Every Avenue has released a new video of an acoustic performance of “Only Place I Call Home” off of their latest album Bad Habits. The band, currently signed onto Fearless Records is about to embark on a nationwide tour with The Audition, We Are The In Crowd, Plug In Stereo, and Simple as Surgery. The tour kicks off in February in Cleveland, Ohio. Read More
Tom Morello, lead guitarist of Rage Against the Machine, will release a third studio album for his solo project, The Nightwatchman, on August 30th entitled World Wide Rebel Songs. Shortly before this in May 2011, Morello released an EP Union Town after being inspired by his performance in Madison, Wisconsin last February during the protest of an anti-union bill. All proceeds from this EP continue to go to the America Votes Labor Unity Fund via SaveWorkers.org. Continuing to benefit worthy causes, Morello has announced a three day Midwest tour, including Madison WI, Cleveland OH, and Flint MI, along with Rise Against’s vocalist and guitarist Tim McIlrath to benefit The Nation Institute (for more information click here). Created as a non-profit media center, the goal of The Nation Institute is to promote progressive ideas as well as strengthen and allow for independent press to thrive. “This year’s Justice Tour aims to support independent media which is battling the mountain of disinformation and propaganda foisted on the public by right wing media barons,” said Morello. “We will also return to the union battlegrounds of the Midwest to help steel the backbone of workers under siege.” (source here). All profits from these performances will go to The Nation Institute. For the Madison performance ticket information click here. For the Cleveland performance ticket information click here. For the Flint performance ticket information click here.
Incubus has released the video for their first single, “Promises, Promises” off of their newest album If Not Now, When? Due out July 12.
Paramore have just released a new single that will appear on the latest Transformers soundtrack.
It was recently posted that lead guitarist Michael Guy Chislett and drummer Andy Mrotek will be leaving The Academy Is… Although this will be a difficult loss to the band, there are no apparent harsh feelings. In a statement on their website, the band quotes that “We feel that this is the right choice for all involved to embrace changes, new hopes and desires that have individually taken hold.” Both members have recently been pursuing other musical careers; Mrotek working on his own band The Animal Upstairs and Chislett “co-writing, producing, and touring with various artists”. As for the remaining members, Mike, William, and Adam, there are plans to get back in studio and work on a fourth album. You can hear a clip of their latest work here.
Decoder (signed on Rise Records) has released their video for “Believers” off of their debut album which debuted at #44 on the Billboard Top Heat-Seekers.
The band is currently on the Rise Records Tour 2011 with Memphis May Fire, Ten After Two, and That’s Outrageous!.
New York City band, TV/TV has recently released their debut music video for their 2009 hit Smalltime and it is soon to be followed by a video for another single, Much Too Much, directed by Jeff McGovern, set to be released next Tuesday. You can download both of these songs, and others, such as their newest release Crazy Heart here.
The White Stripes would like to announce that today, February 2nd, 2011,
their band has officially ended and will make no further new recordings or perform live.
The reason is not due to artistic differences or lack of wanting to continue, nor any
health issues as both Meg and Jack are feeling fine and in good health.
It is for a myriad of reasons, but mostly Read More
Last week in Tucson, Arizona, Jared Loughner opened fire with a semi-automatic on a crowd of people at a political event. A previous classmate of Loughner later came out stating that Jared at a time listened to political punk band Anti-Flag whose lyrics inspired the name of the site you’re currently on. Alternative Press shared an exlusive interview with lead singer Justin Sane who claims that this act of violence is far from what Anti-Flag stand for.
Were you aware of the news when the incident happened?
Yeah, I saw it on the evening news. It was very moving and very chilling. I’m not ashamed to admit I actually teared up watching the news report. It was pretty bad.
When did you first hear your name being pulled into the story?
My sister called me that night. I was driving home around 11 p.m., and she informed me that a former classmate of the shooter had reportedly said something about Anti-Flag. Obviously, it was a real surprise because Anti-Flag are this band that for over a decade have been committed to Read More
“Don’t want to hear your sad songs, I don’t want to feel your pain, when you swear it’s all my fault, cause you know we’re not the same.”
Paramore has released their official statement on their website yesterday announcing the departure of two members of the band, guitarist Josh Farro and drummer Zac Farro. In the past, lead singer Hayley Williams was in a relationship with Josh that ended badly, causing the band to nearly breakup. These internal issues also led to a cancellation of a part of their European tour back in 2008. The band attempted to keep their relationship a secret, but finally came out with what really happened in one of the 2010 issues of Alternative Press. Although not every detail of their relationship rose to the surface, one can still learn all he needs to know about it in a majority of the song lyrics on their album Brand New Eyes. The past few years were a hectic one for the band, from the secret breakup, to Hayley’s naked Read More
Circa Survive and Anberlin will begin the on a co-headlining tour starting on January 14th in Richmond, Virginia. Foxy Shazam will make an appearance on a select few dates. Tickets on sale November 24th. Read More
