Amber Pacific recently updated their progress of their new album and their departure from Hopeless Records, read more:

Hello! So if you haven’t noticed there’s been a few changes going around the world of Amber Pacific that we felt you all should know about…first and foremost let’s talk touring…
Unfortunatly I am writing this blog from my house in Washington because the remaining dates with The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Hawthorne Heights were cancelled. We didn’t recieve any explanation for these cancelled shows so one can only make assumptions about what happened but I’ll just say that Hawthorne Heights, Amber Pacific, and New Years Day were all for finishing out the tour but there is nothing we can do when the headlining band cancels. At any rate, we love the guys in RJA and wish them the best and would like to send out a huge thanks for bringing us out on tour with them. As for the rest of the year, we will be kicking off a continuation tour with Hawthorne Heights, Escape The Fate, The AKA’s, and The Secret Handshake. We all really would love to see you come out and support the shows as we will be hitting some pretty rad venues such as the House Of Blues and a few other notable names across the country, first show is in Detroit on November 23rd so get your tickets soon!

For all of you who are interested in what’s going on in the world of Amber Pacific well…we’ve decided that it’d be best to start working on a couple new songs as some of you may or may not know we are no longer with a label! Our term with Hopeless has come and gone and we are going to start searching for a new home in the coming months and we’ll let you know who we decide to go with as soon as we find out. Looks like we’ll be heading into the studio January 29th to track a couple demo’s and we should be able to post some new music in early February so keep an eye out for that! I hope you all are taking care of yourselves and enjoying the coming Christmas season, it’s definitely one of my favorite times of the year! We should be posting new pictures, videos, and more fun stuff in the coming weeks once we get back out on the road so until then, PEACE!- Will

In a recent post by Hawthorne Heights, a new tour is coming this fall. Here is the post:

Hey Lovers and Haters! We just wanted to drop you all a line, and officially announce our winter tour. Or WINTOUR… We, Hawthorne Heights, would like to welcome Escape The Fate, Amber Pacific, The AKA’s, and The Secret Handshake to the stage with us in November and December. If you are thinking…”That’s a weird line-up for a tour,” you are exactly right. We wanted a line-up that is not full of 5 bands that sound exactly the same. So at this tour, there is something for everyone…we hope.

We always like to help out other bands who we are friends with, or who we generally like to listen to…so that is how this line-up came together. We are planning alot of special things for this tour, so we would appreciate it if everyone could come and have fun, and keep music positive. Be on the lookout for more tour dates and details in the coming days. Thanks for your support of our band, the other bands, and music in general.

Love JT and Hawthorne Heights

Here are the dates:
Oct 30 2007 5:00P
Cotilion Wichita, Kansas
Oct 31 2007 5:00P
Cains Ballroom Tulsa, Oklahoma
Nov 2 2007 5:00P
Station 4 St Paul, Minnesota
Nov 3 2007 5:00P
The Vic Chicago, Illinois
Nov 4 2007 5:00P
Mr Smalls Millvale, Pennsylvania
Nov 5 2007 5:00P
The Fillmore at Irving Plaza New York, New York
Nov 6 2007 5:00P
Ultra Lounge Orono, Maine
Nov 7 2007 5:00P
The Stone Pony Asbury Park, New Jersey
Nov 8 2007 5:00P
The Chameleon Club Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Nov 9 2007 5:00P
Hampton Beach Casino Hampton Beach, New Hampshire
Nov 10 2007 5:00P
Lupos Providence, Rhode Island
Nov 13 2007 5:00P
House Of Blues North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Nov 16 2007 6:00P
The Moon Tallahassee, Florida
Nov 18 2007 5:00P
Center Stage at The Plex North Charleston, South Carolina
Nov 19 2007 5:00P
Freebird Live Jacksonville, Florida
Nov 20 2007 5:00P
Jannus Landing St Petersburg, Florida
Nov 21 2007 5:00P
House Of Blues Orlando, Florida
Nov 23 2007 6:00P
Majestic Theatre Detriot, Michigan
Nov 24 2007 6:00P
9:30 Club Washington D.C., Washington DC
Nov 25 2007 6:00P
Recher Theatre Towson, Maryland
Nov 26 2007 6:00P
Roxy Theatre Atlanta, Georgia
Nov 27 2007 6:00P
Norva Theatre Norfolk, Virginia
Nov 28 2007 6:00P
Trocadero Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nov 29 2007 6:00P
House of Blues Cleveland, Ohio
Nov 30 2007 6:00P
The Eagles Club Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dec 2 2007 5:00P
House of Blues New Orleans, Louisiana
Dec 3 2007 6:00P
House Of Blues Dallas, Texas
Dec 4 2007 6:00P
Graham Central Station Pharr
Dec 8 2007 7:00P
Sunshine Theatre Albuquerque, New Mexico
Dec 10 2007 6:00P
House of Blues Anaheim, California
Dec 11 2007 6:00P
House of Blues West Hollywood, California
Dec 12 2007 6:30P
House of Blues San Diego, California
Dec 14 2007 5:00P
House Of Blues Las Vegas, Nevada
Dec 15 2007 5:00P
All City Live Reno, Nevada
Dec 16 2007 6:00P
The Fillmore San Francisco, California
Dec 18 2007 5:00P
Crystal Ballroom Portland, Oregon
Dec 19 2007 5:00P
The Showbox Seattle, Washington
Dec 20 2007 6:00P
Big Easy Spokane, Washington
Dec 21 2007 6:00P
Big Easy Boise, Idaho

No details have been released on a new record or what label they are with, if any…

So get your listening on and listen to these new tracks by a few artists:

Bad Religion – Heroes & Martyrs, off their new album New Maps Of Hell

Bedlight For Blueeyes – City And The Ghost, off their new album Life On Life’s Terms

Sullivan – Fire Away, off their new album Cover Your Eyes

Interpol – Heinrich Maneuver, off their new album Our Love To Admire

Amber Pacific – Fall Back Into My Life, off their new album Truth In Sincerity

Hidden In Plain View – Bendy, off their new album Resolution

So now that I’ve introduced you to the new category, Listening Party, it would only be right to post one right now! So here’s a few bands with some new music for your ears to bleed too:

Sullivan – F-Stop, yeah its on their myspace.

