Modest Mouse have launched a full album stream of their new full length. The record is titled We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank and is due out March 20, 2007. It is the follow-up to Good News For People Who Love Bad News which was released in 2004.

The record also marks the recorded debut of guitarist Johnny Marr to their lineup and the former Smiths member reportedly contributed to songwriting as well as performing on the album.

You can check out the entire thing on their myspace page.
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Paint It Black maestro Dan Yemin has provided an update on the band’s next record. Included are thoughts on the style of the new material, some insight into the songwriting process and brief mention of two soon-to-be announced suprise co-producers:

So I just got off the phone with the guys at Jade Tree, and it seems like we have something really exciting and interesting in the works for the next Paint It Black album. We’ve been having alot of conversations (both within the band, between the band and the label, and between the band and some other people as well) about how we want this next record to be, and we have a lot of really cool ideas and are well on our way to getting the songs arranged, and eventually re-arranged.

Most of the songs are already written, although some of them are still in pretty raw form. I’ve been making demos at home, which I then email to Andy, Jared, and Josh. Then the three of them get together and have pretty much free range to mess with the arrangements. I’m happy to say that they’ve been speeding everything up, so that the fast songs will probably be our fastest yet. We seem to be continuing with the direction we headed with “Paradise”, meaning fast and raw, but with some more mid-tempo influences ranging from Black Flag to Faith to Naked Raygun, to Sonic Youth to Embrace to Joy Division.

We’ll continue to combine the thrash with the melodic anthem. The really exciting news is that we’re getting close to finalizing a recording schedule, and that this album will almost definitely be CO-PRODUCED!!!!! That’s right folks, its looking like there will be two very talented people involved in recording this album, and these two people come from opposite ends of the underground music spectrum. I’m stoked. More later…..

The group’s last release was 2005’s Paradise.
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The second set of songs have been posted from the upcoming tribute to Sick Of It All announced last October. The record is titled Our Impact Will Be Felt: A Tribute to Sick Of It All and is due out April 24, 2007

The 20-track album will feature songs performed by bands including Rise Against, Unearth, Ignite, Comeback Kid, Napalm Death, Bane, Pennywise, Bouncing Souls, Suicide Machines and many more.

The label is also promising two new songs streaming each week until the album is released. Last week, the label presented the Bouncing Souls take on “Good Looking Out” and Hatebreed’s version of “Ratpack.” The second set features Madball’s “Give Respect” and Pennywise covering “My Life.”

You can find them right here.
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The line ups have been announced for two upcoming Virgin Festival dates. The Canadian fests are sponsored by Virgin Mobile and will take place in Toronto and Vancouver.

For the Toronto date, the organizers have added Smashing Pumpkins, Bjork, The Killers, Interpol, Tokyo Police Club. For the Vancouver show, the fest will feature My Chemical Romance, Billy Talent, AFI, Rise Against, Hot Hot Heat, The Killers, Metric and more.

The Smashing Pumpkins are gearing up for the release of Zeitgiest, their first album since 2000.
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