Dashboard New Found Glory Split

So, it might seem kind of high school of me to be so excited about, but Dashboard Confessional and New Found Glory are doing a 7'' split together. This might come out of left field and steal album of the year depending on what both groups do with each others songs.
Hopefully Chris has enough good sense to simplify the NFG songs to just accoustic; since I'm not sure that slower more thoughtful versions of NFG songs will play out that well.

Easy Tigers In Denim

Doing Shit like this proves almost unequivicably that Every Time I Die is the greatest band on the fucking planet.

Riding a motorcycle with Keith Buckley through California, going to see an ETID show, and then partying at a KOfuckingA? Seriously?

Stream the new Shadows Fall Album

Shadows Fall's new album Retribution hits stores on Tuesday (along with a bunch of other pretty awesome stuff), and from what I've heard so far it's pretty solid. I bought The War Within a couple of years ago and probably didn't give it as much credit as it should have gotten; but Retribution sounds so far like it's going to be one of the better albums from one of the genres oldest groups.

Feel free to check it out for yourself cuz the whole thing is streaming on myspace.

Apocalypse Please

This is not only hilarious, but decidely metal as well.

IT HASN'T LEAKED YET

Raise your hand if you aren't here looking for a leaked copy of the new Throwdown album.

Didn't think so.

Auto Tune The News

The "Auto Tune the News" segments are almost the very definition of making the best of a bad situation. And as much as T-Pain is largely responsible for the advent of one of the most criminally overused aspects of modern technology, I do appreciate the fact that he has such a good sense of humor about the whole thing. All of that said, this bit is fucking hilarious; especially since it refers back to episode 4's ( I think) global warming song (the "very thin ice" part).

New Say Anything Video

Say Anything - Hate Everyone

Here is the just released music video for the first single of Say Anything's upcoming S/T album. Somehow I've managed to avoid hearing the song until just now; which is completely unfortunate considering how awesome it is. It reminds me of "Somebody Hates Me" by Reel Big Fish for a number of reasons (fun, upbeat song, about hating people).

This makes me really excited for the rest of the album, and excited to hear how instead of stretching good ideas to fit on two discs, they might have combined good ideas to fit them on one disc.

Concerning Absence

So,

If you're still holding strong and actually reading this thing...thanks! I was away working at camp from May 15th to August 21st and didn't really have much time or material to update with.

Anyway, assuming anyone reads this thing regularly enough to be concerned. Consider the blog back up and in action.

I might also draw your attention to two blogs that will be up and coming soon. Both chronicling the visits of two witty, handsome, humorous and slightly overweight fellows as they trek to the land down under (one of them is me). The other one is my good friend and summer counterpart Will Slater, in case your interested you can find his blog here. Mine will be up soon.

Best,

Watson

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Every Time I Die Release Title of New Album

I'm about to break it wide open. The new Every Time I Die album is called 'New Junk Aesthetic". Get pumped.

And So I Watch You From Afar

I think that the way NME describes them is pretty spot on ("The sound of someone crashing an oil tanker through Sigur Ros' ice float"). But because I'm not going to let myself get beaten by NME, I'll say that if The Mars Volta were from the UK and replaced their rambunctios, esoteric sound with a much more spirited, epic and as cheesy as it might sound majestic one, you would find And So I Watch You From Afar.

This band is coming. This band is important. Don't say you weren't warned. Click here to listen to "A Little Solidarity Goes A Long Way".

Stoked

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New Every Time I Die Track Names

Check out this article at Rock Sound for as much of an update about the ETID as anyone has.