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Good Charlotte, the Used,
the Faint, Goldfinger and the
Desaparecidos are donating tracks to People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals for its new compilation album, Liberation:
Songs to Benefit PETA. The LP, produced by Fat Mike of NOFX
for his label Fat Wreck Chords, hits stores this summer.
The Raveonettes will release their
first full-length album, Chain Gang of Love, on August
12. The disc will follow up the band's debut EP, Whip It On. The new Thrice album, The Artist in the Ambulance, will be in stores on July 22. Pennywise’s new album will be hitting stores in August Poison The Well’s new album You Come Before You will be in stores everywhere July 1st, on Velvet Hammer Music/ Atlantic Records. The International Noise Conspiracy are featured on a mix CD by DJ Spooky that comes with the new issue of Adbusters Magazine. The band is currently in Sweden rehearsing and writing songs. They are aiming to record this summer The new Saves The Day album In Reverie is completed and will be out in September. From fearlessrecords.com: “We have had many
problems with the Punk Goes Acoustic compilation. A certain
record label has made it very difficult for us to release this comp
as is so a couple of bands have been removed including Thursday,
Taking Back Sunday, Glasseater, and Grade. The comp. will be out
in June.” Long-running Christian metal band Living Sacrifice, whose guitarist, Rocky Gray, has recently been drumming for Evanescence, have announced plans to disband following their next few scheduled performances, including a July 5 appearance at the Cornerstone Festival in Bushnell, Illinois. As a result of high demand, Tribunal Records will be re-releasing Prayer For Cleansing's The Rain In Endless Fall album later this year. Engineer Jamie King is currently remixing the effort, which will feature a new layout as well. Eulogy Records signed three new bands including Age of Ruin, Albert React from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Calexico System from St. Louis Missouri. All the bands are forking hard of material for full-lengths and EPs. The Crown recently headed back into the studio to record a new album. Vocalist Johan Lindstrand is now back with the band. Trevor from Unearth recently released some information regarding their summer tour plans, which no longer includes dates in Europe. He said, “We are pleased to announce that we are touring this summer with one of our all time favorite bands, In Flames. Also joining the fun will be the metal Gods in Soilwork and one of RoadrunnerRecords heaviest bands, Chimaira. The tour will see dates in the U.S. and Canada and run from June 26th through July 21st.” In Flames will kick off their next North American tour June 26 in Toronto. In July, In Flames will drop Trigger, featuring remixes, the video for "Cloud Connected," a new song called "Watch Them Feed" and a cover of the socially conscious '80s Genesis hit "Land of Confusion." The Early November have just released a song called ''Make Believe'' (which is a demo from a couple years back) on www.mp3.com/theearlynovember. This song will not be on the new album and will not be released anywhere except on mp3.com. Jane's Addiction have changed the name of their upcoming album from Hypersonic to Strays. The album drops July 22 on the band's new label, Capitol. Matador Records is set to release a comprehensive Belle & Sebastian DVD, tentatively scheduled to hit the streets, and retailers' shelves, on June 17th. The as-yet-untitled digital video disc is said to be the "definitive visual collection" of the band's work. It will include all of their promotional videos with previously unseen footage, two short films that detail the B&S story, interviews, television appearances, live footage, a comprehensive discography that samples each B&S track, and "additional sequences.” Noel Redding, the bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, died Sunday May 11 at his home in Ireland of unknown causes. He was 57. Redding joined the Experience in 1966 and recorded three albums with the band before leaving in 1969. He subsequently formed various groups including Fat Mattress, Road and the Noel Redding Band. The Used will release three unreleased studio recordings, "Untitled Song Idea," "Just a Little," and "Alone This Holiday," along with demo versions of "Bulimic" and "Poetic Tragedy" in a CD/DVD package due July 17. The video portion of Maybe Memories will include concert footage from a recent Los Angeles show. According to GBV.com, the rockers from Dayton, Ohio, Guided by Voices, have finished up Earthquake Glue, which is set to be released on