Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews . I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the community talking this week: Fearless Records unveied yet another Punk Goes Pop compilation. This edition features Cute Is What We Aim For , Mayday Parade [...]
Flashback Alert. Pompano Beach-based emo pioneers Further Seems Forever have announced what Creative Loafing Tampa is calling a "reunion activity" featuring all of the band's original members - including vocalist (and Dashboard Confessional frontman) Chris Carrabba. The bio on the band's new Twitter page states that the "original lineup is set for a return in Spring 2011," and Carrabba has also posted a Twitter message confirming that he has been practicing with the band. To tease fans even more, the band posted a 30-second clip of Carrabba practicing the title [...]
Exclaim is reporting that Further Seems Forever have reunited with original vocalist (and Dashboard Confessional leader) Chris Carrabba. Further Seems Forever posted a video on a newly launched website yesterday of the band rehearsing "The Moon Is Down" with Carrabba on vocals. The video concludes with word "Spring" hinting at a tour or album next year. The most recent lineup of the band had called it quits in 2006 after releasing Hide Nothing in 2004.
Mesmeric Songwriter LINDSEY RAY Releases Pristine Full-Length Debut 'Goodbye From California' ** Upcoming Performance at The Hotel Café on September 22nd with Bleu and Mike Viola ** New York, NY – Fresh off the heals of an impressive album release show at Los Angeles' famed Hotel Café, accomplished chanteuse Lindsey Ray has just unveiled 'GOODBYE FROM CALIFORNIA' (Out Now, LRay Records / Redeye Distribution), an upbeat and empowering full-length debut that is sure to place her at the forefront of the current crop of singer-songwriter talent. Mastered by veteran producers Bill Lefler (Ingrid Michaelson, Dashboard Confessional) [...]
NYC's own Bayside has been embraced by many for their infectous melodies and honest lyrics. After releasing four albums on Victory Records, the band signed with Wind-Up Records and started recording their fifth album with acclaimed producer Gil Norton (Jimmy Eat World, Foo Fighters, Dashboard Confessional). I had a chance to speak with Bayside's lead singer Anthony Raneri about recording the new album and their upcoming tour with Senses Fail. [...]
Fresh off the heals of an impressive album release show at Los Angeles' famed Hotel Café, accomplished chanteuse Lindsey Ray has just unveiled 'GOODBYE FROM CALIFORNIA' (Out Now, LRay Records / Redeye Distribution), an upbeat and empowering full-length debut that is sure to place her at the forefront of the current crop of singer-songwriter talent. Mastered by veteran producers Bill Lefler (Ingrid Michaelson, Dashboard Confessional) and Curt Schneider (Five For Fighting, Mitchell Musso), the album showcases an artful pairing of...
The Dig's van was robbed on Sunday night in Chicago, en route to their dates with Dashboard Confessional , and most of their gear stolen. The Dig will be able to play the Gurnee and Eureka shows thanks to the good men of Dashboard Confessional , who have kindly offered to let...
The Dig new tour dates w/ Dashboard Confessional, gear stolen The Dig has announced two new tour dates in support of Dashboard Confessional . Before traveling home following a five-week national tour with Thrice, Kevin Devine , and Bad Veins , the band will play Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, IL, on July 27th and Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, MO, on July 28th with Dashboard. In far less happy news, the band's van was robbed overnight in Chicago and most of their gear stolen. Anyone [...]
Say Anything and Motion City Soundtrack Announce Co-Headlining US Fall Tour Photo: Say Anything Photo: Motion City Soundtrack Kicking Things off in San Diego, CA on October 14th Say Anything and Motion City Soundtrack announce a co-headlining tour of the US this fall kicking things off at Soma in San Diego, CA on October 14, 2010. [...]
Nothing gets me down like bad things happening to good people so I was pretty sad when I heard that The Dig got robbed of quite a bit of gear but the fact that they were robbed in Chicago last night makes it all the more tragic. Here are the details, according to the band's latest press release: The band's van was robbed overnight in Chicago and most of their gear stolen. The Dig will be able to play the Gurnee [...]
