The Briggs: “The Westlake Sessions”

the Briggs Southern California’s the Briggs today released a new acoustic record titled The Westlake Sessions. The digital-only EP features six acoustic performances including an Elvis Costello cover. To celebrate this very cool release, we’ve got a full album stream of all six songs for your listening pleasure.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Taken announces B-sides collection

To coincide with the recent reunion performance announcement, Taken has announced plans to release a new B-sides collection via their former label, Goodfellow.

Titled This Is Forever: A Taken B-Sides Collection, the album will see a domestic release via Goodfellow Records in March while Falling Leaves Records in Japan will release the collection in Japan. This release features the bands original 1998 demo, their seven-inch and various unreleased and live material.

Along with the single show in Anaheim, the band will be headed to Japan for for a reunion tour with Evylock from March 13th-18th.
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H2O to record in January

Though the band had originally planned studio time for October/November, it looks like H2O will be in the studio in January:

We will be recording in California in January [for] our first new cd since 2001. We have a 23 new songs (not all for album) and I think the old and new h2omeys will appreciate and like ’em! We are gonna be doing daily blogs and video exclusivley on out trig.com page.

The trig.com page the band mentions is here.
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The Number Twelve Looks Like You to record upcoming set for DVD/EP

The Number Twelve Looks Like You have begun work on a new DVD+EP due out in the Spring via Eyeball Records.

On December 15th, 2007 – at the band’s hometown venue The School of Rock in South Hackensack, NJ- the band will be recording their performance for the DVD. Themed around the historic 1938 broadcast reading of War of the Worlds, the show will be all ages. You can check out more details on their website.
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Smartbomb (No Trigger, Shock Nagasaki) signs to Think Fast!

Think Fast has signed Smartbomb from Worcester, Massachusetts. The band is comprised of half the current members of No Trigger (Nitro Records) and a member of Shock Nagasaki (TKO Records).

An eight song EP titled Chaos and Lawlessness is scheduled to hit store shelves February 19, 2008, followed by a full length later in the new year. You can download a free mp3 of the track “Begin” on the media page of the TF! website, or by visiting the band’s myspace page.
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Paint It Black announces release date, debuts new track

Paint It Black Paint It Black has announced a release date and posted the first track from their upcoming third album. The record is titled New Lexicon and is due out February 19, 2008. You can check out the artwork on the release page.

The album was produced by J. Robbins and Oktopus (of Dälek). The first song, can be found here: “Past Tense, Future Perfect.”
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KROQ “Almost Acoustic” with Bad Religion, Rise Against, Angels and Airwaves, Paramore

The lineup has been announced for KROQ‘s “Almost Acoustic” Christmas performance. The bill will feature Linkin Park, Angels & Airwaves, Avenged Sevenfold, Bad Religion, Paramore, Rise Against and Serj Tankian.

The show takes place Saturday, December 8th at the Gibson Amphitheatre.
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