La Dispute announced their third full length Rooms of the House, out March 14, and a full North American tour with Pianos Become the Teeth and Mansions.
The kind folks over at Purevolume are streaming the fantastic new record from States, Paradigm, here. For those not familiar, States are composed of members from Lydia (Mindy White) and members from Copeland (Jonathan Bucklew, Stephen Laurenson, Brian Laurenson, and Dean Lorenz). Paradigm is their second record, their first being Room to Run, and it was recorded in both Nashville and North Carolina and was entirely self-produced. If you like what you hear, you can pre-order it over at their merch store.
Taking Back Sunday will embark on a headlining tour this Fall with support from Polar Bear Club and Transit. Click “Read More” to check out the tour dates!
Sparks The Rescue will be heading out on the “Bedroom To Stage” acoustic tour this winter with Rookie of the Year, Jimmie Deeghan, and Tidewater.
Last week we kicked off our first tour blog of the new year with Mark Rose as he began his adventure playing 31 shows in 26 days. Mark is back this week to catch us up on the second week of shows, being on tour with Hawthorne Heights frontman JT Woodruff, tour eats, and more.
We are very excited to be bringing you an exclusive on-air first listen of Driver Friendly’s brand new album, Bury A Dream, on April 20th at 8PM ET. The band has also recorded a track-by-track commentary for us, which will be aired alongside the album. Bury A Dream comes out on all music retailers on April 24th.
Apple’s new iTunes Match service will scan a user’s library of songs, including those ripped from their own CDs, and match the songs up with the library of 18 million songs available through iTunes for $24.99 per year.
Britney Spears’ “Circus” tour is getting an encore. Holly Shakoor, Spears’ publicist, confirms that concerts will be held in several U.S. cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The shows will kick off August 20th in Canada. Concerts are also scheduled for North Carolina, Iowa, Oklahoma and Texas. They will follow Spears’ concerts in London and several other European cities. The 27-year-old singer also announced this week that her tour will go to Australia in November. Spears’ “Circus” tour reached second place in recent box-office gross rankings by Pollstar.
At worst, Hillary Transue thought she might get a stern lecture when she appeared before a judge for building a spoof MySpace page mocking the assistant principal at her high school in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. She was a stellar student who had never been in trouble, and the page stated clearly at the bottom that it was just a joke. Instead, the judge sentenced her to three months at a juvenile detention center on a charge of harassment. She was handcuffed and taken away as her stunned parents stood by. “I felt like I had been thrown into some surreal sort… Read more »
Holiday Parade & My Favorite Highway Fall Tour
