Denver’s DeVotchKa have signed to Epitaph’s Anti-. Often describes as coming from the same tradition of “gypsy punk” as bands like Gogol Bordello, the band “makes a disparate, yet articulate union of Eastern European, Southwestern, South American, and American roots music, both punk and folk. ”

The acclaimed band was also nominated for a Grammy and worked on the score of the 2006 Oscar-winning film Little Miss Sunshine. The band will release their Anti debut, How It Ends in March 2008.

You can check out some music on their myspace page.
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Fall Out Boy‘s Pete Wentz has filed a Cease-and-desist request against Canadian metal act Neurosonic according to The New York Post.

The drama stems from the band’s song “So Many People” (streaming here) which attacks pop singer Ashlee Simpson who is reportedly Wentz’ new girlfriend. The song doesn’t pull any punches, saying:

You ugly girl, you cannot sing / Can’t even lip sync / Apparently money can even buy you dignity” and “Since practice wasn’t on the list / Clearly talent doesn’t exist… Whose dick did you have to suck to get that number one song?

It’s not entirely clear what legal basis Wentz has to prevent the band from speaking freely and other sources are reporting that Wentz has “asked” them to stop. Either way, the band itself has not backed down, and is now apparently asking audience members to dance a jig in the style of Ashlee’s ill-fated SNL performance.
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Cursive have posted the newest video from their 2006 album, Happy Hollow.

Speaking of Cursive, we recently posted an interview with Cursive mastermind, Tim Kasher and you can find that here.
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Rocky Votolato has posted the dates for his European tour in February.

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A Thorn For Every Heart has announced quite a few lineup changes and has also revealed they have parted ways with short-lived Interscope imprint, Kickball.

We are very excited to announce the new A Thorn For Every Heart line up and welcome Casey Hill and Matt Thorsen to our band. Jeff Harber and Tyler Mahurin are no longer a part of the band. Jeff is starting a new project called A Is For Atlantis. Look for a January 2008 release from them. Tyler is now playing drums with A Static Lullaby.

As far as [our next album] “It’s Hard To Move You” goes.. We are no longer signed to Kickball/Interscope. They have basically decided to discontinue Kickball and have dropped us and the other band signed with the label. We are waiting to find out if we will be able to get the rights to the recordings or not.

So as far as the record goes we have no idea right now if and or when it may be released. We apologize to everyone that has been waiting patiently for the release. It’s all a very frustrating situation that has been completely out of our control.

The band released Things Aren’t So Beautiful Now in 2004.
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