Craig Owens announced his new project today — it’s called BXC (aka badXchannels). And with the announcement comes news that Chiodos have disbanded.
Owens told Billboard about the break up,
“It’s done. It just couldn’t stay afloat. There were just kind of, not necessarily bad vibes, but we came to the realization that we can’t do it full-time. I think it just stopped becoming a passion for all of us, so we said, ‘Alright, let’s stop.'”
Chiodos formed in 2001 and put out four full-length albums. As an interesting aside, one of the first interviews we did here at RRS was with the band back in 2007, where they discussed their formative years and playing the Local 432 in Flint, MI.
So what’s Craig’s new project all about? BXC draws on the influences of Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean, The Weeknd, and The Neighborhood. He’s been working on it the past year and a half primarily with producer Erik Ron (Panic! At the Disco). The project’s first EP, WHYDFML, is scheduled out on November 18th.
Here’s the debut single “One Car Funeral.”
Photo: James Allen