David ‘Sailor’ Bryant, former leader of My Own Victim and currently fronting Surviving Thalia, has joined Caldera as lead vocalist. His debut with the band will be on September 20 atThe Brewery Thunderdome with Snaked Eyed Savior, Kavehill, Descention and Lucifer Complex.
Record producer Jerry Finn, 39, died on August 21 following a massive brain hemmorhage in July. He was removed from life support on August 9. Finn was the producer for many albums by current performers, including AFI, Bad Religion, Blink-182, Alkaline Trio, MxPx, Rancid, Green Day, Sum 41, The Offspring and Morrissey.
Hatebreed’s publicist sends words that there are four free tracks from the band’s new project posted on their Myspace page. The tracks are as follows:
“This Is Now”
“Destroy Everything”
“I Will Be Heard”
“Live For This”
“All 4 tracks are now posted on the band’s official MySpace page (www.myspace.com/hatebreed) and also on their official website (www.hatebreed.com). The tracks will be available until 8/25/08, after which the EP will be made available on iTunes for purchase.”
Slint’s songs seem to have more legs than would seem reasonable for a band with as thin a discography as Slint, but, hey, that’s why they’re a famous cult band. Now someone has written a scary children’s book around “Good Night Captain.” You can get a PDF of it here. Comments back would be appreciated.
David Grubbs, guitarist with Squirrel Bait, Bastro and Gastr del Sol, will play the Pour Haus on Friday, August 15. Jason Buggof LEO has the phoner.
Over at LEO, Mat Herron drew the short straw to interview Patrick Hallahan of My Morning Jacket, which will be playing the Waterfront on August 16.
Over the last several months, there has been considerable discussion in the music scene about the “Battle of the Bands” shows put on at Headliners by a company calling itself, variously, Jam Solid or Gorilla Productions. The promotion involves getting bands to sell tickets, with the ‘headlining’ band being the one that sells the most tickets, with the announced prizes apparently not actually what they seem and/or not awarded, although this matter has not been clearly investigated. The firm(s) are located in Cleveland or a suburb of Cleveland and are not particularly inclined to return phone calls. A more complete discussion of this is available at the 502Scene board.
Tickets for the LRSFest, set for September 14 on the Waterfront, can be bought online at the WLRS website for $10 from July 7 through July 11, if you are a WLRS.com Freeloader. Otherwise, the general public can buy tickets online for $15 July 14 through 18. Sales at the ticket locations begin on July 19, when you can buy tickets for $25. Day of show tickets are $35, so buy early if you are planning to attend.
The LRSFest lineup is this: Bret Michaels, Theory of a Deadman, Trapt, Saving Abel, Bobaflex, Foundation and Intheclear.
J. L. Puckett had an underwhelmed reaction to the Dave Matthews/Willie Nelson show.