Your rainy-Tuesday eastern-Ontario Brockville update for October 9th.
Yours truly gets to see Tegan & Sara tomorrow night in Ottawa; the show has been sold out for months. Don't ask him how he does it.
In a bit of celebratory news, my brother Dan and his new wife Mira were married in Hamilton, ON this past Saturday. The happy couple have abandoned their blogs to create a new joint venture right over here. Two better people don't exist, and we wish them the very best.
On a sad note, prayers are asked for the wife and family of the D's webmaster Brody; his father-in-law has been diagnosed with cancer, and the prognosis is not good. We ask for your thoughts and prayers and general best wishes. Thanks.
And now, the news.
Your Essential Listening for today is Tooth & Nail Records' newest signees, Oregon's A Dream Too Late; reminiscent of a happier Copeland perhaps. Listen here!
Trustkill Records won't be too happy with Throwdown's Dave Peters and his recent statements on record labels - or will they? "If you're supporting disc sales, you're keeping the old model around longer," Peters said. "If you wanna really support a band, 'steal' their album, help bury the label, buy a t-shirt when you show up at their show and sing every word." Done and done. [hxc]
Speaking of labels, Nine Inch Nails are no longer at all affiliated with one, and Trent Reznor couldn't be happier about it. "I've waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label." We'll see where The Dark One takes it from here...
Worship, in the eyes and minds of Impending Doom(perhaps the most brutal band in the history of Facedown Records), has been replaced by "gorship." Yes. To hear about this new fad sweeping America, check out the band's interview in Decibel magazine. The revolution continues. The band, by the way, will kick off a cross-USA tour with Too Pure To Die in November.
Underoath continue to mess with the minds of the fans who want the same record, over and over again: keyboardist and all-around good joe Chris Dudley said recently, "We aren't quite sure how the [new] songs are shaping up quite yet because it's so early, but as they are now, some of them are heavier than Define the Great Line, some are not. It's kind of all over the place." In a related story, the band are also presently filming footage for a high-definition DVD out sometime next year.
Two vastly different bands I quite like, Strung Out and Edison Glass, have both been robbed of a large amount of belongings while on tour in the last week. Am I the only one thinking that there is a network of thieves out there who are conspiring to aim solely for touring acts?
Despite the opinion of some that they don't have much left in the tank based on their hugely-grossing reunion tour this summer, The Police may in fact be working on a new studio album. I'd still give it a listen. [buzzgrinder]
Puddle of Mudd have a new independent release out as of last week. I for one didn't know they were still a functioning unit. An Ottawa guy apparently wrote 'Drift and Die' and had it stolen from him by some A&R weasel. This story remains unconfirmed though.
Stolen straight from buzzgrinder: the jury's verdict in the Recording Industry Association of America's case against Minnesota native Jammie Thomas has been handed down. She was found guilty of sharing files illegally and has been ordered to pay $9,250 a piece for 24 songs, totaling $220,000. She was the first of the people sued by the RIAA to go to court, and this does not bode well. Apparently music is, was and will always be a commodity worth suing over. Sad.
Apparently Fred Mascherino's side gig The Color Fred is so important that he's left his main thing, a little band called Taking Back Sunday. TBS soldier on.
The popular-music climate is changing - Every Time I Die will appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Halloween. Wow.
They were forced to cancel their appearance in Ottawa with Sworn Enemy earlier this year, and now look at 'em: Suicide Silence, MTV-banned video and all, hit #94 on the Billboard 200 last week. Good on 'em.
Life In Your Way are incredible.
After apparently logging 246 shows in support of Saturday Night Wrist - which didn't stop the album from tanking - Deftones have returned to Sacramento, CA to begin work on album number six. Prolific, if not always consistent. [theprp]
This just in from the D's girlfriend Carly: in a surprise move, Bon Jovi have announced via their official website that they'll be playing Ottawa out at Scotiabank Place November 17th as part of a Canadian tour. Tickets go on sale at the usual outlets this coming Saturday. Are you living' on a prayer? Do you give love a bad name?? Be there!
Blast from the past: Arrested Development will release their first album since 1992's hit 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days In The Life Of... with the upcoming Since The Last Time, due out October 30th on Vagabond Records & Tapes. Amazing! [Paste]
Posted by mike at October 9, 2007 06:09 PM