February 4, 2009

Of Mice And Men, a new two-piece rock act featuring former Attack Attack! frontman Austin Carlile, have signed with Rise Records. The band, who have officially existed for less than a week, recently posted a MySpace blog boasting they had "over 25,000 total plays, over 600 comments and about 1500 friends" within 24...

My Chemical Romance recently spoke with the BBC about the new album the band is currently at work on. It’s slated for a late 2009 release, while frontman Gerard Way expects it to be "a little more raw" and "less layered" than 2006’s The Black Parade. "It’s really nice to get a fresh...

Mae posted the music video for "The House That Fire Built", which is part of a year-long project with Habitat for Humanity. A new song will be released at the beginning of each month of 2009. Fans can download the song from the Mae site for a small donation. Mae has raised $8,500 in five...

Both Forever The Sickest Kids and A Rocket To The Moon have expressed their fondnesses for country-pop singer Taylor Swift through respective covers. You can listen to FTSK's take on "Love Story" here and ARTTM's acoustic rendition of "Forever And Always" here.

This Providence have embarked on a tour with Ludo, Sing It Loud and the Morning Light. This Providence will be supporting Who Are You Now?, due out March 17th on Fueled By Ramen. Ludo released You’re Awful, I Love You last year on Island/Redbird. Sing It Loud dropped Come Around in ’08 on Epitaph....

Portugal. The Man have unveiled dates for a two-week tour kicking off later this month. The band will be previewing some material from their upcoming, as-yet-untitled release, due out in the summer on their Approaching AIRballoons label under Equal Vision. They last released Censored Colors in 2008. FEBRUARY 26 Harlow’s, Sacramento, CA ...

Flogging Molly‘s video has been posted for the title track off last year’s Float (Side One Dummy).

Lux Interior, vocalist of influential New York City punk outfit the Cramps, passed away due to an existing heart condition at 4:30 a.m. PST today in Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale, California. Interior, whose real name was Erick Purkhiser, formed the band during the mid-’70s with his wife and guitarist Poison Ivy (whose real name...

Doghouse Records has announced plans to release the self-titled debut EP by Manbox, a new collaborative project between Weatherbox’s Brian Warren and Mansions’ Christopher Browder. The EP was recorded and "produced" by Browder at his "home"; those quotations are Doghouse’s doing. You can check out the cover art here. Manbox is due out...