I didn't know Paramore called themselves such after the mother of one of their friends - did you? I figured it was from the French "paramour." Live and learn. Anyway, radio and MTV and Warped and all of them are starting to fall real hard for these kids; check out an article on their interactions with some atheist fans. [buzzgrinder]
As we reported yesterday, Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello is going to be a boss character in the new Guitar Hero game Legends of Rock. Morello told Rolling Stone: "Whenever I play Guitar Hero, my opponent always kicks my ass on my own riffs...now that I'm actually in the game, I hope the digital me will win once in a while!" [theprp]
Demon Hunter have the first part of four of a new song online here. The band's new album will be out on Solid State in November. I hate when bands tease me like this. Just gimme the damn tune.
More drama from The Dillinger Escape Plan: their fall tour with Meshuggah has been axed, and a statement from the band read in part, "Due to circumstances not in our control, and I'll leave it up to the other band on the tour to explain this one, The Dillinger Escape Plan/Meshuggah European tour in November WILL NOT be happening. If you bought tickets, contact whoever you bought them from for a refund. Again, if I started to comment on this right now it would probably not be good, so I'll leave it up to them to do the explaining."
Alice In Chains covering Elton John - acoustic?? True! AIC recently taped an acoustic set in Milwaukee for an upcoming live album. All the hits are on it, don't worry.
The album came out yesterday, but for those not into buying stuff - or haven't had a chance to hit their record store of choice - Every Time I Die have The Big Dirty streaming online. The record is getting mixed reviews, none of them from me until I hear the entire thing.
Unearth have posted their Sick Of It All covers here! Yay!
Vancouver, you can be proud: your city's stop on last year's Unholy Alliance tour featuring Lamb of God, Mastodon and more will be released as a live DVD from American Recordings on October 30th. Performances from all the bands along with behind-the-scenes stuff and interviews will make this puppy awesome. I will own it.
Props once again to our longtime compatriots over at pastepunk, whose Album Of The Night recently was Beloved's one and only full-length record Failure On. Beloved: you are missed.
MF Doom continues to amaze and inspire - rumour has it that some of his shows of late have been performed by folks other than him. Given that his upcoming album is apparently gonna be called Impostor, might this be some weird ploy to mess further with our heads? 'Cause I think I LIKE IT. [Paste]
For the thousands who've been waiting for Chris Carrabba to take Dashboard Confessional back to "the way it was back in the day," check out 'Little Bombs' over here. 2001 - we've missed you!
Posted by mike at September 5, 2007 10:54 PM