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Killswitch Engage announce tour to heat up your winter

Rachel Lux on 11/28/07 @ 6:27 PM

Massachusetts metalcore maestros Killswitch Engage plan to tour this January and part of February with a rotation of fellow heavyweights Every Time I Die, the Dillinger Escape Plan and Parkway Drive.

"We're going to start off 2008 touring with bands that I've wanted to go on the road with for a long, long, long time," says drummer Justin Foley. "Not only are they awesome guys and good friends, but great bands with wicked live shows - come out and join the party!"

Dates:
1/10 9:30 Club Washington, DC
1/11 Club Zoo Pittsburg, PA
1/12 Bogart's Cincinnati, OH
1/14 The Fillmore Miami, FL
1/15 House of Blues Orlando, FL
1/16 Tabernacle Atlanta, GA
1/17 Disco Rodeo Raleigh, NC
1/21 Orange Peel Asheville, NC
1/22 City Hall Nashville, TN
1/23 The Village Little Rock, AR
1/25 Cain's Ballroom Tulsa, OK
1/26 Pageant St. Louis, MO
1/28 LC Pavilion Columbus, OH
1/29 House of Blues Cleveland, OH
1/30 Pierre's Ft. Wayne, IN
1/31 Harro East Rochester, NY
2/1 Starland Ballroom Sayreville, NJ
2/2 Toad's Place Richmond, VA
2/4 Magic City Music Hall Johnson City, NY

HIM post music video for "Bleed Well"

The brooding wolves of the Finnish goth-rock outfit HIM have posted the new music video for "Bleed Well," the latest single off of their new album, Venus Doom (in stores now). Footage for the video was ripped from the reels of their recorded live shows on November 14 and 15 in Los Angeles, CA (details, details). Check out the video below.

HIM - "Bleed Well"

Three songs off Rivers Cuomo demos album available

Scott Heisel on 11/28/07 @ 3:35 PM

Music has begun to trickle out from the upcoming demos compilation Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo, which will be released Dec. 18 on Geffen (details). Cuomo himself has posted "Blast Off!" on his MySpace page; if that's not your thing, you can stream the track via Windows Media or Real Audio. Plus, check out the flash player below to hear clips of "Blast Off!," "Longtime Sunshine" and "Superfriend."

AP music editor Scott Heisel recently had the distinct pleasure of talking to the enigmatic Weezer frontman regarding this project; you can read their conversation here.

Members of The Chariot form Queen's Club

Ben Sailer on 11/28/07 @ 3:35 PM

Jake Ryan and Dan Eaton, both members of the noisy metalcore outfit The Chariot, have formed an electro-pop side project called Queen's Club. The band is currently without a label, but you can listen to two songs, "Take A Number" and "Uh Huh," on their MySpace page.

Source: Decoymusic.com

Be Your Own Pet set release date for new album

Jason Pettigrew on 11/28/07 @ 2:30 PM

Nashville's barely illegal punks Be Your Own Pet have finished work on the folow-up to 2006's self-titled release. The new album is called Get Awkward and is slated for release March 18, 2008. Drummer John Eatherly explains:

"We took out a good chunk of time to record the album with Steven McDonald in Nashville, which we are all really proud of."

Guitarist Jonas Stein chimes in,

"I think all the songs are better and more consistent throughout. I like listening to the new one better. We recorded the first album when we were kids. Now we are still kids, but kids well more on our way to adulthood. I think you can hear that in the new album."

Anybody see Eatherly playing on Conan O'Brien with a face full of shaving cream? Oh, you cwazy kidz...

Butch Walker loses "everything" in CA wildfires

Rachel Lux on 11/28/07 @ 12:41 PM

Artist and music producer Butch Walker, known for his work with artists such as Avril Lavigne, Fall Out Boy and the Academy Is... suffered sizable property loss in the Malibu, California, wildfires this week. According to MTV.com, Walker said in a press release he was renting a $4.8 million house in Corral Canyon owned by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, which was destroyed over the weekend. Walker had recently moved his recording studio equipment to Malibu from Atlanta.

A statement from Walker reads:

"I lost everything I've ever owned. Every master of every song I've ever recorded, every piece of recording equipment, guitars, drums and things I've collected over the years, cars, motorcycles, every family memorial, heirloom, picture and document we ever had. ... Gone. I feel like I finally know the difference between 'going back' and 'going home.' "