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First off, just wanted to take the opportunity to mention that Dayton, Ohio, where Bettawreckonize is headquartered, has a shit-ton of awesome bands. Please take a minute or two to surf cyberspace and get acquainted with some of our favorites (I hope I don’t forget anyone): Yes, Collapse!, Little Billy Catfish, Wet Leather, The Motel Beds, Mike Ruetschle, Joe Anderl, Five Foot Setback, When Sparks Fly, Rune, Twelve Tribes, The Lab Partners, The Story Changes, Gun Medal Gray, The Red Affair, Revampire, The 8-Bit Revival, Shadyside, Hawthorne Heights, Captain of Industry, The Heartless Bastards, The Fire Science, Simply Waiting, Nightbeast, Guided By Voices, Thank The Knife, Etherea, Vril Dox, Monsterus, Attax Unit Youth and the list goes on and on. Without further adieu, here is some Dayton news: Billboard is reporting that during a recent
New York City concert, Guided By Voices frontman Robert Pollard
announced that by the
end of 2004, the band will be no more. The band will end "in
a blaze of fire," said Pollard, with their last show being
New Years Eve 2004 in New York City. Bassist Ryan France is no longer performing with The Fire Science. We wish Ryan the best of luck in whatever he does next. We also had the chance to check the new three-man TFS operation out at Cannon Art Collective a few weeks ago. They are still way cool. A lot of our friends are playing (The Dream Is Dead, The Cinema Eye, The Minus Tide, etc.) the Not Much More Than Music Fest in Dayton in June. Check out the fest’s webpage if you want to know how that is going down: http://www.vivalavinyl.org/notmuchmore/ The Hawthorne Heights record is complete, and according to a friend, it sounds fantastic. Pick it up after it drops on June 1st. Twelve Tribes’ new record, The Rebirth of Tragedy, will be distributed in the U.K. by Roadrunner. Also heard from a pretty reliable source that Roadrunner and Ferret have contributed some funds that will make it possible for Twelve Tribes to cut a video. We at BW are so, so amped to get their new record, see their video, and see all of these guys’ hard work finally pay off. According to one of the band’s guitarists, Waking Kills The Dream has completed their next effort for Goodlife Recordings and it will be available in June. We also heard a rumor that guitarist Matt Tackett has left the band due to a vigorous schedule with Twelve Tribes (where he handles bass duties). According to a reliable source, Dan Poling has decided to part ways with Abracadaver (aka Thank The Knife) due to conflicts with school, work, etc. We wish Dan the best of luck in his other endeavors. Simply Waiting has posted three new songs from our
upcoming full length CD on-line and they are available NOW. Gratitude, the new project from Jonah of Far/onelinedrawing/New End Original fame, has announced via their mailing list that they have signed to Velvet Hammer/Atlantic Records, current home of Poison The Well. The band is currently in Los Angeles doing pre-production for their debut. Music fans rioted during an impromptu show by the Libertines at Stoke-on-Trent, England, leading to the destruction of the venue in which the band was booked. The show was supposed to be a launch party for singer/guitarist Pete Doherty's side project Babyshambles, but when the band took the stage the fans became unruly, dragging down drapes that covered the ceiling and surging against a wall until it collapsed. Macworld is reporting that the major labels are looking at increasing the price of iTunes Music Store downloads to as much as $2.49. Experts are predicting the move could kill the service. The US record industry believe iTunes song are too cheap, and the five top labels (Universal Music Group, EMI, BMG, Sony and Warner Music) are discussing a price hike ranging from $1.25 to $2.49 per song. Victory Records has announced that they will be releasing the debut full-length from ex-Taking Back Sunday/Breaking Pangaea group Straylight Run this September. The quartet is currently finishing up the album. Trustkill Records has announced that they’ve signed Terror. The label will release Terror's debut full-length One With The Underdogs this August. The 14-song album will feature Freddy Madball, Jamey Hatebreed, and Lord Ezac on guest vocals. Richmond Virginia’s Denali have decided to move on. The band will not be playing their scheduled dates on the Plea For Peace tour and have headed home after finishing their recent tour with Brand New. Members of the Ramones, Dictators, Television and Dead Boys will play Ramones songs to celebrate the band's late frontman, Joey Ramone, who died of lymphatic cancer in 2001. The fourth annual Life's a Gas - The Annual Joey Ramone Birthday Bash will take place May 19 in New York. Also on the bill that night are Alkaline Trio, the Dickies, Supersuckers and Bebe Buell. Saddle Creek Records has confirmed that Rilo Kiley has inked a deal with the EMI Group. No word yet on which label specifically, as EMI has no United States present and some of their artists are handled by other majors. