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Motion City Soundtrack have announced they will be releasing their fifth album in the North American Spring through their newly self-founded label, The Boombox Generation. The band released their major label debut, "My Dinosaur Life", this year via Co

Ligeia guitarist Ryan Ober has released a statement which comments on the band's cancelation of all upcoming shows, the actions of front man Keith Holuk in which he drank too much and ruined the band's recent show in Providence, Rhode Island, and the current status of the band.Ober posted:"First of all, I'd just like to apologize for not writing anything sooner but our frontman's actions have once again thrown me into a horrible spot in my life. I've basically been bouncing around Western Massachusetts (I live 5 hours away in PA) since the ordeal in Providence, tying up the loose ends of this current hiatus making sure noone else feels like they're about to get screwed along with the rest of us. So, with that being said, please understand that my main focus has been on finding a place to sleep and keep warm, not how I can get on Facebook or Lambgoat to TALK about a problem I'm too busy actually dealing with.It really makes me/us sick to see the comments left by those who once loved ...

English rock/post-hardcore band Lower Than Atlantis was robbed last night in Montreal during their North American tour.

The Word Alive has been demoing new material this month in preperation for their next full-length. The band will enter the studio on February 7th with Joey Sturgis (We Came As Romans, Emmure) to begin tracking, and remain there through mid-March.

Short Stack and Melbourne hip hop artist 360 have exchanged blows via the internet, after the rapper posted a provocative YouTube video. Both nominees for the Channel [V] Australian Artist of the Year award alongside Guy Sebastian and New Empire, 360 urged his fans to vote for him

Hawthorne Heights have posted the new music video for their song "Four White Walls". The song is taken from the band's latest EP "Hate", which the band self-released through their own Cardboard Empire label.

Santa Barbara, California based hardcore band Minus have posted two new songs onto their Bandcamp page as a free download. The songs "Have" and "Have Not" are taken from the band's new tape release "Have/Have Not", which will be limited to 100 copies, and available in time for the Triple B Records showcase in December.

Lincoln, Nebraska based hardcore band Bent Life have posted a new song onto the 6131 Records website. The song "The Hard Way" is the title track from the band's new 7", which will be released in early 2012 through the label.

There is no other band around who can match the audacity, intensity and progressive nature of System Of A Down. With System Of A Down operating at such astonishing creative and emotional heights they quite simply leave the rest of the herd scrabbling in the dust. It was 2001’s ‘Toxicity’ that cemented their reputation. With every track tightly coiled, urgent and “cast in layers upon layers of aural intricacy, Toxicity charters new frontiers, yet it’s still grinding rock at its most deafening.” – L.A Weekly In 2005, against all odds, the completed Mezmerize/Hypnotize project was unleashed and it quickly became impossible to think of it as anything else than one epic piece of work. System Of A Down delivered, and in doing so have given us one of the great rock double albums of all time….”rarely are albums this thrillingly original”. Q Mag As the headliners for the 2012 Soundwave Festival, System Of A Down will be bringing their frantic, frenetic and brutal live assault to Sydney...

Transit recently recorded a live session for Daytrotter which has now been made availble to stream and download.

The Downtown Fiction have released a new song from their upcoming EP, 'Pineapple,' which is set for release on December 20th.