Red Album was recorded with Phillip Cope of Kylesa at the Jam Room in Columbia, SC and is due out in North America on September 4th and the 10th internationally. While Relapse handles the CD version, the 12″ vinyl of Red Album will see its release roughly the same time courtesy of Hyperrealist Records.
The band also has some East Coast tourdates coming up.
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Vancouver’s Tranzmitors will release their debut self-titled album in the UK on August 27th. The record, released earlier this year via Canada’s Deranged Records, will be released by the revived Stiff Records in the UK. The legendary label was responsible for early recordings in the late 70s and early 80s from Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, the Pogues, the Damned and Madness among others. The Tranzmitors debut will be the first release on the label since September of 1987.
A UK tour supporting the release has been announced.
The Tranzmitors features members of the New Town Animals, Jeffie Genetic and His Clones and the The Smugglers.
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Bob Mould, former frontperson of both Hüsker Dü and Sugar , has suffered an injury to his ankle that has put the kibosh on some solo gigs this weekend. As explained on his blog:
This Tuesday afternoon, I broke my left ankle. Non-displaced fracture of the lateral malleolus. I spent 4 hours at Sibley ER, and was sent home in an air cast, with my first (and hopefully only) set of crutches.
He went on to explain in a later post that the shows had been canceled due to the ankle being broken. You can follow the updates on Bob’s ankle at the Boblog.
Mould’s last solo studio album Body Of Song was released in 2005, and he will be releasing a live DVD from the subsequent tour on Brendan Canty’s Trixie DVD label. He also released an album in 2006 in collaboration with electronic musician Richard Morel under the name Blowoff. Another solo album is planned for release in early 2008.
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Facedown Records artist Inked in Blood has posted a new song on MySpace entitled “Angel of Lost Hopes.” The track will appear on the band’s forthcoming release Sometimes We Are Beautiful.
You can check out “Angel of Lost Hopes” here.
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Sympathy for the Record Industry is up for sale. Label owner Long Gone John has put the influential 18 year old Long Beach based label up for sale. He’s offering the label’s entire set of assets, including master tapes all existing stock, distribution deals, website and mail order business for the low price of $650,000 (or $700,000 if he doesn’t like you). The label’s catalog includes over 750 releases from 550 artists including the first records from the White Stripes and Hole, as well as work from the Muffs, the (International) Noise Conspiracy, Rocket From the Crypt, Suicide, the Dwarves, New Bomb Turks, the Von Bondies, and Man or Astro-man?.
John spoke with The Daily Swarm about the sale, “I am serious. I wrote the notice quite a while ago and thought about putting it on eBay but never got around to it. The record industry has been complete shit for quite awhile and this morning I was looking at it again and decided it was time. I want to solicit real interest.”
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Tony Sly, frontman of long-running Fat Wreck Chords act No Use For A Name recently participated in a video interview after a stop on the band’s recent mini-tour.
You can check out the interview here.
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Hopeless Records metal act The Human Abstract have posted the latest video from their debut for the label, Nocturne. The band will soon embark on a Canadian tour with Misery Signals, Shai Hulud and Means. The video is significantly more than the band-in-front-of-a-brick-wall you might expect, and is definitely worth a look.
Down To Earth Approach has announced tour dates in support of their new Vagrant Records release. The record is titled Come Back To You and was released on July 10, 2007. It is the follow-up to Another Intervention which was released in 2004.
The band will be joined on the trek by recently reformed EVR act Damiera and Treaty of Paris.
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Dead Hearts have booked a tour in support of their 4-star Ferret debut, Bitter Verses. The band will be joined by Daggermouth who are supporting Turf Wars, Seventh Star who released The Undisputed Truth recently and Soldiers, who are supporting last year’s The Tombstone EP.
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The Warriors have posted a new track from their upcoming Victory Records release. The record is titled Genuine Sense Of Outrage and is due out August 07, 2007.
You can find “The Stone Grinds” on their myspace page.
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Riot Act Media has launched a full album stream of the upcoming full length from Chicago’s Mannequin Men. Described as “Chicago’s drunkest, snottiest, and most amp-ruining band” and with reference to classic punks like The Wipers, the band will be delivering their full length debut for Flameshovel this fall. The record is titled Fresh Rot and is due out September 18, 2007.
You can check out the entire album here.
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Against Me! has announced some tour dates this fall with support from Matt & Kim and David Dondero. The shows are in support of the band’s recent and completely uncontroversial major label debut, New Wave.
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Minus The Bear has decided to include a very special bonus disc with the first pressing of retail copies for their upcoming album. The record is titled Planet of Ice and is due out August 21, 2007. The disc will feature four tracks, comprised of two outtakes, an alternate version of “Ice Monster” and a remix of “Knights” by Rhymesayers’ POS.
POS also provided a remix for the band’s well-received remix comp, Interpretaciones del Oso.
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