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What a difference two years and a tragedy make. Hawthorne Heights, one of the premier acts of the emo movement in the past five years, has dropped its 22-month-old lawsuit against Victory Records, which alleged everything from fraud and abuse to breach of contract (Victory countersued for libel, by the way). In fact, the band will release its third studio CD, Fragile Future, on Victory on Aug. 5. Daaang. Now that's a reconciliation, considering the bad blood between Victory and HH and the history of dubious career-advancing actions by both (HH is by no means the first band to accuse the label of, shall we say, adventurous practices). Really, though, it's completely understandable considering what appears to be the catalyst for the reunification: the death of guitarist Casey Calvert in November. Mr. Calvert died on the band's tour bus of what amounted to an accidental combined overdose of two prescription drugs (an antidepressant and an anti-anxiety drug) and an "opiate" that, according to the band, wasn't illicit; it was Vicodin, which Mr. Calvert possessed as a painkiller after a root canal. Now a four piece, that Hawthorne Heights even still exists is notable. That it's turned around an album in six months (and made its first public appearance as a band in a little more than four) is remarkable as well as more than a little curious. Through the morass of aww-shucks-I'm-sorry-let's-make-up rhetoric that HH's annoucement about the Victory Records re-up contains, one gets the sense that there's not only still healing to be done (and to allow to happen; it takes time), but there's still unresolved issues that Hawthorne Heights will apparently use an aptly-titled CD and a major summer music tour (Linkin Park's Projekt Revolution) to work through. And all of that's being mitigated by the all-important album-cycle schedule -- which is essentially what got Hawthorne Heights in trouble with Victory in the first place (the initial public catalyst for the lawsuit was questionable marketing by Victory to compete with Ne-Yo's In My Own Words for the No. 1 slot on Billboard's album chart). Think about it all, boys. "Be your own pet" isn't just a cut band name; it's good advice. Take care of yourselves first. |
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Posted by Sara K @ 9:03 AM Mon, Jun 09, 2008
Be your own pet IS good advice.
And it's true the BAND got it's name from the SONG that first recommended that you, umm, be your own pet.
The song is by Art Circus. It's on their CD at Infinity Cat.