Hulk SMASH

Oh the unfairness of it all.

Last year I got turned on to a new-ish band called Rogue Wave and quickly purchased their two albums - and they were on SubPop: bonus. Then news reaches me that they have signed to Brushfire records and have a new one due soon. I got so excited I posted about it recently and even stuck up a video.

Today I was looking something unrelated up and found that the new Rogue Wave album was released this week. Only according to my normal online shops for cd's - play and hmv - it doesn't even exist. No listing at all, not even in the up-coming releases. Yet they have listings for the soon to be released Band of Horses. Weird. Only amazon had a listing and they wanted £15 and two-three weeks for delivery. What?! So, I check the band site and myspace pages and the labels site - all of which state that the album dropped on the 18th. Apparently it's available on i-tunes too. Wait... no, it's not. It's only available on the U.S i-tunes. Same story for the Eddie Vedder solo record which, a quick search reveals has a later UK release to the the U.S... perhaps this is the case with the Rogue Wave album. But.. why??? It makes no sense. And why don't the sites give this information or are they just assuming nobody in the U.K buys Rogue Wave albums. Pretty fucking stupid approach if you ask me.

In other news I attended half a gig last night. I saw the first band and then watched Scott do his breakcore/dance/laptop-electro experiment infront of a room full of hardcore bands and scene kids and left. Instead I went home seeking inspiration and watched my DVD of A Film about Jimi Hendrix. Suitably inspired I spent a joyous hour playing my guitar through headphones and fuzzy distortion - though I didn't use my teeth at any point - and have spent the morning listening to the three ..Experience albums while working. Oh, and getting frustrated over the whole Rogue Wave thing...