Lido Beach's new album is now available for purchase and they will be playing a CD release show on December 14th at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, CA.

Lido Beach's new album, Fake Hellos, Real Goodbyes, is now available for purchase on Itunes. The physical CD will be on Smartpunk soon.

The Fray will be releasing their new album on February 3, 2009.

Butch Walker's new album, Sycamore Meadows, is available for pre-order. The pre-order comes with a copy of Sycamore Meadows, a poster, and your choice of any new Butch Walker t-shirt. It also comes with instant mp3 downloads of two songs "The Weight of Her" and "Going Back/Going Home".

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Lido Beach have finished recording and mastering their debut album, Fake Hellos, Real Goodbyes. You can check out a new song called "I Was Wrong" right now on their myspace page. New songs will be posted sporadically in the next few weeks. Also, the cover for the CD can be seen here. Check out a blog post from Scotty in the replies.

Last night, at his solo acoustic performance in Providence, RI, Anthony Raneri confirmed that the new Bayside album will be released on September 30th, and that the DVD the band has been shooting for a re-release of The Walking Wounded is ending up much longer than expected. He said they intended to make a 30 minute DVD, and it is looking like it will be closer to 2 hours long instead.

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The Toadies have announced they will be releasing their first studio album since 2001, entitled No Deliverance, on August 19, 2008.

You can buy a physical copy of The New Frontiers' Mending right here. It's only $8.

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The Killers will be releasing a b-sides album in November.

MxPx has made new banners to help spread the word of their album, Secret Weapon, being released on July 17th. Click here to get your own banner to help them out.

Adult Swim have made an album titled Warm & Scratchy available for a free download here.

Track Listing
01. Me-I - TV On The Radio
02. Dead Sound - The Ravenettes
03. The Equestrian - Les Savy Fav
04. Crimson Red - The Rapture
05. Justine - 120 Days
06. Canada Vs. America - Broken Social Scene
07. Color of the love You Have - SOUND Team
08. The Bunting Song (acoustic version) - The Good, The Bad and The Queen
09. Half Century...[read more]

Between the Trees' debut album, The Story and the Song, was released nationwide on Tuesday on Bonded Records. So go pick it up!

Eyeball Records have launched a secret page in which fans can "explore" Mongrel, the highly-anticipated, forthcoming release from New Jersey grindcore outfit, The Number Twelve Looks Like You. The album has been slated for a June 19th release via the label.

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Justin King's new album will be released this summer and their new EP, Fall/Rise, is in stores now. Read the replies for more details on the album and their upcoming tour.

Hear Madina Lake's new album in its entirety at myspace. I'm not sure if I'm the only one, but I've been seeing these guys featured between shows on MTV pretty frequently as of late.

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Virgin Records will be re-releasing Placebo's newest album, Meds, on January 23rd. The album was originally released in the U.S. earlier in 2006 through Astralwerks.

Press Release

Over the group's ten-year history, the darkly romantic and musically adventurous style of PLACEBO (Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Hewitt) has come to be acknowledged as a key influence on such bands as Panic! at...[read more]

According to this blog update, Boys Night Out will be going into the studio with producer Lou Giordano in the next few weeks, and we can expect a new album in May or June.

Never Heard Of It's new album is now available for purchase at Smartpunk (free poster while supplies last).

Satori (ex-Rx Bandits / Link 80) has posted a new song entitled "Deeper" on their MySpace page. The song is set to appear on the group's as-of-yet untitled new album, which is scheduled to hit stores this winter in Japan and the United Kingdom.

You can view The Ataris' new cover for Welcome The Night right here.

The album cover for Anberlin's Cities has been added to our gallery.

Hot Cross has completed their new record, Risk Revival. Expect details, and tour information shortly.

Red Scare Records will be releasing the next album from The Copyrights.

Toby from Red Scare's Message

Happy Holidays, young commies. Got some kick ass news to report. We're really happy to announce that Red Scare will be releasing the next album from Illinois' Copyrights. Their last LP, Mutiny Pop, might be my favorite record of 2006 and...[read more]

Fujiya & Miyagi released their first proper full length album this past year internationally, and will release Transparent Things on January 23rd, 2007 through Deaf Dumb & Blind Recordings. To make up for the fact that they're a little late to America, the band has added a US-only exclusive track, "Reeboks In Heaven". Think krautrock/electronica music.

Tracklist

1. Ankle...[read more]

Menomena will be releasing their third album Friend and Foe on Barsuk Records on January 23rd, 2007 (they signed back in August).

Tracklist

1. muscle'n flo
2. the pelican
3. wet and rusting
4. air aid
5. weird
6. rotten hell
7. running
8. my my
9. boyscout'n
10. evil bee
11. ...[read more]

Cassino has finished recording their album this week, and will start mixing and mastering at the end of December. The album is tentatively called Sounds of Salvation.

Take that, writer's block! Here are Friday's reviews (a bit early).

Reviews: 12/1

Joanna Newsom - Ys (Greg Dona)
Joan of Arc - Eventually, All At Once (Scott Irvine)

You can stream the entire Of Montreal CD here.

Yoko Ono will be releasing her new album Yes, I'm A Witch in February 2007 on Astralwerks; however, Yoko chose a bunch of different artists she wanted to work with (including Flaming Lips, Cat Power, Le Tigre and more), gave them access to her back catalog and asked them to rework one of her songs each. Essentially this has become a compilation of Yoko Ono remixes and covers. In March, Astralwerks will follow up with a compilation of dance remixes to Ono songs.

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According to Victory Records, Streetlight Manifesto's forthcoming, currently untitled third release has been delayed from a previously announced January release date until February. You can find a user-submitted scan of a page from a recent Victory Records catalogue bearing the details in the replies.

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