A Wilhelm Scream announce EP, post new song

A Wilhelm Scream A Wilhelm Scream have set a title, release date and posted a new song from their forthcoming, highly anticipated new EP. The self-titled, five song EP is due out November 20, 2009 via Paper and Plastick. It is the first new release from the band since Career Suicide in 2007. The EP was produced and recorded at the band’s Black & Blue studio in New Bedford, MA, along with their live sound engineer James Whitten. Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Isis, Minus The Bear, Shook Ones) mixed the five song record.

The band has posted a song from the EP, “Bulletproof Tiger,” and you can find that here.

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Joey Cape details next album

Joey Cape Joey Cape has announced a few more details about his next album. Doesn’t Play Well With Others will be a double album; one of ten new songs and another of ten acoustic versions of Lagwagon and Bad Astronaut songs. Cape has posted a ‘work in progress’ version of “Making Friends” on his MySpace page. The song originally appeared on Lagwagon’s 1997 full-length Double Plaidinum.

Doesn’t Play Well With Others will eventually follow up Bridge, released in 2008. That record can be streamed at Cape’s Punknews.org page.
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The Pixies announce support from Bad Lieutenant, No Age, Jay Reatard, Mew

The Pixies have announced the support acts for their forthcoming November tour. As originally announced, the band will perform all of the songs from Doolittle and its related B-sides, “Weird at My School, “Dancing the Manta Ray,” and “Bailey’s Walk” among them.

Support for the bill will be Bad Lieutenant, the new project from New Order/Joy Division‘s Bernard Sumner; the Los Angeles experimental art rock duo No Age; Brooklyn-based music project Black Gold; TV on the Radio/Kyp Malone’s solo project Rain Machine; garage punk musician Jay Reatard; and Denmark’s Mew.
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Senses Fail filming live DVD

Senses Fail are planning a special all-ages Halloween show that will be filmed for their first live DVD. On Saturday, October 31, the NJ-based 5-piece will be headlining Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ and their set will be captured in a seven-camera HD shoot directed by Adam Rothlein (The Get Up Kids, My Chemical Romance, Ben Folds). The DVD is expected to have a Spring 2010 release.

The band is on the road in support of their album, Life Is Not A Waiting Room.
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Bjorn Dossche (Rise and Fall)

Rise and FallIn their seventh-year running, Ghent, Belgium’s Rise and Fall have garnered a reputation as one of hardcore’s most brutal bands. After releasing 2005’s Into Oblivion on Deathwish Inc., and countless tours, the band hunkered down in various locales around Belgium to write their forthcoming LP, Our Circle Is Vicious. Produced by Converge’s Kurt Ballou, the LP, out October 27th on Deathwish, Inc., delivers a punishing dose of truth as only Rise And Fall can tell it. Sean Jain spoke with singer, Bjorn Dossche to get the lowdown on the new record as well as Rise And Fall’s upcoming U.S. tour.

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Hole to reunite

According to a report from The Sun, Courtney Love has reunited her ’90s era rock act Hole. First formed in Los Angeles in 1989, the band was together until 2002.

The story notes that Courtney Love, who has become better known as gatekeeper of Kurt Cobain’s estate, has been recording in the studio and is planning a single for January and an album for mid-2010. The band’s most critically acclaimed album, Live Through This, was released just days after Cobain’s apparent suicide.
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Hole reunites

According to a report from The Sun, Courtney Love has reunited her 90s era rock act Hole. First formed in Los Angeles in 1989, the band was together until 2002.

The story notes that Courtney Love, who has become better known as gatekeeper of Kurt Cobain’s estate, has been recording in the studio and is planning a single for January and a album for mid-2010. The band’s most critically acclaimed album, Live Through This, was released just days after Cobain’s apparent suicide.
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