Tallahassee, FL melodic hardcore outfit Lipona have posted a new song. The band intends to begin tracking their sophomore full-length, Networks, next month.
Check out “Rights of Passage” at their MySpace page. The band last released Pigeonholed in 2009.
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Trenton, NJ’s The Great Explainer have uploaded two new songs from their upcoming debut for Chunksaah Records. The record is titled The Way Things Swell and is due out July 13, 2010.
Check out “Codeine … Bourbon” and “I Finally Found My Dreamboat” at the band’s MySpace page.
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Tallahassee, FL’s Only Thieves have posted three new songs, presumably for an upcoming release of some sort. We’ll relay any details as they come in. Check out the song at the band’s MySpace page.
The band last released Greetings from Levy Park, T.L.H. in 2009.
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Pre-purchase Resurgence Pack DLC between now and July 5th launch and receive 10% off.
The Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Pack will deliver five incredible new multiplayer maps. Take the action to exciting new locations, then battle across legendary landscapes from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
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The track listing for the soundtrack to Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World has been unveiled. Edgar Wright’s adaption of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s comic series will feature contributions from Frank Black of the Pixies, the Black Lips and Metric along with more classic rock selections from bands like the Rolling Stones and T. Rex. Interestingly the soundtrack will feature new songs composed for the fictional bands that appear in the movie. Pilgrim’s band SEX BOB-OMB has four songs on the collection, created and performed by Beck. Similarly Pilgrim’s rival band Crash And The Boys have a pair of songs on the record, composed in the real world by Broken Social Scene.
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Québécois gruff punks The Sainte Catherines will release their next full-length with Anchorless Records. The album, entitled Fire Works, is expected out this fall and will be the band’s first since 2006’s Dancing for Decadence, issued by Fat Wreck Chords. More information is expected soon.
The band also has a 7″ for Asian Man Records planned for later this year.
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The Methadones have announced more details regarding their final show and release. The band’s last gig is tentatively scheduled for mid-November at Reggie’s in their hometown of Chicago, IL. To coincide with the show, the band plans to release a collection entitled Over and Out featuring five new songs, all of the band’s 7″ songs as well as some extras. Asian Man Records will release the collection digitally and on CD, while Solidarity Recordings will handle the vinyl release.
Earlier this month, the band announced their intentions to break up by the end of the year.
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Japandroids have announced more dates over the coming months including shows with The Walkmen, Ladyhawk, Frog Eyes and more.
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Reel Big Fish have announced the details about their recently announced Best Of collection. The record is titled A Best of Us for the Rest of Us and is due out July 20, 2010 exclusively through Best Buy. As reported originally, the record will feature 22 songs from the band’s catalog. What has also been confirmed is that all 22 songs will be newly recorded due to the fact that the band’s major label, Jive Records, owns the older masters from the band’s early releases.
Along with the best of disc, the band is promising a 14-song “skatoustic” disc featuring renditions of tracks in that style.
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Voting is going strong for next week’s Encore Mutation Poll.
On the 360 side, Chainsaw Massacre is the runway leader with 43% of the vote. On the PC side, we are quite a bit closer with Headshot! leading with only 33% over Chainsaw Massacre’s 32%. This is a close race, so make sure to get your vote in by Thursday night!
What happens if the PC and Xbox 360 have different picks? They each get what they voted for. We created the system to accommodate this scenario. The different platforms can be running different Mutations.
When you are done voting, check out what the Left 4 Dead 1/2 community has been up to this past year.
We have been busy playing I Hate Mountains in L4D1 while we wait for the L4D2 version.
Gravitybomb has created a simple but very cool Left 4 Dead 1 poster.
Do you have visions of a Cheeseburger Apocalypse?
With the Portal 2 announcement at E3, we have all had cake on our mind. This google image search returns plenty of tasty images along with our favorite.
You can also always check out the L4D1 or L4D2 photo pages on Facebook for a ton of cool community pics.
Legendary New York Hardcore outfit Madball will be releasing their next album this Fall. The album will be their first for (relatively) newly launched hardcore label Good Fight Music. The record is tentatively titled Empire and will be the first for the band since Infiltrate the System in 2007. The band explained:
MADBALL has come a long way from being street kids to becoming very established in our genre, and even beyond the music. We’re finally at a point in our life where we’re taking control of our things, where as before we didn’t have control of some things or didn’t choose to have control. We have the feeling that we’ve built a little empire for ourselves with our band, brand, and different endeavors. We get this reference that we’re kings of New York… There are plenty of awesome bands that have come out of the city. Agnostic Front are the godfathers of New York hardcore, Sick Of it All are one of the undisputed champs of the scene… we were always known as more of the bad guys, but now people are calling us the kings. It’s not a title we gave ourselves and it’s not that we call ourselves that, but it’s just a term of endearment and respect that people use and it plays into the name Empire.
The band will enter Mana Recording Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida to record in July.
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Josh Grabelle, founder of Trustkill Records, has launched a new label called Bullet Tooth. The label will kick off with a number of signings including The Great American Beast, Kid Liberty, Deception Of A Ghost, Victory In Numbers, First Blood, Soldiers, The Great American Beast, Most Precious Blood, Memphis May Fire and Awaken Demons.
A first track from The Great American Beast can be found on their official MySpace page.
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Streetlight Manifesto have posted the second leg of their “Ship of Fools” tour. The band heads to Europe for this leg, including stops at the Reading and Leeds festivals. This follows leg one of the tour with The Wonder Years and Dan Potthast.
The band last released their 99 Songs of Revolution in 2010.
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