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Thom Wright II, 22, guitarist, singer, drummer for too many Ohio screamo, punk and hardcore bands to name (Serkesoron, Keaton, Cities In Ashes, Eiffel (Athens, Ohio), The M-19 Movement, etc.) drowned while swimming in a quarry in Louisville, Ky. on June 30. Thom was a recent graduate of Ohio University and was planning a move to D.C. in the fall to do non-profit work or to teach. While at Ohio University, he was a member of Positive Action, a politically active group for social change; CARE, an organization to help people become better teachers; and organized DIY conferences, people sharing insight to increase individuals’ strengths. He worked in the summer tutoring program in Athens and was a strong supporter of women’s rights. He was a considerate and compassionate individual and his gifts to family and friends were unique and meaningful. Thom was also a vegan and a minimalist. He loved to cook, and enjoyed his music and spending time with family and friends. Those of us who knew and loved him will miss him. The Dayton, Ohio band with the unfortunately phallic moniker, Rod, have officially taken on a new name, The Story Changes. Same band, same bad ass songs (plus a couple new ones), new name. Jason LaVeris, drummer for the late, great Blue Ash Solution and name you may wreckonize from the pages of this here webzine, has been having a tremendous summer. In addition to having an article and photos published in the June and July issues of Strength Magazine, LaVeris has completed a web portfolio (www.jasonlaveris.com). This is a great opportunity for Dayton bands to get a real pro to take your publicity shots as his photography has been featured in the GSL catalog, in Enon and Orchid records, in the pages of Strength and Stance magazines, and right here at BW. In addition, Laveris’ band The Cinema Eye recently debuted at Bernie’s Distillery to a very warm reception. These guys/gal are definitely the coolest band you’ve never heard and may be on tour with Buddyhead’s Your Enemies Friends in the near future. Check them out before they are the coolest band you’ve never heard. Fuel Music recently announced that it will be the official and exclusive management and promotions team for Dayton, Ohio’s Dead Blue Sky. The metal six-piece will be headed to Europe for a massive tour in July and August. The band hooks up with label mates Undying for a short leg of the tour. Also, this summer holds claim to two releases from Dead Blue Sky on Italy's Vacation House Records. VHR will be releasing the vinyl pressing for Symptoms of an Unwanted Emotion, originally released on Good Life. Also hot off the press this summer will be the anticipated release of a limited edition live 10" picture disc containing six tracks. Columbus, Ohio’s The Emerald Down are taking four months off from local shows this Summer to play some out of town dates, and to go back into the studio to record before leaving for tour in early fall. It is rumored that some of the Fall dates in the works will be with And They’ll Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Boyracer, Explosions in the Sky and Skywave. Ohio’s Dead Poetic, a relatively new band to the Solid State roster, will now be opening the Zao/Unearth/Underoath tour from July 8 until August 6. Just prior to a turbulent show at Elbo’s in Dayton on July 7, In the Black Hearts of Men (who were comprised of ex-members of Keaton, Before I Hang, Jet Lucas, Dead Blue Sky and Morning Again) decided to call it quits. The split was sort of amicable and basically had to do with differences in band philosophy and priorities. ITBHOM would like to thank our friends and everyone who showed up to our shows. We’d also like to thank The Dream Is Dead, Anodyne, The M-19 Movement, Denovo, Dead Blue Sky, Mastodon and High on Fire for sharing the stage with us. We’d also like to apologize to Twelve Tribes for dropping off of a show at the last minute. Unfortunately, it couldn’t be helped. A split CD containing the bands five songs and unreleased Keaton material is reportedly in the works. Iron Maiden will release their first DVD, Rock in Rio, on August 20. The double DVD package features the group's 18-song set from the 2001 Rock in Rio festival along with over an hour of interview footage. Fueled by Ramen’s Cadillac Blindside has also broken up. Trent left a cryptic message on their web page that reads like this, “A turbulent landing on a flight into Chicago's O'Hare airport recently made me realize that everything happens for a reason. Just as possible outcomes were running