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WARCON Enterprises has posted online the music video for “Happy Christmas (War Is Over),” the cover of the John Lennon classic by Bert McCracken of the Used and Street Drum Corps. The song is taken from the recently released Taste Of Christmas compilation, the tracklisting of which can be found here. Besides the above collaboration, […]

Hopeless Records has announced the signing of Los Angeles-based technical progressive metal band the Human Abstract. The five-piece band will record their Hopeless debut in February 2006, followed by extensive touring. As of right now, the band have a handful of shows around California left in 2005; you can find dates below: 11/15/05 Hogue […]

Yellowcard have confirmed what has been speculated since August: Guitarist Ben Harper is out of the band. A statement released yesterday says that "Ben Harper, lead guitarist of Yellowcard, has announced that he’s moving on to focus on developing his indie label, Takeover Records, and related production projects." Harper himself commented in the statement, […]

Astro Magnetics, the label co-owned by Eyeball Records founder Alex Saavedra, Eyeball label manager Marc Debiak and Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly, has announced the signing of Cleveland post-hardcore/rock quartet the Lovekill. Astro describes the band as "sick as hell," and says that their full-length debut, These Moments Are Momentum, produced by Stephen Pedersen (Criteria, Cursive), […]

LaSalle Records band the Kinison have decided to call it quits. Frontman Christopher Lewis posted a length letter on the band's Geocities site, an excerpt from which is below: "[After this year's Warped Tour], I moved about an hour away from the rest of the band. I had to try to clear my head. […]

Hot on the heels of releasing their debut full-length, Sleepwalker, the dynamic duo of Jamison Covington and Parker Case, known together as JamisonParker, have split. Covington's statement, posted on the group's website: "the band is officially broken up. i apologize for not posting this sooner but in all honesty this is the first chance […]

We've all heard the rumors: Supposedly, the Clash are reuniting under the guidance of Mick Jones, and filling in for the late, great Joe Strummer will be none other than Mr. Hellcat himself, Rancid/Transplants mastermind Tim Armstrong. While having never been reported by any credible news source, this rumor has continued to slowly creep across […]

THICK Records has announced the newest signing to their stable: Atlanta experimental new-wave quartet Shock Cinema. The band contains ex-members of the Agenda and You Are Jaguar, and will release their debut EP, Amor Y Muerte — complete with remixes from Death From Above 1979, Subtitle, Thunderbirds Are Now!, President (Harris from Q And Not […]

11/7-11/11 – Bloodhound Gang, Paramore, the Perishers [videos] on Oven Fresh [FUSE] 11/8 – Simple Plan, Stellastarr* on Daily Download [FUSE] 11/9 – Neil Diamond on the View [ABC] 11/9 – Switchfoot on Jimmy Kimmel [ABC] 11/9 – My Morning Jacket on Craig Ferguson [CBS] 11/9 – Patti Smith on Conan O'Brien [NBC] 11/9 – […]

Equal Vision band Codeseven have announced that they will be going on "indefinite hiatus" effective immediately. A lengthy statement from the band can be found at Equal Vision's website, a portion of which can be read below: "Codeseven has collectivly decided to go on indefinite hiatus. The band is not breaking up but have […]

The Mars Volta. Awesome, right? Right. As we announced a few weeks ago, the band are releasing a full-length live album, titled scabdates (don't forget the all-important lowercase "s"!), tomorrow, Nov. 8. At the time, we only had some individual-song audio streams for you to check out, but we pulled a few strings and have […]

Tragic news from over the weekend: Punknews.org is reporting that Mana “China” Nishiura, drummer of Japanese noise band DMBQ and of cult indie faves Shonen Knife , died on Friday , Nov. 4, due to a three-car accident involving DMBQ's van. The band were on their way to the Brooklyn, New York, stop of their […]

Halloween brings out the strangest in folks. Just ask anyone living in or around Sayreville, New Jersey, who happened to attend the Halloween date of the current Thrice/Underoath tour. While many bands across the nation may have donned a variety of costumes, this sextet took things to a new level, dressing up (along with their […]

Combat Records thrashers At All Cost have posted the first video off their new album, It's Time To Decide. The song is called "Death To Distraction," and can the video can be viewed in either Real Video (lo/hi), Windows Media (lo/hi) or QuickTime.

Taking Back Sunday are currently hard at work on their major-label debut with producer Eric Valentine (Queens Of The Stone Age, Good Charlotte) at Barefoot Studios in Hollywood, with the currently untitled disc tentatively due in late Spring 2006. Adam Lazzara & Co. will be posting a series of in-studio "home movies" of sorts, documenting […]

Drive-Thru Records has announced the impending release of Hellogoodbye's OMG HGB DVD ROTFL DVD. The DVD will contain five music videos (one for each song off the band's self-titled 2004 debut EP), live footage from their sold-out performance at the House Of Blues in Anaheim, acoustic performances, tour documentary, making of the videos and behind-the-scenes […]

Pitchfork is reporting that legendary Los Angeles punks X are heading out on their first U.S. tour in years this December. The band — Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom and D.J. Bonebrake — will have a one-off show in Long Beach tomorrow night before packing up their bags and heading to the eastern timezone […]

On Oct. 25, Tooth & Nail Records released Happy Christmas Volume 4, the newest in their series of holiday-themed compilations — and just in time for Halloween, to boot! If this release slipped under your radar for the past few weeks, now's your chance to check it out by viewing the e-card created for its […]

The Early November stopped by the AP offices yesterday, Nov. 2, to play a handful of new songs from their forthcoming triple-disc set, set for release next year on Drive-Thru. While we only heard versions of four songs (“Decoration,” “Best Song,” “Single” and “Hair”) the band have been road-testing on their recent tour with Saves […]

Well, sort of: AP has confirmed that, as the rumor mill has been hinting, The Starting Line are officially off Geffen Records and have been meeting with various record labels to negotiate a new deal. The band hope to have the follow-up to this year's Based On A True Story in stores by spring 2006. […]