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It’s not summer until the Vans Warped Tour® Presented by AT&T begins.  The annual punk rock extravaganza celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, and organizers are promising the most memorable jaunt yet for North America’s longest-running touring festival. The 46-date tour commences June 26 in Pomona, CA and finishes August 23 in Carson, CA [...]

Stage dive into spring with the Jägermeister Music Tour! Jägermeister is teaming up with legendary American punk band, Pennywise and dub rock trio, Pepper for this year’s spring Jägermeister Music Tour. The tour kicks off on April 13th in Seattle, Washington.

Jenny Owen Youngs is back with her second album, Transmitter Failure due May 26. This record is a bold departure from her 2007 release Batten The Hatches, which thrust Youngs into the spotlight (and won her a record deal with Nettwerk) when her song “Fuck Was I” was featured on the [...]

Chicago alt-rock troupe, MADINA LAKE just premiered the video for “Never Take Us Alive” on MySpace today. The clip was directed by Shane Drake who has also worked with Paramore, Fall Out Boy, and Timbaland among others. The song comes off Madina Lake’s sophomore album, Attics to Eden, [...]

MASTODON will take part in an in-store signing session and performance in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday, March 24 at 8:30 p.m. at Criminal Records. The band will be promoting their new album, Crack the Skye, which hits stores this week on Reprise Records.  The set will also be streamed live [...]

Florida metal quartet Black Tide takes a break from the road this Wednesday to the delight of eager fans, as they chat live on Stickam.com 3/18 at 1pm PST.
No time to chat? Not to worry, Black Tide won’t fade out all summer long as they finish off an aggressive Spring campaign and [...]

Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd announce they will join forces again to provide the best show of the summer, reprising last year’s highly successful “Rock and Rebels” tour.  The Live Nation produced tour kicks off in West Palm Beach, FL at the Cruzan Amphitheatre with a 22 market trek [...]

Atlantic recording group Death Cab for Cutie has announced the upcoming release of an all-new EP, titled “THE OPEN DOOR.”  The five-track set will be released online via all digital retailers – including the band’s own www.deathcabforcutie.com – on March 31st.  Physical CDs will first be available at venues on DCFC’s [...]

These Green Eyes “Sucker Punch”-ed their way to a win this week on mtvU’s The Freshmen. The post-hardcore outfit from Connecticut crowns their win with a sweet reward, their video added to rotation on mtvU.
Things are looking up for These Green Eyes, who not long ago lost a friend to suicide and journied through the [...]

Pop-rock outfit Single File have just released the video for the melody-fueled track “Mannequin Loveseat.” The video for the catchy, quirky tune finds the trio co-starring, with a mannequin, in a moving picture comic strip. As the song’s story and lyrics unfold so does the path to the April 7th release of Common Struggles, Single [...]