Really long week last week for the Big Cheese here at the D - attended the funeral of my grandmother(Anne Postma went home to be with the Lord at the age of 77 on Easter Monday), and found out my beloved girlfriend is moving way the hell up north to Timmins, Ontario, to work at Q92 FM up there. Man. Rough one. However, there is good news on a personal level for yours truly: my brother Dan popped the question to his lovely fiancee Mira last weekend, so that's groovin'.
Time for some news.
From the silver screen to the The Militia Group: Juliette Lewis and her band The Licks have signed with TMG out in southern California; the label will release Four On The Floor this summer. [punkbands]
Goldfinger's 2007 album has been, well, pushed back to 2008. Guitarist Charlie Paulson says, "We know we promised the record would be out by now and we'd be doing Warped Tour this year as well as our own thing in the fall. Well...sh*t happens." So take that.
The band everyone most loves to hate, Yellowcard, have finished up their new album Paper Walls, due out this summer.
Not content to rule the emo/screamo scene with an iron fist, the kids at Vagrant Records have formed a new "heavy music" imprint called Destiny Records. The first signing? They've come up north, picking up Kingston, Ontario's I Hate Sally.
I will so go to this if it comes to Montreal and/or Ottawa: actor Will Smith and his former partner in crime, DJ Jazzy Jeff, are going back in time twenty years to do a world tour as Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. "We always talk about doing a JJFP record and a huge tour, we just have to clear the time to do it," says Smith. "Right now, the plan is we are supposed to go out on tour together at the end of this year." SICK. [anti-music]
Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz made a record with a band called The Himalayas - in 1989. And it was never ever ever released...until now. She's Like The Weather will come out on Duritz's own label, and, says the man himself, it reflects "probably the greatest period of musical productivity of my entire life." This puppy also contains the original version of 'Round Here,' which later shot CC to fame in 1995.
I didn't know it was the record til now: Linkin Park have hit six straight number-one singles, with their latest 'What I've Done' debuting at the top spot on the Alternative charts, and this makes them the recordholder for consecutive number ones. Kudos, even if they haven't made interesting music since Hybrid Theory. [tunelab]
The resurrected Soul Embraced, featuring Evanescence drummer Rocky Gray on lead guitar(homeboy can shred, take it from us), will release a new album this summer called I Am Dead. Check out a new tune called 'Kill This'(natch) right over here.
Word.
Posted by mike at April 16, 2007 09:18 PM