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has severed its ties with Virgin Records, which released the group's two studio albums. The move comes on the heels of the recent announcement that the trio will join the lineup for this summer's Lollapalooza tour. Following a postponed spring tour, due to frontwoman Siouxsie's sinus infection, Siouxsie & the Banshees' fall tour is set to begin September 2 in Chicago and wrap up September 27 in Vancouver, British Columbia. On May 18th, Vagrant Records will be re-issuing Dashboard Confessional's 2003 album A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar. The re-issue will include a bonus DVD featuring the complete MTV2 Album Covers performance of Dashboard performing songs from REM's Automatic For The People. The DVD also includes 2 bonus cuts that were not included in the broadcast, as well as extra interview segments with the band and REM's Michael Stipe. The re-issue will only be available for a limited time. Broken Sounds, the label founded by New Found Glory's Chad Gilbert and Ian Grushka, dropped its maiden releases Tuesday: Memories of Better Days, from Breakdance Vietnam, and Only Time Will Tell, from Ohio’s Suffocate Faster. Both bands will play select dates on this summer's Vans Warped Tour. Lookout Records have posted a new song from Communiqué's upcoming release Poison Arrows. Head over to the label's website to download it. The Oakland band's new album is expected on June 15th. Hot Hot Heat have been in the studio at guitarist Dante Decaro's rural home, an hour north of Victoria, BC, working on material for their next full-length. The band has already written and recorded 14 tracks, with the hope that at least six more will be laid to tape before the self-editing process kicks in. Tegan and Sara are mixing their third record in Vancouver with plans for an August release. Vancouver's Black Halos have announced tour dates for May and June. They will be sharing the stage with Calico System, Haste, 1208, and Scatter The Ashes among others. In February of this year the band recorded some new material in Abbottsford, BC with The Spitfires' Jason Solyom. NME.com reported recently that the legendary Brooklyn hip-hop supergroup, Wu-Tang Clan, are planning one final ruckus-bringing before calling it quits after a 12-year run that will have produced five full-lengths. Kurt Cobain is coming to the WB. The network has obtained the rights to Charles Cross' biography of the late Nirvana frontman, "Heavier Than Heaven," and has hired Robert Munic to write the script for the untitled movie, expected to hit prime time as soon as next season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Eighteen Visions has signed to Epic. They will still be releasing their upcoming record Obsession on Trustkill.. The French Kicks began a thirty-one-date tour on April 15th in Hoboken, New Jersey. GSL Reports: "The novel version of Kill Me Tomorrow's new album The Garbageman and the Prostitute, written by Zack Wentz and featuring artwork by K8 Wince, is tentatively scheduled to be released by Chiasmus Press in November 2004. www.chiasmuspress.com. Massachusetts metal/grind band The Red Chord has officially signed with Metal Blade Records / Black Market Activities. The group will record their next full-length, titled Clients, later this year. Robotic Empire has announced that they will be re-issuing the debut full-length from The Red Chord, Fused Together In Revolving Doors. The CD will be enhanced with exclusive demo tracks, the "Dreaming in Dog Years" video, a full live set and more. Fused Together In Revolving Doors will be out on May 11th. The Mars Volta will issue a limited picture disc 12" single in the U.S. for "Televators" (full-length version) b/w "Eriatarka" (live) at the end of April. They will be available for mailorder in GSL's online