Thrice posted the following to myspace, sharing the departure with Island Records:

We just wanted to let you all know that we?ve decided to part ways with Island Records. Over the past couple of years, we?ve realized that we have different visions for the band?s future and we both agree that we?d be better off going our separate ways at this point. We?re very grateful for all the help and support they?ve given us for the past four years. Thankfully, they?ve been generous enough to let us keep the record we?re currently recording, and we?re hopeful that this change in plans won?t delay its release. We?re currently in the process of finding a new home, and will let you all know once we do so.

As with every twist and turn of our careers, we made this decision based on trust and belief: belief in what we?re creating and our future, and trust in each other and you all as fans.

We?re excited to finish this album, get it out later this year, go on tour this fall with one of our favorite bands, and for everything our future holds.

Thank you all for your love and support, it means the world to us.

Love,
Dustin, Riley, Teppei, and Ed

Bleed The Dream‘s trailer was stolen with a lot of their gear and merch. What is up with band’s trailer’s being stolen? This is ridiculous. See if you can help these guys out. Here’s their myspace post:

So…………Our trailer was stolen 4 days before warped tour with a lot of our gear and merch in it. If you live in or around the LA/San Fernando Valley, be on the lookout for the following things.

*4×12 Mesa Boogie Cabinet with MAPHIA spray painted on it
*6×10 Mesa Boogie Bass Cabinet that’s missing a wheel
*Road case with 2 Berringer headphone amps and multiple Monster Cables
*Huge road case that holds head, cab, and guitar
*Purple Ibanez AE Acoustic Electric Guitar with broken pickup.
*Ibanez Bass that has “Fuck Hollywood” carved into it
*1000’s of BTD posters
*1,000’s of BTD guitar picks and stickers
*100’s of BTD shirts
*100’s of BTD CD’s

If you run into any of this gear at a pawn shop in the valley or see someone selling mass amounts of BTD merch on ebay, please contact us via myspace. Thanks

Tom/BTD

On a recent myspace post, Craig Owens of Chiodos, has filled us in on their current progress of their new album, Bone Palace Ballet. The album is to be released on September 4th.

Brad and I are in the studio finishing up the rest of Bone Palace Ballet here in Lexington, KY. I just wanted to let everyone know how excited we all are about the masterpiece that we have made. Also, that it is very, very close to being finished! – Craig

Atreyu‘s upcoming album Lead Sails Paper Anchor is scheduled to be released on August 28th. The record was produced by John Feldmann (The Used, Good Charlotte). Here is the tracklisting :

1 – Doomsday
2 – Honor
3 – Falling Down
4 – Becoming the Bull
5 – Slow Burn
6 – Two Become One
7 – No One Cares
8 – Can’t Happen Here
9 – Lose it
10 – “Blow
11 – Lead Sails (and a Paper Anchor)

Chester Bennington’s side project Dead By Sunrise has been put off for now to tour and promote for Linkin Park. He says they’re a few years into the project, but Linkin Park comes first. Here’s what Chester had to say:

I was actually pretty deep into recording my other project, called Dead By Sunrise, and we were really far into the record,” he said. “And then, you know, LP got together and we all decided that we wanted to make a record and start as soon as possible. So Linkin Park takes the lead, you know what I mean? So I stopped working on the record and I’ll be finishing it up while we’re touring over these next couple of years, and it’ll be ready to go out.

Oasis will hit the studios July 3rd to start recording their 7th studio album. They hope to have it finished recording by the end of the year and have it released as well as a tour next summer. Stay tuned for further details.

Trapt as posted a new song “Stay Alive” on Ultimate-Guitar.com. The new song will be featured on their live album, set to be released on August 21st. They plan to start recording a new album later this year. Trapt also plans on releasing 9 live videos online to their fans for free. For more information check out the exclusive interview at Ultimate-Guitar.com

Atreyu has officially titled their upcoming album Lead Sails Paper Anchor and have set a release date of August 28th, 2007. Lead Sails Paper Anchor is the bands fourth album and major label debut on Hollywood Records. Recently the band posted a game on their website featuring the first single off the album, ?Becoming the Bull.? The game challenges their fans to put ?Becoming the Bull? back together, with the fastest time winning a prize package that includes an autographed guitar and a copy of the album before it hits the streets. Atreyu will hit the road this summer with Korn and Evanescence on the Family Values tour.

Listen to the new song, Becoming The Bull, at atreyugame.com

In a recent post on myspace by Knights In Paris:

So I figured it was time to catch some of you up to speed as to where Nick and I (Mike) are at. I’ve been on tour for the past week or so, but before I left we were able to get a bunch of progress done. It’s been a little hard sometimes for us to physically get together with both of us doing our other bands, but we’ve been making it happen, sometimes even over the phone we end up writing haha. Right now we’ve got some really great material shaping up. Before I left we finished a new jam that Nick and I are really excited about, and since I left for tour we have another one in the works that is definitely gonna be something new for both of us, I guess I could describe it as a lot more on the dancier side. But so far what we have has a lot of variety which is what I always like to strive for. While I’m on tour these couple weeks I’ll be working on writing lyrics a bunch, I already have a good amount done and it’s coming together well.

Lastly, as for recording. We’ve been doing home demos on Nick’s computer. They work for the time being, but are not something we’d wanna release as our actual tracks. So given that, we’re going to shoot to head into the studio sometime in August to lay down i’d hope at least 4 to 6 songs and then we’ll have something for all of you to hear. In the mean time, we’ll see if we can get at least a snipet of something for you to hear that we’ve done up here so you can kinda have an idea where this is going.

Mike

(p.s. If any of you have any questions or just wanna shoot the shit, Nick and I will try to answer this page as much as we possibly can)