Kudos to godfather Kevin Lyman and his henchpeople: this year's edition of the annual Warped Tour will be the organization committee's first attempt at reducing the tour's massive carbon footprint(when is some band gonna name themselves that, by the way?). The bands will eat their catered meals on reusable dishes with reusable cutlery, the tour will be vending $2 reusable shopping bags in which to deposit your brand-new Aiden t-shirt(or not), and maybe most significantly, a couple of the smaller stages will be solar-powered this year, and tour buses will run on biodiesel fuel(something mewithoutYou and like-minded contemporaries beat them to by a couple of years). Fuel costs being what they are these days, it'll cost the tour almost a couple hundred grand more than they'd budgeted. But still - good for them. [punknews]
Two of Canada's most beloved bands, Tegan & Sara and City & Colour, will be heading the road together this fall. Girl In A Coma(morbid!) will open up. Having seen both acts live recently, the D can verify that it's worth your ticket price to catch the show.
Maybe with age comes the impulse to hurry the hell up: Jimmy Eat World are already thinking about heading back into their own studio to record the followup to Chase This Light, which only came out late last fall. Word is that they're considering self-releasing future work, since this next album will be their last under contract to their label.
And speaking of aging, Tom Araya, who holds down the low end for the mighty Slayer, has said that the band's next album, expected late this year or early in '09, may be their last, as he's getting to an age where the recording-touring cycle is getting to be a bit much.
I don't know enough about the man or his work to really care that much, but if you're a Tom Waits fan - like Scarlett Johanssen is - he interviewed himself(you read that right) over here. Awesome.
You know you're getting up there as a punk icon when your progeny are starting their own bands: son of Bad Religion frontman/UCLA prof Greg Graffin, Graham Graffin and his band The Rolemodels will make their live debut in their native Ithaca, NY next week.
Fans of no-b.s.-tunes, take note - a band containing former members of Botch and Unbroken(!!), Narrows, have put up some stuff online for your enjoyment.
Posted by mike at June 20, 2008 10:37 PM