Travis Barker/DJ AM have a tweet album for you
Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and long-time pal and collaborator DJ AM have made a no-money mixtape-style EP available for download. Fix Your Face Vol. 2 can be found here. All you have to do to get your hands on it is re-tweet the news to your friends.
No Age and Deerhunter announce shows
Noise pop duo No Age and ambient-punk group Deerhunter will hit the road this summer, both together and separate. First, they’ll be touring simultaneously overseas, dates below:
No Age:
06-04 Santiago, Chile – Industria Cultural
06-05 Port Alegre, Brazil – Parc Fest at Manara
06-06 Sao Paulo, Brazil – Clash Club...
Banner Pilot announce album details
Recent Fat Wreck Chords signees Banner Pilot have released some details on their upcoming album, a follow-up to 2008’s Resignation Day. The record will hit stores sometime this fall and will contain 12 songs, two of which are titled, "Farewell to Iron Bastards" and "Drains to the Mississippi." The album is still untitled, but you...
Too Pure To Die
Too Pure To Die Confess [2/5]
Too Pure To Die vocalist Paul Zurlo sounds like he’d punch us in the side of the neck really hard if we ever met, especially if we tried to explain in person just how boring and rote this album is. Honestly, who needs the stress? Okay, maybe that’s overstating...
Light This CIty
Light This CIty Stormchaser [4/5]
Laura Nichol shrieks about “something circling overhead” during Stormchaser’s opening title track; given that Light This City have decided to disband, those spiraling creatures may have been vultures. If so, the Bay Area-based group left the scavengers plenty of meat: Guitarists Brian Forbes and Ryan Hansen combine on harmonic solos...
Dir En Grey
Dir En Grey Uroboros [4/5]
The uroboros is a mythical snake eating its own tail, hardly an appropriate symbol for Dir En Grey’s latest album, which finds the band progressing further down the deep, dark tunnel that is their aesthetic instead of simply rehashing their past musical accomplishments. Overconfident in some ways (the album passes...
Pete Wentz's NYC club closed today
Angels And Kings, Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz's NYC club is closed today for maintenance issues, according to the club's website. However, news outlets are reporting the club was court-ordered to close for allegedly serving alcohol to underage patrons. Read the story here.
Capsule
Capsule Blue [3.5/5]
The combination of late-’80s D.C. emo with prog-rock time signatures, experimental jazz chords and the occasional blast-beat doesn’t really give a clear picture of what Capsule are trying to do, but it’s a start. Their long-in-the-works debut album, Blue, consists of 10 tracks titled “One” to “Ten,” each one specifically using the...
Leathermouth
Leathermouth XO [3.5/5]
For the ultimate test of My Chemical Romance’s seemingly inescapable ubiquity, stay tuned to MySpace pages and message boards everywhere. When XO, the debut from MCR guitarist Frank Iero’s hardcore-punk side project Leathermouth, reaches the masses, you’ll surely start seeing a gazillion comments from teenage girls raving, “OMG! Frank is sooooo hot!...