Dreamworks apparently will be bought by Universal Music Group and folded into the Interscope, A&M group. Given that RISE AGAINST, BRAND NEW, SAVES THE DAY, and AFI are all apart of the DW roster (some more involved than others at this point), I’m curious to see how this plays out.

The new Ferret Records site is rather sweet looking, and there’s a strong incorporation of multimedia content. Woo!

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It’s barely been a month since I had first heard of 36 CRAZY FISTS, but in that time frame, I’ve done almost nothing but talk about them. The strange thing is – this is not a band that’s easy to describe, as opposed to most hardcore bands that fall into neat and easy categories. If [...]

According to an article in Wired today, the U.S. Copyright Office approved four new exceptions for legal circumvention in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, the most important being one’s ability to “bypass a digital lock to access lists of websites blocked by commercial filtering companies.” Researchers into this area were being extensively hamperred in efforts to analyze the effectiveness of Internet filters in determining what “benign” material was being censored in the process, and what sites were getting unncessarily blacklisted (and thus unaccessible from many public facilities). Unfortunately, the one exemption that I was following closely, allowing a person to “defeat copy-protection technology on CDs that do not play in certain devices, like PCs, in order to make them play,” was denied by the Copyright Office. Although the pros and cons of such an exemption are complicated, all I know is that I have a stack of copy-protected CDs sitting here that arrived for review, of which I can do nothing to since they play correctly in neither my home stereo, my portable music player, or my PC. www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,60996,00.html

Defendant’s diaper bag labelled ‘Gucchi Goo’ was held to injure Gucci’s highly reputable mark.

Another entry into the “”this press release does not suck”" category:

Tired of Nu-Metal? Are you over today’s cookie-monster rock currently saturating your rock airwaves? Does the bald dude from Disturbed freak you out? Never fear, help is on the way! Spend your holiday season with 80′s giants like LA Guns, Faster Pussycat and Warrant as they barrel through Christmas classics like “”Run Rudolph Run”" (by Chuck Berry), “”I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,”" “”Santa’s Back in Town, “” and many more.

We Wish You a Hairy Christmas is guaranteed to be a retro-classic winner at any holiday party so crank it up!

Track Listing

Father Christmas – Warrant

Naughty Naught Christmas – Danger Danger

Happy Holiday – Enuff Z’ Nuff

Run Rudolph Run – L.A. Guns

Everyday Should Be Like Christmas – Bullet Boys

Jingle Bell Rock – Tuff feat. Stevie Rachelle

Won’t Be Home for Xmas – Every Mother’s Nightmare

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – Gilby Clarke

Happy Family – Pretty Boy Floyd

Santa’s Back in Town – Toxx Gang

Silent Night – Faster Pussycat feat. Taime Down

FOR CONSUMERS WHO HATE: Nu-Metal, Slipknot, Korn, Disturbed, Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit

FOR CONSUMERS WHO LOVE: 80′s Metal! Hair Rock! Teased Up Hair! Poison, Guns n’ Roses, Faster Pussycat, L.A. Guns

SPANDEX, TEASED HAIR, ACID-WASHED JEANS ALL WELCOME!!!

1. IN MY EYES – Nothing To Hide

2. GIVE UP THE GHOST – Background Music

3. SCRAPS AND HEART ATTACKS – Still Sick

4. SICK OF IT ALL – Blood, Sweat, No Tears

5. THE PROMISE – Believer

Some bands exhibit “potential” right from the start. With their second full-length, and first for Eulogy in late 2000, THIS DAY FORWARD showed off some killer talent with their release, “The Transient Effects of Light on Water.” That disc was on honest metalcore blasting, full of sick timing changes, fresh vocals and guitar work that [...]