| 12.20.06 | Motion City Soundtrack Make Limited Edition Christmas Shirt for Charity, All Proceeds to Go to Callum Robbins |
| Motion City Soundtrack have made a limited edition Christmas shirt for charity with all proceeds going to Callum Robbins, son of J. and Janet Robbins. Callum is approaching his first birthday and was recently diagnosed with Type 1 Spinal Muscular Atrophy. This is a brutal disease for which there is no cure. The SMA Type 1 infant never attains the ability to sit independently and less than 20% of these children survive 4 years, and then only with indwelling tracheostomy tubes, occupational therapy and life in a wheelchair. Virtually all die from respiratory complications.
J., Janet and Cal live with this reality every day and the path before them is extremely long and arduous, not to mention expensive and consuming. Allopathic (“conventional”) doctors, while energetically engaged in research into this condition, can offer no cure for Callum. There may be some hope even if only for a better quality of life in alternative routes and therapies. These, of course, are not covered by health insurance. Its an incredible obstacle for a household where the only wage-earner is a self-employed indie recording engineer with single-payer insurance. Callum’s father J. Robbins, a musician and producer, has been a huge influence on Motion City Soundtrack over the years. He has produced, engineered, and performed on some of their favorite records. In addition, he has fronted some of their favorite bands (Jawbox, Burning Airlines, and Channels – in which he shares vocal duties with Janet) and written some of their favorite songs. If you can, please grab a shirt or poster today and help Callum and the Robbins family deal with what will certainly be some large medical costs in the coming months and years, the band would greatly appreciate it. The shirts are printed on 100% cotton, American Apparel t-shirts. For more information please visit www.motioncitysoundtrack.com. There are links to read more about Spinal Muscular Atrophy and links to make donations.You can donate using PayPal or you can send checks. All of the info is there. |
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| 12.18.06 | PLAIN WHITE TS ANNOUNCE TOUR! |
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Hollywood breakout artists PLAIN WHITE TS are hitting the road in support of much-buzzed-about new album EVERY SECOND COUNTS. The tour, which features openers Boys Night out, Lovedrug and for the first three weeks Mayday Parade with Dear and the Headlights taking Maydays spot for the remainder of the dates, kicks off March 4th in Green Bay, WI. The band has also just been added to The Bamboozle Festival 2007 happening on May 5th & 6th in East Rutherford, NJ.
The Chicago-based quintet (Tom Higgenson, Dave Tirio, Mike Retondo, DeMar Hamilton and Tim Lopez) recently won mtvUs coveted Breaking Woodie, a Best Emerging Artist category in which they were nominated alongside the Arctic Monkeys, Chamillionaire, Imogen Heap and Lupe Fiasco. Hey There Delilah, the Chicago-based quintets hook-ridden hit was also nominated for the Streaming Woodie, a category honoring groups with the most downloads. The Plain White Ts recently wrapped the Nintendo Fusion Tour with Hawthorne Heights and also opened dates for Panic! at the Disco, including two nights at Madison Square Garden in NYC. The album is generating heavy buzz thanks to lead single Hate (I Really Dont Like You), which is garnering major airplay alongside its companion video, which is in heavy rotation on MTV, MTV2, mtvU and Fuse. The Ts were recently spotlighted on MTVs Discover & Download program and appeared on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. On December 22, the band will appear on Cartoon Networks Fridays. Catch the band live when they come to your town. |
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| 12.18.06 | HOT TOPIC PRESENTS THE 2007 SUB CITY TAKE ACTION TOUR – TICKETS ON SALE NOW! |
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December 18, 2006 Tickets for the 2007 Sub City Take Action! Tour, the celebrated nationwide, charity tour showcasing the premier talents in punk music and alternative music, went on sale the weekend of December 16 through Ticketmaster and Takeactiontour.com. The tour will kick off February 1, 2007, in Washington, DC and run for seven weeks in 40 states. The Take Action! Tour brings the issues of suicide and depression to the front page and benefits the Youth America Hotline! 1-877-YOUTHLINE (968-8454).
