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I just found a pretty cool promotional clip for the Pennylane reunion tour on YouTube. Click here for it. I just hope this reunion becomes permanent.

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Still here in Hawaii……..I leave tomorrow afternoon and then we’re home free. Our time here has been priceless and yet again, memories are created. We made a trip to the north shore on Saturday which is about 45 minutes away and a beautiful drive through lush greenery and jungle like forests. At the far end of the road on the North side, you come to a dead end which is the final beach (that you can drive to) on the island. It’s an incredible place that we have to stop at everytime we’re here. I just fall in love with the sheer beauty of the place. I contemplate and am constantly reminded of God’s mighty creations when I view this place. Which reminds me, I miss Church and I haven’t been there in a month or so. That was kind of random. Anyway….Oh yeah I almost forgot, our car air conditioning broke again for the third time. Ha ha ha. Oh man we have the best of luck sometimes don’t we? At least I haven’t gotten any more speeding tickets (Keep your fingers crossed). The waves are big too, nice!Okay, enough of my junk, here is some news for you.

You can listen to the entire Showbread disc at AOL Music, click here. (It reminds me of this band The Vines).

I can’t remember if I stated this in an earlier post or not but we have new songs up on MySpace.

Buzzgrinder gave us this link to a new Spiderman 3 trailer on YouTube.

Speaking of YouTube, I accidentally taped over the two newer Pennylane songs from their show the other night but luckily I still have two songs on the tape. I am going to try my best to figure a way to edit the tape and upload it to YouTube.

Thrush just contacted me and let me know that their ep is finally finished and at the pressing plant right now. We will be getting these albums in stock for the store so get ready. Thrush features former members of Craig’s Brother, Too Bad Eugene, and Next in Line.

Gasoline Heart has a new album dropping in stores nationwide tomorrow. Make sure to pick it up.

I forgot to ask everyone this earlier, but what do you all think of the new Dogwood tunes? Are you liking them? Let us and the band know what you think by posting in the comments.

[If you were at Cornerstone, click here to vote on your favorite performances. If you weren’t at Cornerstone, vote anyway and show some support for Indie Vision favorite, Death Is Not Welcome Here.

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What’s up everyone? Hopefully you’re all doing well in the heat out there on the mainland Well i’m still enjoying the mild weather of this blessed place known as Kauai. The Pennylane show went awesome last night. The opening acoustic act, Our Life Aquarious was very mellow and quite entertaining. Though the show was quite small, only about 100-200 people in attendance, Pennylane brought the rock. It was a very intimate evening. I wasn’t expecting their first two *newer* songs to be so darn heavy but man they sure rocked the stage. The crowd went absolutely nuts for these guys (Duh, it’s their home island). They played their hits “Not Waving But Drowing”, “The Role of You Care”, Riverside Waiting” along with one newer song that honestly I can’t remember the name of but it was pure rock with swaying melodies and an uplifting sound. They also played the live tracks from their ep “Silent Sky” and “Fall to Flames”, those songs are off the hook and crazy heavy. After sitting through one of the lamest opening bands that recalled Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, I was relieved to endure the sights of Pennylane. Unfortunately my wife couldn’t be there because she became ill (She sure missed out on some quality rock n’ roll). My son was right there with me though and he got a second hand experience of a great evening. The weather was mild with a slight sprinkle of moisture outside and it made the perfect evening. Overall, I am extremely impressed with the quality music of Pennylane, their demeanor and friendly personality. You couldn’t meet a nicer group of individuals. It’s too bad I didnt stick around after the show to really talk with them (my son was extremely tired and worn out so we had to leave). Oh yeah, I dropped off a load of stickers at their booth so hopefully we’ll get a few more Hawaiian friends reading this here site. I really hope that these guys will continue to stick around and create their beautiful brand of music for years to come. Maybe someday with hope, they’ll visit the mainland once again. I am going to work on getting them a spot at Cornerstone next year, so we’ll see. God Bless all of you supporters of IVM out there and thank you from the bottom of my heart for continuing to read my ramblings (and nonsense to some). I’ll try to update one more time before I leave.

