Brendon Urie , singer for the band Panic! At The Disco snapped his ankle during a concert in Florida this weekend.
Though his ankle swelled to the size of a softball he managed to get through the show and it doesn't look like it has impacted the bands current U.S. tour, scheduled to wind up June 29 in Omaha.
Hollywood gossip site TMZ is reporting that George Clinton the legendary Parliament-Funkadelic founder and frontman, has been hospitalized overnight for a serious staph infection in his leg, discovered during a routine doctors visit.
There has been no word on if or how this impacts the bands current touring schedule or it's scheduled date at Saturdays B.O.M.B. Festival in Hartford Connecticut at the Comcast Theater.
For more information on George Clinton and the current Parliament-Funkadelic tour check out his web site at georgeclinton.com
Fro more information on the B.O.M.B. Festival, check out their site at bombfest.com
Houston (and sometimes Austin) based Blue October has announced the release of their seventh full-length studio album, Any Man In America, which will be available on August 16, 2011. The album's thirteen new songs "tell a cathartic tale of heartbreak and healing through unbridled lyrical honesty, anthemic modern rock hooks, and melodic soundscapes."
The first single off of the album, "The Chills," will be available for digital download May 31st.
Blue October will support the album with a national tour that kicks off on August 17th 2011. For more info see blueoctober.com
Japan's Ice Grills Records is releasing a compilation encompassing the Wallingford, CT based Hostage Calm's entire catalog on August 10.
The release titled All of Hostage Calm will be available exclusively in Japan and documents their progression from their melodic hardcore punk roots, to their power-pop.
The discography includes their current Self-Titled LP, plus their "Run for Cover" Single 7-inch, the Lens LP and their demo.
track List:
1. A Mistrust Earned
2. Rebel Fatigues
3. Affidavit
4. Where the Waters Call Home
5. Ballots/Stones
6. Marine Transgressions
7. Young Professionals
8. Overstayed
9. Wither on the Vine
10.Victory Lap
11. Jerry Rumspringer
12. War on the Feeling
13. Donna Lee
14. War on a Feeling (Single Version)
15. In So Many Words...
16. Audible
17. Gaslighting
18. Nosebleed Section
19. (I'm Left with All These) Holes
20. Interchangeable Parts
21. 400,000
22. Lacuna (Where Certainty Sleep)
23. Shattering Mirrors
24. Grayscale
25. Pushing the Paradigm
26. One Face
27. Grayscale
28. 400,000
29. Weighed Down
Sweden's progressive metal mavens Opeth will release Heritage, their third album for Roadrunner, on September 20th. The first single and video will be the song "The Devil’s Orchard."
The album was produced by Opeth's frontman and guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt and mixed along with Porcupine Tree frontman/guitarist Steven Wilson, who is a labelmate of Opeth.
Opeth will also embark on a seven-week, headline tour of the US. Dates will be announced imminently. For details see opeth.com
Thrash metal band Indestructible Noise Command and Candlelight Records have partnered to distribute the band’s upcoming full-length release, Heaven Sent…Hellbound, on it’s new release date, August 9th, 2011. The album is being released on Rising Records, and is the band’s first full-length offering in over 20 years.
Additionally the band just wrapped shooting two new music videos for the singles "Fist of Fascista" and "Swallowed" a few weeks ago in Brooklyn, New York.
For more information on Indestructible Noise Command, check out their site at incband.com
Southern California based EVE 6 is set to enter the studio this June with legendary producer Don Gilmore (Pearl Jam, Dashboard Confessional, Good Charlotte, The All-American Rejects). The band will be recording their long-awaited fourth studio album on their new label Fearless Records. Gilmore's previous work includes production on Linkin Park's 10 x platinum-seling album Hybrid Theory and 5 x platinum-selling release Meteora. Gilmore also produced EVE 6's platinum-selling self-titled debut album.
"Starting in the first couple weeks of June, we'll be descending into the dungeon (AKA studio) to record album #4 with Don Gilmore, our producer on the first two album," notes the band. "Don is a svengali/genius type of guy, and is a great match for our style and sensibility in the studio. We have a special bond with him, and are excited to get in the trenches..." notes the band.
Eve 6 reformed in early 2008, and spent much of the following two years on the road reconnecting with their fan base. Signed to Fearless Records early May 2011, they are excited to work on new material. "This will be a great home for us," notes the band. "They're super pumped about this record and the new songs and are just as anxious to get it recorded and released as we are."
