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A nice little Canadian tour has shaped up featuring headliners Bleeding Through with The End, Cancer Bats(those two bands sure tour together a lot) and Risky Business opening up:
May 24th Vancouver, BC - Plaza Club
May 25th Victoria, BC - Lucky Bar
May 28th Langley, BC - Vineyard
June 01st Calgary, AB - The Underground
June 02nd Edmonton, AB - Avenue Skatepark
June 03rd Regina, SK - The Exchange
June 04th Saskatoon, SK - The Bassment
June 07th Toronto, ON - Opera House
Sadly, no Ottawa date. [theprp]
A video for Helmet's 'Money Shot' has popped up on the interweb, right over here.
Hey, a tour that is coming to Ottawa - All That Remains will blow through town June 4th at the New Capital Music Hall downtown with openers Protest the Hero, Bless the Fall, The Holly Springs and Threat Signal. PTH need no introduction to Ottawa crowds; BTF were last here in the capital opening for Greeley Estates, The Holly Springs are from the Canadian midwest and Threat Signal are ragin' outta Hamilton, Ontario. There's the skinny.
Evergreen Terrace's Wolfbiker record will be out July 24th, God willing. Renowed producer Jason Livermore is behind the board, and Tim Lambesis'(As I Lay Dying) High Impact label will co-release it with Metal Blade.
Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison will play with Korn on tour for the foreseeable future, in the stead of founding member David Silveria, who remains on hiatus. I don't care about Korn or Slipknot, but lots of people do, I suppose.
One of my favoured bands of the moment, Lovedrug, are opening up on tour with Straylight Run and Sparta beginning May 28th. No Canadian dates as yet.
According to a Myspace bulletin issued from the depths of the Comeback Kid camp, tourmates This Is Hell rolled their van in western Canada yesterday - no one was hurt, but the van and status of their playing the last four shows is up in the air. Keep TIH in mind - man, those guys can't seem to catch a break in Canada.
Rock and baseball in one album review? Beautiful.
I still don't get how Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams wounding up guesting on The Chariot's new album.
Does this sound dirty to anyone? The White Stripes' new album is called Icky Thump. Hmm. It's purported to be "sonically bombastic." Hmm. [Paste]
Hmm.
What a fab tour this would be: Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, under his moniker The Nightwatchman, is going on the road with Ben Harper in June:
7 - Tulsa, Okla. @ Cain's Ballroom
9 - Council Bluffs, Iowa @ Stir Cove at Harrah's Casino
10 - St. Louis, Mo. @ The Pageant
12 - Cleveland, Ohio @ House of Blues
13 - Asheville, N.C. @ The Orange Peel
14 - North Myrtle Beach, S.C. @ House of Blues
16 - Manchester, Tenn. @ Bonnaroo
Man, what a bill.
Shoe manufacturer New Balance(never worn 'em in my life, but what the hell) have come out with a new line of Joy Division kicks - wait, what? Joy D have shoes? Commemorating the 30th anniversary of the group's inception, they're mostly white with a touch of grey. Oh, and they have album art embroidered on the tongue and on the sole of the thing. Wow. Check out a picture over here.
...not to be outdone by Joy Division, Beck has released a shoulder bag.
His band the Bouncing Souls are coming to Ottawa in a couple of days, but frontman Greg Attonito has some other stuff on his mind too: he's putting out a childrens' book called I Went For A Walk. I like this sort of variety in my punk rock. If you're wanting to pick the tome up for your kidlings, the project has its own MySpace page. Bouncing Souls play the Capital Music Hall in downtown Ottawa this coming Tuesday night(April 24th) with Strike Anywhere. [punknews]
Speaking of veteran punk rock acts, New Jack City's Kill Your Idols have announced their last shows and such. Of special note is who will play with them: Jersey legends Ensign! I'd kill to go.
They don't screw around with hardcore down in Florida, and Seventh Star's upcoming album The Undisputed Truth will undoubtedly conquer all who attack - check out the title track over here.
Perhaps the summer's biggest tour - Rise Against, Comeback Kid, Silverstein and more - starts June 15th in Dallas, winding all over the continent, including a bunch of Canadian shows, none here in Ottawa. Montreal road trip, here we come. Check out the shows here.
Just keep whipping the dead horse: though almost a decade has passed since Supernatural, the band's last album, the apparently cash-strapped Forefront Records will release another dc Talk best-of in June. There is nothing notable about this new compendium, aside from its mere existence. Geez. Enough already. [JFH]
Interesting that this byte comes immediately following the dc Talk bit - the band's most talented, innovative member, Kevin Max, has a new album coming entitled The Blood. He's relocated to Nashville after a stint in Los Angeles to escape the Nashville scene(divorce ain't popular in the Nash), but his legacy lives on in Lost Angels; his regular gig at the Viper Room(owned by Johnny Depp, I believe) attracted the likes of Tom Arnold, Gene Simmons and Christian Slater. High roller.
Fin.
Posted by mike at April 21, 2007 10:46 PM