P.S. I went Kayaking the other day and it was absolutely a beautiful site riding up and down the river here. Well, talk to you all soon.

Have a wonderful day and keep the fire burning deep inside. Despite the need for rooting out terrorism in the middle east, I truly wish and hope for peace out there, across all borders and boundaries. I know that it’s impossible in this complicated world but I am saddened by the suffering of the innocents out there caught up in this mess, and our soldiers too. Take care.

Playlist for today:
Pennylane
Augustana
The Afters
Less Than Jake
Fireflight

By the way, the Fireflight disc is beyond excellent. I am completely in love with it’s sweeping soundscape and beautiful melodies. This is one of my most recommended discs of the moment and I encourage ALL of you to save your money, go out and BUY this incredible album. It’s is worth all of your hard earned money. They have a unique enough sound and in my opinion, one of the absolute best female fronted bands in today’s music climate. Check them out hereif you haven’t already.

Go check out theIndie Vision Music MySpace page, I added four new tracks from our compilation on the page.

[Still Remains‘ keyboardist has decided that touring life isn’t for him anymore, so the band will be in search of a new keyboardist. As a result Zach’s Korg Tritog LE 61 key workstation ($999 orig. value) along with the smart media card and a hardshell raod ready case ($300 orig. value) can be bid on by emailing here.� keyboard is up for sale.

There’s a War Of Ages pre-order up now with some extra goodies for the first 500.

Call To Preserve, new Strike First artist, have a pre-order up as well.

Yet another new Showbread track has surfaced. How do you guys feel about the lack of screaming on the songs so far? You can also check out their e-card here.

mewithoutYou will be releasing a song of the upcoming “Brother, Sister” this Tuesday at 12:01am EST. I know that’s past most of your bedtimes but you can do it this once. Tell your parents I said it’s ok.

There’s a pre-order up to receive both Jeremy Camp’s and Adie’snew albums together.

Inhale Exhale sent this out in a myspace bulletin… “due to some circumstance out of our control…Andy and Inhale Exhale had to part ways.” They will be filling the position and re-recording portions of the vocals with the new vocalist in August, which in turn pushes the release date to Nov. 21st. As a result of the loss the band also dropped off the Silver Bullet Tour, headed by Haste The Day. They have been replaced by Destroy the Runner. Thankfully, for those of us that are going,� they are still playing Purple Door. They do however have “exciting tour news” that they cannot announce yet.

Go listen to Lost Ocean’s new tracks off their upcoming Credential debut.

The Almost (feat. Aaron drummer/vocalist for Underoath) has merch here.

Anyone like Once Nothing?

Mainstay have posted their video for “This Could Be”.

Also, please give feedback about the media player we have. Would you
prefer it as a pop up so you can listen without being on our site or do
you prefer it this way. Please let us know so changes can be made if
necessary.

[UnderOath has left the Warped Tour, because of personal reasons.

[The ever enjoyable Bloodlined Calligraphy have added the new track, “Last Goodbye”, to their purevolume. The song comes from the new full length, “Ypsilanti”, due 9/19. I really dig this song, thankfully the band got heavier and kept things fast. Can’t wait to hear this new stuff live!!!

[I just got a myspace bulletin from The Unfolding about tonight being their final show ever. If you’re in the Leesburg, Indiana area, go show your support to this great metalcore band.

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Sender, the acoustic project of Laine from Pennylane, has a new song up on MySpace

The new Seth Roberts(Watashi Wa/Eager Seas) project LAKES, will release their debut ep on September 6th through The Militia Group.

We have the new songs from Dogwood and Man Alive in our Music Player in case you were unaware. Just click to open the player and listen to those songs in their entirety.

Only 5 days left of our trip to Hawaii and then it’s back to the mainland. It’s actually hotter at home then it is here. Tomorrow is the Pennylane show and it’s supposed to rain hard here. It should be fun, I hope. I am going to try real hard to figure a way to record a song of Pennylane’s set and upload it to YouTube. We’ll See..I bought a PSP the other day so we are keeping ourselves occupied by playing games (and visiting the beach of course). I also bought Benchwarmers and we watched it last night. Funny stuff. ha. I do miss home and the joys of working. I just cry myself to sleep at night thinking of all those wonderful days working hard manufacturing parts and the all the missed hours…..Of course I’m kidding. Do you think I’m nuts? ha.

