The Color Fred, the former mistress and now new wife of Fred Mascherino, has posted a new song. Mascherino is formerly of Taking Back Sunday and Breaking Pangea and will be releasing Bend To Break on October 30.
You can find “Get Out” on his myspace page.
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St. Louis, MO pop-punks the Humanoids will enter Firebrand Studios this coming weekend to record a new 7″.
The band self-released the Are Born EP earlier this year, and will be playing some music festival in Florida later this month.
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Zox will be releasing their sophomore SideOneDummy album next year. The record is titled Line in the Sand and is due out January 22, 2008. It is the follow-up to The Wait which was released in 2005.
You can stream a bit of the title track and check out some upcoming tour dates right here.
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In what is turning in a pretty weird story, ubiquitous purveyors of refried beans Taco Bell have given $500.00 worth of free food (coupons) to a number of bands around the United States.
The “Feed the Beat” promotion claims that bands submitted applications for the contest which was open to “up-and-coming” touring bands. “Winners” include Strike Anywhere, Ted Leo, Big D, Panthers, Armor for Sleep, Manchester Orchestra, The Graduate and many others.
But that isn’t the weird part, the weird part is that at least one of these bands never entered the contest and moreover, is not too fond of being associated with the fast food powerhouse. Ted Leo wrote a letter to the company asking what was going on:
We have contacted Taco Bell and have found out that someone submitted an application from a G-mail address that is not ours (Heck of a job, G-mail!), so we have, in fact, been pranked, which, since Taco Bell is now removing our name from everything associated with this dumb-ass “Muy Caliente! Side Stage at the Altell Garden Party Pavillion” bullshit, I have to appreciate on some levels… but anyway, it was fake, we weren’t involved with Taco Bell, and now it’s over.
Ted Leo and Strike Anywhere are both associated with PETA and the vegan movement, so his reaction is not entirely surprising. No word on how many of the other applications were legitimate. We’ve sent off an email to Strike Anywhere’s people to see what they think.
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In a story combining two of our more popular topics – Green Day and the Sex Pistols – the frontman of the latter band, Johnny “Rotten” Lydon has taken some shots at the multi-platinum, award-winning band in a new interview.
His exact words:
I love to tease that lot, because I think they’re dopey, They hold no promise, no future. They jumped on a bandwagon that was all clearly laid out for them, forgetting all the bands that did the groundwork, putting together a punk movement. They came in and said, ‘Yes, we can wear these clothes and have our hair like this, wear those boots and play music that way, and we’ll call ourselves punk.’ Not much thought went into them. Nothing — nothing original. Therefore they smell, big time. They’re like old gorgonzola cheese in old boots.
Zing. Can’t beat stinky cheese metaphors.
Lydon goes on to take plenty of well-aimed shots at Britney Spears, rules out Sex Pistols recordings and hints at a possible resurrection of PIL.
You can check it out here.
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No clever introduction today. I’m just trying to quickly throw this up so I can grab cheap sushi and see Circa Survive.
Isis has unveiled more plans in celebration of their 10th anniversary together. The band will be teaming up with Conspiracy and Robotic Empire to produce a special commemorative box set featuring their entire studio output on twelve vinyl LPs.
The box will include an oversized poster insert and cloth-bound, foil-stamped custom box and be limited to 600 copies worldwide. 300 will be available through Robotic Empire in the US and 300 will be available through Conspiracy Records in Europe. All records will be on 180 gram heavyweight black vinyl.
Albums featured in the box include Mosquito Control, The Red Sea, Celestial (double), Sgnl < 05, Sawblade, Celestial (Double), Oceanic (Double), Panopticon (Double) and In the Absence of Truth (Double). All releases will be housed in newly designed covers with artwork created specifically for this release
We’ll hopefully have more information for you for an upcoming vinyl file edition.
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Former Vice President Al Gore has co-won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on global warming. The activist and former politician shares the award with the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for:
Their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change,
Gore and the group will receive commemorative gold medals, a share of the $1.5 million prize and a diploma at the award ceremony, which will be held in Oslo, Norway, on December 10. Gore has been an outspoken figure for climate change, releasing his film, An Inconvenient Truth and organizing the massive Live Earth festival/demonstration.
After weeks of activity, Thrice has finally posted the entirety of their new album on their myspace page. The record is titled The Alchemy Index: Volumes 1 & 2 and is due out October 16, 2007.
You can check out the stream here.
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Recent Hellcat addition, Civet, are about to enter the studio to record their first album for their new label.
The band most recently released Massacre in 2005 via Disaster Records.
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Emanuel have posted the new video from their 2007 full length, Black Earth Tiger.
The video appears to be a female-focused homage to Fight Club.
Year Long Disaster and Birds of Avalon will be taking the Volcom tour to Europe this fall for a series of free shows.
Year Long Disaster are a Rock n’ Roll power trio featuring Daniel Davies (son of Kinks guitarist Dave Davies) on guitar and vocals, Rich Mullins (ex-Karma To Burn, Speedealer) on bass, and Brad Hargreaves (Third Eye Blind) behind the drum kit. Recently completing their debut full-length album recorded in Tucson, AZ with Jim Waters (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, R.L. Burnside), this self-titled effort was released in the U.S. on Oct. 9th and is set for release in Europe in early 2008. Year Long Disaster is currently on tour in the US with Turbonegro.
Birds Of Avalon features former The Cherry Valence members; the husband and wife team of Paul Siler and Cheetie Kumar. After leaving The Cherry Valence, Siler and Kumar returned to Raleigh and got to work putting together a new band, recruiting local area musicians, Craig Tilley (The Weather) on vocals, Scott Nurkin (Dynamite Brothers) on drums, and David Mueller on bass, with Siler and Kumar rounding out the group as dueling axe slingers. Birds of Avalon’s debut release, Bazaar Bazaar, was produced by Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Wilco, Let’s Active) and Birds Of Avalon, and was released in the U.S. in May.
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This is a very small patch updating World of Warcraft from v2.2.2 to v2.2.3 directly from Blizzard Entertainment.
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