The soundtrack to the upcoming film, Twilight: Eclipse is streaming online. Despite the tween-focused demographic for the film, the soundtrack producers enlisted a variety of music including songs from Metric, Muse, The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses, The Dead Weather, Battles and more.
Check out the stream here.
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We’re stoked to bring you the highly anticipated Epitaph Records debut from Minneapolis, MN-based Off with Their Heads. The band’s previous album, 2008’s From The Bottom, was among the top ten albums of 2008 according to Punknews.org readers.
We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, In Desolation. You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Today, we’re excited to bring you a stream of the new 7″ from Philadelphia, PA’s The Holy Mess. Benefit Sesh is scheduled for release next week through Evil Weevil Records.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Voodoo Glow Skulls have posted a stop-motion video for their new song, “Dead Soldiers.” The song will appear on an upcoming release from the veteran ska bands, though the band has not revealed any release plans currently.
None More Black have posted the first two blog updates as they begin recording their first new album since This Is Satire in 2006. The first entry talks a bit about the album itself:
We started writing this record in February of 2009 – it’s not that the songs were so complex that it took that long to get right – it’s more like not really having time to nurture them like we have in the past. We all live in separate cities spreading from NYC to Orlando, which means we can’t just get together on a weeknight to work out some tunes. [N]ow, year and half later, 11 have survived to make up the albume we will call “Icons”
It was stressful few months before the recording, since we were unsure what Fat was willing to give us as a budget. […] Our budget pretty much meant that J. Robbins would be out of the question in terms a producer role, or any role for that matter. The budget would mean we have to become weekend warriors in the studio as well.
The good thing is that over the passed few years Colin has developed a relationship with wunderkind musical engineer/producer Will Yipp. He works out of the most famous recording in the Philly area called Studio, owned by the great Phil Nicollo. Will said he would be very excited to work on the project.
Check out the lengthy and detailed blog entries here.
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Next week, Burning Streets will embark on a two month long, US and Canadian tour. The band is supporting their Sailor’s Grave Records album, Is It in Black and White and the band is promising regular video tour reports from the road with help of tour sponsor, BLANKTV.COM. The band announced the tour via a video and you can find that here.
The first premium expansion pack for the award-winning Defense Grid: The Awakening arrives to Steam today in the form of Defense Grid: Resurgence – a series of eight new highly polished and balanced maps from the original creators of the definitive tower defense game.
For four consecutive weeks starting on June 2nd, a new pair of maps will be released each week providing new environments and strategic experiences, requiring new ways of thinking to beat back the aliens and protect the cores.
Today’s Map Pack 1 release includes two new challenging environments – Service Interruption and Height of Confusion. An obstructed road to the core housing gives the aliens a significant advantage in Service Interruption. Choose your towers wisely! Height of Confusion has a wide open surface, making for endless possibilities! Build anywhere you want in your defense of the power cores!
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Against Me!‘s recent visit to Daytrotter has been posted. The band recorded four songs, including two songs from their upcoming album, White Crosses. They also contributed two covers of classic punk tracks: “Because You’re Young” by Cock Sparrer and “Moon over Marin” by the Dead Kennedys.
Check it out here.
White Corsses is due out June 8, 2010.
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Defiance, Ohio has launched a stream of a new song from their upcoming album. The record is titled Midwestern Minutes and is due out July 6, 2010 via No Idea. It is the follow-up to The Fear, The Fear, The Fear which was released in 2007.
Allister have posted the new video for “Runaway.” The track comes from their upcoming album, Countdown to Nowhere, which is slated for a June 16, 2010 through Universal Japan. Allister notably issued much of their earlier material through Drive-Thru Records, including their most recent full-length, 2005’s Before the Blackout. The band split in 2007 and reunited earlier this year.
Check out the video via YouTube.
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Vampire Weekend have posted the video for “Holiday.” It’s from their latest album, Contra.
On September 14, 2010, The End Records will be releasing the new album from Chicago metal outfit, These Are They. Titled Disposing of Betrayers, the record was recorded producer Chris Wisco (Michael Angelo Batio, Dirge Within, Jungle Rot) and mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö (Hail of Bullets, Edge of Sanity, Nightingale) at Unisound in Örebro, Sweden.
The album is themed around Chicago’s history of organized crime and uses events – all taken from factual newspaper articles – to form the lyrics. Check out some older music from the band on their MySpace page.
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By all accounts, The Dwarves are some wild and wacky, nasty and wasty, rough and tough dudes. They sing about having sex- alot. Their album covers feature nude chicks covered in blood. On stage fist fights are as common as down strokes. Their guitarist often plays au naturale (if yaknowwaddaimsayin). They got kicked off Sub Pop records for staging a hoax by announcing that the same guitar player was killed in a knife fight over crack… and they even graciously accepted flowers in remembrance!
But, with a new album right around the corner, one wonders, just how much of the Dwarves is a calculated attack against society norms and just how much is primal howling? How much of lead singer Blag Dahlia, birth name Paul Cafaro, is an exhibit of the human condition and how much is cartoon given life? Punknews interviewer John Gentile recently sat down with Blag to get the low down on these animals called The Dwarves and also to catch some info on the new release.
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