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Murder By Deathâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢s video for â┚¬Ã…”Brotherâ┚¬? is up for voting on MTVUâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢s â┚¬Ã…”The Freshmenâ┚¬?. Help support the band and vote here.
The band has also announced dates with the Appleseed Cast
09-14-06 Memphis, TN Hi Tone Cafe
09-17-06 Oklahoma City, OK The Conservatory
09-18-06 Springfield, MOOutland Ballroom
09-19-06 Omaha, NE Sokal Underground
09-20-06 Ames, IA The Maintanence Shop
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Repeating Goodbye has posted a new track on their MySpace page titled “Goodbye or Goodnight.”
Check out this weeks features bands including A Change of Pace, Time And Distance, and Leeland.
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Mute Math has setteled their lawsuit with Warner Brothers Records. The band left this message on their MySpace earlier this week.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the lawsuit is officially over. All issues are settled. Our label Teleprompt has just inked a new and improved deal with Warner Brothers that enables us to keep making and selling music exactly as we want. It feels incredible to finally have this legal crap out of the way. So now for the next step: everyone’s been working frantically to get the LP available in stores and on line as soon as possible. It is with great pleasure that I can announce that our record will be released nationwide September 26th, which, by the way, is also why we dropped off of Warped Tour last week. Sorry about any inconvenience, but we were back in the studio re-mastering the record, which now will include some additional tracks from the Reset EP.
May I take a moment and point out that none of this would have been possible without the overwhelming support all of you have given us over the past year. We took our best shot to get our music out in spite of a label deal gone sour it was those of you that went along with us that gave us the power to make things right. We couldn’t ask for better fans; were extremely grateful.
As far as the new release, I wanted to also mention that we’ll be including a bonus live EP in the first pressing that goes out this fall. Please consider this to be just a small token of thanks for helping our music get the chance to be heard on the world stage.
Well be heading out on tour this Fall with some of our favorite bands. The show will be colossal. We’ll see you there.
Much Love,
Paul
Artist: Lucky Boys Confusion
Album: How to Get out Alive
Label: Townstyle
Purchase:
Release Date: June 13, 2006
Overall: 8.2
Music: 7.5
Lyrics: 8.0
Production: 9.0
Chicagoans Lucky Boys Confusion have chosen the standard rock route with their latest release, a five-song EP called How to Get out Alive. The boys made a name for themselves, landing a major record deal to put out their second full-length, Commitment. Despite how committed the guys were, they proved a bit unlucky when Atlantic bought out Warner and bid the boys farewell. So they started from the bottom again, turning out this EP on their own label. Considering this fact, production is astounding. “Cigarettes” has the catchy riffs (including some synth) and cute lyrics that make a great pop song, but has more complexities than “Hey Driver”, the band’s closest thing to a big hit from their last album. Overall, however, its disappointing to see that the band has shed one of its most recognizable traits on this album: their ska influences. Though often making their way only into songs subtly such as the “hey hey hey” chants on “Hey Driver”, the Lucky Boys sound has always incorporated some ska. Hopefully the guys bring back the twotone upbeats on their full-length due out sometime next year.
Tracklisting:
1. The Struggle (Getting out Alive)
2. Cigarettes
3. When Bad News Gets Worse
4. Like Rats From A Sinking Ship
5. Anything, Anything
Artist: Park
Album: Building a Better _____
Label: Lobster
Purchase: Smart Punk
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Overall: 8.3
Music: 7.9
Lyrics: 8.9
Production: 7.9
I’ve been a fan of Park’s dark pop since I got my hands on their 2001 release, No Signal. But as the tracks of this album cycled through and I hit those from their first full-length on my iTunes, it was hard to tell that the albums had changed. I only realized that Building a Better ______ had ended because I knew the words to the first track of No Signal and therefore knew that it was no longer just the deja entendu feeling but rather that I’d experienced at the start of the new disc. So? Yes, the band has a signature sound, and I happen to quite enjoy it. On the surface this makes it difficult to see that they’ve built a better Park and a better album. But on a second listen, you can hear the band’s more precise and deliberate timing and can tell that they’ve opted for a mellower sound. The layering of guitar riffs and rhythms is one of the band’s most interesting contributions to the powerchord-driven emo genre; powerchords have their place in contemporary pop and rock music, and these guys make use of them but do not rely on them. Lyrics are another strongpoint; though they convey typical emo angst, they do so with a poetry that is, for the most part, not trite.
Valida’s Editorial Point: Too often within the emo genre, I hear lyrics that are transparent – instead of hearing the struggle faced by the artist in the situation he/she is describing, I hear the struggle faced by the artist when he/she was trying to scribble out his/her thoughts poetically. I can see the artist opening up the thesaurus looking for a new, obscure word for “leave” or “broken”. These lyrics, to me, have in the writing process lost the feeling that drove them out of the artist’s head in the first place.
Tracklisting:
1. The Trophy Wife
2. Mississippi Burning
3. Who Is Aliandra
4. Angels And Errors
5. A Message
6. Chica Chica
7. La Amoureux
8. Irukandji
9. Intro
10. Hide And Seek
(11.) A Message (Hidden Track)
Brazil has posted a new track titled “Crime (and the antique solution)” on their MySpace page. The bands new album The Philosophy of Velocity will be in stores October 3rd through Immortal Records.
