Holy geez! w.a.s.t.e announced this morning that Radiohead will be playing the Field Day festival on the 7th June 2003 on Long Island, NY. The Field Day festival is a two-day music, arts and camping festival on June 7th and 8th at Enterprise Park at Calverton. For a complete line-up (which is frickin' amazing!), click the magic "more" button.....
BetterLookingRecords have posted two new The Jealous Sound song from their upcoming album Kill Them With Kindness due out on June 3rd. The new songs are entitled "The Gift Horse" and "Naive".
Brand New have also posted a track on their website from their upcoming album Deja Entendu. The new track is called "Guernica". The tentative release date is June 17th.
According to We Are The Music Makers, the other Richard D. James project, AFX, will release a new "ragga techno" EP, entitled Smojphace, via Mr. James' unnamed label on May 5th (UK). Warp Records has yet to start promotion on the release, so there are no other details nor a US release date (though we can assume it'll probably be May 6th).
Well, the first single off of the White Stripes' new album Elephant is going to be "7 Nation Army". Stills from the band's new video for the single can be found here at NME.com, and it actually looks (I don't know why I'm suprised) really neat.
According to the Milita Group, the new Noise Ratchet EP Till We Have Faces hits stores in less than a month, and you can pre-order it now, so hop to it.
Apparently dance fans have been clamoring for two 1996 seminal, pre-Daft Punk French dance albums... Etienne de Crecy's Superdiscount and Pansoul. Seven years later, Astralweks has decided to re-release the disc and send it to the US with a bonus disc featuring an hour's worth of rare, early material including the Mo' Wax E.P. Transphunk. Not only that, but a 2 x LP vinyl version is also available for "completists and DJs." Or just people who like French dance music on vinyl.
311 will release their 7th studio LP, Evolver, on July 11th via Volcano Records. We've been keeping up with the development of this album for some time, so it's nice to see a light at the end of tunnel. Thanks to Billboard.com for the heads up on the Evolver details.
According to this thread on the official Korn BBS, the group are currently in the studio tracking drums for their follow-up to Untouchables. Frontman Jonathan Davis reported that the new album "is very heavy," describing the new sound as "heavy groove" and "strait (sic) raw and dirty."
The Mars Volta will release their debut album, tentatively titled De-loused in the Comatorium (a line taken from "Eunuch Provocateur"), on June 17th via Universal. The group entered the studio late last year to record their album with producer Rick Rubin. An April 29th was previously announced, but it seems we'll have an extra month or so to wait.
Reggie and The Full Effect's new video for "Congratulations Smack and Katy" will be premiering on MTV this Friday, April 11th. If you want to take a sneak peak at the new video you can check it out here.
You knew that Nerf Herder preforms the Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme song right? Well on May 20th the band will be appearing on the final episode of the show. How Sweet!
The Movielife recently stopped by the Drive-Thru Records office to sign a bunch of crap, make a few phone calls and record an acoustic version of "Hey" from their new album Forty Hour Train Back To Penn. You can check out the video from this performance here.
"We're looking for a guitar player. If you think you got the chops, we need you. And it would definitely be cool if our guitar player was from Japan. Ooooh." Oooh? Anyway, Limp Bizkit fronthog Fred Durst is at his most obnoxious again, planning to recruit a Japanese guitarist for Limp's upcoming world tour. Apparently former Snot axe man Mike Smith was too good. You can see the entire blubbering of Durst on the band's official Japanese site, limpbizkit.jp.
Do you remember Metallica's newest album, St. Anger? It's completed and here's the tracklisting of the band's 8th album.
The Live Phish series will get bigger on May 20th with the next four volumes of full concert recordings. We mentioned this project before, but now you can rest assured that Phish bassist Mike Gordon was responsible for selecting the latest batch of shows, choosing the four concerts based on his journal entries for more than 1,000 Phish concerts between 1983 and 2000. Wowza indeed.
You've read all about "House of 1,000 Corpses", Rob Zombie's foray into the movie business, here, and now you're seeing the trailer on TV. What else should you know about the movie? Plenty, if you want. Head over to this article at RollingStone.com to see what the Robster has to say for his cinematic piece.
Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth has now placed sixty anti-war songs on his new Web site, protest-records.com, for free download. The site, now two weeks old, received a half-million hits in its first three days (!). In addition to the earlier offerings by the Beastie Boys ("In a World Gone Mad"), Sonic Youth ("Youth Against Facism"), Cat Power ("Rockets," "Maybe Not"), Jim O'Rourke and Glenn Kotche (a cover of Bill Fay's "Pictures of Adolf") and Chumbawumba ("Jacob's Ladder"), the site has recently added a pair of songs by the Moldy Peaches' Kimya Dawson ("Viva la Persistence," "Anthrax") and tracks by Jonny Polansky and Peter Stuart. The stencils by New York City artist Chris Habib that ben mentioned are still there too.
Beck has announced the first 7 dates for his summer tour (you know where to click to find them, right?). Opening will be Dashboard Confessional and Black Keys. Expect more dates to be announced soon-ish.
We mentioned the As Daylight Breaks soundtrack a few months back, but we thought we'd give you a bit more info. The film itself is about a young boy, Jacob Sontag, who suffers from Canavan Disease, a genetic brain disorder, and his mother, Jordana, who fights to keep her son alive and to find a cure. The soundtrack features artists like Mary Timony (who also composed the film's score), Interpol, Ben Lee and The Walkmen. For a tracklisting, click "more" and for information on the film, check out asdaylightbreaks.com. All proceeds from the film and CD will go to the Jacob's Cure charity.
