Tours: Big D and the Kids Table / Whole Wheat Bread / The AKA’s / Brain Failure

Big D and the Kids Table have announced two months of touring to wrap up 2007 in continued support of their SideOneDummy debut, Strictly Rude. For the entire tour, Whole Wheat Bread will be supporting and The A.K.A.s will take the first leg with Brain Failure supporting the second.

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Dashboard Confessional: “El Scorcho (Weezer)”

Dashboard Confessional has posted one of the covers from their recently announced tour-only covers compilation, The Wire Tapes: Volume One . They also released their latest album, The Shade of Poison Trees this week.

The song is Weezer favorite, “El Scorcho” taken from their hugely influential album, 1996’s Pinkerton. This is Chris Carraba’s second Weezer cover, with his version of “Say it Ain’t So” appearing on Further Seems Forever‘s Hope This Finds You Well .

You can check out “El Scorcho” right on their myspace page.
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Saves The Day plan DVD

Saves the Day has announced that their upcoming album will include a special 75-minute DVD. The record is titled Under The Boards and is due out October 30, 2007. Frontman Chris Conoley made the announcement in his latest video address saying that he’s “pretty sure it’ll be awesome.”

Regarding the album, Chris adds:

We really put a lot of ourselves into these songs. After spending time writing, playing and recording them, we’re psyched to get the music out for everyone to hear. I think these are some of the most personal tracks we’ve recorded and it was also the most fun experience we’ve had recording so far

The record is the follow-up to Sound the Alarm which was released in 2006
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Underoath to release documentary, wants to ” raise the bar well beyond the status quo”

The crew behind a new documentary featuring Christian hardcore superstars Underoath have made their presence known via an official website and myspace page.

The band went into some of the motivation, saying:

It seems I find myself and the rest of the UO camp constantly looking around at the music industry, the injustices inflicted on our peers by heartless, money hungry suits, and consistent downward spiral of quality and content within the music of so many bands we seem to be seeing along our journey and just scratching our heads. It more times than not, turns into a productive driving force to do anything and all that we can to evaluate our business ethics and more importantly our vision of what our music has to say as well as the way it sounds.

In all of this there has been one facet of our industry we have yet to tackle until now….the art of film making. It seems that dvds have become the newest form of watered down content that labels are latching onto to package with cd’s and make a buck.

Everyone has a dvd or a re-release packaged with some sort of video content. At this point in the game its hard to stomach 90% of the band related film coming out now. Upon realizing the magnitude of the artistic deficiency within this realm of media, we found ourselves racking our brains and hitting the drawing boards to see how UO could take what everyone is doing and attempt to raise the bar well beyond the status quo.

With that ambitious motivation in mindl the band has assembled a crew to shoot the film in 720p widescreen. The DVD is expected next year.
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Guitar Hero III confirms track listing with Dead Kennedys, RATM, AFI, Social Distortion

The final tracklisting has been announced for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, the second sequel in the wildly successful Guitar Hero series. The game is due out before March 2008 and is set to include artists like Dead Kennedys, Bloc Party, Matchbook Romance,Social Distortion, AFI, Weezer, Beastie Boys, Slayer, Queens Of The Stone Age, Dragonforce, The Strokes, Muse, Tenancious D, Smashing Pumpkins and Iron Maiden.

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Radiohead, others talks about self-released, donation album

After the bands stunning announcement on Monday, the internet has been buzzing about the implications of a band of Radiohead‘s size breaking away from the traditional label model. James Montgomery of Bigger Than The Sound commented, saying:

It’s testament enough to Radiohead that they’ve chosen to turn the industry on its ear by releasing In Rainbows on their own. It’s a ballsy gamble that might just change the way established bands do business from here on out. But perhaps an even bigger compliment is that with one move, they’ve managed to make me — and the majority of music journalists I know — excited again.

Billboard magazine notes that the idea has been incredibly popular with the band’s official site overwhelmed by pre-orders. Finally, the band participated in a two-part interview discussing the event:

It’s really liberating not to feel part of the record company structures. It should be an extremely positive place to be in but I think at the moment it’s like the cartoon bit when Roadrunner comes of the cliff and keeps running – then looks down.

You can check out the interview here.

As reported earlier, Radiohead recently unveiled plans to release their upcoming album, In Rainbows on October 10, 2007 and is asking people to “name their price.” Outside of the obvious impact of self-releasing the album, the entire plan will prove to be a remarkable experiment on what people are willing to pay, and whether they will pay something – anything – when pirated downloads are available.
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Glen Matlock asks John Lydon not to swear at upcoming Pistols gigs

Bass player Glen Matlock has reportedly asked frontman John Lydon not to swear during upcoming Sex Pistols shows. Matlock apparently explained his request to Lydon, saying that his son will be watching the performances.

Lydon is apparently unwilling to do so, saying:

He’s been saying that all this swearing should stop. I understand he’s a father and doesn’t want his son to have to hear foul language. I wrote in ‘Bodies’, ‘F*ck this and fu*k that / F*ck it all, and f*ck the f*cking brat’ and I don’t think there’s a clearer song about the pain of abortion.The juxtaposition of all those different psychic things in your head and all the confusion, the anger, the frustration, you have to capture in those words.

The band will be appearing in Los Angeles, London, Manchester and then London again to celebrate their 30th anniversary. To coincide with the anniversary, the band is reissuing several singles:Anarchy in the UK was released on October 01, 2007, God Save the Queen will be issued on October 08, 2007, Pretty Vacant on October 15, 2007 and Holidays in the Sun on October 22, 2007. The series will wrap up with a reissue of the entirety of Never Mind the Bollocks on October 29, 2007
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Waidestock 2007 featuring the Ataris, the Matches, It Dies Today, Big D and 33

The Pocono’s largest rock festival, Waidestock, has announced the lineup for the 2007 edition. The event takes place in Stroudsburg, PA and will go down October 20th at the Sherman Theatre with three stages.

Artists set to appear include The Ataris, The Number 12 Looks Like You, I Am the Avalanche, The Matches, It Dies Today, Big D and the Kids Table, Split Fifty, Emmure and more then 20 other local bands. It will run from 11:00am through 10pm.

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