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Check out a video of Jimmy Eat World playing...

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:50:24 -0400

Check out a video of Jimmy Eat World playing “Mixtape”, the closing track of Invented, which is being released on September 28th.

Check out a video of Jimmy Eat World playing “Heart Is...

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:49:40 -0400

Check out a video of Jimmy Eat World playing “Heart Is Hard To Find”, the opening track of Invented, which is being released on September 28th.

It’s been a busy week in music. Will the new week follow the...

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:03:00 -0400

It’s been a busy week in music. Will the new week follow the trend or disappoint?

The track listing for Beneath It All can be seen here.
Aaron Gillespie finished his solo record.
Bayside will be playing the Soundwave 2011 festival.
The Wonder Years set to release new album in 2011.
Jimmy Eat World announced new US tour dates.
Dates were announced for the Motion City Soundtrack/Say Anything co-headline tour.
Senses Fail’s new album will be coming out on October 19th.
Rumors have started that Yellowcard will be reuniting in the next few months.
Hellogoodbye have completed their next album.
All Time Low have also completed their next album.

city (comma) state Are Getting Ready

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:51:15 -0400

Your guess is as good as mine, but city (comma) state, Mark Hoppus’ side-project from blink-182 tweeted “Getting ready.” with a picture that can be seen above. Hopefully we’ll find out more information soon.

New I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Mess Video

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:48:53 -0400

AltPress has released the music video of “Old Man” by I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business, which was released on The World We Know. Check it out here.

Veara Add New Tour Dates With Rufio

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:19:39 -0400

Veara have posted new tour dates with Rufio, Before Their Eyes, and Close To Home on Myspace. Check the dates out here.

New Music Video: “Gypsy Woman” // Anarbor // The...

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:54:47 -0400

New Music Video: “Gypsy Woman” // Anarbor // The Words You Don’t Swallow

Brand New 'The Devil And God' Vinyl Update And Pictures

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:45:00 -0400

By now you know the story, our release of Brand New’s “The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me” has been delayed at the pressing plant. We have been pushing the plant to rush these as quickly as possible, and we should have everything in hand in about 2 weeks. As soon as the records and jackets arrive, we will assemble and ship these out right away, even if that means we don’t sleep for a week straight.

In the meantime, you can find a couple images of the layout below. I’ve asked the pressing plant to send me pictures of the different vinyl colors as they’re pressed. I’ll post them here as soon as I get them. There is a booklet with this release, which mimics the original CD booklet almost exactly.

If you’ve tried e-mailing me in the past week or two, I apologize for the delay getting back to you. All e-mails will be answered by tonight.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me directly at rj@academyfightsong.com

- Academy Fight Song

blink-182 'Untitled' Vinyl Update And Pictures

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:42:38 -0400

The pressing plant is working away on this release and should have everything shipped out to us in about 2 weeks (max, I believe). I know this has been frustrating for those of you who ordered. It’s frustrating for me when a project runs into a million issues that take time to sort out. My main focus is to make sure this release comes out exactly as we’ve planned. One thing that I was extremely particular about was the pink and green vinyl colors, which took a while for them to match, but as you can see in the picture below, came out perfectly. The pressing plant sent me that picture yesterday, so as far as I know we are in full production now and good to go.

If you’ve e-mailed me in the past week, I apologize for the delay in getting back to you. All e-mails will be responded to by tonight.

Below you will find the gatefold jacket proof and a picture of the half green/half pink LP that the pressing plant sent me yesterday. Hopefully these pictures get you stoked for the release. This record will be WAY worth the wait. UPDATE: this release has a booklet but I can’t format it to post here. Gotta keep some things a surprise!

If you have any questions, concerns, hate, please e-mail me directly: rj@mtsrecords.com

- Mightier Than Sword Records

Manchester Orchestra Have Not Announced A New Drummer

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:40:05 -0400

Ever since Manchester Orchestra’s drummer announced his departure from the band to work strictly on Favorite Gentlemen, the band’s label, Ben Homola, Brand New’s drum tech, has been filling in for them and working with them in the studio. Recently it was thought that Ben was announced as the official drummer for the band, but that is not true. Check out a tweet from Ben below that clears up some info!

Just to clear things up…I’m not the official drummer of Manchester. I’m still just playing live and helping out with the record.

- Ben Homola

The Almost Announce New US Tour Dates

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:34:42 -0400

The Almost will be heading out on a fall tour with Chasen, House Of Heroes, and Between The Trees starting on September 14th. Dates below!

