Dreamtigers, featuring former members of Ambitions, Life In Your Way, and Acta non Verba, has recorded a demo with Jay Maas at Getaway Studios (Wakefield, MA). Chris Friedrich (Caspian) contributed bass to the recording. The songs are posted on the band’s myspace page.

The new 5-piece rock outfit played their first show at the Middle East Upstairs (Cambridge, MA) on August 23rd with tiny mtns (formerly Elijah Wyman) and The Points North, and will be opening for Caspian at the Middle East Upstairs on October 29th. They are currently booking more shows in the northeast, and will be heading back into the studio in December.
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HORSE the Band have launched a stream of their new track, “HORSE the Song.” The track comes from their upcoming Vagrant Records debut, Desperate Living set to drop October 6, 2009.

Check it out here.
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Morrissey has announced a short run of US dates on the West Coast in November and December of 2009. He will be supporting his recent album, Years of Refusal, as well as his forthcoming rarities collection, Swords due out November 3, 2009.

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Prolific musician Omar Rodríguez-López has announced plans to release his next solo album. Titled Xenophanes, the record is due out November 10, 2009. In 2009 alone, Rodríguez-López released albums with The Mars Volta, as El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez, and under his own name. A total of eight releases in 2009.

For this release, Omar took the helm vocally and lyrically, as well as musically and sang entirely in Spanish. The album features frequent collaborators, bassist Juan Alderete de la Peña, drummer Thomas Pridgen and keyboardist/percussionist Marcel Rodriguez Lopez. Additionally, the album includes contributions from Mark Aanderud (additional keyboards), as well as the voice of Ximena Sariñana.

Check out some more about the record on the MySpace page.
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As I Lay Dying will enter the studio in October to record their next album. The band posted this update:

Songwriting has been going well with about 6-7 songs done. We decided to officially start recording the new AILD album on Oct 17. At that point we’ll record as many songs as we can and then finish the album around the new year. I think this will be a good way to spread out our songwriting since most of our previous records have always been written within a few months.

The band released An Ocean Between Us in 2007.
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Social Distortion has picked the studio where they will record their long-awaited new album. Frontman Mike Ness explained:

I went up to L.A. to look at the studio that the Foo Fighters own, and I just started to get really psyched up for the new record. It’s been a long time – five years. I’m really going into this record with a new outlook. I really want this record to be unique but also hold the signature Social D. element. It’s gonna be a good record. I can feel it.

The band released their previous album, Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll, in 2004.
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Paramore performance from The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien is now streaming online. The band performed “Ignorance” from their brand new album, brand new eyes, which was released today.

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American Steel has been tapped to support All-American Rejects on a forthcoming run. The two bands will play together in the UK as well as Europe.

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The Emergency Room, the solo project from Alkaline Trio bassist (and Slapstick/Tuesday member) Dan Andriano has posted two new solo tracks.

Check out “Hurricane Season” and “This Light” on his MySpace page.
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Hardcore act Burning Empires, which features Stuart Ross, Kyle Johnson and Ryan Morgan of Misery Signals, Andy Hurley from Fall Out Boy and vocalist Matt Mixon, have posted a new song from their forthcoming 7-inch. The track, “Disavowel,” is on their MySpace page.

The Milwaukee-based hardcore band is set to hit the studio his November with Mike Schleibaum (of Darkest Hour) engineering/producing the effort.
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The Misfits classic, “Astro Zombies,” along with tracks from GWAR, Wolfmother and Queens Of The Stone Age are coming to Rock Band 2 this month. To celebrate Halloween, the game will add the Misfits track as well as a song from GWAR and Marilyn Mason. Earlier in October, the game will add three songs from Wolfmother and three from Queens of the Stone Age.

Check out the details here.
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Street Sweeper Social Club, the new project from Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine and Boots Riley of The Coup have posted the second single from their self-titled debut.

Tom Morello explains the song in this YouTube video. Check out the song itself on their MySpace page.
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Recently reactivated 80s and 90s-era pop-punk outfit Big Drill Car have posted a new song. You can check out the title track from their new release, A Never Ending Endeavour, at their MySpace page

The album compiles five brand new songs recorded earlier this year backed up with 15 rare and unreleased tracks from singles, compilations and demos. Big Drill Car released an EP, Small Block, in 1988 before being signed to Cruz Records (owned by former Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn) and releasing two studio albums. The band eventually parted ways with that label and signed to Headhunter Records, who released No Worse for the Wear, the band’s final album. Big Drill Car broke up in 1995, but decided to reunite 13 years later.
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