The Red Baron have signed with Blood and Ink Records and will release their label debut in early 2008. So what do you guys think of them?

Twentyfour64 have posted up a new track titled “Know Me” to their myspace page. I really like it, what do you think?

I am hosting a big sale at IVM in the form of a discount coupon. Just enter in the coupon code of ILUVIVM and you’ll get 30% off! Sales didnt go as well as I thought at Cstone so what better way to celebrate than to offer you a sweet coupon

Click here for the Store

I also got in two new albums in stock since our last update: The Hotshot Freight Train and a band called Remembrance. The Hotshot Freight Train play straight up Rock N’ Roll while Remembrance play a very spirit filled version of metalcore similar in style to ZAO, Josiah, and In Flames. If you like those three bands, you’ll love Remembrance.

I am also restocked on Kings to You. The printer has delayed Quick and the Dead a few more days so once those are in, I’ll ship them out to you customers and to Interpunk/Smartpunk. So if you preordered it from one of those stores, you’ll have to wait a few more days.

How was Cornerstone? Interesting experience, look for the Cornerstone news post and I’ll add a comment there.

The Tooth and Nail podcast for the month of October is up and ready for your listening pleasure.  This is the Emery Edition where you can hear previews of the upcoming album I’m Only A Man and it features cohosting by Emery keyboardist Josh Head as well as Jonathan Dunn.

The Rocket Summer is the latest winner of Yahoo Music’s Who’s Next Competition.  You can view the performance and interview right here.

Decoymusic.com did an interview with Colin Kimble who plays bass in As Cities Burn. You can check out the interview right here. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on what he said in this interview. One part that stuck out to me was “Instead of trying to come up with a Christian version of everything, Christians need to just get in the world and try to be a part of what’s going on instead of creating a bubble of safety within a Christian music market.” What do you think?

You can watch Athlete’s new video for the song Hurricane over at their myspace site. (absolutepunk.net)

You can stream the new Captiva album from Falling Up over at the newreleasetuesday.com website.

Dashboard Confessional and Emery. Check out both albums before they come out 10/2/07!

God Bless

FBS is looking for a few more shows to book on their tour. And I’m pretty stoked because they’re booking a show in Richmond, VA in October! Click here

Also check out Flatfoot 56 as they tour the West Coast and Mid-West during the fall. Click here

Man Alive have signed with Band Recordings, which is an arm of label Doghouse Records. Their new “Self Titled” full length will be out February 8th, 2008. To hear new tunes from the album, click here.

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Get a Far Less Tshirt and Far Less’s new cd for only $11.50!! Buy it here. Oh and this cd has 16 tracks people!!! I need to go listen to the stream Tooth and Nail sent me, I am seriously slacking here. I like the songs on Myspace.

He Is Legend have a new online street team through myspace and you can check it out here.

Echocast have begun working on their new ep and it should be out soon.

The new video for Thousand Foot Krutch’s song “Falls Apart” can be viewed below.

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AP has an article featuring The Chariot talking about Fun, Frolic and Faith as they put it. Does anyone have that DVD, the “One More Song” one? What did you think of it? (bandsonfire.com)

From the people at T&N - “Starting tomorrow head over to Emery’s MySpace page and listen to the full album stream of their new album “I’m Only A Man!” Just go to myspace.com/emery tomorrow and listen to the entire record before you buy it next Tuesday!”  I cannot wait for this album to come out!!

Interpunk is running out of Tshirts for the Quick and the Dead Interpunk deal. So if you want a CD and shirt for only $7.25, buy it now!

Don’t forget to catch the hour long season premier of The Office tonight on NBC.

Until June posted a new video for “Sleepless” up on their Myspace, which you can check out below. I really like this video. It’s well done. What do you guys think?

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The online Christian music store Sleeby are currently going through a liquidation sale. It seems like you might be able to find a pretty good deal. “Every CD is 50 - 80% off retail prices! We have tons of awesome titles from As I Lay Dying, Demon Hunter, NIV, Anberlin, Kutless, Pillar, Thousand Foot Krutch are tons more.”

I was just looking around, and you can even get some of the old Indie Vision Music titles… then again, I would obviously recommend getting those from our store, but it’s fun to see where else they pop up.

Read Showbread’s first studio journal in the recording of their third release for Tooth & Nail.

Spoken’s self-titled release is in stores now. Click here for my review of it.

