MTV2, announced that a new series called "Your Friend, Andrew W.K.," a weekly advice/video show where Andrew W.K. will dispense advice, wit, and wisdom interspersed with music videos will premiere on Saturday, May 22nd at 9pm ET. Andrew had the following to say about the show:
Nonpoint has spent the last few months in the studio working on a new album, and it has now been announced that the record, entitled Recoil, will be released on July 13th. The first single will be “The Truth" and the band is expected to launch a full tour around the release.
Equal Vision has announced the release of Silent Drive's debut album, Love Is Worth It, on May 4th. Featuring members of Bane and Drowningman, this Massachusetts-based quartet has created an album that is "downright genre-bending."
In addition to playing at Coachella, as well as planning a touring carnival called Curefest that will drag along the likes of Interpol, The Rapture and Mogwai, Robert Smith has revealed that the Cure's new Ross Robinson-produced album is in the can and ready to be offered to the public. The disc will hit shelves via Geffen at the end of June.
The Strokes and "their favorite road trip time-killer, Xbox," have teamed up for the next Xbox Game With Fame. "Game With Fame" gives fans from all over the world a chance to play Xbox games (via Xbox Live) against NYC rockers, the Strokes on April 27th from 3-5pm (Central Time). The fellas will be using the gamertag "newyorkcitycops."
Our friends at Bifocal Media will be premiering the Braid: Killing a Camera 2004 Retrospective film at Kings Barcade in Raleigh, NC on May 1st at 8:30pm. This is part of the "Anyone But Bush" show and the film will be followed by live rock from Continent, Utah!, Proof, and more. Furthermore, The Kickass (a band you owe it to yourself to check out) is stopping off on their spring tour to play the Berkeley Cafe in Raleigh on April 27th.
Brazil have released their new album, A Hostage and the Meaning of Life, featuring 12 new songs written with the same ambitious attitude of the Dasein EP. You can head over here and listen to the entire record online, and be sure and check out the band on tour with Sparta.
Keane has launched an online player to celebrate the release of Hopes and Fears, which will hit streets on 5/25. Check it out.
More Lollapalooza 2004 info: We already know about Morrissey, Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Sonic Youth, String Cheese Incident, Polyphonic Spree and Gomez all playing the two-day per city show, but now we have gotten word that PJ Harvey and Le Tigre are also both on the bill.
An all-star line-up has been announced for "Life's A Gas - The Annaul Joey Ramone Birthday Bash" 2004 to take place Wednesday, May 19th at Irving Plaza in NYC. The line-up of bands performing at this year's Bash includes Alkaline Trio, The Dickies, Supersuckers, Bebe Buell, Sic F*cks, Slashtones and the all-star Friends of Joey Ramone - formed for the event - consisting of Marky Ramone, Tommy Ramone, and others.
The next round of Amnesty International auctions are live and this time around Blink 182 and Cypress Hill have teamed up with Amnesty to auction off two tix, two passes for the VIP area and two passes for the Meet & Greet, a signed Blink 182 CD and a signed Cypress Hill CD. The auctions run from April 12th-22nd and begins and closes at 7pm ET.
Sondre Lerche is going on tour and we have the dates for you. Check below, and be sure and check out our extended edition Sondre Lerche Featured Artist spot.
The Polyphonic Spree are set to release Together We're Heavy on July 13th, and they are working hard to make sure you know about it. For now we have their video piece "Cane" in Windows Media and their cover of David Bowie's Five Years in Windows Media as well.
Lo-Pro have posted online their video for "Sunday." Check it out in Real Video and Windows Media.
The new effort from Sparta entitled Porcelain now has a more tentative release date of July 13th. Don't forget to check out the warm up club shows.
Alexisonfire will be releasing their sophmore album Watchout in Canada on June 8th with no US date announced as of yet. Distort Entertainment has also posted outtakes from their latest video, waterwings.
It seems that PJ Harvey and Le Tigre have been confirmed for the Lollapalooza 2004 tour.
If you looking forward to the new Morissey release, You Are The Quarry, you should head over to the album's official site and keep up with the exclusive audio content and news.
I don't think it's 100% confirmed yet, but it seems almost certain that The Cure will be touring the U.S. this summer (July - September?) with Interpol. It makes sense, since both bands should have releases out around that time. If it's true, that'll be one big brooding mess I'll be happily standing in line for.
Dear Leader is in a Boston studio with Paul Kolderie (whose resume includes Radiohead & The Pixies) on a new album. While the first was Aaron Perrino doing his thing solo, this follow up will feature a full band. A working list of 12 songs is prepared and the album should hopefully be out this fall, most likely on Lunch Records.
