Young Love, Haste The Day, Patent Pending, Rookie of the Year, The Sounds and This Providence, Asher Roth, B.O.B., Care Bears On Fire, DJ Prime, DJ Skeet Skeet, LMFAO, Mickey Avalon, Red Car Wire, Shwayze, Single File, Hollywood Undead, Charles Hamiltion, Gregory Schwartz, Kid Cudi, Runner Runner, The Urgency and The White Tie Affair are among the latest additions to 2009’s The Bamboozle.

They join the already confirmed lineup which features Fall Out Boy, Third Eye Blind, Get Up Kids, No Doubt, Taking Back Sunday and many more.
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My Bloody Valentine have announced a handful of US appearances this year.

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Sparks the Rescue have signed to Fearless Records. The band had this to say:

So today is wonderful day in Sparks The Rescue land. We just got signed to Fearless Records! We are absolutely pumped beyond belief about becoming part of their family, and we will have our full length record out to you all soon.

The band released The Secrets We Can’t Keep in 2007.
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As they gear up for their next full length, Say Anything have posted a second studio blog

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Radiohead, Billy Bragg and others have come out strongly against the relationship between their record labels and video streaming super-site YouTube. According to this cnet report. Billy Bragg noted:

Google, YouTube’s owner, is a company that makes billions in profits,We think they should be paying artist royalties from the advertising revenue they make. A dispute like this illustrates the needs for the creation of the Featured Artists Coalition, so we have a voice and the public understand that sites like Google should be paying for music.

YouTube responded with this statement:

We absolutely agree that artists and writers should be paid from the advertising revenue earned from their content on YouTube. That is precisely what we are offering the PRS.

Much of the controversy in the UK stems from a failure of the PRS (“Performance Rights Society”) reaching an aggreement with YouTube. As a result, music video content was recently yanked from the UK version of YouTube.
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Person L, the new project from Kenneth Vasoli of The Starting Line, have completed their new full length. They noted:

We are officially wrapped in the studio, all the tracks are on wax. The new record will be mixed by the end of the month, it’s named The Positives. The Positives will have 12 tracks and clock in at around 52 minutes long and is designed for smiling. I’ll supply you with more details, some video footage and tracks very soon.

The album is the follow up to their debut, Initial.
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Cursive have announced more dates on their current tour, already in progress. The band is supporting their 2009 full length, Mama, I’m Swollen.

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Polar Bear Club are set to begin recording their Bridge 9 Records debut with producer Matt Bayles (Isis, Mastodon, Minus The Bear.) The band is scheduled to enter the studio on April 9th and had this to say:

Recording with Matt Bayles is going to be mind-blowing. We love pretty much everything he’s done and we’re really looking forward to having him work with us on the record. And furthermore, we can’t wait to share with the world what Polar Bear Club and Bridge Nine have to offer.

The band is aiming for a Fall 2009 release. The band’s record from 2008, Sometimes Things Just Disappear, was named the seventh best album of 2008 by Punknews.org readers.
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Jack White of White Stripes and The Raconteurs has formed a new band with Alison Mosshart of The Kills and Discount. According to the Billboard report, the group also features Raconteurs bassist Jack Lawrence and Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Dean Fertita.

The band is called The Dead Weather and they will be releasing their debut this year. The record is titled Horehound and is due out June 9, 2009. You can preview two songs on their official website including “Hang You From The Heavens” and a cover of Gary Numan’s “Are Friends Electric?”
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Akron, OH’s Devo are recording their first new album in 19 years. The band will feature a line up of Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale supported by Bob Mothersbaugh and Bob Casale and Josh Freese on drums (Nine Inch Nails, The Vandals, A Perfect Circle).

The band also plans to play some shows in 2009, including a SXSW appearance, a May 6th show in London where they’ll play Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! in it’s entirety, and an appearance at All Tomorrow’s Parties. Devo last released Smooth Noodle Maps in 1990.
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Jay Bentley has posted another album update in the BR Page forums. Jay noted:

As of now, the earliest we could see the studio would be late october, and that would be dependent on material. If we get the recording done before the end of January, it’s entirely possible to have it out by May / June… but that’s a big IF. We will have a lot of road time this year to talk about recording. We will probably all have a better idea after the Warped Tour…

It was last December that Jay noted that Bad Religion may not have a chance to record the follow-up to 2007’s New Maps of Hell anytime soon because of upcoming touring commitments for this year. 2010 will also mark the 30th anniversary of Bad Religion’s formation, which occured in 1980.
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