The Fall news

Credited with helping school that was ‘mess’ by Bill Gates     The Sparrows Point  High athletics department will start up in the fall without one of its biggest fans.     Oh, and the school needs  a new principal, too.     Sparrows Point High principal Robert Santa-croce announced his retirement earlier this month after 10 years at the school and 36 years in education.   

Odd Future Records has signed Sacramento hardcore bashers Trash Talk to their roster. The band will release a new album, 119 , in the fall via Odd Future Records and the band's own Trash Talk Collective label. Here's a press release written by OFWGKTA associate L-Boy: Odd Future Records signs hardcore punk act Trash Talk as told by Odd Future's own L-Boy. So them muthafu***** ova at Odd Future ...

Thirty years since The Smiths formed in Manchester, a new exhibition featuring the work of photographer Kevin Cummins is to open in London. Proud Camden presents Manchester: So Much To Answer For is a retrospective of the shots Cummins took of the legendary band, the city that influenced their music and the Madchester scene that followed in the wake of the Smiths' spilt in 1987.

Remembering the fall - Memorial Day events Elgin 8 a.m. – The members of the Elgin American Legion will assemble at the Veterans Memorial Community Building. Members will split into two groups at that time.

Photo by Chris Tuite The Shins are about to kick off a fairly extensive summer tour in support of their latest album, Port of Morrow . Today, the band added more dates to their busy schedule for the fall. Check them out, as well as the video for "The Rifle's Spiral", below. The Shins: 05-29 Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheater 05-31 Council Bluffs, IA - Harrah's Council Bluffs * 06-01 ...

A petition submitted to the Tooele County Clerk’s Office by a group of Stansbury High School band parents that would put a proposed noise ordinance change on the fall ballot to allow the SHS marching band to begin playing music at 6 a.m. is short of the required signatures.

In the fall of 2007, after years of honing his skills in the Columbus DIY scene, Ahmed Gallab launched his solo project, Sinkane. Though he had drummed for hardcore darlings Sweetheart and electronic experimentalists Pompeii, This Morning, this new band aimed to synthesize the expansive sounds that surged through Gallab’s consciousness — Afrobeat, krautrock, free jazz and the like.

Remembering the fall - Memorial Day events Elgin 8 a.m. – The members of the Elgin American Legion will assemble at the Veterans Memorial Community Building. Members will split into two groups at that time.

Singer Kym Hawkins is moving to New York in the fall to begin a graduate poetry program at Sarah Lawrence College. Until then, though, the band plans to play as much as possible to support their brand-new EP, Buffalo! .

Summer is weeks away, but the fall book season has already started.

Last summer, freshman Otis Wynn was just hoping he'd be chosen to play in the King High Marching Band. Now, the former Spain Middle School student is the drum major and practicing for the Summer Olympics. "I'm so excited about going to London this year," he said. "I've fundraised since the fall of last year."