Against Me! has posted a link to what looks like a fan-shot video for their track, “Borne On The FM Waves of the Heart.” The original track features a duet from Tom Gabel and Tegan Quinn which is brought to eerie life by the “Rock-afire Explosion.”
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The lineup for the 2008 edition of MFNW has been announced. The Portland, OR-based event will feature more than 65 bands including Vampire Weekend, Mogwai, Poison Idea, TV on the Radio, Murder City Devils, M Ward, Helio Sequence, Menomena, Old 97’s, The Whigs, Seaweed, The Night Marchers, Deerhunter, Matt & Kim, These Arms Are Snakes, Akimbo and many more.
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Genova, Italy’s The Banshee have launched the new video for their new single, “Kicks Up.” The track comes from the Kicks Up EP.
This is the latest map for the Half-Life 2 mod Eternal Silence titled ES_Vertigo.
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I Am Ghost have entered the studio to begin work on their sophomore album, which is slated for release this fall. The quintet recently headed east to record the follow up to 2006’s Lovers’ Requiem, with producer Paul Leavitt (Senses Fail, The Bled, Circa Survive) in Baltimore, MD.
In the intervening years, the band saw some significant lineup changes that were apparently rooted in the Christian beliefs of the departing members. The band will also be touring at the end of this month.
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Crime In Stereo and Fake Problems have begun announcing dates together beginning in late August. Only a handful of dates have been confirmed so far, but there are some gaps between shows suggesting that more dates could be forthcoming. The shows precede Crime in Stereo’s upcoming run with New Found Glory.
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According to a report from Alternative Press, Shook Ones have signed to Paper & Plastick. The label was founded by Less Than Jake‘s Vinnie Fiorello and is vinyl/digital-only.
The band will be recording with Jackson Long at Two Sticks Audio in October and are planning a January 2009 release for their third full length.
The band’s last full length, Facetious Folly Feat, was released in 2006 via Revelation Records.
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This Saturday, Thursday and Hot Water Music will co -headline a show with Paint It Black at Terminal 5 in New York City . To celebrate, we’ve got a pair of tickets for the event to give away. The contest is going to be very quick, and is only open to people who can actually get to the show, and live in the US or Canada (excluding Quebec.)
Tickets at the 3000-capacity venue are $25.00 and available here.
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According to Paste Magazine, Ben Folds has announced his next full length. The record is titled Way to Normal and is due out September 16, 2008.
The album is Folds’ first studio output since 2005’s Songs For Silverman. In the interim years he released the EP compilation, Supersunnyspeedgraphic: The LP, and the soundtrack to Over the Hedge which included a somber piano-driven cover of The Clash’s “Lost in the Supermarket.”
The album was produced by Dennis Herring (Counting Crows, Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello) and will be released on Epic Records. Ben told Paste about the sound:
It’s a fairly un-orchestral record. It’s a lyric-driven rock record. We’ve looked at taking a few of the songs on the new record and scoring them for orchestra and, uh, it was kind of slim pickins.
You can check out a sample of the “Lost in the Supermarket” cover here.
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Today we’ve got a full album stream featuring the highly anticipated No Idea Records studio full length debut from Off with Their Heads. The record is titled From The Bottom and is due out July 22, 2008.
You can check out the entire thing on their Punknews.org Profile.
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In this week’s Bigger Than the Sound, writer James Montgomery spoke with Megan Jasper of Sub Pop. The feature coincides with the notable indie label’s 20th anniversary, and Jasper as both the label’s first receptionist and current Executive Vice President, looked back on some of the label’s formative and notable releases.
The article looks back at Soundgarden’s debut EP, Screaming Life, Mudhoney‘s Superfuzz Bigmuff, Nirvana‘s Bleach, Mark Lanegan, Thee Headcoats, The Vaselines, Sebadoh, Sunny Day Real Estate, Murder City Devils, and many more.
You can check out the feature here.
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In a relatively unsurprising move Ben Weasel has confirmed that the upcoming pseudo reunions of Screeching Weasel will not turn into anything more. In a recent interview with Wrecked Kids he notes:
it hasn’t remotely crossed my mind. I have way more fun and make way more money playing as Ben Weasel. Vapid suggested the MBH thing a while back and I thought it sounded like it could be fun. But I’m not going to be doing a band again. Screeching Weasel wasn’t very much fun for me for most of the time I was doing it.
I don’t see any reason to drag that name out again. What I’m doing now is the closest thing you’re going to see to Screeching Weasel again. And it’s probably a lot closer than if I re-formed a band I don’t want to be in with people I don’t want to work with anymore.
He also remains fed up with the punk scene, saying:
I still do hate it, as I learned the hard way last year. I mean the musicians. They are almost exclusively a bunch of whiny, petty, insecure crybabies who act like jagoffs because they’re scared they won’t become famous, or people won’t think they’re cool, or whatever it is they’re worried about. Life’s too short. The pop punk scene would be terrific if it weren’t for all the musicians.
He does have some positive words for pop punks now, as opposed to the 90s though:
There seem to be fewer fights and less boneheads. In the early 90s there wasn’t really any pop punk scene so if a pop punk band played a show, the punks showed up, and too many of them were drunken, violent halfwits.
You can check out the rest of the interview here.
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Against Me! have announced a short run of Canadian dates this fall. Other than one confirmed show in London, the remainder of the shows take place in Western Canada. The tickets go on sale today, via this page. The entire run will be supported by Brooklyn-based Japanther who are supporting 2007’s Skuffed Up My Huffy.
The band most recently released New Wave [Deluxe Edition] in France and through mailorder.
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