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Warped Tour 2009: Canterbury Park, August 2, Shakopee, MN

Punks and posers, get out your black hair dye and scuff up your sneakers, it’s Warped Tour time, and we’ve got a hell of an update for ya.

This year’s Minneapolis stop is August 2nd at Canterbury Park.

Last year was my fourth Warped Tour, and I have to say Canterbury Park was an excellent location [...]

Review: Play Radio Play! : The Frequency EP

Play Radio Play!
The Frequency EP
Label: Stolen Transmission 

Listening to the new bouncy, synth-backed lush fest that is PlayRadioPlay’s new EP, we had no idea the group is 17-year-old Dan Hunter from Aledo, Texas.

Why is his music so dream-poppy for such a young man? Check out this quote from his publicist:

“My father passed [...]

Chaplan : The Cost of Doing Business

Chaplan
The Cost of Doing Business

Warped Tour bands come and go – especially the ones who play just the local Hot Topic stage. That’s why it’s more important than ever-before to have a hook to help you stand out from the crowd.

What’s Minneapolis-based post-hardcore Chaplan’s hook?

For starters, all members are under 18, [...]

Monday Music News

Chrisopher Blue doesn’t care if you think there should be a “t” in his name. Check out his new disc, room tones (Sarathan Records) on April 17.
Christopher Blue : “Ghost In The Night” (mp3)

Underoath drummer, Aaron Gillespie, has come out from behind the drum set to front a new rock-based project called The Almost. [...]

Album Reviews: Placebo : Ben Swift : Helmet : Massive Attack : Additional Moog : Slow Runner : Plain White T’s : Anathallo : Goldenboy

Placebo’s Placebo
10th Anniversary Collectors Edition features a remaster of the group’s stellar ‘96 debut album, plus exclusive, previously unavailable demo “Paycheck,” fan club-only demo “Flesh Mechanic” plus a couple b-sides. DVD features all the promo videos from the album and previously unavailable live and TV performances, including a Glastonbury 1998 performance of “Lady of The [...]

Britt Black : Blackout

Britt Black
Blackout
Label: BoDog Music
In stores: July 25

Twenty year-old Canadian Britt Black (a.k.a. Brittin Karroll) is like the Joan Jett protege Joan never knew she had (they met the first time this summer). But the influence is obvious, especially on the chorus of the appropriately titled single, “Jet Black Heart.”

But Blackout has more to it than [...]

Billy Talent : II

Billy Talent
II
Label: Atlantic / Wea

Canadian hardcore punk/alternative rockers Billy Talent officially released their second album this week (although it leaked on June 19 and many of the tracks were available previously from soundtracks, giveaways, etc).

Compared to new songs of their many Warped counterparts, tracks like the first single “Devil In A Midnight Mass” and [...]

The Vincent Black Shadow : Fears in the Water

The Vincent Black Shadow
Fears in the Water
Label: BoDog Music
In stores: July 11, 2006

The Vincent Black Shadow is not just the 1950s motorcycle often cited in the works of Hunter S. Thompson (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, etc.).

It’s also a female vocalist-driven Canadian retro-pop group with a new album, Fears in the Water.

With vocal stylings [...]

Dead Celebrity Status : Blood Music

Dead Celebrity Status
Blood Music
In stores: June 27
Label: Bodog Music

The new album from Canadian hip-hop/rock group Dead Celebrity Status is a loaded deck featuring tight hooks, an already strong Project Wyze fanbase and laundry list of celeb collaborators.

Blood Music features Dave Navarro & Steve Perkins from Jane’s Addiction (”We Fall We Fall”), UK soul sensation Joss [...]

Warped Tour : Minneapolis, MN : HHH Metrodome : June 18, 2006

Van’s Warped Tour
Sunday, June 18th, 2006
HHH Metrodome

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