Headlining the sixth annual Take Action! Tour this year is The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, performing with Emery, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, A Static Lullaby and Kaddisfly. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus debut album, Dont You Fake It, has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album was released just 4 months ago and entered the Billboard Top 200 national album sales chart at #25, they currently have the #6 song in the country at Alternative Radio with “Face Down,” which tackles the tough topic of domestic violence. This years ticket pre-sale was the most successful in the tours history making it very important for fans to act quickly on the fast selling tickets. Take Action, founded by Hopeless & Sub City Records, aims to create a better world, one voice and one action at a time. By working with various non-profit organizations, Take Action strives to educate people about the positive difference that can be made by each of us in our community through activism and charitable work. Hopeless/Sub City Records founder Louis Posen talks about why the tour is important. Suicide kills 13 people every day between the ages of 12 and 24. We hope that together, we will be able to significantly lower that number by letting people know there are resources available and people who care. I can only imagine what wonderful things those 13 people per day could bring to the world if they only had the chance.” Hopeless & Sub City Records are happy to once again donate 10% of all 2007 Take Action! Tour ticket sales and 5% of the retail price for each Take Action! Volume 6 compilation CD sold to the Youth America Hotline! 1-877-YOUTHLINE (968-8454). The benefiting charity was founded by the Kristin Brooks Hope Center to help young people in crisis through peer-to-peer counseling and educating young people about mental health issues. Take Action raised over $100,000 last year for the Youth America Hotline! Since the start of the tour in 2001, Take Action! has raised over $350,000 for the Kristin Brooks Hope Center and the awareness built has helped increase government funding for suicide prevention from $0 to $16 million. Hot Topic, the music lifestyle mall retailer (hottopic.com), is once again the title sponsor of the tour. Hot Topic is a natural fit, as they demonstrate a passion for music in everything they do. Since the inception of Take Action in 1999, Hot Topic has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Take Action cause, helping to save countless lives and educate millions of people to make a difference. Additional 2007 Take Action! Tour sponsors include Purevolume.com, Music Choice, Etnies, Alternative Press Magazine, Chord Magazine, Fanscape, Punknews.org, Absolutepunk.net, Stim.tv, Downloadpunk.com, and Rockthestreet.com. The official Take Action! Tour website is: http://www.takeactiontour.com Record labels generously supporting the tour this year: Virgin Records, Tooth & Nail Records, Immortal Records, Fearless Records, & Hopeless Records. Scheduled Take Action! Tour dates (subject to change). |
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| 12.18.06 | GOOD MORNING REVIVAL! |
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For the upcoming single off their new album GOOD MORNING REVIVAL, now set for release March 20 on Epic/Daylight, rockers GOOD CHARLOTTE–JOEL MADDEN (vocals), BENJI MADDEN (guitar), BILLY MARTIN (guitar) and PAUL THOMAS (bass)–brought longtime friends and fellow musicians M. Shadows and Synyster Gates (of Avenged Sevenfold) into the mix to collaborate on the albums first single The River. Look for the song–an impassioned rocker about sin and redemption that traverses the dark side of Los Angeles–to arrive at radio in January.
The River, which marks the first time GOOD CHARLOTTE has officially collaborated with another artist on an album, seemed to be a natural fit for both bands. Weve been friends with Avenged for a longtime. This wasnt planned, but it ended up working out, JOEL explains. We were sitting around listening to some new music and they liked that song so we asked them to jump on. It felt right and sounded really cool. Aside from being friends of ours, were also fans of their music and since this is our first collaboration, we couldnt be happier that theyre a part of our record. M. Shadows, who provides some vocals on the song, explains, Were always down to try something new. Our new album will feature influences and collaborations with artists whose music is totally different than ours, so playing on The River seemed totally natural. The fact that we get to perform with our friends makes it that much cooler. How many friends get to do something like this? For the video, GOOD CHARLOTTE joined forces again with director Marc Webb (Good Charlottes Festival Song, A.F.I.s Love Like Winter, My Chemical Romances Helena) and shot on location in Los Angeles last week. The video–which includes an appearance from M. Shadows and Synyster Gates–features GOOD CHARLOTTE performing alongside the concrete L.A. river bank that runs through the city, contrasted with classic images of the beauty and history of Los Angeles. Although sonically different than their previous efforts, GOOD CHARLOTTE reunited with producer Don Gilmore for their fourth studio album GOOD MORNING REVIVAL. Gilmore also produced the bands self-titled debut in 2000, in addition to working with such acts as Pearl Jam, Linkin Park and Avril Lavigne. GOOD MORNING REVIVAL marks the follow-up to 2004s platinum-selling Chronicles Of Life And Death, which is part of a body of work that has resulted in worldwide album sales exceeding nine million copies. Look for GOOD CHARLOTTE to launch a world tour after the albums release. For the latest news on the band, check out www.goodcharlotte.com and www.myspace.com/goodcharlotte. Avenged Sevenfolds City of Evil was one of this years most acclaimed albums, described by Kerrang! as “technically dazzling and fiendishly inventive and wholly distinct from everything else (KKKKK). With sales of over a million worldwide, Avenged Sevenfold was named MTVs Best New Artist at the 2006 Video Music Awards. The band is currently in the studio working on their highly anticipated follow-up to City of Evil, due out mid 2007. |
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| 12.13.06 | THE GRADUATE NUMBER ONE MOST ADDED AT COLLEGE RADIO! |
| The Graduate dominated the last add week of CMJ for 2006 as the band’s EP Horror Show came in as the #1 Most Added record at college radio this week with 167 adds in total!