Sept 14 - Montgomery, AL @ Lakewood Christian Center
Sept 15 - Hephzibah, GA @ Sector 7G
Sept 16 - Greenville, SC @ Marathon Church
Sept 17 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Club Relevant
Sept 18 - Shippensburg, PA @ Shippensburg Fairgrounds
Sept 19 - Mitchelleville, MD @ Mountain Oak Fellowship
Sept 20 - Rochester, PA @ Blue Violt Cafe
Sept 21 - Knoxville, TN @ James R. Cox Auditorium
Sept 25 - Auburn, IN @ Kruse International Auction Park
Sept 26 - Holland, MI @ Central Wesleyan Church (Almost Only - Morning show)

Check out the video above to see Mark Hoppus showing off his...

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:33:32 -0400

Check out the video above to see Mark Hoppus showing off his bass cabinets and his new signature bass model.

PropertyOfZack Review : : Lydia

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:00:00 -0400

It must be difficult, and almost heartbreaking, to enter the studio with the knowledge that when you step out of it for the last time you will never step back into it. Well, for Lydia at least. With the departure of vocalist and keyboardist Mindy White, an understandable hole was impossible to abandon in sound, but that doesn’t mean the band couldn’t give its audience one more show.

Assailants, Lydia’s farewell EP, starts off just right as Leighton’s vocals still can make even the manliest of men swoon as he welcomes and bows with an unforgettable and engaging “So glad you could make it to a farewell // ‘Til we meet again // Enjoy yourself // Just sit back // Bare eyes // Start the show”

“Enjoy The Show” leads into “We Clean Up So Well”, which emphasizes Lydia’s musical and lyrical abilities and proves that a planned goodbye doesn’t need to lack effort and passion. The band was certainly not afraid to make a strong stand as Leighton sings “I could give a shit if you’re scared // Everyone, everyone can taste your hatred”, which begs the question: Is “We Clean Up So Well” a dedication to Mindy White?

“Empty Out Your Stomach” is one of Assailants’s best’s as the mixture of vocals and indie-rock/ambient tones combine at a high point as Leighton sings, “I’m sure I know what you’re going through // Yeah, I call it vanity // I lost my mouth // Can you speak for me?”

“You start to scream // Like we’re making a scene // I must remind you this is not a movie” is how “I’ve Never Seen A Witch” begins as Lydia one-by-one pick off their Assailants, regardless of what the opening line of “Enjoy The Scene” begs and what the closing line of “Assailants” cries.

Being that Assailants is only 21 minutes in length, it’s almost bittersweet that “Music Makers” is under two minutes long, but it’s certainly a treat with Leighton’s muffled vocals over a largely electronic song. “A Place Near The City” is Assailants’s best as Leighton’s soothing, but eerie vocals dominate the track with the lines “Cause whatever happened is supposed to // Whatever happened is nothing I could do” sung over an enthralling guitar part as the track disappears into the EP’s closer.

What is there to really say? It’s a farewell, it’s a goodbye. To judge Assailants next to the year’s best album or, for that matter even Illuminate, is somewhat missing the point. “I can’t seem to kill my assailants // They keep changing faces” is the line that Lydia chose to repeat throughout the EP, and it’s a line that anyone can relate to as the title track closes along with Lydia’s chapter. “You’re not the world baby // I must be sleeping it all off // Just like you had promised.”

Farewell, Lydia.

-/*****

Raneri Clears Up Bayside/Senses Fail Headlining Info

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:53:56 -0400

to answer a lot of questions, we are co-headlining with Senses Fail meaning we both play FULL HEADLINE LENGTH SETS and rotate playing last

- Anthony Raneri

Paramore Win Kerrang's Best Album Award

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:29:28 -0400

Paramore were announced as the winners of Kerrang’s best album award for 2009’s brand new eyes. Check out a tweet from Hayley Williams below.

Thanks to all our amazing fans in the UK for making ‘brand new eyes’ the best album of the year at Kerrang Awards!! Can’t wait to come back!

- Hayley Williams

Matt Good Added To Craig Owens' New Band

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:12:00 -0400

Click here to watch a new update from Craig Owens called “The Announcement”. In short, Matt Good has been revealed as the next member of Craig’s new band. This comes less than 24-hours after Matt announced From First To Last would be going on a hiatus.

PropertyOfZack Interview : : The Swellers

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:00:00 -0400

When the Warped Tour pulled into Long Island PropertyOfZack was able to snag a quick interview with Nick Diener of The Swellers. Nick was an extremely welcoming guy, so it was a pleasure to do the interview. Give it a read to find out info about their time on Warped, his feelings about Fueled By Ramen, and future album plans!

