Where are they now: Evanescence

So I missed this entirely, but Evanescence had for all intents and purposes broken up--since we last heard from them in 2006, the rest of the band had been replaced EXCEPT for Amy Lee. Well the rest of the band reformed... with Carly Smithson, former American Idol contestant, on vocals. They're going to call themselves The Fallen; a press conference is scheduled for Monday, with their first single available for download at their website (which won't be active until then). One problem they might have is that there are entirely too many bands with that name--just do a quick Googlesearch and see it's a pretty popular name.

Interesting thing from the article--on releasing new music:

The Fallen plans to tour in September and initially will release its songs in small doses every few months, Moody says, "so there's always new music and new reasons to come to another show."

Weird Al has taken a similar approach, realizing that he can now release more relevant parodies through internet singles as opposed to waiting until he has a dozen or so and releasing an album, by which point the oldest one might be completely irrelevant. This is the neat thing about the digital music revolution--after taking a back seat to albums over the last couple decades, now singles are as relevant as they've ever been in the last 40 years.