Say Anything Burn a Miracle...

Max Bemis and the rest of the boys from Say Anything debuted a lyric video for their new song, "Burn A Miracle" earlier this morning.  The video was created by Casey Crescenzo of The Dear Hunter.  The single first started streaming earlier this week and  is off the band's upcoming album, Anarchy, My Dear.  The album will be out sometime in March 2012 on Equal Vision Records. 

Your Weekly Bamboozle Update...

 So now that half of the headliners have been revealed, The Bamboozle Festival announcements will start to roll in. Three day passes and V.I.P. bundles are on sale now, and single day tickets will be available for purchase sometime mid January. The line up is said to be the biggest and best Bamboozle can offer their fans for the ten year anniversary. I do want to state this: if a line up announcement is not made via the festival's website or twitter(specifically @bamboozlepress) do not consider it official.  Look to those two spots for confirmations on any speculation.  

After gaining 500 followers on their twitter last night, John D and The Bamboozle Festival released episode one of The Gursky Project.  The Gursky Project is a documentary showing fans all the behind the scenes effort that is going on for this year's festival.  John D met Sam Gursky in early 2011  and the two decided to work together on this project.  Every two-three weeks the festival will launch a new episode.  The project gives a better look into what really goes on to set up the festival and who is involved in what areas.  Also, the video may provide some hints and clues to acts not yet announced for the festival.

Watch the video below or on the original website:

The Gursky Project - Episode 01: Greetings From Asbury Park from The Bamboozle Festival on Vimeo.

Mix Tape #11

So since the holiday season is in full swing and the countdown to Christmas and Hanukkah ends this week, I thought I would do a special mixtape this week and post my favorite 15 Christmas songs remixed by a few of my favorite bands.  Note, these are just remixes of traditional songs, if I tried to go into songs bands actually wrote about the holidays the list would have been huge!

August Burns Red: "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"

Rest of the Mixtape:

• Brand New: "O Holy Night"
• States: "All I Want for Christmas is You"
• New Found Glory: "The Christmas Song"
• VersaEmerge:"You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch"
• Anthony Green and Mindy White: "Baby It's Cold Outside"
• The Almost: "Little Drummer Boy"
• Death Cab for Cutie: "Christmas(Baby Please Come Home)"
• Copeland: "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
• Hellogoodbye: "Happy Christmas(War is Over)"
• Mae: "Carol of the Bells"
• Diamond: "Christmas Time is Here"
• Craig Mabbitt: "Making Christmas" *
• Balance and Composure" "Away In a Manger"
• VersaEmerge: "Santa Baby"

 *Okay so I know this is not a "traditional" holiday song, but I am in love with that movie and that version!

Sleigh Bells ring with New Song...

Yesterday, the Brooklyn based duo Sleigh Bells released a new song, "Born to Lose".  The Single is off of their upcoming album, Reign of Terror.

Using their brilliant combination of chaos and calmness, Reign of Terror will be a great follow up to 2010's Treats.  Singer Alexis Krauss and guitarist Derek Miller say the 11 tracks are their heaviest.  Miller also produced the album.  Before the record drops on February 14th via Mom + Pop Music, Sleigh Bells will do a tour through Florida with Diplo and Brooklyn's Liturgy starting February 2nd.  Check out the non vocal but heavy metal trailer below, as well as track listing.

TRACKLISTING
01 True Shred Guitar
02 Born To Lose
03 Crush
04 End Of The Line
05 Leader Of The Pack
06 Comeback Kid
07 Demons
08 Road To Hell
09 You Lost Me
10 Never Say Die
11 D.O.A.

5 More for Warped Tour...

Five more bands were announced for the 2012 Van's Warped Tour:

 Everytime I Die

Polar Bear Club

Vampires Everywhere!

Tomorrow's Bad Seeds

I Fight Dragons

New Video Premieres....

Yesterday, Gym Class Heroes premiered their video for their single, "Ass Back Home" featuring Neon Hitch via ryanseacrest.com . The video can now be found on YouTube.  "Ass Back Home" if off Gym Class Heroes latest album, The Papercut Chronicles II.

Also just a half hour ago, Rise Records tweeted that a new video from Attack Attack! was released.  The song is called "The Motivation", making it the first mew music heard from the crabcore king's upcoming album, This Means War.  The record hits stores January 17, 2012.  Ever wanted to hear what Attack Attack would sound like with out all the auto-tune and techno? Take a listen!

An Official Announcement from the Clowns...

