Weezer has posted a video taking a look behind the scenes of their remarkable YouTube-themed video for “Pork & Beans.” Along with some glimpses at the production, the clip shows some brief interviews with the various viral video stars who appeared in the video.
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New Bedford Massachusetts’ A Wilhelm Scream are embarking on the “Famoose Friends & Fashion Pelts Tour” across Canada this summer with special guests, Living With Lions
For every Canadian show on the tour, the bands will be providing two tickets, a copy of Career Suicide and an AWS shirt, a copy of Living With Lion’s Make Your Mark and a big of Atticus Merch. At the end, each winner will be part of a grand prize draw for an even bigger Atticus prize package.
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New York City’s Wetnurse have announced a September 30, 2008 release for their Seventh Rule debut Invisible City. The artwork for the album was designed by renowned design group Lansing-Dreiden and is available along with a track from the album here. More information about the album was released earlier.
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Clouds, the new project from former Cave In guitarist Adam McGrath has another new song from their upcoming Hydrahead album and follow up to Legendary Demo. The lineup is rounded out by members of Kid Kilowatt, 27, The Suicide File and The Hope Conspiracy amongst others,
You can check out “Year Zero” on their myspace page.
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Young Livers and Army Of Ponch will be kicking off the Sound Study Recordings Live At the Atlantic 7-inch series with an upcoming split. The series will be pairing bands who have shared the stage together at the famous Gainesville venue.
The label has posted the first two songs from the split, Fair Well” by the Young Livers and “America’s #1 Snack Cake” from Army of Ponch and you can find them on the myspace page. The record will be released on August 2nd, 2008, and will be on three different colors of vinyl. Also, the record will given away with entry to the release show Aug 2nd. The bill for the evening will feature both bands as well as Chinemacanica and Naked Love.
The label was formed by former members of As Friends Rust and Salem.
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Hardcore/punk act Take It Back have posted another song from their upcoming Facedown Records full length. The record is titled Can’t Fight Robots and is due out June 24, 2008.
You can check out the song on their myspace page.
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Far From Finished and labelmates Smartbomb have booked a tour starting on June 12th and running through June 29th. The bands will hit cities up and down the East Coast as well as some within the Midwest. Far From Finished have two dates scheduled with Rancid and Murphy’s Law.
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Nashville, TN’s Be Your Own Pet is holding a “make a banned video for a banned song” contest. This is in obvious reference to controversial lyrics that were censored by Universal. The censored material, however, will see the light of day.
You can check out all the rules and contest information right here.
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Cartel have begun work on the follow up to their 2007 major label debut, Cartel:
So we just started working on the new record last week. We had to clean up the practice space a lot though. We haven’t used it to write since last year. It’s been all storage since then and let me tell you, It was crazy how much stuff we had in there that we actually use. we thought there was a lot of junk we could go through and chunk but no dice on that. so we did that all day Tuesday then set up our gear for some good old fashioned jammin’.
We worked through a couple songs last week which is pretty good for dusting off the cobwebs and starting over with new tunes. it takes a little bit to get back in the groove but we’re there now so we’re looking forward to knocking this thing out over the summer. we’ll take some pics of the space and post them up here so you guys can check out what we’ve got going on. we’ll also be starting to record some practices and get some new jams coming. i’ll shoot out another update at the end of the week with our progress. hope all is well with you guys and gals.
The band controversially recorded the album in a sponsored Internet-linked “bubble” and received criticism for what was described as a “marketing ploy” and a “stunt.”
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Colin Patrick McGinniss from None More Black / Paint It Black has formed a new band dubbed Aneurysm Rats. The Philadelphia-based hardcore punk act also features Larry from Crumbler, Greg Polard from One Up and Go Time and a drummer known only to us as Kenny. The band has some demo recordings online at MySpace.
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Runner Runner, the side project from members of Over It, has posted another new track
You can find “The Break Up Song” on their myspace page.
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Ashers, the new project from Mark of The Unseen and Billy and Joe of Deadly Sins, have released their debut EP, Cold Dark Place on Welfare Records. The band claims influence from the likes of Motorhead, Black Flag and Zeke.
You can check out three songs from the EP on their myspace page. A full length and tour are expected in the Fall.
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Brooklyn’s Young Hearts have posted a three song demo online at their website. The band also has their The Fight EP online. The music is available for free, with donations appreciated. The band is currently working on new songs for an upcoming full length.
San Francisco’s The Singularity have booked a rare tour dubbed the “There May Not Be A Next Time Tour.” The band will play shows with bands like Ready The Jet and Western Front. You can find dates at the band’s MySpace page.
Milwaukee based indie / folk / punk act New York Taxi will be recording their debut EP with producer Sam Winters of ShutDemDown Records. News on the eventual release is to come.
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