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Listen to clips of each song on Brand New's Daisy
Alternative Press - Tim Karan on 9/11/09 @ 4:54 PM - altpress.com
Thanks to a pre-order page on
Amazon.co.uk, you can now stream 30-second snippets of all 11 songs on
Brand New's upcoming full-length,
Daisy. The follow-up to 2006's
The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me is set for release in the U.S. on Sept. 22. Listen to the new tracks
here and let us know what you think!
Weezer reveal Raditude cover art
Alternative Press - Scott Heisel on 9/11/09 @ 3:11 PM - altpress.com
Alt-rock icons
Weezer have their new album,
Raditude, slated to hit stores Oct. 27 via the fine folks at DGC, and while it's still not known what will actually be
on the album (aside from the absolutely killer first single "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To"),
Spinner has managed to get a sneak peek at the disc's cover art. You can view it below. And before you ask, yes, this is absolutely real, and no, we have no idea what goes on inside Rivers Cuomo's head on a day-to-day basis:
A bigger version of the image can be seen
here. The Weez are currently finishing up their leg of the current Blink-182 reunion tour; they play Sacramento tomorrow (
dates).
Meg & Dia, Single File to join Dashboard Confessional tour
Alternative Press - Tim Karan on 9/11/09 @ 1:21 PM - altpress.com
Earlier this week, we brought you
news of Dashboard Confessional's tour plans with New Found Glory and Nevershoutnever. Now DC chairman Chris Carrabba has
revealed via Twitter that
Meg & Dia and
Single File will also be featured on "most" of the dates.
Dashboard will be in support of their upcoming full-length,
Alter The Ending, which is due out Nov. 10 on Vagrant/Interscope.
Cub Country announce East Coast dates
Alternative Press - Tim Karan on 9/11/09 @ 11:45 AM - altpress.com
Just as Blake Schwarzenbach
announces shows for his new project, another former member of Jets To Brazil is doing the same.
Cub Country, fronted by ex-JTB bassist Jeremy Chatelain, have announced a string of East Coast dates in late November. The band will be support of the full-length,
Stretch That Skull Cover And Smile, released Aug. 11 on Future Farmer Records.
Dates are as follows:
Nov 19 Cake Shop New York NY
Nov 20 Maxwell's Hoboken NJ
Nov 22 Union Hall Brooklyn NY
Nov 23 Black Cat Backstage Washington DC
Nov 24 Kung Fu Necktie Philadelphia PA
Be on the cover of the new 30 Seconds To Mars album
Alternative Press - Tim Karan on 9/11/09 @ 11:31 AM - altpress.com
30 Seconds To Mars have announced that their upcoming full-length,
This Is War, will have 2,000 different album covers featuring individual photos of fans. Beginning today at 12 p.m. PDT, fans can submit photos
here. The first 2,000 photos uploaded with the proper specs will become covers. The campaign will run until 2,000 usable covers have been uploaded to thefaceofmars@gmail.com.
This Is War is the follow-up to 2005's
A Beautiful Lie, and will be released Nov. 24 on Virgin Records. The album's first sing, "Kings And Queens," will be unveiled in early October.
Good Girls Go Bad...and platinum
Alternative Press - Tim Karan on 9/11/09 @ 11:17 AM - altpress.com
According to a Twitter
post by frontman
Gabe Saporta,
Cobra Starship's single,
"Good Girls Go Bad," has been certified platinum. The song featuring
Gossip Girl co-star Leighton Meester debuted this past May, and is featured on Cobra's latest full-length,
Hot Mess.
