Good Thursday evening, one and all.
Biggest news in music, at least in our opinion, is Anberlin's jump to the big leagues. Not much of a surprise to anyone given their meteoric success with Tooth & Nail, but the Florida quintet have announced their signing with Universal Republic, for whom they'll release their label debut in mid-2008. Thus far Anberlin's three albums have combined for over 350,000 units sold - something to attract any major-label A&R humanoid. Congratulations, guys! [CMcentral]
Throwdown's newest, Venom and Tears, debuted at No. 81 on the Billboard Top 200, selling around 8,600 copies. Wanna see some pictures of the band in action last weekend at the Montreal Warped stop? Check this out. Or maybe this. Perhaps this, or this, or this? Yes. [lambgoat]
Cursed leader Chris Colohan is a busy boy; aside from prepping the band's upcoming third album, aptly called III(after albums one and two, called I and II respectively), he's launched a label called High Anxiety 416 - the last undoubtedly a reference to Ontario's 416 highway that cuts through the heart of Toronto. A ton of preliminary info on the label and its upcoming doings can be read over here.
Jake Bannon of Converge has merged his Deathwish Inc. record label with eight-year imprint Malfunction(Give Up the Ghost, Count Me Out and more). Deathwish will take over day-to-day operations of the new entity, with releases from Bitter End, Trash Talk and others starting this fall.
The funniest twosome on television, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, have been called upon to testify in the $1-billion dollar lawsuit against Youtube launched by the behemoth Viacom Inc. Both mens' respective shows have been among the most popular on Youtube, so this isn't much of a shock. [buzzgrinder]
Posted by mike at August 16, 2007 10:20 PM