I had my first ride in a limousine today. They're pretty swanky cars.
Denver, Colorado rap crew The Procussions(Rawkus Records) had one of their number appear on Miami Ink recently, getting 'FORGIVE US' etched onto his back. Awesome episode, awesome crew. Sadly, we can't show you the footage since it's not on their Myspace, just in a bulletin lacking in HTML coding. Their bad.
Huge kudos to the kids at Synthesis for putting this one online.
Rolling Stone has put together its annual 50 Best this week; in among the usual hipster picks are solid records from The Roots, My Chemical Romance, Mastodon(I have to hear that album), what RS calls Pearl Jam's best album in a decade, and of course Yo La Tengo with easily the best album title of all time: I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass. [RS]
Hot on the heels of their little membership fracas/changes last week, Long Island stalwarts From Autum to Ashes have, surprisingly to some maybe, posted a new song. [STS]
Better run out and get yourself some new Gringo Bandito - that of course being the new hot sauce created by Offspring frontman Dexter Holland. It's a weird day for news apparently.
Excellent - I thought they were done; As Cities Burn, conversely, are about to unload some new music on the internet over on their Myspace - it could be up right as you read this!! Their full-length from last year was awesome. [TVU]
In what has to be an early contender for Most Improbable Tour of 2007 already, It Dies Today are taking to the road with...Papa ROACH? What the...wow. [Decoy]
Life In Your Way's Solid State Records debut after years of indie releases is called Waking Giants - but it won't be out anytime soon. The album has been pushed back to March of next year. Crap.
I'm not even gonna reprint any of it - just go and read it. I bet it's hilarious. Behold - a letter from Axl Rose to all six of his fans left explaining the absence of the long-promised Chinese Democracy album from Guns 'N Roses. Riiiiiiight. It's allegedly coming out in March.
One of my favourite new bands of 2006, California's Stick To Your Guns, have found a label with Sumerian Records. Their latest, For What It's Worth, will get the deluxe re-release treatment in February, with some new tunes, new art and a video. Wheee!!
Some touring of interest to regular sweetdisaster readers hither and yon; firstly, Anberlin will headline a tour commencing February 21st in North Carolina with support from Bayside and Meg & Dia - the band's new album Cities will be in stores the day before. Secondly, Relient K and Mae are heading out on a massive trek starting March 9th in NYC, and they'll be in Montreal and Toronto March 13th(Club Soda) and 14th(Opera House) respectively.
...oh, and thirdly, Switchfoot is coming back to Ottawa March 2nd to headline the Capital Music Hall with openers Copeland. Fantastic show.
The new album from Incubus, Light Grenades, sold over a hundred and seventy thousand copies its first week out, equaling a Number One record on their hands. In 2006. Who knew??
Former daredevil Evel Knievel is suing "rapper" Kanye West, claiming that the video for 'Touch the Sky'(along with launching the career of a then-relatively-unknown Lupe Fiasco) is infringing on his intellectual properties. You see, Mr. Knievel - back in the day - rocked an "extraordinarily well-recognized white jumpsuit," much like the one Mr. Kanye sports in the video. Basically, what we're telling you here is that Evel Knievel is broke and wants cash, and he'll take it from anybody. [InReview]
Oh hell yes: Def Leppard, far and away the greatest of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal hair bands of the 1980s, are working on a new record. "A lot of the songs are anthemic sounding," says singer Joe Elliott. Friggin' right!! [Billboard]
"It's not my duty to convert anybody, it's my duty to love everybody. God will bring about the conversion of one's heart, if that's what needs to happen." - Aaron Weiss, mewithoutYou
Posted by mike at December 16, 2006 10:57 PM