All You Cannot Live Without 02.27.06: Not A Daily Source Of Vitamin C
Posted by Ben Czajkowski on 02.27.2006
Alice In Chains are back, but Layne Staley is still dead. Sorry. Adema has a new frontman. The Chili Peppers tour with Kanye West. New Deftones and Pearl Jam. Plus, I flame the flamers in this weeks BCSA, featuring In Flames. All this and more inside!
Prelude to the Media.
Hello, folks, and welcome to another charged edition of All You Cannot Live Without. I don't have much in the way to say about anything about my life except that one of my closest friends was shipped off to Iraq over the weekend. He's going to be doing a tour of 12-18 months, depending. I'm not too happy that he's been deployed, but he's serving this great country, and for that I respect him more than I have ever respected anyone in my entire life. He's going to have to share that respect, though, because another close friend is heading to bootcamp on Tuesday, and she'll be gone for a long time, too. So, if you pray, keep Mike and Laura in your prayers, or if you're like me, and don't, just the occasional thought will work wonders.
Alright, it's been a slow news week in terms of music news, but it's been a huge week in terms of the music that I've picked up. Most of what I've got my hands on has been promo stuff that, if I enjoy, I'll review. So, here's the run down:
The Stuff I Can't Put Down (Like Scott Weiland and His Heroin)
5. Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime II (due out 4/4) Rating (3/5)
4. Katatonia The Great Cold Distance (due out 3/13 Rating (4.5/5)
3. Atreyu - A Death-Grip On Yesterday (due out 3/28) Rating (3/5)
2. Guns N Roses Chinese Democracy (due out uhh, maybe never)
1. Loser - Just Like You (due out 5/9) Rating (3.5/5)
So, lots of new music due out soon. I also picked up a copy of 36 Crazyfists album In the Skin, which, apparently came out way back in 1997. I didn't know that until I saw it and went "that must be mine!" It's a really heavy CD and so much different from A Snowcapped Romance. They've come a long way
Onwards with the program! There's a lot to cover.
My Sweet Little Bitches
Tim O'Sullivan gives us the low-down on the Brit Awards for 2006. Someone got called a fuckface and a twat by someone from Coldplay. Find out who.
Steven Mogan brings us the second installment of the Untouchable Oasis.
Senor Horvath has reviews for the new singles for Thrice, NIN, and Trapt.
Mitch Michaels comes at us with a whole lot of music information you really should read.
Matt Shoemaker dives into the southern United States to dig up bands from Missouri. This is an awesome feature that I've really come to love. Read it or die!
Michael Nalbach brings you the first in many "Now That's What 411 Calls Music". His topic: the best love songs mix. Classy, but he forgot some important love tracks from the 80s.
Taco Tollah brings us the concert update for Europe, which always get the best festivals.
It's All Too Much to Look Up Yourself, So I've Done the Work for You **Bold denotes a new listing/updated release date**
Metal's Dark Side Hard and the Furious Volume 1 (DVD) (out now)
Evans Blue The Melody And The Energetic Nature of Volume (out now)
Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am That's What I Am Not (out now)
Various Artists - Black Days: Midwest Movement Tribute to Soundgarden out now)
Wicked Wisdom Wicked Wisdom (out now)
Trivium Ascendancy (Re-release) (CD/DVD) (2/27 Europe only)
Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely (2/28)
Kid Rock Live Trucker (2/28)
Liv Kristine Enter My Religion (3/3)
Mogwai - Mr. Beast (3/6)
Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders - Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders (3/7)
Mindless Self Indulgence Straight to Video: The Remixes (3/7)
Katatonia The Great Cold Distance (3/13)
Type O Negative Symphony For the Devil (DVD) (3/14 US, 3/20 Europe)
Run-DMC Checks, Thugs and Rock'n'Roll (3/14)
Faktion Faktion (3/21)
Hurt - Vol. 1 (3/21)
My Chemical Romance - Life on the Murder Scene (3/21)
Norma Jean O' God the Aftermath (Re-release) (3/21)
From First to Last Heroine (3/21)
Live - Songs from Black Mountain (3/21) Boysetsfire The Misery Index; Notes from the Plague Years (3/21) Megadeth Arsenal of Megadeth (3/21)
Soil True Self (3/27 Europe)
Atreyu A Deathgrip on Yesterday (3/28)
Rob Zombie - Educated Horses (3/28)
Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime II (3/31 Europe, 4/4 US)
Lacuna Coil Karmacode (3/31 Europe, 4/3 UK, 4/4 US)
Goo Goo Dolls - Let Love In (4/4)
Blue October Foiled (4/4)
NearLY Reminder (4/11)
MTV Headbangers Ball The Revenge (4/11)
Eagles of Death Metal Death By Sexy (4/11)
Silent Civilian - Rebirth of the Temple (4/18)
Jane's Addiction - The Best of Jane's Addiction (4/18)
Hoobastank Every Man For Himself (4/18)
The Dresden Dolls Yes, Virginia (4/18)
Godsmack IV (4/25) Tool Elephtheria or Aldaraia; nothing officially confirmed (4/25 or 5/2?)
