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.

Where are they now: Edge City Outlaws

Every once in a while we will play "(Weed) Women and Wine" by a band called the Edge City Outlaws. They signed with Universal, released that one single, got a bunch of press for it, then vanished off the face of the Earth. Seriously, they haven't updated their Myspace page in TWO YEARS.

A difficult task it would seem, then, to figure out exactly what the hell happened. One clue left: the only person with a full name on the page was the lead singer, Luke Metcalf; it also mentions the guitarist, Griffin. Google Luke Metcalf and the first entry is for a band called SOUND AND FURY, with that same Griffin on guitars, and a filled-out lineup. Turns out Edge City Outlaws and Sound and Fury are one and the same; they toured England last year with Airbourne and I can happily report that they checked their Myspace page today.