Ed Gein has posted the dates for a short South Coast / Midwest run beginning this week. The band will see support from Genghis Tron and Gaza throughout the trek.
After the tour, Ed Gein plan to take a six or seven month break from touring to finish writing and recording their follow-up to Judas Goats & Dieseleaters.
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Ed Gein has posted the dates for a short East Coast run beginning this week. The band will see support from Genghis Tron and Gaza throughout the trek.
After the tour, Ed Gein plan to take a six or seven month break from touring to finish writing and recording their follow-up to Judas Goats & Dieseleaters.
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All Stars aims to settle the debates that Command and Conquer fans have been having for over a decade: What unit is the best? Which sto…
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All Stars aims to settle the debates that Command and Conquer fans have been having for over a decade: What unit is the best? Which sto…
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Angels and Airwaves have assembled an elaborate, high gloss new video teaser spotlighting their upcoming sophomore full length, I-Empire. The record is the follow up to their debut, We Don’t Need to Whisper which was also the first release from a Blink-182 member since that band split up.
The video includes plenty of video footage, some HAL9000 samples and what appears to be some new material from the upcoming album. You can check out the teaser here.
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Everyone’s favorite Faulkner fans/metalcore act As I Lay Dying has posted a new song from their upcoming full length. The record is titled An Ocean Between Us and is due out August 21, 2007. It is the follow-up to Shadows Are Security which was released in 2005.
You can check out “Within Destruction” via their label.
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Henry Rollins recently sat down for a length interview with PopMatters and talked about a number of subjects including his visit to Iran:
I think the Bush Administration really wants a war with Iran or something that ends ultimately with us against them and with America’s safety at stake. […] I’m not a fan of [Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s president], but I know that usually the government is one way and the people are another and the last time Bush said a country—Iraq—was a threat, it turned out not to be true.
He also expressed an interest in visiting the last country in the “Axis of Evil,” North Korea. He discusses musical activism and the inevitable backlash:
A lot more musicians are weighing in on the war in Iraq. And a lot times they’re quickly dismissed by the right-wing media who say, “Oh, he’s just a guy with a guitar, what can he think?” [..] If Barbara Streisand has an opinion, all of a sudden she’s an idiot and you need not listen. These are people who get in front of microphones anyway and this is America and this is a democracy.
Finally, he weighs in on the mainstream nature of punk and hardcore:
When I was in that band we were at odds with contemporary culture. We had religious groups protesting the shows and sometimes the city legislature would […] do a press op [to explain] why this person was bravely closing down the show for the good of the city.
And so now I see what I was doing back then—and getting a great amount of grief for it—on a T-shirt that you can buy at an extraordinarily high price being consumed by 15,000 people a night at the Megadome. So times do change.
You can check out the rest of the interview right here.
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Brandtson have posted an update on their current status and plans for the next little while. Myk Porter explained:
Well, we finished up a pretty brutal year of touring last December in support of our last record ‘Hello, Control’. Most of you know we dealt with a lot of road blocks, but we played hundreds of shows and it was so great to see all of you come out and support us.
We’ve decided to take a little time off from touring this summer. I think this is the first time we’ve been home for June/July in years! It’s good, I think it’s what we needed to do… stay home for a little bit… get our sanity back…. [regroup] a little…. and work on writing another record.
The band released Hello, Control in 2006.
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Small Towns Burn a Little Slower has announced some August dates with Solidarity. The band is gearing up to release their sophomore album So Begins the Test of a Man this fall. For now they’ve posted two tracks off of the album so you can get a sneak preview at their myspace page.
They released their last studio full length, Mortality As Home Entertainment in 2005.
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A few weeks ago, I reviewed Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture, a tongue-in-cheek guide book and document of the modern “emo” scene. Since the book got me thinking about a lot of things, I decided to have a chat with the authors, Leslie Simon & Trevor Kelley who are both big shot music journalists from Alternative Press.
Besides sharing Pete Wentz’ cell phone number and even his hotmail address ([email protected]) I picked their brains on emo, writing books and answering the age old question of how and why someone would pay you to write about music.
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Weezer has posted another status update on work towards their upcoming album. The disc was announced last last month and came as a bit of a surprise due to rumours the band was splitting up.
Frontman Rivers Cuomo posted a brief note about the recording status as well as release plans:
Weezer is just polishing up a batch of songs for a recording session that is going to start at the beginning of July. This will be the final recording session for our 6th album which we aim to put out in the first half of 2008. We hope you are all having good times.
The band released Make Believe in 2005.
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Motion City Soundtrack have posted some more details about their briefly delayed new full length. The record is titled Even If It Kills Me and is due out September 18, 2007. The band has revised the artwork for the release, as well as confirming some additional production details. The album itself was produced by Ric Ocasek (Weezer, Bad Brains), Adam Schlesinger & Eli Janney and the band itself.
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First to Leave have posted the new video from their debut album, Forging A Future, on Lobster Records. The video was directed by Adam Patch and Etypical Film.