
The first handful of bands for the 2012 edition of the S.C.E.N.E. Music Festival have been announced. The St. Catharines Event for New Music Entertainment will again bring a number of punk, hardcore, metal and hip hop acts to the Niagara region this summer. The Planet Smashers , Death By Stereo , Said The Whale, Wooden Sky, Dead and Divine , Down With Webster, Die Mannequin , Monster Truck, Abandon All Ships, and The Lucky Ones have been confirmed for the event. More than 150 bands will be announced [...]

Death By Stereo have announced that their new album, titled Black Sheep of the American Dream , will be released April 24th, 2012. It will be released by Viking Funeral Records, who signed the band earlier this year . The band last released Death Is My Only Friend in 2009.

All week long we've been examining the evolution of Hajimemashite by Umphrey's McGee from its roots in the pre-UM project Tashi Station through one of the best live versions yet at the recent Summer Camp Festival . Over its 14-year life span "Haj" has appeared on numerous Umphrey's live albums, including Songs For Older Women , but went missing from all of the band's studio efforts...until now. A majestic version of Hajimemashite, complete with a beautifully layered string arrangement, closes the sextet's just-released Death By Stereo LP . [...]
Umphrey's McGee, a staple Chicago improv/fusion band, released their twelfth studio album on September 13, 2011. Richly textured and demonstrating a wide variety of influences, the songs fulfill the band's mantra that none are ever recycled. In other words, every album is new and fresh in the truest sense of the word. For example, The Floor is a rolling, ambitious selection that could easily have also been labeled as a thematic score. Dim Sum, a straight acoustic instrumental piece, beautifully showcases Jake Cinniger's guitar work. Soulful and funk-infused with horns, bouncy piano and vocal harmonies, [...]
De verschijning van Death By Stereo zag ik met ongeduld maar ook enigszins bevreesd tegemoet. Voorganger Mantis was een meesterwerk, waar ik tot op de dag van vandaag elke keer weer met be- en verwondering naar zit te luisteren. Het...

Agnostic Front and Death By Stereo have announced a European tour set to begin in February of 2012.
The worst thing that a jam band can do is try to release a studio album that "captures the magic" of live improvisation. It just doesn't work. As any fan will tell you, jam is all about the live shows. Good thing Umphrey's McGee 's latest studio effort, Death By Stereo , doesn't conform to any of those stereotypes. This successful record, with its polished production and general refinement, shows off the incredible poly-stylistic writing of its members. Every genre is mined for bits of inspiration: a little metal here, a bunch of prog rock there, a sprinkling of hard [...]

Umphrey's McGee - Conduit One of my favorite jams from last summer gets the analog treatment on the new UM album appropriately titled Death by Stereo , which drops Tuesday. Other than a show review , I'm pretty sure this is the first Umph track to appear on MJF which is sad because they are probably in my top 5 favorite bands. I know a lot of people shrug off the jam genre but don't knock them until you see them live. They are truly talented musicians and they get better each time I [...]

As mentioned on this week's podcast , My Chemical Romance has named Death By Stereo 's Jarrod Alexander as their drummer after Mike Pedicone was kicked out after allegedly stealing from the band after a recent performance in Auburn. It is not official that Alexander will be the permanent replacement, but he will at least finish out the Honda Civic Tour that goes through the beginning of next month.

In less than two weeks, Umphrey's McGee will release Death By Stereo - the group's long-awaited sixth studio album which features a mix of road-tested material and never-before-heard tunes. The Chicago-based prog-jammers have come up with another inventive pre-order program for DBS as if sales of the album hit certain figures, fans will collectively unlock more content such as a pre-orderers-only webcast. Besides digital download, vinyl and CD bundles, Umphrey's has made a Deluxe Edition available for pre-order that includes [...]
While we already knew the name of the new album forthcoming from Umphrey's McGee (Death By Stereo) and the release date (September 13) thanks to a tweet from the band's LD Jefferson Waful , a press release issued today about Death By Stereo reveals a few new details. Click here to view the embedded video. Umphrey's McGee - Wellwishers (Live w/ Horns on 12/31/2010) First off, DBS will be the group's first release on ATO [...]

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As some of you might know, I have a Twitter account. I find the microblogging site to be a useful tool for making pithy comments about the state of metal as well as for catching up on the activities of some of my favorite bands (such as Emmure, Kingdom Of Sorrow, and Jucifer). [...]

Well, Life Just Bounces mixtapes were pretty sporadic this year. It started strongly enough, with an early hiccup in March and, then, er, May, and by July everything had basically gone to the dogs. Oh well: in a spirited last-minute effort, here's a mix for December, themed for no good reason around the colour brown. Solid, reliable brown is the color of earth and is abundant in nature. Light brown implies genuineness while dark brown is similar to wood or leather. Brown can also be sad and wistful. Men are more apt to [...]
Death By Stereo recently signed to Serjical Strike records, the label owned by Serj Tankian of System of a Down and put out a new record Death Is My Only Friend, full of punk rock jams. Below is the video for "I Sing For You" directed by Elliot Dillman which features a bunch of [...]
MUSIC NEWS - Affliction Clothing has made the great decision to produce their own show; called Affliction Vision . They're on their 3rd episode and featured their wild recent road trip to SXSW . Catch them in the RV with Death by Stereo and Mike V's Revolution Mothers . Take a view of the third episode below, and check out their new clothing line . - Check out Affliction Vision for more!
Anche oggi i negozi di dischi saranno invasi da moltissime novità. A cominciare dall'atteso nuovo cd di Gianna Nannini (qui sopra un estratto della copertina). Tra gli artisti nostrani segnaliamo i nuovi album di alcuni cantautori storici come Pino Daniele , Angelo Branduardi , il live di Alice e la raccolta di Edoardo Bennato . Dall'estero poi arrivano il live di Leonard Cohen e i nuovi lavori di P.J. Harvey , The Decemberists ( qui la scheda del nostro Zago), i [...]
Song: Desperation Train Artist: Death By Stereo Album: Day of Death Comments: 3rd generation OC Hardcore Punk. For most of my life I always thought of the OC as The Adolescents, DI, and TSOL. Names that popped up frequently were Ron Emory, Tony Cadena(?), etc. Then there was that punk rock movie Suburbia . However, that was a generation ago and things have changed. There was inevitably a second and thrird wave of hardcore punk to come out of the OC. Death By Stereo were [...]
Death By Stereo new songs Death By Stereo have posted four new songs from their upcoming album " Death Is My Only Friend ", planned for a 2009 release, on myspace .

IODA Promonet Week 21 This needs no introduction considering that it's the 21st week of the weekly special so here goes!: Last Days Of April - Might As Well Live [2007 - Bad Taste Records] Key Dates Original Release: n/a Digital Release: Mar 14, 2007 Encoded by IODA: Jan 03, 2007 Download "Who's On The Phone?" (mp3) [...]