through my brain I took another glance out the jet window hoping for a promising sign and focused on the cemetery at the end of the runway. Due to our current situation, you can all guess the outcome of the landing, still, I feel lucky to be alive. What if we had crashed and burned? Well, the reason for our break-up would seem more necessary to you, and the strategic placement of the graveyard would suggest the idea of an easy burial for me. All in all, we would like to thank everyone who has believed in us and helped us make our music meaningful throughout our years.” To celebrate Less Than Jake's 10th birthday and Fueled By Ramen's 50th release they will be re-releasing Pezcore. The whole album has been remixed and remastered. There will be new artwork for the release as well. Less Than Jake will be doing their US tour with a number of bands on the Fueled By Ramen roster. Catch them with either Whippersnapper, The Stereo, The Pietasters, Yellowcard, or Cadillac Blindside(?) from July 25 to August 20. Militia Group Records recently announced that The Lyndsay Diaries, Veronica, and Noise Ratchet are all playing Cornerstone Fest in Bushnell, IL. Noise Ratchet is playing Furnace Fest. The Beautiful Mistake is playing TomFest. Fresh off their dates with Strung Out, Poison The Well, Rise Against, and Glassjaw, Rufio heads out for a month of dates with Taking Back Sunday starting July 26th. Megadeth alumni David Ellefson, Jimmy DeGrasso, Al Pitrelli and Marty Friedman are looking for a vocalist for their new band, and aspiring rockers should contact Entertainment Services Unlimited, Main Street Plaza, 1000 Suite 303, Voorhees, NJ 08043. Johnny Rotten and the birth of punk are the focus of the next film from "Decline of Western Civilization" director Penelope Spheeris, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Spheeris, who also directed "Wayne's World," said she hopes her film adaptation of John Lydon's autobiography "Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs" will explain the '70s punk revolution from Rotten/Lydon's perspective. Just one day before a three-month American tour was set to begin, John Entwistle, bassist and founding member of The Who, was found dead of an apparent heart attack in a Las Vegas hotel yesterday. Entwistle, who was 57, was scheduled to play at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino tonight, kicking off a nationwide tour in the band's amazing 38th year together. Entwistle was also scheduled to open a gallery show of his artwork at Grammy's Art of Music Gallery in Las Vegas that afternoon Wire have announced a September tour of the U.S., according to the band's official website. After a hugely-successful tour in 2000, original members Colin Newman, Bruce Gilbert, Graham Lewis and Robert Grey entered the studio and produced an all-new EP of studio recordings entitled Read & Burn. Released on the band's own Pink Flag label in the UK this May, the EP should currently be available via Cargo distribution. Lovitt Records recently announced the addition of two bands, The Cassettes and The Black Sea. For those not in the know, The Cassettes feature Shelby from Frodus and Steve and Stephen from Dead Meadow. Their self-titled debut album will be released this fall. The Black Sea is a project with Shelby and Jason from Frodus and Joe Lally from Fugazi. They are currently finishing up a CDep to be released this fall. A full-length will be recorded this winter and released in spring 2003. The Maximillian Colby retrospective, to be released on Lovitt discography CD is in the final production phase. Expect a late summer release date. According to the MTV website, Weezer have teamed up with Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Gonzo the Great, Pepe the King Prawn and the rest of the Muppets in their video for "Keep Fishin'," the band's second single from Maladroit. In the video, Weezer are guests on "The Muppet Show." The "Keep Fishin' " video features a Muppet chorus singing backup, running commentary from Statler and Waldorf, a trip to Beaker and Bunsen's lab, and some "quality time" spent backstage with Miss Piggy. Redd Kross bassist Steve McDonald has overdubbed bass on songs from The White Stripes’ White Blood Cells and is making the tracks available in MP3 form on Redd Kross' official website. Called, The Redd & White Stripes' Redd Blood Cells, it is being distributed with the full blessing of Jack White. Liverpool’s Ladytron will release their next album, Light & Magic, on September 17. Joel Petersen, bassist for Omaha's the Faint, will release his first solo