Angels & Airwaves, Meg & Dia, The Color Fred and Ace Enders will be heading out on tour in February of 2008. The lineup is certain to force venues to run out of those little plastic ampersands they use on signs.

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Blacklisted “cult classic” live-to-air broadcast for WERS radio in December 2006 has been made available gratis by the label.

Vocalist George Hirsch commented on the recording:

As far as our “kewl radio set” goes, about an hour before we recorded it we played a show at the Cambridge Elks Lodge in Boston. We packed up our gear and merch as soon as the show was over and drove over to the station. We drank tea, ate chips, looked through cds Jen (Brandy Brooklyn) was gonna play for the show, Quickly wrote up a list of some songs to play, went in the room and just played the songs.

You can download the entire set as an MP3 here.
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Toronto hardcore act Brutal Knights have had to postpone their upcoming tour dates in Texas. The band commented:

Fuckin sucks but for reasons beyond our control we have to pospone our upcoming Texas weekend including our slot at the Ground Zero Fest at beerland in Austin. Total bummer…we will make Texas a stop on our upcoming US tour early ’08. Thanx and see ya later.

The band is supporting their Deranged Records full length Feast of Shame. The band does have a few Canadian gigs in the next few months, including the Hits and Misses XMas party in Toronto featuring Career Suicide and the The King Khan and BBQ Show.
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Just as the band hit the road for a tour after a long absence from the road, Hawthorne Heights have been hit with another lawsuit.

This latest suit comes from the band’s former manager Wild Justice Records and president Richard Smith, seek damages from Hawthorne Heights and its individual members for breach of contract, unpaid fees for concerts that had been booked, merchandise that was sold, the acquisition of musical instruments and other band gear, a commission on a sponsorship by Mountain Dew and an $800 loan. The lawsuit is assigned to Judge Daniel P. O’Brien.

Of some note is this:

In January 2007, Plaintiff and Defendant agreed to a management arrangement, whereby Plaintiff would be paid 1/6 of the revenue obtained by Defendants based on Plaintiff’s efforts. In conjunction with that oral agreement, Plaintiff prepared a written agreement and delivered it to Defendants. While Defendants did not sign the agreement, they did not object to any provision of it and the parties in fact operated pursuant to the agreement until May 2007.

The band fired their management in May of 2007. Hawthorne Heights has been wracked by lawsuits over the past few years, both as plaintiff in a suit against Victory Records and as defendant in a countersuit by the same.
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Agnostic Front has posted a new video from their upcoming full length. The record is titled Warriors and is due out November 06, 2007. It is the follow-up to Another Voice which was released in 2005 and was the band’s first album on Nuclear Blast.

The video was directed by Ian McFarland and Mike Pecci.

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The Appreciation Post have posted some material from their second annual tribute night to the late, great Rocket from the Crypt. The band performed a similar set last year, in RFTC-style costumes with a full horn section.

The video includes a performance of “Middle” and “Born in ’69,” the opening two tracks from 1995’s Scream, Dracula, Scream!.

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the Appreciation Post have posted some material from their second annual tribute night to the late, great Rocket From the Crypt. The band performed a similar set last year, in RFTC-style costumes with a full horn section.

The video includes a performance of “Middle” and “Born in ’69” the opening two tracks from 1995’s Scream, Dracula, Scream!.

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The Swellers have posted a new video from their 2007 full length, My Everest.

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Some more video footage from Nirvana‘s famous Unplugged DVD is now available online. Originally recorded on November 18th, 1993 and released on audio CD, the performance has remained unreleased in any video format since then. The DVD version is due out November 20, 2007 and will feature the unedited sixty-six-minute concert which featured Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic as well as touring guitarist Pat Smear and members of the Meat Puppets.

Though the band split up after the suicide of frontman Kurt Cobain in 1994, the label has produced a posthumous release every year since 2002 with Nirvana, With the Lights Out, Sliver: The Best of the Box, Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! coming each year around October/November.

The label has posted an official trailer as well as “All Apologies” and “About A Girl.”

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With their new record set to drop on November 13, 2007, Dillinger Escape Plan briefly noted some plans for the new year:

We have a killer tour in the works for the USA in January, a lot of people are gonna be pretty stoked. We’ll let the cat out of the bag as soon as we can. Europe is being confirmed for February, and we’ll hit everywhere else soon thereafter.

The new record is titled Ire Works. It is the follow-up to Miss Machine which was released in 2004.
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