Virginia-based Conditions, which includes Brandon Roundtree formerly of Ferret act Scarlet, as well as members of Race The Sun, FIAD, Motion Picture Demise, and Tragedy Letters have posted a stream of their new EP, You Are Forgotten.
Check it out here.
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This week’s video comes from The Gaslight Anthem, who are currently touring in support of last year’s breakthrough release, The ’59 Sound; with Murder By Death, The Loved Ones and Frank Turner.
After a jaunt across western Canada, the band slipped back into the U.S. for packed house in Minneapolis. Upon returning to the stage for an encore performance, The Gaslight Anthem paid homage to Florida’s Hot Water Music with a cover of their classic track “Trusty Chords”. The song was originally released on the LP Caution in 2002.
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Brampton, Ontario based rock act Moneen have been one of Canada’s finest musical exports in recent years. The prolific five-piece have been crafting their dynamic and melodic brand of nu-emo over a succession of critically acclaimed albums. Their new full length, The World I Want To Leave Behind is no exception, as the band reaches deep down to their explosive core to deliver one of the year’s finest rock records. Punknews contributor Matt Pagirsky recently had a chance to speak to lead vocalist/guitarist Kenny Bridges about the new album, their newly birthed partnership with Canadian indie Dine Alone Records, their upcoming national tour with Org-favorite Say Anything this October and much more.
NOFX has announced two new 7-inches for release on November 24, 2009. The first, will feature artwork that will make you sad and include an acoustic version of “My Orphan Year” and the song, “Fermented and Flailing.”
The second has art that will give you nightmares, particularly if you come from Derry, Maine and don’t have your magic asthma inhaler. It will include “Cokie the Clown,” “Codependence Day” and “Straight Outta Massachusetts.”
A CD compiling both seven inches is also expected the same day.
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Modest Mouse have released the new video from their recent EP, No One’s First, and You’re Next. The 6-minute video was directed by Nando Costa with the Portland production company Bent Image Lab.
Check out the video here.
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Suburban Home Records has unveiled a new plan to distribute music from Doomtree Recorders, the hip hop collective which includes P.O.S., Dessa, Sims, Cecil Otter, Mike Mictlan, and others out of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Releases on the label will be available in the Vinyl Collective/Suburban Home store and the label will soon be shipping copies to distributors all over the world.
We reviewed P.O.S.’s Doomtree released Never Better in 2009.
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Lemuria have posted a song from their upcoming 7-inch on Hex Records. The disc is titled Ozzy and features two songs plus a download-only bonus song. The disc will be printed on black, tan and baby blue vinyl.
Check it out on their MySpace page.
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Dashboard Confessional have premiered the first single from their next album, Alter the Ending. Due out November 10, 2009, it’s their first since The Shade of Poison Trees in 2007.
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Death Cab for Cutie have posted their contribution to the upcoming Twilight sequel soundtrack.
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Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys is feeling “healthy, strong and hopeful” that he has beaten cancer. He sent an update to the Beastie Boys’ official mailing list after returning from a visit to Tibetan doctors in Dharamsala, India:
II’m taking Tibetan medicine and at the recommendation of the Tibetan doctors I’ve been eating a vegan/organic diet, surprisingly enough that was harder to do in India than it is now that I’m back home. I’m feeling healthy, strong and hopeful that I’ve beaten this thing, but of course time will tell.
The hip hop trio’s next album, The record is titled Hot Sauce Commitee is now expected in early 2010.
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Crime in Stereo have posted a Twitter update on their forthcoming album and long-awaited follow up to 2007’s genre defying, Is Dead. The band released the collection, Selective Wreckage, in 2008.
According to the update:
The first mix coming in tonight. still can’t believe we (sorta) finished this thing. [The new album] will be out in February. we’re getting more excited everyday. it’s definitely our best record yet. takes the best parts of Is Dead and The Troubled Stateside.
The band is currently on the road with labelmates Strike Anywhere, Polar Bear Club and Ruiner. They will join Brand New’s upcoming tour in November.
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Looks like Late Night with Jimmy Fallon has become a haven for ’90s underground heroes. D.C. post-hardcore band Jawbox will perform for the first time in 12 years on the show Dec. 8., according to both the Washington City Paper and Billboard. The performance follows the reissue of the band’s seminal third album, For Your Own Special Sweetheart.
The reissue is due out November 24, 2009.
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