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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”

Plain White T’s reissue STOP

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On November 6, 2007 Fearless Records will be re-releasing STOP, the Plain White T’s original full-length album. The reissue is fully remastered and includes three never-heard tracks from the band’s previous studio sessions and new artwork. Vocalist Tom Higgenson describes the album as more of a diary of his past life and believes some of the best song he has ever written were on STOP.

“I truly believe that some of the best songs I have ever written are on this album” Tom Higgenson, vocalist Plain White T’s

Plain White T’s STOP (Reissue)
Track Listing
1. Stop
2. Please Don’t Do This
3. What If
4. Fireworks
5. Leavin’
6. Shine
7. Your Fault
8. Happy Someday
9. A Lonely September
10. Can’t Turn Away
11. Penny (Perfect For You)
12. Radios In Heaven
Bonus Tracks:
13. Cinderella Story (Unreleased Bonus Track)
14. Bruises (Unreleased Bonus Track)
15. Lets Pretend (Unreleased Bonus Track)

Albums In Stores Tomorrow 10-23-07

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Here are some albums hitting stores tomorrow. Let us know which ones you’ll be picking up.

Say Anything – Defense Against The Genre
Coheed And Cambria – No World For Tomorrow
Crime In Stereo – Is Dead
Cobra Starship – Viva La Cobra!
Far Less – A Toast To Bad Taste
Agony Scene – Get Damned

The Junior Varsity Break Up

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The Junior Varsity have decided to call it a day. You can read a message from the band below.

andy here with TJV.

If you’ve come to a show lately, you’ve surely been surprised by the current lineup. If you havent heard yet, asa quit the band and weve had our friend brandon carnes covering the lead singer/bass player duty until we decided what we want to do.

As it looks, all the current members of TJV are going to head back to college. So we’re sort of putting this thing on the back burner. We might do some shows here and there for fun, but we probably will not be touring as a band again. We have a show on Saturday November 10th at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. Currently, this is our last booked show, but we are planning to book a couple in december in the central illinois area. These may be the TJV farewell shows.

The support we have received from all these little cities in the cornfields has been overwhelming for the last 5 years. We couldnt have kept moving forward if it wasnt for the initial support we received from our home area. We are sorry for the demise of this band, but it is hard to replace a singer. Its almost like starting over again. Asa was our 2nd singer as it was.

November 10th in Jacksonville will definitely not be the last show though…we’ll plan a couple fun events. Nobody has too hard of feelings about the events that transpired…i think we are all ready to start a new life.

ALSO–you can catch me on tour this november playing guitar and piano for a band called “the dear hunter.” We’ll be all across the US opening for Circa Survive and i am very excited about the opportunity.

www.myspace.com/thedearhunter

Check em out…im sure you will love it. And come say hi at some of the shows this fall.

If anyone has any questions about whats going on, hit me up on my blackberry at andywildrick@gmail.com

ill be driving 19 hours by myself to rhode island today…so entertain me haha.

thanks for the love guys.

-andy