I’ve decided to do it. I’m going to conduct interviews with former members of “Classic” bands to get their input on the scene past and present as well as letting us know what they’re up to today. Some members/bands I have on my short list include Unashamed, Focused, Plankeye/Fanmail. Those are it for now. If I think of some other bands or someone gives me some contact info, I’ll do an additional interview. These will be really good reads guaranteed.

I was wrong in a previous post. Relient K will be playing on Conan O’ Brien this Friday March 2nd.

Go listen to “Baby Maybe” by acoustic heart-throbs The Apathy Eulogy.

Zambooie is offering some killer CD/Shirt Packages for new albums from The Chariot, Life in Your Way, and Maylene & The Sons of Disaster. Click each below for their respective pages:

The Chariot CD/Shirt

Maylene & The Sons of Disaster CD/Shirt

Life In Your Way CD/Shirt

According to Cinematical……

They are going to remake Weekend at Bernies. Oh man, no comment.

Scanners will be re-made as well.

Cabin Fever will get a sequel. Another “Oh man”.

Brad Pitt’s company will be producing the film adaptation of “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”. No word on if Brad will be starring in the film yet. This actually sounds cool.

Star Trek XI will hit theaters on Christmas Day 2008. JJ Abrahms (Lost/Alias) is set to direct the feature. This leak details potential actors that are being looked at who will be playing the roles of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Sulu. [cinematical.com]

Blender has written a short article on Between the Trees and you can read that here. You can stream their new single at the end of the article. [absolutepunk.net]

In celebration of Anberlin’s new disc, I thought I’d dig up the last interview I did with Stephen Christian. You can read it here. Remember people, this interview is almost a year old.

Bloodlined Calligraphy is heading out on tour with Cassius, This Moment, and Of Hearts and Shadows starting in March. [decoymusic.com]

Quick and the Dead have posted up yet another new song to their myspace page.

Josh’s favorite band, He Is Legend, are going out on tour with Olympia and Classic Case starting at the beginning of April. For dates and stuff, click here. [absolutepunk.net]

The new Almost track “I Mostly Copy Other People” is now up on myspace. What do you think so far?

Anberlin sold 40,000 copies of “Cities” last week according to HitsDailyDouble. [absolutepunk.net]. That’s a big opening. Is this bigger than the “Never Take Friendship Personal” first week?

Stavesacre announced they are coming to a close after 11 years of some of the most interesting and profound rock music to come out of our scene. They are working on a final DVD and some new music before they do their final bow. Look for a few shows probably in the area as the band plays out their last. You will be missed.

Read about it here. Check out a b-side track on their myspace.

P.O.D, This Providence, and Amber Pacific will be featured on the new soundtrack to the hot looking film, TMNT. Movie releases on March 23rd, not sure when the soundtrack comes out. Other bands on the soundtrack include, Cobra Starship, Cute Is What We Aim For, Gym Class Heroes, Billy Talent, Ever We Fall, Meg and Dia, Jet, Pepper, and Big City Rock.

While we are on the subject of this film, be sure to check out the website for the game version of the movie.

The new album from the band, Dizmas titled “Tension” hits stores on May 22nd via Credential Records. You can listen to new songs from the band here.

Classic metal band, Bloodgood, have reunited to tour and record a new album. The band hopes to have the new album out in 2007. Oz Fox of Stryper fame has joined the band as well and will record with them. They will also be headlining the HM Stage at Cornerstone Festival this year!! [jesusfreakhideout.com]

Flatfoot 56 have finished recording their Flicker full length “Jungle of the Midwest Sea” which will be out on May 15th via Flicker Records. The band will tour with Angel City Outcasts and Born to Lose, in March.

The Fold will be playing half of this year’s Warped Tour. Their new album “Secrets Make You Sick” hits stores on May 22nd via Tooth and Nail. [absolutepunk.net]

Apparently James Cameron hasn’t read the same Bible we all read and base our Faith on. According to this article, James is releasing a documentary that challenges the belief we share in the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ even going so far as to say that Jesus had a wife and son. I swear, if people believe in this junk, the end times aren’t far behind. I guess James is a savvy businessman and he knows what will generate press and ultimately more cash in his pocket. Whatever, I just had to vent.

I was cruising in the car yesterday on the drive home from work and I noticed a familiar song come on over the speakers. I took a double take at the screen and sure enough it was The Almost. This is on the main alternative sirius satellite station that plays all the big bands. If it’s on there, other major stations aren’t far off. If this project takes off and is bigger than Underoath, what does that say for the future of our favorite metalcore(or whatever you want to call Underoath) band?

Josh created a new “Links” page for us. So in addition to all of our links on the left hand side, you can now view more here.