If you can't make it to the sold out gig by Seattle based six piece Fleet Foxes at the legendary Stubb's BarBQ in Austin tonight don't worry - NPR has you covered.
If you log on to NPR Music at approximately 9:30 p.m. ET tonight you can check out a live webcast of the full concert by Fleet Foxes. The performance from Stubb's BarBQ in Austin, Texas, will be available in both audio and video. On tour ito support of its new album, Helplessness Blues released May 3rd, you can also hear the entire album online as part of NPR Music's First Listen series. For more information on where to tune in to catch the show
check out NPR's web site at http://www.npr.org/2011/05/09/136144278/live-tuesday-fleet-foxes-in-concert.
Streaming of live music events is becoming a very popular trend, not only here in tech savvy Austin, but around the world, and it won't be long before every major venue will be built like the new ACL Live studio venue, both as a studio and a live music venue. Until then we can continue to expect to see the large truck based portable production and broadcast facilities parked outside the venues with increasing frequency.
Thrash metal band Indestructible Noise Command is scheduled to film their new music video for the single ‘Swallowed’ this weekend. The video is being shot by director Russell Hasenauer in Brooklyn, NY on a building rooftop. ‘Swallowed’ describes the idea of fame often leading to addiction, and this will be depicted in the video through actors and the band themselves.
In it’s first week, the bands new EP Bleed the Line debuted at #4 Most Added on the CMJ Loud Rock charts. The EP entered the charts at #12 and is currently on the cusp of the top 10 at #11. The EP is currently spinning at many college and commercial radio stations nationwide. Bleed the Line EP is available now in digital format at iTunes and Amazon.com now.
With two successful full-length Giant Records releases, Razorback (1987) and The Visitor (1988) and live performances with the likes of Exodus, Megadeth and King Diamond, in 1988 with The Visitor, the band hit #1 on the CMJ Metal charts and stole the U.K. #2 Import slot out from underneath Aerosmith. Now based in New York City, the band is back with their Bleed the Line EP and Heaven Sent, Hellbound. Indestructible Noise Command is an original pioneer of the thrash metal scene, that bills itself as "resurrected in order to take back a genre recently flooded with neo-thrash carbon copies".
Athens Georgia based R.E.M. premiered the video for "Every Day Is Yours To Win" on the YouTube homepage today, a video composed entirely of footage from YouTube. Lead singer Michael Stipe and the video's co-director Jim McKay have also posted an intro video and a video featuring a list of their favorite YouTube clips. The "Every Day Is Yours To Win" video is part of the Collapse Into Now Film Project, where artists and filmmakers were asked to create short films for each song on the new R.E.M. album Collapse Into Now.
Reform The Resistance, comprised of former Justifide members Jason Moncivaiz (vocals/guitar) and Sambo Moncivaiz (bass) of Phoenix, AZ and drummer Ryan Dugger (drums) of Nashville, TN, is pleased to announced the digital release of their new album The Truth is Dangerous on Wuli Records. The album will be released physically on May 17th, 2011. The Truth is Dangerous was completed in October 2010 and was produced by Reform The Resistance vocalist/guitarist Jason Moncivaiz. The entire album was recorded and produced in Moncivaiz’s personal studio, with exception of the drums which were recorded in Chicago, IL at Gravity Studios.
The band also recently announced that they will be filming their new music videos for the tracks ‘Kill Lies’ and ‘Tonight We Ride’ which appear on The Truth is Dangerous. The videos will be directed by Ben Monteiro, a skilled graphic designer based in Portugal. Ben will direct and shoot the video for ‘Kill Lies’ in Nashville, TN and ‘Tonight We Ride’ in Chicago, IL beginning on April 27th, 2011. Ben is also a member of the band Triplet, who toured with Reform The Resistance in the past.
Punk pioneer Poly Styrene has passed away - from a press release issued by her publicist -
"We can confirm that the beautiful Poly Styrene, who has been a true fighter, won her battle on Monday evening (4/25/11) to go to higher places. Poly Styrene was born Marianne Elliot Said on June 3, 1957. She passed away due to cancer.
Poly Styrene was a punk amongst punks. A groundbreaking presence that left an unrepeatable mark on the musical landscape, she made history the moment she uttered, “Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard but I think oh bondage up yours!” The influence of Poly and X-ray Spex has been felt far and wide ever since. The seminal album Germ Free Adolescents is a landmark work and a primary influence on Britpop and Riot Grrrl. At the center of it was Poly Styrene, a bi-racial feminist punk with the perfect voice to soundtrack rebellion. Poly never sacrificed the intelligence or the fun in her music and style. Her trademark braces and dayglo clothes were a playful rejection of the status quo and of conformity and complacency. She dissected gender politics, consumer culture, and the obsessions of modern life in a way that made us all want sing along with her.
