With their new record in the can and ready for a February 17, 2009 release, Thursday have begun with the cryptic messages and other pre-album bits and pieces. To that end, the band is promising something for December 3rd, though it remains to be seen what that may be.
At the same time, the band has also posted a weird ambient collage on their myspace page titled “Black Smoke.” The band is also headed to Canada later this month for a tour supporting Rise Against.
Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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Converge has posted an update on progress towards their next album for indie powerhouse Epitaph Records. The band said this:
We are currently writing for our new album, due out in 2009 on Epitaph (vinyl on Deathwish).
We are also currently editing the upcoming “Thousands Of Miles Between Us” DVD for Deathwish.
Shows? Some great plans ahead, news on those soon.
Along with writing the album, the band members are busy with a number of projects including [[Doomriders]], [[United Nations]] recording/production, Acid Tiger and more.
Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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New Found Glory have a new trailer for their forthcoming documentary/concert film. Titled Brazil Tour ‘08, the film is being produced by Punkstar Videos and will document the band’s visit to Brazil in 2008.
The band recently announced a release date for their forthcoming Epitaph debut. The record is titled Not Without a Fight and is due out March 10, 2009.
Posted on November 20th, 2008 by admin
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Pop-punk band The Matches are going to be heading to the studio soon to start demoing for the follow up to this year’s A Band in Hope. It was announced on the band’s blog:
We’re soon heading back to the studio to begin demos for our next album. What do you think the next Matches record will be like? What do you want it to be like? Are your premonitions compatible with your wishes?
The record should be released on Epitaph Records in 2009.
Posted on November 19th, 2008 by admin
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Thursday have wrapped up mixing on their forthcoming debut for Epitaph. The band twittered the announcement, saying only: “mixing is done. home from tarbox.”
This month, the band released a Split [12 inch] with Japan’s Envy and frontman Geoff Rickley spent some time with the controversial United Nations. They released their last proper studio album, A City by the Light Divided in 2006.
Posted on November 17th, 2008 by admin
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Bouncing Souls have announced their 2nd annual “Home for the Holidays” shows at The Stone Pony in the band’s hometown of Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Shows will include The Casualties, L.E.S. Stiches, Static Radio NJ, Token Entry, Vision, Higher Giant, The Gaslight Anthem, Gimme Drugs, and Let Me Run.
Posted on October 22nd, 2008 by admin
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New Found Glory has revealed the title for their forthcoming debut for Epitaph Records. The long-running pop-punk outfit will be releasing their next full length in February. As reported earlier, the band has been working on the new studio album with producer Mark Hoppus of Blink-182.
According to this interview, the record will be titled Not Without A Fight, a title the band also explained:
I think it just kind of goes in with the whole idea that we’ve been around for a while and we really feel like a resurgence for us that after eleven years now we’re still relevant. We’re on tours with bands like Four Year Strong, A Day to Remember and ya know, a lot of these bands maybe they first got into bands like us, and it’s almost like another generation. But it makes us feel awesome that we’re still out here and I hope that people don’t just think we’re like the old guys out there. We’re really still trying to do this and we still have so much fun every night playing not just old songs, but new songs. I think if anything you can take the “Not without a fight,” like we’re not going down without a fight, and we’re still here.
You can find the rest of the interview here.
The band most recently released Tip of the Iceberg / Takin’ It Ova!.
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by admin
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LA’s Tiger Army have released a cover of “Oogie Boogie’s Song” for Nightmare Revisited, an album of covers from the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. The song is available on iTunes, and was the last track produced for the band by the late Jerry Finn.
The band will also be joined by their original drummer Adam Carson for one night only, October 26, during the band’s five date Halloween rsidency at The Grove in Anaheim, CA. Titled Octoberflame 2008, the band will appear on the 23, 24, 25, 26, and 31st.
The band released Music from Regions Beyond last year.
Posted on October 11th, 2008 by admin
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Holland enjoys herself on fourth album
Jolie Holland writes songs packed like retablos with autobiographical details and Dia de los Muertos figures, but it’s her voice that animates them. She slurs her words and blurs her phrasing, chewing her consonants and creating a distinctively drunken drawl. Holland’s fourth—and perhaps best—album (featuring contributions from collaborator M. Ward and guitarist Marc Ribot) foregoes the smoky speakeasy atmosphere of 2006’s Springtime Can Kill You for a more contemporary roots sound, which provides a more evocative backdrop for her signature vocals. Despite singing such despairing lyrics, she sounds more commanding and confident than ever on “Mexico City” and “Your Big Hands.” The bleak murder ballad “Love Henry” and “Fox In Its Hole” revisit her old noir-jazz vibe, but sound more connected to the here-and-now instead of some vague there-and-then. Holland half sings/ half laughs the closing cover of Guy Lombardo hit “Enjoy Yourself,” sounding like she’s truly taken that advice to heart.
Listen to Jolie Holland’s “Love Henry” from The Living and the Dead:
Posted on October 10th, 2008 by admin
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Winnipeg’s Weakerthans have claimed another award with Reunion Tour. The band’s song “Night Windows” has claimed the $5,000.00 ECHO Songwriting Prize. The track beat out four other finalists including Veda Hille’s “LuckLucky”, Wintersleep’s “Weighty Ghost”, Sandro Perri’s “Double Suicide” and Socalled’s “You Are Never Alone.” It follows up last year’s winner, Toronto hip-hop artist Abdominal and his track “Pedal Pusher.” The ECHO winner is decided by public voting.
Earlier in the year the band won “artist of the year” at the inagural Verge Music Awards, claiming a $25,000 prize. They were nominated but did not win the Polaris Music Prize for this year.
Posted on October 9th, 2008 by admin
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Along with a lengthy feature on Rancid’s recent residency at the Henry Fonda Theater, the LA Times has posted a list of the “Five reasons Operation Ivy should reunite right now (and one reason why not).”
You can check out the list here.
Posted on October 4th, 2008 by admin
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