Alaska's 36 CRAZYFISTS have posted the following update at their official web site: "We are wrapping up the writing process of our new record and will be starting pre-production with producer Sal Villanueva [THURSDAY, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, VISION OF DISORDER] at our trusty rehearsal space in Portland, Oregon.
Seattle supergroup Mad Season planned on issuing a follow-up album to its 1995 debut, Above, without singer Layne Staley. For reasons unknown, the sophomore effort never materialized.