Post-hardcore outfit The Felix Culpa have released their first new recordings since 2005’s Thought Control [EP/DVD]. The EP, titled So So Remission features three previously unreleased songs recorded in 2007.
You can grab a copy of the EP here and check out one of the songs here.
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Art of the Underground has announced the signing of Windsor, Ontario quartet Orphan Choir, with a summer release on tap for the band’s debut full-length. The band commented on the signing via their blog:
“Well, we’ve had the masters since about november, and we’re happy to announce that the full length that we recorded at the end of last summer in has found a home…The CD should be out by June, and the LP should surface soon after.”
Some music can be heard at the band’s myspace page. They also have some tour dates coming up around their native province (along with one date in Québec) with Yesterday’s Ring, Bridge and Tunnel, Junior Battles and others.
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The results for your votes for the best albums of April are in. Coming on top was Gainesville, FL-based Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves and the list features Bob Mould, Strung Out, The Thermals, The Decemberists and many more.
We’re happy to bring you the tenth column from Mike Hale. Mike just packed up all his belongings and headed out on the road with no plans to return.
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Brody Dalle’s Spinnerette have announced a run of low-key UK shows later this summer, and have signed up with UK based Hassle Records (Propagandhi, Anti-Flag, Say Anything) to release their forthcoming album on June 15th.
The band released the Ghetto Love EP last year.
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On the heels of the release of Guitar Hero: Metallica, Activision has confirmed the development of Guitar Hero: Van Halen which will focus on Van Halen but also “related” bands. In the case of Metallica, the game featured music from Foo Fighters, Mastodon, Samhain, Slayer, Social Distortion, Suicidal Tendencies, System of a Down, The Sword and Corrosion of Conformity.
In the case of the forthcoming Van Halen game, Billboard reports that the game will include music from Queen, Weezer, Blink 182, The Offspring and Queens of the Stone Age.
The game company has also confirmed that they will continue to expand on the Hero games with the release of Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero and DJ Hero.
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Time Again is planning to release a new record soon entitled (naked) which comprises 12 songs from the bands first 3 releases re-recorded in the style of 1960’s folk music. The band made this statement:
We have been in the studio this past month finishing a new record. As our headline says, be brave and unafraid of change. We have been working on a record that has been as much fun as anything we have ever done. The new record named (naked) is 12 songs from our first three records, but recorded in a folk 1960’s vibe.
We just wanted to have some fun and give things a different perspective. we are such music lovers that we wanted to do something fun and walk our own path. punk is about individuality and we hope you guys enjoy these acoustic-folk versions as much as we enjoyed recording them.
The band issued Darker Days last year.
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Bomb the Music Industry! have added some more shows around their upcoming four day run with Fake Problems. The band will be supporting their album, Scrambles, as well as their new recently announced rarities compilation, Others! Others!.
Speaking of Others! Others!, you can now grab that record directly from Quote Unquote Records after providing a (legally optional) donation here.
Non-profit, DIY zine Razorcake has announced a celebration/benefit show to mark their 50th issue. The show will be taking place at the Nomad Collective Art Compound in Los Angeles, CA on June 6, 2009 and will feature The Bananas, Tiltwheel, It’s Casual and God Equals Genocide.
A flyer for the show can be found here.
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MySpace has announced plans for a The List concert featuring Green Day. Set for Tuesday, May 19th, the and will perform at Webster Hall for a small group and the performance will be broadcast on MySpace shortly after the live event.
You can find more details here.
If that’s not enough Green Day news for one story, here are some more reviews of the album: San Francisco Chronicle, Alternative Press, MTV.
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Gaslight Anthem‘s Brian Fallon recently spoke with the Washington Post Express and the article talks about playing with Bruce Springsteen, fame, religion and more.
Check out the interview here.
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Apparently unsatisfied with their comments on Avenged Sevenfold, Underoath is now setting their sights on Metallica. The band spoke to Metal Hammer saying:
When we were on tour in 2006/7, the tour manager for Anti-Flag was talking to me, and he asked what my favourite Metallica record was. I said I didn’t have one. Not that I liked them all, but I didn’t like any. He was like ‘what?!’ I said I didn’t like them, I didn’t think they were any good. He got really startled then almost offended. He was literally slamming the bar saying, ‘there is no F-ing way you play the music you do, the way you do, and not like Metallica’.
I can listen to that stuff, and maybe if I was alive 30 years ago it would mean more to me; I respect them, but I just don’t like them. I get that they’re important, but not to me. For me Kurt Cobain means more: he played like trash but he had an intensity. It’s not about your chops, it’s about creating a feeling.
People can say, ‘if it wasn’t for Metallica, you wouldn’t have a scene to play to’, I’ll give them that, but I still don’t like them. Maybe one day I’ll look back, having changed my mind about Metallica, and think what a stupid 25 year old I was.
The band released Lost in the Sound of Separation in 2008.
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Swedish hardcore act Raised Fist have entered the studio to record their next album. The band is teaming up with Daniel Bergstrand (In Flames, Meshuggah) and recording at Studio Dug Out in Uppsala, Sweden.
After recording of the album is complete, the band will appear at three summer festivals in Scandinavia: Peace & Love in Borlänge, West Coast Riot in Göteborg and Provinssirock in Seinäjoki, Finland, with plans to start a world tour in September.
The band last released Sound of the Republic in 2006.
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