The End Records has signed Germany’s Die Apokalyptischen Reiter (Horseman of the Apocalypse) and plans to release the band’s latest LP Licht in the US. The American version of the record will feature six bonus tracks (two from the studio and four live recordings) and feature new cover art.
You can check out some music at MySpace, in which The End promises a “mix of heavy riffage, melody and bittersweet lyrics.”
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Rally Records has posted four new songs from Sheboygan, Wisconsin’s Jetty Boys. The songs will appear on the three-piece pop punk act’s upcoming full length Sheboygan.
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Strung Out have set a title and release date for their next album. The record is titled Agents of the Underground and is due out September 29, 2009. The album also coincides with the bands 20th anniversary, having originally formed in 1989. Vocalist Jason Cruz commented on the album:
With Agents Of The Underground, I wanted to acknowledge the fact that we are still alive and kicking just below the consciousness of the mainstream media and are celebrating our place here in “The Underground”, Like a resistance movement, we move freely and without boundaries. We say what we feel and do it all our own way, and we’ve done it all this time without radio, without TV, and without the help of a corporate record label. We are the essence of what the punk rock movement started out as and has strayed so far from. We are living proof that you can succeed by doing things your own way.”
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Beastie Boys reissued and remastered their popular 1994 full-length, Ill Communication, earlier this month for both CD and vinyl formats.
Punknews.org is celebrating by giving one lucky winner copies of both, which includes an 180-gram double LP and an ecopack double-disc CD set with plenty of bonus goodies.
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Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground have completed recording of their sophomore full-length and intend to stream it on their MySpace page this Friday, August 14. The LP is tentatively titled Introducing Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground, and information on a release date and label is still in the works.
When released, the band’s new album will be the proper follow-up to their 2008 self-titled debut, though they did release a 7″ entitled Diggin’ in the interim.
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Richmond, Virginia’s The Riot Before have been touring relentlessly since the release of their sophomore effort Fists Buried in Pockets in 2008. And with an upcoming Canadian/ West Coast Tour with A Wilhelm Scream and Living with Lions in October alongside an appearance at The Fest 8 their odometer will continue to churn out new digits. Bill Leary gave Brett Adams (vocalist) a ring to discuss their musical career thus far.
The Frank Turner media onslaught continues, as the English singer/songwriter was recently featured in a CNN video that hypes his new record, Poetry of the Deed, which is due out September 7, 2009. Turner will be supporting the record by opening for The Gaslight Anthem next month.
Long Island, NY’s Small Arms Dealer has called it a day, leaving behind two full-lengths released by Deep Elm: 2006’s A Single Unifying Theory and Patron Saint of Disappointment, released in 2007.
The band featured members of Latterman, Iron Chic and On The Might Of Princes and played their final shows this past weekend.
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A vinyl release has been announced for the recent EP from Pulley, Time-Insensitive Material. When’s Lunch Records will be releasing the LP as a 12″ record and interestingly enough, each side of the record will feature the entire EP, but at different speeds – Side A will play at 33 RPM while Side B will play at 45 RPM.
An October release is expected for the record.
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Today marks the kickoff of San Francisco’s Doomed Fest, a week long music festival in (you guessed it) San Francisco, California that’s being thrown by Thrillhouse Records and Maximum Rocknroll. Bands playing the event include Crime, Limp Wrist, Never Healed, Skin Like Iron, Bananas, Underground Railroad to Candyland, 50 Million, Trainwreck Riders, Screaming Females, Shellshag, Mutoid Men and many more. The event is a benefit for the venerable punk zine as well as a new all ages show space in the city.
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The four major labels have announced plans to unveil a new digital album format – tentatively titled CMX – that would include songs, lyrics, videos, liner notes, artwork and possibly other bonus content such as ringtones. This news comes on the heels that Apple is working on an in-house alternative to the format called Cocktail. A representative from one of the labels elaborated on the format:
“Ours will be a file that you click on, it opens and it would have a brand new look, with a launch page and all the different options. When you click on it you’re not just going to get the 10 tracks, you’re going to get the artwork, the video and mobile products.”
Given that Apple is building their own alternative to the format, it’s unclear if CMX will be compatible with iTunes, iPods and other Apple products. The labels plan to give CMX a soft launch in November, starting with a few selected releases.
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A new split 7″ has been announced featuring Tim Barry and Frank Turner, to be released by Suburban Home Records in conjunction with Epitaph. Both artists have new albums dropping in the fall, and the split 7″ will serve as singles for both of them. Barry will be contributing “Thing of the Past” from his upcoming album (details to be announced soon), while Turner’s side will feature an acoustic version of “Try This at Home”, which will serve as the first single from his new record, Poetry of the Deed which is due out on September 7, 2009.
A pre-order for the 7″ will be up at Vinyl Collective this Friday, August 14 at 2 PM MST. The 7″ is expected out in time for this year’s Revival Tour, a tour in which Barry and Turner will both be taking part.
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Streetlight Manifesto have posted a new, self-funded video for “Would You Be Impressed?”. The song comes from the band’s 2007 full-length Somewhere in the Between.
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