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California Fires Claim An Angle’s House

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The wildfires burning in southern California have claimed Kris from An Angle’s house, forcing him to cancel his current tour. Read a message from Kris below.

Hey, this is Kris from An Angle. I am writing to inform you all that our current tour has been cancelled. As some of you may have heard, my house was just destroyed by a fire and I am needed back at home to help deal with the situation. We’ll do our best to get back on the road once this mess has been sorted out. Thank you all for the kind words and support.

Kane Hodder Post New Song

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Kane Hodder has posted a new song titled “Siberia 1908” on their MySpace page. The song is the bonus track promised on their sampler CD Fly Comet Fly, which contains all new Kane Hodder material. The song will also appear on the follow up to 2005’s The Pleasure to Remain so Heartless, released on Fueled By Ramen.

Coheed & Cambria Cause Stir At University of Kansas

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Coheed & Cambria caused quite the commotion at the University of Kansas this week. Following a number of dorm windows being shot out a set of cryptic symbols were found spray painted throughout the campus with the date “10/23/07” underneath it.  Rumors began to spread on the University’s campus that another shooting was coming on Tuesday (10/23/07). The campus police were swamped with phone calls and questions about the impending violence. Fortunately, the graffiti symbols popping up all over campus were to promote Coheed & Cambria’s release of their latest album No World For Tomorrow. The police eventually ruled out anything else as pure coincidence.

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Finch Getting Back Together?

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Finch has scheduled a show on November 23 at the Glasshouse in Pomona, California. Core members Nate Barcalo (vocals), Alex Linares (guitar) and Randy Strohmeyer (guitar/vocals) will be joined by Drew Marcogliese on drums and Daniel Wonacott on bass; Marcogliese and Wonacott are both members of Cosmonaut, Barcalow’s post-Finch project. Tickets go on sale Friday at noon through Ticketmaster. This is currently the only show the band have scheduled. The band split in February of 2006 and it is unknown if they will play more shows or record any new music.

Via: AltPress.com 

The Color Fred Acoustic In-Store Performances

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The Color Fred‘s debut album, Bend To Break will be available in stores on Tuesday, October 30th! Now is your last chance to pre-order the album and get an autographed CD, t-shirt, or poster and have it arrive on or before the release date!

To promote Bend To Break, The Color Fred will be doing a few acoustic performances & signings in record stores:

October 30th – 5:00pm
Vintage Vinyl
51 Lafayette St.
Fords, NJ 08863
732-225-7718

November 3rd – 1:00pm
Record and Tape Traders
Dulaney Valley Shopping Center
736 Dulaney Valley Center
Towson, MD 21204
410- 337- 0002

November 4th – 3:00pm
FYE
100 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19110-1001
215-496-8338

November 20th – 5:00pm
Angelos
1500 W. Littleton Blvd.
Littleton, CO 80120
303-798-6378

Holiday Parade Post New Song Clip

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Holiday Parade posted a clip of a brand new song titled “Make It Count” on their MySpace page. The track was produced by Zack & Kenneth (Cartel, The Fold, Mayday Parade). The band is wrapping up their tour with Asteria and The Morning Light, and then hitting the road with Cartel for about two weeks. Check out a brief statement from the band below.

“holllaaaa!
we just posted a clip of a new song titled ‘Make It Count’ on our Myspace.com profile and we would love to hear some first impression feedback. Whether it be amazing, good, bad, brutal, whatever…we’d love to hear it, so please let us know your thoughts, they mean A LOT to us, probably a lot more than you’d think. We will be announcing some pretty big news soon… stay tunedddddd.
<3 us”