Yellowcard: “Light Up The Sky”

Yellowcard has posed a new track from their upcoming full length. The record is titled Paper Walls and is due out July 17, 2007. It is the follow-up to Lights and Sounds which was released in 2006.

The band had been disappointed with the response to their previous record, saying:

We have all these theories as to what happened, but basically it comes down to the fact that we don’t have the momentum that we had at the height of Ocean Avenue. I think some people in the band felt the need to rebel from where we were and the kind of acts we were grouped with. A lot of people in our band thought we had a lot more to offer. And that’s how we’ve ended up where we are

I think that the band went on … maybe not a tangent, but we had a goal in mind, and at the end of the recording process, we were so proud of how artistic we were, And I think we showed too much. I think maybe we were a little too jaded and a little too dark, and I think that the lack of hope and faith that we put on this record made us a little less sparkly and light to people

You can check out “Light Up The Sky” on their myspace page.
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Ryan Sinn kicked out of Angels & Airwaves

Bassist Ryan Sinn, also formerly of The Distillers, has been kicked out of Tom Delonge’s Angels & Airwaves project. Sinn explained the situation in a message to Army of Angels, the band’s official fan club:

I received a phone call the evening of April 19th that concluded my relationship with Angels & Airwaves. I could go into an entire novel about my opinions of the whole matter and why I was given the axe, but to me, throwing dirt just seems desperate and tabloid-ial.

All I’ll say as to why I was kicked out, the reasons I was given weren’t at all honest, and severely hypocritical to the point of abhorrent disgust. I’ve gotten wind of a few of the rumors floating around the virtual life source, and I’ll say that I would never leave a band because of a clash of ideas, or control. To me a band is a clash of ideas and control.

Sinn, along with guitarist Dave Kennedy and drummer Atom Willard (the Offspring/Rocket From The Crypt) were recruited for the band in September 2005.

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Set it Straight cancel summer tour

Set It Straight Set It Straight has announced that they’ve been forced to cancel their summer tour. The band noted in a MySpace bulletin:

We have to Cancel our summer tour. Nate Corbin (our drummer) broke his hip skating and we do not have enough time to pick up a fill in that would drop his/her summer for a month and a half. If there was a way to avoid this decision we would have made a different one. Set it Straight is still playing Rainfest and some NORTHWEST stuff at the end of the month and beginning of June and planning some west coast stuff this summer, but not much else. Sincerely sorry to anyone who had planned on seeing us, more news soon.

The band released Live Your Heart and Never Follow last year.
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One Black Tooth (Ex-August Premier), Bela Kiss, Mouth Movements

One Black Tooth which includes members of August Premier have posted their first four song demo recorded by the band. They are described as “A four piece band from the Chicago-land area that loves to play filthy music while making sure not to take themselves too seriously.” You can check out all four recordings on their myspace page..

Bela Kiss have posted a new song on their myspace called “The Slopes”. The song is from their forthcoming debut EP on Hotfoot Records entitled, The Horde. It is due out on June 12. You can check out the music on their myspace page.

Mouth Movements‘ debut album, This is the Way We Reform You, is up for streaming on wereformyou.com. The album is available May 29th on Missing Words Records.
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Microsoft Raises The Bar With Halo 3

But not in the way you may be thinking. We just recieved a Press Release "Fact Sheet" outlining all the details for Halo 3. At first, it looked like any other Press Release until I got to the details on pricing.

    Price: Legendary Edition, $129.99; Special Edition, $69.99; Standard Edition, $59.99

Yep, you read that right. For a mere $129.99, you too can be the owner of the shiny new Legendary Edition of Halo 3. Doesn't Earl Shives paint cars for less that that? WoW! $130 for a video game? Are you serious? And how many nuts out there are going to pay this much for a game?

So, if you want to read the full Fact Sheet, click on Read More… It's all there in it's overly priced glory…. 

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