Critically acclaimed weirdos, Portugal. The Man have announced a fall headlining tour with support from Rocky Votolato and The Great Depression.
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Wal-Mart begins selling DRM-free online music
Consistant with an emerging trend that seems to be addressing the recent acknowledgment by the larger online music services, Wal-Mart has begun selling songs online free of digital-rights management, or DRM. DRM was originally inserted into songs as a method to stop online piracy of music, but lead to more problems than benefits as consumers found ways around it, and also experienced the frustration of attempting to play a song with DRM on a non-iPod brand MP3 player, such as the Creative Zen or Microsoft Zune.
Additionally, Wal-Mart will be selling the songs 94 cents a piece, compared the recent price-increase by Apple’s iTunes at $1.29 per track, though the iTune’s songs do come at a higher audio quality.
What are your thoughts on DRM and how does it impact your purchases of online music? Does it mean anything to see a large retailer such as Wal-Mart, which is normally frowned upon in the punk community, selling music not only cheaper but without the restrictions that many were so avidly against? Let us know your thoughts below.
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Tours: Brutal Knights (Europe)
Toronto hardcore act Brutal Knights are headed to Europe in September for a lengthy tour in support of their recent Deranged Records full length Feast of Shame. Frontman Nick Flanagan commented:
I’m pretty excited for our European trip. Please bring me a croissant with ham in it when I am there. We’re playing some kind of Trainspotting festival, but if any of you sickos bring a dead baby or a Scottish accent to the show I’m fucking going back to America, or wherever it is I’m from.
That festival takes place on September 8th in Schweinfurt. It features two days of performances including bands like Life At These Speeds, Zann, Polite Sleeper, Ten Volt Shock, Omega Massif, Meneguar, Chainbreaker and others.
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Emanuel: ‘Black Earth Tiger’
Emanuel has posted a full album stream of their new album for Vagrant. The record is titled Black Earth Tiger and is due out August 28, 2007. It is the follow-up to Soundtrack To A Headrush which was released in 2005.
You an check out the entire thing right here.
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MxPx, New Pornographers, Cartel, Architecture in Helsinki on AOL
AOL Music has posted another new set of full album streams for new and recent releases. Among the streams are new albums from New Pornographers, Cartel and Architecture in Helsinki. The set also includes a new AOL session with MxPx who perform two of their songs and a Tom Petty cover acoustically.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
There is wayyyy too much stuff coming out today. I think we barely scratched the surface, but hopefully this helps you out a bit.
- Modern Life Is War releases their highly anticipated third full-length and Equal Vision debut, Midnight in America
- Aiden has Conviction
- A look at Against Me! and the Gaslight Anthem‘s live stop in Charlotte
- Indie rock stars Architecture in Helsinki and their Polyvinyl debut, Places Like This
- Several more over at the Punknews Review page
Welcome to Rapture: BioShock is Now Available
BioShock, the genetically-enhanced shooter from 2K Games, is now available. The game is activated and ready to play for those who pre-purchased and pre-loaded the game.
BioShock is one of the most critically-acclaimed games in years, with a 97% average Metacritic rating. Players enter the game as a castaway in Rapture, an underwater utopia torn apart by civil war. Caught between powerful forces and hunted down by genetically modified “splicers” and deadly security systems, players have to come to grips with a deadly, mysterious world filled with powerful technology and fascinating characters. No encounter ever plays out the same and no two gamers will play BioShock the same way.
Play the demo to sample the engrossing gameplay and narrative set in a vividly illustrated Art Deco underwater world.
BioShock will be available via Steam and at retail in Europe on August 24.
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Mustard Plug: “Who Benefits?”
And now the second of two brand new tracks from ska/punk superstars Mustard Plug. The record is titled In Black And White and is due out September 11, 2007. We posted another song last week and you can still find that one on their profile.
You can check out “Who Benefits?” on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Down to Earth Approach (2000-2007)
Down To Earth Approach has called it quits. The band made the announcement on their myspace page:
As much as I hate to have to say this, DTEA is going to be breaking up after our current tour. We will have a final show on September 29th in our hometown of Batavia. Thank you so much to everyone who believed in us and supported us in any way. We’ve had an amazing run that we won’t ever forget.
The group released Another Intervention in 2004 and Come Back To You in 2007.
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American Steel tracklist posted
American Steel have detailed the track listing for their upcoming full length for Fat Wreck Chords. The record is titled Destroy Their Future and is due out October 02, 2007. It is the follow-up to Jagged Thoughts which was released in 2001.
The band will be supporting the album on an upcoming tour with the Lawrence Arms.
Cobra Starship to return this year
Just a year after the release of their debut, Cobra Starship will return this fall with a new record.
The record is titled If the World Is Ending, We Are Throwing the Party and is due out October 23, 2007. It is the follow-up to While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets which was released in 2006.
Stevenson talks about next Lemonheads album
In a recent interview about his band, Only Crime, uber-producer Bill Stevenson dropped some information about a new full length from The Lemonheads.
He explained:
I’m probably going to start another Lemonheads album maybe in the spring or so. I think I’m going to do a tour with Lemonheads in December. It will probably take us a year or more, we work like one week at a time throughout the year at different times.
The band, fronted by Evan Dando, released The Lemonheads last year on Vagrant to some critical acclaim. Only Crime released Virulence earlier this year.
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Millencolin to record new record
Millencolin has announced their plans to record their upcoming seventh full length record. On November 1st the band will head to their Sound Lab Studios in Örebro, Sweden with a not yet announced producer to record their followup to 2005’s Kingwood. The band is hoping for a release in the early second half of 2008.
Since Kingwood, members of the band have been involved in other projects including Nikola Sarcevic’s solo project and Mathias working on Franky Lee.
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