Music notes
August 29th, 2007
SECRET LIVES! INKS North Carolina dudes sign deal with Victory Records
by Sean Rayford
Asheville’s and Columbia’s favorite posthardcore, metalcore screamo party dudes, Secret Lives of the Freemasons recently inked a new deal with super-label Victory Records after a one record stint with Astromagnetics, an imprint of Eyeball Records (also home to Columbia’s Baumer - see below). The band’s new record will be titled Weekend Warriorsand you can catch a few new demos on their MySpace page. Weekend Warriorswill be the the follow-up to their 2005 This Was Built to Make You Drink - I mean Dance.
HOLY CRAP: NEW BAUMER SONG! Columbia’s live dance party specialists, Baumer have just posted a new song, “In Your Stead” on their PureVolume site from their forthcoming album Were it Not for You. Slated to be the first song on the album drummer Josh Kean explains, “It’s definitely the most epic song on the record.” “This record feels more like a full band than the first one. That’s the vibe there. The last one was more beat oriented which is still there but not the driving force,” says Kean. The band began recording this past February and mastering was finished in May although we’ll have to wait until early ‘08 for the final product from Eyeball Records.
HOLY CRAP: NEW HORSES SONG! Since we’ve been yapping about the potentially next biggest things with ties to the Carolinas, why not move on to Sub Pop’s Band of Horses. In case you’ve been living under that rock by the river near the zoo, singer Ben Bridwell spent a little time at Irmo High and then escaped to the West Coast to form one of the most promising indie rock herds. Well, if you surf on over to yet another MySpace page you can catch the latest from the band, “Is There a Ghost” to be released on Cease to Beginon October 9.
TARHEEL FAN WITH CODESEVEN Former Classic Case vocalist and Tarheels fan Jared Draughon has teamed up with James, Jon, Matt and Eric from the ever soundshifting outfit Codeseven (who totally covered Don Henley’s “Boys of Summer” way better and way before the Ataris did). The new band, dubbed Telescreen recently posted the following message on their MySpace page, “We are finally ready to announce the start of our new project which was in the process of searching for a vocalist and writing songs since last winter. We have a full albums worth of songs written and a lot of it has already been recorded in our new studio.”
HOLY CRAP: PIRATE FEST IV Yes folks its that time of year again. The fourth edition of Pirate Fest prepares to invade the New Brookland Tavern on September 29. Rumors suggest that this year’s event will focus primarily on local and regional acts featuring MikeNPike, Ours to Alibi, Cities Apart, The Letter Red, Maladroit, Jacob & I, Foxes That Fight, This Machine is Me, and possibly a reformation of Then Came the Dawn. Band of Horses vocalist Ben Bridwell got the hell out of
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