The Number Twelve Looks Like You has posted a new track online entitled “Sleeping With The Fishes, See?” The song is featured on the band’s forthcoming release Mongrel, which is scheduled to hit stores July 19 through Eyeball Records.
You can check out “Sleeping With The Fishes, See?” on MySpace.
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This week, DJ Rossstar will be playing host a number of guests. Circa Survive, Quiet Drive will be interviewed tonight. Tomorrow’s program will feature Straylight Run and The Appearance.
The show runs from 7-8pm PST on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
The stream will be available from here and questions and comments for the band can be sent via this link.
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Nearly eighteen months since Elijah Wood was confirmed for the title role, Variety has posted some details about the upcoming biopic of noted figure Iggy Pop. According to the report, the movie will be titled The Passenger. The title comes from a track of the same name from Iggy’s 1977 solo album, Lust for Life.
The film will follow Pop’s early years with the Stooges and will be directed by Nick Gomez (“Drowning Mona”) from a script by Eric Schmidt. The film has a budget of $6 to $8 million dollars and Pop has “given his blessing” to the project but will not take part in it,
The Stooges recently released The Weirdness. The record was released March 20 via Virgin Records and marks the seminal band’s first proper release in almost 34 years.
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On May 22, 2007, The Used will be releasing their third full length. The record is titled Lies For The Liars and is their first since 2004’s It is the follow-up to In Love And Death.
Since quite a few of you are looking forward to this one, we decided to arrange a little prize package including a $25.00 merch gift certificate, the new record and their live record, Berth. All you need to do to enter is click Read More and fill out a little form. Couldn’t be easier, unless we filled it in for you. We aren’t going to do that though.
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Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave) has announced a series of tour dates under his The Nightwatchman moniker. For the tour, Tom has enlisted the support of Thrice frontman Dustin Kensrue.
The two solo artists will kick off the tour together in mid-June and continue to the end of the month. Tom is touring in support of his new solo debut. The record is titled One Man Revolution and was releasedApril 27, 2007. Dustin is supporting his solo record, Please Come Home.
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The new tracks from Tim Armstrong‘s solo album, A Poet’s Life continue to trickle out. Today, Armstrong released the video for “Among The Dead” via Rancid‘s official website.
You can check out the music here:
Among The Dead (MPG)
Among the Dead (Quicktime/iPod)
A Poet’s Life and is due out on CD+DVD May 22, 2007.
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As a newly christened staff reviewer over three years ago I loudly sung the praises of Trophy Scars‘ self-released EP, Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language.
To this day it still stands as my favorite release of the band’s ever-expanding catalog (which now consists of a pair of full-lengths and EPs apiece, with another full-length currently in the writing stage). Released in limited quantities, it’ll now see a well-deserved reissue courtesy of Reap What You Sew Records, with all-new artwork in tow.
The EP is full of cathartic, explosive, dynamic, ambitious and scathing post-hardcore (seriously, all at once), and we’re now streaming the whole deal on the band’s Punknews.org profile page.
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Popular internet retailer Amazon has announced that they will be launching their own iTunes competitor music store, but unlike any other major service, the store will be entirely free of usage restrictions and support the ubiquitous MP3 format.
The site is promising 12,000 labels, though the only major label on board is EMI. While this is certainly the most substantial undertaking by a major retailer, other DRM-free stores have existed with substantial indie prescence for a number of years. Besides leader Emusic.com, companies like Audiolunchbox.com, Downloadpunk.com and others have existed DRM-free since their respective foundings.
No launch date has been announced yet, but they are promising “later this year.” Since the publication of an open letter decrying DRM by Apple CEO Steve Jobs, a number of companies have come forward to push for unrestricted music download services.
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Mustard Plug has announced their summer tour plans. Among the dates are a short tour with Buck O Nine and Satori that kicks off tomorrow, stops at the Warped Tour and Ska Weekend 2007.
The band has been working with producer Bill Stevenson on a new album, destined for release in 2007.
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A Wilhelm Scream have posted an update. The band has begun work on the follow up to 2005’s Ruiner and the band is currently at the Blasting Room in Colorado recording again with Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore.
We’ve been in Fort Collins, Colorado for almost a week now working on the new record. Nick’s drums are done and Brian’s almost done with his bass already and I gotta say they both sound fucking insane on this. Me and Chris worked with Jason on guitar tones last night and we’re gonna start tracking today.
The guitars are a bit more gain-y (or bad-ass, as they say) than the last two records, and alot closer to our live guitar tone. Nuno might start singing today, we’ll see. We got here last week with 18 songs and we’re gonna do 15 this time. The other 3 will go on the next record for sure. Bill says the songs are a lot more “intense” sounding than the last two records. No title yet, but we’re working on it.
The band posted a new track/video in early March.
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Though it might not be the most reliable source of information, Less Than Jake has updated their myspace page to reflect a label of “None” suggesting that the band may have parted ways with Warner Bros.
The band released two albums and one b-sides compilation via the label and recent messages from the band and other changes suggest that they are looking for a change of musical direction. Even drummer Vinnie has posted some cryptic notes on his official blog, which serve only to increase speculation:
Pouring over detailed notes, numbers and sketches. I’m going to be the first to say there are big things headed our way. When i stop and think i can almost feel it in the air, it has an excitement and electricity in it. I am almost home to Gainesville and “the ville” will be slow, college is out – kids are gone, traffic is almost non existent and I’ve been told it will be 90 degrees out when I get there. Perfect timing for some hard thought and planning.
As a final note, the band has also taken control of their official website and it has been relaunched with a minimalist blog-type structure.
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The preliminary dates for a European tour featuring Bane, Have Heart and Ceremony have been posted. You can click Read More to check out the dates.
Bane continues to tour in support of 2005’s The Note, while both Have Heart and Ceremony tour in support of 2006 releases: The Things We Carry and Violence Violence, respectively.
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HORSE the Band has posted a new song on MySpace. David Isen (guitar) had this to say about the track:
Its the first taste of what “A Natural Death” (8/28/07) has to offer. Its called ‘Murder’ and its about Indians killing the white man on the plains. Its not racist though, its just science. This song is really awesome. Check out my controlled harmonious guitar feedback, and the innovative use of gameboy programming.
You can check out “Murder” here.
The band released Pizza last year through Combat Records.
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