Jimmy Eat World

For any of us that grew up in the "emo" world of the the last decade, Jimmy Eat World was one of those big bands that we all listened to religiously. And who of us can't remember when we first saw this video with all the scanitly clad beautiful people?

Earlier in the year we were all blessed to have them come out and play a great selection of new and old tunes at the Soundwave festival. To me, the outdoor stage and mixed crowd really let the performance down and I left feeling slightly disenchanted with Jimmy.

But now, with a new album under their collective belts, they are coming out to do a club tour, which will hopefully redeem the Soundwave performance.

Catch them April 9 at the Tivoli. 18+.

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Rumours are abound that other emo heroes, and Soundwave alumni, The Get Up Kids will be supporting. That could make it very interesting, given my love for all thing James Dewees. On my old blog I had a huge rant about his awesomeness, but I lost it in some copyright issues. Too bad. He's the man.

New album goodness!

Hank Williams

Hank Williams is without doubt one of the greatest country artists of all time, even though he died in 1953. And it's good to see his family continue the tradition. His grandson, Hank Williams III continues on with the country goodness. At times. But what I love him for is his crust-hardcore band Arson Anthem, which includes Phil Anselmo of the band Down. I recently discovered their 2008 release and I am madly in love with it.

Apparently their long awaited 2nd album will be out in October and according to Phil:

Phil Anselmo wrote of the new material, “We know the mission is to write unforgiving hardcore inspired by a slew of ‘80s bands ... but the result is its own animal, yet not too terribly removed from the genuine article.”

I'm excited for it.

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Weezer
This is the cover of Weezer's new album:


It will be named Hurley, after Hurley from the TV show Lost. Unfortunately the album has nothing to do with the show. Hopefully it will be a step up from recent Weezer albums though.

Jimmy Eat World
JEW, as they are affectionally known, have a new song on their webpage here. They've been a big miss with me lately, but I kind of like this song.

If you want to hate the way music is today...
Here's the new Good Charlotte song. *shudder*