Dirtnap has posted a song from the upcoming sophomore High Tension Wires LP Midnight Cashier. You can check out the song “Tokyo is Burning Down” now. The record will hit stores on July 10th.
The Denton, TX based band features members of the Marked Men, the Riverboat Gamblers, and the Reds.
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UK-based The Horrors have released the latest video from their album, Strange House. The popular band is inspired by bands like The Cramps, The Damned and others.
The label promises a “animated, gore-fest” and you can check out the video for yourself right here: “She is the New Thing.“
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Love Me Electric has posted 2 new demos off of there next release on there myspace for your enjoyment. Leave them a comment telling them what you think. The band also has a small Midwest Leg with the band The Spotlight. You can check out the music at the dates on their myspace page.
The Status has posted a new demo on their myspace page called “This is Not Goodbye”. The band is being managed by Anthony Raneri from Bayside and will be in New York at General Studios next week with Anthony producing. They’re going to be doing some dates later this month with Bayside and will be on the road all summer. You can find the music here.
Milwaukee hardcore band Get Rad (members of Kung Fu Rick and Since By Man) has posted two new songs, one from a split 7″ with fellow Milwaukee band Protestant and one from an upcoming 7″ entitled Bastards United. You can check out the songs here.
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PlanetQuakeWars.net has a new interview with Splash Damage’s business development manager Stephen “malarky” gaffney, chatting extensively about the plans for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars Ranked and Unranked Servers. The Q&A covers differences between Ranked and Unranked servers, GSP plans, user-made maps and mods, and more. For those hailing from the cradle of the automobile, the interview is also available in Deutsch.
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Capcom’s Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition is now available for purchase on Steam for $19.95.
Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition, the extended version of the original Devil May Cry, features a new player character, new battles, and enhanced gameplay. Learn more here.
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Just when the tiffs between rock stars were beginning to settle down, we get a fresh new quarrel between reigning king of coporate shock rock, Marilyn Mason, and the proverbial new kids on the block; emo-goth-rock stars My Chemical Romance. According to this article, the two have been exchanging words over a recent song by Manson, which is reportedly about MCR. Manson’s song, “Mutilation Is The Most Sincere Form Of Flattery”, from his new album Eat Me, Drink Me, contains the lyrics: “Hey, there’s no rules today/You steal instead of borrow/You take all the shapes that I make/ And you think that you thought/All the thoughts that I thought/Don’t you?”, which the he explained:
I’m embarrassed to be me because these people are doing a really sad, pitiful, shallow version of what I’ve done. If they want to identify with me then here’s a razor blade. Call me when you’re done and we’ll talk.
MCR frontman Gerard Way responded by saying:
We still haven’t found someone that has knocked us down that we need to take seriously. If Elvis Costello said we sucked we would think about it a bit but usually it is comments from someone with a new record to promote so the remarks ring hollow.
Axl Rose was not available for comment.
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The Explosion have announced some details on their upcoming farewell shows. Although no supporting bands have been announced, the locations and dates have been. The first show will be on Friday, August 31st at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, and the second show will be on Saturday September 1st, at The Knitting Factory in NYC.
The band broke up earlier this year, and still plan to release their final record, Bury Me Standing.
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Old school punk rock act The Freeze have announced dates for a Southwest tour beginning on June 14th. Best known as one of the bands on the compilation, This is Boston, Not LA, this will be the first time in 20 years that they have left the east coast to tour through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
The track listing has been announced for the upcoming 2007 edition of the Sounds of the Underground compilation. The record is simply titled Sounds of the Underground 2007 and is due out June 19, 2007.
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Kawakami, the long-time vocalist and guitarist for the Japanese band Disclose, has died from an unintentional overdose. According to reports, the singer died from a lethal combination of sleeping pills and vodka.
Kawakami was the mainstay in the band’s revolving lineup. Disclose’s sound, based on the infamous Discharge, was legendary within Japan’s hardcore punk scene. Their numerous releases (14 split 7″s, one split LP, two LPs, and ten 7″s and 10″s) over the past 15 years and heavily distorted, blown out noisy style influenced hundreds of other bands, much like Discharge did in the 1980s.
Our deepest condolences to his friends and family.
A fan has provided a link to a YouTube of a recent performance.
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Another Hopeless act has made the jump to a major label, with recent signing Nural joining Atlantic Records, part of the Warner Music Group. The follow up to The Weight of the World will be the first in a joint venture between Hopeless and Atlantic and ensuing albums will be released solely via the major label.
Jesse Raub, the reviewer you love to hate, recently chatted back and forth with Aaron and Nat of Alternative Tentacles Bonecrushers Akimbo. The three of them talked about their two upcoming albums, as well as the issue of spontaneous combustion amongst guitarists.
The two albums are the follow-ups to Forging Steel and Laying Stone which was released in 2006. The first is titled Navigating The Bronze and is due out August 21, 2007.
For those unfamiliar with the band, it’s best to check out the reviews here or take it from the band: “Usually I just say we’re really loud and leave it at that.”
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Indie supergroup the New Pornographers have announced US tour dates in support of their upcoming Matador Records full length Challengers. The band will depart from their Canadian home base in British Columbia in mid September and travel down and up the US west coast.
The 12 song full length features 9 tracks penned by Carl “A.C.” Newman and three by Destroyer‘s Dan Bejar. Newman, Bejar, Neko Case and Immaculate Machine’s Kathryn Calder all provide vocals. Label Matador Records recently announced a limited edition digital “box set” to accompany the record, a deluxe preorder edition available through their Buy Early Get Now program that will feature three discs worth of b-sides, live material and other media.
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