September 7, 2009

AltPress Exclusive: Taking Back Sunday/All-American Rejects tour announced

Alternative Press has exclusively learned that two-time AP cover stars the All-American Rejects will be teaming up with four-time AP cover stars Taking Back Sunday for a co-headlining tour of epic proportions. Zero-time AP cover stars Anberlin will open. (Although Stephen Christian was on our Warped cover last year; does that count?) Both TBS and...

Junius and GimmeSound give away The Martyrdom Of A Catastrophist

Ambient rockers Junius and GimmeSound have partnered up to give away the band’s new full-length, The Martyrdom Of A Catastrophist, for free. The record can be downloaded here. The album’s physical release is being handled by The Mylene Sheath; pre-orders for the deluxe CD and double LP releases are up here....

Boys Like Girls - Love Drunk

Boys Like Girls Love Drunk As in any well-structured argument, Boys Like Girls front-load their latest musical thesis in the first moments of Love Drunk’s title track. A shimmering, textured guitar line gives way immediately to huge gang vocals. They're reaching for both U2's anthemic grandeur and the populist immediacy of the pit. Slick production...

Bands on TV - week of 9/7/09 (Boys Like Girls, the Used)

Grab your remotes and program your DVRs — here’s the best of what’s coming on your TV this week: 9/8 – As Tall As Lions on The Daily Habit [FUEL] 9/8 – Boys Like Girls on Jimmy Kimmel [ABC] 9/8 – The Cure on Carson Daly [NBC; R] 9/9 – Brendan Benson on Jimmy...