Officially announced this morning on Jersey's WRAT radio, John D is proud to present:

Even though the information was leaked several hours before hand, the response has still been an amazing one.  Rumors of the three have been flying around for quite some time now, so it is nice for fans to finally have them confirmed.  Ticket prices seem to be the center of controversy this year however.  A three day pass is quoted at $295, before taxes and a $9 fee for the new bracelet system the festival is using.  My advice to fans is this, do not worry.  The festival has never dissapointed, and with over a hundred bands slated, the money is well worth it.  I am a seasoned veteran to this festival and it has never done me wrong! 

With the headlining announcement this morning also came the unvieling of the third installment of the 2011 Bamboozle Documentary.  The third part rounds out the documentary quite nicely; with clips with Man Overboard and of course Lil Wayne, just showing the diversity of the festival.  It also ends nicely with a great clip of John D. Check it out here!

You’re watching The 2011 Bamboozle Festival Documentary (Part III). See the Web's top videos on AOL Video

Stay tuned here for more announcements!

The Vaults of 3Oh!3 go Bang...

Starting today, 3Oh!3 will be releasing new songs through out the month of December.  All three tracks will be available on ITunes for purchase.  Early this morning, "Bang Bang" was found streaming.  If there is one thing 3Oh!3 is good at, it is getting a song stuck in your head.

The other two songs will be as follows:

"Dirty Mind" - Available 12/20
"Set You Free" - Available 12/27

He is We Make a Good Day...

Indie-pop duo He is We released their new single, "Skip to the Good Part" today via purevolume.  The single is the title track off their upcoming EP, to be released on Decemeber 20th.   Artwork and track listing cand be found below.

Track Listing:

1) All About Us - featuring Owl City
2) Our July In The Rain
3) Tell Me
4) Skip To The Good Part
5) Our July In The Rain (Acoustic)
6) Prove You Wrong (Acoustic)

Make sure you check out the rest of the album next week!

A Reminder to Be Jealous...

The Jealous Sound has announced that they will debut their upcoming album, A Gentle Reminder, on January 31, 2012. 

The band will just finished up one tour, and have announced that they will be doing a full U.S. tour in the earlier part of the new year.  A date in Brooklyn is the only one released so far.  The album will be the band's first since 2003's Kill Them With Kindness.  Their newest song, "Your Eyes Were Shining", can be heard HERE!

Mix Tape 10

I remember the first time I heard The Maine. I was looking up bands going to Bamboozle and downloaded a few songs. I instantly fell in love with the band that did the cutest remake of Akon's "I Wanna Fuck You". Now fast forward all these years.  I have grown up and so have The Maine.  Everything on Pioneer has this mature sound that you might not have expected out of the band, but you're glad it's playing in your ear drums!

The Rest of the Mixtape:

• The Rapture: "Sail Away"
• Feist: "How Come You Never Go There"
• Hot Chelle Rae: "I Like It Like That"
• Foster the People: "Call it What You Want"
• Dia Frampton Ft. Kid Cudi: "Don't Kick the Chair"
• Cymbals Eat Guitars: "Keep Me Waiting"
• Cloud Nothings: "Stay Useless"
• She & Him: "Gonna Get Along Without You Now"
• Silverstein: "Brookfield"
• Of Fortune and Fame: "Forevermore"
• Placeholder: "Give Up
• Mansions on the Moon: "Leaves Fall"
• Mike Posner: "Looks Like Sex"
• The SpacePimps: "The Glory Days"

Bamboozle Documentary Part 2...

First off let me apologize for having to play catch up.  A broken laptop = a very unhappy writer! With that said....

Last Sunday, John D and the rest of the LincStar/Bamboozle family released the second part of the documentary of last year's festival.  The piece features interviews with Taking Back Sunday, New Found Glory, and Vinny Carauna of I am the Avalanche about the MovieLife reunion.  It also takes a moment to feature The Gaslight Anthem, who John D calls the "breath of fresh air to the scene" and We are the In Crowd.  The third installment of the documentary will air at 9pm on December 13th, but if you can not wait that long like I can't, there is a link on the bamboozle website where you can watch the piece at 6a.m via AOL's Noisecreep.com

Watch Part 2 Here!

2012 Warped Tour Announcement...

Starting today, Vans Warped Tour will be announcing their line up for this years upcoming tour.  Announcements will be on Wednesdays and the line up will be fully revealed by the end of March.  The first bands are:

 

Bayside 

 Chelsea Grin

 Sleeping With Sirens

 The Silver Comet

 Memphis May Fire

Stay tuned for more band updates for Warped Tour!