Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten is apparently living up to his name - allegedly. The man born John Lydon is facing a lawsuit for apparently beating up a woman in a hotel room - the woman being a representative of the Bodog Battle of the Bands enterprise; Lydon was part of the show last fall when the incident occurred. [aversion]
Following a few personal issues(namely, a drug-related arrest) Snow Patrol are back at work on the followup to their breakout 2006 album Eyes Open. "Some loveliness is happening and it's very exciting to hear songs I've been demoing over the last year or more spring to noise-covered life," says singer Gary Lightbody on the band's website. 'Hands Open' is still a favourite song of mine.
Hard to believe it's been three years already since Lagwagon's career-rebirthing Resolve album, but it sho' nuff has, and now they're working on a little EP with perhaps the best title in some time: I Think My Older Brother Used To Listen To Lagwagon. No tracklisting or cover art to tell you about yet, but that title's enough on its own. And only is this new EP coming down the pipe, beginning in late August the band are blitzing across Canada with the likes of MXPX, The Sainte Catherines and Only Crime:
08/26/08 Vancouver, BC Canada at Croatian Cultural Center w/ The Sainte Catherines, TAT
08/28/08 Calgary, AB Canada at Warehouse Night Club w/ The Sainte Catherines, TAT
08/29/08 Edmonton, AB Canada at Dinwoodie Lounge w/ The Sainte Catherines, TAT
08/30/08 Saskatoon , SK Canada at The Odeon Events Centre w/ The Sainte Catherines, TAT
08/31/08 Regina, SK Canada at Pyramid Cabaret w/ The Sainte Catherines, TAT
09/01/08 Winnipeg, MB Canada at Pyramid Cabaret w/ MXPX, TAT
09/04/08 London, ON Canada at Call The Office w/ MXPX, TAT
09/05/08 Toronto, ON Canada at Phoenix Concert Theatre w/ MXPX, Only Crime, TAT
09/06/08 Montreal, QC Canada at Metropolis w/ MXPX, Only Crime, TAT
09/07/08 Quebec City, QC Canada at Imperial w/ MXPX, Only Crime, TAT
09/10/08 Halifax, NS Canada at The Marqee Club w/ MXPX, Only Crime, TAT
We have no idea who TAT are either.
Remember how Aerosmith got their very own Guitar Hero game? Well, no one really cared about it, and now Metallica are hoping to cash in some of that same consumer apathy with their version. Now we can all pretend to rock 'One' and wish the band was even a fraction that good anymore.
July 29th will see the Oliver Stone-directed Rolling Stones concert movie Shine A Light come to DVD - highly recommended by the folks here at the D. A few backstage cuts and some tunes that didn't make the movie are included as extras.
Somehow, as sometimes happens, this escaped me - Sloan will release their ninth album Parallel Play next week Tuesday, June 10th. I will buy it. [chartattack]
Remember when Thursday somehow forgot all their legal grievances against their label Victory Records and released that live DVD of theirs called Kill the House Lights through said label? Well, it looks like Victory's won another one - a victory, pardon the pun - with Hawthorne Heights, who've dropped their August 2006 lawsuit against the label and will soon release their new album Fragile Future on August 5th with, you guessed it, Victory Records. Check out the statement from HH drummer Eron Bucarelli: "We now regret having begun the lawsuit we filed in 2006. We should not have listened to those who, for whatever reasons, were then advising us to pursue this strategy. We are sorry for having put Victory Records and Tony Brummel through this ordeal, and regret any negative publicity that may have resulted. Many false, hurtful and incorrect statements were made, especially on the internet, none of which were true. Tony Brummel and Victory gave us our start, and did an unprecedented job with our first two albums. We hope they can repeat that success with our third studio album. Unfortunately, we cannot change the past, but we're now taking steps to heal the wounds and start fresh." How 'bout that.
Speaking of live DVDs, I purchased Underoath's new one Survive Kaleidoscope yesterday, and we'll surely let you know how it looks/sounds.
I was just having a conversation last night with a friend saying that I was pretty much done with breakdown-centric metalcore, unless it was done by experts, namely Unearth - well, they must've been listening, because Boston's finest are coming out with a new record. Check out a discussion with main man Trevor Phipps about the differences between the last album and this upcoming new one, who will produce it and more over here.
One of our faves here at the D, Between the Buried and Me, toured with Ozzfest in 2006 and hated the entire thing.
Today's Essential Listening - for June 7th, 2008, y'all! - is West Texas natives Sleepercar, aka the new Americana/country band featuring At the Drive In/Sparta veteran Jim Ward and a bunch of his cronies. The debut album, simply called West Texas, is eleven songs of steel-forged outback music, rocky here, country there, and excellent listening throughout. Listen!
Posted by mike at June 7, 2008 10:34 PM