Bayside have booked a headlining tour set to kick off in early 2008. The jaunt will include, on various stops, Straylight Run, Four Year Strong, Tokyo Rose and The Status.
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The Lawrence Arms have posted their acoustic rendition of “Boatless Booze Cruise” recorded when they appeared on BBC Radio two weeks ago. The original track comes from their 2002 album, Apathy and Exhaustion.
You can check it out on their myspace page.
While you’re there, you can check out a live recording of “Smokestacks” from the band’s 12th show back in 1999. Just imagine, they didn’t even know if the world was going to end because of the Y2K bug. Music is exactly like a time machine, except without the ability to manipulate the stock market or make good bets on baseball games.
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22 Jacks has returned from the grave for a few shows in California this January. The band will be playing shows in Glendale, San Jose and San Francisco. On the San Francisco date they’ll be supporting Social Distortion. The dates are below.
The Jacks formed in 1995 and have featured members of WAX, The Breeders, Adolescents and Royal Crown Revue. The lineup for 2008’s model will feature founder Joe Sib singing, Steve Soto on vocals and guitar, Fraenza on guitar, Medeles on drums and former Royal Crown Revue guitarist James Achor on bass.
The band is planning for no new material but may be adding more shows later in the year.
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Rise Against will package together a digital b-sides EP in mid January titled This Is Noise. The collection will feature the two Black Flag covers the band recorded for the Lords of Dogtown soundtrack, an unused cut from the The Sufferer & the Witness sessions, and another rare track recorded while on tour years ago. It will be made available on January 15th via the iTunes Music Store.
The band recently performed at the KROQ “Almost Acoustic” Christmas.
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Just before we get a whole extra day to celebrate the leap year, Napalm Death, Walls of Jericho, DevilDriver, 36 Crazyfists an In Vitro will be heading on on tour together.
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Fearless is looking for fans of the label to design them a new logo. From the horse’s mouth:
Fearless Records is looking for a new company logo to take them into the new year and into a new era. Fearless Records has released 100+ albums and is excited to find a new logo that fits the new roster of bands.
The person responsible for the new logo will win 1,000 of our U.S. dollars. For more information, see Fearless’ website.
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Some familiar names have popped up in the Onion AV Club‘s 2007 “Worst Band Names” list. The “Just Plain Bad” category includes the Color Fred, the “Using the Title to Something Else” has the Wonder Years and the Graduate, while With Blood Comes Cleansing falls into the “We’re Fucking Heavy, Bro” slot and I Would Set Myself On Fire For You is “EMOOOOOO” apparently. Somehow, our friends The Cornish Gay Men also made it on the list.
Other bands you may recognize include Secret Lives Of The Freemasons, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You , The Graduate and Job for a Cowboy.
You can check it out here.
My favorite? “Count Dracula’s Weed Smuggling Jam Engine,” those guys have to rock. What’s yours?
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Saul Williams, the slam-poet/experimental hip hop artist has released a new song from his new album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggytardust. The record is a collaboration with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and has been released independently in the donation-suggested format popularized by Radiohead.
Unlike Radiohead however, Saul’s album is being made available in very high quality formats from 192kbps-encoded MP3 to CD quality FLAC “lossless” format files.
You can check out the song, a cover of U2’s classic track “Sunday Bloody Sunday” right here.
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The seminal hardcore punk quartet Sick of It All have announced some UK and Scotland tour dates that will kick off in April. As previously reported, the band has announced 2008 Winter tour featuring Sick Of It All, Madball, Death Before Dishonor and Wisdom in Chains.
The band has been touring non-stop since release of their last record, 2006’s Death to Tyrants, though as of August they had begun writing new material for their next album that should be released in the Spring of 2008. The record will likely appear on Century Media which recently absorbed Abacus and most of the label’s bands.
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Able Baker Fox have posted a new song from their upcoming debut for Second Nature. The record is titled Voices and is available for pre-order now.
The band features guitarist Nathan Ellis (The Casket Lottery, Coalesce, Jackie Carol), guitarist Mike Reed (Small Brown Bike, LaSalle), bassist Ben Reed (Small Brown Bike, The Great Sea Serpents) and drummer Jeff Gensterblum (Small Brown Bike, The Holy Fire). Ellis and the Reeds all contribute vocals to the project.
You can check out “Face on Fire” as well as two other songs on their myspace page.
The band will be supporting Hot Water Music on one of their upcoming reunion shows.
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Protest the Hero has posted the newest video from their upcoming full length. The record is titled Fortress and is due out January 29, 2008. It is the follow-up to Kezia which was released in 2005.
You can check out the video here.
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A date has been set for the highly anticipated posthumous CD+DVD release from Rocket From The Crypt. The record is titled RIP and is due out February 26, 2008.
The DVD documents the band’s final show, recorded on Halloween 2005 with the lineup of John “Speedo” Reis (guitar/vox),N.D. (guitar), Petey X (bass), Apollo 9 (sax), JC 2000 (trumpet) and Ruby Mars (drums)
The band has also put together a short teaser/trailer for the DVD.
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