Torche have launched a stream of their new song, “U.F.O.” The track comes from the band’s upcoming new album, Songs for Singles which is due out September 21, 2010. The album is the first record from the band since Meanderthal in 2008 and the band will be supporting the record on an upcoming tour with High on Fire and Kylesa.
Check out the new song via Stereogum or purchase the single via iTunes.
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UK act Directions have posted a new demo. You can check out “Dreamer” at either their Facebook page or MySpace.
The band, who claims influences such as ’90s emo and Brand New, is currently writing for their debut 7″ on City of Gold, due out this coming winter. They self-released a four-song demo last year.
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Strung Out have added more dates to their recently announced tour of the US and Canada. The long-running band will be hitting venue in North America with support from Rufio, We Are The Union and Larry and His Flask. The band released Agents of the Underground in 2009.
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Vanna, who recently parted ways with Epitaph, have posted the first song from their debut for Artery Recordings. The band’s debut for the label is titled The Honest Hearts (EP) and is due out October 12, 2010.
Find “Passerby” on their MySpace page.
The band released two albums and an EP on Epitaph Records including 2006’s The Search Party Never Came and 2007’s Curses. Their final release on the label was 2009’s A New Hope.
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The Sword have posted the video for “Tres Brujas.” The track comes from the retro-metal band’s new album, Warp Riders.
Since our recent TF2maps.net Art Pass Contest, our level designers have gone back to their default state at the TF2 offices, which is to say, doing nothing, taking naps, eating lunch, and complaining. This has become a bit of a poison pill for the rest of the TF2 team, all of whom possess strong opinions about working (against it), naps (pro), lunches (very pro) and complaining (big fans).
As part of the fallout, this morning the writing team refused to do their work for the month, which was to write today’s blog post and name some hats. At first we weren’t terribly concerned—partly because most of the team wasn’t even aware the game had writing in it, but mostly because everybody here, unlike the writers, knows how to perform a skill AND write words. (Here’s a pro-tip for you youngsters: Build your career on a skill that isn’t something five-year-olds can do.)
But then someone pointed out that, even though writing’s incredibly easy work, it’s still technically work. So we reached into our comprehensive bag of solutions, and pulled out our well-worn one-trick pony: Community Contest Time!
Fans have been mailing us for some time now, asking for a contest that didn’t involve modeling or level design. So now they get their wish. That’s right: you’ll be competing over who can describe hats the best. Introducing the first ever
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You probably thought we were done for the day too, but we’ve barely started this blog post. The fine folks over at Team 17 are about to release Worms Reloaded this week. Being massive fans of their work, all the way back to the original Alien Breed, we thought it’d be fun to do something with them. So, we approached them and politely asked if we could include an iconic element of their game in TF2. The conversation was going swimmingly until they said that the best item to use would be the Holy Hand Grenade. We shuffled our feet and nervously explained that some soon-to-be-fired idiot had removed all of TF2’s grenades.
But luckily, we were saved by our own shoddy workmanship. While we removed grenades from the game during early development, we left two of them dangling on the front of the Soldier as a teasing reminder of what once was. So, to celebrate the release, we’re going to give a nifty Soldier visual update to anyone who buys Worms Reloaded before Thursday, September 2nd, allowing him to sport two Holy Hand Grenades and a new Soldier helmet. Here’s what it looks like in-game:
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Finally, a couple of quick competitive notes:
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Our stream today comes from Evansville, IN’s Be My Doppelganger. We’ve got a stream of the band’s upcoming full-length for It’s Alive Records, No Composure, which is slated for release on August 31, 2010.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Punk/metal outfit Mose Giganticus have released the new video from their album, Gift Horse, their debut for Relapse Records.
Street Dogs have launched a full album stream of their imminent new self-titled album. The record is due August 31, 2010 and follows State of Grace which was released in 2008.
Check it out via Stereokiller.
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24-Bit is reporting that Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney will be launching a new sketch comedy show with longtime comedy partner Fred Armisen. The two have been collaborating on an online comedy series called ThunderAnt and IFC is currently looking to produce a televised version of the duo’s comedy.
Though Armisen is best known these days as a member of Saturday Night Live, he was a member of Trenchmouth and also drummed on Les Savy Fav‘s Let’s Stay Friends.
Check out some of the videos Carrie and Fred have produced on their website.
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Terrible Things, a new project from former Taking Back Sunday member Fred Mascherino, Coheed and Cambria alumnus Josh Eppard, and Andy Jackson of Hot Rod Circuit have released another new song from their upcoming self-titled debut due out August 31, 2010.
Find “The Arsonist’s Wife” via Blurt.
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Say Anything‘s Max Bemis has posted a very lengthy blog post discussing the future of the band, their sound and more. Key points include a refutation of rumours that the band was breaking up:
[We have made a] unanimous decision to NOT break up, or go on “indefinite” hiatus, or whatever they are calling it, EVER. We understand why so many of our peers have needed this and don’t fault them AT ALL but since we’re a sort of a different kind of band, whose structure itself lends itself to a lot of freedom, we’re going to attack things in a different way.[…] We will only ever take time off with the objective of coming back to one day tour more and make more records together ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. You can depend on us in this sense; we’re not going anywhere.
He also notes that the band has left RCA after five years on the major label:
A couple of weeks ago my manager Jordan called me up and let me know we were finally out of our contract with RCA, a partnership that’s lasted about half a decade. Say Anything will be releasing our next record on a brand new label. Whether it will be an indie or major label will depend on who is most in line with our vision of the kind of band we are and want to become.
Check out the post here.
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