known to most as his Jazz character on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, DJ Jazzy Jeff remains one of the kingpins of the turntable in the hip hop world, and he's coming back with his second record The Return of the Magnificent. Check his guests on this slab: Method Man, Big Daddy Kane, De La Soul, Rhymefest and KRS-One - and that's just for starters. Wow. [Paste]
Speaking of rap, Atmosphere's new album You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having is dope. Pick it up on the Rhymesayers Entertainment label.
Thrice frontman's solo acoustic/folk debut Please Come Home releases January 23rd on Equal Vision(man, they're a great label), but since you can't wait til then - CAN YOU??? - go listen to two cuts at his Myspace page pronto. So impressive, his talent.
This may be the greatest thing since Christ's birth: Christopher Walken will reportedly portray the Prince of Darkness Himself, Ozzy Osbourne, in a new biopic on Motley Crue called The Dirt, based on the 2001 book on the Crue. The film is now in preproduction and will be in theatres in 2008. Wonder which theatre chains will bar this one? I can't wait.
I like her, and if that makes me not punk or hardcore, screw you: Norah Jones will release her third album Not Too Late January 30th. Thirteen songs, guests galore and Norah's breathy, sexy voice. Can't wait for that either.
Last year and the year before, New Jersey's Thursday held 'Hometown Holiday' shows right around Christmas; in '04 Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan were invited to open, and last year Thursday had in the lads from Circle Takes the Square and mewithoutYou. This year? Oh, nobody - unless you're stoked about Thursday headlining a show with support from From Autumn to Ashes and friggin' Lifetime. I should move to Jersey. [punknews]
The first confirmed headliner for next summer's 2007 Warped Tour is Bad Religion(fittingly enough). By that time, their followup to The Empire Strikes First will be out, and the throngs o' punks will have new songs to learn the singalong parts to.
Good tour lining up for March, when it's still getting freakin' cold here and we need all the hot rock action we can get: Anti-Flag are hitting the road with Alexisonfire, Set Your Goals and incomparable punk band The Explosion. The first four shows are listed, but none of them mean the big squatoosh to me, so I shan't bother listing them. Stay tuned.
Posted by mike at November 22, 2006 11:07 PM