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Former Chisel singer Ted Leo has announced February 11th as the release date for Hearts of Oak, the follow-up to 2001's The Tyranny of Distance. Ted Leo returned to the studio earlier this year to record the 13-track album. Lookout! Records has already made a full-length MP3 of the track "Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?" available through their website. Barsuk's The Long Winters recently completed the follow-up to this year's The Worst You Can Do Is Harm with production assistance from Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie) and Ken Stringfellow (Posies, R.E.M., Minus 5). Peter Garrett, the lead singer of Australian rock band Midnight Oil has quit. Garrett, a committed environmental activist, said it was ''time for me to move on and immerse myself in those things which are of deep concern to me and which I have been unable to fully apply myself to up to now." According to (International) Noise Conspiracy's website, the Swedish band will release their latest E.P., Bigger Cages, Longer Chains via Eptiaph/Burning Heart on January 21. As previously reported, the six-track EP will feature a cover of N.E.R.D.'s "Baby Doll." The band has also cancelled their upcoming European tour due to lead singer, Dennis Lyxzén's serious muscle inflammation in his back. Burning Brides are off to England to support the release of a UK EP which includes 'glass slipper', 'blood on the highway', and 'overhead metal erection' (b-side). This is the first of three EPs that will come out in the UK before Fall of the Plastic Empire hits early next year. Then they're home for a quick East Coast jaunt before the holidays. Buddyhead is releasing Fall of the Plastic Empire on limited edition colored vinyl in a few days along with a Burning Brides/Icarus Line split 7" of Misfits covers. Acclaimed post-punk rockers Pretty Girls Make Graves recently announced plans for a short tour of England this December, followed by a string of US dates next year. December finds the band playing five UK dates with Your Enemies Friends, a tour shortened so that the group can begin writing material for the follow-up to Good Health. The new record will be out sometime in Fall 2003. Greg Puciato of The Dillinger Escape Plan recently revealed plans for the group's next full-length: originally slated for a December 2002 release, the album has now been delayed until mid-2003. Puciato blames the delay on their headlining tour and opening slot for System of a Down earlier this year. In addition, the band will not release their planned split with Buddyhead's The Icarus Line. Ryan Adams will release the follow-up to Gold in March 2003 on Lost Highway. Scottish rock band Idlewild have replaced bassist Bob Fairfoull with Gavin Fox, formerly of Turn, and touring guitarist Allan Stewart has been made a full-time member. The group recently finished an album, which is not yet titled or scheduled for release. On Nov.29, protesters worldwide, stopped shopping
for 24 hours. The Buy Nothing Day campaign was launched by Adbusters
Magazine 11 years ago, in order to protest against over consumption
in North America. This winter Breaking Pangaea will be releasing a new EP on Equal Vision Records. The release date is tentatively set for March 11th and it will probably be titled Phoenix. It will contain five brand new songs. Twice the Sun have split up, despite the fact that they just recently signed a deal with Roadrunner Records. The original, handwritten lyrics to P.O.D.'s "Youth of the Nation" will soon be hung among the words of Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Paul Simon in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's Lyric Room. The surviving members of Control Denied plan to release a new album next year tentatively titled When Machine and Man Collide. The band's original frontman, Chuck Schuldiner (who also once fronted seminal death metal band Death), wrote most of the new material before he died from a brain tumor in December 2001. Along with the release of the Black Flag tribute album Rise Above, Rollins is trying to set up a Black Flag show for December 3rd in L.A.'s outlet of Amoeba Records. Slash, Duff McKagan, Izzy Stradlin and Matt Sorum are forming a band together, and all they need now is the perfect singer. For the past four months, the group has been soliciting material to find someone who could not only take over mic duties, but also contribute to the songwriting process. They've heard about 500 singers, some of whom they've given instrumental material to put vocals on. Neurotica's Kelly Shaefer, Psychotica's Pat Briggs and Lit's A. Jay Popoff have all auditioned. Singers can send tapes to Slash, 13636 Ventura Blvd., Suite 434, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. Fugazi