H&F Week Four

The week of Thursday, July 23rd, 2009.

Each week I will be bringing you three things that failed or continue to fail, followed by three things that should be hailed for their current or continuing awesomeness.

Ya dig?

Fails

3. Daughtry (the band, not the person... yes, there's a difference) recently commented to MTV news that they believed they avoided the so-called "sophomore slump" with their new album Leave this Town. Daughtry (the person, not the band) was quoted as saying, "We put a lot of heart, soul and tears into this record..." (Source.) And he, along with Daughtry (the band, not the person) were ecstatic that the record's first single "No Surprise" has already reached number one. I guess it's easy to know that your second album will do well after your first album went multi-platinum. After all, they're virtually the same record.

2. Adam Yauch, better known as MCA of the Beastie Boys, recently revealed that he was diagnosed with a very rare (as in, less than 1% rare) type of cancer which attacks the salivary glands. The Boys have since pushed back their newest album, Hot Sauce Committee Part 1, release date and cancelled a string of tour dates. Their publicist was quoted as saying the cancer was "very treatable" if caught early, which his was, and so perhaps Beastie fans can rest easy knowing that MCA will pull through this. Get well soon.

1. Snape kills Dumbledore.

Hails

3. Bay-area sextet Set Your Goals will be on Alternative Press's fall tour, entitled The Fall Ball, beside The Secret Handshake, You Me at Six, The Mayday Parade, and The Acadamy Is... I don't really care about all of the latter, but this will have to do until SYG gets on Warped. Tour dates found here.

2. HORSE the Band have announced their new album, Desperate Living, will be released on October 6th. It will be their first album on Vagrant Records. But, who cares? HORSE the Band freakin' rule, and the new album has a track entitled "HORSE the Song." Freakin. Awesome.

1. Between the Buried and Me have announced a new album release, set for October 27th, 2009. The band's fifth album, titled The Great Misdirect, will include 6 tracks, two tracks shorter than Colors (Victory 07), but will probably be just as long and twice as epic. Tommy Rogers, frontman, stated that this record includes "some of the best material we've ever created" (source). The track listing can be found at the same source.