Entice have  a bunch of local shows coming up, most notably at BB Kings in Los Angeles. Click here for the full list of dates including a stint on the Warped Tour.

Harvest Earth Records is pleased to announce the signing of AXP
(Formally Azariah’s Prayer).  The band will be releasing an album in the
summer of 2007, in the meantime you can check out brand new demo tracks
here. One former member of Josiah/The Unfolding is in this band as well.

You can stream the new Waking Ashland single from Absolutepunk.net by clicking here. “The Well” hits stores nationwide on April 17th via Immortal Records.

Disney is planning on sequels to all their big budget franchise films like Narnia (Three more sequels), Pirates of the Carribean (Fourth+), National Treasure (Third and Fourth) and the soon to be made Prince of Persia game to movie.

Jerry Bruckheimer will develop the next Disney franchise, Prince of Persia, which many of you know as the hit video game.

Rambo 4 will open in May of 2008 with both Slyvester Stallone and Sam Elliot starring.

De Niro will be returning to the “Fockers” franchise with a third movie. It will be titled “Little Fockers”.

J.J. Abrahms will be directing the next Star Trek film after all. The film will follow the younger years of Captain Kirk and Spock.

Talk has already begun on a followup to the smashing hit, Ghost Rider. (I saw it and I thought it was weird).

Warner Bros plans to develop a “Justice League” film for theaters. How can they do this with the Superman and Batman franchises just taking off?

The script for Sin City 2 is already finished.

The Incredible Hulk will film in Toronto Canada this summer for four months. The cast has yet to be announced but will be directed by Louis Leterrier (The Transporter/Unleashed). The film will release in U.S. theaters June 13th, 2008.

James Cameron’s followup to Titanic, Avatar,  will release in theaters Memorial Day Weekend 2009. Signourey Weaver is attached to star.

Indiana Jones 4 is also coming to theaters in 2008. That seems to be a banner year for movies so far.

Ghost Rider took the top spot at the box office again this weekend with a take of $19million putting it at a total of $78million so far. It was a weird film but cool at the same time. Does that make any sense?

[Sources: Darkhorizons.com, Comingsoon.net, Killermovies.com]

This Is Solid State Vol. 6 releases on March 20th and the tracks are in the comments. You can pre-order the album here.

We are streaming an exclusive MEANS track titled “On the Broken” in our music player. We also have tracks up from bands like Anberlin, The Showdown, Dustin Kensrue, Kings to You, Quick and the Dead, The Canvas Waiting, Every New Day, plus classics from bands like Stavesacre, Strongarm, Unashamed, The Blamed, and Ghoti Hook. Make sure to listen all the way to the end. To find out music player just look in your upper left hand corner of the page for the button that says “Click Here for the Music Player”. Click it and it will launch our music player which you will need to click on once again to start playing. I’ll add a few more songs to it in a couple of days once we get the exclusive DEAS VAIL feature running.

Oh and don’t forget, Kings to You will be releasing their new full length on March 18th at their show. It’s titled “The Antidote” and will be available in our store very soon, I promise. I may even offer a pre-order for it.

Woodale have chosen Aaron Marsh of Copeland has the producer for their new full length. [decoymusic.com]

As I mentioned last week Haste The Day posted “Stitches” on Sunday night. This is the second song off of their new album “Pressure The Hinges” which sees release on March 20th. I’m sure the hardcore kids will be upset but don’t worry the whole album isn’t this light. It does show off much more variety in sound though. Review is coming soon.
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Josh has written three new reviews. I’m sorry if this is posted twice but I thought I’d let our fans know:

Anberlin “Cities”

xDeathstarx “We are the Threat”

Phil Joel “Deliberate People”

Read a little info and get a podcast from the creators of the Guitar Hero franchise here. “….explains why the game won’t be out until April 3rd.” What the heck? I have no idea what systems number 3 will be on but I assume it won’t be on the 360 considering number 2 is just hitting that system in April. [gamesradar.com]

Not only is “Burnout Dominator” coming to the PS2 and PSP in March, but it looks as though “Burnout 5″ will be hitting the streets in September on both the Xbox 360 and PS3! That’s rad. Does anyone know what the soundtrack will be on Burnout 5? In the meantime you can buy the soundtrack for Burnout: 3 on Itunes. Yeah it’s kinda old but it has a few cool songs.

Here is my Sunday Hot List for today (what I’m listening to):

Dustin Kensrue
The Showdown
Sophia
Anberlin
Over It
Much the Same
Leeland
Waking Ashland
War of Ages
Denison Marrs
Spoken
Stavesacre
Living Sacrifice
Thrush
Rise Against
Set Your Goals
The Warriors
Lifetime
Craig’s Brother