Today's totally random fact: the other day we spoke highly of Sleepercar and their new album West Texas; I saw them live last week here in Ottawa and they covered a Flying Burrito Brothers song while opening for City & Colour. Well, yesterday I'm reading a back issue of Rolling Stone, the Eagles cover story, and it turns out one-time Eagle Bernie Leadon was a member of the FBB. How 'bout that. PS: the Eagles are disgustingly wealthy thanks to their coziness with Wal-mart.
Seemed like a really long time coming, what with the drama that always seemed imminent in their camp: emocore co-founders From Autumn to Ashes have split up. They're calling it an 'indefinite hiatus,' but it's over. Two of them have a new band going called Warship. [SPB]
Check out a new Integrity tune over here! New music for the first time since 2003!
If you miss Refused - and who doesn't? - two of them have formed another band called AC4, and though there's no album or tour or anything, a video does exist of the band performing a song live.
Hatebreed are working on a covers album. Artists who will be hatebred? Misfits, Obituary, Sheer Terror, Metallica, Agnostic Front and more. This will be, um, loud and hardcore-y.
White Stripes drummer/sometimes vocalist Meg White showed up out of the blue, appearing onstage at a Raconteurs show recently. Ten short months ago, her bouts of anxiety forced the Stripes off the road during a world tour. Her compatriot, Jack, also a Raconteur, has already said that the duo are at work on the WS' seventh album. [RS]
I worked security at the one here in Ottawa last year: the 150th Myspace Secret Show went down last night in New York City, headlined by Gnarls Barkley and opened by (?) math-rock dudes Battles. Weird bill. In case you were wondering, the Ottawa affair was an acoustic show featuring All Time Low and Boys Like Girls. Not my favourite bands, but who cares? I was well paid.
Posted by mike at June 9, 2008 10:51 PM