So how many of you people think Pennylane should stay together for good and put out another cd? Please post your thoughts and I’ll refer your comments to the band. 

[Stretch Arm Strong just recently released the video for their second single Faces off of their  album "Free At Last". You can view the video here. 

[The Showdown’s new album will be titled Temptation Come My Way and will drop on February 6th, next year.

You can click here to preorder a new greatest hits album from early Gotee Records artist, Out of Eden.

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Purple Door Fest is getting pretty near anyone excited? I’ve set up a discussion thread about this Fest. Let us know if you are going to be there. Eric and I will be there rocking out and possibly getting some interviews and fest reviews. So be sure to check out the fest coverage after it is over. Official Purple Door Festival 2006 Thread

Also I just discovered that my good friends in My Epic have set up a tour blog. It is definitely worth a read. My Epic’s blog

[Verses has some new tracks up.

ActionReaction posted "Can You Hear The Sun" from their upcoming full length "3 Is The Magic Number" on purevolume, as well as "Sinner's Algebra. If you like the tracks, a pre-order (with t-shirt) is available. [If you have no clue who these guys are, it is Jason Gleason (former frontman for Further Seems Forever, and Bella & Salvatore from the former Tooth & Nail band, Element 101]

If you ever want to check out Christian radio charts, click here. They have secular charts as well.

Liquid has a new website.

Reaching Without Arms, will be wrapping up mixing/mastering of their new EP on Sunday. They should have 2 new songs up monday and their new EP will be for sale.

There is a battle of the bands ran by NewReleaseTuesday. Please go here and vote for either Fireflight “You Decide” or DecembeRadio “Love Found Me”.

Rodeia have two new songs up and their new EP is available here.

You can now watch Eisley’s new music video for “Memories” at the link.

You can stream HM’s podcast here.

Speaking of podcast’s, do you think IVM should do one or not?

Glad to hear that Besieged, added a new track. They also have some sweet new�merch and some good deals.

According to a myspace bulletin, Norma Jean announced that they will be posting another song up next week. The song is titled, “The End Of All Things Will Be Televised”. Apparently it will really appeal to old school fans and make you want to “stab a panda”. Lyrics to “Blueprints For Future Homes” is posted at the link.

Showbread has a splash page at Tooth & Nail for the new album.

There’s an official PPC [Positively Positive Crew] page on myspace now. It was started by War Of Ages and you can find the description at their myspace.

Uprize Zine has a great giveaway right now!

Destroy The Runner have been added to Haste The Day’s Silver Bullet Tour.

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As some of you may know, we have our very own music player in the upper right hand corner of this website. All you need to do is click on it and it will start playing. If you want to stream all the songs while you look at our site, the best way to do it is click the player then launch a new Internet Explorer (or firefox) window and click to our website in the new window. Then with the new window you can search through our site while the other window plays the songs. We are trying to have the player stay stationary at the top no matter what page you are on but we haven’t quite got it working yet. Anyway, please do use our player and listen to new music you may have not heard before. These current songs will change rotation on July 30th at which time Josh will load the next batch.

So what do you guys and gals think of the new Norma Jean track? If you haven’t listened to it yet, please click here and do so. You’ll be pleasantly surprised.

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The Hotshot Freight Train have just posted three new tracks to their Myspace page. In case you were unaware this band features former members of Joey’s Loss.

New Norma Jean track is up and it absolutely rules (that says alot considering I didn’t care for any of their stuff in the past).

So how are you folks? I got the air conditioning fixed in our car today and it only cost me $16. Yay! So now we finally have air conditioning in our old school car we’re driving here. Other news, well not much really. Just been busy at the beach and driving around the island, having a good time with my wife and son. I did hear some interesting news on the tv today, apparently there is a tropical storm heading our way (possibly) so that should be fun. Anyway, hugs and kisses. -Brandon

Pennylane July 28th Kauai Christian Fellowship, Kauai, Hawaii. For more info, click here.

