Nicole Rork

Thanks to WARCON Enterprises, Christmas is coming early this year — the label is releasing Taste Of Christmas, its (sorta) Taste Of Chaos-themed holiday compilation. The 18-track beast features new songs from the likes of the Used, From First To Last, Emery, Plain White T‘s, Gatsbys American Dream and more. Taste Of Christmas will be […]

Victory Records band Spitalfield will be on the road from the beginning of November through Christmas. First up, the band are doing a two-week headlining run alongside the City On Film, Down To Earth Approach, Somerset and labelmates theAUDITION. Following that, the band will head out on a co-headlining tour with fellow Chicagoans Plain White […]

A Static Lullaby have announced their tour plans for the rest of the year. Following a pair of one-off shows in California and Mexico, the band will spend a good chunk of November with Haste The Day, Halifax, Scary Kids Scaring Kids and BEDlight For BlueEYES. The second leg of their tour is in December, […]

Chicago will be decimated the weekend of Nov. 4-5 due to Riot Fest 2005. The fest promises "Chicago‘s largest punk festival ever" and says that it will "feature the best national punk acts, while simultaneously displaying what Chicago Punk Rock has to offer." Old-school headliners include Dead Kennedys, Misfits, the Germs and the Dickies, and […]

On Oct. 24, the 10th anniversary of Return Of The Rentals, Moog-pop group the Rentals, featuring former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp, announced their reformation. The Los Angeles-based group–who, at one time, contained current Saturday Night Live cast member Maya Rudolph–are hard at work on their third album, the follow-up to 1999‘s Seven More Minutes. No […]

SideOneDummy act Piebald are just about to take to the road on their co-headlining tour with Hot Rod Circuit (beginning tonight in Rochester, NY), but in an effort to help the environment (and lighten the load on their credit cards), the band have converted their 12-person van into a well-oiled machine: It now runs on […]

John McKay, editor of Stand Up Jack zine, got wasted and decided to sell his autographed wallet on eBay. Featured are autographs of the Get Up Kids (Matt Pryor), Reggie and the Full Effect (James Dewees), The Movielife (Vinnie Caruana)The Starting Line (Kenny Vasoli), Moneen (Kenny Bridges) and several others. He‘s really broke right now […]

In celebration of Beastie Boys‘ 24th anniversary, Capitol Records has decided to pay tribute to their second (or third) best band ever: Michael "Mike D" Diamond, Adam "Adrock" Horovitz and Adam "MCA" Yauch-known collectively as Beastie Boys-will be lionized Nov. 8 with the release of Solid Gold Hits. (And before you ask, no, the group […]

Over-the-top arena rockers the Darkness have released "One Way Ticket," the first single from their new album, One Way Ticket To Hell…And Back. And, yeah, it sounds pretty much exactly what you were expecting it to sound like, but just in case you‘re still curious, you can check the single out right here in either […]