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by Nicholas Joseph Ferro njf0@yahoo.com
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In the News

1/2/03 The new year starts with a live show from Gridlock already!

12/17/02
I have returned from a year in Germany and have made a lot of updates.
Since I left, Gridlock went on their tour and released:
Gridlock - Engram (10")
Gridlock - Live Traces (ltd. 250...still available on Gridlock's website!)
Under - 15.ELEVEN.5-6 (ltd.)
dryft - the mytotyc exyt ep
V/A - Zod.07
Gridlock - Trace (12")


Gridlock have a lot of upcoming releases:
V/A - Hybrid Components
Gridlock/Steel - connected 4 (split 12")
Gridlock/Panacea - (split 12")
Gridlock - (3" CD limited to 211)
V/A - ? (subscription only)
These last two releases are from Piehead Records. 11 3" CDs limited to 211
released, and only those who subscribe to the entire 2003 series receive the
compilation at the end with more exclusive tracks from each artist in the
series.


10/29/03 In addition to the new album Formless coming out on Hymen, Gridlock will also be performing a concert in Berlin at the information wants to be free festival on December 5th. 8/17/01
Here is some very detailed information about some of the fall gigs:
9/8 Milwaukee w/ J-Slim, Emotional Joystick
@ Thai Joes Bancock Orchid, Prospect Mall: 22339 North Prospect
9/9 Toronto w/ Tomas Jirku
@ Rivoli, 334 Queen St. West
9/11 Ottowa w/ Iszoloscope, Antigen Shift
@ Zaphod Beeble Brox, 27 York Street
9/15 Dallas w/ Proem, Blowtorch
@ Sand Bar, 2653 Commerce
9/20 San Francisco w/ Black Lung, Hecate, Scott Arford, UFO!, aneurysm, unknown23
@ King Street Garage, 174 King Street

7/31/01
Here are the locations for the tour:
9/8 @ TBA - Milwaukee, WI
9/9 @ TBA - Toronto
9/11 @ Zaphod Beeblebrox - Ottowa, Ontario
9/13 @ TBA - Washington, D.C.
9/15 @ Sand Bar - Dallas, TX w/ proem
9/17 @ The Garage - Los Angeles, CA w/ lusine icl.
9/20 @ King Street Garage - San Francisco, CA w/ Black Lung, Hecate, Scott Arford, UFO!, aneurysm, unknown23

7/8/01
Apparently Flatline will no longer be releaseing trace.
Here are the tour dates, though:
9/8: Milwaukee
9/9: Toronto
9/11: Ottowa
9/13: Washington, DC
9/15: Dallas
9/17: Los Angeles

4/02/01
Gridlock will be releasing a 10" on Germany's Delikatessen Records in the fall. The tour is now scheduled to begin this September with Scorn.

3/17/01
The european release of Trace will be handled by Flatline Records.

3/15/01
The Gridlock tour has been pushed back until September.

1/20/01
The first date for the tour has been set as April 28th in Austin, with Neutral and Savak opening. New material is also due on several upcoming compilations.

12/3/00
Besides the new Gridlock CD, Trace, and the North American tour with Savak in April, we now also have a 12" and CD from dryft in the works for 2001. The official release date for Trace (March 27) and other updates are in the Discography section. A Gridlock interview will also be appearing in the January issue of Outburn.

9/11/00
Gridlock are planning a North American tour (with Savak opening some dates) in April for Trace! Check their official website if you are interested in having them come to your area. The split 7" will be released at the end of September, and besides the anticipated Trace release, we may also have a new Dryft release to look forward to next year!

7/10/00
The new Gridlock 7" will be available in August and will be a split 7" with an exclusive track from O2, the new side project from Mike Wells.

5/24/00
This news came in an email from Scott Beebe:

"we are proud to announce a new signing on our [<unit>] label. this
comes in the form of 'gridlock'. gridlock joins artists such as
voltaic, reset, and the very own gridlock side project dryft on the
label. formerly on pendragon, gridlock has had affiliation with
possessive blindfold since the first exoskeleton compilation and doing
remixes for holocaust theory. mike and cadoo of gridlock have been
moving into new directions with their hybrid sound and thus wanted a
label they could grow with and have support their audio. thus the
relationship between gridlock and [<unit>] begins. we welcome mike and
cadoo into the [<unit>] family. gridlock will appear with a new track
'edit397' on the upcoming [<unit>] comp entitled 'xxxd generation', a
limited 7" vinyl will be available in the summer, and then their long
anticipated 3rd full length cd 'trace' in late fall 2000."

5/5/00 Gridlock have split from Metropolis/Pendragon Records! Future label plans are uncertain. In late may Cadoo will be DJing at the [unit] release party in San Francisco Paste will have the track "I Still Don't Like U" on the upcoming Gun Music compilation Dryft will be appearing on the upcoming XXXd Generation compilation from [unit] There will be a limited 7" with two new track and a limited T-shirt available only from the official website to correspond with Gridlock's official site redesign. There was a fire in Igloo Studios but Gridlock are still actively working on their projects. Gridlock are working with Nicklaus Deyring on a music video from the forthcoming album Trace. There will be a tour in the spring of 2001 following the fall 2000 release of Trace.

News Archive

10/20/99
Gridlock's first release with Metropolis will be the 5.25 CD in special floppy disk packaging
        This will be limited to 1000 CDs and will be released November 1, 1999.

6/9/99
Pendragon Records have been bought by Metropolis!
Gridlock will still release under Pendragon through Metropolis.