A fresh rumor says that As Cities Burn has recently broken up but plans to still release their new album which should be near completion or already completed. This might explain the lack of info, artwork, and overall prep for a new record. Nevertheless, we should still (hopefully) be seeing new material come forth. The source tells me that the break up may be because bassist Colin Kimble just recently got married. We’ll have to wait and see how this plays out and hear an offical word from the band.
If you haven’t heard Obadiah Parker you should. Singer Mat Weddle was the guy that covered the acoustic version of Outcast’s “Hey Ya” that got real popular a good while back. Parker explains in a recent video update, about where that video took himself and the band, and that they are going to be recording a new album. He explains in the video that they can’t do it alone and how you can help. You can see the video and their myspace here.
“Our beliefs are everything to us. We know that we aren’t going to “save” kids every night at our shows but we could possibly change a few kids’ lives – even if its 1, it’s totally worth it to us. We just want to love everyone regardless of their beliefs as JC would & hopefully people will pick up on that”
Until June has finally added new music to its myspace page and it comes in the form of the song The Man Who Lost His Soul. They are in the studio right now recording a new album which will be released soon.
You can listen to Copeland’s new album You Are My Sunshine right now at their myspace! Go take a listen and them comment what you think of it. This is the last chance to preorder the album at the Tooth & Nail Store. Some of the bundles are already sold out, so get them while they last as there are only a limited number of mugs and shirts left! Copeland will be doing a live chat on Monday at Absolutepunk.net at 10pm EST to celebrate the release of their new album.
Parachute Band took home the People’s Choice Award at the New Zealand Music Awards, held in Auckland Wednesday night. Click below to see a picture of the award and full details. Their new album Technicolor releases next Tuesday. If you haven’t heard it yet, you can listen to the whole thing here.
Hello everyone! This is Michael bringing you his very first review here at IVM! I picked DecembeRadio’s most recent sophomore effort, Satisfied, to review and here it is. I was skeptic at first but ended up enjoying it a whole lot more than I thought I would. Give it a read, constructive criticism is always welcome.
The new IVM is coming. Brandon and I are very excited to see where this takes IVM. And we hope you all are excited as well. As Brandon said before, this is going to be a major design change and we hope that most of you will enjoy it. I will not be cluttering the main blog here with “new IVM” updates anymore though. If you ARE interested however, in seeing the progress on the new site, you can view our Twitter page. We’ll be updating it with info on how the progress is coming, new features, screenshots, and whatever is coming up next. If you have an Twitter account, add us and I may be asking open questions about what you guys want. So feel free to respond to those. If you do not have an account, grab one or just check in to twitter.com/ivmusic to see what is currently happening. I don’t want this to take very long time but we want to get this transition as perfect as possible, and we want to keep you guys in the loop and involved. Thanks and enjoy.
For all you Southern California fans, Liskfest is this Saturday October 11th at Oaks Canyon Ranch in Irvine. Living Sacrifice is scheduled to play at 3pm. Other bands playing include: Ignite, Set Your Goals, Strung Out, The Vandals, Bleeding Through, Everytime I Die, Death by Stereo, Rival Schools, Set Your Goals, H20, Dear Hearts, and more….Click here for the festival website.
To The Brave Saint Saturn Ground Control:
Yesterday I sent you all a message to let you know that we are attempting to get Brave Saint Saturn played on hundreds of general market radio stations by getting you to listen to the song “Mercenary” off of our new album, ANTI-MERIDIAN. So far, it’s working. We went from something like 2000th place, to being in the Top 200 in one day on the Clear Channel unsigned artist charts. But, the task is daunting. I think to have any impact, we need to get it up to the top ten. Meaning we have to go from around 1200 listens, to somewhere around 22,000. This is crazy, but I think it can happen, especially with you all pulling for it. Like I said yesterday, you can just open the link, turn off your speakers, and hit the little speaker icon in the upper left hand corner to restart it, about every 5 minutes or whenever you think about it. You can also do the same by just hitting your reload button. I’ve been told that you can open it in multiple browser windows as well, to rock it even further. So here is the link again:
and here is a way to track us on the charts:
So, I appreciate everyone trying so hard to make this happen. Tell your friends, and thanks for keeping us in space.
