Stone Sour

Stone Sour

Side projects are apples that rarely fall far from the tree, and Corey Taylor's Stone Sour originally came off as Slipknot-lite. Come What(ever) May is still earmarked by the masked metal outfit, but it allows the band to stand as a sovereign entity. The album offers much more space than their debut, both melodically and instrumentally, instead of...
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Come What(ever) May

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Feeling the need to take off the mask and get a little more melodic, Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor has reanimated his old band (they broke up when he hightailed it to The Big SK), Stone Sour, for another kick at the can. Apparently the screaming and prison-issue overalls just weren’t letting him express his true self, whereas this band (that no-...
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I Read The News Today... For June 3, 2011

Thrice are returning with a new record dubbed Major/Minor on Sept. 20. It's described as "entirely different" than their last album, which is a relief because if a band literally released the same record over and over again, that'd be kind of, you know, awkward. Angry at mom and dad? Got a lot of xxxaggro bullshitxxx to take out on people you'll...
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I Read The News Today... For May 18, 2011

Next major trend: orchestras playing indie rock. Case in point: The Jingle Punks Hipster Orchestra. Watch them do The Black Keys' "Tighten Up" and MGMT's "Time To Pretend." Not only are Devo playing North By Northeast this year, with a free show at Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square on June 18, but they'll head out to the 'burbs...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 31, 2011

Nova Scotia's Juno Award-nominated rapper Classified will release his Hand Shakes And Middle Fingers album on March 22 through Sony. He's also announced a tour for O-O-O Canada that'll take place in March and April. —classifiedofficial.com The Toronto Star takes a look at the decline of the turntable. DJ Kool Herc, who basically founded hip-hop,...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 27, 2011

Toronto's Dinosaur Bones will release their My Divider debut album on March 8 through Dine Alone. It was produced by Jon Drew, who's handled discs by Tokyo Police Club, Fucked Up and Arkells, so hopefully it'll be pretty good. Born Ruffians have just announced a Canadian tour that'll take place from mid-March to early April. They're out in support...
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Statues Stolen From Slipknot Bassist's Grave

You know what isn't cool? Stealing from a dead person. Stealing from their grave? That's even less cool. The family and friends of late Slipknot bassist Paul Gray placed some gargoyle and Buddha statues at his grave and they've been stolen. "We ask that whoever did this please return the items no questions asked," the band wrote in a MySpace post...
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Slipknot Frontman Putting Out Book About Seven Deadly Sins

Greed. Pride. Lust. Envy. Gluttony. Sloth. Wrath. These are the Seven Deadly Sins — or the Capital Vices or Cardinal Sins, depending on what you want to call them. Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor happens to know a lot about them — and no, that's not because he's a "sinner" or anything some fundamentalist might say....
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I Read The News Today... For June 9, 2010

Coolio decided it would be a great idea to get a Juggalo tattoo on his arm. Unfortunately, he didn't look up how to spell "Juggalo" before getting it. —TMZ The Sea And Cake will support Broken Social Scene on their upcoming North American fall tour. Now you Pitchfork types have even more reason to go. —Arts & Crafts Nelly Furtado...
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Stone Sour's Come What(ever) May Coming In Special Edition

Stone Sour's gold-certified Come What(ever) May will get the deluxe reissue treatment by Roadrunner on June 26. The new version features the original record plus six previously unreleased tracks, including an acoustic cover of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" that was recorded at Vancouver's Armoury Studios for local radio station 99.3 The...
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New Releases: DMX Takes Break From Arrests To Release His Dog

It seems like, every few weeks, DMX finds some way to get thrown in jail for 70 days or so. In one of the interims, he found time to record Year Of The Dog... Again. Now the test will be if he can he stay out of the can long enough to promote it. Find out when it hits store shelves this week. Towers Of London feature a lot of hair and screaming...
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