Exciting news is coming out San Francisco-based Dead To Me‘s camp this week as they announced they’ve entered the studio to start recording their third full-length on Fat Wreck Chords, and will also be releasing a tour exclusive split 7″ with Off With Their Heads and theRiverboat Gamblers. The band has made the trek out to Chicago’s Atlas Studios to record with famed punk producer Matt Allison (Alkaline Trio, Lawrence Arms, Less Than Jake) for their follow-up to 2009’s African Elephants. As for the split 7″, the record will feature new material from Dead To Me and Riverboat Gamblers, will be pressed on colored vinyl, and is only going to be available on their upcoming summer tour.
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Not content with your festival options? Well, you now have two extra choices because Riot Fest 2011 and Riot Fest-East have announced their line ups.
The Chicago line up includes the likes of Weezer, Social Distrotion, Descendents, X, Youth of Today, Suicide Machines, Helmet, The Menzingers, Cheap Girls, The Copyrights, Chinese Telephones and about a million other bands. Riot Fest 2011 will be taking place over the weekend of October 6 – 9 in Chicago and tickets will be going on sale Friday June 24 at 9 AM Central time.
While Riot Fest-East will be a one day event on September 24th in Philadelphia, and it will be featuring a slimmed down but still impressive line up which includes the Descendents, X, Dead Milkmen, Hot Water Music, Naked Raygun, Suicide Machines, Samiam, The Menzingers, Larry and His Flask and more.
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Remember the days when the word emo was associated
with people like this and not
with people like this ? For those who were born too close Kurt Cobain’s suicide, this is probably a hard concept to fathom, but it used to be that way. Those days are long gone, corrupted by legions of high schoolers and the vapidness of the internet age. Stuff like fashion and trends are always silly and fickle things, but the music associated with “prehistoric emo” though, that used to be a good and honest sound. Currently, there seems to be a resurgence of bands which find their influences amongst those old emo bands. I think can say that Tallahassee’s Little League are one of those bands.
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Apparently in an attempt to out do the east coast who has The Fest and Best Friends Day coming up soon, FYF Fest 2011 has been announced for September 3rd in Los Angeles. The line up for this festival is going to be pretty out of hand because it includes; the Descendents, Kid Dynamite, Explosions in the Sky, Broken Social Scene, The Dead Milkmen, No Age, The Weakerthans, OFF!, Title Fight, Touche Amore and lots more.
Tickets go on sale June 17th for $35.
Also, if you’re going to be in California for Labor Day Weekend and Downtown Los Angeles is not your thing, check outAwesome Fest 5.
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To say that Cave In’s previous discography has been allover the musical map would be a bit of an understatement. When the band began in the late nineties, they were more or less a better than average metal core band. Beginning with Creative Eclipses EP the band started a rigid program of experimentation that would confound any casual listener. Until their 2006 break up, they released recordings that could described anywhere between Space Rock to Sludge/Doom and even had some old fashion Pop Rock thrown in. Continue reading
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It’s been a while since Ampere put out some new music, and if you know anything about anything, you should know that Ampere doesn’t mess around when it comes to their trade. 2004’s All Our Tomorrows End Today is considered by many to be a classic of the screamo genre, and the band as a whole is comprised of long-time veterans of the genre, especially guitarist Will Killingsworth of Orchid fame. Like Shadows is the new LP from this Amherst powerhouse, and it picks up right where their previous outing left off: intense, calculated, passionate and technical hardcore.
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Ah, these past few years have been quite the rollercoaster ride. We’ve seen metalcore rise and wane almost as quickly as it came. Screamo is not a bad word anymore. Hot Topic emo kids have now moved on to American Apparel and became hipsters. Gruff voiced beard punks are the new 90’s skatepunkers and yet, amidst the constant waves of change, emerges Long Beach, CA’s own Joyce Manor.
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No Idea Records have begun the pre-order for AMPERE’s new album, Like Shadows.Those who preorder will not only get the album in a limited pre-order only color, which includes a download code of the entire album, but they will also receive a bonus LP of thirty rare songs entitled The First Five Years with a limited hand screened cover. Forty five songs on 2xLPs.
In case you’re the kind of person who likes to try all of the ice cream flavors before you buy, you can head over to the A.V.Club’s Loud Column, and give the entire album a taste.
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How are you spending your summer vacation? Recording a highly anticipated reunion album? I doubt it, but that is exactly what Chris Wollard, Chuck Ragan, Jason Black and George Robello are up to this summer. Hot Water Music has been back together playing shows together since 2008 but have not released any new material since 2004’s The New What Next.
Through the band’s official and the band mamber’s personal Twitter accounts Hot Water Music has announced that they are all back in Florida and are currently working on their next album.
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Sloane Peterson was bright beacon from an otherwise gloomy Miami punk scene. Let me lay my bias on the table, the members include some of my best friends and I have some the band’s artwork tattooed above my left knee. They were a pop punk band but were also relatively hard to pigeon hole. Doing my best to force a comparison, I would say their sound was somewhere in between The Marked Men and The Thermals. In Miami, good music is usually created in flashes, which end when the members of those bands become frustrated with the limitations of the city. The release of Sloane Peterson’s full length will forever be marred by those frustrations…
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Exciting news is coming out San Francisco-based Dead To Me‘s camp this week as they announced they’ve entered the studio to start recording their third full-length on Fat Wreck Chords, and will also be releasing a tour exclusive split 7″ with Off With Their Heads and theRiverboat Gamblers. The band has made the trek out to Chicago’s Atlas Studios to record with famed punk producer Matt Allison (Alkaline Trio, Lawrence Arms, Less Than Jake) for their follow-up to 2009’s African Elephants. As for the split 7″, the record will feature new material from Dead To Me and Riverboat Gamblers, will be pressed on colored vinyl, and is only going to be available on their upcoming summer tour.
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