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According to the NY Post, Ryan Noel, the guitarist and bass player for buzzed-about electroclash band A.R.E. Weapons, has died of a heroin overdose. He was 29. Noel was a semi-pro skateboarder who also played in the cult band Clikatat Ikatowi. The band will pay tribute to their fallen comrade during their show at B.B. King's Blues Club on July 13. Mos Def has finished a new album, tentatively titled The New Danger. The LP, due out September 28, is not the much-discussed rock album from his band Black Jack Johnson, but rather a straight hip-hop album. Mos is currently filming his role as Ford Prefect in the upcoming flick "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Most Precious Blood and Destiny will be touring Europe Give Up the Ghost have broken up. Wives’ Erect A Youth Problem is recorded and mastered. The official release date is Sept. 21. The boys will be playing some regional dates with Moving Units in July, as well as select L.A. dates this summer. Mister Metaphor is heading out on tour. Their debut CD EP, Die On The High Road is to be released on Omnibus Records August 4th, 2004. Converge, Cave In, and Between The Buried And Me will be touring North America as part of the "You Fail Me" Tour 2K4. AFI have recorded a cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Head Like a Hole," though it's not yet known where the track will surface. The Good Life just released their Lovers Need Lawyers EP, a precursor to the full length CD/LP, Album of the Year, due out August 10th. FC FiVE have USA tour in this summer. The tour will be 21 July to 2 August. Billboard is reporting that Rhino Records is set to release two Talking Heads retrospectives on August 17th. The first is a reissuing and updating of the live record The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads (its first issue on CD), the second will be a single-disc greatest hits set appropriately titled The Best of Talking Heads. Garrison has broken up. The four-CD box set by the Faces, Five Guys Walk Into a Bar, has been bumped to July 20. The set was originally slated for release May 25. Dates are currently being finalized for the upcoming Candiria, Twelve Tribes, Kittie, and 36 Crazy Fists tour, which will run through most of July. Twelve Tribes will hit the road with Ill Nino and Soulfly shortly thereafter. Hot Cross's new CD, Fair Trades and Farewells, has been delayed until 26th July. The master has been sent over twice, and lost in the mail both times. The Anniversary’s Adrianne Verhoven has teemed up with some of the dudes from The Gadjits for a band called Architect. The Faint have finally finished their follow-up to Danse Macabre. Wet From Birth will be released on September 14th. I Hate Myself have recorded three new songs, which will be included on their upcoming No Idea release scheduled for this winter. The release will also feature their 12” EP, split LP, 7” and comp tracks. Members of I Hate Myself can be found in a new band called Die Hoffnung. Hot Water Music’s Chuck Ragan was injured while on the Honda Civic Tour. His left hand requires surgery and he may hot receive full motion or feeling back in some time (12 weeks to 3 years). Mock Orange have finally found a new home on Silverthree Sound
Recordings for their new LP Mind Is Not Brain, which will see a
July 13 release. The band will be on tour with Sunday Driver, followed
by a brief stretch on the Braid Reunion tour and then Interpol have set a September 28 release date for the their second album, Antics. The New Yorkers will debut the material this summer on the Cure's Curiosa Festival, which kicks off July 24 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Kirsten Malone, keyboardist of The Faux, passed away June 15 after she was hit by a car. Our sympathies are with her family and friends. Death From Above recently signed to Vice Records. The Raveonettes will play two weeks of shows in the U.S. starting August 14 in New York and running through August 29 in Chicago. The band continues to support its 2003 album, Chain Gang of Love, which came out in September. Some Records is sending a trio of their bands on the road this July. The Ghost, Form Of Rocket, and The New Transit Direction are all hitting the road together for a week's worth of shows, with the labelless ex-Mineral group America Is Waiting, who Bettawreckonize thinks kicks some serious ass, is opening all shows. The new Damn These Monkey Hands (which features members of Sequoia and Three Studies For A Crucifixion) website is up. You can download their new six song EP for free in the downloads section. Go to: http://www.damnthesemonkeyhands.com/ Dillinger Escape Plan's new album, Miss Machine, is slated for release July 20. Papa Roach will begin their summer tour on June 25 in Spokane, Washington. Dates are scheduled through August 4 in West Hollywood, California. Instruction and Dead Poetic will open. Papa Roach's third major-label album, Getting Away With Murder, is due in mid-September. Robert Quine, a founding member of Richard Hell & The Voidoids, passed away recently. Quine also collaborated with Lou Reed, Brian Eno, John Zorn, Matthew Sweet, Tom Waits (playing guitar on his landmark Rain Dogs), Lloyd Cole, They Might Be Giants, and Marianne Faithfull. Our sympathies are with his family and friends Engine Down has signed with Lookout Records. The band will reportedly release a self-titled record produced by Brian McTernan (Thrice, Cave In, Hot Water Music) on August 24th. It will include videos, an in-studio film and live performances among it's enhanced features. Producer and beatmaker Jimmy Tamborello of the Postal Service and Dntel will unveil a hip-hop project under the name Headset in the fall. The group's album, Space Setting, is described as being influenced by the work of the Neptunes and Timbaland. Peter Garrett, the former lead singer of Midnight Oil, announced on June 10 that he will run for Australia's parliament with the opposition Labour Party. Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez will release his debut solo disc, A Manual Dexterity - Soundtrack Volume 1, on August 16. The Mars Volta are currently working on the follow-up to their 2003 album, De-Loused in the Comatorium. Wrangler Brutes are going on a West Coast tour in July. The band will also be releasing their first official full length, Zulu, on October 21st. The CD is coming out on Kill Rock Stars and the vinyl will be on the band's own label. Hot Hot Heat began pre-production for their second album in June in Los Angeles. Dave Sardy (Jet, Dandy Warhols) is on board to produce the band's follow-up to 2002's Make Up the Breakdown. Former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra's collaboration with the Melvins, Never Breathe What You Can't See, is scheduled for a September 30 release. The Libertines have decided to call it quits for now while singer Pete Dohery battles his drug addiction. Punk poet Patti Smith will tour North America, starting June 3 in Northampton, Massachusetts, and running through June 25 in Detroit. Smith's latest album, Trampin', was released last month. Bright Eyes are back in the studio with longtime producer Mike Mogis, working on their full-length follow-up to 2002's epic-length Lifted, Or, the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground. Though already titled I'm Wide Awake It's Morning, the new record is presently in the early stages of recording, and reportedly won't see release via Saddle Creek Records until January. Freestyle warrior Jin is finally set to drop his debut, The Rest Is History. Ruff Ryders has set August 24 as the release date for the young MC's LP. The Black Keys have a tentative release date of September 7th for their upcoming Fat Possum / Epitaph album Rubber Factory. The 13 track record was recorded at an abandoned tire factory in Akron. The set will include a cover of The Kinks' "Act Nice and Gentle" and "Grown So Ugly" by late bluesman Robert Pete Williams. KRS-One’s new album, Keep Right, hits streets July 13th. New York's All Out War has decided to call it quits. Converge’s record, You Fail Me, will be in stores on September 7th. Lamb of God have recruited a pair of their childhood heroes, ex-Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland and former Testament axeman Alex Skolnick, to guest on their third album, Ashes of the Wake, which is scheduled for a late summer release. Lamb of God are currently recording in Richmond, Virginia. Thick Records recently signed Gasoline Fight, a band that features members of Small Brown Bike, The Traitors, Peralta, and Sweep The Leg Johnny. Look for the band’s 5-song debut in September. Suicide Note's next album for Ferret Music is tentatively slated for release in August. Hopesfall's new album will be out in October. Moby is among those involved in an upcoming film about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, who hanged himself in 1980. Mastodon have now completed work on their second full-length release, titled Leviathan. The album was produced by Matt Bayles and will hit stores on August 31st (September 13th in Europe) via Relapse Records. The record is reportedly based in part on the Herman Melville classic, "Moby Dick." Logan Whitehurst, drummer of Slowdance Records band The Velvet Teen, has spent the better part of 2004 battling a mystery illness that has forced the band off the road. The mystery came to an end recently, as he was just diagnosed with a brain tumor and will be going into surgery at Stanford Hospital tomorrow for removal and subsequent recovery. If you'd like to send well-wishes to Logan, you can email him at loganwhitehurst@hotmail.com. Due to this news, Whitehurst