Biggest news of 2007 by a landslide thus far, from sweetdisaster source A-Hill: Rage Against the Machine will reunite to headline the last night of this year's Coachella Festival in the badlands of California, April 29th. The band's website is sketchy on details, only confirming what KROQ in Lost Angels and the LA Times reported this morning. AMAZING. Who's going? Can I hitch a ride? I'll pay for gas cross-country! Good Lord!
Oh, and Fair, a favourite of ours around here at the D, are also playing the last day of the fest. Like I need another reason to go to this.
Another piece of news, from by far the best-looking sweetdisaster goldmine news correspondent Carly: if you're in a band, and you wanna play a week's worth of shows on this summer's Warped Tour, check out Music Saves Lives and their efforts on this spring's Taste of Chaos trek to raise bone marrow donations.
My homey Josh Chaillou sings for a hardcore band called xLooking Forwardx, and put this here up on Myspace for everyone's persual. Well said, man.
American Idol "judge" Simon Cowell is a complete a-hole. Another reason not to watch that idiot show.
This just in from yet another source here at the D, Mr. Dave Leibold(he hosts Over My Head, Sunday mornings on CKCU here in Ottawa): the second-newest signing to Facedown Records, Canada's own Means, are coming to Ottawa February 8th. I was unable to find confirmation or location through punkottawa.com, but Facedown's website has it up there, so we'll go with that for now. Incidentally, Facedown's newest signing is a band called Impending Doom. Natch.
My parents' alma mater, Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, three or four years ago created something called the Festival of Faith & Music, and in its short time it's become a very hot ticket every other year. 2005's edition was instrumental in author Andrew Beaujon's book Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock, released last year, and this year's lineup includes bluegrass legend Emmylou Harris, indie kingpins Sufjan Stevens and Anathallo and Canadian songstress Neko Case, along with authors Steve Stockman, David Dark and the aforemention Beaujon. Seeing as my parents are both proud alumni, maybe I should take a little roadie for this one. More info can be found over here.
Posted by mike at January 22, 2007 09:56 PM