The Hush Sound has recently posted a some updates about their bands progression and about the progress of an upcoming album. Read more in their myspace post:

I must tell you that i haven’t felt like a real person in about 2 years. This band has come from playing in basements to playing on 3 different continents in about 800 or so days. In between we’ve played everywhere from bakersfield california for 7 or 8 people… you know who you are.. Friends backyard parties. small clubs, big clubs, medium sized clubs, strip clubs, night clubs, golf clubs, etc.

All the while i guess i just felt less and less like a person. Sometimes i forget to feel like someone who is waiting for something. Sometimes i forget where we are… or where we are going next… i guess its sheer exhaustion and monotony (not to be confused with monopoly… a fun; but long board game). I really didn’t know how to feel good after a while. I felt uncreative and untalented. I watched the beatles anthology and they talked about how bad they were after touring for a few years… Its interesting touring makes you better and worse simultaneously… i think its because you play the same songs over and over again and even if you want to learn material you are always surrounded by other people who want their own space… etc.

anyways… We’ve been home for a couple weeks now and i started to remember what i love about being in a band, only this time its even better. I moved to the city and i’ve been more productive, creative, and excited for music than i ever have been. (that is a huge statement) I have seen the members of my band grow so much…

Greta was a little girl when we started this band… now she is truly a woman. Darren and Chris have grown too… haha… but seriously.

I’m still me… I guess most people don’t really notice themselves changing… maybe they see an old picture or read an old journal entry. And laugh out loud and be like “wow! I was wearing baggy pants!” or “i liked lorraine… and now shes insane?” and then in a couple years you’ll look at pics from now and be like.. “wow i had a see through shirt on… and you will probably be upset cuz you used to wear it all the time… and you just realized everyone could see everything… but at the time you just thought you were popular b/c you had a cool sound system…” wtf am i talking about?

Sorry… I guess what i’m trying to say is that for the first two albums i was so confused about who i was and i think expecially on like vines i had a hard time figuring it out. Like Vines was a struggle to make… we had just written an album a few months earlier and now we had to make a first album again. I felt pressured and sometimes tense. I think everyone can tell how utterly honest a song like momentum is… it was hard for me to tap into my truest feelings… i was guarded by exhaustion worry and pressure.

There were many times when our band was not getting along and it hurt us all. After a show last winter in buffalo… after touring for a year straight… yet not realizing what it was doing to my body and mainly my mind… i finished the show and started walking downtown. It was (no offense to buffaloan’s…? a little bit scary sometimes. I didn’t have a destination… i just needed to get away from everything. I didn’t plan on ending up at the greyhound station, but when i did… well… lets just say if the ticket line were shorter that tour could have very well ended that night.

After the dates we did with straylight i felt like a wreck. I was so upset and i didn’t know if i would ever write a song again. I was completely clogged in my head. I didn’t know a feeling from an inkling from a joke. I couldn’t decide what i liked… pop, jazz, rock, world… i was completely spread thin… I felt so dead when i decided that it was ridiculus for me to be in a band if i wasn’t getting better… I signed up for 2 guitar lessons and a vocal lesson… bought a bike and moved to the city.

I just started feeling alive a few days ago… maybe it is the bike rides i’ve been enjoying… even though some city drivers are pricks… or the freedom of not living with your (ever so gentle and loving… but still overbearing) parents or what… but i can’t wait to bring the songs i’ve loved writing to the band and make the best album we could possibly make!

Sorry just had to vent a little bit… i’m just lucky to be alive!

best
bob

ps. lets celebrate my rebirth by listening to ernest ranglin’s song “surfin” off of the album “below the bassline”

A radio station in Chicago, Illinois (Q101) played The White Stripes new album Icky Thump without their permission. It then became apparent that the copy of the album that was played on the radio was a bootleg version and now a version they received from the White Stripes or their record label. Lead singer, Jack White, personally called up the radio station and ripped on the studio and the DJ. Jack White was in Spain when he made the call. To read more about the story click here.

Atreyu has been hard at work at a new album. They have put up a new song for you to hear, but hold your horses, its not as easy as just click and listen. They’ve created a mini game in which you must assemble the song in the proper order. Upon winning the game you will receive the new song, titled Becoming The Bull. So are you ready to play:

Click here to listen to the new Atreyu song, Becoming The Bull

The Bled recently posted to their myspace their new album title and further updates about their upcoming tour on Projekt Revolution Tour. Read more:

Hey bears

Lots of news. First off, a huge thank you to all the canadian MCR fans and of course MCR themselves for showing us an amazing time in the great white north. Everyone was really fuckin cool to us, and made a little hardcore band from az feel at home when we were totally out of our element ( we usually don’t get the opportunity to bang our heads in soldout arena’s ). We can’t wait to come back up and grab some harvey burgers and timbits with ya’lls.

We are proud to be a part of this years zumiez couch tour, starting tomorrow at fiesta mall in mesa az, and then again on saturday the 9th in dallas (plano) texas at windhaven mall. Both shows are free and will have an awesome skateboard demonstration. So come out and mall rat it up with us, I’ll teach you how to kickflip.

After that we will be enjoying a month and a half off before embarking on one of the craziest and most diverse tours we’ve ever been a part of. PROJEKT REVOLUTION will span the entire US and feature the talents of LINKIN PARK, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, HIM, PLACEBO, SAOSIN and a few others. Basically, there is something for everybody on this tour so don’t blow it.

Immediately after that we will be joining up with 2 of our favorite bands to tour with THE USED and SAY ANYTHING on the “ROCKSTAR presents Get A Life Tour”. And then its off to Australia and new zealand on international taste of chaos tour which also features our friends in The Used, we can’t get enough of those dudes. As you can see we are well on our way to covering the globe on our summer/fall tours. Stay tuned and check up on our myspace page (www.myspace.com/thebled) for exact dates and details.

