November 8, 2005

WARCON Enterprises has posted online the music video for “Happy Christmas (War Is Over),” the cover of the John Lennon classic by Bert McCracken of the Used and Street Drum Corps. The song is taken from the recently released Taste Of Christmas compilation, the tracklisting of which can be found here. Besides the above collaboration,...

Hopeless Records has announced the signing of Los Angeles-based technical progressive metal band the Human Abstract. The five-piece band will record their Hopeless debut in February 2006, followed by extensive touring. As of right now, the band have a handful of shows around California left in 2005; you can find dates below: 11/15/05 Hogue...

Yellowcard have confirmed what has been speculated since August: Guitarist Ben Harper is out of the band. A statement released yesterday says that "Ben Harper, lead guitarist of Yellowcard, has announced that he’s moving on to focus on developing his indie label, Takeover Records, and related production projects." Harper himself commented in the statement,...

Astro Magnetics, the label co-owned by Eyeball Records founder Alex Saavedra, Eyeball label manager Marc Debiak and Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly, has announced the signing of Cleveland post-hardcore/rock quartet the Lovekill. Astro describes the band as "sick as hell," and says that their full-length debut, These Moments Are Momentum, produced by Stephen Pedersen (Criteria, Cursive),...

LaSalle Records band the Kinison have decided to call it quits. Frontman Christopher Lewis posted a length letter on the band's Geocities site, an excerpt from which is below: "[After this year's Warped Tour], I moved about an hour away from the rest of the band. I had to try to clear my head....

Hot on the heels of releasing their debut full-length, Sleepwalker, the dynamic duo of Jamison Covington and Parker Case, known together as JamisonParker, have split. Covington's statement, posted on the group's website: "the band is officially broken up. i apologize for not posting this sooner but in all honesty this is the first chance...