The Murder City Devils are back and they’re ready to give you some sweet, sweet loving. We’ve teamed up with the band to offer the chance to win a set of their extremely limited vinyl reissues, due out next month on Sub Pop. One winner will recieve their Self-Titled album, Empty Bottles Broken Hearts, In Name and Blood and the Thelema 12".
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Kill Rock Stars artists The Thermals and Thao with the Get Down Stay Down will be releasing an exclusive split to help celebrate Record Store Day 2009. The event celebrates independent record stores on April 18th and many indie artists create limited edition exclusives to encourage people to visit participating stores.
The Thermals are debuting two (demo) versions of songs from their forthcoming KRS debut, Now We Can See due out April 7, 2009. Thao with the Get Down Stay Down will contribute a new song and a cover of a track by 60’s era band Lovin’ Spoonful.
Participating stores can be found here.
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Rise Records has signed Columbus, Ohio’s Of Mice and Men. The band is a new project from Austin Carlile, former frontman of Attack Attack, and Jaxin Hall, graphic designer from Auckland New Zealand.
You can check out some music on their myspace page.
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Moving Mountains have posted two songs from their new EP, Foreword. The EP is their first new album since 2007’s Pneuma [reissue] on Deep Elm Records.
Check out “Lights and Shapes,” “Armslength” on their myspace page.
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Buffalo, NY’s The Failures’ Union has posted their complete march tour dates on their myspace. The tour will be with Cheap Girls in support of an upcoming split 7″ featuring both bands.
The New FU full length is in the mixing stages and is titled In What Way. The band will be releasing it through Paper + Plastick in 2009.
The band released Sinker in 2007.
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Hardcore act In the Hollows have posted a new demo. The band includes former and current members of Champion, Pulling Teeth and Ruiner.
Check out a stream of the demo here or just download it here.
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Vinnie Stigma, guitarist of NYHC legends Agnostic Front has posted the first video from his solo album, New York Blood. The record was produced by Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed) & Phil Caivano (Monster Magnet) and is mixed by Zeuss (Hatebreed, Agnostic Front, Shadows Fall). An official record release show is set for March 1st 2009 at the Pyramid Club in New York City.
Philly’s The Loved Ones have just released a new EP this week, a combination of covers and original material titled Distractions. The band and their label, Fat Wreck Chords are offering our readers a chance to win one of three prize packs including signed posters, CD’s and a drum head from the band.
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A number of you wrote in with the news that Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker will be reuniting, in a non-musical way. The three former members of Blink-182 will be sharing the stage at the Grammy Awards, presenting an award.
The news is buried in a press release list of presenters announced today
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Jimmy Eat World has embraced Twitter for their upcoming Clarityx10 tour. The band is celebrating the 10th anniversary of their fan favorite album, Clarity, by performing the album in its entirety at ten shows beginning in February of 2009. The shows kick off on the 23rd in New York City and wrap up March 7th in Arizona.
The band has launched a new site that allows fans to Twitter-chat specific dates on the tour using SMS or other Twitter interfaces. Tweets pertaining to each show are separated and presented on their own pages, making it easy to see who will be going and what people have been saying about the concert. Check it out here.
Clarity was the band’s second major label album, released on Capitol Records. Despite lasting critical acclaim, the record did not perform to the label’s expectations and the band was dropped. Their next album, Bleed American was self-recorded by the band and actually became their breakthrough
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Punk/metal act Red Fang have announced their debut full length. The self-titled album is expected March 10, 2009 via Sargent House and follows two EPs via Wantage Records.
Check out four songs from the album on their myspace page.
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William Elliott Whitmore has announced a month of headlining dated in support of his Anti- full length, Animals in the Dark.
My Chemical Romance spoke to the BBC about their forthcoming fourth album and follow up to 2006’s The Black Parade..
The new album, expected in late 2009, will take am much less theatric approach than their previous:
It’s going to be less layered than Black Parade – I do expect it to be a little more raw. It’s really nice to get a fresh perspective, we really needed to have that time off to live life and do some things and simply not have to tour or worry about making music.
We have to make a record that reflects how we’ve matured. If we keep making a copy of the same record it’s going to be no good for anybody. We have to change.
Frontman Gerard Way has been working on his comic series which may become a feature film, guitarist Frank Iero unveiled his hardcore project Leathermouth which released a new record last month.
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