Ajax, Ontario misfits(that'll be funny in a few seconds, just wait) Sum 41 have completed tracking for twenty new songs, which vocalist Deryck Whibley will then sing his little buns off to in the new year. Meantime, the band have posted their cover of the Misfits' 'Attitude'(see? We TOLD you that it would be funny!), which you can listen to over here. [punknews]
Waaaay back to the day: former Operation Ivy frontman Jesse Michaels joined Rancid onstage in California this week to belt out the Op Ivy tune 'Unity' - Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman of Rancid, of course, were part of Op Ivy, as noted, waaaay back in the day. This isn't a reunion - or IS it?
My boys No Trigger are having their Japan-only album Extinction In Stereo reissued on this side of the pond by the good kids at New School Records. The album will drop in north America April 10th, by which point NT should have established a firm stranglehold on all things punk-friggin'-rock. What a great band.
Unconfirmed rumour on the street(well, the internet...anyway) is that with the rejoining of Marcos Curiel to P.O.D., the man who took his place - former Living Sacrifice guitarist Jason Truby - has left the band. Who knows. We'll keep y'all posted. [JFH]
All Star United, who have maybe never ever been mentioned in this space, are still kicking, with a new record called Love & Radiation coming out on 7Spin Music March 20th. They wrote some awesome hooks way back in the day - like the mid-1990s. Man, I'm old.
I simply must hear this - while making their sixth record, Orange County vets Project 86 found time to remix a couple songs from ...And The Rest Will Follow, including this version of 'From December', featuring Underoath guitarist Tim McTague on drums and Anberlin guitarist Joey Milligan on, well, guitar. I'm going to listen to this immediately.
Speaking of Anberlin, some of the fellas, when not busy finishing up their third album Cities(due February 20th), are heading to Calcutta, India in January with an organization called Ten. They'll be working to help build a new wing of a safehouse where women who have recently come out of the sex-trafficking industry can make items to sell and sustain a life outside of slavery. That is, in fact, a direct quote from a press release. Keep them in your thoughts and prayers.
Since Free Derek Webb went online three months ago, check out the numbers of those downloading his latest album Mockingbird fo' freezy: eighty thousand people in almost seven thousand US cities, in all fifty US states, and 170 countries worldwide. That is some impressive word-of-mouth. Oh, this just in - Derek Webb is a fantastic singer/songwriter.
Posted by mike at December 22, 2006 10:58 PM