shop. www.goldstandardlabs.com Elvis Costello has announced that he will release two very different albums this fall. First is a new rock record to be released by Nashville based Lost Highway Records. The record is being recorded with The Impostors in Memphis and Oxford, Mississippi and is expected to be the proper followup to 2002's When I Was Cruel. Costello will also release his first full-length orchestral record on Deutsche Grammophon titled Il Sogno. The album was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. Deutsche Grammophon released last year's jazz ballad based North. Björk’s forthcoming album, still tentatively titled The Lake Experience, is now slated for a late 2004 release. Slated to hit stores on June 1st, Debut Live, Post Live, Homogenic Live and Vespertine Live will feature live renditions of every song from their respective original LPs in the exact same running order. Some Records recording artists The Ghost have been given a final and official release date for their second full-length release, This Pen Is A Weapon. The album will hit stores on June 1, 2004. The band has updated their website with the album's tracklisting, cover art, lyrics and an MP3 for the track "Mad Max Was An Amateur,” which appears on the Some Records Spring 2004 Sampler CD. Rolling Stone has reported that the Pixies will be releasing 15 live albums, one from each date on their upcoming North American tour. The records will be pressed at the shows and limited to 1000 individually numbered, foil stamped copies, with the exception of the Coachella Festival where 2000 copies will be made. Half of the pressed albums will be sold at the shows, the other half can be pre-ordered through disclive.com. All of the albums will be double CDs and feature artwork individual to each show. The official website of the Beastie Boys has noted that Adam Yauch will be producing the new studio album by Bad Brains. The band recorded the record in Yauch's studio and it's currently in mixing. The Beasties have just announced the title and track list to their own upcoming album, titled To The 5 Boroughs, their first full length since 1998's Hello Nasty. The first single according to Billboard will be "Ch-Check It Out." The as-yet-untitled new album from the Cure is scheduled for a June 22 release. The U.K. band's first album since 2000's Bloodflowers was recorded in London with producer Ross Robinson, best known for his work with nü-metal bands Korn, Slipknot and Soulfly. Nick Cave’s DVD is set to drop May 4. The 20-track Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Videos features "Into My Arms," "Red Right Hand," "Deanna" and "Where the Wild Roses Grow," Cave's collaboration with Kylie Minogue Nas and the Pixies are the first headliners announced for the 34th annual Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, taking place September 3-6. The eclectic music and arts festival will feature around 2,500 artists, in addition to a short-film festival, comedy festival, breakdancing stage, poetry slam, art exhibits, fashion shows and more. Pretty Girls Make Graves are recording some new songs that they're giving to French Kiss Records for a limited edition 7". Matt Sharp's full-length debut is due May 4. The Never Say Die Fest has announced their preliminary lineup for this year. Among the groups playing are: Dillinger 4, Lawrence Arms, The Reputation, Hewhocorrupts, Guff, Pelican, Intro5pect, and Suicide Note. The Never Say Die Fest will take place in Detroit at Idle Kids (3535 Cass) from May 28-30. Ian MacKaye has started a brand new record label, called Northern Liberties, as a subsidiary of Dischord. A statement on the label's website reveals that the new imprint is "dedicated to the release of work that may seem obscure, but in MacKaye's opinion speaks clearly to the point of music and expression." The label has already issued the debut album from longtime Inner Ear Studios engineer Don Zientara, as well as a solo record by Lungfish frontman Daniel Higgs and the debut release from a new band called Et At It. Each release is limited to 500 copies. The Fucking Champs and Trans Am have collaborated as the Fucking Am on the album Gold, due this summer Billboard is reporting that the Blood Brothers are in the studio with John Goodmanson recording the follow up to last years Burn Piano Island, Burn. The band is still planning to release the record on ArtistDirect. Andrew WK has announced a new set of tourdates from April to June.