Soil True Self (5/2 US) Pearl Jam Untitled, So Far (5/2) DimeVision Vol. 1: That's the Fun I Have (Dimebag Tribute DVD) (5/2)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium (5/8 UK, 5/9 US)
Loser Just Like You (5/9)
Mushroomhead Untitled, So Far (6/6)
Zao The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here (6/13)
Seemless Untitled, So Far (6/27)
Walls Of Jericho Untitled, So Far (7/25)
The Low Down on the Underground
I decided to integrate this part with the other news section that dealt with bands who weren't really doing much but there was still news for them. I think that I can integrate the two sections together. If anyone is partial to me having the column in the prior format, I will switch it back. Otherwise, let's get started.
So, I was coming back from Applebee's the other night, and I was going through my friend's iPod, and I happened upon Finch, which I haven't listened to in a while. So, I put on a few tracks, and I wondered quietly to myself, I wonder when they're going to put out some new stuff. Well, here's my answer: Finch has officially announced that they are set to go on an "indefinite hiatus". Members are said to be currently working on other projects. Well fuck a duck.
According to Tower Records Japan and HMV Japan, the new Tool album is scheduled for release in Japan on May 10. However, nothing is certain yet. The band and label have yet to confirm anything or announce a release date. Even though the members of Tool have already begun giving press interviews to promote the new CD, no official album title or track listing has yet been announced. A couple weeks ago, I reported on one of the rumors. More of them have the title set to Aldaraia and a target U.S. release date of May 2. These reports have yet to be corroborated by an official source. Tool have lined up a bunch of European festival appearances this summer, but the band's only scheduled U.S. concert thus far is slated for April 30 at the Coachella Festival in Indio, California.
Umm, yeah. The Red Hot Chili Peppers are hoping to tour with none other than Jesus himself, Kanye West. I really cannot say that I'm surprised (more annoyed than anything) because, if you recall, RHCP toured with Snoop Dogg a few years ago. Fortunately, though, if this tour does go through with West, we won't see them in our arenas until August, and the stint would run through the winter.
After one European tour and 2 weeks into their tour with Bleeding Through and Every Time I Die, Haste the Day has made temp vocalist Stephen Keech a permanent fixture. Stephen replaces Jimmy Ryan as the lead singer after Ryan made his decision to depart the band after the December 31, 2005 show in Indianapolis. His decision to leave was strictly personal and was amicable. Haste the Day became aware of Keech in early 2005 through his involvement in bands locally in Denver Colorado. When Jimmy Ryan's decision to depart was made known internally, the search began and Keech's name was one of the first to come up. After several discussions and much thought were put forth, Keech was asked to join the band for a 3 week European tour in January of 2006. After two weeks of tour in the U.S. Haste the Day announced on stage in Denver Colorado, Keech's permanent addition to the band.
Adema is going the way of Drowning Pool. What I mean to say is that the band is picking up a new singer ever album it seems. Most recently, Adema reportedly picked up vocalist Bobby Reeves (Level). If you remember correctly, the band's second vocalist, Luke Caracciolli left the band back in October. As much as everyone said they really enjoyed Adema's Planets (which featured Caracciolli). I, however, cannot get past the attachment I had to the style of Jonathan Davis' half-brother and original vocalist Marky Chavez. The band currently has new material written and is ready to record in the near future.