For the record, could you state your name and role in The Swellers?
I’m Nick and I sing and play guitar in The Swellers.

Today’s your last day on Warped Tour. Can you tell us about your time off and on the stage?
It’s been one of the coolest tours we’ve ever done. Just so much hard work, we’re up all day instead of all night like on other tours. Bus life has been really cool with air conditioning and bunks. So it’s cool, but really hard work kind of cancels it out, so it’s not like a luxury cruise or anything. We have tons and tons of friends on the tour. We’ve made a ton of friends. Been hustling our stuff, trying to let people know when we’re playing every day and really getting our name out there. So I feel like this tour is really important for us growing up a little bit as a band. We’re kind of sad it’s done. We’re in the swing of things now and catering is awesome, so I’m gonna miss that, and there’s always free candy hanging around. It’s gonna be sad to go.

There’s been a bunch of tweets about you guys getting screwed over with Four Year Strong playing the same times as you more than a few times. Minus that has the reception been pretty good?
Yeah, it’s been awesome. I’ve actually been surprised that people come see us in particular because there’s so many bands to see all day, so some of the shows have been absolutely phenomenal like Massachusetts, for example, was one of the biggest crowds we could imagine ever playing for at Warped Tour. Some of the shows are at places where we never really play. At places where we played three years ago and haven’t been back since, like San Antonio, Texas, but we had a great crowd there and it just blew my mind. We’ve done some signings, we hang out at our merch tent after we play and kids have been coming by and have been really supportive and really cool. I’m excited to see how that affects our upcoming tour.

Coming to Warped as a kid and now to be able to play it as a band that is quickly getting more and more popular must be pretty unbelievable. Is it hard to wrap your heads around it?
We’ve always been a touring band from like four years ago. We started and never looked back. We just said that we’re never going to be home for more than two months at a time, let’s just go, go, go. But now the tours that we’re doing are actually really good. Like we’re touring with some bigger bands and we’re living. We’re making a living doing this. It’s not a great living, but we’re alive and we have a place to live, and we get to do this. So as long as we’re making enough money to keep doing this we’re really happy, but things seem to be getting better and better in like baby steps and Fueled By Ramen has definitely been a huge help with the record and the tours and everything. More of the same really, but we’re working a lot harder because we have more people working for us. So that’s more people that we need to impress and show that we know what’s up. So it’s definitely a lot of eyes on us and we’re happy to show them that we know what’s up.

Ups And Downsizing was released just about 10 months ago on Fueled By Ramen. Now that the record has had some time to sit in how do you guys think the reaction has been?
It’s been awesome. When the record came out it was pretty much like, “Oh The Swellers, they’re a new band on Fueled By Ramen and they sound like nothing else on the label, and it’s a great record.” But now it’s kind of gone beyond the confines of the label and a lot of people are recognizing it as just a record that’s out there in just the rock, and the punk, and the alternative world, which is really, really cool to me. So the fact that we’re still going on tour and just selling records is really cool to me. A lot of people have a slump, but this is letting us know that people are still actively listening and getting to hear about our band, so we’re really happy about that.

Downsizing was your first record released on Fueled By Ramen, but how has the relationship between you guys been so far?
It’s been really incredible. The reason that we picked them in the first place was because they were with us the longest. They heard our demos and got back to us right away. They were like, “We love, let’s talk.” Basically, when other labels threw offers at us it just didn’t feel right because they came at us so much later in the game and now that we’ve been with Fueled By Ramen they know that we’re a different kind of band. We’ve stuff by ourselves for so many years and we’re not going to take crap from anybody or have anybody tell us what to do. So for the next record, whenever it does come out, I think they’re ready to really work hard for us, because they know we’re ready to really work hard for them.

You did tweet, not too long ago, that the writing process for the next record has been “getting serious”. How far along is the writing process?
Well, that was actually something that the label yelled at me for. I said something about writing a record, it’s awesome, but the truth is, I’m always, always, always writing. So ever since we recorded the last record I was already writing new songs and when the record came out I was writing new songs. But now it’s at the point where that’s really my main focus when I’m home, when I’m playing guitar is to work on some new songs because we don’t want to lose any steam, but it’s still kind of a long way away in terms as conversations go. But in the grand scheme of things it’s coming along quick. We’re probably gonna be in the studio in the next year and put out the next record in the next year. We just want to keep going. The writing process has been really fun so far and we’re just gonna keep trying to outdo the last record and so far I think we have a pretty good shot at doing that.