has decided to remove himself from the Velvet Teen. Replacing him will be Casey, formerly of The Americas. Far are re-releasing their 1998 album, Water & Solutions, with a DVD on June 22. Josh Berwanger and The Holy Ghosts (ex-Anniversary) have changed their name to The Only Children and will be releasing a five song EP in September on Glurp Records. PR1M35, a band that features Jack Duckworth of A Luna Red and Radio Berlin and DJ Michelle Synndt have a brand spankin' new site with streaming audio over at http://primes-music.com. Arena Rock Recording Co. band The Gloria Record has announced that the band has gone into a state of indefinite hiatus. They have no plans on finishing the album they began last summer, nor reuniting for live shows any time soon. Vaux have completed their upcoming EP, Plague Music, which is due out August 10th, 2004 on Equal Vision Records. They are continuing to work on songs for our upcoming full-length which should be out in January 2005." Nice Guy Records has announced that Bottom Line will be making their 4th appearance on the Warped Tour this summer. The band will be playing August 15th through the 17th in Detroit, Cincinnati and Columbus. They will be joined on the Cincinnati stop by labelmates When Sparks Fly and The Scrubs. In addition, When Sparks Fly’s old bass player Bruce will be joining them for their shows this summer while Tim picks up second guitarist duties. Moving Units new record, Dangerous Dreams, now has a new tentative release date of August 11th 2025. The Blood Brothers are headed out for a tour this July and plan to debut material from their upcoming record Crimes. Ted Leo has been writing songs for the followup to Hearts Of Oak. Recording began in May, and the record is scheduled to come out in October. Mae Shi’s album is going to be called Terrorbird and will be out in July on 5RC. Beachwood Sparks frontman Chris Gunst is gearing up for a comeback with an all-new band, poetically called Mystic Chords of Memory. The bandname was lifted from Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address of 1861, which Beachwood Sparks frontman Chris Gunst first encountered etched beneath Lincoln's visage on Mount Rushmore. Mute Records just signed The Residents. True North has new songs on the way for a split seven inch with Reactionary Three. The record will benefit the Wayward Council, a not-for-profit, volunteer-run record store located in Gainesville. The record will be put out by Obscurist Press, although there's no word on an exact release date yet. Battles just finished their upcoming record for Dim Mak and it will hit the streets September 24th. The new record by Das Oath will drop August 24th. Camera Obscura begin a seventeen-date tour on July 12th in San Diego. The X-ecutioners will begin a twenty-four-date tour on June 2nd in New Haven, Connecticut. Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante plans on recording and releasing one full-length album a month for the rest of 2004. So far, six records are scheduled, beginning with The Will to Death, which hit stores June 22. The batch also includes a side project, Axtaxia, recorded with members of Fugazi (due August 10), three solo albums and a record with collaborator Josh Klinghoffer. No Idea Records has posted the song "Belly Full of Hell" from Planes Mistaken For Stars' upcoming full length Up In Them Guts due out someday. Ed Gein will be recording their debut album for Black Market Activities in late-summer/early-fall. The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower are rumored to be negotiating with Revelation for their next album. Radio Berlin are doing a split with their most recent tourmates Turn Pale. The Dillinger Escape Plan will be touring the US this summer (July and August) with support from The Bronx, Planes Mistaken For Stars, and Decahedron. Beck, Bright Eyes and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sparklehorse with the Flaming Lips, Tom Waits, Death Cab for Cutie and TV on the Radio have covered Daniel Johnston songs for the tribute record Discovered, Covered - The Late Great Daniel Johnston. Produced and curated by Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous, the double disc, slated for August 24, will contain the original Johnston songs on the second disc. Steve Aoki, of Dim Mak fame, just joined up with Ben Lee to start up a new label called Ten Fingers Records. The label's first release will be a split between Ben Lee and Pony Up!, both of whom will be doing their own renditions of other popular songs. Pretty Girls Make Graves are back at home in Seattle and are taking the next couple of months off to write and record the follow-up to The New Romance. The new A Trillion Barnacle Lapse record is going to be called A Cruise in Heaven and is scheduled for release sometime this year on Electric Human Project. |