Artist: Spoken
Album: Spoken
Label: Tooth & Nail Records
Release Date: September 25, 2007
Review by: Eric Pettersson

Tracklist:
1. History Erased
2. Close Your Eyes
3. Not Soon Forgotten
4. Trading in This Troubled Heart
5. You’re the One
6. Brought to Life
7. Love Live the Dream
8. Start the Revolution
9. The Meaning of…
10. When Hope Is All You Have
11. The Answer

Screamo is, for the most part, dead. The fad has moved on, and trendy kids have gone their separate ways to pollute other genres. Many bands have realized this and traveled into other directions (Underoath, Dead Poetic, Blindside, As Cities Burn, Emery), and some work better than others. And then there’s a band like Spoken. Having been around eleven years, they’ve seen many changes from rapcore to melodic hardcore to screamo to, well… screamo? The new self-titled disc doesn’t sound like their last two releases for Tooth & Nail, but it does in that it’s a progression, stretching Spoken into new territory.

The first thing you have to notice when listening to Spoken is just how heavy the opener, “History Erased” really is. The verses are fast with rougher screams than usually heard from vocalist Matt Baird, and the bridge will surely see some crazy mosh pits. This release contains the hardest music I’ve heard from Spoken. From the rawness of “Not Soon Forgotten” to the aggressive speed and deep growl backing vocals of “Brought to Life,” the band apparently liked “Bitter Taste” on Last Chance to Breathe and wanted to refocus on that heaviness. And then, mixed into the flow, are songs like “You’re the One,” which opens with piano and drum loops as Matt softly sings “Baby, does it bother you that I watch you when you sleep?” Also following the strong points of their last release, Matt’s love lyrics are back in full swing. “Close Your Eyes” is a vulnerable track about being on the road and missing his wife. “The Meaning of…” sings about the security and value of their love and knowing it’s going to last. There’s even a verse about their new son. Spoken’s catchier side, while it is not as present as some previous material, can be seen again in songs like “When Hope Is All You Have” and “Trading in This Troubled Heart,” both songs that deal with God taking away people’s pain and giving them inner-peace.

If a hardcore fan is going to become a fan of Spoken, now seems the time to do it. This record seems so much heavier than the last on the overall, and while the punk fan inside of me says that’s always a good thing, I also kind of miss the really catchy tracks like “Wind in My Sails” or “September.” So whether this progression is for the best or not, that is for the listener to determine. If you preferred the softer songs on Last Chance to Breathe like “Love in Return” that seemed to show a band that was moving away from hardcore, this might not be your favorite turn for Spoken. But if you listened to the last record and wished more songs sounded like “Bitter Taste,” then you will absolutely love Spoken.

8/10

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Far Less have posted the song “It’s Not Me, It’s You” to Purevolume. Check it out and then leave a comment with your thoughts.

Vocalist Schuylar Croom has written a fine piece of literature called “What To Do About ANNOYING FANS.” At the end, there is a coupon code for 10% off any order in the He Is Legend store.

For reasons presumably known only to them, Hundred Year Storm have created a new myspace page. Posted there is a remix of an older song called “Someday You’ll See.” Check it out.

Still in mourning over the Alove For Enemies break-up? Well, luckily for you, the members carry on in new projects:

Behind The Glittering Mask
Buck Nasty
Letter To The Exiles

Check them out.

If you’re anywhere Johnson City, Tennessee and you love The Showdown or you just want to check out something different, you need to swing by that town on September 29th for a special acoustic show from The Showdown.  According to the boys from the band “we are jammin’ an acoustic show at the hideaway. we have never done this before and we are stoked! come hang out at the hideaway with us and hear us acoustic, unplugged, and stripped!”  You can check out the show details right here.

Spoken, who just released their self titled album yesterday, has posted a video blog to their own Youtube channel here. You can click below to watch.

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The Almost have posted its video for the song Southern Weather and you can watch it below. Check it out and leave what you think of it in the comments.

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Here is the cover for Hearts Bleed Passion Vol. 3
Release Date: November

You guys should head over to Main Line Riders’ Myspace and check out their tunes. The band have 3 new songs up from “Shot In The Dark” which is being released on RetroActive Records. On a side note, the band features Cliffy from The Huntingtons.

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AmazonMP3 has finally launched and I highly recommend you check it out. I know many of you adore iTunes but this service has far more positive features and any market competition is a good thing for everyone. The songs are in 256kbps, DRM free, and will work in any media player and are compatible with iTunes and Windows Media. The price is still higher than I feel they should be but the high quality and the lack of DRM makes me at least consider using it as opposed to iTunes which I refuse to purchase anything from. Any thoughts? Keep in mind the service just started and will take some time to get more labels to sign on.