December 29, 2008

My Chemical Romance‘s Gerard Way seemed to recently promise that the band’s next album will not be conceptual. "I want to go into it not thinking about a definite story," he explained. "I said that [while working on The Black Parade], but I still think I had something to work out. I think I...

Paramore recently spoke about the ideas being shuffled around for their next full-length. Hayley Williams’ "fragments" of lyrics seem to revolve around the "tumultuous" events of the past year while guitarist Josh Farro continues to hash out musical ideas of his own. "I feel like we all kind of know what the Paramore...

The Ataris have mentioned that they’ve finished tracking drums for their new record and are moving onto guitars. They’ve also posted an acoustic cover of the Pogues’ "Fairytale Of New York" over at the MySpace page.

Agnostic Front will hit the road starting in late January with the Mongoloids. Agnostic Front continues to support 2007’s Warriors on Nuclear Blast, while the Mongoloids will issue the Assorted Music EP on Eulogy January 6th, 2009. The latter have also posted a new song, "Circumstantial Criticism," at their MySpace page. 1/29 Virgina...

Nevershoutnever has posted a new song to his MySpace page. It seems to be called "Trouble."

It Prevails have announced some info regarding their sophomore full-length. The record is called Capture And Embrace and will be released February 1st, 2009 on Rain City Records. It follows up their sole effort for Rise, 2007’s The Inspiration. They’ve also announced a run of the UK, but it won’t be until August,...

Gym Class Heroes maestro Travis McCoy announced onstage at a recent stop on the I Am Music tour that he has signed to T-Pain’s Nappy Boy Entertainment. The video announcement is below:

Hip-hop act P.O.S. have announced they will release their new album Never Better on February 3rd via Rhymesayers / Doomtree. Track Listing: 01) Let It Rattle 02) Drumroll (We’re All Thirsty) 03) Savion Glover 04) Purexed 05) Graves (We Wrote the Book) 06) Goodbye 07) Get Smokes 08) Been Afraid ...

New Yorkers The Readyset and Tennessee-based Backseat Goodbye have announced dates for a mainly East Coast and Midwest tour. Tour Dates: Feb 6 2009: Bethel Temple – Canton, Ohio Feb 7 2009: The Factory – Rochester, Michigan Feb 9 2009: Garfield Arts – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Feb 10 2009: Tuesday Tunes...