Cee-Lo has released a new video featuring his cover of the Band of Horses favorite, “No One’s Gonna Love You.” The original track comes from the Horses’ 2007 Sub Pop Records album, Cease to Begin. Note the video is NSFW.
Cee-Lo, who is well-known for his work in indie/r&b sensation Gnarls Barkley, will be releasing his solo album, Lady Killer in August.
Relapse Records has signed Toronto-based hardcore/metal outfit Titan. The band describes their sound in their bio:
Maintaining roots consistent with traditional Canadian hardcore established by the likes of Union Of Uranus, Buried Inside, Cursed and more, Titan enhances a rich, thunderous history with their own furious approach.
The band previously released material on Paradigms and Tee Pee Records and have completed work on a brand new full-length album titled Sweet Dreams. Sweet Dreams which due out October 12, 2010 via Relapse. Find some music on their MySpace page.
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R.E.M. has launched a stream of the 25th anniversary reissue of their 1985 album, Fables of the Reconstruction. The album was polarizing when released, and saw the band departing from the art/punk sound of albums like Murmur and embracing more folk and Americana elements.
Check out the stream of the entire double-disc reissue here.
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Updates to Counter-Strike: Source and Team Fortress 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Counter-Strike: Source
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2010 has seen the 20th anniversary of Jawbreaker‘s monumental full length debut, Unfun. Not so coincidentally, it also featured the first formal remaster and reissue of the album in 20 years by Adam Pfalher’s own Blackball Records. To help go over the five W’s Pfahler dialed in for a marathon phone call with Punkews own Rich Verducci. In the first part of this two part interview, Pfahler discusses the process of remastering Unfun, as well has his plans for future Jawbreaker reissue.
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Bloomington Indiana’s Austin Lucas has added more dates to his ongoing tour. The singer / songwriter recently wrapped up a performance at Calgary’s Sled Island festival and has now hopped the border to head southwards with Mississippi’s Cory Branan.
Lucas is supporting 2009’s Somebody Loves You as well as his new demo and b-sides collection on Suburban Home Records titled Collection.
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The Devil Wears Prada have posted a new song from their upcoming EP, Zombie. It is due out August 24, 2010.
Check it out on their MySpace page.
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Everyone loves remote control toys. But the problem with most of them is, unless you manage to remote control one directly down someone’s throat, they’re pretty useless as weapons. But what if we were to tell you that we fixed that obvious design flaw?
Day Two of the Engineer Update brings the engineering faithful The Wrangler, the remote sentry gun controller; “Upward”, an all-new, Valve-designed Payload Map; and 25 shiny, super-rare wrenches from our quickly-dwindling supply.
Note: To ensure everyone gets the chance to pull the lever, we’ve increased the weekly item drop limit for this week only. So if you thought you’d hit your item cap, think again!
Long Island’s Stray From The Path have posted the video for “Damien” from their Sumerian Records album, Make Your Own History. The chaotic hardcore includes Dan Bourke (This Is Hell, Soldiers) on drums
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Turba Now Available on Steam!
Turba provides a gameplay experience unlike any you have encountered before. Load in music from your PC and combo blocks to your favorite tunes in this unique new twist on the "match-3" style game!
The blocks on the game board generate and move to the beat of the song you choose. Clear blocks in time with the beat and make expert combos to maximize your score while you compete in online leaderboards for any and every song you play.
Even though MySpace is clearly trying to copy our (probably) award-winning Band on Band series, they did it with The Swellers and Face to Face so it will be forgiven. The article includes Jonathan Diener of The Swellers and Trever Keith of Face to Face. Jonathan had this to say about Face to Face and the tour:
It’s just a punk rock summer camp, it’s a festival where it’s not just great exposure for your band it’s great for networking with so many people and it’s something special for the people coming to watch you. Even though we only play 30 minute sets we can cram in nine songs because we don’t take breaks. The fact that Face To Face is even on this tour is amazing for us. We played with them at the Groezrock festival in Belgium and they were one of my favorite bands of the day, they just sounded awesome. It’s always cool when people say we sound like Face To Face to them because we grew up on Fat Wreck Chords and Epitaph. So when we were watching them we were like, “I hope we can be like that someday.”
Keith for his part commented on the changes over the 15 years of the tour. Face to Face performed on the inaugural version of the Warped Tour back in 1995:
Well, styles and tastes have changed considerably. [Laughs.] I’m glad to see there’s still a skate ramp out here and athletes, which is really cool. But it’s become more like a carnival. It’s become more like Spongebob Squarepants… it used to be a little more rock ‘n roll and now it’s a little more dayglo, you know? We also haven’t been on the Warped Tour in nearly a decade and for a veteran band like us it’s a good way to connect with a younger audience.
The Swellers are supporting their Fueled By Ramen Records album, Ups and Downsizing. Face to Face recently announced the completion of their first album in eight years.
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Comeback Kid will be headed across their native Canada this September with Madball and A Wilhelm Scream. The Winnipeg-based hardcore band is gearing up for the release of their next album, Symptoms and Cures, which is expected in Canada via Distort Records (The Bronx, Alexisonfire, Cancer Bats) and Victory Records in the US. An August 31, 2010 release is planned for both countries.
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Here’s another stream for your ears: It’s the new 10″ from Trenton, NJ’s The Great Explainer, The Way Things Swell.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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