The second new stream for today comes from Gainesville-based duo, Liquid Limbs. Their new album, Orquid is due out via Sound Study Recordings, a new label formed by Tom Rankine (ex As Friends Rust / Salem / Bird Of Ill Omen), Joe Simmons (ex As Friends Rust / Salem / Morning Again) and Matt Finch.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Today we’ve got a full album stream of Git Some, the new band formed from the ashes of Planes Mistaken For Stars. The band is set to release their new album, Cosmic Rock. The band has earned comparisons to bands like Black Flag, PMFS and Drive Like Jehu.
You can check out the album on their Punknews.org Profile.
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MVD has has announced plans to issue several releases on vinyl including new and previously unreleased tracks by Devo and the Dwarves, plus reissues by G.G. Allin, Wendy O. Williams and the Plasmatics, and more.
According to a July 2008 article in Billboard, “Indie retail started the party, but now some of the chains are carrying vinyl too. In addition to Fred Meyer and Borders, Best Buy has said publicly that it will experiment with carrying LPs.” Since retailers are becoming increasingly supportive, it was a no-brainer for MVD.
Upcoming releases including Devo’s Watch Us Work It, GG Allin’s Freaks, Faggots, Drunks and Junkies, The Plasmatics Beyond the Valley of 1984 and The Dwarves limited 10-inch which features the band live on KSZU FM Stanford, recorded in 2004 as well as Dwarves singer Blag Dahlia covering AC/DC (Big Balls) and the Ramones (The KKK Took My Baby Away) as well as some originals.
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Saul Williams has posted the newest video from his recently collaboration with Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor. The record recently saw a proper physical version after the original donation-only release, The Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust, was released last year.
New Brunswick, NJ’s Gaslight Anthem have been filmed at the Knitting Factory performing two songs from their SideOneDummy debut, The ’59 Sound. The songs performed were the titular “The ’59 Sound” and “Miles Davis & The Cool.” The band recently was announced as being part of the lineup for Edgefest in Texas.
You can with the two videos at Spin.com.
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The Cure have announced the track listing and cover art for their long-awaited new full length. The record is titled 4:13 Dream and is due out October 13, 2008. It is the follow-up to The Cure which was released in 2004.
Translation Loss have announced the signing of Minnesota’s Battlefields. The band previous released two full lengths via Init Records: Stained with the Blood of an Empire and Entourage of the Archaic.
On top of sharing the stage with the likes of Rosetta, Pelican, These Arms Are Snakes, Kylesa, Big Business and Murder by Death to name a few, Battlefields appeared at SXSW this year playing highly successful showcases with the likes of Russian Circles, Coliseum, This Will Destroy You, Yakuza and Genghis Tron.
Battlefields’ yet untitled Translation Loss debut is currently being recorded at The Devil’s Workshop in Minnesota with drummer and engineering Rob Schmidt manning the helm and will be mastered by Nick Zampiello at New Alliance Audio. Battlefields’ Translation Loss debut will see an early-2009 release and will feature art from Paul Romano.
You can check out some music on their myspace page.
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Misery Index have launched a full album stream of their new Relapse full length. The record is titled Traitors and is due out September 30, 2008.
You can check it out here.
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Total Fucking Destruction, the art-punk/grind side project from Brutal Truth drummer, Richard Hoak, have posted the first song from their upcoming album, Peace Love, And Total Fucking Destruction. The album is due out October 28, 2008 via Enucleation Records.
The band promises grind and jazz as well as Minutemen and classic rock radio influences. You can find the song on their myspace page.
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Philadelphia’s Paint It Black recently began a European tour in support of their latest, critically-acclaimed full length. New Lexicon. They are joined on the trek by Trash Talk
Both Paint It Black and Trash talk will be documenting the tour for us in a new, exclusive tour journal here on Punknews.org. Today, we’ve got the first two entries, courtesy of Paint It Black frontman Dan Yemin.
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Slightly Stoopid have announced their fall tour plans in support of Chronchitis and Slightly Not Stoned Enough to Eat Breakfast.
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Corey Taylor, the lead singer for Slipknot recently told Kerrang! magazine that the record companies are at fault for the increase in illegal downloads because "most of the bands they sign are shit."
Further, he had this to say.
"People wanna blame the decline of album sales on downloading, I think it's actually the record companies' fault," he added. "I think it's the quality of the product. If record companies would stop giving any fucking mook on the street with a fringe a record deal or their own record label, maybe you would sell more fucking albums, dipshits."
Man, I freaking love Slipknot and the fact that a band this popular actually gets it makes it all the more fun to see this published on the Canadian Roadrunner Records website.
The newest project from uber-social networking site MySpace is a platform that aims to radically alter the digital music landscape and also unseat the still-dominant iTunes platform. The store will allow fans to stream millions of songs for free in an ad-supported framework, and sell digital downloads with help from the Amazon MP3 store.
Chris DeWolfe, the site’s co-founder explains:
You’ll be able to see the top songs your friends are listening to. Eventually you’ll be able to buy tickets and merchandise and ringtones. When you look at things like iLike and Facebook, they don’t have the full songs, in most cases, and they don’t have official artist pages. People aren’t interested in music on Facebook in the way they are on MySpace, That’s one of the big keys here.
The new service is a partnership between top labels Universal, Sony BMG and Warner, and the smallest major label, EMI, is reportedly in discussions to join soon.
The music industry has long locked horns with Apple’s iTunes which has used it’s dominance of the market to maintain single pricing across the catalogue and has sufficient market power to make demands of the labels.
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