Ben Folds Five are back...

2012 must be the year of reunions.  No one has heard from Ben Folds Five since 2008.  Back then, the band reunited for the first time in a decade to play their last album, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner.  Besides the solo career of singer-pianist Bens Fold, the 90s indie rock band has been non-existent.  On the night of January 24th, that all changed.  Folds tweeted a picture of himself in a studio with drummer Darren Jessee and bassist Robert Sledge.

  

 

The release will be Ben Folds Five's fourth studio album.  The only news of the album so far is that it will have a spring release. 

Mixtape #13

Hands like Houses: "Antarctica"

Recently signed to Rise Records, Hands like Houses will be releasing Ground Dweller on March 13th.  The album will sport more of a melodic sound, with less "screaming" that the band is used to.  The lyrics to most of the songs can also be found on the band's Tumblr.

The rest of this week's Mixtape:

• The Menzingers: "Gates"
• The Murder City Devils: "Everyday I Rise"
• No Trigger: "Dried Piss"
• Lucero: "Sometimes"
• Bleeding Through: "Goodbye to Death"
• Night Lights: "Truffle Shuffle"
• The Stereo State: "Tug of War"
• The Sidekicks: "Grace"
• My Ticket Home: "A New Breed"
• Cheap Girls: "Communication Blues"
• So Many Ways: "I've Made a Big Mistake"
• Plug in Stereo Ft. Cady Groves: "Oh Darling"
• Damien Jurado: "Museum of Flight"
• Doomtree: "Bangarang"

7 More for Warped...

Another seven were announced for the 2012 Van's Warped Tour yesterday.  I have to say I am pretty excited for this years line up so far.  Check out the newsest additions below.

Mayday Parade

Vanna

Make Do and Mend

Skip the Foreplay

Twin Atlantic

Sick of Sarah

The Green

New Music from Mars...

After the hype from the At the Drive In reunion for Coachella quieted down a bit, The Mars Volta announced recently that they will be releasing a new album on March 27th.  The album entitled, Noctournigquet, will be their first since 2009's Octahedron. Shortly after the album's release, members Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Alfredo Rodríguez-López will take part in the At the Drive In reunion show. Track Listing and album artwork can be found below.

Nocturniquit Track Listing:

1. The Whip Hand
2. Aegis
3. Dyslexicon
4. Empty Vessels Make The Loudest Sound
5. The Malkin Jewel
6. Lapochka
7. In Absentia
8. Imago
9. Molochwalker
10. Trinkets Pale Of Moon
11. Vedamalady
12. Noctourniquet
13. Zed And Two Naughts

Slave to the Game goes to Victory...

After announcing that they have re-signed with Victory Records, Emmure will be releasing a new album on April 10th.  The deathcore band had a four-album deal with the record label, and decided to re-sign.  Slave to the Game will be produced by Joey Sturgis, who also did the production for 2011's Speaker of the Dead.  The album will be the band's first with drumer Mark Castillo.  Castillo left the band Crossfade to drum with Emmure.  He is also formerly of Between the Buried and Me and Bury Your Dead.  Lead singer Frankie Palmeri sent out a video to fans recently explaining all of the news surrounding the band and the release of Slave to the Game.

Alive with New Music from The Used...

The Used have released a lyric video for, "I Come Alive".  The single is their first off their upcoming album, Vulnerable.  The record will hit stores March 27th.  This will be the first release off the Utah based band's own label - Anger Music Group.  Anger Music Group is an organization through Hopeless Records.  Vulnerable will be the band's follow up to 2009's Artwork.  Track listing can be found after the video.  Considering I have a tattoo for The Used, I am loving the song and excited for the entire album!

Track Listing of Vulnerable:

 1. I Come Alive
2. This Fire
3. Hands and Faces
4. Put Me Out
5. Shine
6. Now That You're Dead
7. Give Me Love
8. Moving On
9. Getting Over You
10. Kiss It Goodbye
11. Hurt No One
12. Together Burning Bright

Getting Catched up on Warped...

So since I took an little bit of a hiatus since the new year, lets get caught up on who has been added to the 2012 Van's Warped Tour shall we?  There are way to many to add pictures, links, or videos that the artists have been leaving, so I will just list them.  HOWEVER, Senses Fail's announcement video is hysterical so I will post that one!

Other Bands Added:

• A Loss for Words
• After the Burial
• blessthefall
• Dead Sara
• Echo Movement
• Funeral Party
• Hydro Da Hero
• Impending Doom
• It Boys!
• Living with Lions
• Lost in Society
• Machine Gun Kelly
• Man Overboard
• Mighty Mongo
• Rise To Remain
• Stepdad
• Super Water Symphony
• T. Mills
• The Ghost Inside
• Title Fight

Check Back Wednesday to see new bands for the week!

Who's in the Studio?...

It's a new year, and for a lot of artists, it's time to make some new music.  Here is just a few bands that have went back into the studio in the last month.

After touring since the release of last year's Lucky Street, Go Radio head back into the studio starting...today! Fans can expect a new full length album off of Fearless Records later in the year.

Converge hit the studio to record their eighth full length album.  The album will be produced again by their guitarist, Kurt Ballou.  The band is recording at Godcity Studios in their hometown of Salem, Massachusetts.  Epitaph/Deathwish Inc. are pushing for a September release.

Both  The Spill Canvas and Miss May I put up video posts recently about their recording experiences.

Hot Water Music headed to Colorado's Blasting Room Studios to start recording finally.  The band has not released an album since 2004's The New What Next.  This will also be the band's first on Rise Records.

From the sounds of a recent video update, For All Those Sleeping's second album sounds pretty decent.  As long as the guys don't goof around too much, their second full length can be expected this summer.

Pre-production is done for The Gaslight Anthem's fourth full length.  The band is currently working in Nashville Tennessee on their first record for Mercury Records.

TesseracT have announced they are working on an acoustic E.P.. It will be released in the spring time and will sport the vocals of newest member Elliott Coleman.

Lastly, starting next month, Senses Fail will begin writing for their new album.  It will be their follow up to The Fire from 2010.

Mixtape #12

Mixtapes: "You'd Better Bring More Dudes"

First off, this video makes me laugh every time I put it on.  This is totally something one of my friends would do, or probably has done.  Mixtapes are currently recording their full length debut.  They also just signed to No Sleep Records so be on the look out for more great music and hysterical videos from them!

Rest of this week's Mixtape:

• Now, Now: "School Friends"
• Neon Trees: "Everybody Talks"
• Attack Attack!: "The Wretched"
• Little Bombs: "Back Home"
• Anthony Raneri: "Please Don't Leave"
• The Casket Lottery: "On The Air"
• Hit the Lights: "Invincible"
• Anthony Green: "Only Love"
• Enter Shikari: "Stalemate"
• Diamond: "Sunburn"
• Nada Surf: "The Future"
• Say Anything: "Admit It, Again"
• Tonight Alive: "Breaking and Entering"
• My Ticket Home: "Who is 67?"