Paint It Black maestro Dan Yemin has provided an update on the band’s next record. Included are thoughts on the style of the new material, some insight into the songwriting process and brief mention of two soon-to-be announced suprise co-producers:

So I just got off the phone with the guys at Jade Tree, and it seems like we have something really exciting and interesting in the works for the next Paint It Black album. We’ve been having alot of conversations (both within the band, between the band and the label, and between the band and some other people as well) about how we want this next record to be, and we have a lot of really cool ideas and are well on our way to getting the songs arranged, and eventually re-arranged.

Most of the songs are already written, although some of them are still in pretty raw form. I’ve been making demos at home, which I then email to Andy, Jared, and Josh. Then the three of them get together and have pretty much free range to mess with the arrangements. I’m happy to say that they’ve been speeding everything up, so that the fast songs will probably be our fastest yet. We seem to be continuing with the direction we headed with “Paradise”, meaning fast and raw, but with some more mid-tempo influences ranging from Black Flag to Faith to Naked Raygun, to Sonic Youth to Embrace to Joy Division.

We’ll continue to combine the thrash with the melodic anthem. The really exciting news is that we’re getting close to finalizing a recording schedule, and that this album will almost definitely be CO-PRODUCED!!!!! That’s right folks, its looking like there will be two very talented people involved in recording this album, and these two people come from opposite ends of the underground music spectrum. I’m stoked. More later…..

The group’s last release was 2005’s Paradise.
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The second set of songs have been posted from the upcoming tribute to Sick Of It All announced last October. The record is titled Our Impact Will Be Felt: A Tribute to Sick Of It All and is due out April 24, 2007

The 20-track album will feature songs performed by bands including Rise Against, Unearth, Ignite, Comeback Kid, Napalm Death, Bane, Pennywise, Bouncing Souls, Suicide Machines and many more.

The label is also promising two new songs streaming each week until the album is released. Last week, the label presented the Bouncing Souls take on “Good Looking Out” and Hatebreed’s version of “Ratpack.” The second set features Madball’s “Give Respect” and Pennywise covering “My Life.”

You can find them right here.
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The line ups have been announced for two upcoming Virgin Festival dates. The Canadian fests are sponsored by Virgin Mobile and will take place in Toronto and Vancouver.

For the Toronto date, the organizers have added Smashing Pumpkins, Bjork, The Killers, Interpol, Tokyo Police Club. For the Vancouver show, the fest will feature My Chemical Romance, Billy Talent, AFI, Rise Against, Hot Hot Heat, The Killers, Metric and more.

The Smashing Pumpkins are gearing up for the release of Zeitgiest, their first album since 2000.
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Maylene and the Sons of Disaster have released a new download from their upcoming album. The record is titled II and is due out March 20, 2007. It will be their first release for Ferret.

You can check out the song, titled “Dry The River” via The Syndicate Blog.
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Today we’ve got a new interview with Mike Wiebe of the Riverboat Gamblers. The interview was performed by Todd Taylor, and he had this to say about he band:

Silly Putty transfer the inky goodness of a classic rock and’n’ roll band, like AC/DC, and hard press that into the kickass catchiness of a DIY grassroots punk band like the Bananas. Or the Saints transposed on The Future Virgins. Or Rocket From the Crypt and the Potential Johns. Don’t forget to add a couple of lightning bolts (And if these references have you scratching your belly button, it’ll do your “I’ve heard it all before. There’s no good bands” self to check them out.)

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Punkradiocast recently spoke with Propagandhi‘s drummer Jord Samolesky. The interview features live photos of the band as the interview and related imagery based on the interview itself.

The band most recently released Potemkin City Limits. The video was shot during Propagandhi’s recent tour of Western Canada.

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Details on Bad Religion‘s follow up to 2004’s The Empire Strikes First have been unveiled. The band’s new full length is titled New Maps Of Hell and will arrive on July 10, 2007 via Epitaph Records. The 17 song full length album was recorded at Grand Master Studios in Los Angeles, California by Grammy-nominated producer Joe Barresi (Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer).

As previously announced the band, now in their 27th year, will support the record by headlining this summer’s Warped Tour. 2006 saw the release of the Live at the Palladium DVD along with frontman Greg Graffin‘s solo effort Cold as the Clay.
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Today marks an interesting punk anniversary, as 30 years ago to this day the Sex Pistols were dropped from A&M Records. On March 10th of 1977 the band, who had been previously dropped from EMI two months prior, signed to A&M for £150,000 in a high profile press ceremony outside of Buckingham Palace. Following a reportedly unruly party at the label’s offices, as well as pressure from the label’s employees, artists and distributors, the label severed their contract a mere 6 days later. That week of time brought about a limited pressing of God Save The Queen and left the band with £75,000 in their pockets.

By June the band has arrived at their ultimate home of Virgin Records, selling 150,000 copies of “God Save the Queen” in just one day. Despite a BBC Radio One ban and several chains refusing to stock it the single reached number 2 on the charts.

The A&M pressing has since become one of the most valuable and sought-after records ever pressed in the UK. In 2006 a copy sold for £13,000.
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Scars Of Tomorrow have decided to call it quits after their upcoming West Coast tour. Formed in 1999, the band has released multiple albums with both Victory Records and Thorp Records including The Failure in Drowning and The Beginning Of…, both of which were issued last year.

The band made a lengthy statement, some of which explains:

We believe though the time of SOT is finished and are going to be moving on to a new endeavor. The current lineup of [Scars of Tomorrow] are all on the same page but we want to start something fresh and new and will re emerge in the near future.

You can find the rest of the statement here.
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Arctic Monkeys have posted the artwork as well as a new video for their upcoming album, The record is titled Favourite Worst Nightmare and is due out April 23, 2007. It is the follow up to their surprise hit, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not .

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Josh Homme’s Queens Of The Stone Age recently spoke with Billboard about their new record. The album will be titled Era Vulgaris (Latin for “Common Era”) and will arrive in June. It follows up 2005’s Lullabies To Paralyze.

Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and the Strokes’ Julian Casablancas are both scheduled to appear on the record, as is on-again/off-again contributor Mark Lanegan. The article also describes the album as harder and faster than past outings, naming songs “Sick, Sick, Sick,” “Battery Acid,” and “3’s + 7’s” as examples.

Lullabies was the first record following former Dwarves bassist Nick Oliveri’s boot from the band. The period which also saw Homme scuffle with Dwarves frontman Blag Dahlia, an incident that resulted in a court order to keep the two 100 yards apart at all times.

In addition, the band recently confirmed a number of European festival appearances this summer.
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After wrapping up their upcoming support slots on the Bouncing Souls Canadian tour, labelmates Strike Anywhere and The Loved Ones will be touring together for just under two weeks in May.

The Loved Ones continue to maintain a heavy tour schedule in support of Keep Your Heart, and Strike Anywhere continues to tour on Dead FM.

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Vice Magazine‘s online network VBS.tv has posted a new four-part interview with beloved hard partier, Andrew W.K..

You can check that out here.

Andrew has kept busy with a number of recent projects, though none are music related. Beginning tomorrow, he will be hosting a scavenger hunt at SXSW and is currently in the midst of a three week spoken word engagement in New York City.
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