“When Victory and Hawthorne started our relationship in 2003 it was always about beating the odds. Our country has just seen and experienced historic change with the Democratic nomination of Barack Obama. Everything happens for a reason and there is tremendous positivity in the air.” More »
Autopsy results have revealed that “acute combined effects of opiate, citalopram and clonazepam intoxication” were responsible for the death of Hawthorne Heights guitarist Casey Calvert in November, with MTV reporting that “the autopsy listed Calvert’s death as accidental, though it added that it… More »
Autopsy results have revealed that “acute combined effects of opiate, citalopram and clonazepam intoxication” were responsible for the death of Hawthorne Heights guitarist Casey Calvert in November, with MTV reporting that “the autopsy listed Calvert’s death as accidental, though it added that it… More »
After just reporting last week about their continuing inability to release their next album thanks to the evil machinations of Victory Records, we learned that Casey Calvert, guitarist for emo band Hawthorne Heights, was discovered “unconscious on the band’s tour bus” outside Washington’s 9:30 Club and “pronounced dead at the scene” by police thanks to still mysterious circumstances.
Like their choice of business associates and their press stunts and their general suckiness. Following the semi-scanadlous, street team-manipulated success of their 2006 breakthrough If Only You Were Lonely, the middling mall screamo band has prepared its genre-mandated bazillion-track multi-genre concept followup opus. But they are being prevented from flooding the market with two whole CDs worth of overwrought whining about evil broads because they’re too busy being sued by the dick who ran their former label, Victory Records, plus a buncha other people. So…they lose, but we win?
-The Game is being sued by five police officers who say they were libeled when the rapper discussed his 2005 arrest at a North Carolina mall. They’re seeking more than $50,000 in damages, plus five gift certificates to Orange Julius. More »
