December 16, 2008

One more Fall Out Boy piece of news for the day, we promise–if you're not on the east coast, at least. Well, hopefully if you're on the east coast too. The band has an acoustic cover of Lifetime's "Turnpike Gates" that you can acquire here. The song opens Lifetime's 1997 effort on Jade Tree, Jersey's...

Anthony Green has posted his video for "She Loves Me So," the opener off Avalon, his recent solo debut on Photo Finish. She Loves Me So

Scene Godfathers Weezer have released Christmas With Weezer, a 6-track Christmas themed album available exclusively on Amazon MP3. The album can be found for download here. The tracklisting for the album is as follows: 1. We Wish You A Merry Christmas 2. O Come All Ye Faithful 3. O Holy Night 4. The First Noel...

Bayside frontman Anthony Raneri has launched a new blog that you can check out here. Word is it’ll be the first place for the occasional Bayside news item.

Streetlight Manifesto have announced a headlining tour following their dates with Reel Big Fish which wrap up January 25th. They’ll be supported by A Wilhelm Scream, the Swellers and the Stitch Up (MU330). Streetlight will be supporting 2007’s Somewhere In The Between on Victory. A Wilhelm made Career Suicide on Nitro the same year....

Aaron Weiss, frontman for mewithoutYou, has announced a rare solo appearance as part of the upcoming Invisible Children benefit show with Chris Conley of Saves The Day, Thrice’s Dustin Kensrue and Sparta’s Jim Ward. The show will take place on December 19th at 7:00 P.M. in West Hollywood, CA at the Troubadour. It’ll apparently...

MySpace has posted several full album streams as part of a year-end "50 Albums You Should Know From 2008" feature. You can check out TV On The Radio’s Dear Science, Fleet Foxes’ self-titled and the Gaslight Anthem’s The ’59 Sound, presumably among others, through MySpace Music.

Tyler Hoare, bassist for over-the-top Canadian metal act Blessed By A Broken Heart, has been arrested in Glasgow, Scotland for taking a swing at a security guard who was beating on a female fan. His bandmates, who appear to be taking their misfortune rather well, have posted a video online explaining the situation...

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus posted a Myspace blog that formally stated that guitarist/backing vocals Elias Reidy has parted ways with the band since late October. Fans began to theorize his departure since noticing his absence from Jacksonville’s Planet Fest on November 8th. Reason is not given, but "the core of RJA remains intact". Reidy was...