Fake Problems is streaming their highly anticipated new album for Side One Dummy Records right now. The album, Real Ghosts Caught on Tape can be heard in its entirety via Spinner.com.
The band just kicked off a supporting run with the Gaslight Anthem. You’ll also be able to catch them at The Fest IX.
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Before they hit the road for their headlining tour in November, Minus The Bear will be playing the Voodoo Experience Festival in New Orleans. Dangerbird Records and Punknews.org will send you to see that show in our new contest. The winner will receive two round-trip airline tickets to New Orleans, tickets to the Festival and two double rooms at Whitney Wyndham Hotel.
Enter for your chance here.
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Underoath has posted the track listing for their next album, Ø (Disambiguation). It’s due out November 9, 2010 and follows Lost in the Sound of Separation which was released in 2008. The record is the first from the band since the departure of longtime drummer Aaron Gillespie. The band worked with producers Matt Goldman (Lost In the Sound of Separation and Define the Great Line) and Jeremy SH Griffith.
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Our stream today comes from City of Ships in the form of their new 7″ for Sound Study Recordings, Three Mile Bridge / South Laurel.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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The BBC has assembled a hour-long, comprehensive documentary about Epitaph Records metalcore act Bring Me The Horizon. The program coincides with the upcoming release of the band’s new album, There Is A Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is A Heaven, Let’s Keep It A Secret on October 5, 2010.
Check out the documentary here. It’s apparently “ace.”
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Matador Records is celebrating their 21st birthday with a new, decade-spanning box set. The limited-edition box contains five CDs documenting the history of the label with remastered songs released from 1989 through 2010, and one CD of unreleased live recordings from the Matador 10th Anniversary concerts in New York City in 1999. All proceeds from the set will go to benefit three charities chosen by the label owners, enumerated at the bottom of this post. The artists have agreed to donate their royalties as well in order to make this all possible.
Artists appearing in the set include: Arab Strap, Belle & Sebastian, Cat Power, Dead Meadow, Fucked Up, Girls, Guided By Voices, Guitar Wolf, Interpol, Jay Reatard, Mission Of Burma, Mogwai, Pavement, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Sonic Youth, Spoon, Stephen Malkmus, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Superchunk, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, Teenage Fanclub, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The New Pornographers, Times New Viking, Unsane and Yo La Tengo.
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Welcome to Hollow Wish… On the surface, it’s your typical lawless frontier. Yet this mysterious shell planetoid is filled with dark secrets and cloaked figures. It’s here Kit Ballard, aka Blade Kitten, works as one of the best bounty hunters in the business. Don’t let her pink hair fool you, Kit is part cat, part girl, and wholly lethal. She is one of the last of her species, having fled her homeland after the genocide of her people at the hands of the ancient and mystical race known as the Darques.
Purchasing the game on Steam gets you an exclusive costume for Kit!
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Much loved hardcore outfit Have Heart have announced a new CD+DVD of their final show for release on November 23, 2010. Titled 10.17.09, the disc documents the band’s performance on October 17th, 2009 when they played their last show as a benefit to a women’s shelter in Boston to a 2,000 person sold-out crowd from around the world.
The DVD was recorded with six cameras and Have Heart’s frontman Pat Flynn comments, “This shit makes Avatar look like the Ten Yard Fight documentary. ” The band split up in May of 2009. Their final studio album was 2008’s Songs to Scream at the Sun.
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Madball has announced the dismissal of drummer Jay Weinberg in the midst of their Canadian tour with Comeback Kid. Frontman Freddy Cricien explained:
I’m letting Jay go in Canada because I just feel he doesn’t represent this band well on a character level. It would go against my own code of ethics to keep him around. Not saying he’s a bad drummer. I won’t take that away from him. But the reality is – he has a lot to learn about paying dues, and about life in general. Granted, he is a kid, but I’m not sure that he’ll ever be built for this particular lifestyle. I wish him the best of luck, but the MADBALL machine rolls on!
The band will finish the Canadian tour with a replacement drummer. Their new record, Empire and is due out October 12, 2010 and a song from the album can be found via Stereokiller.
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As it is apparently collaboration week, Weezer joined up with My Chemical Romance to perform the band’s track, “My Name Is Jonas.” Weezer is supporting their Epitaph Records debut, Hurley. My Chemical Romance most recently announced their new album, Danger Days: True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys.
Incidentally, it looks like Gerard Way has stolen Hayley Williams hair.
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In a new article for the Guardian, Sufjan Stevens‘s label Asthmatic Kitty criticizes popular digital retailer Amazon for the heavily discounted price of Stevens’ upcoming album, The Age of Adz. The label said this:
We have mixed feelings about discounted pricing. Like we said, we love getting good music into the hands of good people, and when a price is low, more people buy. A low price will introduce a lot of people to Sufjan’s music and to this wonderful album. For that, we’re grateful. But we also feel like the work that our artists produce is worth more than a cost of a latte. We value the skill, love, and time they’ve put into making their records. And we feel that our work too, in promotion and distribution, is also valuable and worthwhile.
That’s why we personally feel that physical products like EPs should sell for around $7 and full-length CDs for around $10-12 We think digital EPs should sell for around $5 and full-length digital albums for something like $8.
What do you think? Is it better to discount music to compete with illegal downloads or just sell music for a retail price and hope that legitimate purchasers will make up for the losses from downloading?
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The wait is now over; gamers across the world will now have a chance to play the next chapter in this high-budget, high-quality series as Alien Breed™ 2: Assault is now available on Steam.
Alien Breed™ 2: Assault expands on the territory covered by Impact and adds several new elements to the mix. With a brand new “Survivor” mode for one or two players, new weapons, a currency-based weapons and items upgrade system, choreographed set pieces and heart-stopping boss battles, this game is highly entertaining; a more expansive and exploration based addition to the series. The haunting and atmospheric soundtrack, combined with stunning visuals (using Unreal® Engine 3) round off a must-have title for shooter fans.
A demo will be available shortly; a purpose-designed, action-packed free trial called “The Prologue”, which also features a time-limited “Survivor” mode map.
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Dropkick Murphys collaborated with Boston hospital workers to produce a new video supporting their campaign to to join Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union. The announcement notes:
The new music video from Boston rock icons Dropkick Murphys features more than just footage from the bands rollicking sold-out arena shows. It also delivers a timely social justice message supporting blue collar and frontline workers in Boston’s largest industry – healthcare. The new “Tomorrow’s Industry” video was created through a unique collaboration with Boston hospital workers as part of their campaign to join Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union for a voice at work. When the video and DVD launch publicly on Tuesday, September 21st, the Dropkick Murphys will make history as the first national recording artists in the United States to ever adopt a labor organizing cause as the main theme of a rock music video.
Hospital worker Bill Timmons commented:
It shows Dropkick Murphys are a band that’s true to their roots. It shows they’re willing to stand up for the working families of their city. And many of those families have at least one person doing a job in healthcare where they’re underpaid and barely able to scrape by.
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