The latest in Fearless Recs' Punk Goes... series, Punk Goes Acoustic Vol. 2, will be in stores tomorrow, featuring tunes from Relient K, Set Your Goals, Say Anything and lots more. [SPB]
It's about time, considering I saw them a year and a half ago already: Mikoto(ex-Taken) will finally record their debut album We Are the Architects in June. Vocalist Ray Harkins: "We have gone over these songs with a fine-toothed comb, as we wanted to ensure that the songs were the best we possibly can release. There are too many bands around today that don't take the care and effort into releasing a quality product - we are not one of those bands." The band are currently unsigned, so a smart label out there should probably think about this one.
A Tribe Called Quest veteran Q-Tip - one of the silkiest-smooth rappers in the world - is wrapping up production on his latest album The Renaissance, due out this fall and featuring the likes of D'Angelo, Common and Andre 3000 of OutKast. The record's been called "a return to his A Tribe Called Quest hip hop roots."
Beastie Boys are also wading back into the fray, putting out The Mix-Up in June - check this out: the record is twelve tracks with absolutely no vocals or samples. I'll be hugely into this, I bet.
I was all stoked early this morning because HDNet was showing a New Found Glory gig in Boston from earlier this year - and about ten minutes into it the sound cut out entirely and never came back. What a letdown. Just had to vent my spleen.
One of the summer's enormous blockbuster tours has been announced: headliners Linkin Park will hit the bricks with My Chemical Romance and Taking Back Sunday. This would be the fourth edition of LP's annual Projekt Revolution tour, featuring side-stage gigs from The Bled, Saosin, Mindless Self-Indulgence and more. Check out any of the band's websites in a couple weeks' time for tour dates. [RS]
Evanescence is back in the news, this time losing drummer Rocky Gray and guitarist John LaCompte, the latter of whom is pretty pissed: "Amy Lee called and fired me today [Friday]," he said. "There’s absolutely no loyalty in this band." This means Rocky is finally free to go back to making awesome heavy metal(see Soul Embraced; Living Sacrifice).
Former CBS radio dude Don Imus is suing his ex-employer for a cool $120 million next week. The assault on what constitutes "free speech" continues. [R&R]
In among offerings from hotshots like Stone Sour, Daughtry and more on the latest Active Rock Top 40 charts is the newest from...Shadows Fall? Weeeeeeeird.
Also in the Top 40 are my boys Cold War Kids, coming hard outta Los Angeles with 'Hang Me Up To Dry' - one of the best singles of the last eighteen months, no douuuuuuubt.
Yes, Spider-Man 3 broke the opening-weekend record this past weekend, raking in almost a hundred and fifty million clams. Big whoop. I've heard it sucks.
As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis is co-producing the newest from Sworn Enemy, entitled Maniacal. The album drops this fall, and as if AILD didn't have enough to do with it already, drummer Jordan Mancino also did all the drums on the new album. [Decoy]
Oh, and speaking of As I Lay Dying, their new album this summer is called An Ocean Between Us.
No news here: Zao have parted ways with drummer Josh Walter. I've never even heard of this guy, that's how fast they go through people.
'90s relics Velvet Revolver and Alice In Chains(what the hell is Alice in Chains without Layne Staley? C'mon) will tour this summer. I do not care.
One of Canada's best under-the-radar rock bands, Boys Night Out, have posted a brand-new song.]
We stole this without editing from Decoy, because to edit it would lessen their humour: "According to Mtv.com, there will be a tour this summer entitled the "Bad Boys of Rock" tour which will feature such "bad-asses" as Buckcherry, Papa Roach and Hinder. Wait for it... wait for it... I promise, your brain aneurysm is coming." Awesome.
Posted by mike at May 7, 2007 09:41 PM