Bedouin Soundclash and Saint Alvia Cartel have announced Canadian tour dates together beginning later this month. The latter band features ex-members/members of Ontario bands Grade, Boys Night Out, Jersey, and the Video Dead.
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Ted Leo and the Pharmacists has posted the latest video from his Touch and Go debut, Living with the Living.
You can check out the video here.
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Stockholm-based d-beat/hardcore outfit Disfear have detailed their upcoming full length for Relapse Records. The record is titled Live The Storm and is due out January 22, 2008.
The album was recorded with Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou at his God City Studios in Salem, MA. The band is planning on at least two visits to the United States in early 2008 hitting both coasts.
On the heels of their recent announcement of plans for a new record, My Bloody Valentine has announced three shows for June and July of 2008.
The band has been inactive since 1995 when the band imploded during attempts to record a follow up to their classic 1991 full length, Loveless.
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Gene Simmons, founder of successful pop-metal act Kiss, is the latest artist to comment about the music industry that has afforded him a great deal of success. When pressed by an Billboard interview about the possibility of recording new music, he lashed out saying:
The record industry is in such a mess. I called for what it was when college kids first started download music for free — that they were crooks. I told every record label I spoke with that they just lit the fuse to their own bomb that was going to explode from under them and put them on the street.
There is nothing in me that wants to go in there and do new music. How are you going to deliver it? How are you going to get paid for it if people can just get it for free?
The record industry doesn’t have a f*cking clue how to make money. It’s only their fault for letting foxes get into the henhouse and then wondering why there’s no eggs or chickens. Every little college kid, every freshly-scrubbed little kid’s face should have been sued off the face of the earth. They should have taken their houses and cars and nipped it right there in the beginning. Those kids are putting 100,000 to a million people out of work.
You can check out the interview here.
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Pelican has finally wrapped up work and set a release date for their DVD. Titled After the Ceiling Cracked, it is due out December 04, 2007.
According to Hydrahead, the DVD’s centerpiece is a full concert in London from December of 2005 documented by four camerapeople with Jesu mastermind Justin Broadrick manning the console for both the live and recorded sound mix.
The DVD also features photos and songs from several other shows spanning their career. The 3-inch CD is the digital version of the tunes from the recently released “Pink Mammoth” 10-inch EP with an additional collaborative version of the title track featuring contributions from the boys in These Arms Are Snakes.
The band recently began a co-headlining European tour alongside High on Fire.
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Anti-Flag has confirmed their upcoming touring plans which include a short West Coast tour with Dead To Me and Intro5pect as well as a series of Canadian dates with Alexisonfire, The Bled and Saosin. Towards the end of the year, the band will be returning to the US to wrap up 2008 with shows alongside Bomb the Music Industry and The Code.
Royden has called it quits. Some of the problems seem to stem from a falling out with their label, Hopeless Records.
The band made the announcement:
Lately, there have been a lot of rumors about Royden breaking up. Well.. it is true. After 4 years of being a band we have decided to part our seperate ways with Hopeless Records and each other. There has been internal band troubles and troubles with the band and the release of our CD from Hopeless Records that have been ongoing for the past 2 years and continue to occur now. BE [wary] of labels, folks.
So that being said we will be finishing our last shows in December/January and possibly posting a new song or 2 and maybe even some old unreleased stuff and b sides since Hopeless is NOT putting out a physical copy of our cd in stores.
Hydrahead is apparently working on a reissue from 90s-era hardcore outfit The Huguenots. The band featured Kurt Ballou of Converge, Aaron Stuart of PiebaldPiebald and Dan Colby of The Explosion.
In advance of the release, the band has launched a myspace page complete with three tracks from the upcoming discography. You can check the songs out here.
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Explosions in the Sky have begun announcing 2008 touring plans. The shows are in continued support of All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone and lead up to the band’s curation of the 2008 edition of All Tomorrow’s Parties in Minefield, UK.
Ride the Boogie, the new project from Vaux songwriter Adam Tymn. The record is titled Ride The Boogie and is due out January 15, 2008.
You can check out some music on their myspace page.
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As Cities Burn have posted a new video from their 2007 album, Come Now Sleep.
An Angle has posted the latest video from their new album, The Truth is That You Are Alive.