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Cover art to *The Fall of Troy* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/thefalloftroy)’s Phantom on the Horizon can be seen in the replies.

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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*Butch Walker* (http://www.myspace.com/butchwalker)’s new album, Sycamore Meadows, debuted on four different Billboard charts this past week (#7 on Heatseekers, #2 on Alternative New Artist, #173 on Top 200 and #20 on Independent Album charts). Congrats Butch!

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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Recent Wind-Up Records signees, *Endless Hallway* (http://www.myspace.com/endlesshallway), have released a brand new track from their forthcoming album. Sign up here (http://fans.winduplist.com/signup.aspx?artistname=Endless%20Hallway) to receive a download of “Solvency”.

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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Three Radiohead videos will premiere on Myspace Music in the coming weeks, with the clip for ‘Weird Fishes’ appearing online today (November 21).

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Quarterstick Records, partner of Touch & Go, signed some bands. The first was San Francisco drum punk band Mi Ami. The band features two dudes from one of my favorite DC bands, Black Eyes — Daniel Martin-McCormick and Jacob Long. The second signing is another San Francisco-based band, Sholi, an avant-rock three-piece comprised of Payam Bavaf (guitarist, songwriter), Eric Ruud (bass), and Jonathon Bafus (drums). Both bands have LPs due February 17, 2009.
As if there wasn’t (…)

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MISC NEWS

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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Janet Jackson’s ‘wardrobe malfunction’ during the 2004 Super Bowl has reared its head again, with the US government asking that the original fine be paid.

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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The Raconteurs have teamed up with country artists Ricky Skaggs and 22-year-old Ashley Monroe for a re-recording of their new single ‘Old Enough’, taken from their ‘Consolers Of The Lonely’ record, released earlier this year.

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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Long running Los Angeles-based radio station KROQ has announced the lineup for their upcoming 2008 Almost Acoustic Christmas. The event will feature a number of favorites including The Offspring, Rise Against, AFI, Slightly Stoopid, The Cure, Death Cab For Cutie, Stone Temple Pilots, Paramore, Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, Vampire Weekend, Hollywood Undead and more.



The event takes place at the GIbson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, California for two nights, December 13th and 14th. The full lineup can be found on KROQ.com (

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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Being a teenager sucks. Being a teenage vampire? Now that’s the sort of misery worthy of an obtusely titled album. But if you just happen to be an adolescent bloodsucker on a Washington peninsula poised to cash in on the (lucrative) intersection of J.K. Rowling and Stephen King, life is actually pretty good right now.

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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Lil’ Wayne is gearing up for a tour to support his album ‘Tha Carter III’, which sold one million copies in its first week of release in June.

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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Drinks company Dr. Pepper has confirmed that everyone in America will get a free soda, after the much-anticipated release of ‘Chinese Democracy’ was announced.

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys are quite possibly the greatest western swing band of all time. Now, 33 years after Wills’ death, Collectors Choice Music is releasing a 10-disc, 150-song collection box set, due out Jan. 27. 

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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I first came across Mr. Oizo’s “Flat Beat” in England in 1999. It was entering its third week atop the UK single charts; hence, its all-too-familiar solid house thumps and unsettling fuzzy pulse confronted you at every pub and club (I wasn’t privy to any worlds outside those which dispensed alcohol). Mr. Oizo, or Quentin Dupieux, became a household name for creating “Flat Beat,” but he may be even more well-known for creating its accompanying video, which finally introduced Flat (…)

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RELEASE NEWS

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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Glasvegas were surrounded by police officers wielding guns earlier today (November 21) in Munich after their tour bus sparked a security false alarm.

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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Although it will doubtlessly inflame fans, Fox has hired Josh Schwartz, the man who brought us Gossip Girl and The O.C., to write the script for a youthful reboot of the X-Men franchise.

Posted on November 21st, 2008 by admin
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