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Hydra Head launches Harvey Milk, VSS full streams

Alternative Press - Brian Shultz on 6/3/08 @ 4:58 PM - altpress.com

Hydra Head Records has launched full streams of two new releases.

You can check out Life...The Best Game In Town, the new album from veteran experimental rockers Harvey Milk, here.

Also available is the stream of the VSS's Nervous Circuits reissue here. The short-lived act was active from 1995-1997 and its members went onto bands like Red Sparowes and Year Future.

Vedera post "Forgive You"

Alternative Press - Ben Sailer on 6/3/08 @ 3:22 PM - altpress.com

Kansas City, Missouri female-fronted indie/pop quintet Vedera have debuted another new track off their sophomore album (and first for major label Epic Records), Stages. You can find the track, titled "Forgive You," on their MySpace page.

The band also released a digital-only EP (aptly titled the Stages EP) previewing three songs off the album earlier this year, which you can find on iTunes.

While a definitive release date for Stages couldn't be tracked down, it will be the follow-up to The Weight Of An Empty Room, released in 2005 on Second Nature Recordings.

The Acacia Strain announce Sun Your Bunz / Europe tours

Alternative Press - Brian Shultz on 6/3/08 @ 3:17 PM - altpress.com

The Acacia Strain has announced a headlining run going by the name of the Sun Your Bunz tour. Along for the ride will be Since The Flood and All Shall Perish; metalcore fans, ur moshin. The Warriors and Eternal Lord will be playing on select dates.

On the last day of the tour, June 29 in Holyoke, MA, the band will have their set filmed for an upcoming DVD.

Following up the American jaunt will be a European vacation with Annotations Of An Autopsy and Knights Of The Abyss.

The Acacia Strain will release their new album, Continent, on August 19 via Prosthetic Records, following up 2006's The Dead Walk.

Sun Your Bunz
6/03 - Minneapolis, MN - Triple Rock Social Club
6/05 - Fargo, ND - Aquarium
6/06 - Omaha, NE - Sokol Underground
6/07 - Denver, CO - Marquis Theatre
6/09 - Boise, ID - The Venue
6/10 - Spokane, WA - The Boulevard
6/11 - Seattle, WA - Studio Seven
6/12 - Portland, OR - Satyricon
6/13 - Sacramento, CA - The Boardwalk
6/14 - Anaheim, CA - Chain Reaction
6/15 - San Bernardino, CA - Hudson Theatre
6/16 - Bakersfield, CA - Jerry's Pizza
6/18 - Tucson, AZ - The Rock
6/19 - Las Cruces, NM - Las Cruces Live
6/20 - Austin, TX - Red 7
6/21 - Lewisville, TX - Fat Daddy's Sound Shack
6/22 - Tulsa, OK - Crush Lounge
6/24 - Nashville, TN - The Muse
6/25 - Charleston, SC - Music Farm
6/26 - Fredricksburg, VA - KC's Music Alley
6/27 - Lemoyne, PA - Champion Ship
6/28 - Sayreville, NJ - Starland Ballroom
6/29 - Holyoke, MA - Waterfront Tavern ***SHOOTING FOR DVD***
Europe with Annotations Of An Autopsy / Knights Of The Abyss
7/12 - Bayreuth, Germany - Komm
7/13 - Berlin, Germany - Cassiopeia
7/14 - Prague, Czech Republic - 007
7/15 - Banska Bystrica, Slovakia - Klub 77
7/16 - Wein, Austria - Arena
7/17 - Turin, Italy - Soundfactory
7/18 - Pinarella di Cervia, Italy - Rockplanet
7/20 - Trier, Germany - Exhaus
7/21 - Paris, France - Batofar
7/22 - Cardiff, UK - Barfly
7/23 - Nottingham, UK - Junction 7
7/24 - Glasgow, UK - Ivory Blacks
7/25 - Sheffield, UK - Corporation
7/26 - Stoke-On-Trent, UK - The Sugarmill
7/27 - Norwich, UK - The Queen Charlotte
7/28 - London, UK - Underworld
7/29 - Manchester, UK - Music Box
7/30 - Plymouth, UK - The White Rabbit
7/31 - Swindon, UK - The Furnace
8/01 - Brussels, Belgium - Botanique
8/02 - Bochum, Germany - Matrix
8/03 - Karlsruhe, Germany - Stadtmitte

Ellison posts new song

Alternative Press - Brian Shultz on 6/3/08 @ 3:08 PM - altpress.com

Cincinnati's indie-pop-rockers Ellison have posted a song from their new EP, Color Of Compassion. The song is called "Don't Take The Blame" and can be found on their MySpace page.

The unsigned act recently self-released the EP after releasing their 2006 full-length, Say Goodnight, Sleep Alone on the label of Hawthorne Heights' JT Woodruff, Carbon Copy Media, which is not looking terribly active these days.

Black Market Activities sign Sweet Cobra

Alternative Press - Ben Sailer on 6/3/08 @ 2:30 PM - altpress.com

Home of all things noisy Black Market Activities have added Chicago's Sweet Cobra to their roster. The sludgy hardcore/metal act will be re-releasing their 2007 Hawthorne Street Records album Forever on the label June 24. In the meantime, you can check out a handful of the band's metallic rock-infused jams on their MySpace page.

The Phenomenauts post new video

Alternative Press - Brian Shultz on 6/3/08 @ 1:26 PM - altpress.com

The Phenomenauts have posted their video for "Infinite Frontier." NASA is stoked.

The track is from their recent Silver Sprocket full-length, For All Mankind.