The New Music Friday Vol. 41

- Managed to hit up the SFH/Sneaky Castro's at sneaky Dee's last night. SFH played pretty good, with bass player Warren Kinsella taking over the vocal duties for most of the songs. I slipped on the streetcar on the way home and broke the bell cable. We'll have some pics up later.
UPDATE: Some selected pictures are up on Warren's site.

- Smashing Pumpkins are back together- more or less. Billy Corigan and Melissa Auf Der Maur (rawr) have been working together on material that will form the new album. Look for something at the end of the year.

- Thursday's new album (as yet untitled) will be hitting stores May 2nd.

- 2006 will be the year of the festival. New festivals (to us at least) are Download and Bonnaroo 2006. And lets not forget Warped Tour '06, Lollapaloza, Taste of Chaos and the half dozen others.

Download Festival will feature The Prodigy, Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine. Bonnaroo's list is huge, including Radiohead, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, Bright Eyes, Son Volt, Blue's traveler, Medeski Martin and Wood and many more.

- From Truth Explosion Magazine:
Julien Temple, who put together the Sex Pistols documentary The Filth & the Fury, has begun work on a new movie about the life and career of the late Joe Strummer (The Clash). Billboard.com reports that "via a slew of archival audio and video footage, interviews donated by journalists and recordings of Strummer's BBC Radio show, the Clash legend will essentially narrate the film." The full article can be found HERE.

- This week's (and next's) new releases include new albums by Bigwig, Bracket, and Mastodon(!).

The podcast should be done tonight to tomorrow and up by Saturday, so stay tuned!