Goblin Cock, the critically acclaimed metal band from Rob Crow of Pinback have announced tour dates in advance of their forthcoming sophomore album. The record, Come With Me If You Want To Live, is the follow up to 2005’s Bagged and Boarded.

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Fireworks have announced a release date and details for their forthcoming album. The record is titled All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion and is due out March 24, 2009.

Punknews.org spoke to the band earlier this month.
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Cobra Skulls are planning a new album for 2009. The band had this to say:

Cobra Skulls will be recording a new full length at the end of March and the beginning of April. The record will be out sometime this summer. Look for a couple shows here and there this spring and then come summer we’ll be back on the road full time touring the States and Europe. We’ll keep you posted on the specifics.

They released Never Be a Machine [7 inch] in 2008.
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Wired reports that National Geographic is launching a new record label. Dubbed “Nat Geo,” the plan is for the label to release music on CD and digitally.

The report goes on to explain that “the new label will focus not on the sound of the rain forest, indigenous tribes, or things of that nature. Rather, Nat Geo Music is looking for modern-sounding bands from various countries that have the potential to attract listeners from other regions.”

As for the surprise about launching a label at this somewhat perilous time?

There’s a lot of doom and gloom about the business as a whole, but that’s the business as a whole. But we don’t have two million dollars-worth of product sitting at Best Buy that we’re really worried about being returned [by the stores] right now.

Every label and artist needs to find a business model that works for them, If you can find a business model that works for you, then who cares what the rest of the business is doing?

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Modest Mouse have announced February dates to be supported by Mimicking Birds.

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Derek Grant, drummer of Alkaline Trio has released another batch of solo material. He explained:

This is the culmination of nine years of work, my “Purple Phase” as it were. It started as a new wave project with my friend John Reynolds, turning briefly into a collaboration with Hunter Burgan, and ended up essentially a solo project (with the aid of guitar maestro Arun Bali.)

You can download the album via his myspace blog.
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A video of Pete Wentz’ recent appearance on Larry King Live is available live. Pete discusses his family connection to the Vice Presidential candidate and how crucial Joe Biden was to his actual existence.

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Dropkick Murphys have announced the lineup for their string of St.Patrick’s Day shows in March. The shows will include H2O, Civet, Bryan McPherson, Cro-Mags and more.

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Burlington, Ontario’s Silverstein have launched a new website and detailed their upcoming high concept album. The record is titled A Shipwreck in the Sand and is due out March 31, 2009. It is the follow-up to Arrivals & Departures which was released in 2007.

The band has posted a detailed “backstory” for the album here.

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More bands have been confirmed for the upcoming Harvest of Hope Fest 2009. The purpose of the event is to raise funding for the Harvest of Hope Foundation and bring awareness to the plait of migrant farms workers. The event take place at the St.John’s County Fairgrounds from March 6th through the 8th.

The latest additions include: GZA, Kool Keith, Diplo, Deerhunter, Valient Thorr, Yip-Yip, Static Radio NJ, Summerbirds in the Cellar, the Beauvilles, Division Minuscula, Kiss Kiss, Tiger City, Good Luck, the Winslows, Paul Baribeau & Ginger Alford, After the Fall, Spoonboy, Pinkhouses, Religious as Fuck, Worlds, Buttons, Towers of Hanoi, So Pastel, Reptile Theatre and Barnaby Jones.

They join a lineup which already includes Against Me!, The National, Propagandhi, Devotchka, Broken Social Scene, Bad Brains, Girl Talk, Bouncing Souls, Less Than Jake, Lucero, The Night Marchers, Virgins, Strike Anywhere, None More Black, Smoke Or Fire, Murs, Grand Buffet, Ra Ra Riot, Paint It Black, The Faint, Health, Dave Dondero, Holywood Holt, Tim Barry and Kevin Seconds.
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We Are the Union wll be headed into the studio with producer Matt Allison (Less Than Jake, The Lawrence Arms, Alkaline Trio) at Atlas Studios in March to record their next full length. They had this to say:

All obvious sarcasm aside, we are super stoked to be able to do our album at Atlas, and as such we regret to announce that officially, the Europe tour is POSTPONED. To a later date of our choosing. We hope that a new record will slightly make up for this.

On the subject of that record, we have some exciting label news that we can’t share with you just yet. What we CAN say is that we’ve been hard at work on new material – both during rehearsals over the past few months, as well as more intensively in the past few weeks as we prepare stuff to go into the studio.

They released Who We Are in 2007. That album is going to be released in Japan on February 28, 2009 via Inyaface.
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Austin, TX’s And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead have posted another two tracks from their sixth record, The Century of Self, which is due out February 17, 2009.

Check out “Ascending” here. They have also posted “Isis Unveiled” on their myspace page.
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Austin, TX’s And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead have posted another track from their sixth record, The Century of Self, which is due out February 17, 2009.

Check out “Ascending” here.
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