There's been a lot of talk in the Canadian media - particularly the southern-Ontario Canadian media - surrounding Research In Motion(makers of the BlackBerry) CEO Jim Balsillie's purchase and subsequent move of the NHL's Nashville Predators, with the assumption being he's moving the team to Hamilton, Ontario. Well, finally, something else to discuss about the Hammer: Tool, with openers Big Business, will play H-Town's Copps Coliseum in a week or so - next week Sunday, the 24th, to be precise. Then swinging they are down to the US, coming back up to Montreal for a gig July 10th at the Bell Centre. [theprp]
Good news for Protest the Hero fans: the band are maybe even as we speak working on their next album, aiming to have it done and in our hands by the fall on Vagrant Records. Love us some Protest here at the D, we do.
August Burns Red, while hotly anticipating dropping Messengers on an unsuspecting public this coming Tuesday(June 19th), are also working on re-issuing their 2004 debut album Looks Fragile After All. CI Records will handle that chore, effective July 24th. I've never heard it, so I want someone to buy it...for....me. Yes.
I only saw them live once, but they were super tight, and super rad guys as well: Orange County's Scars of Tomorrow broke up not too long ago, and two new projects have taken flight, one called Hollowed, the other SSNOVA.
Underoath's forthcoming DVD is called simply 777. Their website, coincidentally, is underoath777.com. For those unaware, the number 777 Biblically represents completeness in Christ. I think. I'm no theologian though, so if I'm wrong, email itacs@hotmail.com and tell me so.
Pastepunk mastermind Jordan Baker gave Kingston, ON's I Hate Sally some love earlier this week, comparing them to a crossbreeding of Mastodon and From Ashes Rise. However, he referred to the name of their label(that being Density Records) as "a bit silly." And I'm sitting here on my white duff thinking, "...and 'I Hate Sally' isn't a bit silly?"
Recommended listening: I first heard City Sleeps in 2005 with a song called 'Prototype' that absolutely caved my skull in for reasons I couldn't elucidate with much more detail than, "Uh, I just loved it, man." Sometimes a song just nails you down and will not let up, and CS achieved that. Well, the band is now with Trustkill Records, and hopefully one of Atlanta's best-kept secrets will blow up - finally. Check out their Myspace and be rocked.
Following the release of the 50th-anniversary compilation album earlier this year, the Stax Records 50th-Anniversary Reunion Benefit show goes June 22nd in Memphis, Tennessee. Co-hosted by American Idol's Randy Jackson and the one and only Chuck D., performers include Booker T and the MGs, Isaacy Hayes and newer signees Angie Stone and Soulive. Partial proceeds will go to the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. [Paste]
Posted by mike at June 16, 2007 11:09 PM