The Appleseed Cast

Appleseed Cast Appleseed Cast has signed to Graveface and have announced a 26-date tour in which they will perform their two Low Level Owl albums in their entirety. The band will have a new live album available for sale on this tour, their first for the imprint Graveface.

Label mates Dreamend round out the bill, opening all of the shows on this tour. Dreamend features Ryan Graveface, the owner of the Graveface label and member of Black Moth Super Rainbow. Dreamend’s latest album Long Forgotten Friend is out now on Graveface. Both The Appleseed Cast and Dreamend will have new full-length releases out via Graveface in late 2010.

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Adam Yauch launches direct-mail DVD company, Osclloscope

Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys and producer of the Bad Brains has joined ThinkFilm executive David Fenkel to found a direct-mail DVD program. The $150 subscription service, called ‘Circle of Trust,’ plans to ship a new DVD per month for its next 10 releases one week prior each film’s official release to the public. Subscribers will also be able to purchase DVDs from the Oscilloscope catalog at half price.

Yauch told The Hollywood Reporter about his plans:

It’s kind of like when you’re a kid and get a magazine and you don’t know exactly what you’re going to get, but that’s what makes you so excited about it, Hopefully we reach that level of harassment.”

No word on what kind of films will make up the subscription services inaugaral lineup but the company owns the rights to Colin Beavan’s environmental documentary No Impact Man and Oren Moverman’s military drama, The Messenger. Along with his production and musical work, Yauch also frequently directed some of the Beastie Boys’ more elaborate music videos under the name Nathanial Hörnblowér.
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Kane Hodder (2002-2009)

Kane Hodder has announced their two final shows before calling it quits. The band said this:

As you may have heard, the next two shows we play will be our last. Please come out to celebrate the end of the band. We’re going to go out of this world the way we came in… with a crazy dance party. Kane Hodder will be playing 2 last shows with the “classic” lineup.as well as some songs with the newer line up.

The two shows will be a hometown show at The Coffee Oasis in Bremerton, Washington on December 18th followed by The 4th Annual “Home For The Horrordays” show with Schoolyard Heroes on December 19th in Seattle’s El Corazon.
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Westboro Baptist Church targets All Time Low

The notorious homophobes at the Westboro Baptist Church will take break from picketing the funerals of dead soldiers to go after pop-punk outfit All Time Low. The “church” posted an explanation of the reasons for the protest in their schedule, but the gist is this:

How do you know how far gone a society is? You look at their social icons. When you look at these gender-confused, haphazard freakazoids then you can plainly see that america is DOOMED, for real! This is the final generation, and a little concussion is the least of their worries. Here is what they have to look forward to when this once great nation finally falls – for her fall is already started. She is such a big, fat, disgusting, stupid whore that it is going to take a while to fall (brings to mind the comedy routine that Eddie Murphy does about his drunken cow of an aunt who falls down the stairs at each of their summer bar-b-ques as he was growing up). That is the picture of this nation falling slow, steady, hard and sure.

The statement goes on to call Obama to the Antichrist, before describing Cain as “the father of all musicians.” For more information on the organization, you can check out this documentary produced by Louis Theroux titled The Most Hated Family in America, here.

The protest will be held outside the December 6th show at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia.
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Schoolyard Heroes (1999-2009)

Horror-punk outfit Schoolyard Heroes have called it quits. The band explained their reasons in an interview with The Stranger:

Steve [Bonnell] and Brian [Turner] have kind of phased themselves out over the last year or so, and it’d be weird going on with them. So our Home for the Horrordays show is going to be our last one. This band has been the only thing that we’ve thought about, and done every day for the last 10 years and now it’s gonna be done.

Their final show, “Home for the Horrordays” is Saturday, December 19th, at El Corazon Seattle with Schoolyard Heroes, These Arms Are Snakes, Kane Hodder, Sirens Sister, and special guests.
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Canadian Parliament listens to Billy Bragg’s comments on several music issues

According to a report from the Globe & Mail, legendary musician Billy Bragg recently appeared before the Canadian Parliament to talk about the file sharing problem.

The singer and the Canadian New Democratic Party is calling on the government to let artists find a way to make music file swapping a legitimate part of promotion and sales. He is hoping to see new ways to compensate performers while protecting downloaders. One of the options proposed was to impose a levy on MP3 players similarly to how the Canadian government taxes blank CD purchases.

Though that levy is ostensibly to compensate for downloading, the tax is imposed on everyone, even those who do not download music illegally.
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