So you would definitely like to have the new album released by late next year or early 2012?
I’m thinking even earlier than that. We’re gonna go pretty crazy. We’re just gonna go bam, bam, bam, bam. Get a producer and I’d love to do Warped Tour again with a new record, so even in a year from now. So we’ll see how it goes. I don’t want to jump the gun or anything, now that we have a lot of patient people behind us. We might as well wait a little bit to see how it goes.

After today The Swellers have about a month off and then are heading out on what is a dream pop punk tour for many with Fireworks, Man Overboard, and Transit. You guys stoked for this one?
I’m really stoked, man. It was a little intimidating at first because it’s a six-week tour all over the US and Canada and that’s just a long time to be gone doing the same tour. If we’ve ever been out that long it’s usually because we’re jumping from tour to tour. We’re good friends with Fireworks and Man Overboard and Transit are two bands that have had a lot of hype and they’re up-and-coming and kind of are taking off real hard. Then there’s us. So I think it’ll be a really good package and kids are excited to see all the bands play. People are gonna want to check out all the bands.

The Swellers have gone from playing for Paramore in venues up to 4,000 people, but on this tour it’ll be from 200-400 people. Is it odd at all to so drastically switch sizes?
It was at first and then all of a sudden one day it was like second nature. We did the Paramore tour and then we’d have like off days on the Paramore tour and go play like an 100 cap venue and we were like, “Wow, that’s crazy going from that stage to this stage with no monitors and not as many people.”
POZ: Is it nice having that intimate feel though?
Nick: Yeah, the intimate feel of a small venue packed with kids is amazing, but I also feel like I’m starting to get that same intimate feel from like a giant venue with a ton of people because they’re forced to hear my band, you know? Like I play a chord and 4,000 people right in front of those speakers are all checking it out, so I think it’s really cool. Basically, I’m down to play my songs anywhere, any time. As long as I can do that on stage with my band, I’m happy. So that’s my outlook now; if you give me a place to play and some people to play to I’ll be stoked.

After that tour will be seeing any announcements for other tours?
Uh, Europe. I think we’re gonna try. We were in Europe earlier in the spring and it went really, really well for us so we’re gonna try to get there as soon as we can. So I’m hoping we can go to Europe and maybe even some more US stuff, but there’s like The Fest in Gainesville, Florida and the Riot Fest in Chicago and there are a lot of really good bands on all those shows, so we’re gonna see what happens there. And then hopefully in the winter, take some time and maybe make a record because we hate touring in the snow.

Thanks so much for your time, is there anything else you’d like to add?
Thanks for doing the interview and check out our record if you haven’t gotten the change to.

Check out another Sum 41 update from the Warped Tour and watch...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:28:04 -0400

Check out another Sum 41 update from the Warped Tour and watch Stevo write the band’s tour manager a get well soon card.

Hey Monday Video Premiere

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:25:17 -0400

Head over to MTV to check out the new Hey Monday video for “I Dont Wanna Dance”

Bayside/Senses Fail Announce Tour Dates

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:16:06 -0400

As previously confirmed, Bayside and Senses Fail have announced a full US tour with Title Fight and Balance And Composure. Pre-sale goes on sale on August 2nd. Check out the dates below!

10/19 – Lancaster, PA @ Chameleon
10/20 – Hartford, CT @ Webster Theatre
10/21 – New York, NY @ Highline Ballroom (CMJ Badges accepted)
10/22 – Boston, MA @ Royale Nightclub
10/23 – Toronto, ON @ The Mod Club Theatre
10/24 – Detroit, MI @ The Majestic Theatre
10/26 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
10/27 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
10/28 – Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
10/29 – Denver, CO @ The Summit Music Hall
10/30 – Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
11/01 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
11/02 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
11/04 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
11/05 – West Hollywood, CA @ Troubadour
11/06 – Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
11/07 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
11/09 – Mesa, AZ @ The Nile
11/10 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theatre
11/12 – Dallas, TX @ The Door
11/13 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s
11/14 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
11/16 – Jacksonville Beach, FL @ Freebird Live
11/17 – St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre
11/18 – Lake Buena Vista, FL @ House of Blues
11/19 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
11/20 – Charleston, SC @ The Music Farm
11/21 – Greensboro, NC @ Greene Street
11/23 – Towson, MD @ The Recher Theatre
11/24 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
11/27 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory