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Tell All Your Friends Acoustic Stream
Want to see if Taking Back Sunday’s unique decision to create an acoustic replica of their quintessential album, Tell All Your Friends, for its tenth anniversary paid off? The album can be streamed at PropertyOfZack or on spotify.
letlive’s Full Album Stream
Post-hardcore band, letlive, is streaming their new album titled The Blackest Beautiful on Epitaph Record’s Youtube page. (Be wary not to stumble upon Falling In Reverse’s abomination of an album, who are signed by the same label and who are being streamed on the same page.) The Blackest Beautiful will be in stores on July 9th.
Phoenix Announce Fall Tour of the US
After a slur of festival dates in the US this summer, Phoenix announced that they will be touring the US this fall. The tour will be in support of their most recent album, Bankrupt!, which you can stream below.
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Stream New Sleeping With Sirens Album Feel
Sleeping With Sirens new album Feel can be streamed below. The official album release date is June 4th.
Eisley Stream New Album + Kickstarter Update
Eisley are streaming their new album ‘Currents’ on Pandora. ‘Currents’ will drop on May 28th. Keeping checking the site for our review, up in the next few days.
The band have also released a statement regarding the failure of their Kickstarter campaign, which you can read below.
Hey everyone.
We wanted to take a second to thank everyone who backed this project for their support and also update everyone on where we’re at with touring and the future. We debated on whether or not to make an official statement beyond expressing our sincere thanks but didn’t want to ignore the fact that an elephant might still be in the room. Bands rarely make official statements unless they’re breaking up and that’s sure not happening. So this is just going to be somewhat off the cuff if that’s ok.
As you guys know, we didn’t meet our goal by the deadline. Clearly, we over-shot it but we’re not bummed out or discouraged. Neither are we immune to the fact that we found ourselves in the cross-hairs of a Kickstarter controversy :). Guess that was something we were unaware we’d be getting into. You live and learn. We researched, looked at our situation realistically and took the risk.
You guys were overwhelmingly supportive and encouraging. We now understand that some didn’t like our goal amount and some didn’t like the idea that we were trying to fund touring instead of a record, some thought we were way off on what we were trying to offer in return. Apparently, a large percentage seem to be conscientious objectors about crowd funding in general. Understandable. Also, some folks felt like we were trying to use our fan’s money to feed our babies. This provided great comic relief. Note: we weren’t going to be writing ourselves checks. Plus our babies all nurse. haha.
We’re not going to get deep into defending our motives or our decision. Our guess is – short of posting tour budgets, bank accounting statements and/or having some huge discussion about transitioning from being kids in a band to touring in a band with kids, we’re not likely to change any nay-nayers minds. And that’s… ok. We’re not embarrassed that it didn’t fund. We’re too busy and thankful to be embarrassed. And anyway, reaching the 60% mark was fairly huge.
What does seem important is to address is the question as to whether our plans might be affected by any financial shortfall. We’ve been asked, ‘if you’re still going to find a way to tour, then was this project really necessary?’ The simple truth is, yes. But we will face these challenges and absolutely find a way to tour as much as we possibly can. Nothing has changed. Our motivation is to continue being a band, writing songs, recording records and touring.
On that note, this tour is happening. We’re excited about it and hope you guys are too. Just to be transparent, to insure it could happen we ended up having to borrow $ from family for a good chunk of it and our label is lending us money against future royalties for the rest. Both are painful. That’s the reality of Eisley doing support tours. Headlining tours are a little easier financially but in any case, our nursing babies are too little to leave at home and it would be insanely wrong and dangerous to try to tour with 3 or 4 tiny babies in a van. We have to be in a bigger, safer, vehicle which costs between 15 – 20k (before fuel, driver, etc.).
To sum it all up, the intention of the project was to help facilitate all of the touring we need to do to support our record but it was also a way for us to have fun with you guys, make cool stuff and connect with people that we may never have had the opportunity to connect with otherwise. We still want to find ways to do so regardless of how this particular idea worked out!
Please know how thankful we are that you were willing to give unselfishly to the cause. We really just want to move past this episode, get back to music. Thanks again and we’ll be talking more and more about our new record and this tour during the next few days.
Love,
Eisley
Generationals Summer Tour Dates
Generationals posted a friendly reminder today about their upcoming tour promoting their latest album, Heza. Filled with breezy, laid back vibes, Heza pairs perfectly with summer days. Stream the album in its entirety HERE . Key tracks include: “Put A Light On,” “Kermal,” and “Extra Free Year.”
The Planes Release Video For “See You Next Tuesday”
Self-described “Street Urchin Indie” band, The Planes, released a video for their track, “See You Next Tuesday,” on Sunday. The video, shot in black and white film, is delightfully simple and accurately depicts the band as “4 Guys writing music they love and playing it wherever and whenever they can.” The band also recently released an EP entitled On Demand, which features four tracks including “See You Next Tuesday.” The Planes have a familiar sound, with echoes of The Kooks and The 1975, but manage to create a unique vibe on On Demand.
Watch the four dudes from Portsmouth rock out in the video for “See You Next Tuesday” and stream On Demand below. Then be sure to LIKE them on Facebook, FOLLOW them on Twitter, add them to your summer playlist, and let the good times roll.
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Paramore Album Stream Details + Free Book Download
Paramore will be streaming their new album ‘Paramore’ in four parts over four nights, beginning Monday, April 1st. The stream begins at 7pm EST on the band’s website. The album will be available April 9th. Check out the schedule below.
Side A: Monday, April 1st
Side B: Tuesday, April 2nd
Side C: Wednesday, April 3rd
Side D: Thursday, April 4th
The band also have a free book available to download in Itunes titled ‘Paramore: Writing the Future’.
The Story So Far Album Stream
Stream The Story So Far’s new album What You Don’t see via Youtube below. The album will be released tomorrow.
Cartel Streaming New Album
Cartel’s new album, Collider, is streaming now! Give it a listen HERE! Don’t forget to pick up a copy tomorrow!
Stream The Strokes’ New Album
You can listen to The Strokes new album “Comedown Machine” here. The album will be available to purchase on March 25th.
The Venetia Fair Stream New Album
The Venetia Fair has started streaming their new album, Every Sick, Disgusting Thought We’ve Got In Our Brain. The album was funded by a kickstarter the band set up, and with the positive feedback and support from the fans, they were eager to make their best album yet. Read what else the band had to say and stream the new album here.
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