Epitaph Records tech/metal outfit Bring Me The Horizon have launched the new video from their latest album, Suicide Season.
The video was filmed in Slough (UK) with Director Adam Powell and RSA films (The Comedown, Chelsea Smile), and features a guest appearance of Sam Carter from Architects,
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Our stream today comes from Pittsburgh, PA-based American Armada. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Let’s Party.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Tom Waits has announced a new live album covering his recent, sold out”Glitter and Doom” tour. The record is titled Glitter and Doom Live and is due out November 24, 2009. The first disc will feature 17 songs recorded from 10 cities, from Paris to Birmingham; Tulsa to Milan; and Atlanta to Dublin.
Disc Two is a bonus compendium called “Tom Tales,” which is a selection of the comic bromides, strange musings, and unusual facts that Tom traditionally shares with his audience during the piano set. Waits’ topics range from the ritual of insects to the last dying breath of Henry Ford.
Tom is also offering the first eight songs from the performance for a free download here.
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After a five year hiatus, From Ashes Rise have announced a reunion performance at the Satyricon in Portland, OR on February 21, 2010. The band split up in 2005 and members went on to join Smoke Or Fire and others.
The band is currently streaming three live songs from their final 2005 West Coast tour. Check those out on their MySpace page.
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Motion City Soundtrack has announced plans for three full-album shows in Chicago, IL at Lincoln Hall. The band explained:
We are going to spend three nights in Chicago, December 18 – 20th, at the brand spanking new awesome rock room, Lincoln Hall. What are we going to do? Play each of our three albums in their entirety, start to finish.
December 18th will feature I Am The Movie, the 19th will cover Commit This To Memory and the band will finish the run with Even If It Kills Me on the 20th.
The band is currently working on their debut for Sony BMG.
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Anti-Flag will be covering The Clash on three upcoming European shows. The band took a similar approach to Hoodwink this past Spring, playing sets of all Clash tracks.
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Spin has posted a review and some photos from the American Idiot currently being staged in the East Bay.
Directed by the critically acclaimed Michael Mayer, the show features every song from Idiot, two b-sides from the album, four tracks from 21st Century Breakdown and one ballad Armstrong wrote for his wife when he was 19. The review had this to say about the production:
Mayer has added only the barest of plots to the conceptual muddle that was the original album: Jimmy leaves suburbia for the big city, falls in love, gets hooked on dope, hits rock bottom, and ultimately flees back home. One of his buddies goes to Iraq and loses a leg; the other is a loser who doesn’t go anywhere at all. The whole time a bank of TVs plays clips presumably depicting American idiocy: Slurpees and Twinkies at 7-11, night-vision bombing runs from the Middle East, Family Guy. It’s all supposed to represent the hollowness of the American dream, or how life sucks, or something.
The dialogue (what little there is) is all, “What the fuck?” this and “Motherfucker!” that-a 13-year-old Wicked fan’s idea of punk rebellion. And with tickets more expensive than seats at an actual Green Day show, there really doesn’t seem much point.
You can find more details and tickets here.
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Strung Out have posted a video update as they traversed the United States with The Flatliners and Pour Habit. The band is supporting their latest album, Agents of the Underground, and celebrating their 20th anniversary.
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Boston’s Far From Finished recorded a remarkably faithful cover of the Jackson 5 hit, “I Want You Back.” The cover is being sold on iTunes and proceeds from the sale go to the Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange.
Check out a download of the song here. A stream can be found on their MySpace page.
The band will be playing the Syndicate/Punknews.org CMJ showcase later this month.
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A number of you wrote in with the sad news that author and club owner Brendan Mullen has passed away at the age of sixty. The LA Times reported on his passing, noting his opening of The Masque in Hollywood which went on to launch the careers of The Germs, X, the Go-Go’s, The Weirdos, the Skulls, the Controllers and more.
He was equally well-known and respected for his books, including the classic, We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk, 2002’s Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs, the oral history of Jane’s Addiction, Whores, published in 2005, and wrote the 2007 Live at the Masque: Nightmare in Punk Alley.
Our deepest condolences to his friends and family.
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Recently defunct Kingston, UK hardcore outfit The Steal have posted their entire discography for free download. This includes the band’s two full-lengths (2006’s The Steal and 2008’s Bright Grey), tracks from splits with Beat Express and Set Your Goals and two BBC Radio 1 sessions. Check them all out here.
The band announced their breakup last month. Bassist Dave House recently released his third solo record, Intersections.
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In other Panic Records news, the label has announced that it will be re-releasing Lens, the 2008 full-length from Hostage Calm. The Hartford, CT-based band is currently working on the follow up as well, which will also be released via their new label.
Some music can be heard at the band’s MySpace page.
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Panic Records has signed Syracuse, NY hardcore act Another Breath. The label will release the band’s next full-length, The God Complex sometime this fall on CD and LP. Two songs from the record, “Belly of a Whale” and “Nausea”, can be heard at the band’s MySpace page.
The God Complex will follow up Mill City, released in 2006.
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