album, Broken Spindles, in September. The record has been described as Aphex Twin meets retro '80s goth. Tool have added 10 dates to the Lateralus tour, which runs from August 15 to September 7. Mike Patton's Tomahawk will continue to serve as openers on all the dates. Hot Hot Heat’s debut Subpop debut full-length, which was recorded with Hack Endino at Vancouver, BC’s Mushroom Studios will hit streets on October 8. Vue, formerly of Subpop, recently signed to RCA. The Transplants, the new side project from Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, Rancid guitarist Tim Armstrong and bassist Matt Freeman, and singer Rob Aston, will play eight club shows in California beginning July 20 in San Diego. The Distillers, featuring Armstrong's wife, Brody Armstrong, will open. The Party of Helicopters, formerly of Troubleman Unlimited and Donut Friends Records, recently signed to Capricorn. The Party of Helicopters, who have been a force to reckon with for nearly eight years is comprised of members of The Spy, The Man I Fell In Love With, The “New” Terror Class, and Gold Circles. New York City’s The Rapture will
head to Europe, namely England, Germany, France and Spain, on June
28 to play several shows supporting their Subpop EP Out of the Races
and onto the Tracks. The tour wraps up on July 19 at Spain’s
Isladencanta Festival. Rival Schools will be releasing a CD single in the UK for their song "Good Things". A video for the song has already been shot and is airing on various video outlets and on their website. The band is currently on tour in Europe for the next month. Pedro The Lion are heading out to the Midwest and Pacific Northwest in late June, July and early August for shows with Tooth and Nail’s Roadside Monument. All-female post-punk quartet Erase Errata are hitting the road this summer for a series of dates in July with Lightning Bolt and the Locust and two weeks in August with Sonic Youth. A European tour is in the works for the fall. The next New Bomb Turks album will be released on Gearhead Records. The new album will be released in August or September, and will be supported by a fall tour of the US and Canada. Try.Fail.Try, whose original lineup included members of Ensign, Nora, Burnt by the Sun, and the mysterious Shai Hulud side project Zombie Apocalypse, has reformed and will soon begin working on a new record. Desaparecidos are hitting the road with new bassist Casey Scott of Athens, Georgia. Scott replaces bassist Landon Hedges, who abruptly left the band in February and caused the group to cancel many tour dates. Saddle Creek has also announced a title and release date for the next Bright Eyes full-length. It's called Lifted, or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground and is due out August 13th. The Vines will launch a month-long North American tour on July 7 with a live MTV broadcast from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. The tour, in support of the Australian trio’s garage-rock album, Highly Evolved, which hits stores on July 16, winds down in Los Angeles on August 10. Say It Like You Mean It, the new album from The Starting Line, will be available in stores on July 16th. New and unreleased material from Dan the Automator, Royce Da 5'9", Jurassic 5's Chali 2na and Akil and other rappers will be compiled on the soundtrack to "One Big Trip," which will be released as a companion CD to the DVD of the documentary with the same name, due August 13. Del the Funky Homosapien contributed the title track and is featured on four other songs. Fat Wreck Chords will release a split LP featuring
two masters of political punk, Propaghandi and Hellcat Records'
Leftover Crack. LOC has six tracks recorded, but they are
planning to rerecord the drum parts with their newest member, Coach
(aka "Mr. Wizard") of 2 Man Advantage, who is replacing
JP on the drums. LOC also plan to record a full length this fall
