Just got around to adding a few more "200 Words or Less" reviews to the site. Check them out:
Fired Up - Doomed to Repeat
Face Reality - Positive Change
Jeff Caudill - Try to be Here
Medusa - En Raga Sul
Young Fresh Fellows …
Trash Talk were robbed after one of their shows in the U.K. Here is what the band had to say on the matter:
Last night in Birmingham after our show with Set Your Goals, Broadway Calls and Fireworks we kinda got robbed. On the walk from the venue to …
Andrew W.K. will release Mother of Mankind, a collection of twenty-one rare and unreleased songs spanning his entire career, on February 23rd. The album will be coupled with Close Calls With Brick Walls, which was never released on CD format in the United States. A trailer for the …
Reflections Records has announced the signing of Skull Crusher. The label will be releasing their debut 12”/MCD, Blinded by Illusion, in February of 2010. Two songs from the release can be streamed online here.
Here are last weeks top 'five' most played artists, according to the SPB Last.FM group.
1. Blacklisted 2. A.F.I. 2. Converge 4. Alkaline Trio 5. Brand New 5. Jawbreaker
The most listened to album last week was Blacklisted's No One Deserves to be Here More Than Me for …
Intronaut guitarist Sacha Dunable provided a lengthy update on the band's follow-up to 2008's Prehistoricisms as well as other happenings within the band. Here is what he had to say:
We're closing in on having a new record done. We have about four and a half songs totally …
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists will be hitting the road in the Spring as they promote their new full-length, The Brutalist Bricks, which is due out March 9th via Matador Records. To view the dates click "read more."
Broken Bells - featuring James Mercer and Danger Mouse - will release their self-titled debut on March 9th via Columbia Records. The duo will post their first single, "The High Road," on their own website on December 21st.
Bad Religion has announced plans to record their new full-length and follow-up to 2007's New Maps of Hell. The band is currently in the early stages of writing for the effort, but are planning to enter the studio in April with a Fall release currently on the books. Source: …
Inductees for the 2010 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have been announced. They are The Stooges, Genesis, ABBA, The Hollies, Jimmy Cliff, David Geffen, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Elle Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Jesse Stone, Mort Shuman, and Otis Blackwell.
The Bouncing Souls will release Ghosts on the Boardwalk on January 12th via Chunksaah Records. The album is comprised of twelve songs that were released on the first of each month throughout 2009 via digital download. The band also pressed these songs onto a series of 7" vinyl records …
Sonic Youth are planning a busy 2010. The group plans to enter the studio to record a brand new full-length album. In addition, the band is currently working on a soundtrack to a French film and has plans to release a live DVD covering the band's 2007/2008 Daydream Nations tour. …
Spanish Gamble will release their debut album, It’s All Coming Down, in early 2010 via Paper + Plastick Records. The tracklisting to the album is as follows:
1.There Is No God Tonight 2. Science Can’t Explain Magic 3. Four Letter Word 4. It’s All Coming Down 5. …
Comedy-folk duo Flight of the Conchords have announced the end of their TV Show:
Bret, Jemaine and James (co-creator/director) said “we’ve noticed the less we say about the future of the show, the more people want to talk about it, so in an effort to reverse this trend we …
Troy Young, one-time drummer for Spines and Spylacopa session drummer, was found dead in his New York apartment from a gun shot this past weekend. Young was twenty-nine years old. Source: New York Post