The Mouse don't like the Dillinger Escape Plan: the Orlando, Florida Disney-owned House of Blues venue barred the Plan from playing, saying something to the effect of "the image isn't right" - shortly before other bands with names like Every Time I Die and Killswitch Engage took the stage. Cute! Read the interview over here. Favourite quote from singer Greg Puciato: "We're probably three or four times as big as when I joined, which is funny because at the time I joined I thought we were massive." [HXC]
Spin magazine is pissed at a band from Philadelphia calling themselves SPiN, sending the act a cease-and-desist letter - but what about the other band of the same name, an industrial/metal outfit from the Maltese Islands? Does Spin even know where the Maltese Islands are? I'd be hard-pressed to find 'em on a map. [The Grinder]
Bob Costas, America's favourite sports-nerd vertically-challenged individual, on Dave Bazan's new record? Wha? Huh? Hooey? The man formerly known as Pedro of The Lion spills here!
The number seems insanely high, but such is life post-Napster: EMI, one of the world's biggest record companies, is laying off 2000 good folks. As well, the label apparently spends fifty million dollars a year destroying unsold material. Fifty! Hell, I always need jewel cases, maybe should I email the fine folks over at Cash Hemorrhage International and see if they'll let me swing by in a pickup and fetch some. In a related story, because EMI didn't have enough to deal with, they're being sued by a guy familiar to scene types.
Posted by mike at January 16, 2008 11:02 PM