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Motion City Soundtrack will be returning to Epitaph Records for their next LP, which is tentatively due out in June. Check out the tweet below:   We are very excited to announce that we are teaming up with our good friends @EpitaphRecs on the release of our new LP #SXSW — MotionCitySoundtrack (@MotionCityMusic) March 12, […]

Motion City Soundtrack, the Company We Keep, A Great Big Pile Of Leaves and several others will be performing at the Making Moves SXSW showcase, scheduled for Mar. 14 at Clive Bar in Austin, Texas. Check out the flyer below.

The Company We Keep (feat. Justin Pierre of Motion City Soundtrack) will be releasing a new 7-inch on Apr. 24 via Drexel University's MAD Dragon Records (MDR) and MCS' own label, The Boombox Generation. Check out the cover art and the band's upcoming tour dates below. More info is here. 3/8         The Loving Touch                                           Ferndale, MI 3/10       […]

Motion City Soundtrack performed live at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota last November. You can check out some high-quality footage from the show–in which the band perform “Better Open The Door,” “Last Night” and “Everything Is Alright”–below. The band is wrapping up work on their fifth album, with a summer 2012 release […]

You can listen to a clip from a new Motion City Soundtrack song in the studio footage below. The band's fifth album is expected out earlier this year.

Farewell Continental has unveiled a new video for “The Greatest Of All Time (How You Feelin' Now?),” a track from their 2011 full-length ¡Hey, Hey Pioneers!. Check it out below. The band will be opening for the Jealous Sound on five dates of that band's upcoming tour.

You think it’s hard to write an original song? Try finding a cover song that hasn’t been done before—it’s harder than you think. That’s why we bring you Under The Covers: Each week, we’ll pit two bands who have covered the same source material against one another, and it’s up to you to decide who comes out on […]

Motion City Soundtrack have finished recording their new full-length, according to the tweet below. There seems to be some confusion. We're not recording a new album, BECAUSE THAT'S ALREADY DONE! We're recording a 7″ for yet ANOTHER release — MotionCitySoundtrack (@MotionCityMusic) January 6, 2012 An announcement regarding album details is forthcoming. MCS last released My […]

Farewell Continental (featuring Motion City Soundtrack frontman Justin Pierre) have announced that they will be playing select dates of the Jealous Sound's upcoming U.S. tour in support of their new album, A Gentle Reminder. FC will support TJS for five shows from Feb. 15 to Feb. 19. Revised dates below: Feb 3 – San Diego, CA […]

Check out the new video from North Carolina's I Was Totally Destroying It. The band's forthcoming album was produced by Motion City Soundtrack's Josh Cain.

Check out an exclusive stream of Koo Koo Kanga Roo's song “Ninja Training,” featuring Justin Pierre of Motion City Soundtrack. The song is from the band's self-released EP, Midnight Slushie, out Sept. 13.

Jack's Mannequin have revealed official dates for “The People And Things Tour” kicking off on October 6. Joining Jack's Mannequin on select dates will be Motion City Soundtrack, Company Of Thieves, the Academy Is…, and Lady Danville. Pre-sale tickets are available here. The dates are as follows: Oct 6 – Hartford, CT – Mortensen Hall […]

(Photo by Lindsey Byrnes) Last week, Motion City Soundtrack revealed they were going to be doing two shows in seven different cities later this year: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Detroit. During these two-night stands, the band will be playing all four of their studio albums—2002’s I Am The Movie, […]

Motion City Soundtrack will be playing four of their albums over the course of two nights in each of the following cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Detroit. The chosen albums and dates have not been announced yet.

(Photo: Joe Lemke) Check out this exclusive stream of “Capybara” from Farewell Continental's new album, ¡Hey, Hey Pioneers!, out May 10 on Paper + Plastick. Frontman Justin Pierre explains the song: “Tommy went on an expedition to South America in the late '90's to study the Capybara in their natural habitat.  For years afterward we'd […]

You've seen our overall list of 10 Essential Albums of 2010, but how did our editors vote? Check out our ballots and let us know your own Top 10!     JASON PETTIGREW, EDITOR IN CHIEF Hot Hot Heat’s Future Breeds (DANGERBIRD) Grinderman’s Grinderman 2 (ANTI-) Motion City Soundtrack’s My Dinosaur Life (COLUMBIA) The Dillinger […]

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