At the core of Poly’s work from Germ Free Adolescents through Generation Indigo, is a revolutionary with a genuine love for this world and the people and things in it. Her indomitable heart is all over the new material from her championing of cruelty free products and as she put it, "being conscious of the slaughterhouse culture" (“I Luv Ur Sneakers”) to giving voice to marginalized poor people worldwide (“No Rockefeller”) to tackling racism (“Colour Blind”). Poly Styrene never stopped exciting us with her incisive world-view, amazing wit, and her adventurous sound. It is impossible to imagine what modern music would be like without her incalculable contributions but it’s probably not worth imagining a world that never had Poly Styrene in it.
A thrilling work from a true pioneer and rebel in every sense, Poly Styrene’s album Generation Indigo is out today through Future Noise Music and was produced by Youth (The Verve, Killing Joke, The Fireman, Edwyn Collins).The album’s fusion of punk spirit, and fresh sounds has already received rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic from Spin, NPR, NME, MOJO and countless others. The forward looking Generation Indigo showcases Poly’s humorous musings on pop culture, the internet and fashion whilst also tackling heavier subject matter (war and racism) with her politically aware and intelligent lyrics all in the inimitable voice of a genuine icon."
Radical Dads featuring Members Of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have announced their debut LP "Mega Rama" out June 14th on Uninhabitable Mansions.
Founded in 2008 along the banks of the Gowanus Canal, Lindsay Baker sings and plays the guitar, Robbie Guertin (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) sings and plays the drums and Chris Diken plays the guitar.
The band released a self-titled EP in May 2009 and the Recklessness 7-inch in December 2010. Radical Dads' first full-length album, Mega Rama, is being released by Uninhabitable Mansions, an art collective and record label based in Brooklyn, NY.
The bands interests include disaster, piracy, land use, feedback, distortion, and feedback-laced distortion. For more information check out the bands web site at http://radicaldads.com
ACL Live at the Moody Theater was the place to be for Austin's music industry and for fans as well as the new Austin Music People (AMP) organization launched to a raucous party downtown.
AMP is Austin’ s newest non-profit dedicated to preserving the Austin music culture by working with Austin music businesses, musicians and fans and the list of Austin music businesses and individuals that have already joined is impressive. Headed by Paul Oveisi of Momo's as Executive Director, the list of advisers and board members alone includes music industry notables such as Charles Attal of C3 presents, Frank Hendrix of Emo's, Susan Antone of Antones, and Terry Lickona of Austin City Limits Television among others.
But AMP is as much about the music and the people that enjoy it as it is about the music industry, and AMP not only welcomes but encourages anyone that is a fan of the music scene in Austin to join, its' easy and in fact anyone that bought a ticket online for last nights sold out show is now a member.
Those lucky enough to buy a ticket or wrangle an invite got to sample from a veritable musical banquet of Austin's music offerings, with a variety of artists performing short sets from a number of genres. Ticket holders and guests alike were treated to sets by Ghostland Observatory, Blue October, Alejandro Excovedo, Bavu Blakes and more. Check out all the pictures from last nights show in the photo gallery, and if you like Austin music join AMP and play a part in shaping Austin's music scene.
Steve Miller was once an Austinite, and once a U.T. student, before he blew town for the West Coast in the 60's in search of his fame and fortune. It's probably a good thing he didn't hang around waiting for Austin's music scene to catch up.
The long time Dallas transplant, who spent time on Les Paul's knee learning guitar as a child, returned to Austin last night to be the first artist to tape a set for the internationally known Austin City Limits show in it's new home at the Moody theater.
With a show that interspersed his own hits with standards like "Mercury Blues", Miller and his band transported many concertgoers back in time to the 70's, myself included.
Playing to a "sold out" house, per se, (it appeared the show, like most ACL tapings, was invitation only) the venue was packed by an upscale Austin audience that appeared to include most of Austin's music press, as well as local music industry notables and lots and lots of long time friends of KLRU and ACL. With the floor standing room only, those in the balconies had the better view though the sound quality was excellent not only throughout the house, but even on the P.A. at the street party outside the theater.
This has been a month of firsts for Austin's newest live music venue and it has already gone far to establish itself as one of Austin's best. I hope to be invited back to cover some other ACL tapings but only time will tell.