The Soundtrack of Our Lives will be on MTV's Last Call with Carson Daly on January 15. The show tapes Wednesday evening at 30 Rockefeller Center in NYC so email lastcallaudience@nbc.com with "TSOOL" as the subject line and your full name, phone number and number of tickets you want. It's free, but first come-first served so get on it fast if you're in the area.
Isolation Years have completed work for their new album and they say it'll be out in March. Eleven new songs, but no title just yet. The band also filmed two videos this month, so be on the lookout for that as well.
Check out the best of 2002 lists from the folks over at Promopop.
Remember a-ha? They've got a new album coming out in March called "How Can I Sleep With Your Voice In My Head".
Jonas Quant just signed a record contract with Dot/MNW in Sweden and will be putting out an album shortly. Also, his group Gonky Business with Andreas Saag will be putting out a 12" on the label Naked Music out of San Francisco.
Thomas Rusiak has got a new album coming out in February called "In the Sun". The first single for the song "Spinning" drops in January. Read more here. (in Swedish)
Blindside gets to support Papa Roach on their upcoming US tour. Good for them. I remember way back when Papa Roach was more of a ska-punk band and they had a percussionist. My old band played one of our first shows with them, in fact. One of my friends supposedly has their old demo tape, too. As for Sweden's Blindside - I've never heard them, but I guess they got signed with help from POD and they sound kinda nü-metal. Maybe you dig that stuff, but not me.
I guess I neglected to mention it, but I wrote up a review for the album "Protect Us From What We Want" from Thirdimension. Yeah, it's old, old news for you folks in Sweden, but it just got a US release through Parasol so maybe you should check it out. It didn't totally blow me away, but it's good - very well produced and recorded, that's for sure. If you like TSOOL you should check it out for sure.