[Sorry folks, been a couple of slow news days but here's a few things for today.

Once Nothing have another track off of “Voice Of The Paragon” at their purevolume.

Flyleaf is 1 of 3 bands nominated for “Breaking New Band” on the MTV2 All That Rocks Award show. Please vote for them here. The show will air on the 29th and the band will be performing “Fully Alive” so check that out. The actual video for “Fully Alive” premieres today and MTV2 will be doing a “Making Of The Video” which air’s today at 10:30am (repeats: 7/24 - 9:30pm | 7/25 - 3am | 7/27 - 8:30am).

Oh Sleeper added “His Name Was Bishop”, so go listen to that new track.

And Then I Turned Seven will be posting a brand new track tonight at 12am EST at purevolume.

The new Stryper “Greatest Hits Live! DVD” is available now.

Fireflight’s new website is up.

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xLookingForwardx is planning a nationwide punk tour. Our Corpse Destroyed and Flatfoot 56 (hopefully) will join them on tour. They are hammering out the tour process right now. This is probably the most exciting thing I’ve heard this summer, and I really hope they come to a city near me. This is punk rock

My Epic is doing an awesome job on tour. Be sure to catch them on tour with Emerson and Our Finest Hour as they tour the southern East Coast. I had the chance to catch the tour as it stopped in Vienna, Virginia at McLean Bible Church. The church features a fully functional arcade (Xbox and large flat screen included), four ping pong tables, full court basketball court, and a work out gym. But anyways, Emerson and My Epic did an amazing job and definitely were worth the hour and half drive in Washington D.C. traffic to get there.el touro

In other news, beyond popular belief Bloody Sunday is not breaking up. The reason for the lack of updates is that they are taking a lot of time writing and making sure that they are doing this for the right reasons. I say let them write as long as they have to; let this record be phenomenal! Be sure to catch some of their shows in the near future if you are in the Virginia Beach area. myspace blog

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Midnight Hour have a new live video posted. Click Here. The reason for the delay on their debut ep, “Ghost in the Mirror” is due to them signing a deal with a record company. More news on who, later.

Hawaii is 3 hours behind the west coast and 6 hours behind the east coast. So it’s 6:40 am as I write this. Yeah, I can’t sleep. I’m about to head off to the beach so I’ll talk to you all later. Only 6 days left till the Pennylane show here! I have a feeling the whole island will show up. ha.

As I reported Family Force 5 played the Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson and actually ended up destroying their entire set with bats and whatnot. Don’t believe me watch the video.

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Another new track by Dogwood has been posted up on MySpace, check it out here. This band is making a return this year and it’s about time!! Welcome to the new Dogwood.

Man Alive are in the midst of recording their new record which will hopefully be out soon. No word on which label is releasing this bad boy. Keep this band and their families in your prayers as war hits their homeland of Israel.

Norma Jean will be posting a new song to their myspace this coming Tuesday night.

Gasoline Heart has a new e-card.

So how is everyone? I am still on vacation here in Hawaii and loving it up. I almost got another ticket yesterday as I saw yet again another cop in the exact same place as the day before standing out side his car with the satellite gun pointed right at me. I guess I found the brakes before he found me ha. We got the air conditioning working in the car a day ago by switching fuses but now it isn’t working again and lets out a horrible screach whenever we turn it on. Oh well. I guess we be cruisin’ with the ole windows down. Ah yeah. Oh yeah, we also got our Ipod working in the car with a cheap old cassette adapter we found at Wal Mart for $10. Yes, they have a Wal Mart here. I am in Kauai by the way. Talk to you later peeps. Peace.

[California is certainly becoming the hotspot for festivals, with new ones like Uprising, Cornerstone, and now Bamboozle Left. Yes it’s true Bamboozle have announced that they will indeed be gracing the west coast in October (14-15). Artists appearing at Bamboozle will included Dashboard, Thrice, Brand New, and lots more so check the link if you’re out that direction.

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Neutral Agreement have posted a new track at myspace.

Anyone on here heading to Purple Door Festival? View the schedule to plan your day.

Norma Jean will be posting a brand new song off of the upcoming release “Redeemer” on this coming Tuesday at 12:01am EST. It will be on both purevolume and myspace.