Sky Sailing An Airplane Carried Me To Bed Universal Republic Records [2010] Fire Note Says: Owl City - (Blips + Bleeps) /(Guitar + Piano) = Sky Sailing Album Review: Last year about this time we reviewed Adam Young's then unknown band Owl City and not only were we critical but guessed his music might end up on some TV soundtracks but that was about it. Well you [...]
There's very little rest in sight for New York City indie rockers The Dig . Just having wrapped up a tour with Thrice and Bad Veins , the band is set to open a couple of shows this week for Dashboard Confessional on July 27th and 28th. The Dig , who have also...
The Dig play 2 shows w/ Dashboard Confessional NY band The Dig are playing two shows with Dashboard Confessional next week. Their debut album Electric Toys was released recently, check out the track " You're Already Gone " here . Tues, July 27 Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, IL Wed, July 28 Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, MO Both shows at 7pm, free with park admission and w/ Dashboard Confessional
Check out the song Once Upon A Cloud by The Avoda which consists of New Jersey singer-songwriter Dov Carpe. Influences range from Dashboard Confessional and Saves the Day to Coldplay. Contact: theavoda@gmail.com
Cory Branan comes through town tonight to play the first of two nights at the White Eagle. And just who is Cory Branan anyway? Don't hold the name against him: He's not the missing teen-idol link between Haim and Feldman, but rather a rootsy singer/songwriter from Mississippi. He hangs out with Lucero. He gets covered by Dashboard Confessional (it happens to the best of us). As a kid, Branan listened to a bunch of John Prine and seemed at one point to be on the same steady path as Ryan Adams or Conor Oberst, according to a [...]
MUST-SEE SHOW: 7/20 Flaming Lips & Fang Island @ Station Square Amphitheatre Last year I finally crossed the Flaming Lips off my concert bucket list, and the show was everything I've been led to believe it would be. It was intense sensory overload with confetti cannons, furry costumes and the giant ball of Wayne Coyne. The music's not bad, either. ALSO WORTH ATTENDING: 7/10 Dave Matthews Band & Zac Brown Band @ PNC Park Dave Matthews Band's 2009 album Big Whiskey was [...]
Counting Crows Traveling Circus & Medicine tour w/ Augustana Counting Crows are bringing back their Traveling Circus & Medicine Show this year with Augustana , featuring rapper NOTAR. Message from frontman Adam Duritz: "I believe rock and roll should always revolt against itself, always insist on the unexpected, whether it's as simple as verse or a moment in a band's performance or as huge as the appearance of The Dead Boys or Television or N.W.A. or Stew or Dashboard Confessional or Run-DMC to change our [...]
Counting Crows Traveling Circus & Medicine tour w/ Augustana Counting Crows are bringing back their Traveling Circus & Medicine Show this year with Augustana , featuring rapper NOTAR. Message from frontman Adam Duritz: "I believe rock and roll should always revolt against itself, always insist on the unexpected, whether it's as simple as verse or a moment in a band's performance or as huge as the appearance of The Dead Boys or Television or N.W.A. or Stew or Dashboard Confessional or Run-DMC to change our [...]
After the success of last year's Traveling Circus & Medicine Show with Augustana and Michael Franti & Spearhead , Counting Crows are bringing it back this summer. Augustana join the Crows again, and this time they also welcome rapper NOTAR . The tour kicks off July 3rd in Milwaukee, WI at SummerFest. The show is a bit of a different format where the three acts (and some special guests along the way) will combine to [...]
A worthwhile cover version is such a rare thing. Most artists play it straight and turn the whole exercise into a wedding band performance, while others try to stamp their own personality on a cover and end up completely eroding what it was that made the original song special in the first place. When I heard that one my favourite Belle & Sebastian tracks had made it onto American husband and wife duo Mates Of State's new covers album Crushes, it seemed like as good a reason as any to whore the internet for other foreigners covering [...]
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