Oh yeah, and we recently finished recording our new disc with brian mcternan in baltimore md. The record is called Silent Treatment and will feature 11 new songs. I’m not gonna barage you with a bunch of adjectives and cliche descriptions of what it sounds like, but just know that we are more confident and excited to be in this band now because of this record. There was a time that I wasn’t sure if we knew how to write this kind of music anymore, but once we got started what came out was so natural and raw that we have been reinvigorated as friends and as artists. We are very proud and hope that you guys get into it as much as we are. I don’t have many details as far as a release date, but we expect Silent Treatment to hit stores in the early fall. Again, check our myspace page for details, we will update that shit as it comes along. Thanks again for reading all this, and keeping up with what’s going on in our world. See you guys real freakin soon.

Love jeremy ray,

The Bloodies.

Here it is:

Marilyn Manson – Eat Me, Drink Me, stream his new album in full

A Perfect Murder – War Of Aggression, a new song of their new album, happily titled the same as this song

Darkest Hour – Demons, a new track of their upcoming release

Chris Cornell -Carry On, listen to his new album in full (leader singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave, for those who wonder)

Yellowcard – Five Becomes Four, a new song of their upcoming release

Queens Of The Stone Age – Era Vulgaris, listen to their new album, in full, free stream

Throwdown – Holy Roller, yup it’s new material for you

The Police – The Police, take a step back in time and listen to their greatest hits, released in this compilation

Tom Petty – Highway Companion, this is a new album featuring rare songs and unreleased music, free for you to stream!

The Format has decided to give away their 2006 album, Dog Problems. Starting June 25th, for 20 days you will be able to obtaion their album in full of their website. Here is what the band had to say about the situation:

Owning our own publishing and master has allowed us the freedom to experiment,. We?d be doomed if we sat around and waited for things like radio play to come around. We?re just not that band.

We understand the reality; kids aren?t buying music. We?re going to see if we can?t pick up 20,000 new sets of ears by offering the album for free. We?re betting that the money lost on those record sales will come back when people come see us live this summer.

This will be a chance to share the album with your friends who haven’t bought it or fileshared it

Make sure to get your chance on a few album, visit The Format‘s site on June 25th, TheFormat.com

The Receiving End Of Sirens recently posted an explanation to the title of their new album, The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi:

The title, The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi stems from a book written by a late 16th century astronomical theorist by the name of Johannes Kepler and the publication just fascinated the band. Kepler?s theory suggested that each of the 9 planets in our solar system produced tones as they orbited the sun. Throughout the orbit, Venus would stay a consistent note that was considered the 6th in relation to the rest of the planets. As Earth would shift its tonality, it would create the effect of the notes moving from the major 6th to the minor 6th and back and forth. This is where the ?Mi Fa Mi? comes into action, symbolizing the corresponding syllables when singing a scale in relation to the notes of the earth {Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do}. Kepler further concurred that the Earth ?singing? Mi Fa Mi could truly stand for Misery, Famine, Misery and ultimately, that is the song the Earth and Venus continued to sing. Misery, referring to an empty place and Famine, referring to the appetite or thirst for things.

Here’s a recent update by Dillinger Escape Plan about their new album, posted on their myspace:

We start official album tracking this week in the secret underground recording location in Alaska.

Ben is flying there. Probably first class. Maybe a private jet. Cause he rolls like that. Honestly I think it’s because he wants to get there a couple days before me and Liam get there cause he needs those days of peace. We’re gonna fight one another and Steve Evetts battle royale style probably for about 90% of the time.

Liam and I are driving there because we’re fucking crusty and don’t give a fuck and we’ll probably have more adventures driving anyway. Or we’ll kill one another/ourselves because:

A) we’re both assholes
B) we have vowed to not sleep the entire time by any means necessary and he has fucking narcolepsy anyway and may fall asleep behind the wheel
C) after “Dyer’s Eve” plays for the five hundredth time with the stereo dimed he will hurl himself from the car
D) after the five hundredth Bjork song I will hurl myself from the car

Igl Aronesh

Regular updates from the studio soon. If you see me and Liam on the highway do not engage us. We are basically more or less gonna be rock n roll zombie after the first 24 hours of non-stop driving and will probably run you off the road.

Smashing Pumpkins haven’t played a concert in over 6 years until this year. Three days ago (June 2nd, 2007) they played a full set at the Rock AM Ring in N?rburgring, Germany. They also put up the whole concert for stream on their website. And maybe you don’t have time to stream, download the whole concert in too, for free. Sweetness eh? So here’s the links:

Stream The Smashing Pumpkins Concert at the Rock AM Ring
Download The Smashing Pumpkins Concert at the Rock AM Ring

Their set list is as follows (including times within the video each song starts):
01. (01:44) Today
02. (05:13) Bullet With Butterfly Wings
03. (09:49) United States
04. (20:39) Bleeding The Orchid
05. (25:39) Stand Inside Your Love
06. (29:27) Cherub Rock
07. (34:13) Shame
08. (40:14) Silverfuck
09. (50:50) Thirty-Three
10. (54:47) To Sheila
11. (60:05) Tonight, Tonight
12. (64:43) Tarantula
13. (68:49) Starz
14. (72:53) Zero
15. (75:25) Disarm
16. (78:17) 1979
17. (82:30) Untitled
18. (90:12) Gossamer

Enjoy this for now and prepare for 07/07/07, Smashing Pumpkins latest release Zeitgeist.