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Two Cow Garage‘s label, Suburban Home Records, has just announced a number of details on upcoming Two Cow Garage material. The band will release a limited edition EP on September 10th, which consists of a hand numbered polaroid photo with a download code, limited to 100 copies. The A-Side can be found on the full length record, “Sweet Saint Me“, due out by the end of October. The B-side will be an exclusive track.
The label comments,
The album, “Sweet Saint Me” picks up where “Speaking In Cursive” left off but the album is a lot more focused and the songwriting could not be better. The album mixes rockers and acoustic tracks alike and hits home the fact that Two Cow Garage are becoming one of the greatest albeit underrated rock bands in America.
The tracklisting for Sweet Saint Me can be found below.
1. Sally, I’ve been Shot
2. Sweet Saint Me
3. Lydia
4. Jackson, Don’t you Worry
5. Wanted to be
6. What Dying is for
7. Closer to me
8. Angeline
9. My Great Gatsby
10. Soundtrack to my Summer
11. Lucy and the Butcher Knife
12. Insolent Youth
13. Brothers in Arms
Toronto/Montreal based indie act Broken Social Scene have continued to follow up their most recent smash success Forgiveness Rock Record with individual remixes of each of the tracks from the record. Their newest remix is for “All To All“. You can hear all four remixes below, including one Sebastien Grainger (formally of Death From Above 1979), as well as the music video (featuring the album version)
Nothing helps make a bad day right as quickly as a scalding dose of good old fashioned American metal, such as the brand peddled by the hard drinking chaps in Black Tusk. By giving the punky thrash of Anthrax a much needed resin of stoner metal Black Tusk is equally fitting for your next goat sacrifice or house party soundtrack. Get into it. “Red Eyes, Black Skies” is off their latest album Taste The Sin, released this year by Relapse Records.
Rust Belt Lights have signed to Paper + Plastick records continuing a trend of that label signing top notch punk and hardcore bands. It’s nice to have old school Fueled by Ramen back under a different name.
Japan’s legendary twee pop punk group <b>Shonen Knife</b> is set to launch a new US tour tonight in Seattle, Wa. The tour is in support of the English-language versions of their latest album Free Time, as well as 2007’s fun! fun! fun! on Good Charamel Records, the indie label founded by Robby Takac of The Goo Goo Dolls.
Kurt Cobain famously described the band’s live show in a Rolling Stone interview before his death as, “When I finally got to see them live, I was transformed into a hysterical nine-year-old girl at a Beatles concert.” As a long time fan of the Knife I can confirm the insane glee that follows witnessing one of their gloriously fuzzed out outbursts of pop punk joy. Continue reading for the dates.
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Chad Gilbert announced via his web page yesterday the release of his first What’s Eating Gilbert record. The pop-punk guitarist of New Found Glory fame originally got his start as the vocalist for the classic metalcore outfit Shai Hulud in the ’90s at the tender age of 16, but his lighthearted rock ‘n’ roll tracks would fit in on the soundtrack of “That Thing You Do.”
Gilbert began releasing free solo material via whatseatinggilbert.com in February. Two of these tracks made the physical release, along with a third previously unreleased track. Appropriately, the release will be on vinyl with a limited pressing of 300 yellow and 700 red 7″ records. Check out the full story at whatseatinggilbert.com and pick up the record at Kings Road Merch.
B.o.b has released the video for the latest single off this year’s The Adventures of B.o.B.. Frankly this little joyful burst is just the kind of thing we needed at The 1st Five after yesterday’s hacker attack. Thanks for checking back in, and we’re sorry for the delay yesterday.
No Trigger, a band self shrouded in mystery as of late have posted a follow up video to their original image, containing nothing more than todays date, and the band logo. The video announces that they will in fact be releasing a 7″ this fall via Mightier Than Sword records (their first recorded material in over five years), and another full length in 2011, on a label to be determined.
Check out the video below for more information, including short band interviews, and feedback/hype material from such bands as Set Your Goals, Polar Bear Club, and No Trigger themselves.
Deftones will be heading over to the UK for a run of headline shows in November. Coheed And Cambria will be along as openers.
11/12 Glasgow, Academy
11/13 Leeds, Academy
11/14 Manchester, Apollo
11/15 Southampton, Guildhall
11/17 London, Brixton Academy
11/19 Nottingham, Rock City
11/20 Birmingham, Academy
According to Triple Crown Records’ Twitter posting, Kevin Devine‘s Make The Clocks Move will be getting reissued on October 12th. The reissue will be re-mastered with additional tracks and have liner notes by Kevin, Jesse Lacey, and more. Triple Crown will handle the CD reissue while Academy Fight Song will be doing the vinyl. Be on the lookout.
