Alkaline Trio have named their fifth full length album Good Mourning. The new album will be released in May. While in the studio, singer Matt Skiba strained his vocal chords so all shows for now are cancelled.
Better Looking Records have put up a live mp3 of a new Jealous Sound song titled "Naive", the song was recorded in Austin Texas while on tour with The Get Up Kids in 2002, and will appear on their new album. Also the band has some shows coming up so keep checking JealousSound.com for dates, times, and venues.
According to a post on the band's official website, A Perfect Circle have begun work on their second album. The note, left by lead singer Maynard (you know, the Tool guy), assures that "when it's done, you all will be the first to know. actually...the second to know." And you, faithful SU readers, will be the third.
Head over to Insound and check out some selections from their recently updated MP3 list. Among the offerings are new songs from The Blood Brothers, Crooked Fingers, Calla, Ikara Colt, and The Sea And Cake. Free music, ya'll!
Since Nightmares On Wax will be coming to us from across the pond this April and May, Warp has decided to re-release the group's Carboot Soul album on January 28th 2003. We lucky yanks will get the album with three extra tracks: "Le Nuits (DJ Spinna Mix)", "Burn Me Slo (Featuring OC)", and "Finer (Paul Nice Mix)."
Since I'm sure all of you are making a mad dash for the new Harry Potter book, I recommend you go ahead and put in an order for Nick Hornby's (yo, he wrote High Fidelity: Jack Black!) newest book, the aptly named Songbook, which features essays on songs that Hornby feels passionately about, and is accompanied by an 11-song CD (it includes not all the songs mentioned in the books due to licensing difficulties). Some songs are Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like a Bird," and testimony about Rufus Wainwright's coy reinterpretation of his father Loudon's "One Man Guy." Especially poignant, according to amazon.com, is Hornby's reaction to "A Minor Incident," a Badly Drawn Boy song written for the soundtrack of the film version of Hornby's book About a Boy. Proceeds from the book benefit TreeHouse, a U.K. charity for children with autism, and 826 Valencia, the nonprofit Bay Area learning center. But you have to order it, so mush!
Bluebird will be playing 3 shows with The Apes this week in California before heading off the UK. The shows dates are in the more. In other news, the band will also be shooting a video for 'Falling Back to Earth' to be released in March.
Coldplay will perform on the premiere of Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight at approximately 11:50pm ET on ABC. The show will close down Hollywood Boulevard for the group to peform one of their US singles, "In My Place" or "The Scientist" (unless they decide to pull something for the premiere). Also, joining Coldplay on the show will be George Clooney and, if he shows, Snoop Dogg as guest co-host.
Joan of Arc's first official tour of the millennium in support of the soon-to-be-released So Much Staying Alive And Lovelessness kicks off in late-February, and will cover the entire US. The forementioned album will be released on February 4th and is available for pre-order now at jadetree.com. Get thoose tour dates here...
Paint It Black Featuring Dr. Dan 'Screamin' Yemin (Lifetime and Kid Dynamite), David Wagenschutz (Lifetime, Kid Dynamite, Good Riddance), Dave Hause (The Curse) and Andy Nelson (Affirmative Action Jackson) is ready to release their eagerly awaited debut, CVA on June 17th. Look for more details as well as some upcoming tour dates as we get closer to that date.
Oklahoma's Ester Drang has joined the Jade Tree roster and will be releasing their second album, Infinite Keys on April 1, 2003. The album is being recorded at Echo Labs and will be mixed by Chris Colbert. Check the more for the track listing.
MTV2 wants to film a few Thom Yorke fans telling them how his voice has shaped your life, influenced you or inspired you in any way. If your answers are strong, you will be representing the Thom Yorke fans on MTV2. If you're interested, please answer the questions in the more section and submit your answers to mtv.production.casting@mtvstaff.com.
The 11th Annual Noise Pop Festival has announced a pleathora of artists lined up to perform at their six-day rock, film, and pop music symposia. So mark your calendars for Feb 25th to March 2nd as "Busy in San Francisco." Among others, expect the likes of The Donnas, OK Go, Cat Power, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Folk Implosion, (smog), The Locust, Blood Bros, Tortoise, Mountain Goats, and John Vanderslice. To find out more about the upcoming event, check out noisepop.com. You know where to go for the full lineup and dates.
(hed) Planet Earth are gearing up for the March 18th release of their new album Blackout. The album’s title track is the first single, which will be released to radio on February 3rd and a video for “Blackout” was shot last week at the Alexandria Hotel in Los Angeles. To celebrate the release of the album, the band will head out on the Jägermeister Music Tour, co-headlining with Saliva, the dates for which you can find behind the more.
Massive Attack have announced details for the first single off their upcoming album, 100th Window. "Special Cases" features guest vocals by Sinead O'Connor and will hit shops (in the UK at least) on 2/24. In addition to remixes by Luomo and Akufen, it'll have their recent collaboration with Mos Def, "I Against I".
Weezer are still chugging away trying to get a DVD released sometime soon. Looks as though it will be released in the spring-time and will include lots of live footage from both the recent and not-so-recent past. The hold up (since it was supposed to be a X-mas release) has been to get permission to use people's likenesses, so they don't have to blur out a bunch of fan's faces.
Interpol has decided on doing some US dates to sandwich in between tours of the UK and the rest of Europe. Hit 'more' to see where to catch them.
Cat Power nee Chan Marshall, is going on tour! I know you're as excited as I am (even though she'll be coming nowhere close to me), so check out the dates where the red text bellows.
Pearl Jam are going on tour in support of their latest album Riot Act. They'll be releasing soundboard recordings of all the shows, which I have to admit is pretty cool. I can't bring any info to you about when tickets will go on sale, but keep an eye on this site. If you want to know the tour dates, you'll have to find the easter egg.
Wayne Coyne (the Flaming Lips) and Beth Orton teamed up to cover Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" on the final night of the Flaming Lips UK tour last night. The group have been preceding their sets on their UK tour with a series of "secret" celebrity support acts, which have included Badly Drawn Boy, Tim Wheeler and Gruff Rhys, so start searching for bootlegs.