singer Ian MacKaye, They Might Be Giants' John Flansburgh and Patti Smith will be among the speakers at the Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit in Washington D.C. on January 5-7. The musicians will mingle with politicians, journalists and music industry executives to discuss and debate issues surrounding digital technology, artists' rights and the current state of the music industry. Sub Pop Records records recently signed The Thermals. The Thermals is comprised in part by Hutch Harris and Kathy Foster of the eponymous Hutch and Kathy (Kathy is also in the All Girl Summer Fun Band) and in other part by Ben Barnett of Kind of like Spitting and then lastly in one ultimate part by Jordan Hudson of Operacycle. Look for a single from this amazing and talented bunch in January and a full length in March of next year. 2003 will see the debut of The Postal Service, a long-distance collaboration between Ben Gibbard (singer/guitarist from Death Cab for Cutie) and Jimmy Tamborello (Jimmy recorded Beachwood Sparks' Make the Cowboy Robots Cry, was in Strictly Ballroom, and also records under the name DNTEL). As an added bonus, additional vocals on the record are provided by Jen Wood and Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis (Ms. Lewis is also heading out on tour with the band next Spring). Ides of Space, Reubens Accomplice, The And/Ors, Maquiladora and Track Star have all been writing new material and are looking to get busy again in the 2003. Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and has recorded an album of traditional Christmas songs performed and arranged with the help of a bunch of twee indie rocker Nebraskans. The CD is only available via the Saddle Creek website and will be shipping by December 1st. All proceeds will go to benefit the Nebraska AIDS Project. Nile will commence the Guitar World-sponsored 'The Art of Noise' Tour 2003 on January 17th in Houston, TX. Support on what is shaping up to be the metal tour of 2003 will come from Napalm Death, Dark Tranquility and The Berzerker. Mastodon will hit the road through the remainder of 2002 road for a string of dates supporting The Dillinger Escape Plan in December, Clutch, and in Japan with High on Fire. The new NOFX album, tentatively titled Our Second Best Album will be released on their own Fat Wreck Chords. The album should be finished in December and they are looking for a summer 2003 release. Pennywise has been locked up for the past few months, hammering away at tunes for a new record. They've currently layed down about 15 demos. Rival Schools are currently working on their next album which they hope to release through Island/Def Jam in the spring/summer. The group hope to begin touring in support of it sometime early next year Death By Stereo is in the process of mixing their new record Into The Valley Of Death that is due out in February. The Juliana Theory's new album Love will now see a release date of February 4th. Head over to Further Seems Forever's mp3.com page and download two songs from their upcoming album on Tooth & Nail, How To Start A Fire. The new album is set to hit stores everywhere on February 11, 2003. Check out the new songs here: www.mp3.com/furtherseemsforever Jimmy Eat World is releasing a 7" on Better Looking Records, which features a cover of Wham's "Last Christmas" backed with a mind-blowing transformation of Prodigy's "Firestarter." The 7-inch (on festive green vinyl) is scheduled for a Dec. 10 release date. Dillinger Escape Plan, Neurosis, High on Fire, Burnt by the Sun, Alabama Thunderpussy, Pig Destroyer, Dysrhythmia and The End will play the Relapse Contamination Festival in Philadelphia on January 18 and 19 at club Trocadero. A double CD, Contaminated 5.0, will be issued prior to the show dates. In honor of his just-released album, Have You Fed the Fish?, the Badly Drawn Boy has hidden five small golden fish inside copies of the album distributed throughout the world and fans who find them could have one of their songs, poems or random jottings recorded by the Boy; details at www.xl-recordings.com. Koufax lost several guitars and numerous other pieces of gear when their van was broken into early November 12 in Chicago. Anyone with information should contact Rob Moore at 60 Cycle Media at (212) 331-2974. Former Helmet frontman Page Hamilton reportedly played guitar on some of the new Limp Bizkit tracks. Weezer singer Rivers Cuomo lends his vocals to a song. Zwan just inked a deal with Reprise Records, according to a recent NME report. Billy Corgan and his band (Jimmy Chamberlain, Matt Sweeney, Dave Pajo, and Paz Lenchantin) insist the record will be completed by year's end. Spencer Moody (ex-Murder City Devils) and John Atkins (ex-764-Hero) formed The John and