The first and by far the best order of business this evening: the web architect of the D, Mr. Brody, is a father two times over! Emerson Luke was born yesterday morning at 10:13 am, with a fighting weight of nine pounds and healthy as a horse. Congratulations!!
Further congratulations, incidentally, to myself, the Big Cheese, for surviving another expedition to Montreal for the annual traveling circus known as the Warped tour - Oh Eight styley. Pics and a full rundown to come in the next few days, but suffice it to say that Warped remains the most well-run event I attend every year. That and it's an absolute orgy of commercialism. But you vets knew that already. It's honestly an outdoor large-scale Hot Topic.
Be sure to take four minutes out of your busy lives to check out the latest musical offering from the six-man wrecking crew known primarily as Underoath! The new album is coming soon!
Apparently being in A Life Once Lost isn't enough for vocalist Bob Meadows(the new album isn't as good as their first anyway - though it's still solid) - Meadows has another project called NO People who have put some stuff up on the interwebs. [lambgoat]
A new Terror record, as any fan of the band knows, is a new excuse to go buckwild in the pit and rush the dogpile at stagefront - I miss doing that, in fact; been a while since I've seen the band live. However, they do have that new album, some thoughts on which can be had over here. I bet it's awesome.
I helped load their gear for an Ottawa gig earlier this year: Bloc Party singer Kele Okereke, a black man, claims he was attacked verbally/physically by the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten and his entourage because he is a black man. However, the man born John Lydon has his own spin on what happened: "I feel very sorry for a man who needs to lie about what was a perfect evening. After the show John Rotten and management remained behind to sign autographs, which we did for four solid hours without incident and had a great time talking to other Spanish bands. This seems to have sparked jealousy in certain bands. The trouble was brought to us, resulting in those causing the trouble being physically removed by festival security." As always, there's three sides here - one side, the other side and the truth. But this being the world it is, I'm inclined to believe the first side. [buzzgrinder]
Today's Essential Listening I haven't even heard yet - Misery Signals' third record Controller came out today, and from all accounts it's a hell of a piece of work. Find it, buy it, whatever - just enjoy.
One of the most special bands in my time in the quote-unquote "underground" played their final show July 12th in their home state of Connecticut - Life In Your Way will be truly missed by a ton of people. Check out a great writeup replete with pictures over here.
Interesting and amusing piece on a former Mr. USA, The Showdown and how Invisible Creature's Ryan Clark combined the two for the imagery on the band's new album Back Breaker(out August 19th) - enjoy.
I spent my time in the backstage catering line at Warped chatting with Kyle of Forever the Sickest Kids - great dude who happens to be in a band I'm not that into, you know how it goes, blah blah blah. Anyway - at the Detroit Warped stop last week, FTSK vocalist Jonathan Cook videotaped a burly security guard(employed by the festival) punching some skinny chick in the face more than once; there's talk of charges being pressed over this.
How badass is Stephen Colbert?? In the last month he's had The Roots, Rush(making their first American TV appearance in over thirty years) and freakin' Cookie Monster on the Report! Amazing. "Cookie Monster, did you eat my Peabody award?" "Um...I think I hear Elmo honking...coming!!"
For years now we've heard about various projects involving Rage Against the Machine's Zach de la Rocha - but aside from that thing with DJ Shadow I don't believe I've ever actually heard any of it - but no more! One Day As A Lion are for real, as evidenced by their existence on MySpace. Apparently it's Rage avec electronics.
No idiocy permitted, but you can still take a stab at having one of your questions for Thrice answered on an upcoming DVD the band are working on when they're not writing massive, sprawling, epic(...no...more...*whew*...adjectives) concept albums. Email your query to thrice@vagrant.com! Go! Shoo!
Any metal fans, heads up - here's some footage of pretty much every metal band that matters performing at Hellfest 2008.
It has probably been at least five years since I've blogged in any way about Finch, whose Letters album was pretty good when I was 21, 22 years old. Anyhow, the band are back with two new tunes on their myspace interwebbage.
There is no good reason why I don't already own this.
Will Ferrell is stretching: the man best known(and deservedly so) for Saturday Night Live and the drop-dead hilarious Anchorman has signed on to perform a dual role in a new film called 2-Face as a man who develops a multiple personality after a car accident. One will be a liberal-minded sort while the other - innnnnteresting - is an unbashed racist. Check out the promotional tools. [Paste]
Posted by mike at July 22, 2008 10:35 PM