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Love Hate Hero, Blinded Black Tour

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Vans and Purevolume.com are teaming up to bring you a Spring 2007 tour with some of rockâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢s most up-and-coming bands: Love Hate Hero, Vanna, Blinded Black and Morello. The tour will kick off on March 19th in Lewisville, TX and will run until April 28th, ending in Blinded Blackâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢s hometown of St.Louis, MO.

Vans is providing full retail and online support for this tour including an impressive contest with prizes from all the bands and record labels along with some Vans merchandise and some other goodies. Purevolume.com has come to the table with full online support as well and will be hosting the tourâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢s official tour page, which will have free streams of songs from all the bands as well as a contest and most updated tour dates. Absolutepunk.net will be the place to go for tour exclusives ranging from interviews and chats with the bands to news and, of course, a contest.

These four bands come from all over the United States and beyond. Love Hate Hero represents the West Coast (Los Angeles), Blinded Black is from the Mid-West (St.Louis), Vanna call the East Coast home (New England), and Morello come all the way from Ireland. Although not household names yet, these bands have a lot going for them right now along with the backing from some established independent labels: Epitaph Records, Ferret Music, SideCho Records, and I-Scream Records.

Tour Dates:

03/20/07 – Lewisville, TXԚ  @ Fat Daddy’s
03/22/07 – El Paso, TX @ House Of Rock And Roll
03/26/07 – Hollywood, CA @ The Knitting Factory
03/29/07 – Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
03/30/07 – La Grande, OR @ The Gadfly
04/03/07 – Lancaster, CA @ Cedar Center
04/05/07 – Ogden UTԚ  @ The Country Club Theater
04/09/07 – Southgate, MI @ The Modern Exchange
04/10/07 – Roseville, MI – My Space Internet Cafe
04/11/07 – Cleveland, OH @ Agora Ballroom
04/12/07 – West Seneca, NY @ Chuggers
04/13/07 – Danbury, CT @ Empress Ballroom
04/14/07 – Portland, ME @ The Station
04/15/07 – Dover, NH @ Dover Elks Lodge
04/16/07 – Providence, RI @ The Living Room
04/17/07 – Lowell, MA @ University Of Mass VPAC Room
04/18/07 – Brockston, MA @ Tigers Den
04/20/07 – Amityville, NY @ Village Pub South
04/21/07 – Wilmington, DE @
04/23/07 – Huntington, WV @ HYAMP
04/25/07 – Valparaiso, IN @ Java Jim’s
04/26/07 – Papillon, NE @ The Rock
04/27/07 – Springfield, MO @ Remington’s Downtown
04/28/07 – St. Louis @ Pops

Southcott Call it Quits

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Southcott has called it quits. You can read a statement from the band below.

After a few years, a pleuthora of warped tours, hundreds of shows, thousands of cigarettes and about half as many beers we’ve decided to call it quits. . Between all the lineup changes we’ve had, losing Mike before tour was very hard on us. On this past tour it just didnt feel right and this time it was for real. Were extremely thankful to all the people who have booked us, let us sleep on their floor, bought a poster just so we could get some gas ETC . One great thing about being in a band is All the amazing people we get to meet every day, that is truly what we love most. If i could sit here and write down everyones name, i would. Thank you all and have no fear because this is just the beginning, I’ll have some exciting news in the upcoming weeks!! Thank You all for a great run!!

-john damiano

New Thrice Update

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Teppei (Thrice) have updated the Alchemy Index.

weâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢ve been splitting the last couple days up into recording and rehearsing for our upcoming australia tour. thanks to all you aussieâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢s who wrote in with your requests. weâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢ve looked over them all and have been trying out some of the requested songs. on the recording end, we started tracking what will be the sonnet for the fire disc. itâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢s based off a string arrangement i made on reason that basically repeats one movement and keeps getting bigger. should turn out pretty coolâ┚¬Ã‚¦weâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢ll see. weâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢re kinda making this one as we go.

love, teppei

playlist:
joanna newsom – yâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢s
rufus wainwright – want two
the microphones – the glow pt.2

Mute Math Plan Tour

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Muth Math have announced a 43 date North American tour starting on March 7th in Toronto. They will be taking opener, Cinematics and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin.

3/7, Toronto, ON (The Drake)
3/8, Toronto, ON (Canadian Music Fest)
3/9, London, ON (Salt)
3/10, Montreal, ON (Club Soda)
3/11, Boston, MA (Axis)
3/13, New York, NY (Gramercy Theatre)
3/14, Philadelphia, PA (TLA)
3/15, Austin, TX (South by Southwest)
3/16, Austin, TX (South by Southwest)
3/17, Norfolk, VA (Norva)
3/19, Washington, DC (9:30 Club)
3/20, Winston Salem, NC (Ziggy’s)
3/22, Charlotte, NC (Neighborhood Theatre)
3/23, Knoxville, TN (The Bijou Theatre)
3/24, Atlanta, GA (The Variety Playhouse)
3/25, Asheville, NC (Orange Peel)
3/27, Cincinnati, OH (20th Century Theater)
3/28, Chicago, IL (House Of Blues)
3/29, Cleveland, OH (House of Blues)
3/30, Detroit, MI (St. Andrew’s Hall)
3/31, Grand Rapids, MI (The Intersection)
4/1, Urbana, IL (The Canopy Club)
4/3, Milwaukee, WI (The Rave)
4/5, Minneapolis, MN (Fine Line)
4/6, Omaha, NE (The Rock)
4/10, St. Louis, MO (Gargoyle Club)
4/12, Lawrence, KN (Granada Theatre)
4/13, Little Rock, AR (Revolution Room)
4/14, Norman, OK (Univ. of OK-Union Court)
4/16, Boulder, CO (Fox Theatre)
4/18, Boise, ID (The Venue)
4/20, Vancouver, BC (Richards on Richards)
4/21, Portland, OR (Aladdin Theater)
4/22, Seattle, WA (Neumo’s)
4/24, San Francisco, CA (Slim’s)
4/25, Los Angeles, CA (House Of Blues)
4/26, San Diego, CA (House Of Blues)
4/29, Phoenix, AZ (The Clubhouse)
4/1, Albuquerque, NM (Sunshine Theater)
5/3, Austin, TX (La Zona Rosa)
5/4, Dallas, TX (Gypsy Ballroom)
5/6, Houston, TX (The Meridian)
5/7, New Orleans, LA (House of Blues)

Bands Design T-Shirts for Charity Benefit

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Wolfmother, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Rilo Kiley, and many other bands have submitted t-shirt designs to the Yellow Bird Project, a Montreal-based non-profit launched to raise money for the bands’ favorite charities. All t-shirts are currently for sale on Yellow Bird Project’s website, and funds raised will benefit Art for Change, Teenage Cancer Trust, and the Elliott Smith Memorial Fund.