On April 22, 2008, Rhino will be reissuing four classic albums from The Replacements. The slate features Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash, Hootenanny, Stink and Tim.

All our albums have been completely remastered and will each feature bonus tracks. Sorry Ma will include an alternate take of “Customer,” plus studio demos and outtakes. The deluxe version ends with “If Only You Were Lonely,” which was previously released as the B-side of “I’m In Trouble.” Stink includes a trio of session outtakes — “Staples In Her Stomach” and covers of “Hey, Good Lookin'” and “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock” — plus Westerberg’s solo home demo for “You’re Getting Married.”

Hootenanny will include six previously unreleased bonus tracks include an alternate version of “Treatment Bound” and a solo home demo of the lost classic “Bad Worker.” Finally, one of the band’s most loved albums, Let It Be will feature five unreleased bonus tracks include a home demo for “Answering Machine,” a cover of The Grass Roots’ “Temptation Eyes”

You can check out some selections from all four reissues via the Rhino listening party.
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Century have launched a new e-card featuring three tracks from the band’s forthcoming effort, ‘Black Ocean,’ alongside biographical information, tour dates, and a trailer for the “Black Ocean” music video, which will see a debut on MTV2’s Headbangers Ball later this month.

The record is due out April 29, 2008 and follows 2006’s Faith and Failure.

You can check out the card here.
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SSNOVA has posted a video from their 2007 self-titled EP. The video was directed by Chris Rodriguez.

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No Sleep has announced the signing of I Am Alaska. They will be teaming up with PA’s Attic Records to release the band’s upcoming EP. The release, A Day In A Life, was produced by the Vince Ratti (Circa Survive, Valencia, The Wonder Years) and features guest vocals from Mike Shaw of This Day Forward.

The band promises five songs of progressive/experimental music reminiscent of The Mars Volta, Circa Survive, At The Drive-In, and Glassjaw. The 5 song EP also features a video for “Get Real”. A Day In A Life is in stores and online July 22nd, 2008.

You can find some music on their myspace page.
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According to a new Guardian report, 95% of people 18-24 are copying music in some form or another. Surprisingly, not all the copying is through file sharing networks with some copying CDs directly and others are (still) recording music from the radio.

The article talks to Feargal Sharkey of 70s-era punk act The Undertones who is now chief of the British Music Rights organization. Sharkey remarks:

For somebody who has spent 30 years in the music industry, you instinctively know this stuff is going on. But when you actually sit looking at your computer and see a number that says 95% of people are copying music at home, you suddenly go, ‘Bloody hell’,

Ultimately it has to get better … At some point musicians and songwriters have to make enough money out of it otherwise they stop doing it, My concern is for the next generation of sexually frustrated, hormone-ridden 17-year-olds that are sitting in a bedroom about to possibly, and I hope, write something like Teenage Kicks

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