to be released on Hellcat in 2003. According to the latest rumors, Sparta, which features three of five of the members of At The Drive In, are going to release their upcoming album under the title Wiretap Scars. Girls Against Boys will embark on a month-long tour beginning September 5 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The tour ends at the Bowery Ballroom in New York on October 4. Another star was added to Hollywood's RockWalk with the induction of LA punk band X. The ceremony took place Tuesday, June 25 at noon, and original members John Doe, Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom and D.J. Bonebrake were in attendance to add their handprints and signatures. Punk band Zeke has officially split. According to their website, they will be releasing a new record consisting of some new tracks, some old unreleased tracks and some live tracks. Jade Tree is releasing six-track EP of new material by Milemarker in August. The so-called Satanic Versus EP was recorded by both Steve Albini and by Milemarker themselves. According the Pitchfork Media, the CD also has multimedia files with live footage and some separated tracks for DJs to make remixes. Nile have completed their forthcoming record titled, In Their Darkened Shrines. The album is scheduled for an August 20th Relapse Records release. Nile will kick of its Revolver-sponsored In Their Darkened Shrines US Tour on July 6th in Atlanta. The band will be airing several new, unheard songs each night along the tour trail. The tour will include openers Arch Enemy, Hate Eternal and Origin. Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X and Professor Griff have all reunited for Public Enemy’s Revolverlution, which is scheduled for release on July 23. The title of the album comes from the song "Crash" on 1999's There's a Poison Goin' On. The album has eight new tracks, three live numbers and four remixes. The group let fans remix four PE songs by posting a cappella versions online. From nearly 500 submissions a panel of judges selected remixes of "By the Time I Get to Arizona" by the Molemen of Long Island, New York; "Public Enemy No. 1" by the Jeronimo Punks of Buenos Aires, Argentina; "Shut 'Em Down" by DJ Functionist of Austria; and "B Side Wins Again" by Scattershot of Madison, Wisconsin. In other news, Chuck D composed a hip-hop jingle for the theme music to ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball." Sam Jones' documentary "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart," which chronicles the production of Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot sessions will begin its limited theatrical release on July 26th. The film will initially be released in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, with the possibility of more cities to follow. The B-52s launched a thirty-date 25th anniversary tour on June 21 in Robinsonville, Missouri, with Blondie and Nancy Sinatra opening. Soft Cell, the synth-pop duo behind the
1981 hit "Tainted Love," have reunited and recorded their
first album in 18 years. Cruelty Without Beauty is due September
10 on Cooking Vinyl/ spinART. Spiritual People, the third solo album from former Arrested Development frontman Speech, is due on September 10 through iMusic. Speech described the follow-up to 1999's Hoopla as ranging from "hip-hop with a folk edge to vintage soul and pop." Slowdance Records are in the process of re-releasing the Plus, Minus, Equals CD from The Velvet Teen. This CD, formerly known as Great Beat February/Comasynthesis has been repressed with a new name and their adorable little logo on it as well. The CD still contains nine of the band's earliest songs. The record will be in stores on July 16. The Velvet Teen are also heading out this Summer with Some’s The Ghost and The Exit. Keep an eye peeled. In other Slowdance Records news, Oma Yang’s new record, Bang Bang, will be in stores come September just in time for their big USA tour. The Roots of Orchis are currently wrapping up their higher-education for good, but they are making plans to tour in the fall. Dee Dee Ramone, founding member and bassist for The Ramones, was found dead of an apparent drug overdose in Los Angeles Wednesday, June 5, by his wife, according to the Associated Press. Dee Dee, whose real name was Douglas Glenn Colvin, had appeared just last March at the induction of the Ramones into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was 50. On June 10, Saddle Creek's website reported that Cursive singer Tim Kasher had been hospitalized with a collapsed lung. The remaining U.S. tour dates were canceled and the Japanese dates may be up in the air. Tim, unfortunately, has no medical insurance, so Saddle Creek has set up a P.O. Box if you are so inclined to help with the medical bills: Tim Kasher, c/o Saddle Creek, PO Box 8554, Omaha, NE 68108. The Strokes have been hammering out their sophomore album off and on in New York. Pitchfork reported that the possibility is strong for an early fall release, as the Strokes announce on their official website plans for a massive U.S./Canadian tour onslaught in October and November. The Æffect have been working hard on getting some new tracks together for an upcoming full-length on Big Wheel Recreation. They also just completely