Godspeed,
Reese
I’ve chosen our new graphic designer and I feel that his designs will truly take us in all new direction. Hopefully we’ll have a preliminary design up within a couple of weeks. Personally, I love the new design but I know there will always be haters out there Just sit tight and prepare for the ride. IVM goes major!
You can currently listen to the whole new Christmas cd from Sixpence None the Richer at Imeem here. The album is titled “The Dawn of Grace” and will hit stores October 14th via Nettwerk. You can order the album online right here.
Sorry to sound like a buffoon once again but where can I buy their ep that came out a few months ago? I forget the site.
Farewell Down, a great band that appeared on Hearts Bleed Passion Vol. 3 is calling it quits. Their myspace page has now been switched over to band member Joe Henschel’s solo project. Read the full blog below. Check out Joe Henschel on myspace here. One former member Phil Danyew has signed with Sparrow Records and will release his solo project soon on the label.
“We were in between writing songs for the new record and when you’re doing a record, there are a lot of voices. A lot of people are putting their hands on it, saying, “Do it this way and do it this way” and there’s a line in the song that people are always asking what it means that says “Your helping hands are more like suicide” and it’s not a literal suicide. It’s like death to your art. So that song kind of came out of frustration that people were just trying to kill your art and make it just this “Christian radio friendly,” glazed-over, whatever.“
Message from Mute Math: Mute Math will release a new song, “Spotlight”, as part of the official motion picture soundtrack for the forthcoming film “Twilight”. Mute Math has also composed new music for one of the scenes in the movie. The film, an action-packed modern day love story between a vampire and human, is based off Stephanie Meyer’s New York Times Bestselling series of Vampire novels. The soundtrack will be available November 4 on Chop Shop/Atlantic. The movie will release November 21. “Spotlight” will also be featured on Mute Math’s sophomore album due out spring 2009. The album also includes 2 new songs from Paramore. Click below to see the album artwork and tracklisting.
EMI is hoping to launch their own digital music service by the end of this year but they say they’re not trying to compete with iTunes or AmazonMP3. The service will “provide a blend of free and paid content, plus it will contain a “music discovery function” akin to last.fm and Pandora.“ You can read more here.
We Became the Sun recently got an endorsement from Veil Arms Clothing, which is putting them on a short tour with A Plea for Purging, Sleeping Giant, and The Glorious Unseen. Check them out.
Switchfoot will be touring with 3 Doors Down this December.
The band will also be on the Discovery Network Show “Battleground Earth” this Sunday October 12th, performing their hit “This is Home”. Check it out.
The band’s greatest hits release titled “The Best Yet” is out in stores nationwide November 4th. The tracklisting for the CD/DVD can be found by clicking below. Thanks to EMI for sending me this album and Jon Foreman’s best of. I need to pop these in the stereo.
… Steve Vesolich. An acoustic/folk artist from Pittsburgh, Steve is one of those quality coffee-shop performers that gets unfortunately overlooked. I plan to do a write up of his CD later, but for now, check out his myspace tunes.
Exclusively at the Tooth and Nail website, you can now stream the new Starflyer 59 song “The Brightest of The Head” in the media player. This is lifted off their upcoming album, “Dial M”.
The haunted rockers Neon Horse are somehow being featured on the FX show “Sons of Anarchy” tonight. For more info, check their latest couples blogs on their myspace.
Hey, it’s Reese Roper, here to ask you for a really big favor. We released our third album, ANTI-MERIDIAN, about 3 weeks ago, and it is slowly gaining steam. Since we are doing this release on our own label, we need all the help we can get. Besides asking you to tell all your friends if you like it, if we can get everyone to click here, it’ll help get the song on the radio.
Listen to the song “Mercenary” (at the link above) from the new album, and we will have a pretty good chance of getting it picked up and put into rotation on hundreds of general market radio stations across the country. AND, if you really love us, you can just turn your speakers off on your computer, and keep hitting the little speaker icon in the upper left hand of the web page/media player it opens whenever you think of it. You have to let it play through each time, so you can just restart it every now and again. This could be EPIC if it actually happened. Thanks so much for signing up for our email list, and for supporting us. You are all rockers.
Godspeed,
Reese Brave Saint Saturn
Just sit tight and prepare for the ride. IVM goes major!
