The Light Fantastic, which includes members of Red Animal War, have posted their debut album as a free download. The record is title The Mayfield LP.
Find the album here.
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We’re happy to bring you the eleventh 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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Street Sweeper Social Club, the new project from Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine and Boots Riley of The Coup will be supporting their newly released self-titled album on Jimmy Fallon tonight.
Check out some music on their myspace page.
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Many bands have been confirmed for the forthcoming Reading and Leeds festivals. Some of the acts include: A Day To Remember, AFI, Alexisonfire, Alexisonfire, Anti-Flag, Arctic Monkeys, Atreyu, A Wilhelm Scream, Billy Talent, Black Lips, Bloc Party, Bouncing Souls, Brand New, Bring Me the Horizon, Broadway Calls, Chuck Ragan, Deftones, Enter Shikari, Faith No More, Fake Problems, Fall Out Boy, Fightstar, Frank Turner, Funeral For A Friend, Gallows, Gaslight Anthem, Kaiser Chiefs, Leftover Crack, Lostprophets, Mad Caddies, Madina Lake, Manchester Orchestra, Metric, Municipal Waste, New Found Glory, Patrick Wolf, Polar Bear Club, Radiohead, Rise Against, Rival Schools, Riverboat Gamblers, Set Your Goals, Snuff, Sonic Boom Six, Spinnerette, Streetlight Manifesto, The Aggrolites, The Bronx, The Flatliners, The Gossip, The Living End, The Plight, Thursday, Titus Andronicus, Vampire Weekend, Virgins and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
For the full lineup and stage-by-stage breakdowns, check out the announcement.
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Dear Landlord have posted two more new songs from their forthcoming LP, Dream Homes which is due out June 30, 2009.
Check out “Park Bench” / “Goodbye to Oakland” (streaming as one track) at the band’s myspace page.
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The Higher are streaming their new Epitaph Records release, It’s Only Natural due out June 23, 2009.
Find the stream here.
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Our stream today comes from Minneapolis, MN-based The Gateway District. The group includes members of The Soviettes, American Monsters, Banner Pilot, Off with Their Heads and Rivethead, and will be releasing their album on It’s Alive Records.
We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Some Days You Get The Thunder. You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Riot Fest has announced the second wave of bands for the 2009 edition of the Chicago Festival. The new additions include Butthole Surfers, Naked Raygun, 88 Fingers Louie, Riverboat Gamblers, Pegboy, No Empathy, New Bomb Turks, Youth Brigade, Teenage Bottlerocket, Lower Class Brats, Teen Idols, Off With Their Heads, the Arrivals, Shot Baker, Flatfoot 56, Fear City, the Frankl Project and Anxiety High.
They join the already confirmed lineup which features Screeching Weasel, NOFX, Alkaline Trio, Murder City Devils, the Dead Milkmen and Cock Sparrer. The shows take place at the Congress Theatre, Metro, Double Door, Subterranean and Cobra Lounge. A limited number of five day passes go on sale June 6th for $99.00.
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Mike Dirnt, bassist of Green Day, has designed his own shoe. The 45 RPM Schubert is to be produced by vegan shoe company, Macbeth. The shoe is black with brass lace loops and is animal-product free.
You can find the shoes here.
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According to a recent interview, Anti-Flag will be helping to protest California’s anti-gay Proposition 8 with a new 7-inch EP. Frontman Justin Sane explained:
Proposition 8 is unfortunate. We’re releasing an EP; we wrote a song that specifically deals with it. The artwork is um… The artwork is… Well, I don’t really want to give it away. I want people to see it, so people keep your eyes open.
Justin also notes that the EP is coming out on “on a friend’s label who plays in a great band” and when asked if that label is Fat Wreck Chords replies:
More than likely. I don’t think that anything is set in stone, but it’s looking like that. So yeah, we’re stoked; it’ll be a lot of fun. You know, what of the great things that we’ve had an opportunity to do over the years is just make some great friends. And you know, Fat Mike has been one of them and somebody who’s always been really great to us.
Check out the interview here.
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While they have ruled out any new release prior to their upcoming comeback tour, Blink 182 are promising at least one brand new song on the run, reports Billboard. According to guitarist/vocalist Tom Delonge:
[The song has] got a little bit of (Pink) Floyd, a little bit of Rush, a little bit of blink in there. It’s crazy, but it somehow sounds exactly like where we left off (in 2005). It’s an amazing song.
Delonge is promising that the band will not be incorporating the seriousness of his other project, Angels and Airwaves noting:
.The talks this morning were hot to incorporate the word ‘fuck’ in such a way that it somehow is parallel if not better than when it was lit on fire 10 years ago. I remember on the very first song of some of these larger tours we did, when the big Fuck sign lit on fire, parents would stand up and walk their kids out, A DJ explained it really good to me once; ‘I tell my kid it’s not bad if it’s art. If you’re not doing art, you can’t say words like that.’ I thought that was a really good way to handle it.
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Paint It Black is streaming their new EP, Amnesia. Unfortunately the lala.com stream is only available in the US currently.
Set Your Goals have posted another song from their forthcoming debut for Epitaph Records. The song, “This Will Be the Death of Us” comes from the album of the same name due out July 21, 2009. The song features guest vocals from Vinnie Caruana of The Movielife and, more recently, of I Am the Avalanche.
Check out the song on their myspace page.
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