Ignite have announced their summer tour. The long-running melodic hardcore outfit will be headed to Europe for a mixture of club shows and festival appearances. They continue to support Our Darkest Days.
The band has also launched a contest to help select the opening band for their club dates. You can find more details on that here.
Denmark’s The Raveonettes have begun posting demos for free download and streaming via their official Twitter. The band has posted the first of the demos, ,”Last Dance,” here and are promising more.
Lust Lust Lust in 2008.
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Modest Mouse have announced a new two-song 7-inch titled Autumn Beds. Due June 23, 2009, the single will be released on limited edition black vinyl with an embossed sleeve and individually numbered to 4000.
The a-side features “Autumn Beds” and the b-side features live staple, “Whale Song.” The song will be made available for streaming on June 16. Check out the artwork here.
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The Riverboat Gamblers, Mariachi El Bronx and Of Montreal are some of the artists confirmed for an upcoming Spin-curated tribute to Prince. Titled Purplish Rain, the record coincides with the 25th anniversary of Prince’s Purple Rain and will be available as a free download to Spin subscribers. It’s due out June 23, 2009.
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Fear Before, Oceana and Memphis May Fire will tour together this summer.
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Asian Man Records, Red Scare, Chunksaah Records, Magic Bullet Records and several others have launched the Independent Label Collective. The group is described as:
A collaborative effort between a number of independent music’s greatest labels and musicians that aims to combine resources and experience to deliver new and DIY-minded solutions to distribution, merchandising, marketing, licensing and PR, with sights set high for greater market expansion in the future.
The full list of participating labels can be found here.
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A trailer has been launched for Andrew W.K.‘s new kids show, Destroy Build Destroy. According to Andrew, the show will feature two kids teams destroying a wide variety of things and then using the wreckage to build “the coolest, strongest, most efficient machines they can.”
At one point, they run over a car with a tank.
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Notorious comedy website Something Awful has set its sights on Anti-Flag in the latest of their Garbage Day features. Author Andrew Miller took the band to task saying:
Anti-Flag communicates its revolutionary angry-liberal fervor by placing the word “fuck” in front of the many societal ills to which its heroic members feel passionately opposed: “Fuck Police Brutality,” “Fuck The Flag,” “Fuck The Pope.” “Fuck Police Brutality” might be the most useless of Anti-Flag’s “Fuck Something” songs, because there’s no vocal advocacy for that cause. Police officers who enjoy brutalizing must be discreet about expressing that preference
Anti-Flag combines kids’ music with a Kids News take on politics. It’s impossible not to outgrow these guys by your twenties, unless you’re facing serious intellectual stultification. Yet these people will be branded with indelible proof of their taste-impaired youth long after they start cringing at phrases like “War sucks, let’s party.”
Check out the feature here. Anti-Flag, for their part, released The People or the Gun. this year.
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According to a Twitter update from Every Time I Die, Matt Caughthran of The Bronx, Bullet Treatment and The Drips will be appearing on ETID’s forthcoming debut for Epitaph Records.
The band noted:
Matt Bronx dropping by the studio today to help make this record greater/funnier/partier. […] Vocals are completely done. Matt of Bronx fame killed it. Off to dinner. Hope andy didn’t ruin his appetite with all them noodles!
ETID issued The Big Dirty in 2007.
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According to a Phrequency report and interview with Dan Yemin, Paint It Black will be touring with Naked Raygun this fall. Yemin had this to say:
We have another 7″ coming out in August, and then in September we have a mini-tour of the Northeast with Naked Raygun and a UK tour with Ceremony. So…seriously…stoked.
Check out the interview here.
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Great American Hardcore Fest has begun announcing the lineup for the event. The show will take place September 18th, 19th and 20th at Club Lido near Revere, MA.
Some participating bands include Bracewar, Colin of Arabia Converge, Crime In Stereo, Death Before Dishonor, Death Threat, Foundation, Guns Up!, Harms Way, Have Heart, Integrity, Killing the Dream, Living Hell, New Lows, Shipwreck A.D., The Banner, The Carrier, Trapped Under Ice, A Loss For Words, Alpha and Omega, Chris Morgado, Convicted, Mind Eraser, POW, Reign Supreme, Shere Khan, The Mongoloids and The Rival Mob.
You can find more details here.
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Cursive have posted the new video from their 2009 album, Mama, I’m Swollen. The video features Tania Raymonde (Alex Linus on ‘Lost’) and appears to show the hunt for a runaway bride. Frontman Tim Kasher explained:
The idea for the video is a gross exaggeration of the ‘trophy wife’ concept — grooms hunting down brides, hanging wedding pictures over the mantel next to a deer head. This video is more about shotguns and hair brushing than about marriage or sex.
Constants have announced their next full length, and follow up to 2006’s The Murder of Tom Fitzgerril. The record is titled The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension and is due out July 14, 2009.
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