How 'bout them boys from Sioux Falls, South Dakota - one of my favourite truly metalcore bands, Nodes of Ranvier, after three great albums with Facedown Records, have signed with Victory Records, who will release their label debut this July. Good for them.
Another Victory band, Comeback Kid, are doing us all a favour and streaming the entirety of their new album Broadcasting on their Myspace page for what will presumably be a short-ish time. I'm pretty impressed with what I hear. Methinks CBK have another winner on their hands - check them out March 9th at Babylon here in lovely cosmopolitan Ottawa to see firsthand. Singer Andrew Neufeld sounds remarkably little like his former life fronting Figure Four.
And ONE MORE piece of Victory news - Bayside will appear on Late Night with Conan O'Brien February 27th. I know, I know - we're coming off like a Victory Records propaganda site now. Shut up.
I mention this not because I think Red are exceptionally talented or something(they're Linkin Park in disguise, I'm sure), but because they're touring with a band I used to love - Sevendust. Word UP. [IVM]
Further Seems Forever's final effort, a CD/DVD entitled The Final Curtain, comes out April 3rd on 567 Records - and a guy I interviewed years ago by the name of Bill Power(Blenderhead) is featured. Another reason for me to own this.
Bullshit. Websites like ours will always, always fight websites like that. My God doesn't even think about thinking along those lines. [rockrebel]
Oh, good: The Explosion have been "let out" of their major-label contract with Virgin Records, who gave control of the band's latest album Bury Me Standing back to them; the band are now looking for a new label. BMS is the followup to 2004's masterful Black Tape, one of my favourite punk rock records ever. [chartattack]
Bonnaroo is shaping up to be a mother of a festival again this summer; The Police are indeed headlining, as are Tool and The White Stripes. Other acts of note include Wilco, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, DJ Shadow, Fountains of Wayne, Lily Allen(my new crush), Cold War Kids, Rx Bandits(huh?), Canada's own Sam Roberts Band and the ever-fantastic Mutemath. I wanna go.
A killer band, Set Your Goals, have been added to the Smartpunk Stage at this summer's Warped Tour; also added are our friends in Drop Dead, Gorgeous. Go get 'em, tigers. [AP]
I might actually get to see New Found Glory play Warped in August, providing of course that they don't drop off the tour before then, which happened with at least four bands I wanted to see last summer. No joke.
Interestingly, the re-formed Smashing Pumpkins have chosen July 7th(or 7/7/07) to release their new album, Zeitgeist. We still do not know who is involved with this reincarnated version of the band other than founding drummer Jimmy Chamberlin and frontman Billy Corgan. Hmm.
Posted by mike at February 15, 2007 12:04 AM