No Motiv will open on all dates, and The Locust will open on part
of the trek. Eulogy Recordings has announced the signing of Southern California band Nevea Tears. The label says that the band brings "a mixed bag of sound that ranges from Zao to Glassjaw to Jimmy Eat World to Killswitch Engage to New Order to Hopesfall." Queens of the Stone Age will release a limited-edition EP called Stone Age Complication on April 20. The disc will feature six B-sides, half of which will be covers: the Kinks' "Who Will Be the Next in Line," Subhumans' "Wake Up Screaming" and the Cramps' "The Most Exalted Potentate of Love." The collection will also feature the U.N.K.L.E. remix of "No One Knows" and the two originals "Born to Hula" and "The Bronze." Only 25,000 copies of the EP will be printed, and the disc will only be available at select retail outlets. Initial Records annual music festival, Krazy Fest, which was slated for its seventh year this summer has been indefinitely postponed. Plans are still in place to release DVD's from previous Krazy Fests. They hope to have a DVD release from Krazy Fest 5 ready by Fall 2004 and one from Krazy Fest 6 ready for release in Spring 2005. Ryan Adams has released a three-song EP called Moroccan Role, which is only available through iTunes. The disc features the previously unreleased tracks "Ah Life," "I'm Coming Over" and "Don't Even Know Her Name." Lollapalooza will be returning for it's 9th year this year, and are turning the festival into a two-day event. Confirmed mainstage acts thus far include Morrissey, Sonic Youth, Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, The Polyphonic Spree, and String Cheese Incident. Ticket prices are also claimed to be lower than in years past. More artists and full routing should be announced in the coming weeks. The White Stripes, Green Day and the Darkness will headline this year's Carling Weekend in Reading and Leeds, U.K., August 27-29. Initial Records has signed NJ natives, Paulson. They plan on releasing their new album, Variations, on June 22nd. Clinic have scheduled a North American tour for May, even though their third full-length album (and their debut for Universal), tentatively titled Winchester Cathedral, won't be out until August. The tour begins May 8 in Brooklyn, New York, and ends May 23 in San Diego. In Flames will launch a tour with Killswitch Engage on May 3 in Pontiac, Michigan. Dates run through May 11 in Vancouver, British Columbia. In Flames' new album, Soundtrack to Your Escape, comes out April 6; the third Killswitch Engage record, The End of Heartache, will be released May 11. On April 9th, Acutest Records is releasing a DVD titled, The Michigan Independent. The Michigan Independent is the debut documentary by Michigan indie veteran Michelle Lukezic. The film contains live footage and interviews with over 30 indie projects, ranging from musicians and record labels to writers and promoters. Among those included are Small Brown Bike, Fordirelifesake, Capture The Flag, Rescue, Kid Brother Collective, Ettison Cleo, Thunderbirds Are Now!, The Chiodos Bros, and Charlevoix. Most Precious Blood are heading out of New York with Throwdown in May and June Braid have confirmed some of the opening acts for their upcoming reunion tour this summer. Minus The Bear and Murder By Death are the opening acts for the tour's first leg, and Recover has been announced as one of the openers for the second leg. Three more bands (1 for the second leg, 2 for the third leg) will be confirmed in the coming weeks. Midtown have signed to Columbia. Eulogy Recordings owner John Wylie and Christopher Brown of Evergreen
Terrace have recently formed a new record label called Hand Of
Hope Records. The Miami-based label solidified an exclusive distribution
deal with Victory Records. The label's debut release will be from
Evergreen Terrace, which should hit stores in early-summer. Motion City Soundtrack has announced their summer touring plans. They have been added to the part of Civic Tour with Dashboard Confessional, Thrice, and The Get Up Kids. They'll also be opening on the upcoming Story Of The Year tour, and opening a few dates for Blink-182. Their summer will wrap up with a few weeks' worth of shows on this year's Warped Tour. PJ Harvey's sixth album, Uh Huh Her, will be released in June. Taking Back Sunday will have a new album out on Victory in July. According to DJ John Kennedy on London's XFM 104.7, Brooklyn art-rockers TV on the Radio have just inked a licensing deal with 4AD Records, which will allow the label to give the band's latest full-length, Desperate Youths, Blood Thirsty Babes a UK and European release. The band's releases will continue to be issued by Touch & Go in the United States. Thick Records has announced the signing of Hanalei. Hanalei is the acoustic side project of Brian Moss, frontman of The Ghost. Hanalei will enter the studio in April with Lance Reynolds at the helm for an August debut. Atreyu will release their second full-length album, The Curse, on June 29. Atreyu will perform on the second stage of this year's Ozzfest, and will be playing with new bassist Marc McKnight, who replaced Chris Thomson in early March. Fearless Records will be releasing an At The
