The Mountain Goats have announced some tour dates for next March. It's all West Coast dates, but more tours will added soon for early next year with at least four more US dates.

Tracklist

3/1 - Seattle, WA - Neumos
3/2 - Seattle, WA - Tripe Door
3/3 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
3/4 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
3/7 - San Francisco, CA - Independent
3/8 - San Francisco, CA - Independent
3/9 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
3/11 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey

According to the band's website, Rancid will be releasing their seventh, currently untitled, studio album in the spring of 2007 via Hellcat Records.

Funeral For A Friend hope to have a new disc released in the Spring of next year.

According to a recent interview with Bright Eyes, the new album will be done this year and will be out sometime in March or April of next year.

Bell Orchestre, which features two members of Arcade Fire, are kicking off their Spring Tour next week.

Dates

4/24 - Northampton, MA - The Iron Horse
4/25 - Clinton, NY - Hamilton College
4/26 - Rochester, NY - The German House
4/27 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
4/28 - PIttsburgh, PA - Andy Warhol Museum
4/29 - Columbus, OH - Chuck Helm/Wexner Center
4/30 - Cincinnati, OH - Contemporary Arts Center
5/2 - Ferndale, MI - Magic Bag
5/3 - Kalamazoo, MI - KraftBrau
5/4 - Louisville, KY - The Clifton Center
5/5 - Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium
5/6 - Minneapolis, MN - Venue TBA
5/7 - Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater

Ordinary Clothing (Taking Back Sunday, My Chemical Romance) has just released their new Spring line. To coincide, they have just launched a brand new website and have posted a lengthy update about recent happenings with the company.

Cartel has been selected as one of AOL Music's "Breaker" artists. Below is the press release.

Press Release

New York, NY – March 30, 2006 – Fans will be buzzing when they experience the sounds of AOL Music’s latest picks for its innovative Breakers program, which is sponsored by Mercedes-Benz and is designed to give guaranteed superstar treatment to artists on the rise. Beginning March 31, fans can go to AOLMusic.com to discover great music from British chanteuse Corinne Bailey Rae, pop-punks Cartel, country band The Lost Trailers, hard-rocking Aussie trio Wolfmother, rhythmic singer-songwriter Mat Kearney and 15-year-old hip-hop phenomenon Young Leek.

Throughout the season,...

The first batch of Kaddisfly's spring tour with Jupiter Sunrise and Let Go has been announced; tour dates are below:

Tour Dates

5/5 2006 7:00P The Door Dallas, TX
5/16 2006 7:00P Sector 7G Augusta, GA
5/17 2006 7:00P The Social Myrtle Beach , SC
5/19 2006 7:00P Peppermint Beach Club Virginia Beach , VA
5/20 2006 7:00P Plan B Danville, VA
5/26 2006 7:00P The Capitol Venue Shamokin, PA
5/27 2006 7:00P The Wave Patchogue, NY
5/28 2006 7:00P Empress Ballroom Danbury, CT
6/1 2006 7:00P Showplace Theatre Buffalo, NY
6/2 2006 7:00P The Rusty Nail Jamestown, NY
6/4 2006 7:00P...

Stephen Colletti of MTV Laguna Beach and Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy were seen filming for a Spring Break show for MTV.

As Tall As Lions have updated their photo journal. The band is currently in the studio recording their new album which should be out in late spring.

Vanderbilt University's "Rites Of Spring" festival will be taking place on April 21-22 on the Nashville, TN campus. Bands include My Morning Jacket, Ben Folds, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Gov't Mule and more. Tickets are $25 for a single day and $40 for the weekend and is open to students and the general public. They go on sale March 1st on Ticketmaster.

Bullet Train To Vegas will be touring the west coast in March with Read Yellow and Haram followed by a three week tour covering the midwest and east coast in April. When the band returns home from touring, they will enter the studio with producer Alex Newport (At The Drive In, The Mars Volta, Ikara Colt) to record their new cd that is tentatively titled, Blasphemy So Divine.

Bullet Train To Vegas/Read Yellow/Haram Tour Dates

Mar 10 Che Cafe San Diego, CA
Mar 11 Smart City Grinds Azusa, CA
Mar 12 Alpine Ventura, CA
Mar 13 Plan B Fresno, CA
Mar 14 Balazo Gallery San Francisco, CA
Mar 15 Food Hole Portland, OR
Mar 16 Studio Seven Seattle, WA
Mar 17 Fat Tuesday's Spokane,...

The Blood Brothers are currently writing a new album that will be recorded in the Spring. A tour will follow.

Franz Ferdinand and Death Cab For Cutie will be hitting the road together this Spring. Stay tuned for dates and details.

Source: Mammoth Press

Eisley has just announced the dates for their spring headlining tour with Brighten as main support. You can check out the dates here.

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According to Taking Back Sunday's most recent journal entry, their new album Louder Now should see a spring release.

I believe it's tentatively set for April 18th. - Jason Tate

Ignite have been recording a new album since November with producer Cameron Webb(Silverstein). The effort is expected to arrive in the Spring through Abacus Recordings. A US tour with Comeback Kid will begin sometime in March.

The Rocket Summer have been confirm to support Relient K on their spring headlining dates. Dates will be announced soon.

Fan reports in: The Early November announced at their show tonight that their triple-disc should be out in April.

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