According to a Lambgoat report, Long Island-based hardcore outfit This Is Hell have parted ways with Trustkill Records.
The band released two albums via the largely metalcore-focused label, Sundowning in 2006 and Misfortunes in 2008.
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After being embroiled expensive in a lawsuit with their label last year for a surprising $30 million, 30 Seconds To Mars and Virgin have apparently mended fences. The band has re-signed to EMI/Virgin in a new worldwide deal. 30 Seconds to Mars, fronted by vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Jared Leto, is currently in the studio in Los Angeles recording their third album with acclaimed producer Flood, known for his work with U2, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, and Smashing Pumpkins.
The emo/rock band, fronted by actor Jared Leto, sold a million copies of their last album, A Beautiful Lie and hit the mainstage at Warped in 2006.
Journalist James Montgomery recently visited the studio where the band is recording and posted an elaborate account. You can find that here.
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The Mars Volta have launched the new single from their forthcoming album. The record is titled Octahedron and is due out June 23, 2009. It is the follow-up to Bedlam in Goliath which was released in 2008.
Our stream today comes from Silverlake, CA-based Mike Hale. We’ve got a stream of his new full length, Lives Like Mine.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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After their ongoing tour with Against Me! wraps up this week, Off with Their Heads will stay out on the road in support of their 2008 album, From The Bottom.
After the US dates wrap up in June, the band will be headed into Europe.
The lineup has been announced for the 2009 Capitol Hill Block Party. Dubbed “Seattle’s Premiere Celebration of Independent Music,” the event takes place July 24 & July 25th and will benefit two non-profits: Home Alive, which encourages violence prevention, and The Vera Project, a youth run all ages venue and recording studio in Seattle.
The lineup includes Sonic Youth, the Jesus Lizard, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart, the Thermals, Black Lips, Spinnerette, the Gossip, Deerhunter, Future of the Left, Akimbo, Girls, Mika Miko, Past Lives, Audicity, Bow+Arrow, D. Black, Earth, Fatal Lucciauno, Faux Punk, Flexions, Hey Marseilles, Hotels, Japandroids, Micachu, Moondoggies, New Faces, Pica Beats, Sleepy Eyes of Death, Sol, Spaceman, Starfucker, They Live!, Truckasaurus, the Blakes, the Dutchess and the Duke and the Maldives.
You can find more details here.
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According to a report from Boston Phoenix, Cave In has reunited with their Jupiter lineup and have begun work on a new vinyl-only EP which is due out in July.
The EP is titled Planets Of Old and is their first new studio material since 2005’s Perfect Pitch Black. The band also send us this statement clarifying some details:
After 3 1/2 long years, Cave In has decided to end its hiatus. Please join us for an EP release show at Great Scott’s (1222 Commonwealth Ave., Allston MA) on Sunday, July 19th @ 9PM. Also playing will be our friends Disappearer and Phantom Glue. Copies of the “Planets Of Old” limited 12″ (recorded by Adam Taylor, Alex Hartman & Johnny Northrup @ Camp St. Studio) from Hydra Head Records will be available that night.
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In one of the more unusual press releases coming out of PETA, Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus has received a Compassionate Citizen Awards from PETA for the band’s use of an expensive prop octopus in a recent video shoot. Mark explained via Twitter:
We paid nearly $1,000 for a movie prop octopus for a photo shoot so a real one doesn’t have to die. [D]o [I] get an award?
PETA frequently recognizes advertisers and filmmakers who use animatronic models and computer-generated imagery instead of real animals. The group points out that octopi are intelligent and sensitive animals who have been observed cooperating and communicating with each other. Hoppus will receive a framed certificate and a card signed by peta2 staffers.
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Fat Wreck Chords today announced plans to reduce the price of all their CDs to under $10 throughout the United States. Label bossman and NOFX singer Fat Mike explained:
This is not a sale. This is how much this CD costs, and not only that, but EVERY CD on Fat Wreck Chords will now be under $10 and most will be under $8. No, we are not crazy. We just think that having a very low CD price is a fair way for scene supporting music fans to support their favorite independent bands and labels. Sound crazy? I think it sounds reasonable. We make less profit, but bands hopefully will sell more CDs to more people, which is why we started doing this in the first place.
Among those albums are the newly released Coaster from NOFX which is streaming on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Frank Turner, solo artist formerly of Million Dead, has signed to Epitaph Records who will release Love, Ire and Song and other future releases outside the UK. Frank explained:
Anyone with even a passing knowledge of punk rock will have some inkling of how fucking awesome this is. For many years (and this is pre-myspace) the Epitaph logo was a badge of quality that meant I would buy the record, regardless of what it was. In so doing I got into almost all my favourite punk bands. They’re still one of the best labels in the world, and they’re independent to boot. It’s also really important to me that they’ve accommodated me staying with Xtra Mile in the UK – those guys are my family, and there’s no way I was going to jump ship.
Frank has a touring planned and will be supporting The Offspring as well as headlining a UK run with Fake Problems.
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Longwave has posted the new video for the song, “The Devil and the Liar.” The track comes from Secrets Are Sinister.
Lujo Records has signed Chicago-based A Lull. The band’s debut the label, Ice Cream Bones, is due out May 19, 2009 A Lull are Nigel Dennis, Mike Brown and Todd Miller, among others, various friends who have been kind enough and willing to lend a hand or two along the way. All three are formerly of other Chicago based bands, Nigel and Todd (and Mike briefly) of The Evaluation, and Mike of The Skies We Built and Mike (and Nigel briefly) of Ateriavia.
Check out some music on their myspace page.
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imadethismistake is relocating to Providence, RI and has announced some dates for the move. The shows are solo-acoustic and will be supporting an upcoming split with Wayne Arms of San Fransisco, CA based Asian Man Records band For.The.Win.