The Springfield, IL 5-piece will release their highly-anticipated Icon MES Records debut Anhedonia on April 10th, 2007 and will be announcing a full-scale US tour shortly. |
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| 12.13.06 | UNTIL JUNE! |
| Until June will be performing an acoustic set on DJ Rossstar’s Punk Rock Show tonight at 7pm-8pm pst.
Tune in live, worldwide at www.idobi.com/radio and send in questions during the show to the screen name: Idobistar. Until June’s self-titled debut is out March 20th on Flicker Records/Sony BMG. |
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| 12.11.06 | CATCH, CATCH 22! |
| The week between Christmas and New Years is usually the break week, spent shopping and catching your breath in preparation for the new year. One band that wont be taking any kind of break is Victory Records acclaimed ska band CATCH 22, who will be skanking it up big-time at a handful of concerts in the Northeast.
Five shows have been scheduled, starting the day after Christmas in Towson, MD, and finishing up just five days later in Boston. Its guaranteed that these Jersey natives turn each show into an over-the-top ska party, playing plenty of cuts from their latest album, Permanent Revolution. Supporting them will be a bevy of groups, including Whole Wheat Bread, Patent Pending and Bomb The Music Industry. For fans of high-energy ska music, theres no better way to send off the old year and kick in the new than by enjoying the spectacle that is CATCH 22 at any of the following shows: December 26, 2006 – Towson, MD @ Recher Theatre |
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| 12.11.06 | CIRCA SURVIVE |
| Circa Survive have created a blog on their website where they’ll be documenting the writing process of their upcoming album.
The band will be entering Salad Days Studios in Baltimore, MD once again with producer Brian McTernan to record their sophomore album. Expect the upcoming release to be in stores this spring. |
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| 12.11.06 | TAKEACTIONTOUR.COM! |
| Pre-sale tickets for the 2007 Take Action! Tour are on sale now at Takeactiontour.com. The online pre-sale, which begins today, offers fans early access to tickets as well as the lowest possible prices. These shows will sell out so fans are encouraged to get tickets now. This online pre-sale is for a limited time and will end on December 16th when hard tickets go on sale.
The nationwide, charity tour kicks off February 1, 2007, in Washington, DC and runs for seven weeks crisscrossing the country, appearing in 40 states. The charity tour brings the issues of suicide and depression to the front page and benefits the Youth America Hotline! 1-877-YOUTHLINE (968-8454). Headlining the sixth annual Take Action! Tour this year is The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, performing with Emery, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, A Static Lullaby and Kaddisfly. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus debut album, Dont You Fake It, has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album was released just 4 months ago and entered the Billboard Top 200 national album sales chart at #25, they currently have the #6 song in the country at Alternative Radio with “Face Down,” which tackles the tough topic of domestic violence. Take Action, founded by Hopeless & Sub City Records, aims to create a better world, one voice and one action at a time. By working with various non-profit organizations, Take Action strives to educate people about the positive difference that can be made by each of us in our community through activism and charitable work. Hopeless/Sub City Records founder Louis Posen talks about why the tour is important. Suicide kills 13 people every day between the ages of 12 and 24. We hope that together, we will be able to significantly lower that number by letting people know there are resources available and people who care. I can only imagine what wonderful things those 13 people per day could bring to the world if they only had the chance. Hopeless & Sub City Records are happy to once again donate 10% of all 2007 Take Action! Tour ticket sales and 5% of the retail price for each Take Action! Volume 6 compilation CD sold to the Youth America Hotline! 1-877-YOUTHLINE (968-8454). The benefiting charity was founded by the Kristin Brooks Hope Center to help young people in crisis through peer-to-peer counseling and educating young people about mental health issues. Take Action raised over $100,000 last year for the Youth America Hotline! Since the start of the tour in 2001, Take Action! has raised over $350,000 for the Kristin Brooks Hope Center and the awareness built has helped increase government funding for suicide prevention from $0 to $16 million. Hot Topic, the music lifestyle mall retailer (hottopic.com), is once again the title sponsor of the tour. Hot Topic is a natural fit, as they demonstrate a passion for music in everything they do. Since the inception of Take Action in 1999, Hot Topic has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Take Action cause, helping to save countless lives and educate millions of people to make a difference. Additional 2007 Take Action! Tour sponsors include Purevolume.com, Etnies, Alternative Press Magazine, Chord Magazine, Fanscape, Punknews.org, Absolutepunk.net, Stim.TV, Downloadpunk.com, and Rockthestreet.com. The official Take Action! Tour website is: http://www.takeactiontour.com. Record labels generously supporting the tour this year: Virgin Records, Tooth & Nail Records, Immortal Records, Fearless Records, Hopeless Records Scheduled Take Action! Tour dates (subject to change). Note: Some dates have changed: |
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| 12.07.06 | Sirens! |
| New interview posted with It Dies Today! – Alexa [04.06am] |
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| 12.07.06 | Sevendust Sign To Asylum Records! |
| NEW YORK, December 6, 2006- Recording artist Sevendust and their wholly owned record label, 7Bros. Records, today announced a partnership with Asylum Records, part of Warner Music Group’s (WMG) Independent Label Group. Asylum Records is distributed by WEA Corp., WMG’s U.S. sales and marketing company.
The first project together will be Sevendust’s sixth full-length album, Alpha, due in stores, March 6, 2007. To coincide with the release the lead track “Deathstar,” has been made available via stream at http://www.sevendust.info Sevendust will also embark on a 57-date headlining run beginning February 8, 2007 though April 28, 2007. Holiday tour dates previously announced are as follows: Wed 12/27 Norfolk, VA The Norva |
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| 12.07.06 | THE ALMOST ANNOUNCE DECEMBER DATES AND JANUARY U.S. HEADLINING TOUR! |
| The brainchild of Underoath drummer/vocalist AARON GILLESPIE–who sings and plays virtually every note on his forthcoming solo debut–THE ALMOST will hit the road for sporadic dates in December. First up is an Anaheim, CA show December 17 at Chain Reaction with A Thorn For Every Heart. Next up, the group will join The Starting Line and Max Bemis of Say Anything (who will perform acoustic) for a special gig December 28 at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, PA. Look for all three bands to collaborate onstage during the aforementioned Philadelphia show. Then beginning January 2 in Richmond, VA THE ALMOST will launch a month-long headlining U.S. tour with Forgive Durden and Classic Case supporting. Stay tuned for an official announcement for THE ALMOSTs forthcoming debut album, due out early Spring 2007.
In other news, THE ALMOST debuted three songs this week on PureVolume.com–where theyre already the #1 band this week–and MySpace, totaling over 100,000 plays in five days (10,000 alone in one day). On the road, AARON leads THE ALMOST on vocals and guitar and is joined by: Jay Vilardi (guitar), Nick DAmico (guitar), Alex Aponte (bass) and Kenny Bozich (drums). Look for the group to tour all year, whenever Underoath is off the road. I can’t believe that this thing is real, its all happening,” notes AARON. To hear and see THE ALMOST, visit: www.purevolume.com/thealmost and www.myspace.com/thealmost. Catch THE ALMOST live in the following cities below, with more dates to be announced: Headlining tour with Forgive Durden and Classic Case supporting |
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| 12.05.06 | WINTER WONDERLAND! |
| Updated For December! Very few album releases this month. Also Estrella’s own Kaitlin turned 18 recently! – Alexa [03.08am] |
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