Moneybrother have announced some US dates in September. The band formed from Anders Wendin, who was the front man of Swedish punk rock act Monster, and departs somewhat from his past material incorporating rock, punk, reggae and disco. The band’s European releases have earned Wendin a Swedish Grammy Award.
Moneybrother is supporting Real Control.
The Used are back with their fourth album, Artwork. Change was a consistent trend throughout the writing and recording process with a switch from long-time producer John Feldmann to Matt Squire, the creation of a much dirtier sound and the first album appearance of drummer Dan Whitesides to name a few. Whitesides has been instrumental in the new direction the band is currently taking. He took some time to sit down and chat with Mark Millard about the writing process behind Artwork, the adjustments needed in order to join the band and the motivation behind the changes they have made over the last few years.
Thrice have confirmed all the dates on their recently announced headlining tour. The band will be supported by the Dear Hunter and Polar Bear Club and the shows will be interspersed with some shows with Thrice supporting Brand New.
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Mariachi el Bronx, the mariachi-styled side project from hardcore/rock act The Bronx, have launched a stream of their full length, self-titled debut. The album is due out September 1, 2009.
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Classics of Love, featuring Jesse Michaels from Operation Ivy and Common Rider, will be releasing a 7″ on Art of the Underground featuring two new exclusive songs as a part of the Art of the Underground Single Series, which is currently in it’s 5th year of singles. Classics of Love recently released a 12″ EP on Asian Man.
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Fat Wreck Chords have announced a release date for the recently unveiled new EP from the The Lawrence Arms. The record is titled Buttsweat and Tears and is due out October 27, 2009
When released, the 7″ will be the band’s first new material since 2006’s Oh! Calcutta!. The Lawrence Arms entered the studio in June to record the songs for it, and will be supporting the release with a 10th Anniversary show in their hometown of Chicago in October as well as a week of west coast dates in November.
You can check out the artwork for the EP here.
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Suburban Home Records is giving away Drag the River‘s live album, Live at the Starlight. The album was originally released in 2002 and later re-released by Suburban Home in 2005. Since then, it’s been out of print. Virgil Dickerson of Suburban Home had this to say,
As some of you may or may not know, the CD version of “Live at the Starlight” has been out of print for a while now. Whenever a release goes out of print, a handful of enterprising individuals take advantage of the inability to easily purchase the release and sell their own copy(ies) through sites like Ebay or Amazon for outrageous prices. One such individual has “Live at the Starlight” for sale for $80 on Ebay. You can’t blame people for doing this, but Jon felt that if we gave the album for free, no one would feel the need to spend so much money on the CD.
Drag The River, which consists of Jon Snodgrass and Chad Price recently called off their breakup and plan to release a new album in 2010 or 2011. Meanwhile Chad Price is releasing a solo album.
Download Live at the Starlight here.
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Moving Mountains have announced their upcoming tour plans which includes a run of shows with Thursday and another with Say Anything. The band self-released their Foreword EP and also reissued their album, Pneuma, on Deep Elm in 2008.
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Get Up Kids have posted a trailer for their forthcoming reissue of 1999’s Something To Write Home About. Due out September 7, 2009, the reissue will feature the beloved album, a live concert performance of the entire record, and never before seen archival footage from the time of the original release.
The band is in the midst of a tour through the US and Canada.
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Frank Turner has posted an update with his thoughts on illegal downloading:
Obviously you can’t un-invent the internet (nor would I want to, it’s one of humanity’s highest achievements), and obviously illegal downloading happens, and is here to stay. To be philosophical about it, the industry structure that has successfully rewarded musicians and others (engineers, producers, PRs, agents and so on) for their labour since the 1960s is in the process of dissolving. A situation where people labour and are not reimbursed is untenable and unjust.
Firstly, while I am confident that we will realign, it’d be naive not to notice the danger that a generation of people are coming up who do not understand why they should pay for music at all. It seems churlish to restate, but let’s put it this way: recording isn’t free, instruments aren’t free, session players, producers, engineers, artists aren’t free. My time isn’t free either – I work hard and I expect to get paid for it.
Secondly, the idea that by stealing music from the internet you’re somehow crusading for justice against the big bad record labels is absolute fucking bullshit and needs to be stamped out. Britney Spears and David Geffen aren’t going to downsize their condo’s because you didn’t pay for a Fugazi album.
Check it out here.
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Strike Anywhere have released a new EP in the run up to their upcoming Bridge 9 debut, Iron Front. The EP, also titled Iron Front, contains two tracks that will appear on the LP as well as two b-sides. The EP is available on three colors of vinyl as well as through digital download.
In the Fall Strike Anywhere will be headlining the Bridge 9 tour alongside Crime In Stereo, Polar Bear Club, and Ruiner.
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Long-running Worcester, MA hardcore act Bane released a new song – “The Bold and the Beautiful” – on their MySpace page last month, but didn’t say when or where it would be available commercially. Today it was announced that Triple-B records will be releasing a new 7″ from the band, which will feature the new song as well as two others.
Bane are currently on tour in Europe and will be returning to the United States for a tour in the Fall. Their last full-length was 2005’s The Note.
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Fall Out Boy vocalist Patrick Stump was arrested in Los Angeles late Tuesday night after being picked up for a two-year-old warrant for driving without a license. Stump was released yesterday after posting $15,000 bail. The warrant is the result of Stump’s 2007 failure to appear in court on a misdemeanor charge of driving without a valid license. There is no word on whether this will hamper the band’s plans to play Reading Festival in England tomorrow.
Fallout Boy most recently released 2008’s Folie รก Deux. Stump has also taken up a music review position at Rolling Stone Magazine.
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