The Lonely Hearts have posted a new track called “Out Of My Mind”.

Convicted have posted a new track called “Ballad Of Brandino” (the first 2 1/2 minutes is an intro I think).

The Hope Of Change have a newer demo, so if you haven’t heard that you should follow the link and listen.

Take This Hand have blessed us with another new track, “Glimpse”, along with “The Bride” which I posted about a few days back.

Go listen to Sintax The Terrific.

Malachi Perez has posted 2 new songs off of his upcoming full length, “Love And Hand Grenades” landing August 1.

Alcina have 3 new songs posted off their 06 demo.

Please do me a favor and go check out Soul P. and his new single “Whoa Whoa”.

Watch the Waking Ashland video for “Jillian” here.

[FM Static have an e-card for “Critically Ashamed” (8/1) and also check out 2 songs at purevolume.

[Floodgate Records has posted a pre-order for Hundred Year Storm’s “Hello From The Children Of Planet Earth” due August 22nd. The link for the pre-order is here and you’ll receive a limited edition poster as well. The band also recently shot a video for “Yesterday We Had It Allâ€�, the first single off of the effort. You can check out their live performance on the Logan Show here (WMA pop up stream).

[I dont have much music news to report to you today, sorry folks. Instead I'll talk about my vacation fun. I am currently sitting here in the condo staring out at the beautiful pacific ocean courtesy of Hawaii. We had a bit of rough start. ha, you could say that. We arrived to a car without air conditioning and then get this, I got a speeding ticket all within 2 hours of being here. Yeah, sucks big time. I didnt know the speeding limit was 25mph. My fault. Anyway, at least the sites are incredibly beautiful or I'd be more upset. The lame thing is that I already got a ticket at home 4 months ago, so this one's going on the record. My foot likes that gas pedal. ha ha. I didn't know a 16 year old car could get me a speeding ticket here. ha. Oh well. Maybe I'll update again soon with our adventures in a few days. For now, enjoy the news fun that only Josh, Cory, Len, Wilhelm, and Eric can deliver. Yeah you guys, you better keep this site updated or you're going to get a beatdown!! ha. Later people.........

[The Working Title has put up their video at Youtube and myspace. Check it out!

[Good morning, day, evening, or night gentlemen and ladies!
here are some samples of my musical endeavors right now…

A band going by the name of 6:22 has an amazing few songs for you, one of which is a live, improv jam…  needless to say, its an awesome mix of great musical talent and amazing hearts for worship

Another amazing worship group from Charleston, SC is the Mel Washington Band, who has a myspace with some songs up here.
They are definitely worth a listen or ten…

In case you didn’t already know, the Israelites have a myspace to check out and jam with

And in case you haven’t already heard about it, Sever Your Ties is currently mixing and mastering some new songs.  You can check out a few of their songs (which are quite solid, i might add) on the above link.

Crazy band, Every Day At Sinai, is broken up, but are possibly recording a few more songs to give their fans a final taste of the goodness.

In case you didn’t know already, Fixed Til Tuesday’s vocalist had his vocal chords start bleeding a while back.  So, those of you who actually care, i’m sure he (and the rest of the band and family members) would appreciate some heartfelt prayers.

German-born Descend To Rise have a nice live video of them playing at Tramelan up on the above link.  This band is quite solid, with an amazing new EP out…   one of the few quality metal/hardcore bands i still appreciate

Yours For Mine has a new song up on their myspace.  attentively titled “Being Crosby Aint Easy”

A Kiss For Jersey’s new cd is scheduled to release 8-22-06.  Keep an eye out for that.

For all of those post-rockers out there (much like myself), there are a few bands worthy of listening to multiple times.  the following (however old or known you might think they are) are worth checking out:
Yndi Halda from the UK
Gifts from Enola from the US
The Ascent of Everest (who released a new cd worth every penny)
Giants (probably one of my favorites)
Up C Down C…. (another favorite)
The Samuel Jackson Five from Oslo,Norway
Chemtrail has posted 2 new songs on their myspace since i last mentioned them…

back to normality…

Alcina is a solid hardcore/metal band from Tennessee
Gate City has changed its name to This Endearing and have posted yet another solid, unmastered song on the aforementioned link.

