Nashville, Tennessee’s Sound & Shape have announced joining the Engineer Records roster.
The band recently released their first full-length Where Machines End Their Lives thru local label Smith7 Records, and will soon release a new EP, titled The Love Electric. The band will next begin recording a new full-length this winter.
You can check out some music, along with upcoming tourdates, at the band’s MySpace page.
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The third annual Latino Fest will take place in Montebello, California on three days in late October. The punk festival will run from October 23rd through the 25th at the Terraza Jamay venue. Bands playing include Despite You, Hit Me Back, Huasipungo and reunions of Iconclast and Los Crudos.
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Maryland straight edge hardcore band Mindset will release a new EP in November titled R E A L P O W E R via React! Records. The release will be a one time pressing of 1000 copies, not to be repressed. You can sample some of the music via the MySpace pages of React! Records and Mindset.
Parisian skate punk’s Straightaway have released their debut full-length Democracy of Spreading Poverty, originally released in 2007, as a free download. It can be found here. The album was originally released by a variety of labels across the world.
Salt Lake City’s Reviver has embarked on a three week tour of the US northwest in support of their new full length Versificator. Dates and sound samples can be found at the band’s MySpace page.
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Ottawa’s Riptides have submitted a theme to the CBC’s Hockey Night In Canada Anthem Challenge. You can check it out the 30 second instrumental “Get In The Rink” here or check out the supporting Facebook group.
Earlier we reported that Graeme MacKinnon from Edmonton’s The Wednesday Night Heroes Wilfred Kozub from Wilfred N and The Grown Men had also participated. Their entry can be heard here.
Earlier this year the CBC lost the rights to the iconic and instantly recognizable theme song to their Hockey Night In Canada television program. They’ve since opened up a competition to Canadians to create a new theme, with heavyweights like Burton Cummings competing against basement musicians across the country. The entrants can be previewed and commented upon here.
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No Idea Records has confirmed another batch of bands playing The Fest 7. Among the 250 acts playing the Gainesville, Florida gathering you’ll find Algernon Cadwallader, Army of Ponch, Capsule, The Catalyst, Chronic Youth, Cutman, The Degenerics, Die Hoffnung, Dirty Money, Fiya, Gordon Gano’s Army, Hometeam, In The Red, Jonesin’, Killer Dreamer, Laserhead, Liquid Limbs, Monikers, Morningbell, The Prize Country, Queerwulf, Red Clay River, The Rick Johnson Rock and Roll Machine, Sakes Alive!, The Scaries, The Shaking Hands, Shang-a-Lang, Stressface, Towers of Hanoi, Tiltwheel, Dave Dondero, and Annabel.
The previously announced list, featuring notables like Leatherface, Less Than Jake, Strike Anywhere, Dillinger Four, Atom and His Package, the Bouncing Souls and the Lawrence Arms, can be found here.
The event will take place on Halloween weekend, with shows taking place on 8 stages from October 31st, through November 2nd. For details on hotels, tickets and more info check the official website.
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Portland, OR’s The Decemberists have announced their Bridesmaid Revisited tour for the second to last month of 2008. The tour features dates on both coasts (though nothing in between) and will be in support of the band’s forthcoming Always the Bridesmaid: A Singles Series which will see the release of three singles throughout the months of October and November. The band is also currently working on their follow up to The Crane Wife.
Ireland’s Snow Patrol has planned to release their new album as an iPod Touch/iPhone application. The application would allow users to access lyrics, photos, etc. while listening to the album, making use of both devices similar touch screen interfaces. Says Polydor Project manager Liz Goodwin:
“It will be an interactive element; a digital booklet that will take you into the videos and content. For fans it will be a real must-have, and the fact that they are the first band to do this gives us an additional angle for exposure.”
The new album is titled A Hundred Million Suns and is due out via Fiction/Polydor. More details are available here.
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LA Weekly is reporting the founders of F Yeah Fest and music video site Videothing.com were allegedly beaten by security guards after a recent Radiohead show. The incident reported occured while F Yeah Fest’s Sean Carlson and Phil Hoelting were being filmed by Michael Reich of Videothing. The incident is currently under investigation by LA police. See LA Weekly for the full account of what took place.
F Yeah Fest 5 took place this past weekend in Los Angeles, CA. It was currated by Carlson and Keith Morris of Black Flag / Circle Jerks. The event featured music by bands like No Age, Negative Approach, Fucked Up, Two Gallants and Ladyhawk.
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Boston’s Everybody Out! have confirmed some upcoming tour dates in the US and Canada. The band will support the Aggrolites this fall, and upcoming shows with the Bouncing Souls and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are in the wings.
The band released the self-titled Everybody Out! this year via Taang.
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Bad Religion bassist Jay Bentley recently spoke with Ground Control magazine on the band’s upcoming fifteenth studio album. His comments echoed those of Brett Gurewitz on the same subject a few months ago.
Not early for sure. If we were going to have it out early next year, we’d have to be working on it now and there isn’t enough material yet for that. All we’ve talked about is Greg saying that while he’s teaching there wouldn’t be any 28-day stints at the House of Blues. We’ve made no commitments to doing anything and Greg said he wanted to take that time to write and Brett agreed so we could possibly get into the studio in April and the release would be later in the year under those circumstances.
The band is expected to start recording the follow up to New Maps of Hell next spring with a summer release likely.
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Richmond’s Strike Anywhere, fresh off off their west coast shows with Hot Water Music, have a European tour on deck. The band will hit the the UK, Ireland and Portugal to play shows with bands like All Idols Fall, The Cut Ups, and Four Letter Word. Following those shows the band will hit Japan for a set of dates with H2O and Blacklisted. Of course the band, like most it seems, has the Fest waiting for them and they’ll pair up with Festmates the Bouncing Souls afterward for a few shows. make their way there with the Bouncing Souls.
The band is supporting Dead FM.
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Orlando, Florida’s Pinky Ring Records is back from a year long hiatus with a new roster. The label has signed Houston, TX based rock band The Last Starfighter. They’ll release a digital EP by the band later in the year. New songs can be previewed at MySpace.
The label has also signed Albany, New York based hip hop act Rick Whispers. Whispers has collaborated with the likes of Mac Lethal, Lazerbeak, xReignOfTerrorx, and C-Rayz Wallz. His debut for the label will arrive in 2009.
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Celebrated Japanese hardcore act D.S.B. will be touring the United States, Mexico and Canada this fall. The band will play shows with bands like Government Warning, Poligro Social, the Casualties, Caustic Christ, 2nd Degree, World Burns to Death and Chronic Seizure.
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