Thursday will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their breakthrough 2001 album Full Collapse (slightly early) this year with a year end performance of the album in its entirety. The show will be opened by Four Year Strong and Acid Tiger and take place in at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ on December 30th.
We interviewed Thursday back in 2001, shortly after the release of Full Collapse and you can check out that interview here.
In a post to his Twitter profile, Mark Hoppus of Blink 182 confirmed that the reunited band have entered the studio to begin work on their next album. He said this:
At the studio. Re-commencing the blink-182 album…..NOW!
Just days after announcing an indefinite hiatus for The Casting Out, Boy Sets Fire, which shares vocalist Nathan Gray, will be reuniting. The band said this:
We were never a normal band. We never did the right things. We never looked cool. We did everything exactly the way we wanted. Trends weren’t important. Being hip wasn’t important. There was only two things that were important and sacrosanct; the friendship between the five members of this band, and people who we touched with our music.
We were a band for over a decade. We decided that we wanted to try different things with our lives. So we stopped playing music together. It wasn’t Noel/Liam Gallagher ugly; we parted as friends and we generally see or talk to each other all the time. I think we underestimated how much we would miss it. The communion, the intensity, the genuine outpouring of emotion- it just doesn’t exist for us without BoySetsFire. So we are going to start playing together again.
After a six year break, Cake has announced plans to release a new album, Showroom Of Compassion, on their own Upbeat Records. The album is due out January 11, 2011 and the first song from the album can be found via Spin.
England’s SHARKS have posted a song from their forthcoming EP, Show of Hands. The band will be supporting Gaslight Anthem on their upcoming UK and European tour.
The big surprise today is? there is no surprise and no that isnt one of Gabes three surprises. We have moved todays surprise to Wednesday. We moved the announcement of the Midnight Riders contest winners to today. For tomorrow, we have enlisted an old friend to help with that announcement.
With that cleared up, here are the winners of the Midnight Riders Video contest. Thanks to everyone who entered, viewed and voted. When we originally designed this contest, we expected maybe a handful of clear winners. Instead we had over 80 videos that made it into the final round of voting.
With so many great entries, picking the winners was near impossible. As we tried to tabulate the votes today, they kept coming up too close to call. We checked and rechecked the votes. We used abacuses, calculators, and even plotted the results using the stars.
No matter how we sliced it, it was a tie.
But we had a problem, only one guitar and the Riders nowhere to be found. So we dug through their tour bus, through crates, boxes, and too many cans of diet energy drink to count. And there it was, a little more worn than the other, even looked like it been used for more than just rocking. But now we have one nice clean guitar and one dirty bloody guitar.
After you watch the two winners, it should be obvious who gets what guitar.
Naples, FL’s Fake Problems recently released their new LP Real Ghosts Caught on Tape, and are currently touring their way across the U.S. Last weekend, the band stopped in Charlottesville, VA, and guitarist Casey Lee received a somewhat extreme makeover on stage during their performance. We were there to capture the magical moment.
Way out on the west side of Scotland’s Isle of Skye, there’s a remote village called Torrin. With its 65 residents, ageless mountains that jut out over the cold sea and stone walls that seem to crop out of nowhere, the rural community seems eerily reminiscent of the creepy settlement found in The Wicker Man. Oh… also… it has shafts dug into the earth that may have been used in pagan ceremonies 2,000 years ago.* But, while Torrin is a place of quiet clam, should you find yourself wandering along one of its dirt paths, you might hear a thick CLANG CLANG CLANG resound through the hills. Were you to follow the echoes to the source, you’d find Rob Miller hovering over an anvil, forging a sword in the traditional style as used by the ancient tribes. While Miller is one of the last few who hold onto this bygone art, he’s also a father of an entirely different kind of art…
During the late 1970’s, in the English countryside of Devon, Rob along with his brother Stig, formed the “Band with No Name”, which eventually, after associating with Crass and sending mutilated pictures to a journalist who slagged them off, would form into the legendary amalgamation that is Amebix. Sort of a combination of the riffs of Black Sabbath, the growl of Motorhead, and the moroseness of Joy Division, Amebix created a unique sound that was almost as gothic as it was futuristic. One of the first bands to bring a metal heaviness to punk, Amebix tackled topics of class warfare, the effect of prescription drugs, and even meta-physics. Recently, after 20 years of inactivity, Amebix returned with a 2009 tour and 2010 EP release (Redux). To get the scoop on why Amebix rose from its ashes, Rob’s opinion of the “crust punk tag”, and the best sword for defending against a viking siege, Punknews interviewer John Gentile recently spoke to Rob Miller, Amebix’s vocalist and bassist after the day’s metal work was complete.
Dashboard Confessional has announced a tour to celebrate the 10th anniversary of 2000’s The Swiss Army Romance. Chris Carrabba will be hitting the road solo playing the first studio album in its entirety on the 17-date tour. Plans are also underway for a a deluxe version which was last reissued in 2003 on Vagrant Records.
The all-vinyl release will feature a newly remastered version of the album spread across five 7-inch records. The records are encased in an intricately folded Swiss Army-style box with expanded artwork, guitar picks, never before seen photos and handwritten lyrics. The box set will only be sold through the band’s website and will be limited to 1,000 numbered copies.