Spitfire have posted the first song from their upcoming full length. The record is titled Cult Fiction and is due out March 25, 2008. It is the follow-up to Self-Help which was released in 2006.
You can find “Crossed” on their myspace page.
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Athens, GA three-piece the Whigs have posted another new track from their upcoming debut for ATO Records. The new record is titled Mission Control and is due out January 22, 2008 The label recently reissued their self-released debut Give ‘Em All A Big Fat Lip,
You can check out “Right Hand on My Heart” as an MP3 file here.
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Post-hardcore act Edison Glass have posted the new video from their 2007 full length, A Burn Or A Shiver.
The Helio Sequence have posted a new song from their upcoming full length on Sub Pop. The record is titled Keep Your Eyes Ahead and is due out January 29, 2008.
You can check out the song here: “Keep Your Eyes Ahead.”
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Bob Nanna (of Braid, Hey Mercedes and The City On Film fame) has posted a new solo track.
You can check it out here: “Who’s Gonna Save My Life Tonight?.”
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Interpol have launched a stream of their recently released, indie-only live EP. Like Bright Eyes and Weezer, the album is exclusively targeted at independently owned and operated record stores. It will be released through the band’s major label, Capitol, but will only arrive at indie stores in the Coalition of Independent Music Stores.
To act as a stopgap before their next album, Atmosphere have posted a free thirteen-song album for free download. You can download “Strictly Leakage” right here.
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Legendary Japanese noise-rock act Boredoms have announced a number of tour dates this summer and fall that will take them through Canada, the US and Europe. The band most recently delivered five seminal 1990s Boredoms records in the US with four surfacing for the first time ever.
The long-running band released Seadrum/House of Sun via Vice in 2005.
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Germany’s Red Tape Parade have joined European hardcore label Let It Burn and Fields of Hope Records.
The band explained their formation:
In 2006 i was pretty done with hardcore in a musical sense. More assholes then you can shake a stick at, more clichees that any self respecting punk could take. Punkrock – once a radical form of music that insprired us to escape our own boring lives and to pick up our instruments – now seemed to split up in several ridicolous sub-genres. Macho-jock-metal, self indulgent emo, ironic post-punk hippness and shitty overproduced corporate pop-punk-wolves-in-punk-sheep-clothes.
But then i recieved a package from Revelation Records that contained cds by Sinking Ships, Shook Ones and – most important – End Of A Year. I realized that i still wasn’ t done playing loud, distored music filled with anger and post-teenage angst.
The debut album will be recorded and mixed in late March 2008 with Californian based producer Mike Drohman at out-o-space studios in Goettingen, Germany with the help of engineer Tom Spoetter. It is due out July 15, 2008.
At the same time the band will record songs for a split 7 inch with ex-Revelation Records-act End of a Year. The artwork for this 7 inch, which will be released in May 2008 by a yet to be announced label, will be done by no other than Mitch Clem.
You can check out some music on their myspace page.
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A new editorial asks if there has been a band as significant or important as Nirvana in the last fourteen years.
As the writer explains:
It’s been over 14 years since Nirvana appeared on MTV’s Unplugged, but I’ll be damned if I’ve come across a band over the past decade that has created as much sway and heat as this 3 piece outfit from Olympia did back in the early ‘90s.
I repeat my challenge: Please name me a band over the past 10 years who has come close to Nirvana in sheer impact (and, I’m not talking about some indie band that hardly anyone listens to or some ring-tone fueled, Top-40 creation who no one will remember in 6 months. I’m talking IMPACT here, people. Combining art AND commerce. Both big AND authentic. Dig?).
It’s a very good question. The band literally defined the 90s, stealing the musical landscape from image-obsessed glam rock and sugary pop music and bringing the underground into the mainstream. Most popular bands that followed, from Jane’s Addiction to Green Day to the Offspring to Fall Out Boy owe Nirvana a debt for opening the door for “indie” artists.
Some argue that Nirvana’s impact has been aggrandised over the years due to frontman Kurt Cobain’s suicide, but much of the impact that Nirvana had occurred long before that fateful day. Even influential bands like Fugazi never really reached the apex of mainstream success and critical acclaim that Nirvana shared in its heyday. Speaking of Fugazi, Guy Picciotto once said of Nevermind:
It was like our record could have been a hobo pissing in the forest for the amount of impact it had. […] It felt like we were playing ukuleles all of a sudden because of the disparity of the impact of what they did”
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Dates have been announced for an upcoming tour featuring Horrorpops, The Pink Spiders and Rocket.
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The English Beat have announced a US tour kicking off on Valentine’s Day. The 2-tone act, lead by founding frontman Dave Wakeling will be joined by like-minded Rx Bandits for the entire run.
The Beat celebrated the 25th anniversary of their breakthrough 1983 hit album, Special Beat Service last year. The Bandits issued …And the Battle Begun in 2006.
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HORSE the Band has begun work on a 40-country tour. They explained:
We are currently planning a 40-country tour of Earth. We are booking the tour by ourselves, and going by ourselves because everyone is scared of us and no one will let us play their tours because we are too wild and crazy.
In addition, no booking agencies will book shows for us on foreign soil because we have no “tour history on the books” or “soundscans” or “albums in stores”. It is time to once again take matters into our own hands, go off the beaten track, and show the music industry that they don’t matter anymore because of the INTERNET.
We hope to be an inspiration to all young bands with honest dreams and the willingness to say “FUCK IT” to the shitty, boring, timid, sterile conventions that have slimed their way into our scene with the recent commercialization and homogenization of underground music. We will be producing a TV show/movie about recklessly circling the globe playing volatile shows, eating weird new foods, meeting new races and species, seeing the marvels of nature and man, narrowly escaping tragedy (or not escaping it), all while teetering on the brink of alcoholism and mental illness and sharing the language of music that unites us all!
The band has also unveiled the routing for said tour, and are aiming for a March kickoff.
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