Tours: Coliseum (North America, Europe)

Coliseum Coliseum have announced the next few months of tour dates as they hit the road in support of their latest album, House with a Curse. The band will be touring North America with Burning Love from August 27th to September 19th, play two shows with Young Livers and then head to Europe for a month of shows with Bison BC and Kvelertak.

To get a taste of what to expect from the band live, they have posted a live version of “Lost in Groningen” which you can check out here.

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Puzzle Dimension Update Released + New Mac Support

Updates to Puzzle Dimension have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

  • Keyboard and gamepad input mapping implemented.
  • Increased texture fidelity in renderers by using appropriate anisotropy setting.
  • Tons of rendering and CPU optimizations.
  • Improved compatibility with legacy hardware by removing all use of float-point render targets.
  • Full screen option added to video settings.
  • Vertical blank synchronization option added to video settings.
  • Scroll indicator in user interface.
  • Improved Flash shape tessellation.
  • Improved Flash player timing.
  • Changed “Camera mode” text into a symbol in top left corner.
  • Fixed text encoding bug in Flash player.
  • Fixed size of green dots.
  • Fixed couple of shader bugs.
  • Fixed memory leaks in HTML and XML parsers.
  • Added option for easy jump. Jumps up on release of jump button or jump in a direction when a direction is pressed.
  • Added fast restart option. Use keyboard/gamepad mapping to enable.
  • Added four new achievements.
  • Second, third and forth clusters unlocks on less flowers.
  • Added mouse wheel for camera zoom, forward/back movement, menu up/down/left/right.
  • Added mouse buttons for menu select and cancel.


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Captain We’re Sinking (Chapter 2)

Captain, We're Sinking Scranton, PA’s Captain, We’re Sinking just wrapped up a tour in support of their new 7″ for Kind Of Like Records, It’s a Trap. The band has been kind enough to send us another diary of their recent exploits. In this episode, the band hits the southeast and tries strangely-named drinks in North Carolina, plays a rain-soaked outdoor set and (probably) hangs out with South Carolina’s finest exotic dancers, among other things.

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Jimmy Eat World: “Stop”

Jimmy Eat World Jimmy Eat World are streaming the b-side from their first single, “My Best Theory.” The single precedes the band’s upcoming full-length, Invented.

Check out “Stop” here.

Invented is due out September 28, 2010 and will follow up 2007’s Chase This Light. The album was produced by Mark Trombino, who previously worked with Jimmy Eat World on 1996’s Static Prevails, as well as 1999 fan-favorite Clarity and the band’s 2001 breakthrough, Bleed American. The group will be touring behind the album in the fall.
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Pitchfork names the Best Videos of the 1990s

Pitchfork has posted their list of the 50 best videos of the 90s. The list includes videos from Sonic Youth, Frank Black, A Tribe Called Quest, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Pavement, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Blur, Yo La Tengo, Beastie Boys and Weezer. Thankfully, each number also includes an embedded copy of the video in question as well.

Check out the list here.
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New R.U.S.E. Single-player Demo Now Available

The R.U.S.E.™ Single-player Demo is now available via Steam.

Play through a full single-player mission designed exclusively for the R.U.S.E. demo. Command Allied forces from the Head Quarters and lead your army to a nuclear conflict and combine deceptive strategies to conquer the battleground.

Pre-Purchase your copy of R.U.S.E. today and be ready to play when it launches in September.


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Further Seems Forever to reunite with Chris Carrabba

Exclaim is reporting that Further Seems Forever have reunited with original vocalist (and Dashboard Confessional leader) Chris Carrabba. Further Seems Forever posted a video on a newly launched website yesterday of the band rehearsing “The Moon Is Down” with Carrabba on vocals. The video concludes with word “Spring” hinting at a tour or album next year.

The most recent lineup of the band had called it quits in 2006 after releasing Hide Nothing in 2004.
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