The Ready Set sign, stream new song
The Ready Set have signed with Decaydance Records and Sire Records in a joint venture between the two labels. He is currently in the studio recording for his debut full-length set to be released spring 2010. In celebration of the occassion, the Ready Set are streaming a new Christmas song entitled, "Blizzard of ’89" here....
Members of Fall Out Boy and Every Time I Die form metal band
According to reports, members of Fall Out Boy, Every Time I Die and Anthrax have teamed up to form the metal side-project, the Damned Things. The band is said to include Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman and drummer Andy Hurley; Every Time I Die vocalist Keith Buckley and Anthrax guitarists Scott Ian and Rob...
Front Row Center: Pablove Benefit Concert
In AP 258, our Op-Ed is with Dangerbird Records co-gounder Jeff Castelaz, who tragically lost his 6-year-old son, Pablo, to cancer this past summer. To raise awareness and to honor the memory of Pablo, Castelaz embarked on a cross-country bike ride that ended with a benefit acoustic concert this past weekend at the Avalon in...
Lights releases remix EP with help from Tim Armstrong and more
Synth-pop darling Lights just released a remix EP called Ice Pack. The EP features six versions of the song "Ice," from Lights’ debut full-length, The Listening. The EP is available exclusively on her website.
The EP features remixes by Tim Armstrong (Rancid), Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails), rapper K-OS and more. Lights will be...
AFI to take Ceremony on January tour dates
Bay area hardcore outfit Ceremony will join AFI for 11 dates in January. You may recall that AFI frontman Davey Havok jumped onstage with the band late last year to perform "Straight Edge Revenge" at 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley, California. Tour dates–and video of that show–below.
1/15 Petaluma, CA @ Phoenix Theatre
1/16...
From The Editor's Floor: My Chemical Romance
HOMELAND INSECURITY: THE DAY MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE’S FRANK IERO MET THE MEN IN BLACK MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE are putting the final touches to their follow-up of 2007’s majestic The Black Parade. During a break in the studio, guitarist FRANK IERO recalls some of the great highs and lows he experienced during their break. Some of...
Animal Collective
Animal Collective Fall Be Kind EP Following Animal Collective's bizarro evolution from acoustic to electric to samplers, the band made lots more mainstream friends with the pop-pillaging synthesizer masterstroke Merriweather Post Pavilion earlier this year. Far from the emperor with no summertime clothes, the five songs on Fall Be Kind–a mixture of holdovers from the...
Weekly Readers Chart
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL Alter The Ending (INTERSCOPE) “Chris Carrabba is a god of music (and sexiness).” DANIELLE GROSS, Manalapan, NJ CONSECUTIVE WEEKS ON CHART: 1 FROM LAST WEEK: — THE SECRET HANDSHAKE My Name Up In Lights (TRIPLE CROWN) “The music isn’t just ‘feel-good.’ It just is good.” anonymous CONSECUTIVE WEEKS ON CHART: 1 FROM...