They've been a pathetic football team for the last decade - since running back Barry Sanders hung 'em up - and they've had their share of players running into the law, but the Detroit Lions have hit their nadir with this: defensive tackle Shaun Rogers is an idiot.
Some of the songs to be included for Guitar Hero III include:
'Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
'Even Flow' - Pearl Jam
'Knights of Cydonia' - Muse
'My Name Is Jonas' - Weezer (oh, hell yeah!)
'Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones
'Rock and Roll All Nite'- Kiss (this just keeps getting better!)
'Sabotage' - Beastie Boys
'Slow Ride' - Foghat (classic CanRock!)
Most of the cuts are original versions, to boot. As well, III will be compatible for PS3, Wii and Nintendo's cute little DS, which is a highly addictive apparatus, in my opinion. [STS]
Our Lady Peace are coming out of their hiatus of late, mentioning via MySpace that they're likely heading into vocalist Raine Maida's studio next month to begin work on another album. I'm stoked.
Wilco's Jeff Tweedy - besides being a superior musician - is also pretty smart about his band's music appearing in some new Volkswagen ads: "This is a subject we’ve discussed internally many times over the years regarding movies, TV shows and even the odd advertisement," he said this week. "With the commercial radio airplay route getting more difficult for many bands (including Wilco), we see this as another way to get the music out there. As with most of the above(with the debatable exception of radio) the band gets paid for this. And we feel okay about VWs. Several of us even drive them." More power to y'all.
Montreal's Blessed By A Broken Heart will hit the road in a couple months with headliners It Dies Today, along with co-supporting acts Bring Me The Horizon and a band I saw in 2000: Kittie. Kittie! Meow. [Decoy]
In case anyone still cares, Offspring have vowed to be done recording their first album in four years in about a months' time. And don't forget, ya gotta keep 'em separated.
In News About Bands That Are Still Relevant(lookin' at you, Offspring), Between the Buried and Me this week stated the following about their upcoming album: it's "adult contemporary progressive death metal." This I have to hear. It comes out September 18th on Victory Records.
Good Charlotte and Justin Timberlake will tour together this summer. No one I know or would want to know will be attending.
Anyone who used to be in Further Seems Forever and puts together a new band will always - always - get pub from us here at the D: ex-FSF guitarist Derek Cordoba has a new band called Kicked Out Heel Drag. Cumbersome name, perhaps, but no doubt they kill. Oh, and past or present associates with bands like Underoath and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are also involved.
Oh dang - Strife, in their In This Defiance-era formation, will play two shows in their home state of California next month. Of all the late, great bands I never got to see play live, of all of them, I implore Strife the most: pleaaaaaaaaaase get back together and come play my backyard.
Egypt-obsessed death metal band Nile's peppy new ditty is called 'Papyrus Containing The Spell To Preserve Its Possessor Against Attacks From He Who Is In The Water.' We're not lying.
I'm not even gonna read this Def Leppard article beyond the words "we're almost done a new record." I'm just gonna breathlessly wait for that new record. And pour some sugar on myself. Awkward. [Billboard]
Fast on the heels of announcing they've hit 270,000 subscribers, XM Radio Canada have lost head honcho Stephen Tapp, who's bailing to "pursue other opportunities." What? You hit a nice figure - albeit not what they'd hoped for/expected - and the main man jumps the ship? Weeeeeeird. This means number-two man John Bitove(alert, savvy types will recognize him as the leading force in bringing Toronto their NBA franchise years ago) now jumps up assume control. [Milkman]
Bedouin Soundclash, who met at Kingston, Ontario's Queens University, got their music featured in a department-store-chain TV ad and subsequently conquered Warped and the world at large, will release their much-anticipated second album on SideOneDummy Records. Called Street Gospels, the album's lead single is called '12:59 Lullaby.' The album comes out August 21st. [punkbands]
Rumours abound that drummer Chris Pennie has left The Dillinger Escape Plan. Other dudes are filling in while the band is in the studio - if rumour can be believed - and Dillinger are allegedly scouting out replacements. There will apparently be a "major announcement" from the band this Friday.
This article is interesting...if a little depressing towards the middle.
How the hell is Marilyn Manson still selling almost ninety thousand copies of his music? Can someone explain this to me?
We reported last week that Mute Math are doing the Transformers theme for the upcoming movie(July 7th is a red-letter day); here's the rest of the soundtrack:
Linkin Park - "What I've Done"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Doomsday Clock"
Disturbed - "This Moment"
Goo Goo Dolls - "Before It's Too Late (Sam and Mikaela's Theme)"
The Used - "Pretty Handsome Awkward"
H.I.M. - "Passion's Killing Floor"
Taking Back Sunday - "What It Feels Like To Be A Ghost?"
Styles Of Beyond - "Second To None"
Armor For Sleep - "End Of The World"
Idiot Pilot - "Retina and the Sky"
Julien-K - "Technical Difficulties"
Mutemath - "Transformers Theme"
[tunelab]
It just ain't fair that after they stole my phone for three years as I valiantly paid massive cellphone bills, Rogers Media's like Picnic is shaping up to be such a rad day of music. The Roots headlining? C'mon, man. No fair.
Posted by mike at June 14, 2007 12:08 AM