Irvine, CA’s Thrice have announced a headlining tour featuring support from Circa Survive and Pelican. The tour will head through the South before coming up the East Coast and cutting across the Midwest.
The band previously released The Alchemy Index: Volumes I & II: Fire & Water last year, and plans to release The Alchemy Index: Volumes III & IV: Earth & Air, due out April 15, 2008 on Vagrant Records.
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Sweden’s Meshuggah have posted a new track titled “Bleed” on their MySpace page. It’s the first track available from their upcoming sixth full length album, obZen, due out March 11, 2008 on Nuclear Blast.
The band previouslycancelled a tour last fall to finish working on this album.
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Static Radio NJ, of New Jersey, have announced that they will be recording their debut full length at the end of February at The Machine Shop for release via Black Numbers this summer. The album will be produced by Will Putney.
The band recently opened for Hot Water Music during one of their reunion shows.
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Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley) is currently at work on a solo album at San Fernando Valley’s Sound City Studios, according to Entertainment Weekly. The album will feature appearances from Elvis Costello, Zooey Deschanel, Chris Robinson (the Black Crowes) and M. Ward.
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For most people, The Club exists only as an urban legend – a game where criminals are paid huge amounts to carry out gunfights and wher…
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Swedish punk group Millencolin have announced that Machine 15, their first record in three years, will be released on May 6th through Epitaph Records in North America. It arrives on April 7th in Europe. The band recorded with producer Lou Giordano (Sugar, Taking Back Sunday, Plain White T’s), saying, “We wanted the kind of crisp sound that Lou is notorious for. Plus we have a great chemistry with him.”
Machine 15 will be the band’s first release since 2005’s Kingwood.
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Alternative Tentacles has announced that Denver, CO’s Slim Cessna’s Auto Club will be releasing Cipher, their first album in four years, on March 25. The band is heading out on a month long tour to build support for the release, and offers up a few tracks available on the band’s MySpace page as a preview of what’s to come. All the song titles, however, are written in code. You’ll have to use some code breaking to figure them out, or just get used to saying “Man, my favorite track is definitely ‘AATBI3V.'”
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The Format has decided to call it quits.
We have just put out word that we will not be making a new Format album. Please understand this was a tough decision and we’re both upset about it. While we accept there will be false speculation as to why, understand that Sam and I remain extremely close and in fact are still passing the twin peaks box set back and forth in an attempt to figure out who REALLY killed laura palmer. We also want to thank everyone with and within the Format, particularly Mike, Don, and Marko, whom without, none of this would have ever even been fully realized. We both suggest you support their musical talents and whatever they decide to do. And lastly we want to thank the fans who made this the best 5 years of our lives.
The band’s final release was a b-sides and rarities compilation released last year.
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This is Hell have posted a video from their last LP, Sundowning. The video for “Broken Teeth” was filmed by Mike Tucci at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, California. The band is currently on a North American tour and will be following it with a trek to the UK.
The band’s new album, Misfortunes, is scheduled for a February 19 release.
Oakland rockers Desa have released the latest in their promised series of free EPs. Routes to Rapture can be downloaded from the band’s website. The band started this practice in 2007 with the release of Sirens and Safety Glass.
Desa’s most recent full length was 2006’s Arriving Alive.
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Exclaim! TV is back with the 13th episode of their online series. This time, they sat down with Canada’s Alexisonfire to discuss a series of trivial and humorous material.
Members of the band have kept busy since releasing Crisis in 2006. Co-vocalist Dallas Green will release the second City and Colour album on February 12. Guitarist Wade MacNeil is preparing to release an album under the name The Black Lungs and vocalist George Pettit has been performing in Bergenfield Four while not occasionally playing bass for Fucked Up.
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City and Colour, the side project from Dallas Green of Alexisonfire, have posted a full stream of their upcoming sophomore album, Bring Me Your Love. The album, which includes a guest appearance from Canadian rock icon Gordon Downie of the Tragically Hip. The first single for the album, ‘Waiting,’ was given the video treatment last week.
Stream Bring Me Your Love here.
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The South By Southwest music conference and festival has announced their lineup of bands that will play showcases over five nights in March. Among the thousand-plus acts that may take one of nearly 70 stages, you’ll find groups like the Carbon/Silicon, the Weakerthans, the Constantines, World/Inferno Friendship Society, the English Beat, Fucked Up, the Gaslight Anthem, Lucero, Parts & Labor, Jay Reatard, Rx Bandits, the Slits, Kevin Shields, Attack In Black, the Sadies, the Aggrolites, the Bad Rackets, Black Diamond Heavies, Elliott Brood, City and Colour, CPC Gangbangs, Demon’s Claws, Destroyer, the Flatliners, Kaddisfly, the Kills, Krum Bums, the Matches, Nekromantix, the Ravonettes, Supersuckers, Akron/Family, the Acorn, Ultimate Power Duo, and literally hundreds of others. You can find the entire list, subject to change of course, at SXSW’s website.
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