According to their latest Twitter update Atreyu has completed recording their new record and are moving on to mixing. The album will be the band’s second for Hollywood Records. The Orange County-based band has been working with producer Bob Marlette at his Blue Room Studios in the San Fernando Valley.
The album will be the follow up to Lead Sails Paper Anchor and is expected in October.
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This evening, the Red Scare Tour with Cobra Skulls, The Copyrights, The Sidekicks and The Menzingers kicks off. To celebrate, the labels benevolent tyrant has decided to give away a set of six (6) releases to one lucky winner. The thing is, he refuses to tell us which ones but promises it’ll be “based upon that person’s locale. Kinda like a Secret Santa!”
Some of the bands on the label are: Enemy You, The Falcon, Teenage Bottlerocket, Bullets to Broadway, The Methadones, The Lillingtons, Sundowner, The Copyrights, Cobra Skulls, La Plebe, The Sidekicks, Druglords of the Avenues and The Menzingers so it’ll probably be a few of those.
As Cities Burn have called it quits. The band explained:
As Cities Burn has broken up. We are happily moving on after six good years. Our lives and our wives have called us in different directions. Thanks to anyone who has come out to a show, had words to say, or bought a CD to help us fill the tank.
Their final record was Hell or High Water in 2009.
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The Sandwiches have revealed the art and track listing for their upcoming EP. The record is titled Hitting Refresh to Drop Witty Comments and is due out August 18, 2009. The art was created by Daniel Ehrlich.
The six song EP will include two re-recorded songs from their Reinventing Scott Heisel single and four new songs. A digital version of the release will be available August 18th on Death to False Hope Records, with a physical release to follow on an a yet to be determined label.
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To coincide with the release of their brand new DVD, Reel Big Fish have provided us with some special live footage. The record is titled Live! In Concert! and is due out tomorrow, July 21, 2009.
The songs are “Sell Out (Live)” and “Another F.U. Song (Live).”
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Ipecac Recordings was recently profiles by Indie Pit. The blog looked at the structure of the label:
That’s because the label doesn’t exactly have one – at least, not in the traditional sense. Ipecac doesn’t actually own any of its releases. At any given moment, Ipecac licenses multiple releases. But those items are only “borrowed,” for a few years – at which point bands can bail and take the material elsewhere. And it’s hard to be miserable when a label is giving you ownership of your masters, unlimited creative control … oh, and by the way, Ipecac also splits royalties right down the middle with its artists.
Check out the story here.
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The Swellers have posted a new tour video as they document their recent run with Livings with Lions. The recent Fueled By Ramen Records signees are now on the road with Set Your Goals, Four Year Strong, Fireworks and Grave Maker.
HORSE the Band have announced details for their new album for Vagrant Records. The record is titled Desperate Living and is due out October 6, 2009. It is the follow-up to A Natural Death which was released in 2007.
The twelve-track set was recorded at White Buffalo Studios in Los Angeles with producer Noah Shain and includes several special guests. Among them are classical pianist Valentina Lisitsa, Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu, underground rapper K-SLAX, triangle player Ed Edge, and The Number 12 Looks Like You drummer, Jon Karel.
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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have begun posting updates from the studio as they record with producer Ted Hutt. The band is working on the follow up to Medium Rare. Some updates include:
One week into pre-production on the new record! Start recording in two days. 25 songs now down to 16… Only the strong survive!
Check out the feed here.
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Chuck Ragan has announced plans to release a new limited edition picture disc. The bonus 7-inch includes a track from the new album, “Rotterdam”, as well as an unreleased cover of “Coal Tattoo” from the Daytrotter Sessions.
The record will be sent out to people who pre-order Chuck’s forthcoming album, Gold Country which is due out September 1, 2009.
You can find more details on Chuck’s website.
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Beastie Boys have cancelled their recently announced tour dates and delayed their forthcoming record due to illness. The band’s label issued this statement:
Adam “MCA” Yauch of Beastie Boys was diagnosed last week as having a cancerous tumor in his left parotid (salivary) gland. Luckily it was caught early and is localized in one area, and as such is considered very treatable. It will however require surgery and several weeks of additional treatment. Fortunately the cancer is not in a location that will affect Yauch’s vocal chords. Beastie Boys have canceled all upcoming concert appearances to allow time for Yauch’s surgery and recovery. The release of the band’s forthcoming album Hot Sauce Committee Part 1 will also be pushed back.
Along with his longtime role in the Beastie Boys, Yauch is a producer having worked with the Bad Brains on their last album, and also a director working under the pseudonym Nathanial Hörnblowér.
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In a review of the Uniondale, NY stop of the 2009 Warped Tour, the New York Times looked at the culture clash going on at the tour this year, particularly are provoked by Brokencyde and Millionaires. The article noted:
2009 will be remembered as the year the Warped Tour transmogrified into a rave. Or at least enough of one to inspire plenty of dancing, as well as several raised middle fingers, hurled slurs and bottles chucked at stages by fans unaccustomed to hearing synthesizers in their metalcore, or rapping in their punk.
It was Millionaires, though – three female rappers whose committed, dim music suggests an anime porn soundtrack – that made people take a stand. Then there were the bottles, raining down at a furious clip. Brokencyde, which inspires worst-band-of-the-millennium diatribes on the Internet and seems to have been willed into existence largely to irk the punk faithful, or any genre faithful.
Check out the article here.
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Mansions have been tapped as the support act for a handful of the Get Up Kids‘ upcoming tour dates.
Mansions will be out in support of New Best Friends, released earlier this year on Doghouse.
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