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Manchester Orchestra's I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child remains #1 best seller on the charts of Criminal.com for the third week in a row. The record was released on Favorite Gentlemen last month.

The Atlanta-based band has an impressive calendar full of shows. Yesterday, they released a new Official Manchester Orchestra Video Podcast that's available on their myspace.

Streetlight Manifesto has announced via a post on their website that they will complete work on their forthcoming, currently untitled album once their previously announced tour schedule has run it's course. You can read an update from the band, who are currently performing nightly on the Fall of Ska tour alongside headliners Reel Big Fish, as well as additional support acts Westbound Train and the Suburban Legends, below.
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According to the latest issue of Spin magazine, these are the top 25 live bands right now:

The Top 25 Live Bands

25. Comets on Fire
24. The Mars Volta
23. AFI
22. LCD Soundsystem
21. Against Me!
20. Gogol Bordello
19. Art Brut
18. My Morning Jacket
17. The Roots
16. The Flaming Lips
15. Riverboat Gamblers
14. Yeah Yeah Yeah's
13. My Chemical Romanceread more]

Following their current tour, Underoath will be recording their new album which is tentatively due out in the Summer of '06.

So far, the bands announced for the 2006 Take Action tour are: Matchbook Romance, Silverstein (March 1st to March 29th), and The Early November. More will be announced shortly, and I have included a tentative routing for the tour below:

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