Bob Nanna, former vocalist/guitarist from Braid and Hey Mercedes and currently of The City On Film, recently blogged that his battle with lymphoma is set for another bout. He commented:

The lymphoma is back. Thankfully not with a vengeance. It’s manifested itself in my left eye. So… it’s back to the scanning board. Had two on Friday. An orbital CT scan and a PET scan. If it is indeed only in my eye, then i’m going to argue for a lesser treatment than last time. My side effects with Chemotherapy 2006 were almost non-existent but that’s not to say that it didn’t still totally suck. So there’s that.

It’s not all bad news though. Bob has a number of fun musical projects linked in the blog, including mini-songs and collaborations with friends.
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Toronto’s Dead Letter Dept. has called it quits. The band announced:

I am writing you today because at some point during the last 7 or so years of Dead Letter Dept. you were there to help us in some way or another. As of today we are announcing that the band will be finished. The decision was all in favor, we feel the band ended a long time ago and became something else. We are just ready to admit that the actual Dead Letter Dept. is now done.

We will be taking the next year for ourselves to travel, go to school, live in different countries etc..etc.. we still hope to make music together again in the future.

The band has no plans for a final show. The group last released Rock N’ Roll Hates You in 2005.
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British Columbia’s Gob has posted a video for the track “Underground” from their latest full length Muertos Vivos. This is the second video from the recently released album, with a clip for “We’re All Dying” arriving late last year.

The Aquarius/Cobraside released album follows up 2003’s Foot In Mouth Disease.
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Gainesville’s Against Me! have posted a video of “The Ocean” to YouTube. The acoustic performance of the New Wave closer was recorded at the band’s Thanksgiving Day benefit show in Chicago this past November.
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Efrim Menuck, frontman for Montreal, CA’s Godspeed You! Black Emperor, has made some comments regarding the band’s current hiatus in an interview with Drowned in Sound. He had this to say:

On a personal level I now find [Godspeed You! Black Emperor] to be inappropriate [to do]. There’s a complicated back story. I reached a point whereby I was no longer willing to contribute to the steering of the ship; it was like, ‘Okay now, someone else point the direction, I love all of you, but I need to ride shotgun for a while.’

In addition to these comments, the band has left an enigmatic blog post on their MySpace page, titled simply “Adieu” and featuring a man holding his arms in the air. Sources have been speculating that the band had thus officially broken up, with popular UK rock rag NME reporting it as such. Menuck clarified the view in a statement to Pitchfork Media today:

The Drowned in Sound thing is a misquote, I’m in the middle of dealing with it now. It’s true, Godspeed hasn’t existed for years, we’ve been on permanent hiatus since 2002. If and when we do call it quits permanently, it won’t be because of the Iraq war.

You can visit Drowned in Sound to read the original article.
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Both Canada’s Cancer Bats and Britain’s Gallows are the most recent band to be featured on Exclaim! TV, a weekly video series from those behind Exclaim! Magazine. The new episode features the recent tour-mates discussing a wide range of things that are cute.

Cancer Bats will release their sophomore album, Hail Destroyer in March while Gallows released Orchestra of Wolves in 2007.

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Transit have posted a song from their new full length, This Will Not Define Us, recently released on Barrett Records. ‘Rules of Nines,’ ‘Lexington Park’ and ‘For the World’ can be streamed on the band’s MySpace page.

Transit self-released Let It Out in 2007.
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Philadelphia, PA’s Genghis Tron has posted three studio videos in preparation for their Relapse debut, Board Up the House, set for a February 19th release date. The band recorded the album with Kurt Ballou (Converge) at GodCity studio. The band talks about their recording process and shows footage of them tracking different instruments.

You can find the link to those videos here.
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San Francisco’s Dead To Me has scheduled a few months of tour dates in the US and Europe. As previously reported the band will hit the road in March with Teenage Bottlerocket and the Femurs. Following those shows the group will hook up with the Bouncing Souls west coast tour to provide support along with Mercy Killers. Afterwards the band will hit Europe for a tour alongside Sweden’s Millencolin.

Dead To Me released Cuban Ballerina in July of 2006.
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