The Starting Line – Direction, a new song off their upcoming album Direction can be heard on their myspace.

The Arrival – Is This What You Call Love?…yeah their myspace.

Amber Pacific – You’re Only Young Once, here’s a new song of their upcoming album found on AltPress’s Media page.

Interpol – The Heinrich Maneuver, can be found at this link.

Here’s some news about recent tracklistings for upcoming albums:

Boys Night Out – Boys Night Out
01. Get Your Head Straight
02. Swift and Unforgiving
03. The Push and Pull
04. Up With Me
05. The Heirs of Error
06. Let Me Be Your Swearword
07. Hey, Thanks
08. Fall For The Drinker
09. Apartment 4
10. Reason Ain’t Our Long Suit
11. It Won’t Be Long

Straylight Run – The Needle The Space
01) The Words We Say
02) The Miracle That Never Came
03) Soon We’ll be Living in the Future
04) How Do I Fix My Head
05) Who Will Save Us Now
06) Cover Your Eyes
07) We’ll Never Leave Again
08) Take It To Manhattan
09) Still Alone
10) This is the End
11) Buttoned Down
12) Track #12
13) The First of This Century

Various Artists – Warped Tour 2007 Compilation
Disc 1
Alkaline Trio – “Fire Down Below”
Bad Religion – “Requiem for Dissent”
Killswitch Engage – “The Arms of Sorrow”
As I Lay Dying – “Confined”
Cute Is What We Aim For – “Lyrical Lies (electric)”
Big D and The Kids Table – “Steady Riot”
Tiger Army – “Afterworld”
I Am Ghost – “Our Friend Lazarus Sleeps”
Norma Jean – “Songs Sound Much Sadder”
The Matches – “Little Maggots”
Only Crime – “Take Me”
LoveHateHero – “Amity”
Amber Pacific – “Summer (In B)”
Buck-O-Nine – “I’m Not Dead”
Street Dogs – “Fading American Dream”
The Briggs – “Song of Babylon”
Escape the Fate – “Reverse This Curse”
Gallows – “Rolling with the Punches”
Madina Lake – “House of Cards”
Haste the Day – “Akeldema”
Blessthefall – “Could Tell a Love”
Guff – “Sympathy of Voices”
Set Your Goals – “This Song Is Definitely Not About a Girl”
My American Heart – “The Shake (Awful Feeling)”
Mayday Parade – “Black Cat”

Disc 2

The Used – “The Ripper ”
Poison The Well – “Letter Thing”
Chiodos – “To Trixie and Reptile, Thanks for Everything”
Bayside – “Duality”
Paramore – “This Circle”
Gogol Bordello – “60 Revolutions”
Aiden – “We Sleep Forever”
Vanna – “The Things He Carried”
The Human Abstract – “Mea Culpa”
Ryan’s Hope – “Killing Through Song”
Meg & Dia – “Monster”
Bedouin Soundclash – “Until We Burn In The Sun (The Kids Just Want Love Song)”
Smoke or Fire – “The Patty Hearst Syndrome”
The Casualties – “In It for Life”
The Toasters – “You’re Gonna Pay”
The Higher – “Insurance?”
Piebald – “Oh, The Congestion”
Blinded Black – “Under The Sunrise”
Greeley Estates – “The End of All We Know”
Strung Out – “Calling”
Parkway Drive – “Smoke ‘Em If Ya Got ‘Em”
The Unseen – “At Point Blank”
Olympia – “M-80”
Tokyo Rose – “A Pound of Silver Is Worth Its Weight in Blood”
Mad Caddies – “State of Mind”

Motion City Soundtrack – Even If It Kills Me
01. Fell In Love Without You
02. This Is For Real
03. It Had To Be You
04. Last Night
05. Calling All Cops
06. Can’t Finish What You Started
07. The Conversation
08. Broken Heart
09. Hello Helicopter
10. Where I Belong
11. Point Of Extinction
12. Antonia
13. Even If It Kills Me

Here’s a bunch of new songs to check out by a multitude of artists:

The Hush Sound – Honey performed live. Click here to watch it on YouTube.

Sum 41 – Underclass Hero, a new song of their upcoming album can be heard on their myspace.

Amber Pacific – Truth In Sincerity, check out a sampling of every song off their new album here.

Yesterday’s Rising – Explosions, a new song of their upcoming album can be heard on their myspace.

The Spill Canvas – To Live Without It, a new song of their new EP can be heard on their myspace.

Korn – I Will Protect You, a new song of their upcoming release can be heard on their myspace.

Circa Survive – In The Morning And Amazing, download this new song of their upcoming album temporarily right here.

Goldfinger- Free Kevin Kojnaas, here is a new song you can find on their myspace.

That’s all I have right now, for free hearing that is, but for if you want to buy a couple tracks here’s a few that have been digitally released.

The Used – Liar, Liar (Burn In Hell), you can download this new track off of their new upcoming album on iTunes here.

Green Day – Working Class Hero, download this track to promote Amnesty International here.

Ok, I’m done now, enjoy!