Spencer Booze Explosion. The duo debuted their act at Seattle's Velvet Elvis Theater a few years ago, and are now set to release a full-length on NYC's Tiger Style Records. Along for the ride: drummer Joe Plummer (Black Heart Procession, Magic Magicians), Dann Galluci (Murder City Devils), Jim Roth (Delusions, Built to Spill), and Phil Ek. The John and Spencer Booze Explosion CDEP is due out on January 21st. Ministry will have their new album, Animositisomina, released by Sanctuary on Feb. 4, 2003. Photographer Kevin Cummins plans to release his book, Joy Division, on March 6th in the UK. Joy Division is a collection of the artist's photographs of the group and can now be pre-ordered from Amazon's UK website. Defunct Tacoma, WA power-punk act Seaweed recently contributed an unreleased track to the North Carolina compilation Patchwork. The fourteen-song disc featuring Chapel Hill and Seattle rock bands was released last week through MereExposure.com. "Days Missed Dearly" was recorded during one of Seaweed's studio sessions at Uptone Recording in Tacoma. According to Barsuk Records, Death Cab for Cutie drummer Michael Schorr has left the band. Specifics are unknown, but sources at the label are quick to clarify that the decision was "mutual and happy." Schorr's exit marks the second time a drummer has quit Death Cab for Cutie in their six years together. Original percussionist Nathan Good left the band months prior to the completion of Death Cab's 2000 sophomore release, We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes. Matador Records confirms that Cat Power's forthcoming album You Are Free, due February 18th, features guest appearances from Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder (vocals) and Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl (drums). The collaborations came about in part because You Are Free was recorded by Adam Kasper, who produced both Pearl Jam's forthcoming Riot Act and the Foo Fighters' One By One. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's class of 2003 includes The Clash, The Police and Elvis Costello & The Attractions, as well as AC/DC and the Righteous Brothers. It is rumored that The Police will also be reuniting for the first time in 20 years to perform three songs at the induction ceremony. The Foo Fighters played a special Halloween show in New York City on Oct. 31. The band took to the stage at NYC's Supper Club dressed up as its favorite Swedish rock act, the Hives, and proceeded to kick off its set with Hives hit "Hate To Say I Told You So." The gig took place during the 2002 CMJ Music Marathon. No Knife is planning West Coast shows with Japan's Eastern Youth for December. No Knife's second tour of Japan will follow in January, and an East Coast trek with Omaha, Nebraska's Cursive is being lined up for March. No Knife is also currently in pre-production on a music video for "The Red Bedroom." Jane's Addiction, Underworld, Jimmy Eat World, Murderdolls, Xzibit and Sparta have joined the lineup for the Big Day Out 2003 festival, which kicks off in Auckland, New Zealand, on January 17. They join a roster that already includes Foo Fighters, the Vines, Wilco, Kraftwerk, PJ Harvey, Deftones, the Living End, Millencolin and Frenzal Rhomb. The world tour in support of Pearl Jam's upcoming seventh studio album, Riot Act (November 12), will kick off in earnest on February 8 in Brisbane, Australia, at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre. After four more Australian dates, the tour will jump to Japan for five dates, ending with a March 6 gig at the Shimin Kaikan Hall in Nagoya. The Healers, the new band fronted by former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, will open the Australian shows. Second Nature Recordings will be releasing the third
installment of Holiday Matinee's CD compilations. The compilation,
titled Composed On Bicycles offers songs by Waxwing, Kill
Me Tomorrow, The Gloria Record, Gogogoairheart, The Dropscience
and more. The CD is packaged in stunning artwork by Joshua Krause
(www.krauseart.com). The Gadjits recently signed a deal with RCA Records. High on Fire capped their recent US headlining run with a scorching performance at the 2002 High Times Music Awards. The trio walked away with an award for the 'Stoner Rock Band of 2002', beating out notables such as Nebula, Hermano, and more. Relapse Records recently announced the signing
of Philadelphia's Dysrhythmia to a worldwide recording deal.
The band, which is comprised of drummer Jeff Eber, guitarist Kevin
Hufnagel and bassist Clayton Ingerson will enter Chicago's Electrical
Audio Studios in late January with engineer Steve Albini (Nirvana,
Helmet) to record their as-yet-untitled new album (due out spring
'03).
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