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Early this morning, John "Beatz" Holohan, drummer of Victory Records act Bayside, was killed when his band‘s van hit a patch of ice and flipped outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was 31. The band was en route to tonight‘s stop of the Never Sleep Again tour featuring labelmates Hawthorne Heights, Silverstein and Aiden. A statement […]

10/31-11/4 – Armor For Sleep, Dandy Warhols, Green Day, Morningwood, Spoon, Straylight Run, System Of A Down (videos) on Oven Fresh [FUSE] 10/31 – Copeland on Steven‘s Untitled Rock Show [FUSE] 10/31 – Midtown on Daily Download [FUSE] 10/31 – Fiona Apple on David Letterman [CBS; R] 10/31 – Franz Ferdinand on Craig Kilborn [CBS] […]

Bad news for Vaux fans: The band have parted ways with Atlantic/Lava Records, and thus, their new album, Beyond Virtue, Beyond Vice, has been put into release limbo. A statement from the band reads as follows: “VAUX has parted ways with Atlantic/Lava Records. Currently we are in the midst of the “separation process” with the […]

Flower15 has had a few last-minuteish lineup changes. First, the good news: Underoath have been added to the final day as headliners. Rock! Now, the bad news: Hopesfall have unfortunately had to cancel their appearance on the opening night‘s festivities. Luckily, hometown heroes Russian Circles have filled the void, thus keeping the bill of rock […]

The Dillinger Escape Plan are preparing once more to show North America (that includes you, too, Canada) just what good music is supposed to sound like. Along for the ride are Between The Buried And Me, HORSE The Band and the Flashbulb, with Hella (11/6-27) and the Bronx (11/29-12/10). Shit‘s gonna be good. Dates: Nov. […]

This November, Trustkill artists It Dies Today are bringing the rock all over the U.S., with labelmates Bullet For My Valentine, as well as Sinai Beach and Still Remains. For those who like to mark noteworthy events, this is BFMV‘s first U.S. tour — they hail from the U.K. (where they‘re quite big, as this […]

Avenged Sevenfold have released a 20-minute video titled The Making of ‘Bat Country.‘ Included are never-before-seen moments with the band highlighting the creation of their infamous “Bat Country” music video, which is currently all over your favorite music-video network of choice and is taken from their Warner Bros. debut, City Of Evil. Microwave some popcorn, […]

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 […]

After wrapping their tour with Thrice in a few weeks, Vagrant Records band the Bled are getting their passports renewed for their European tour departing this November (on Thanksgiving, no less) and returning in mid-December, after laying waste to everywhere from Paris to Milan. Swanky! Accompanying them on all dates are the Equal Vision duo […]

Punk-rock lifers Pennywise are packing their bags for a few weeks‘ worth of shows starting at the end of this month in support of their latest Epitaph-released full-length The Fuse. The band will first play two Halloween shows in their hometown of Long Beach before doing strings of shows with both Bad Religion and Sick […]

In celebration of their ongoing farewell tour, old-school (at least for Drive-Thru Records) pop-punks Fenix TX are releasing a live album titled Purple Reign In Blood-Live via Adrenaline Music/New Planet Ventures. The disc, out Nov. 8, contains the band‘s comeback performance in from August 19 at The Club House in Tempe, Arizona, and is enhanced […]