The internet has been savage over the When We Were Young Fest this week as the throwback festival for Emo, Punk, Metalcore and more went on sale yesterday. The festival even added a second day after safe concerns overwhelmed the internet. Many bands seemed to find out they were on the bill, before they knew or confirmed their plan. One such band, Kittie will return to the stage at the fest, based on a post to their socials. The band has not performed since their reunion show at London Music Hall in their native Ontario in 2017, celebrating their documentary Kittie: Origins/Evolutions. The band just celebrated the 22nd anniversary of their debut with an IG live chat with the original four members: Morgan and Mercedes Lander, Fallon Bowman, and Tanya Candler.
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When We Were Young Festival 2022 Books My Chemical Romance, Paramore, AFI, Alkaline Trio, and More
Let’s take it way back to Warped Tour ca. 2004 as When We Were Young Festival has announced their 2022 lineup. A Punk, Emo, and Metalcore kids dream, the lineup includes headliners My Chemical Romance and Paramore. Other bands on the bill include Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional, Taking Back Sunday, The Linda Lindas, Alkaline Trio, Thursday, AFI, Meet Me @ The Altar, Avril Lavigne, Senses Fail, The Wonder Years, ADTR, Ice Nine Kills, Black Veil Brides, Motionless in White, Atreyu, Four Year Strong, Palaye Royale, Acceptance, Anberlin, Knocked Loose, Silverstein, Bright Eyes, Dance Gavin Dance and more are among the bands announced. The festival will take place October 22 at Las Vegas Festival Grounds in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tickets go on sale January 21. Check out the lineup and the ticket link below.
Original Kittie Lineup to Host Instagram Live Chat for the 22nd Anniversary of “Spit”
Kittie’s original lineup — Morgan Lander (guitar, vocals), Mercedes Lander (drums), Fallon Bowman (guitar) and Tanya Candler (bass) — will reunite for an online chat today, JAnuary. 11th, 2022 to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of its 2000 debut album, “Spit”. The band made the announcement on their Instagram account where the chat will take place: “Join us tomorrow on IG Live at 7:30pm EST for a little celebration of the 22nd anniversary of our debut album Spit. We’ll hang out and answer some questions! #iglive #spit #happybirthday #joinus #Kittie”. Largely in active as a touring and recording act for the last 10 years, the band released a career-spanning documentary, “Origins/Evolutions”, which finally saw the light of day in 2018 via Lightyear Entertainment in North America and a live concert video the following year.
Listen to Drowse Cover “Wait And Bleed” by Slipknot
Drowse have put a decidedly electronic spin on the titanic first Slipknot hit song from their 1999 selt-titled debut album, “Wait And Bleed.” The song appears on the forthcoming nu metal comp from The Flenser, Send the Pain Below, attribute to NuMetal and 1990s nostalgia. The comp is only available to on vinyl to subscribers of their Series Three membership club. Previously released covers include tracks by Vile Creature, Chat Pile, and Wreck & Reference. Check it out now!
Disciples of Verity Share Music Video for “I AM I” ft. Joe Gareri
Rock and Metal supergroup Disciples of Verity (DOV) have shared a new official music video for their song “I AM I.” Their debut album Pragmatic Sanction is out now (read our review here)! The band counts Corey Glover (vocalist Of Living Colour and Bowie Experience), George Pond (bass, ex Negative Sky), Corey Pierce (drums, God Forbid), Mark Monjoy (rhythm guitar, Sekond Skyn), and their debut album is out now! The album boasts guest appearances from Phil Demmel (Vio-lence) Morgan Rose (Sevendust), Jeff Loomis (Arch Enemy), Tara McLeod (Kittie), Mike Antine (Majul), JJ Sammataro (Negative Sky), and solo artist Joe Gareri. The band kicked off a mini-tour of the east coast last fall (2019) but had to postpone future tour dates and their record release party until 2021 due to the pandemic. Continue reading
Kittie to Release “Live at the London Music Hall” Next Week on Streaming
Kittie, largely inactive except for legacy projects, will release a new live concert film, Live at the London Music Hall on November 17th, via The Nacelle Company. The concert will appear on all streaming platforms and Apple Music and covers the 2019 reunion/20th-anniversary reunion shows featuring line-ups from multiple eras, this 20th-anniversary reunion show served as the after-party for their career-spanning documentary, Kittie: Origins/Evolutions. The documentary was released in 2018. Watch a behind the scenes clip from Live at the London Music Hall.
The White Swan (Kittie) Shares New Single, New EP Incoming
The White Swan, the atmospheric Sludge band featuring Mercedes Lander of Kittie will release a new EP this fall, Nocturnal Transmission September 18th via War Crime Recordings. Check out the first single and video now, “In Love And Ritual,” at Revolver.
Kittie’s Morgan Lander Teases Winterlvst Project
Kittie frontwoman Morgan Lander has shared a teaser for new project Winterlvst, tentatively due this summer. Check out the teaser below. The band also features Justine ‘Juice’ Ethier (drummer) of Blackguard and Jonathan Lefrancois-Leduc, formerly of Blackguard on keyboards. Kittie released a concert film titled Kittie: Live At The London Music Hall in March 2019. It features footage of the Canadian metal band’s October 27, 2017 20th-anniversary hometown show at the London Music Hall in London, Ontario. The event, which also served as a screening of the long-in-the-making documentary Kittie: Origins/Evolutions, lead to Kittie mainstays Morgan Lander (guitar, vocals) and Mercedes Lander (drums) take the stage with a number of their former bandmates to perform songs from the group’s entire repertoire. Morgan is also a member of Quebec metal band Karkaos, who are working on a new album due this year. Continue reading
Disciples of Verity Share Music Video for “Lying To Myself”, Tour Dates This Week
Rock and Metal supergroup Disciples of Verity (DOV) have shared a new official music video for their new song ‘Lying To Myself’ featuring Phil Demmel of Vio-Lence. The band counts Corey Glover (vocalist Of Living Colour and Bowie Experience), George Pond (bass, ex Negative Sky), Corey Pierce (drums, God Forbid), Mark Monjoy (rhythm guitar, Sekond Skyn), and Danny Puma (lead guitar, Negative Sky) and their debut album is due out in 2020 at a date tbd. Aside from Demmel who shreds all over the new track, the album boasts guest appeances from Morgan Rose (Sevendust), Jeff Loomis (Arch Enemy), Tara McLeod (Kittie), Mike Antine (Majul), JJ Sammataro (Negative Sky) and solo artist Joe Gareri. The band kick off a mini-tour of the east coast this week, with the dates and venues listed below. Watch video for ‘Lying To Myself’ and pre-order the single right now!Continue reading
Disciples Of Verity Share New Lyric Video for “Lying To Myself” featuring Phil Demmel of Vio-Lence
Rock and Metal supergroup Disciples of Verity counts members of Living Colour, God Forbid and Negative Sky among its ranks. The band shared a new single today for the track ‘Lying To Myself’, featuring Phil Demmel of Vio-Lence (ex-Machine Head). This is the second single after their previous track released, ‘Worthy’. Their debut album is due out in 2020 and has a bevy of guests such as Morgan Rose (Sevendust), Phil Demmel (Machine Head), Jeff Loomis (Arch Enemy), Tara McLeod (Kittie), Mike Antine (Majul), JJ Sammataro (Negative Sky) and solo artist Joe Gareri. Watch the lyric video for ‘Lying To Myself’ right now! Continue reading