Just in from the burgeoning newsroom known as "Myspace": Underoath and Taking Back Sunday will embark on a big tour in the new year, kicking off in Pennsylvania at Penn State University February 22nd, and including a cross-Canada run that will see them landing in Ottawa March 27th at the Congress Centre downtown. Get your tickets ASAP - this will sell out faster than Seinfeld.
A band I've been hearing about a lot lately, Canada's own Means, have signed a deal with Facedown Records. You can hear them over here. I think I need to spend more time rotting online listening to new music, because I'm falling behind here. [IVM]
For those who still mourn the breakup of Acceptance earlier this year - like, um, me - take heart: a new band has sprung up in their wake called Thunder Thunder, which is a friggin' awesome name. Check out the rock over here.
There have been rumours afoot that MxPx is back with Tooth & Nail Records on a semipermanent, but frontman Mike Herrera said the other day that it's just a one-record deal, this coming album the band are releasing through T&N. So I guess they're sticking with the good folks at Side One Dummy. [rockrebel]
Interesting article from a month or so ago surrounding Andrew Beaujon's book Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock, in which Pedro the Lion's Dave Bazan says he doesn't consider himself a Christian any longer, but an agnostic. Will there be a backlash? Not from me - he's a grown man. Just keep cranking out ridiculously good music, Mr. Bazan. Article is over here.
On what were apparently less than amicable terms, frontman Ben Perri has left From Autumn to Ashes, leaving drummer/vocalist Francis Mark to take over. Perri allegedly lost interest in all things FATA during the recording of their latest album Abandon Your Friends, wrote no lyrics for the record after assuring the band he would, pulled a no-show for practices and left the band two weeks before an Australian tour. Ugliness. [MTV]
Reprinted in full, stolen from MTV:
"MySpace announced Tuesday that it is partnering with Sentinel Tech Holding Corporation to deploy a database with the names and descriptions of convicted U.S. sex offenders within the next 30 days. The move, which comes in response to repeated reports about solicitations from predators on the social-networking site, is an attempt to block sex offenders from the site by using an automated system to search for matches between the database and MySpace user profiles and delete those profiles. The database will be updated every month and include details such as names, age, hair color, height, scars and tattoos." Sound feasible? Perhaps not, but kudos to Myspace and their owners for at least making the attempt.
Rap duo The Coup had a nasty bus accident last weekend and sustained some injuries all around - but they're alive, albeit canceling some shows, which really doesn't matter at all. Keep them in your mind/prayers.
The tour itinerary for Fall Out Boy's Friends or Enemies tour, which was supposed to be highly secretive in an attempt to drum up some hype about FOB's new album Infinity On High(out February 6th), was mistakenly posted on tourmates New Found Glory's website for a very brief amount of time. Whoops. Anyway, one of the stops is in Toronto at the Kool Haus, January 12th. Lifetime is opening some of those shows, but we're not sure about the date in the Big Smoke.
Posted by mike at December 6, 2006 11:05 PM