Avenged Sevenfold drummer found dead in home
Details are still unfolding, but we have received word that Avenged Sevenfold drummer James Owen Sullivan, better known as "The Rev," was found dead in his Huntington Beach, California, home this morning. According to the OC Register, Sullivan’s body was discovered by firefighters who were called to his house around 1 p.m. local time on...
The Felix Culpa post four new songs
Progressive post-hardcore quartet the Felix Culpa have posted online four new songs from their sophomore album, Sever Your Roots, which the band will be self-releasing on Jan. 23, 2010. You can stream the songs–"Our Holy Ghosts," "Mutiny," "Because This Is How We Speak" and "An Instrument"–on their MySpace page.
In related news, the band...
Dashboard Confessional/New Found Glory split cover art revealed
Cover art has been unveiled for the split EP featuring Dashboard Confessional and New Found Glory covering each other's songs. The Swiss-Army Bromance split was intended to be released during the tour scheduled with both bands that was canceled. Check out the cover art below. Pick up New Found Glory skins for all of your...
The Impact of Social Networking on Bands
STORY: Brett Callwood Earlier this month, all of Facebook’s 350 million (and growing) subscribers who logged into their account began seeing changes to the site’s privacy settings. With more of our personal information more easily available to anyone, it would seem that the social networking site is keen to putting our personal details and photos...
Shiny Toy Guns
Shiny Toy Guns Girls Le Disko [2/5]
In order for a remix album to work on anything other than a crate-digging beathead or hedonist dancefloor-prompt level the songs you’re working with have to have enough going on internally to withstand the barrage of editing, condensing, rearranging and recontextualizing that efforts like this entail. For...