Phoenix Announce Fall Tour of U.S.

Metric will open for Phoenix at the Greek Theatre in LA on September 16 and Passion Pit supports at Central Park Summerstage in NYC on September 25 and 26. But a dose of Phoenix's live brilliance will come sooner than September when Saturday Night Live re-airs the band's appearance on August 1! Tune in to NBC at 11:35 p.m. EST/PST to see Phoenix perform irresistible singles "1901" and "Lisztomania". - more on this story

The Bloody Used

ESM reports: The Used have announced the video premiere of their new song "Blood On My Hands." The special Band Cut will debut today exclusively on MySpace. "Blood On My Hands" is the first single off the Orem, Utah band's new album Artwork, which will be released on Reprise Records on September 1, 2009.

The video, directed by Lisa Mann, was shot at Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles, CA, and is centered on the narrative of front man Bert McCracken's obsession with a serial killer in a small town. Intercut with performance, the twisting narrative follows Bert's increasing rage as he tracks the killer…or maybe a victim…and the line between hunter and hunted becomes blurred.

Starting today, MySpace and TheUsed.net will be exclusively streaming the Band Cut of the "Blood On My Hands" video, which features extra scenes and is unwavering in its intensity. The song itself, which guitarist Quinn Allman describes as the song that "sums up everything about The Used," is confined chaos, brutally thrashing one moment and proffering a pop-driven, sing-along chorus the next. It premiered on iTunes June 30th and sold over 5k downloads in the first day and over 12k in the first week, the highest digital debut ever for the band. - more on this story

Brand New Tour

Stunt Company reports: This October Brand New will embark on a fall headlining tour of North America in support of their [overused cliche removed] new full length album, Daisy, out September 22nd on DGC/Interscope/Procrastinate Music Traitors.

The coast to coast trek kicks off on October 1st in Cleveland, OH and the band has tapped a few of their friends as main support along the way. For the first leg they'll be joined by Manchester Orchestra, for the second leg Thrice will be joining them and on the third and last leg they will be joined by Glassjaw. As previously announced, Glassjaw will also be joining them in Uniondale, LI at the Nassau Coliseum homecoming event on November 28th. This special show sold 6,000+ tickets in the first 24 hours!

The fall North American tour will follow main stage performances at both Reading and Leeds – where Brand New are fifth on the bill behind Radiohead, Bloc Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Vampire Weekend. These festival dates in August will mark their second trip to the UK this year. The band headed over in June and sold out ever single date including Manchester Academy (2370 capacity), Birmingham @ 02 Academy (3000 capacity) and The Forum in London (2300 capacity). They followed the UK dates up with a small US tour in July of underplays that sold out each venue in record time including shows at Slim's in SF, Epicentre in San Diego, the Troubadour in LA and the Music Hall of Williamsburg which Bowery Presents' Josh Moore said, "There's no way to know how quickly it actually sold out because it was literally gone instantly and the good thing is we know all the tickets went to actual fans and not re-sellers." - more on this story

RevCo Get Sex-O MiXXX-Od

Speak Easy reports: RevCo (p/k/a Revolting Cocks), the long-running side project from Al Jourgensen and a slew of collaborators over the outfit's twenty plus year history, will release a remix record titled Sex-O MiXXX-O on Sept. 29 via his own 13th Planet Records.

The ten track album couples longtime conspirators including Luc Van Acker, Dave "Rave" Ogilvie and Marilyn Manson's Chris Vrenna with current RevCo players Clayton Worbeck and Stayte (which features the aforementioned Worbeck as well as Josh Bradford). The original album, Sex-O Olympic-O, was released in the fall of 2008 and was hailed by Alternative Press as the "most satisfying album" Jourgensen had created to date with RevCo and went on to dub the album as a "celebration of hedonism and glorious excess."

