Brendon Urie , singer for the band Panic! At The Disco snapped his ankle during a concert in Florida this weekend.
Though his ankle swelled to the size of a softball he managed to get through the show and it doesn't look like it has impacted the bands current U.S. tour, scheduled to wind up June 29 in Omaha.
Hollywood gossip site TMZ is reporting that George Clinton the legendary Parliament-Funkadelic founder and frontman, has been hospitalized overnight for a serious staph infection in his leg, discovered during a routine doctors visit.
There has been no word on if or how this impacts the bands current touring schedule or it's scheduled date at Saturdays B.O.M.B. Festival in Hartford Connecticut at the Comcast Theater.
For more information on George Clinton and the current Parliament-Funkadelic tour check out his web site at georgeclinton.com
Fro more information on the B.O.M.B. Festival, check out their site at bombfest.com
Houston (and sometimes Austin) based Blue October has announced the release of their seventh full-length studio album, Any Man In America, which will be available on August 16, 2011. The album's thirteen new songs "tell a cathartic tale of heartbreak and healing through unbridled lyrical honesty, anthemic modern rock hooks, and melodic soundscapes."
The first single off of the album, "The Chills," will be available for digital download May 31st.
Blue October will support the album with a national tour that kicks off on August 17th 2011. For more info see blueoctober.com
Japan's Ice Grills Records is releasing a compilation encompassing the Wallingford, CT based Hostage Calm's entire catalog on August 10.
The release titled All of Hostage Calm will be available exclusively in Japan and documents their progression from their melodic hardcore punk roots, to their power-pop.
The discography includes their current Self-Titled LP, plus their "Run for Cover" Single 7-inch, the Lens LP and their demo.
track List:
1. A Mistrust Earned
2. Rebel Fatigues
3. Affidavit
4. Where the Waters Call Home
5. Ballots/Stones
6. Marine Transgressions
7. Young Professionals
8. Overstayed
9. Wither on the Vine
10.Victory Lap
11. Jerry Rumspringer
12. War on the Feeling
13. Donna Lee
14. War on a Feeling (Single Version)
15. In So Many Words...
16. Audible
17. Gaslighting
18. Nosebleed Section
19. (I'm Left with All These) Holes
20. Interchangeable Parts
21. 400,000
22. Lacuna (Where Certainty Sleep)
23. Shattering Mirrors
24. Grayscale
25. Pushing the Paradigm
26. One Face
27. Grayscale
28. 400,000
29. Weighed Down
Sweden's progressive metal mavens Opeth will release Heritage, their third album for Roadrunner, on September 20th. The first single and video will be the song "The Devil’s Orchard."
The album was produced by Opeth's frontman and guitarist Mikael Ã…kerfeldt and mixed along with Porcupine Tree frontman/guitarist Steven Wilson, who is a labelmate of Opeth.
Opeth will also embark on a seven-week, headline tour of the US. Dates will be announced imminently. For details see opeth.com
Thrash metal band Indestructible Noise Command and Candlelight Records have partnered to distribute the band’s upcoming full-length release, Heaven Sent…Hellbound, on it’s new release date, August 9th, 2011. The album is being released on Rising Records, and is the band’s first full-length offering in over 20 years.
Additionally the band just wrapped shooting two new music videos for the singles "Fist of Fascista" and "Swallowed" a few weeks ago in Brooklyn, New York.
For more information on Indestructible Noise Command, check out their site at incband.com
Southern California based EVE 6 is set to enter the studio this June with legendary producer Don Gilmore (Pearl Jam, Dashboard Confessional, Good Charlotte, The All-American Rejects). The band will be recording their long-awaited fourth studio album on their new label Fearless Records. Gilmore's previous work includes production on Linkin Park's 10 x platinum-seling album Hybrid Theory and 5 x platinum-selling release Meteora. Gilmore also produced EVE 6's platinum-selling self-titled debut album.
"Starting in the first couple weeks of June, we'll be descending into the dungeon (AKA studio) to record album #4 with Don Gilmore, our producer on the first two album," notes the band. "Don is a svengali/genius type of guy, and is a great match for our style and sensibility in the studio. We have a special bond with him, and are excited to get in the trenches..." notes the band.
Eve 6 reformed in early 2008, and spent much of the following two years on the road reconnecting with their fan base. Signed to Fearless Records early May 2011, they are excited to work on new material. "This will be a great home for us," notes the band. "They're super pumped about this record and the new songs and are just as anxious to get it recorded and released as we are."
If you can't make it to the sold out gig by Seattle based six piece Fleet Foxes at the legendary Stubb's BarBQ in Austin tonight don't worry - NPR has you covered.
If you log on to NPR Music at approximately 9:30 p.m. ET tonight you can check out a live webcast of the full concert by Fleet Foxes. The performance from Stubb's BarBQ in Austin, Texas, will be available in both audio and video. On tour ito support of its new album, Helplessness Blues released May 3rd, you can also hear the entire album online as part of NPR Music's First Listen series. For more information on where to tune in to catch the show
check out NPR's web site at http://www.npr.org/2011/05/09/136144278/live-tuesday-fleet-foxes-in-concert.
Streaming of live music events is becoming a very popular trend, not only here in tech savvy Austin, but around the world, and it won't be long before every major venue will be built like the new ACL Live studio venue, both as a studio and a live music venue. Until then we can continue to expect to see the large truck based portable production and broadcast facilities parked outside the venues with increasing frequency.
Thrash metal band Indestructible Noise Command is scheduled to film their new music video for the single ‘Swallowed’ this weekend. The video is being shot by director Russell Hasenauer in Brooklyn, NY on a building rooftop. ‘Swallowed’ describes the idea of fame often leading to addiction, and this will be depicted in the video through actors and the band themselves.
In it’s first week, the bands new EP Bleed the Line debuted at #4 Most Added on the CMJ Loud Rock charts. The EP entered the charts at #12 and is currently on the cusp of the top 10 at #11. The EP is currently spinning at many college and commercial radio stations nationwide. Bleed the Line EP is available now in digital format at iTunes and Amazon.com now.
With two successful full-length Giant Records releases, Razorback (1987) and The Visitor (1988) and live performances with the likes of Exodus, Megadeth and King Diamond, in 1988 with The Visitor, the band hit #1 on the CMJ Metal charts and stole the U.K. #2 Import slot out from underneath Aerosmith. Now based in New York City, the band is back with their Bleed the Line EP and Heaven Sent, Hellbound. Indestructible Noise Command is an original pioneer of the thrash metal scene, that bills itself as "resurrected in order to take back a genre recently flooded with neo-thrash carbon copies".