According to the latest Warped Tour newsletter, video game producer Harmonix is planning a series of Warped themed track packages featuring some of the performers at this years tour. While the songs have not been announced, some of the participating bands include: The Devil Wears Prada, Underoath, Bad Religion, Chiodos, A Day to Remember and Thrice.
The songs are set to hit on June 23rd and June 30th.
Source Continue reading Rock Band promises “Warped Tour” track packs
Dinosaur Jr. have launched a stream of their forthcoming album on Jagjaguwar. Farm is due out June 23, 2009.
It’s streaming on their myspace page.
Source Continue reading Dinosaur Jr.: “Farm”
Set Your Goals has posted another song from their upcoming Epitaph Records debut. The song, “Gaia Bleeds,” features Jon Gula of Turmoil. The record is titled This Will Be The Death Of Us and is due out July 21, 2009.
Find the song on their myspace page.
Source Continue reading Set Your Goals: “Gaia Bleeds (with Jon Gula of Turmoil)”
Certain People I Know, the new project from Bob Nanna and Damon Atkinson of Hey Mercedes and Braid, have posted the first four songs recorded as a band.
Check them out on their official website.
Source Continue reading Certain People I Know (Bob and Damon from Braid) post 4 tracks for free download
While Blink 182 is currently getting the most press, Tom Delong is still planning significant releases with his project, Angels and Airwaves. Tom discusses his upcoming album and film, Love with Billboard and notes that the album will be free, thanks to “corporate underwriting”:
[Love] is the biggest release of my life, the pinnacle of my creativity. It’s super conceptual and highbrow in many ways, very artistic, very Stanley Kubrick. But it’s not a rock opera. It’s a very modern version of what could happen when you blend the film industry and the music industry together in a very, very arty, kind of cool way with professionals involved all along the path.
[The film] blurs the line between full-fledged live action and documentary with these epic kind of…meditative sequences where the sound design and the music and the picture all bend together to create a sonic experience as much as a visual one. It tells a story of human life and destiny but at the same time really makes usual moments of life extraordinary. It’s a circular narrative in many ways, where it kind of sums up the human race in a time capsule.”
Soundwise, Tom is aiming for Radiohead, U2 and Ping Floyd.
Source Continue reading Angels & Airwaves’ to release new album, film for free
Polar Bear Club have posted the track listing for their upcoming Bridge Nine Records album. Chasing Hamburg is due out September 8, 2009.
Update: The artwork is also available.
Source Continue reading Polar Bear Club post art and track listing for “Chasing Hamburg”
Polar Bear Club have posted the track listing for their upcoming Bridge Nine Records album. Chasing Hamburg is due out September 8, 2009.
Source Continue reading Polar Bear Club detail “Chasing Hamburg”
No Doubt spoke to Billboard about their long-awaited studio album. The band notes:
“We feel really good about playing together again, and I do believe that’s going to lead to a very inspired record as soon as we’re done with this tour. I think (the tour) was the right move. The good thing is we’re playing together and we’re having fun…kind of recharging our confidence and getting ourselves to a place where we’re excited to do it and hopefully Gwen figures out what to write about.
The band hasn’t picked a studio start date yet, but note:
We’re definitely not going to put pressure on ourselves. It’s gonna happen when it happens. “There’s been a lot of musical ideas; really, the dry side has been lyrically. The plan is to get to work in the fall when we get home from the tour. We hope to have (an album) out some time next year, but I don’t know how long it will take.”
The band kicked off their summer tour last month.
Source Continue reading No Doubt talks studio time, next album
Weatherbox‘s oft-delayed sophomore full-length, The Cosmic Drama, will be released on cassette. Doghouse will press 200 copies only, with alternate artwork to boot, and release it on July 14th.
The Cosmic Drama, which was originally planned as a vinyl/digital-only release, will seemingly be released on compact disc after all, at least according to this page. Its release date looks to be August 4th. You can check out the cover art, an apparent homage to the late author Kurt Vonnegut, here.
The band last released American Art in 2007.
Source Continue reading Weatherbox plan ‘The Cosmic Drama’ cassette, CD release after all
Portugal. The Man were in a van accident as they travel in support of their forthcoming album, The Satanic Satanist due out July 21, 2009. The band documented the event via Twitter, noting:
Got hit by a truck and the axles got ripped of the van. Guy was on his cell and not looking. Good work. Just waiting for police to show up so I can figure out what we can do showwise. Only 10 miles away. Anyone have a truck or two in chapel …
Pinback have confirmed the dates for a fall tour kicking off in mid-October.
Gracer have posted two brand new songs entitled “Maybe Someday” and “Sleep On Fire” to their purevolume page and a 10 minute EPK video to their myspace.
The songs will be on their next full-length record to be released later this year. It is their first since Voices Travel in 2006 on Revelation Records.
Source Continue reading Two new songs from Gracer
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have announced their upcoming tour dates.