Cartel writing their "best material" for new album
Cartel are finishing the writing process for their spring/summer 2009 album on Wind-Up. No producer has been confirmed.
"We should be finishing up writing in the next weeks to month… I think we’ve written or entertained the idea of about 30 songs at this point… it’s all been in the task of getting...
Max Bemis talks next Say Anything album
Say Anything's Max Bemis recently spoke about their upcoming self-titled album, which the band is currently recording. "I think what people like about Say Anything is going to come out even stronger on this record," he said. "It's not like we're suddenly becoming another band. It's like we're embracing who we are to the fullest...
Cinematic Sunrise vinyl planned
Cinematic Sunrise‘s 2008 debut, A Coloring Storybook And Long Playing Record, will be pressed on wax.
The record will be released by Equal Vision on the 28th. It’ll be pressed as a 12" and limited to 1,000 copies.
Rise Against / Rancid tour in the works
Rise Against will be touring the U.S. and Canada with Rancid this coming summer. No dates have been announced quite yet. Rise Against will be supporting last year's Appeal To Reason on Geffen. Rancid's last proper studio album, Indestructible, came in 2003 on Hellcat, though a new one is expected out this year.
Good Old War to record new EP
Good Old War have headed up to The Poconos in northeastern PA to record a new EP.
The band, who released their debut, Only Way To Be Alone, last year on Sargent House, has also been added to the Gaslight Anthem’s spring tour.
State Of Mind signs Racing Exit 13
State Of Mind Recordings has inked Staten Island pop-punk / melodic hardcore act Racing Exit 13.
The label will be issuing the band’s debut full-length, All We Need, later this year.
In the meantime, an MP3 of "Leave By Three" has been made available here.
Free Blood
Free Blood The Singles [3.5/5]
The writhing punk-funk imprint of John Pugh’s old band, !!!, is all over Free Blood. Wedded to churning drum ’n’ bass rhythms, sampled detritus litters the background of the Brooklyn-based band’s grimy, experimental clatter. The woofer-collapsing throb has a footprint big enough to knock you off your feet and a...
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip
Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip Angles [3/5]
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Unearth
Unearth The March [4/5]
The March begins oddly for a group who’ve been rightly touted as varsity players in metal’s new school. The first two cuts are curiously banal metalcore-they prove the five-man Massachusetts militia can play any extreme-music variation better than the next guy-and the raging old-school solo from “My Will Be Done” deserves...