Sweden’s Cult of Luna have posted a teaser trailer for their forthcoming live DVD release, Fire Was Born. The disc is due out March 24, 2009 and features a live performance recorded at London Scala, and videos for “The Watchtower,” “Leave Me Here” and “Back to Chapel.”
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Stephen Egerton, long time guitarist for legendary punk bands ALL and the Descendents, has recently released a self-titled instrumental EP with his new band, Slorder. The EP will be available on iTunes soon, but until then, it can be purchased directly from O&O Records, a webstore “owned and operated” by the members of ALL themselves.
You can check out Slorder on MySpace here.
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Members of Breathe In, Divit and UN ID have unveiled a new project, Why I Hate. The band describes themselves as “a band full of guys that would be beyond ecstatic to see Jawbreaker AND American Nightmare play on the same bill”
The first release from the band will be a split with Anchor Arms due out on Failsafe Records. You can check out four songs from the band on their myspace page.
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The latest issue of Inked magazine features an interview with Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel and a profile of Gym Class Heroes.
Gabel had this to say about the recent election:
I think what is really important to realize is that it’s not like Barack Obama is president and we win! That’s it! Everyone can go on vacation now and everything is perfect in the world and all of our problems are solved! There are still just as many things wrong, and just as much work needs to be done. Obama was elected, but then Proposition 8 passed in California. His election makes me really optimistic, but I don’t think I’ll have trouble continuing to be critical of things.
You can find the Tom Gabel article here.
Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes said this about tattooing:
At first I was like, ‘I’m not going to spend my time in a tattoo shop not getting paid when I could be out chasing girls.’ But I learned a lot from the time I spent there. I was shadowing really good artists and it just sunk in. I did my first tattoo on the guy I was apprenticing under, and during the first couple lines I was shaking. He was like, ‘Suck it up, quit being a pussy!’ He had quit smoking cigarettes, so I drew a cigarette smashing itself out, and it came out dope as fuck. Ever since then I’ve been at it
Read the Gym Class Heroes article here.
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Tonight Dispatches brings you the second installment from The Measure [SA] as they continue on their first full US tour in support of 2008’s One Chapter in the Book: A Collection of Standard Waits and Measurements. Lauren wrote in a few days ago, while today’s episode comes courtesy of Fid.
Rise Against has announced that they will soon be touring with Rancid. The band had this to say:
Few things are more exciting than watching Bush finally release America as his eight year hostage, but if anything could rival that news, it’s this: We are more than pleased to announce that we will have the honor of touring the US & Canada with punk rock legends RANCID this summer. If Tim Armstrong didn’t confirm it personally backstage in LA a few weeks ago, we wouldn’t believe it either.
Tour dates have not been announced yet but are expected soon.
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced that they will be releasing their third record this Spring. The record will be the first new album from the band since 2006’s Show Your Bones.
The band has also set a title for the record, calling the new album It’s Blitz.
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Say Anything‘s Max Bemis recently spoke to Billboard about their forthcoming, self-titled fulll length. First promised last November, Bemis had this to say about the album:
I think what people like about Say Anything is going to come out even stronger on this record. It’s not like we’re suddenly becoming another band. It’s like we’re embracing who we are to the fullest extent. That’s why it’s self-titled. This is the first record that actual true love is explored on — love for other people, love for the higher power, love for music and love for little things.
The record will follow 2007’s In Defense of the Genre.
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No Doubt have unveiled plans for a 2009 summer tour. The band will kick off the tour in May, and support will be provided by Paramore as well as The Sounds, Janella Monae and Bedouin Soundclash on various dates.
The tour is the band’s first since 2004 when the band co-headlined with Blink 182. Tour dates and on sale information will be announced soon.
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A new remix of Thrice‘s “Broken Lungs” has been posted by the remixers in Legion of Doom. The original song comes from The Alchemy Index: Volumes III & IV: Air & Earth and the remix will appear on the soundtrack to the latest Underworld film, Rise of the Lycans.
You can check out the stream here.
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Prague, Czech Republic’s Austin Lucas has posted two new songs online. You can find “Somebody Loves You” and “Shoulders” from Somebody Loves You streaming on his MySpace page. The record was recorded with his father as the engineer and the rest of his family as his backing band. The album is slated for a March 2009 release through Suburban Home Records.
Lucas previously previewed an unmastered version of the title track and announced a few live dates. He last released Putting the Hammer Down in 2008.
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Sonic Youth have begun documenting their recording process via the ever popular micro-blogging platform, Twitter. The band discussed the album with Billboard saying:
When I started writing, I was immersed in listening to the Wipers,”‘No Way,’ the first song we recorded, has a total Wipers vibe, if the Wipers were a No Wave band. We’re super inspired to make a fresh start. We’re glad to be dealing with a label that loves songs. It’s rock-centric, but still experimental. We’re still Sonic Youth. I still don’t know how to play the guitar.
The band released Rather Ripped in 2006. Since then, they’ve signed to Matador.
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NPR has launched a stream of the new album from Bruce Springsteen. The album, Working on a Dream, is due out next week and features twelve new songs as well as “The Wrestler,” which closed out the critically acclaimed film of the same name.
Check out the stream here.
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