The End Records has announced plans to release a four-song EP from Irish rockers The Answer (not to be confused with the hardcore band from the Pacific Northwest). The band will release Never Too Late on November 11th.
Bad Brains have set up an election day show on November 4th in Washington D.C. The show will take place at 9:30 Club. Bad Brains released their return effort, Build a Nation, last year.
Fucked Up have posted a second track from their The Chemistry of Common Life full-length online here. The album is due out October 7th via Matador Records.
Video of Rage Against the Machine performing at the Republican National Convention has been posted online here. Unfortunately, the band was denied access to the stage on which they were supposed to perform, so they took to the crowd and performed two songs a capella.
Torque Records has announced the signing of Mikoto and will release the band's debut full-length, We are Architects, on October 14th. Songs from the album can be streamed online here.
Teenage Disco Bloodbath Records has posted pre-orders for the Ramming Speed full-length, Brainwreck. Songs from the album can be heard online here. You can grab your pre-order (available in lots of sweet packages) here.
Details of Anchorless Records' upcoming tribute album to Johnny Cash have been finalized. The album, titled All Aboard: A Tribute To Johnny Cash, will be released on October 21st. The tracklisting to the album is as follows:
1. Man In Black: The Bouncing Souls 2. Country Boy: Fallen …
A full album stream of All Shall Perish's Awaken the Dreamers has been made available here. The album is due out September 16th via Nuclear Blast Records.
Bad Religion bassist Jay Bentley recently discussed the band's follow-up to New Maps of Hell. Here is what he had to offer up:
If we were going to have it out early next year, we’d have to be working on it now and there isn’t enough material yet …
Spylacopa, featuring current and former members of Candiria, Isis, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and Made Out Of Babies, have posted their new track "Bloodletting" online here. The group will release their debut EP this November through Rising Pulse Records.
Sigh's cover of Venom's "Black Metal" has been made available for download here. The song is taken from the band's A Tribute to Venom, which is out now via The End Records.
Look Mexico has released a brand new four-song digital EP titled Gasp Asp. You can pick it up here. The EP will see a vinyl version release with three of the songs in the coming months.
1990's Sacramento, CA-based rockers Far will be reuniting for a pair of shows in Southern CA under the secret name Hot Little Pony. The band will play October 15th at the Glass House in Pomona and the 16th at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. Source: AP
The Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman addressed rumors suggesting that drummer Gil Sharone was no longer a part of the band. Here is what he told Kerrang!:
He didn't leave and we didn't kick him out. He will be busy though working with his other band (Stolen Babies) …
Welcome to the holiday edition of the most recent listening stats for SPB's Last.FM group. We're taking a break today - not really as some of us are stuck working our real jobs - but we'll be back with a full update tomorrow. Here are last weeks top 'five' most …
