Producer/engineer Kory Gable (Punchline, I Call Fives, The Composure) has moved to Atlanta and is offering a special rate for his new studio. More info can be found here.
If you're a fan of Wintersleep, make sure to join the band on Turntable.fm today! And don't forget to pick up their wonderful new album, Hello Hum, which is now out on Roller Call Records.
Panda Studios (The Story So Far, The American Scene, Man Overboard) has opened up a second studio in Fremont, CA. For more information contact Sam Pura.
The Motel Life just launched their Kickstarter asking fans to help them master their next EP, Those Bruises. Among the packages fans can purchase are a limited edition poster, comics, and the band will even come to your house for a BBQ and wash your car. The artwork was done by Daniel Fishel (The Wonder Years, No Sleep Records, Citizen).
Vocal Few will be hitting the road on a west coast "living room" tour. Vocal Few is The Classic Crime vocalist Matt McDonald and his wife, Kristie. For details on the tour, look below.
The Palladium in Worcester, MA, is under threat of being demolished. The venue has hosted the shows of many, many bands we cover here on AP.net. There is a Change.org petition against the tear-down of the building.
Last.fm has announced on their website that they are "investigating the leak of some Last.fm user passwords." It is recommended that you change your password immediately.
Psychologist E. Glenn Schellenberg and sociologist Christian von Scheve teamed up to comb through five decades of Billboard Top 40 hits. They find that, over time, our taste in pop music has veered toward more and more depressing songs.
I'm currently watching the All Things Digital video podcasts they put up of all of Steve Jobs' appearances at the conference, in the background while I post news today. The rest of this week's Technology Round-Up can be found in the replies. As always, check out my blog if you're interested in a more frequently updated round-up of stuff I enjoy during the week.
An LCD Soundsystem documentary focusing on the final show in Madison Square Garden in April 2011 will be in select theaters on July 18 only. It's titled Shut Up And Play The Hits, and you can see both a trailer for the film and the theaters where it will be in the replies.
In an interview with Christopher of Mansions, he states that the split with John Nolan of Taking Back Sunday will have more news soon and both songs for the split are done.
The Afterlife Kids posted a new new song called "Watch You Bleed" on Bandcamp. It comes off the upcoming album Strange and Unusual, slated to release July 31st.
Gregg Andrew DellaRocca (The Republic of Wolves / American Gospel) is now selling art prints, some framed, along with iPhone cases and other products, that feature the artwork of TROW's The Cartographer and American Gospel's Tall Tales Vol. 1.
Check the replies for a bunch of technology news from the past week. If you want even more, follow my blog or twitter account - I post tech (and/or what I find interesting) stuff pretty frequently throughout the week there.
Former Play for Keeps bassist Cash Colligan has started a Kickstarter to bring his friend, former The Cab drummer Alex Johnson, to Las Vegas so he can play drums in a new band. They're looking for $1,000, and according to the project description, "It would make ZERO sense to not have Alex Johnson become a part of this project that WILL CHANGE MUSIC. He knows nothing about this project, though I'm sure when we go live it will be hard to keep the secret." For pledging $100, you can get a whopping email and three tweets from Alex. We've had plenty of Kickstarter debates on this website - where do you think this falls in the spectrum of Kickstarter's niche and usefulness in the music industry?
