Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates..

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)

  • Fixed a bug with voice recording intermittently not recording after playing in a level for a while (Mac)
  • Fixed a rare client crash caused by text rendering (Mac)
  • Updated the server browser localization files

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Balance and Composure: “Rope,” “Only Boundaries” (acoustic)

Balance and Composure Balance and Composure recently recorded a pair of acoustic videos for PropertyofZack.com. Click here to watch a clip of “Rope,” from the band’s split with Tigers Jaw, and head here to watch them perform “Only Boundaries,” the title track from the group’s 2009 EP.

B & C are currently on tour with Bayside, Senses Fail and Title Fight.
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Tours: Gang of Four (USA)

Gang of Four Post-punk pioneers Gang of Four have announced a US headlining tour set for early 2011. The run is in support of the band’s upcoming album, their first album of new compositions in sixteen years. The record is titled Content and is due out January 25, 2011 via Yep Roc. The album will be available in a standard CD release and on vinyl. It will also be available in the Ultimate Content Can – this contains the new album on CD, a book version of an art piece Jon and Andy have done on ceramic tiles depicting the last 40 years of world history, a book of lyrics, a book of Rotoscoped photographs of the band’s emotions, vials of band members’ blood and a scratch and sniff booklet which reflects the key areas of human activity.

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Bad Books: “You Wouldn’t Have to Ask”

Bad Books have posted their new video. The band is the new project from Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra‘s Andy Hull. The album features five compositions each from both Devine and Hull, with the members of Manchester Orchestra filling out the sound and the band. The self-titled debut was released via Favorite Gentlemen Recordings, the record label that was founded and has been run by Manchester Orchestra since 2007.

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Tours: Thursday / Underoath

Thursday will be headed out on a Full Collapse 10th anniversary tour in early 2011. The band will be supported on all dates by Underoath and the shows will feature Collapse performed in their entirety on each date. Vocalist Geoff Rickly said this about the tour:

Full Collapse was a record that changed the course and shape of my life. We began touring for it in basements and VFW halls, continued, opening for bands like the Murder City Devils and Rival Schools and ended up as a full time touring band meeting hundreds of thousands of people with whom we formed deep and lasting connections.

Time passes and we embrace new music and different goals but, ten years later, Full Collapse continues to move people and for that we are very grateful. This tour is a celebration of those times and the end of a chapter in the life of Thursday.

Prior to the tour, the band will be performing the album at a December 30th supported by Four Year Strong and Acid Tiger and taking place in at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ.
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Motion City Soundtrack, Minus the Bear, Foxy Shazam at Popsickle Festival

Motion City Soundtrack has announced the Popsickle Festival. It will take place December 18th at Minneapolis’ First Avenue. Other bands set to perform include Minus The Bear, Foxy Shazam, Gold Motel, A Great Big Pile of Leaves, Now Now Every Children, One for the Team, Gospel Gossip, Take Cover and The Chord and the Fawn with more to be announced.

MCS Frontman Justin Pierre explained:

We wanted to start a festival in the vein of what Lollapalooza was to me in the early ’90’s — a bunch of bands that most likely would never have toured together, but were all doing something interesting and unique in that particular point in time. Our version of that will be much smaller of course, but the idea is the same. We hope to make this an annual festival that takes place in Minnesota every winter and hopefully can continue to grow in both scope and girth.

Tickets go on sale Saturday, November 13th at noon.
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