The Used have posted a online preview of their upcoming CD/DVD, which is titled Maybe Memories (read more here). You can check out footage from the DVD in Windows Media or Quicktime. The Maybe Memories CD/DVD combo hits stores July 15th.
Glassjaw, The Used, Less Than Jake, Story Of The Year, and Mest have joined together to give away tickets to this summer's Warped Tour. You can head over here to check out songs from the bands and enter to win free tickets.
The Foo Fighters have posted the acoustic version of “Times Like These” online in Windows Media and Real Video. Look out for new links to the “Low” video coming soon.
The new single "Rush Hour Soul" from Supergrass has a video, and you can watch it right here. Watch out for Gaz playing a scary English streetbum. In other news, those children of the monkey basket are touring the US some more in July and August.. check more for dates.
As you know, Sub Pop Records' The Shins have a new website and news that they are recording a new album that they hope to release in September. That is all. Just a reminder.
Dismemberment Plan frontman Travis Morrison has posted another mp3 on his site for download. Go snag "Song For The Orca" (as well as "Sixteen Types of People" and "Checkers and Chess").
Quasi is eyeing September 2003 for the Touch & Go Records follow-up to The Sword of God. The record is tenatively, very tenatively I'm sure, entitled Hot Shit.
Check out the list of Eels tour dates. Still no confirmation on whether or not MC Honky will be opening the shows or not...
According to this Rolling Stone article, the band that is Scott Weiland and former Guns n' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum are now calling themselves Velvet Revolver. The band made it official (as well as the fact that Weiland was the frontman) recently and have said that they they hope to enter a studio by September and release an album in early 2004 after hitting the road this summer for a few shows. In another interesting tidbit, when asked if Weiland's joining the band has created tension with the singer's STP bandmates, Slash says, "...as far as I now they're disbanded."
Thrice recently announced that they will be releasing a split 7" with Thursday on July 1st. The split single will feature "Under a Killing Moon" on the Thrice side and a new song called "For The Work Force, Drowning" on the Thursday side. The songs are going to be pressed on clear vinyl with special artwork and will be limited edition.
So, what would be the point of all our relentless news posting if we failed to mention that Radiohead released Hail to the Theif today! It'd be like leaving the job unfinished, you know? A lot of stores are carrying the limited edition packaging for a regular CD price, so act today if you want the goods. Furthermore, radiohead.tv launched yesterday and you can watch "Episode 1" every hour on the hour.
Here's your officia Militia Group update, via your truant SU reporter, the divine Miss E... Anyway: The alternate version of "Testing the Strong Ones" from Copeland is available for your downloading pleasure here, and Tora! Tora! Torrance! A Cynics Nightmare hits stores 7/29/03, but you can listen to "yr all on my dance card" right me're. You're welcome.
Bob Dylan is notoriously camera-shy, but it seems lately that he's come out of his shell a bit... There are two films to watch: a documentary by Martin Scorsese (tentatively titled Bob Dylan Anthology) and a fictional account of Dylan's life (tentatively titled I'm Not There: Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan) by Velvet Goldmine director Todd Haynes. Scorsese's will focus on his early years (his university days- rare) and will feature Dylan talking about himself (double rare), and some television footage, including Dylan's 1964 appearance on the Steve Allen Show (triple rare). Expect it on PBS sometime in 2005. Haynes' movie is "impressionistic" account of the man, like that crappy Doors movie. Trust Scorsese and pray he finally gets an Oscar off this documentary. Bob's also on tour, so check the more.
Whiskeytown are planning a reunion after 3 years of not being... a band. Frontman Ryan Adams (yknowIloveyouNewYawk) and singer/violinist Caitlin Cary splintered it to start solo careers, but Adams recently approached Cary and her husband/drummer Skillet Gilmore, who played with the band on its first album, 1996's Faithless Street, to talk about getting together again. Read more at RollingStone.com.
Because the town of Riverhead NY sucks, Bonnaroo NE has now been cancelled all together. Riverhead is the town that the Field Day Festival was supposed to take place in. Apparently the organizers of Bonnaroo NE took a look at what happened with Field Day and realized there was no guarantee that local officials wouldn't screw them over days before the event like they did to the Field Day organizers. Bands like The Flaming Lips, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Yo La Tengo, Ween, and The Dead were scheduled to take part in the event August 8-10th.
Hopefully you won't be sitting at home this Friday night, but if so, you might want to tune into some late night. First, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno will be The Blue Man Group with Gavin Rossdale of Bush handling the vocals. With any luck, he'll be bald and blue too. If you watch them play, you damn well better check out The Late Late Show to see The Eels. Apparently their album is better than the album art.
On August 4th, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will release God is in the House, their first true DVD (please note, that is a European release date and I have no clue when or if it will be released in North America). Included in the package will be the videos for 2001's No More Shall We Part, a documentary directed by John Hillcoat about the making of that wonderful album, and best of all a full length concert from Lyon, France from 2001. Hitting 'more' will get you more info.
According to a post on the unofficial yet oh-so-informative fansite Selfies, the mixing of the new Self record, Ornament & Crime, will begin on June 9th and forge ahead for 2 weeks (or until it's done right). Behind the boards will be Rich Costey - a name you may not recognize, but who's work you'll definetly recognize after checking this rap sheet of works (Fiona Apple, Rage, Rival Schools, Cave-In, etc. etc.).
The Field Day mess continues with reports that Beck took some friendly fire in the ribcage courtesy of a "local stagehand" and was unable to perform, making the already-truncated list of performers on a rainy Saturday in Jersey that much shorter.
According to their website, Cave In will not appear on the The Late Show with David Letterman on June 16th, but will instead appear on Last Call with Carson Daly on the same night. The Letterman appearance has been rescheduled for sometime in July, but the date has yet to be confirmed. In other news, be sure to catch the band on the second stage during this year's Lollapalooza tour in July.