Matador Records on August 19th. The record will contain fifteen tracks, fourteen of which were recorded in the hometown of flight with Todd Tobias. GBV handled the production duties themselves. Their website reports that Pollard and crew dropped by Steve Albini's Chicago-based Electrical Audio studio back in April to record a fifteenth track titled "My Kind of Soldier,” which will be the first single off the album. Seminal punk band the Buzzcocks are hitting the road to support their self-titled album, which dropped March 18. The trek kicks off May 29 in New Orleans and runs through June 20 in Chicago. A brief stint opening for Pearl Jam (June 21-July 9) immediately follows. Mates of State are set to begin recording their follow up to 2002's Our Constant Concern, on May 31st. John Croslin and Spoon drummer Jim Enon will be behind the boards. The album is being recorded at Willie Nelson's Pedernales Studio in the Texas hill country, outside Austin. Death Cab For Cutie is just finishing up their new album, which will be released by Barsuk this October. Azure Ray heads into the studio next week to work on their next full-length album. Eric Bachmann (Crooked Fingers, Archers of Loaf), Andy LeMaster (Now It's Overhead), and Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Presto! Recording) will all be working on the record with Orenda and Maria. Saddle Creek will be releasing the record sometime in late September/early October of 2003. Triple Crown Records has signed Outsmarting Simon from New Brunswick, NJ. Their debut album Silent, Sober And Sound will be re-released on Triple Crown in July. They have a few shows coming up and are planning a larger tour this summer. Liz Phair will promote her self-titled fourth album, due June 24, on a summer tour with the Flaming Lips. Phair will play solo and acoustic on the trek, which begins May 23 in Portland, Oregon, and ends June 6 in Denver. Coldplay, Björk, Zwan and Iggy Pop are a handful of artists that will play this year's Fuji Rock Festival, one of the most popular multi-day concerts in Japan. The event will take place July 25 to 27 in Naeba at the Naeba Ski Resort and will also feature Elvis Costello, the Minutemen, Goldfrapp, Ben Harper, Macy Gray, Death in Vegas, Bob Weir & Ratdog, Mogwai and others. Catch 22 recorded four new songs in the basement with Lord Mingus working the controls. The new record will be recorded in June and in stores by October. Look for them headline a “SKA" Package tour to follow the release of the new album. Canadian metal band, The End, are currently finishing up material for their next full-length, which will hit streets later this year via Relapse Records. According to the band, the new material could be considered "darker and heavier" than their previous album. The band will enter the studio in late-Spring to begin recording. Cattle Decapitation have parted ways with drummer Dave Astor, who was tired of touring. He has been replaced by Michael Laughlin from the group Creation Is Crucifixion. Cattle Decapitation will enter the studio at the end of May to work on a new song for the upcoming metal compilation album Uncorrupted Steel 2. The new Bouncing Souls album, titled Anchors Aweigh is due out on August 26th. The album was recorded in January back east at the Longview Farms Studio, where they recorded their last album, How I Spent My Summer Vacation. High on Fire will launch a tour for their album Surrounded by Thieves on June 12 in Los Angeles. Dates run through late July. Support acts will include Drunk Horse, Chinese Stars, Hidden Hand, Floor, the Whip and Camarosmith. Initial pressings of Arch Enemy's forthcoming Anthems of Rebellion will include a limited-edition bonus CD full of live songs recorded in 2002 and 5.1 surround sound mixes of album tracks. The album is scheduled for an August 27 release. Jerry Only's long awaited Misfits side-project showcasing punk covers of 1950's era classics is coming in 2003. The project is called Project 1950 CD. The release is truly unique and not to be perceived as a traditional Misfits album, but rather a special project. Boston indie Bridge Nine Records will release a new three-song 7"/CD EP single this summer from New York hardcore veterans Sick of It All, who are currently in the studio working on their next album for Fat Wreck Chords. The CD version of the EP will be available on July 29 (7" vinyl will come later) while Fat is eyeing a September release for Life on the Ropes. Hot Hot Heat, Sahara Hotnights, Modest Mouse and Ted Leo & the Pharmacists are on board for the third annual Siren Music Festival, sponsored by New York alternative weekly The Village Voice, taking place July 19 on the boardwalk in