Tyler Read: ‘Only Rock and Roll Can Save Us Now’

Tyler ReadTyler Read‘s got something a little different for you today. One glance at the title of their album released earlier this year — Only Rock and Roll Can Save Us Now — and you’ll see what these self-proclaimers are promising. Man, that Proclaimers song was a jam and a half.

Anyway, you can find the whole thing streaming at the band’s Punknews.org profile page.
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Protest the Hero delayed till 2008

Protest The Hero‘s recently promised new album, Fortress has been delayed to 2008 from its original November 13, 2007 release date.

The band explained:

Last week we boarded a plane to Heathrow to take a short vacation before the album dropped. However, Amazon warriors with a certain bloodlust commandeered the plane. They bound and gagged everyone and moved us to the cargo deck of the plane. It was but for the grace of God that Tim remembered some knowledge the Hardy boys dropped on him, and he managed to squirm free from his ropes. He then released the rest of us and we fashioned weapons from strange knick-knacks we found in the cargo bay. It was kind of like that scene in From Dusk Till Dawn except they were Amazon warriors not vampires.

There was no way for us to anticipate the tactical skills of the warriors. The initial attack lasted three hours in which our lighting guy Cam was fatally wounded, but, after the grueling three-hour battle, we reigned victorious at which point I took the reins and landed the plane in a big field of marshmallows. It was funny and delicious. Needless to say we’re all mourning the loss of Cam… and everyone knows you can’t release an album without a lighting guy, so we’re all very sorry but the album will be delayed until we can find another lighting guy.

The band’s previous full length, Kezia, was released in 2005
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Tours: Anti-Flag / Dead to Me / Bomb the Music Industry!

Anti-Flag has announced some tour dates in support of their upcoming benefit album. The record is titled A Benefit for Victims of Violent Crime and is due out October 02, 2007.

The disc will provide funds to The Center for Victims of Violence and Crime and features five new Anti-Flag studio tracks along with five live songs recorded at Pittsburgh’s Mr. Smalls this past April. The band released For Blood and Empire via RCA last year. (You can find the artwork for the album here.)

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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Here’s a good water cooler story for you: A Nebraska senator is suing God. The disappointing punchline to this is that he’s merely proving a point that the Nebraskan law system allows most any suit to be filed, but, hey, The Onion is still bummed they didn’t think of this first.

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Say Anything’s”In Defense” to include My Chemical Romance, Alkaline Trio, Saves The Day guests

Say Anything Say Anything has the track listing and artwork for their next full length. It will be titled In Defense of the Genre and is due out October 23, 2007.

The first single from the album is “Baby Girl, I’m a Blur.” The record was produced and mixed by Brad Wood (Smashing Pumpkins, Liz Phair, mewithoutYou); according to the release, it is a double disc concept album.

The band enlisted a wide variety of guest musicians for the undertaking including members of My Chemical Romance, Dashboard Confessional, Alkaline Trio, Saves The Day and Rainer Maria.

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Zach de la Rocha (Rage Against the Machine) completes solo album

Zach De La Rocha, frontman of Rage Against the Machine has reportedly completed his long-awaited solo album. Rumblings about the outing first began shortly after the demise of Rage, but other than a few songs including a collaboration with DJ Shadow titled “March of Death” that dropped in 2003, little has been heard.

It turns out that like his bandmate Tom Morello, Zach’s solo project has wrapped up work on a record which also features contributions from Jon Theodore of Mars Volta. Sources familiar with the album say it features De La Rocha playing keyboards and that the sound is a hybrid of “Led Zeppelin and Dr. Dre. Some of it has the power you’d expect from him in Rage.”

Zach is currently unsigned and looking at how to distribute the record now.
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These Arms Are Snakes to release split with Pelican, plan Nirvana cover

These Arms Are Snakes These Arms Are Snakes have announced plans to contribute to a new split with Pelican.

The band explained:

It’s a split with Pelican where they redo one of their old songs and we added parts to it and we’ll be redoing one of our old songs and they add their own flavor to it. Brilliant. We promise to not redo a shitty old song. Do we even have any of those? Aren’t they all winners?

The band is also promising that a new cover of Nirvana‘s “Heart Shaped Box” will be recorded for an upcoming compilation.
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The Gaslight Anthem removed from Saints and Sinners Festival

A source close to the band is reporting that New Jersey’s The Gaslight Anthem have been removed from the Saints and Sinners Festival lineup. Reportedly, Max Cruise Entertainment, who runs the festival, along with Bamboozle Festival, requested the band be removed after learning of a “conflicting” show, which does not occur on the same day, weekend, week or even month of the festival. The band was notified of the change on their current tour in Germany, and also been removed from the lineup on the Saints and Sinners website.

The current lineup includes Glassjaw, Against Me!, Strike Anywhere, The Casualties and many others. The two day event takes place November 3rd and 4th in Asbury Park, NJ.

Upon their return from Europe, The Gaslight Anthem will embark on their second national tour of the year, this time with The Draft and Dead To Me, including a stop at another festival, The Fest 6, in Gainesville, FL occurring October 26, 27 and 28th. They plan to release their new EP, Señor & the Queen, this year via Sabot Productions.
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Sex Pistols reunite to celebrate 30th Anniversary of “Bollocks”

Sex Pistols Sex Pistols has announced plans for a special one-time show to mark the 30th Anniversary of their seminal 1977 full length, Never Mind the Bollocks.

Original members John Lydon, Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Glen Matlock will play at the Brixton Academy in London on November 8. The band has reunited briefly in 1996 and then performed together in 2003. Tickets, costing £37.50, go on sale on Friday at 9am local time.

To coincide with the anniversary, the band will also be reissuing several singles:Anarchy in the UK on October 01, 2007, God Save the Queen on October 08, 2007, Pretty Vacant on October 15, 2007 and Holidays in the Sun on October 22, 2007. The series will wrap up with a reissue of the entirety of Never Mind the Bollocks on October 29, 2007
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Future of the Left: “Curses”

Cardiff, UK-based Future of the Left have posted three songs from their upcoming full length debut. The band includes two members of defunct UK noise punks McLusky as well as members of Jarcrew. Their album is titled Curses and is due out September 24, 2007.

You can find “Plague of Onces,” “The Lord Hates a Coward” and “Real Men Hunt in Packs” on their myspace page.
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