Whatever is left of Alice in Chains is set to hit the road this summer, which will mark their first tour since vocalist Layne Staley's death in 2002 from a drug overdose. However, the big kicker is that this is still just a hyped rumor. The band has no new material, no solid frontman, and probably not an entirely large amount of funding to actually head onto the road. However, to test the waters, the band will play March 10 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and on June 28th at the Nova Rock Festival in Austria. Call Of The Wild singer William DuVall will serve as the lead singer. "We're making it up as we go along," band member Jerry Cantrell explained. "It's what we always did in the past. We're writing the book as we live it. We feel confident that we will have a good time and that it's something that will live up to the same level. It's an exploratory thing, and we're just having fun with it. We'd like to go out and play for the people that supported us and love the music as much as we have all these years. We want to celebrate what we did and the memory of our friend."I just felt Layne roll over in his grave, proverbially. I don't need 1000 people emailing me, telling me that he was cremated. Take notice of the qualifying word.
She Wants Revenge recently announced that they are going out on tour with one of their biggest music influences Depeche Mode. They will play about a month of dates together, ranging from the end of April till the end of May. I just finished a CD review for She Wants Revenge, and pending review and approval, it should go live sometime this week on the site.
Dimebag Darrell just got a little more famous, but he's still not alive. I refer to the DVD that is due out as a tribute DVD that is due out in early May through Big Vin Records. The title for the release will be: "DimeVision Vol. 1: That's the Fun I Have." The trailer can be seen online by clicking here and looks like Jackass with a big fucking guitar solo to open and close it.
Dry Kill Logic frontman recently checked in from the studio to update the masses on the album. He promises that the album will feature a mix of gospel, 80s new wave, and all the dance you could possibly want from this metal band You're probably thinking, What the fuck? And I'm going to tell you that Chuck is joking, and you're going to keep reading like the good reader that you are. However, he did offer these serious details: "All jokes aside though, the writing is coming along great - the new music is definitely aggressive, and the guys have really been stepping up the riffs, songwriting and musicianship. Hopefully I don't drop the ball with the vocals and lyrics. We're really excited for you all to hear the new music!..But here is the BIG NEWS: Brendan Duff, our longtime friend and former member of 100 Demons and A Thousand Falling Skies, has joined DKL as our new bassist!" With the completed lineup, the band is set to put the finishing touches on their next disc.
Mistakes are being made always, and I think this is definitely one of them. This is just completely fucking asinine. I'm accepting of a lot of things, but I just cannot wrap my mind around this. VH1, as of this past week, is currently recording its new reality TV show Supergroup. This monstrosity will bring Ted Nugent, Scott Ian (Anthrax), Sebastian Bach (Skid Row), Evan Seinfeld (Biohazard), and Jason Bonham (Bonham, UFO). Seven episodes of the series will air starting May 18 and will feature this crew enduring boot camp training from iconic rock manager Doc McGhee. This will all be in preparation for a concert in the Las Vegas club Rain. Says Scott Ian, the guitarist for Anthrax, had this to say, "I'm in love with Ted. We wrote a song and I got to show Ted how to play a riff I wrote. Insane. The house is ridiculous. If Liberace took a dump and it was a house it would be this one. This place makes Trump's place look tasteful! It has a bowling alley!!! We've been jamming non-stop." The new band members have not committed to staying together beyond the filming of the show, but plans to record a single are being discussed.
The Deftones have finished work on their new album. Everyone that thought they were done when Chino went and did the stuff with his side project Team Sleep is wrong. Just because his vocal chords are still not the same as they were before didn't stop drummer Abe Cunningham from saying that this album is going to be "a very complete record and has all the extremes that we like to see. I'd say it's kind of hard." The new album is expected out in the late spring, early summer. Among the many tracks being considered ifor the new album is "Beware of the Water", which the band may drop into its headlining set on the Taste of Chaos tour.
Kid Rock's was in court recently, but for once, a rock star wasn't the defendant. Recently, World Wide Red Light District, the crazy porn company that put out Paris Hilton's boring sex tape (yeah, I fell asleep watching it), has been posting trailers on the net for the newest sex tape (which I talked about last week) that features Kid Rock and former Creed and Jesus freak Scott Stapp sexin' up some bitches in a tour bus back in 1999. Kid Rock won his initial attempt to block the company's releasing the tape, but the company insists that it is doing nothing wrong. Here's an idea: showing the world Stapp's penis is going to bring about the end of the world. Don't do it!
New music from Pearl Jam will be hitting radio on March 14th in the format of the track entitled "World Wide Suicide." WWS will be the first single from their still untitled J Records debut. The album is scheduled for a May 2nd release. You can stream a 15 second clip of WWS and waste your bandwidth at this locale.