Drive-in Anthology (enhanced CD) as well as re-issues of Relationship
of Command (2000)
and Acrobatic Tenement (1996). The anthology will contain
greatest hits, exclusive unreleased tracks, rare b-sides, covers,
videos, and exclusive live footage from one of indie rocks' most
influential music groups. Rolling Stone is reporting that Green Day in a Los Angeles studio with longtime producer Rob Cavallo working on their follow up to 2000's Warning. The album is expected in either late summer or early fall. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong commented "We've got about thirty-five songs we're going to record... It's a lot of material. We're trying to get one theme throughout the album, because we're in the album business, not in the business of making singles." Hopeless Records released the visual and audio documentation of Atom And His Package's final show from last year. Hair: Debatable, the live CD/DVD, features all 27 songs from the concert. The DVD also contains music videos and documentaries about Atom's life and times. The Stereo recently called it quits MC5, featuring Michael Davis, Wayne Kramer and Dennis Thompson along with a rotating cast of special guest musicians, will hit the road for a tour this spring. Dates will be announced shortly, but confirmed collaborators include Evan Dando, Mark Arm of Mudhoney and Marshall Crenshaw. Meanwhile, "Sonic Revolution," a documentary on the band's history and influence, will be released on DVD on July 6. The (International) Noise Conspiracy's next album, Armed Love, will be released on June 29, 2004. Downhill Battle, the group that organized the "Grey Tuesday" online protest in support of Danger Mouse's The Grey Album, have launched a virtual record label for outlawed music. BannedMusic.org will offer peer-to-peer network downloads of albums targeted by the RIAA and publishing companies for not having been legally cleared. The site is currently offering The Grey Album, the Metallica/Jay-Z mash-up The Double Black Album and a mix-CD history of sampled music. AFI will be spending the next few months writing songs for the follow-up to their 2003 LP, Sing the Sorrow. Guitarist Jade Puget said the band is doing its best to ignore pressure and allow the songs to develop naturally. North Carolina rock band Codeseven has signed with Equal Vision Records. Formed in 1995, the group has previously released three albums with The Music Cartel. Codeseven is currently completing work on their EVR debut, which they will record with Michael Birnbaum (Coheed and Cambria) in Woodstock, NY at the end of May. Destroyer have lined up a seventeen-date tour to begin April 26th in Edmonton, Alberta The new Unearth joint hits the streets on the 29th of June. Sleater-Kinney are gearing up for a 17-date Spring tour, which kicks off in Baltimore at the Recher Theater on April 21st, and takes them straight through May, when they'll wind up back in Washington for their performance at The Gorge's annual Sasquatch Festival. The April dates have Sleater-Kinney playing the East Coast with The Thermals opening, while the May dates will see them sticking mainly to California, with the exception of one Oregon date, and the aforementioned Sasquatch Fest. Quasi, who Janet L. Weiss used to drum for, will support on the West Coast dates. Hot Cross will be releasing the Fair Trades & Farewells EP on both vinyl and CD formats May 24th on Level-Plane. The (International) Noise Conspiracy will be on the road from April until the end of the summer supporting their upcoming American Recordings / Island release Armed Love. Throughout April and May the band will be in North America playing various dates with bands like The Icarus Line, Boss Martians, The Roger Sisters, The Start, The Offspring, Moving Units and more, wrapping up with the band's appearance at Coachella. Austin quartet ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead are working on their fourth album, the follow-up to 2002's major-label debut, Source Tags and Codes. The band is recording in its home studio and is expected to debut some of the new material at its performance at the Coachella fest, May 1 in Indio, California. The Unicorns have added a June concert date: Columbus, Ohio's annual Springfest show. Former Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli and
his band The Twilight Singers have announced that they’ll
issue as many as three records this year, including a record
of covers.
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