Lead worshipper, Michael Gungor, has a myspace with a few songs and several really interesting blog entries that some of you might find helpful, interesting, or just a waste of time.  One such article is about his views of being “large” in the “worship industry”…  its a VERY good read.  so yeah, check his group of worshippers out!

well…  if you are still alive for the end of this news post, i thank you for taking your time to read and bore yourself with my usually long news posts….   

ohhhh, and one more thing!  I just bought the My Epic cd from the IVM music store (which is right here for those of you who are too lazy to look for it)…   I can’t recommend this band’s cd strongly enough.  the songs and lyrics are strongly heartfelt and passionate.  For anyone with a taste for beautiful and strongly intense music should hop on over to the IVM store and buy it right away!

Over and out.

[The second single from Showbread, “Naked Lunch” is here.

Tooth & Nail Records have given in and started a podcast. “Not only will you hear a monthly sampling of new and upcoming releases from Tooth & Nail Records, but you’ll also hear advance demos, rough mixes, exclusive tracks, tour info, all the latest Tooth & Nail news, and other surprises!” If you have iTunes subcribe here. If not, listen here.

[MxPx has a clip of a new song, “The Setting Sun”, here.

With Blood Comes Cleansing have a pre-order for their upcoming full length “Golgotha” here (cd/tshirt for $15). If you’re not convinced you should do that go listen to two tracks off the album at myspace.

BetweenThe2 have posted some new songs.

You can listen to the entire “Disco Inferno” EP from The Silent Escape here.

Take This Hand has a new song up called “The Bride”. Someone needs to sign these guys now!

Ghost Of A Fallen Age has a new song as well.

[Inhale Exhale have a video coming for “Frail Dreams And Rude Awakenings” soon. It’s filmed by director Frankie Nasso (All That Remains, Bury Your Dead). No word on when we’ll see it.

Norma Jean’s tentative tracklisting for “Redeemer” has been revealed:

“The End Of All Things Will Be Televised”
“A Grand Scene For Color Film”
“Blue Prints For Future Homes”
“A Small Spark Vs. A Great Forest”
“The Longest Last Statement”
“Amnesty Please”
“A Temperamental Widower”
“Like Swimming Circles”
“Cemetery Like Stage”
“Songs Sound Much Sadder”
“No Passenger, No Parasite”

(Source: theprp)

[Albums Releasing Today:

Foolish Things - Let's Not Forget The Story (Inpop)

Lecrae - After The Music Stops (CMR)

Liquid - Tales From The Badlands (Gotee)

Superchic[k] - Beauty From Pain 1.1 (Inpop)

The Working Title - about-face (Universal)

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Absolutepunk.net gave this link to a hilarious Mortal Kombat styled game where you can be four different characters including Spencer from Underoath. Check it out here.

The famous East Coast fest, The Bamboozle, will be making it's first ever appearance on the West Coast this October. There is bound to be a ton of bands we all recognize there. So stay tuned to this website for venue, ticket, and band info.

This Providence has posted a new song to their PureVolume page.

Underoath will headline a Canadian tour this fall with He Is Legend, Silverstein, and Moneen. The dates will be in September and you'll find out more here. [absolutepunk.net]

Coolfield is going on an acoustic tour starting August 1st. Click here for dates.

Quick and the Dead have uploaded an acoustic version of their song “By All Means” on MySpace.

[Anberlin will be heading into the studio at the end of the month. The band has about 20 songs ready to go, but don’t expect to get them all on the finished CD.

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Finally after much anticipation, the Dogwood track is now live and ready for you to download!! I have also uploaded it into our media player to check out if you want. To download this track, click here.

Check out Our Life Aquarius (they’ll be playing with Pennylane in Hawaii on July 28th)

If you want to view a live Pennylane montage of the track “Silent Sky” from 2004, click here.

Secrets Known to Liars are finishing up their new album and it should be available soon. This band is also available as a free download on our Summer Slam Compilation.

So what do you think of our media player? Come on people, we need your comments.