The new John Reis band, dubbed the The Night Marchers have launched a full album stream of their debut full length. As previously reported the group will feature Reis (of Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, Rocket From the Crypt of course) along with guitarist Gar Wood (Hot Snakes, Beehive and the Barracudas), drummer Jason Kourkounis (Hot Snakes, Mule, Delta 72), and bassist Tommy Kitsos (CPC Gangbangs).

The debut record is titled See You In Magic and is due out April 22, 2008 It will arrive via Swami and Vagrant Records.

You can find the stream on their myspace page.
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Century have launched the title music video from their forthcoming effort, Black Ocean. The record is due out April 29, 2008 and follows 2006’s Faith and Failure.

You can check out the video here.

The video is only available in America. Canadians, Europeans and others will have to settle for the stream of the track itself.
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Eulogy act Fallen From The Sky have posted a song from their upcoming Eulogy Recordings debut. The record is titled Tonight We Radiate and is due out May 27, 2008.

The melodic punk outfit previously released Victims on Anchorless Records. The band draws comparisons to Strike Anywhere, 88 Fingers Louie and Rise Against.

You can check out the new music on their myspace page.
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Circa Survive have donated a b-side titled “1,000 Witnesses” to Invisible Children who are currently giving the track to fans who donate $0.99 or more to the charity.

The charity aims to fight the horrible practice of recruiting children into a bloody civil war in Uganda, many of whom are kidnapped from their parents and forced to serve in the rebel armies currently in conflict with the government of the country.

You can make your donation here. You’ll need a Google account in order to complete the purchase.
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While members of Cave In are busy with various projects including frontman Steve Brodsky’s Octave Museum, Pet Genius and his own solo work, Guitarist Adam McGrath’s Clouds, and bassist Caleb Scofield with Zozobra, Old Man Gloom and Heatseeker, the band is still planning another compilation release on Hydrahead.

According to reports, “Brodsky just delivered a whopping four discs worth of Cave In rarities to Hydrahead — supposedly to be whittled down for a future release”

Cave In released Perfect Pitch Black in 2005.
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Yeah, I couldn’t really get this one up on time, but now you have to some weekend reads to enjoy.

• Well, it was fun, that is, watching you guys get riled up waiting for us to confirm that the new Pennywise album sounds like Pennywise; here you go
• I’ve heard really good things about the new Mars Volta album, Bedlam in Goliath; guess I should eventually check it out
• Be Your Own Pet‘s Get Awkward is pretty solid
• Man, I feel like I reviewed Teenage Rehab‘s last album forever ago; their new one is an EP entitled Goodbye Sanity
• More at the reviews page

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Sleepercar, the project from Jim Ward of Sparta and At the Drive-In have launched a full album stream of their debut. The record is titled West Texas and is due out April 22, 2008.

You can check out the record on their myspace page.
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Bloodshot Records has announced the signing of Exene Cervenka, who is both solo artist and vocalist of X.

Her first album for the label is in the works, and will be released in 2009. Exene will be recording this fall, fans of her mixed-media collages can look forward to new artwork for the CD packaging as well.

Her last solo album was 2006’s Se7en.
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Acclaimed Memphis-based garage rocker Jay Reatard posted the following message regarding a recent Toronto performance. The Reatards and Lost Sounds member commented:

Last night’s show in Toronto got completely fucked up. The Silver Dollar holds 190 people but Craig Laskey the promoter let 350 people in there. That’s cool if there’s some sort of security or crowd control – we don’t need people getting so wild they jump on stage and smash our gear – but that’s exactly what happened. Right when we started playing someone pushed the monitors right on top of Stephen and on to his pedals – breaking them, people were throwing beer bottles at us, a someone jumped onstage and smashed my pedals, another guy took a full pitcher of beer and dumped it all over the rest of my pedals, and then threw it right at my Flying V, breaking the pickup and the input electronics. After three songs all our gear was smashed and unusable. Even when shit gets that crazy at Circle Jerks show there’s at least some security but when I asked Craig Laskey about it before the show he told me “I thought you guys were a garage band.” When we couldn’t play anymore I hung out and talked to people, refunded people’s money out of my own pocket, and tried to borrow gear and finish the set a bit later but Dan Burke wouldn’t get off the stage, too busy talking trash about me.

I’m getting really sick of shit like this happening. We’ll come back in Toronto soon and do a free show to make it up to the real fans in Toronto. And we’ll steer away from greedy promoters who don’t have any control of their shows and who don’t care about doing right by the audience.

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Chicago based Seventh Rule have announced the signing of New York City’s Wetnurse. Seventh Rule co-owner had this to say:

The urgency of early hardcore; the aggro, off-kilter noise of the AmRep heyday; the raw, outcast power of early death metal; the melodic transcendence of classic rock… All these influences exist within Wetnurse’s music, yet theirs is something totally new and progressive.

The group and label have slated the band’s new album Invisible City in the fall of 2008. The album was recorded and mixed by Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Helmet) at B.C. Studios and mastered by Alan Douches (Mastodon, Converge) at West West Side Music. The band previously released the self-titled Wetnurse in 2004.
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The Pixies‘ classic album, Doolittle is one of the first three albums that will appear in their entirety in the popular video game, Rock Band. Along with The Cars’ self-titled album and Judas Priest’s Screaming for Vengeance, the albums will be available for play in the popular multi-user game.

The release of full albums via the system is an interesting development, particularly because of how popular singles on the service have been. As of last month, more than six million songs had been sold via Rock Band, at $1.99 per track, suggesting that this may be more than some bonus content for a game, but a potential new model for selling music on the Internet.

In terms of singles, the game boasts songs from The Ramones, The Clash, The Police, Weezer, Fall Out Boy, Metallica, Beastie Boys, Coheed & Cambria, Foo Fighters, Killers, At the Gates and of course, Timmy and the Lords of the Underworld.
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Art of the Underground has announced plans to release a strictly limited 7-inch box set featuring Young Offenders, Potboiler, The Unlovables, Modern Machines, Giant Haystacks, North Lincoln, Andrew Jackson Jihad, The Potential Johns, The Leftovers, Gordon Gano’s Army, Exit Strategy and Ghost Mice.

The set essentially compiles the third year of the AOTU single series with each of the twelve 7-inches featuring two exclusive songs from each band. You can take a look or place an order here.
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Pyramids have launched a stream of their new Hydra Head Records debut.

You can check out the self-titled record on this page.

The Denton, TX-based post-metal (roughly) act is not to be confused with the Philadelphia, PA-based screamo band of the same name.
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