Brooklyn's Coney Island. Last year's show featured Sleater-Kinney, the Donnas and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The Jealous Sound’s Kill Them With Kindness full-length will be released on June 3rd. This is a 12 song full-length (11 brand new songs plus a re-recording of "Anxious Arms" from the EP). The Starting Line has a new acoustic song up at www.mp3.com/thestartingline called ''Make Yourself At Home'' from The Make Yourself At Home Acoustic EP that's due out in August. A song from the Mars Volta's debut album De-loused In The Comatorium is available at their site (www.themarsvolta.com/freedownload). The song is titled "Drunkship Of Lanterns" and should be on that album when it hits stores via GSL in June. The lineup for this year's Hellfest in Syracuse, New York, is set to include In Flames, Dillinger Escape Plan, Biohazard, Chimaira, Soilwork, A Static Lullaby, Bleeding Through, Eighteen Visions, From Autumn to Ashes, Kittie, Lamb of God, the Hope Conspiracy, Norma Jean, Himsa and a performance by the reformed Walls of Jericho, among several other international hardcore acts. The annual event, the 2000 version of which was documented on VHS/ DVD by Trustkill Records, will take place Fourth of July weekend. After a trial session with producer Nigel Godrich (Radiohead, Beck), the Strokes have decided to record their second album with Gordon Raphael, the man behind their debut, Is This It. The decision was reportedly amicable. Lickgoldensky has reportedly canceled their entire upcoming spring/summer tour. The group's drummer apparently quit the band in late April/early May, forcing the group to cancel plans. Here's an excerpt of a message from the band: "After talking about, booking, going over dates, cities and shows to play in, our drummer quit last night, leaving us all baffled, confused, frustrated, most importantly leaving us with a full U.S. tour to go starting in two weeks without a drummer. We want apologize to everyone who bent over backwards to help us out with getting shows, or booking a show on this tour. We're trying to do everything we can still make this happen, but it doesn't look like it's going to work out for us.” Zyklon, the band that features Samoth and Trym formerly of Emperor, have finished and released the track listing for their sophomore album, Aeon, due in September. Strike Anywhere begins tracking at Brian McTernan’s Salad Days studios in Maryland for the follow up to their hugely popular Change is a Sound album. The record is expected to be released in late summer 2003. Haste have just completed recording their third album, The Mercury Lift, which comes out July 1. The band will join This Day Forward, Bear vs. Shark and Anatomy of a Ghost on the Radio Takeover tour, which starts May 30 and runs through June 15. Tim Armstrong, singer/guitarist in Rancid and the Transplants, is producing an animated movie called Live Freaky! Die Freaky!, due in December. Armstrong also narrates the film, which features several voices from the punk rock world, including Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, A.F.I.'s Davey Havok, Blink-182's Travis Barker, A Perfect Circle's Josh Freese, X's John Doe, and Rancid's Lars Frederiksen, Matt Freeman and Brett Reed. "Lord of the Rings" star Viggo Mortensen also voices a character. Boxcar Racer will be going in the studio sometime after the next Blink182 tour. The new album will feature the two new songs they played on their tour and have hopes that a new album will be out sometime next year The Black Dahlia Murder are busy lining up a tour with the Red Chord and plan to hit the road in late June. The Black Dahlia Murder recently signed with Metal Blade, which plans to release the band's new album, Unhallowed, on June 17. Burnt By The Sun will enter Trax East studios in New Jersey in early May to begin recording their next full-length. They are expected to have finished by May 18th. The group will once again be working with Matt Bayles. At this point, Relapse Records is expected to release the album in September. In touring news, the group won't be playing out much in June and July as drummer Dave Witte will be on the road with Melt Banana. However, BBTS has already lined up a few August appearances, including a trip to Puerto Rico. Bay Area, California, hardcore band Time in Malta, who grew from a trio to a quartet following the release of last year's A Second Engine, have posted three new demo tracks on their web site. Hatebreed, Throwdown,
Biohazard, Agnostic Front, and
Full Blown Chaos will be touring together briefly
in early-June. (Following these dates, Hatebreed and Throwdown will
be touring Europe together through mid-July). |
