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Let’s Get It joins the Fearless Records family ahead of an Aug. 4 debut release. “We couldn’t be more excited to sign with Fearless,” vocalist Joe Gilford says. “We’ve been really focused and are grateful to have a label support to help us reach our full potential. This is the next big step for us and our music.” This five piece pop/rock band from Dayton, Ohio is setting the scene on fire and catching eyes as they go. “With creativity of this caliber and a broad but focused emphasis on making something new, their sound is perhaps better described as… Read more »

All Time Low has just confirmed a string of dates on the main stage of this summer’s Vans Warped Tour, along with earlier support dates for We the Kings. The band will be touring in support of its forthcoming release, Nothing Personal, in stores July 7.   Having just recently finished a tour with Fall Out Boy, the Maryland foursome will jump on Warped Tour in Oceanport, N.J., and remain on until the the tour concludes in Los Angeles. Prior to these dates, the band will do a short headlining tour with We The Kings and Cartel, hitting several cities… Read more »

All Time Low is heading out on select Warped Tour shows this summer! Are you one of the lucky few?? See where they’ll be playing and meet up with other All Time Low fans on WarpedTour.com. All Time Low dates: July 19, 2009 – Oceanport, NJ July 21, 2009 – Boston, MA July 22, 2009 – Virginia Beach, VA July 23, 2009 – Charlotte, NC July 24, 2009 – Orlando, FL July 25, 2009 – Miami, FL July 26, 2009 – St.Petersburg, FL July 28, 2009 – Atlanta, GA July 29, 2009 – Cincinnati, OH July 30, 2009 – Milwaukee,… Read more »

A pair of the biggest bands in rock, Radiohead and R.E.M., hit the studio recently to begin work on their next albums. While both groups are in the beginning stages of writing and recording, they offered up some early details in a series of interviews. Radiohead have reconvened with longtime producer Nigel Godrich to start work on the follow-up of 2007’s In Rainbows. The band is reportedly in the early stages of recording, according to bassist Colin Greenwood. “It was very noisy and chaotic and really fun. It’s at the stage where we’ve got the big Lego box out and… Read more »

Despite the success of online retailers, explosion of Internet downloads and high-profile closings of Virgin Megastores and Tower Records stores, bricks-and-mortar record stores are not all spinning toward oblivion. Although hundreds of independent music retailers have gone out of business in recent years, about 2,000 are still around, and many are thriving. The survivors will celebrate Saturday, as acts such as Erykah Badu and Franz Ferdinand gather to pay homage to the hometown record store. Record Store Day was the idea of Chris Brown, a music guru from Bull Moose, a chain of 10 record stores in Maine and New… Read more »

AUSTIN, Texas — It wasn’t just the legions of concertgoers wandering the streets who were twittering at South By Southwest Many of the acts were posting tweets throughout the music conference and festival, sometimes even on stage or during interviews. Microblogging by performers shed a new light on their SXSW experience, revealing the fun, fatigue and frenzy of the annual Austin music event – which concluded early Sunday. Dave Navarro the guitarist for Jane’s Addiction took a photo of this reporter in the middle of an interview of the band, later explaining a negative story would mean the wrath of… Read more »

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) —  Nearly two weeks after the premiere of Disney’s “Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert” film, the sibling music act has unveiled dates for a world tour. The 44-date North American leg begins June 20 at the Dallas Cowboys New Stadium in Texas and wraps Aug. 31 at the Scotiabank Place in Ottawa. Before the North American arena dates, the Jonas Brothers World Tour 2009 will play a handful of dates in South America in mid-May and head to the United Kingdom and Europe in early June. The Jonas Brothers trek will feature support from “American Idol” winner… Read more »

It’s probably safe to assume that Joe Satriani won’t be serving as Coldplay’s opening act when the band launches a North American tour this summer. On the eve of potentially racking up seven more Grammy awards, Coldplay has announced plans to hit the road in support of their latest opus, Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends, for yet another leg of their already lengthy world tour–the boys depart for Japan and Australia immediately after their awards show pit stop. So far just 14 summer dates have been unveiled, with the promise of additional gigs to come. The… Read more »