Sundowner mastermind and Lawrence Arms co-frontman, Chris McCaughan, recently spoke with Bay Area podcast Sound Scene Revolution, in an exclusive phone interview. In the interview Chris addresses specific rumors regarding the future of The Lawrence Arms stating:

“[It’s a] hilarious rumor to me ,you know, to us rather…We are not breaking up and I don’t know what people are talking about.”

The episode can be streamed or downloaded here.

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Band recommendations from other bands are often the best place to find new music. I was floated Tomorrow the Gallows via the guys in Smoke or Fire (in a roundabout way) and I was pretty roundly impressed with the track I heard on their MySpace page. The acoustic duo succumbed to my desire to stream their self-titled debut here at the Org, just for all you folks.

Stream their self-titled record at their band profile.

Always remember to check out our Music Streams page for streaming media from a metric butt-load of bands.
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Funeral For A Friend have launched a full album stream and posted the first video from their brand new record. The record is titled Tales Don’t Tell Themselves and is due out May 15, 2007. It is the follow-up to Hours which was released in 2005.

You can check out the album on their myspace page.

You can check out the first video right here: “Oblivion (Reunion).
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Looks like Ian MacKaye has another job title to add to his already busy CV. The former Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist was tapped by investigators to assist in an investigation of the Kent State shootings of 1970.

On May 4th, 1970, national guardsmen opened fire on a group of student professors, killing four students and leaving nine others wounded, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. The students were protesting Richard Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia. Many young people, including college students and teachers, were concerned about being drafted to fight in a war that they strongly opposed.

According to the Ohio.com/Akron Beacon Journal, Ian was involved in enhancing an audio recording of the original event that aimed to shed some light on why the tragedy occurs and who was responsible for processing a 37 year old recording for investigators.

Presented with the new enhanced recording, wounded former student Joseph Lewis said the voice on the recording sounded to him like an order to fire.

This has huge significance for me, because it corroborates that this event was a conspiracy to stop dissent in America.’

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