revamped their website at www.theaeffect.com! The band will be playing six weeks of Warped Tour dates on the Punkrocks.net stage! The Stereo are going to tour Europe to support their late-June release Rewind + Record. Also check the tour dates for the European tour and his only US date in Chicago before the overseas stretch at www.bigwheelrec.com. Victory just announced the signing of Albany, NY's Count The Stars. They will be recording their first full length CD on Victory in October with Dave Cobb, who produced their recent two-song demo. The album will be released around February. The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower boys are playing out voraciously and look to record their full-length CD for Happy Couples Never Last in late fall/winter. Artwork for The Drop Science/Freedom For Saturn split is currently being developed and the record should be out on Happy Couples Never Last shortly. Happy Couples Never Last is also hard at work compiling the definitive Ice Nine discography. After releasing a number of splits and 7"s (with bands such as Charles Bronson, etc.), Ice Nine met a premature end right before recording their full-length. Members of Ice Nine went on to be in bands such as Majhas, the Problematics, Burn It Down, and Time in Malta. Jason Loewenstein’s At Sixes and Sevens, will be available from Sub Pop on July 9. Jason, a member of Sebadoh, wrote nearly half the songs on the last Sebadoh album. Jason plays all of the instrumentation on his album. Mudhoney’s Since We've Become Translucent is scheduled for release on August 20. As Matt Lukin remains retired, there's a new face on the bass: Guy Maddison (formerly of Bloodloss and Lubricated Goat). Guy joins the rest of the Mudhoneys (Mark Arm, Steve Turner and Dan Peters) on this, their 8th full-length album. Sweep the Leg Johnny will release their fourth album, Going Down Swinging, on Southern Records June 24th. The record follows 2000's Sto Cazzo!, and features new guitarist Mitch Cheney (Rumah Sakit). The double LP was recorded with Mike Lust (Atombombpocketknife, Tekulvi, and Volta Do Mar). They also plan on releasing a Sweep the Leg Johnny and Rumah Sakit double CD from a show recorded at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. Preceding Pinback’s Touch and Go debut in 2003, Ace Fu will be releasing a collection of b-sides later this year. Sonic Youth will release the first of three expanded two-disc reissues of their albums this September with Dirty. Daydream Nation and Goo will also be expanded and reissued. Thursday signed to Island/Def Jam Records in June, reportedly breaking their contract with Victory Records. There seems to be some bad blood between the band and the label based on Victory Records’ decision to sell 25 percent of the label to MCA. Hot Water Music has completed their new album titled, Caution. The line-up for heir fall tour, now affectionately dubbed "Rocktober Fest," has been confirmed; HWM, Thrice, and Coheed and Cambria will be rocking the US starting in early October. Billie Joe Armstrong's Adeline Records will release it's 2nd Compilation CD Every Dog Will Have Its Day on July 2. The CD includes Green Day's new song, "Ha, Ha You're Dead.” Dead Low Tide, which is comprised of most of the members of Seattle’s Murder City Devils, recently finished recording their debut album on July 3. The album will be released by Tiger Style Records and the band hopes to release it in October. Drowningman has parted ways with their lead singer This comes straight from the Revelation Newsletter: "Unfortunately, after almost 7 years we have decided to part ways with our vocalist Simon Brody. Our working relationship with Simon deteriorated greatly in the past few weeks and we decided with haste, but with great relief and assurance, that we have made the right decision to separate." Punkbands.com reports that according to a reliable source from Victory Records it has leaked out that Grade have broken up lately. "The band had a falling out with lead singer Kyle and are now forming a new band to be named Heirs To The Thrown. Instead of breaking up and going their seperate ways, the other band members who got along decided to stay together." Revelation's latest signing is WI's Since by Man, who are reportedly heavily influenced by Heroin and Antioch Arrow. BoySetsFire lately announced that they will be recording their live show in New Jersey on July 19th. The best outtakes will make it on their live EP with the title Live for Today. No word on who is going to release it.
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