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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.
forgetters (feat. Blake Schwarzenbach) announce shows
Alternative Press - Scott Heisel on 9/11/09 @ 1:09 AM - altpress.com
forgetters, the new band of former Jawbreaker/Jets To Brazil frontman Blake Schwarzenbach, have announced four new shows. This comes on the heels of the Thorns Of Life, his previous band formed
last November, breaking up.
The lineup for forgetters (yes, it's supposed to be lowercase) is Schwarzenbach on guitar/vocals, Caroline Paquita on bass and Kevin Mahon (ex-Against Me!) on drums. Show information is below.
Friday 9/18: NYC @ Lit Lounge w/Golden City, Solar Power Sun Destroyer, Thought And Memory
Friday 9/25: Philly @ The Barbary w/Onion Flavored Rings, Amateur Party
Friday 10/2: Providence @ AS220 w/Idiot Vehicle, TBA
Sunday 10/4: Boston @ Great Scott w/Idiot Vehicle and Chastity Wig
Between The Buried And Me post album teaser
Alternative Press - Scott Heisel on 9/11/09 @ 1:04 AM - altpress.com
Between the Buried and Me have posted a teaser track that includes portions of songs from their yet to be released album
The Great Misdirect. The new album is set to hit stores on October 27th and is their first release since 2007's
Colors.
Listen to the album teaser
here.
