Former CEO of Chicago based music corporation Hewhocorrupts, Inc., Tommy Camaro, has been reinstated. The move comes in the wake of a similar transition by Starbucks. Mr. Camaro stepped down from his position earlier this month. Interim CEO Toney Vast-Binder agreed to step down from the company, stating “I know a good package when I see one”.

The group will be playing shows with their original lineup again on March 1st in both Franklin and Indianapolis, IN.
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Dates have been posted for the Explosions in Your Pants Tour, featuring Mayday Parade, My American Heart and the Graduate.

The tour will hit the East Coast this April.

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Hot Rod Circuit has announced that they are at work on a b-sides release, featuring unreleased tracks from their previous records.

The album, which features guest appearances from Chris Carabba and Jay Russell, will include a live DVD from their last show in New Haven, CT.
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Pennsylvania based Century has been signed to metal-heavy label Prosthetic Records. On April 29th, the label will release Black Ocean, a concept heavy album that the band has been working on the album since 2006’s Faith and Failure.

The band will also be launching a special website dedicated to the new album featuring a bonus track available only after solving the code in the album’s artwork. The website will launch on April 28th, coinciding with the European release of the album.
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Jello Biafra recently spoke to Norway’s Aftenposten and unleashed some serious hate against music industry trade lobby, RIAA. He does express some concern about the problem of file sharing with regards to newer bands however:

I have two different opinions on file-sharing” says Biafra, drawing a metaphorical line in the sand – with good (small labels) on one side, and bad (big labels) on the other. You may take from the big labels, because the only thing they do is steal from both the artists and the audience.

Don’t take from the smaller, independent labels. Then fantastic bands would have to surrender way too early, because they can’t afford it, Support the independent labels, but the big ones –fuck’em. Anyways, I haven’t found anything in many years which come from a large label worth buying.

The RIAA reminds me most of the Godfather, we will sue you. If you want out of this without going to court, we can make an arrangement: Give us $5000. If not, you will find a horses head in your bed. They are doing this to 12 year old girls, they are doing it to 80 year old women, and they do it to students. There are plenty of examples that show people having to quit school because they had to give all their money to the recording industry instead.

You can find the remainder of the translated article here.
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Brooklyn, NY’s Encrypt Manuscript are finally set to release their long-gestating debut full-length, and has posted four new tracks from it for streaming on their MySpace page.

The tracks are taken from the Alex Newport (At the Drive-In, the Mars Volta)-produced Census, recorded this past November and due on The Tone Library label in March. It will be released in limited quantities on compact disc and, soon thereafter, receive a wide digital distribution.

The band actually recorded an entirely different full-length entitled People in January 2007 with producer Paul Mahajan (TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs). However, the entire album was scrapped, as the band says: “…We felt the performance, the recording, and the songs themselves weren’t close enough to the ones we had envisioned. After a brief but tumultuous period of anger, confusion, and denial, we eventually found clarity and decided to re-do the entire record.”

With Census, the band claims they “think it’s an honest and exciting representation of the musical influences and conceptual ideas [they’ve] tried to develop since releasing [a] 7” in 2005.”

Record release shows are being planned for both New York City and Long Island. New York’s will take place March 29 at Fontana’s in New York City with Each Other’s Mothers, Villa Vina (ex-On the Might of Princes), Limbs and Cheeky. Long Island’s will be during the first week of April with a reunion from Church of the Rowdy and Incendiary among others.
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Toronto three piece Born Ruffians are on the road now with Edmonton-based Epitaph-signed hip hop act Cadence Weapon.

The band is working towards the release of their new full length Red, Yellow and Blue, due out on March 04th on Warp Records.
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We don’t normally report on prog-rock behemoths like Dream Theater, but the news that they’ll be taking out Between the Buried and Me and 3 on tour seemed like it would be of particular interest to some of our readers. The month-long jaunt will also feature Opeth.

All the bands had releases in 2007: the headliners with Systematic Chaos on Roadrunner; Opeth and their double-disc live set on Peaceville entitled Roundhouse Tapes; Between the Buried and Me’s Victory effort Colors; and 3’s The End Is Begun on Metal Blade.
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Some details have been announced on an “enhanced” digital single/EP from Thrice in anticipation of The Alchemy Index: Volumes III & IV: Earth & Air (due out April 15).

The release, due on iTunes March 4, will contain the band’s newest single, “Come All You Weary,” an acoustic version of “The Whaler” (the original version of which appeared on the Water EP), a remix of “Digital Sea” by Dillinger Escape Plan’s Ben Weinman (also originally on the Water EP) and the music video for “Digital Sea.”

A stream of “Come All You Weary” is promised on Thrice’s MySpace page February 28th.

The Alchemy Index: Volumes I & II: Fire & Water was released in 2007.
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More info has been revealed by the Alternative Press news site on the forthcoming EP by New Found Glory for Bridge 9. Tip of the Iceberg‘s covers will be of Gorilla Biscuits (“No Reason Why”), Shelter (“Here We Go”) and Lifetime (“Cut the Tension”). However, the EP will be accompanied by an entire full-length from side project International Superheroes of Hardcore entitled Takin’ It Ova!. It’s due out April 15.

H2O‘s as yet untitled full-length will see a street date on May 27. A recent interview was also posted at moviescenester.
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The bands for the next volume in Engineer Records‘ three-way split series has been announced. The third edition will feature three new tracks apiece from Elemae and Memorial, as well as two new tracks and one from a previous European full-length by Belgium’s Soon. It’ll be a joint release between Engineer and the non-Ian Mackaye affiliated Embrace Records. The album is due out within the next few months, following up last year’s edition with Saboteur, the Mockingbird Nightmare and Red Light Green Light.

In other label news, Saboteur are on the upcoming Chemical-X DVD, Apple of Discord have begun work on their new release Nothing Is Possible, Red Light Green Light will soon enter the studio, the Sketch have finished recording their The Best Kid in Town EP, and Engineer will soon co-release a split 7″ with Koi from My So Called Life and Ryan Mills.
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Drain the Sky (ex-His Hero Is Gone) has embarked on a brief West Coast tour of the U.S. with labelmates Birushanah.

Drain the Sky is out in support of their recently released Level-Plane full-length 12″, Haunted by Rivers. Japan’s Birushanah, on their first U.S. tour ever, will release their debut full-length, Akai Yami, April 25th on the label.
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Jesse: It’s been a few years since I’ve been blown away by an album’s sheer ballsiness, but I can’t stop spinning Capillary Action‘s new album, So Embarassing Hailing from Philadelphia, PA (and many other places), the group defies definition: metal riffs give way to traditionalist free jazz, soaring melodies topple down onto absurdist freak out moments layered on top of samba beats. Phil Spector-like arrangements contrast with sludge metal. And on record, they pooled in at least fifteen people to fill out their vision – strings and horns, extra guitars and keys, upright bass and auxiliary percussion. You can check out three songs on their MySpace page as well as a slew of tour dates.
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