If You Make It posts Stolen Parts album for download

Stolen Parts If You Make It has posted the new self-titled full-length from Stolen Parts as a donation-based download. The band features Ryan Seagrist of Monikers (and formerly, Discount), Josh Jordan (formerly of Off with Their Heads) and Pat Schramm of Bridge and Tunnel. Check it out here.

The physical version of the album was recently release by Kiss of Death.
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Final Johnny Cash album to be released

Johnny Cash The final album from Johnny Cash has been detailed. The record is titled American VI: Ain’t No Grave and it’s due out February 26, 2010, on what would’ve been the late performer’s 78th birthday. Like the previous five American Recordings volumes, American VI was produced by Rick Rubin. Guest musicians appearing on the album include Matt Sweeney and Smokey Hormel, and the title track features appearances from Scott and Seth Avett of The Avett Brothers.

American VI will also feature a plethora of cover songs from Cash, including Sheryl Crow’s “Redemption Day,” Kris Kristofferson’s “For The Good Times,” Tom Paxton’s “Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound”, Bob Nolan’s “Cool Water,” Ed McCurdy’s “Last Night I had the Strangest Dream”, J.H. Red Hayes and Jack Rhodes’s “Satisfied Mind,” and Queen Lili’uokalani’s song of farewell, “Aloha Oe.” In addition to those, the album will also see the release of “I Corinthians: 15:55”, a new original from Cash written over the final three years of his life.

Cash passed away on September 12, 2003. His first posthumous full-length, American V: A Hundred Highways was released in 2006.
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The Banner (1999-2010)

The Banner Bloomfield, NJ’s The Banner have called it a day. The band offered a drama-free explanation via MySpace:

“Alright as im sure you may have guessed The Banner is embarking on our Swan song. Theres no drama or nothing its just we pretty much did everything i wished to do and id like to bow out as gracefully as we are capable (yeah, i know, but for us this is as graceful as youre gonna get.) Were gonna play a last show at the end of the year. im not sure of exactly when someone could nail down a start date of this band but it was 1999-2000 so the end of 2010 will be at least ten years and ten years/6 records is something i can move on feeling ok about. … Gonna be working on final EP of sorts that will ideally be out before the last show, Wondering who is gonna put it out? NOBODY, I begged and pleaded but everybody was “too busy”. if i can gather enough funds after paying for recording ill press it myself but lets face it…probably not gonna happen. No, looks like the last album will be coming out on Mediafire Records.”

Over the years, the band issued material through labels like Blackout! Records and Ferret Records, the most recent being 2008’s Frailty.
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The Bled post two new songs

The Bled The Bled have posted two new songs from their upcoming full-length and debut for Rise Records, Heat Fetish. The album is slated for a March 2, 2010 release, the first since the band released Silent Treatment in 2007. Check out the cover art over at its release page and head to the band’s MySpace page to hear “Smoke Breaks” and “Mouthbreather.”

Beginning tomorrow, the band will be doing a string of tour dates alongside Four Year Strong, This Time Next Year and Title Fight.
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Walter Schreifels (Gorilla Biscuits/Quicksand/Rival Schools) prepares new album

Walter Schreifels Walter Schriefels will be releasing his first solo album later this year. An Open Letter To The Scene will be released stateside by Academy Fight Song, in the UK by Big Scary Monsters and in Germany by Arctic Rodeo. The ten track album will include two covers; “Don’t Gotta Prove It”, originally by CIV and “Society Sucker”, made popular by Agnostic Front. A video has already been released for “Arthur Lee’s Lullaby”.

Schriefels, who is also a member of Gorilla Biscuits, Quicksand, Rival Schools and Walking Concert, is expected to release An Open Letter To The Scene in April.
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