Orchestrating the previously announced LubricaTour, RevCo's first North American headline run in twenty years, is the legendary master of the unceremonious Jim Rose, of The Jim Rose Circus fame, featuring Jim's cast of freaks and characters, revolving nightly. Previously announced support acts include Blownload and Left Spine Down. Jourgensen joins the RevCo circus as a special guest artist for the El Paso, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York dates only. - tracklisting

3 Inches Of Blood On The Road With In Flames, Between The Buried and Me and The Faceless

PR reports: In support of their upcoming, punishing new album, Here Waits Thy Doom, Vancouver's 3 Inches Of Blood have announced a string of headlining dates before heading out this fall with melodic death metal icons In Flames, and prog metallers Between The Buried and Me and The Faceless. The tour starts September 7 in Seattle, WA and runs through October.

Sirius XM Radio will be debuting the new 3 INCHES OF BLOOD track, "Battles and Brotherhood," on their Liquid Metal channel (Sirius 27/XM 42) today, July 29, at 7:40PM EST.

3 INCHES OF BLOOD will release Here Waits Thy Doom September 8 on Century Media. The album, which will set the new standard for new heavy metal, was tracked in Seattle's Sound House Recordings with renowned producer Jack Endino (Soundgarden, High On Fire) and is soon to be hailed as the gospel of all things heavy. For an early taste of the sonic brutality, visit the band's official MySpace, www.myspace.com/3iob, where the new song, "Call of The Hammer" is streaming NOW. - dates

Portugal. The Man's Satanic Tour

HER reports: Portugal. The Man's North American headline tour kicks off with two New York shows, August 4 and 5 (already sold out), and includes a stop at this year's Lollapalooza (August 9) in Chicago and Outside Lands Festival (August 29) in San Francisco.

The tour is in support of the band's brand-new album, their fourth, The Satanic Satanist (produced by Paul Q. Kolderie/Radiohead, the Pixies) which hit stores, July 21.

Touring in support of The Satanic Satanist, Portugal. The Man - guitarist/vocalist John Baldwin Gourley, bassist/singer Zachary Scott Carothers, keyboardist/singer Ryan Neighbors, and drummer Jason Sechrist - will perform some 40 shows in North America between August and October, culminating on October 23 back in New York at the CMJ Music Marathon & Film Festival. The band will incorporate a number of the new songs into their set, and, according to Gourley, "There may be a little less jamming than we've done before, but there will be some new takes on some of the older songs." - more on this story

Ruth Releasing The Covers EP

Overture-Media reports: Last fall heartfelt rockers Ruth released a successful sophomore album, "Anorak," which garnered the band such praise as "one of the best acts on Tooth & Nail Records' star-studded roster." Now the band so many have fallen in love with is back with "The Covers EP" featuring five covered tunes ranging from Buddy Holly to Coldplay (track listing below). "The Covers EP" will be available digitally on August 25, 2009. Yesterday the first single "Fix You" (Coldplay) was digitally released on iTunes. On August 11th, "Everyday" (Buddy Holly) will be released.

Band founder / singer Dustin Ruth shares, "We are super excited about the release of this EP. Each one of these songs is special to us for different reasons, and it was really fun to go into the studio and put our own 'Ruth' spin on them. We hope everyone enjoys them!"

Beginning this Saturday, August 1st, Ruth will be hitting the road again playing various venues and festivals including Spirit West Coast (Monterey), The Knitting Factory (LA), 12th & Porter (Nashville) to The Plaza Club (Vancouver, BC) (tour dates below). Some dates will be will also include Sleep For Sleepers. - more on this story

The Rescues To The Rescue

MSO reports: Comprised of four successful and critically acclaimed solo singer-songwriters in their own right, The Rescues--Kyler England (vocals, acoustic guitar, ukulele, bass), Gabriel Mann (vocals, Wurlitzer, piano, celeste), Adrianne Gonzalez (vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion, bass) and Rob Giles (vocals, acoustic guitars, bass, drums)--have more than 15 albums, dozens of songwriting awards, and thousands of miles on the road between them.

Coming off their recent sold-out residency at the Hotel Cafe and a packed debut last week at LA's famed Troubadour, The Rescues will launch their first-ever East Coast tour August 19 in Boston, MA with recording artist AM (on Filter Records) supporting.

