You Me At Six drop off San Diego, Tucson, Phoenix Fall Ball stops
Due to frontman Josh Franceschi coming down bronchitis, You Me At Six have been forced to temporarily drop off the AP Fall Ball. The affected dates include Oct. 16 in San Diego, Oct. 17 in Tucson and Oct. 18 in Phoenix. The band will rejoin the tour beginning with the Oct. 20 show in San...
Altpress Exclusive: Check out cover art for the new Rocket Summer EP!
Altpress.com is proud to unveil the cover art for the Rocket Summer‘s upcoming EP, You Gotta Believe. It’s the first official release from the band since 2007’s Do You Feel. The new, four-song EP will be released Oct. 27, but we’ll have a special surprise for you tomorrow… In the meantime, check out the EP...
Cursive announce headlining dates
Cursive have revealed dates for a run of headlining dates starting in late November and ending on Dec. 13 at Lash’s 6th Annual Toy Drive at the Waiting Room in the band’s hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. The band will be in support of their most recent full-length, Mama, I’m Swollen.
Dates are as follows:
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Hawthorne Heights talk about upcoming album, reveal tour dates
Hawthorne Heights have announced that their upcoming full-length, Skeletons, will be released early next year and that the band will play songs from the release during their fall tour. Frontman JT Woodruff had this to say about Skeletons: "This album sounds like us, but we were able to grow our sound. We took it down...
Chris Walla and J. Robbins collaborate on a song for NPR
Death Cab For Cutie guitarist and uber-producer Chris Walla recently teamed up with Jawbox/Burning Airlines/Channels frontman and uber-producer J. Robbins to write and record a song in two days for NPR‘s Project Song Challenge. The pair had never met before they walked into the studio to work on the song, "Mercury." You can watch videos...
New Winds Of Plague keyboardist announced
Seems like only yesterday we were bringing you news that Winds Of Plague keyboardist Kristen Randall had left the band. Well, it actually was yesterday. But today, the band have announced who will be replacing her: ex-Kittie guitarist Lisa Marx. Marx will join the band for their fall tour kicking off Nov. 20.
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Rivers Cuomo to write with Katy Perry
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo revealed in an interview that he will be working with Katy Perry in the near future. Although it’s unclear what exactly the duo will be collaborating on, it’s possible that it might be for Perry’s upcoming follow-up to One Of The Boys. Cuomo has been in a cooperative mood these days:...
Guest Blog: August Burns Red
August Burns Red frontman Jacob Luhrs checks in from the road for the third installment of his exclusive guest blog. In this entry, Luhrs provides photos from tour.
Sometimes ya get a little lonely. Keith Buckley from Every Time I Die and me.
Really?? Seriously???? Look like a hedge hog.
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Queens Club
Queens Club Nightmarer [2/5]
What we have here is a failure to communicate–between the right and left side of Queens Club’s brain. The band, featuring two ex-members of noisecore champions the Chariot, deliver three emo-rock songs that are on the better side of decent. But then they kick into another trio of tossed-off electro-dance...