My closing piece of news reads a bit like this, actually exactly like this: Fall Out Boy have finished writing their next album. When will you see it though? Probably early 2007. That's right, Fall Out Boy is finishing the current leg of the tour their on and then will enter the recording studio this summer. Patrick Stump, the bands guitarist (is it bad that I just laughed at the misfortune of his last name?) says that the damn thing is written, and they're probably going to continue to sound like Fall Out Boy. Good, because I was worried that they were going to come out of the studio and sound like motherfucking Slipknot. Heh, then maybe I'd actually listen to them. But I don't, and I'll continue not to. I just report this because I know you cannot live without this little blurb of information. Now, read the Listener's Lounge and like it!
The Listeners' Lounge
The Listeners' Lounge this week is packed with three bands that you really should listen to, and I've provided some ways in which to do so. Don't be afraid of change; embrace it.
Dissinagrace I found when I was trolling some music website that I frequent. I have to say, wow, these guys fucking rock. They have a four song EP that is completely free to download. You can do that the band's myspace site. The details are there. I've been listening to the tracks nonstop. I really love the track "Good Morning, Beautiful." Dissinagrace is definitely worth checking out. Highly recommended. More on them, definitely, in a later date.
Level is another band I picked up from myspace, the new place for music. If you like Lost Prophets, you're going to like them. Level definitely has a whole new, higher level of attitude. The track is "Infrared" is fucking awesome to headbang a bit to. I also recommend downloading "Brand New Thing," which is a fucking sweet rock song. Strongly recommended.
10 Years sounds like how long this band has been around for, or, at least, that's how they sound. 10 Years is currently on tour with Korn and Mudvayne, and they're making quite a lasting impression on the music scene. Their first single "Wasteland" tore up the modern rock radio charts and turned it into a wasteland. Ha. Ha. I made a pun. Seriously, though, the video they put out for it definitely made a deep, lasting impression. It's a somber social commentary on all the things that go on outside of America. The video for it can be streamed here. The video touched me a bit, and I don't even have a soul. Imagine what you would think. Also, they've released their second single from the acclaimed The Autumn Effect. Entitled "Through the Iris", this song definitely exhibits the band's talent more than any other track on the album. It's a fantastic piece of music, and I rate it 4.5/5. High recommend looking into it.
< Rant > This Week's Benjamin Czajkowski Stamp of Approval (BCSA) Goes To
This week, I am proud to award In Flames the BCSA. The definitely deserve it for their work on their latest release Come Clarity, which came out a few weeks back this Tuesday. Every week, when I'm doing research, I frequent Blabbermouth.net, which is where I retain a fraction of what I report. Blabbermouth allows people to comment on the news stories that are posted, out of the kindness of their soulless, black, metal-loving hearts. And I have this to say about people who have torn a new one towards In Flames and the idea of them "selling out."
Let me just go on recording saying that I'm SO FUCKING sick of these puissant cum-guzzlers claiming bands like In Flames sell out. How can you prove that fucking sold out? Are you in charge of all their financing? So their music style has changed since their first album? Who gives a fuck if they're putting out quality-fucking music? There's nothing wrong with a band changing their style throughout their career. MUSIC IS A PROCESS OF EVOLUTION! I'm not much of a fan of In Flames before Whoracle, which was released in 1997, but everyone that is calling them "sell outs" is just fucking retarded. It makes you sound like a goddamn snob or a poser yourself.
Use your fucking head once in a while. In Flames deserved almost 10 years ago, but all you mallgoths were too busy listening to Sublime and Rage Against the Machine and cutting yourselves.
I mean, look at the fucking chart numbers. "Come Clarity" first-week chart positions:
Sweden: #1
Finland: #1
Rock & Metal Top 40: #2
Germany: #6
Top 50 Independent Albums: #7
Norway: #16
Canada: #17
Austria: #27
Denmark: #52
U.S.: #58
U.K.: #67
"Come Clarity" has taken over the #1 position on the CMJ Loud Rock and FMQB Metal Detector charts, as well as the CMJ Loud Rock Select Albums, Mediaguide Metal Specialty Albums and Mediaguide Metal Specialty Songs charts, respectively. So, how about giving credit where fucking credit is due. I think the population knows well enough when they're being duped by posers, and I don't think this album is In Flames posing as anything.
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It's A Problem to Just Quit, So I'll End With This
As always, I'm on Myspace, not yours. Check it out. Until next time: peace, love, and a little pessimism.
I just want to remind you of one last point: support the Fine Arts: Shoot a Rapper.BC
