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Atmosphere offers free album download

As a gift to all those Atmosphere fans out there, the Minnesota rappers are offering a free album download of Strictly Leakage available <here. Hopefully that'll tide you over until Atmosphere's next album When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold drops this April.

Au Revoir Simone announce a few tour dates

Alternative Press - Rachel Lux on 1/2/08 @ 4:58 PM - altpress.com

Indie keyboard trio Au Revoir Simone have announced a handful of dates scheduled for later this month. The band plan to work on the follow-up to their debut, The Bird Of Music, which was released on their own label, Our Secret Record Company, throughout the year.

Dates & Venues:
1/16/08 Toronto, ON @ Lee's Palace
1/17/08 Montreal, QC @ Le Tulipe
1/18/08 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
1/25/08 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
1/26/08 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent

Panic! At The Disco post track from upcoming album

Alternative Press - Scott Heisel on 1/1/08 @ 11:18 PM - altpress.com

Las Vegas dance-pop band Panic! At The Disco have posted a rough version of a new song to appear on their upcoming follow-up to 2005's A Fever You Can't Sweat Out The song is titled "We'er So Starving"; the band had this to say about it (and about the recording process of their new album):

Dear friends,
It's great to talk to you again. It has been quite a while since we have let you know what we've been up to. Recording over the last six months has been an amazing experience, and we couldn't be more excited to show all of you what we've been working on.
Over the next 5 days we will finish in the studio at home and make our way to Abbey Road Studios in London (which truly is a dream come true for us). There, we will record all of the strings, horns, whatchyamacallit's, and so on. Then, we will mix the record at Abbey Road as well.
But before we do all that, we wanted to give you something for all of your patience over the last year. So we've posted a rough version of a new song titled, 'Were So Starving' (it's at the last song in the player below). This is not the final mix or version of the song, and it will undergo some change while we're in London, but we wanted to show you something from what we've done so far. Hope you enjoy.

Until next time - Panic At The Disco

Check out "We're So Starving" here.

Lower Definition post new demo

Alternative Press - Ben Sailer on 1/1/08 @ 9:35 PM - altpress.com

Screamo/metalcore outfit Lower Definition, who recently signed to Ferret, have posted a new demo from their upcoming debut full-length on their MySpace page. The as-of-yet untitled album is due out early this summer.

Relive New Year's Eve with Radiohead webcast

Alternative Press - Rachel Lux on 1/1/08 @ 4:51 PM - altpress.com

Too busy getting your champagne on last night to catch Radiohead's live webcast performance? Never fear. Thanks to the wonder of YouTube, the entire performance can be seen below:

Cobra Starship posts new vid

Alternative Press - Rachel Lux on 1/1/08 @ 4:39 PM - altpress.com

The Gabe Saporta vehicle Cobra Starship have posted the video for "The City Is At War." The track is off their latest album, Viva La Cobra!, which was released in October on Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen.

Check it out below: