sweetdisaster Big Cheese Mike is a devout fan of three sporting franchises: the major-league baseball Toronto Blue Jays, the NBA's Toronto Raptors and the NHL's best squad, the Ottawa Senators. Sadly, the Raptors, after a 2-0 start to this young NBA season, have been crushed in their last three games, and the Senators - coming into the game with a 13-1 record, the class of the league, were destroyed by the last-place Washington Capitals, who'd lost 10 of their last 12 coming into the game. Sad. We won't even mention the Jays.
Anyway. To music.
Check out a nice interview with Revelation Records' co-founder Jordan Cooper centred on the label's 20th anniversary over here. Relevation, aside from giving us greats like Gorilla Biscuits, Quicksand, Sensefield and Chain of Strength, once almost signed New Found Glory, and also put out a Rage Against the Machine record! Amazing. [punknews]
They're coming to Ottawa in the not too distant future(check punkottawa for the date), and Attack In Black have given us a chance to learn their songs beforehand by streaming their entire new album on their Myspace. Go listen!
NOFX will do a north American club tour starting in February with openers No Use For A Name and Toronto newcomers The Flatliners.
Essential Listening today is 'Elevens', by the amazingly talented With Honor; you can stream the song here. And by the way, when you need me, I'll be out back throwing rocks at the moon every night til the day I die.
Radiohead's experiment of last month, releasing In Rainbows for whatever price fans deemed worthy, didn't really work out: most paid nothing or next to nothing, with fans who did shell out paying six dollars on average - and one fan, namely Trent Reznor, paying five grand. Natch.
When the writers' strike ends, Mighty Mighty Bosstones are scheduled to appear - finally - on Jimmy Kimmel Live, something that should've happened years ago given vocalist Dicky Barrett's role on the show(he's been part of the house band since 2004). Conan: I miss you. Please come back from reruns. Incidentally, Jimmy Eat World's scheduled appearance on Letterman has also been nixed for now; ditto Motion City Soundtrack's slotted Late Night gig. Sad. So very sad.
Not only is one of the Dupree sisters of Eisley fame married to the dude from New Found Glory - according to a recent feature in HM mag, another of the trio is getting hitched to Taking Back Sunday's Adam Lazzara. Rock weddings, indeed.
Toronto will not see Armor For Sleep and The Academy Is... this evening following a nasty bus incident that saw no injuries, save to a lot of equipment. AFS' Ben Jorgensen told absolutepunk, "Suffice it to say, lots of our stuff is broken. This stuff will cost money to replace, and because we don't have this stuff today we had to cancel the Toronto show. But it's only that - stuff. We are alll soooo unbelievably happy that the only thing mangled in this whole disaster was stuff, not dudes." Amen.
I hate their name, but damned if 'The Great Escape' isn't ridiculously catchy: Boys Like Girls will open for Miss Avril on her spring '08 tour.
Not content with hyper-caffeinating the planet, the folks at Red Bull appear to be getting ready to jump into the music biz. [http://www.absolutepunk.net" target="new">absolutepunk]
Heath Ledger chosen over Jack Nicholson? It's true, and Jack is pissed.
Emo swooners will love this: Copeland have posted the acoustic version of 'No One Really Wins,' taken from their upcoming Dressed Up and In Line b-sides/rarities album.
A "Christian" group is calling on 50 Cent to stick to his word and retire after Kanye's latest destroyed Fitty's new one in sales this fall. Check out what the "Christian" group had to say over here. People are sick.
Congratulations to country star Garth Brooks, who's overtaken The King as the number-one solo artist of all time, selling over 123 million copies. Surreal.
Posted by mike at November 9, 2007 06:05 PM