The two-week trek will hit New York City's Canal Room on Friday, August 21. Before heading east, the group will return to the Troubadour on August 12 for a special cause. A longtime friend of the band, Kelly Buchanan--a New York-based singer/songwriter--suffered a traumatic brain injury during a street hockey game in March 2008. The Rescues will join Glen Phillips (ex-Toad the Wet Sprocket), Sara Bareilles, Maria Taylor, Paris Carney and more to be announced for a benefit concert to raise funds for Kelly's health care. - more on this story

Sea Wolf Tour And Album

Filter reports: An expansive collection of modern mythology and lush orchestration, Sea Wolf's sophomore LP, White Water, White Bloom, was penned solely by Alex Brown Church, produced by Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Monsters of Folk) and recorded with a full band (keyboardist Lisa Fendelander, bassist Ted Liscinski and drummer Joey Ficken).

These new compositions were injected with a raw, dynamic energy that the band developed through extensive touring together and will be unveiled on a cross-country six-week tour beginning in September. White Water, White Bloom drops September 22 courtesy of Dangerbird Records.

Upon completion of his touring cycle behind debut, Leaves In The River, lovestruck Church followed his muse to Montreal and began work on his second album. Set against the changing of seasons, the record unfolds like an epic poem over 10 tracks. Pulsing with evocations of nature at its most elemental, Sea Wolf's songs are filled with vivid imagery and a cinematic sense of movement. - more on this story

The Dead Trees Hitting The Road

PR reports: After touring with the Whigs and supporting and playing as the backing band for Little Joy across Europe and North America, The Dead Trees add a new string of tour dates with the Rosewood Thieves.

With an arsenal of new material to road test before heading back into the studio to record a follow up to their debut LP King of Rosa.

Matthew, Noah, Tad and Michael began work on what would become the Fort Music EP. They were longtime friends and had played around Boston in various configurations for years. Michael and Noah had recently played with local friends Drug Rug. When the boys gathered in Dec '06 to record some new songs of Michael's, there were no grand plans to see through or deadlines to meet. They had an engineer friend and a couple hundred bucks and some notions about maybe making some back to basics rock and roll. Luckily for everyone, that approach seemed to work just fine, and after two weeks in an Allston, MA basement they had Fort Music all wrapped up and, more importantly, were most definitely a band. Fort Music EP was widely supported throughout the Coalition Of Independent Music Stores in spring, 2008. - more on this story

Hill Country Revue Offer Up Free Tune

PR reports: Hill Country Revue's song "You Can Make It" is featured as a FREE iTunes Discovery download for the week July 27th .

The song is from HCR's debut album, MAKE A MOVE, and will also be on sale for $7.99 for two weeks at iTunes.

HCR continues to tour throughout the summer including two opening dates this week for the Dave Matthews Band (7/31, 8/1) in Noblesville, IA. - dates

Paranoid Open Air

Submitted News reports: The first Paranoid Open Air festival marks 10 years of the first web metal medium in Slovenia, Paranoid Metal Webzine (www.paranoid-zine.com), and continues the tradition of Metal Mania Open Air festival.

What the latter offered from 2002 to 2008, Paranoid Open Air will offer from now on! Three days of quality metal and rock music with well-known artists from Great Britain, Sweden, USA, Australia, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, and great company and fun with fans from far and near.

On 13th, 14th and 15th August 2009, in Ljubecna pri Celju, Slovenia, over 35 bands will take over the stage. For some this will be their first appearance in Slovenia. We must mention the biggest names in metal, for example doom legends Candlemass, well-known former Iron Maiden vocalist Blaze Bayley, legendary progressive death metal group Atheist and hardcore masters Agnostic Front. Of course, the selection of other metal genres is rich, reaching from glam to black and from hard rock to grind, including everything in between! - more on this story

. Crue Fest 2

Over the course of six hours and ten bands, you get to sink your teeth into a diverse variety of hard rock with the cherry on top of the mammoth sundae being that the Crue performing their number one 1989 album, Dr. Feelgood from top to bottom. - Read the full Crue Fest 2 review

. Covered: A Revolution In Sound

In honor of its 50th anniversary, Warner Bros. Label decided to release a compilation CD that features contemporary artists covering classic tunes associated with WBR from the last 50 years and proves once again that compilation albums generally suck. (3 stars) - Read the full Covered: A Revolution In Sound review

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