Archive for June 2011
Arizona’s Landmine Marathon have announced a west coast tour starting on July 29th and concluding on August 13th. Along the way, they’ll be playing with Toxic Holocaust, label mates Holy Grail, and Owen Hart amongst others. The band just completed the follow up to 2010′s, “Sovereign Descent.” Their fourth, as of yet untitled, album, was recorded at guitarist Ryan Butler’s Arcane Digital Recording Studios, and should see a fall 2011 release.
Landmine Marathon bassist Matt Martinez commented: “After taking off more than a few months to write and record our next album, we are feeling very antsy to hit the road. This trip will give us the opportunity to rage with friends new and old and ‘road test’ some of our new songs!”
Dates:
July 29 Canoga Park, CA The Cobalt Café w/ Toxic Holocaust, Holy Grail, The Krum Bums
July 30 San Diego CA The Shakedown
July 31 Ventura, CA Zoey’s Café
Aug. 2 Fresno, CA The Ranch
Aug. 3 Reno, NV Jub Jub’s Palor
Aug. 4 Sacramento CA The Fire Escape
Aug. 5 Oakland CA Sub/Mission w/ Bastard Noise, Voetsek
Aug. 6 Arcata, CA The Jambalaya
Aug. 7 Medford OR Musichead
Aug. 8 Portland OR Plan B
Aug. 9 Seattle WA El Corazon Lounge w/ Owen Hart, Theories
Aug. 10 Boise ID The Shredder
Aug. 11 Salt Lake City UT Salt Lake Recording Services
Aug 12 Denver CO The Rockaway
Aug. 13 Santa Fe NM TBA
Snag some new gear at the Landmine Marathon official merch store.
The Black Dahlia Murder has unleashed a slew of new designs to keep the faithful fans content. From the creepy stylings of the “Lizard Men” to the subtle album artwork displayed on “Ritual Stamp,” the new merch is a continued tradition of quality and disturbing art from your favorite metal band.
Get the new items at The Black Dahlia Murder official merch store.
Preorders for the highly anticipated new album from Today Is The Day are now available! The album, aptly titled “Pain Is A Warning” was produced by Kurt Ballou and will be released via Black Market Activities/Good Fight Entertainment on August 16th. Frontman Steve Austin had this to say about the record:
“[The album contains] some of the most rocking, most epic music ever layed down by Today Is The Day. I am putting all of the hardships and triumphs of the past 3 years into this album. After many changes in personnel, Today Is The Day finally feels like a real band. We’re ready to go at it now harder than ever.”
Check out a new song from the album at their facebook page (a “like” is required but well worth it).
Today Is The Day official facebook page.
The band is offering numerous preorder packages including exclusive t shirt designs and 12″ for you vinyl nerds like myself.
Click the banner below to shop. Support underground music.
Today Is The Day twitter.
Black Market Activities twitter.
Black Market Activities facebook page.
It’s Friday. You just sold a bunch of baseball cards and your dead bird Petey to the blind kid in apartment 4C. It’s time to spend that hard earned cash on something righteous. May I suggest the latest deal of the week?
Summer Slaughter participants Darkest Hour have their “Dripping Logo” shirt on sale for a cool $5.99. Supplies are very limited so don’t sleep on this. Choose from red or black.
Click here to purchase.
Pick up some other sweet shirts from the Darkest Hour official merch store.
Everyone’s favorite acapella group The Blanks have posted a new video for their song “Man Love.” The bar based jam features guest appearances from Ken Jenkins (Dr. Kelso from “Scrubs”) and Kathryn McCormick (“So You Think You Can Dance) and explores the platonic relationship of two pals that like to hang out.
Check it out:
Score some awesome gear from The Blanks official merch store.
New to the IndieMerch fold is The First Twenty, a non profit organization dedicated to improving the health of the American firefighter. Their mission is to decrease Line of Duty Deaths due to heart attack in today’s fire service. Heart attacks are the #1 killer of firefighters and half of all line of duty deaths come from them.
They are also commited to:
1. Designing fitness, wellness, and educational programs based on the most up-to-date research.
2. Creating data systems and bringing together key stakeholders which can contribute to future research on firefighter health and fitness.
3. Working with universities and hospitals on developing research to make advances in firefighter wellness.
The organization has opened up an official webstore with us so you can show your support. Proceeds will be going to the organization to help prolong the lives of the brave people who are saving lives on a day to day basis. Please pass this site along to friends and family that have relatives who are firefighters so they can help as well.
More information can be found below:
The First Twenty official website.
The First Twenty official merch store.
Utah Jazz enthusiasts GAZA are playing two righteous shows with Burning Love (Ex-Cursed/The Swarm) and All Pigs Must Die (members of Hope Conspiracy and Converge). The shows are in Chicago June 25th and Los Angeles June 26th and are part of the Scion Metal Matinee’s and are free if you RSVP.
RSVP HERE.
The band has also unleashed an amazing new design titled “Unholy Culkin” featuring an iconic character of the nineties in the most precarious of positions. I wonder what Daniel Stern is doing right now.
Buy the “Unholy Culkin” and other gear from the band at the Gaza official merch store.
In addition to these shows and a new merch design, the band had this to say about the progress of the set of material they are working with:
“Writing new songs that will enter your brain the same way they’re going to leave it: destroyed, depressed, and full of regret.”
Can’t wait.
Update: The tour kicked off yesterday. Cruise out to a show for some sweet riffs from some up and coming metal bands!
Shred your ears to AllegaeonHERE.
Jam The Browning HERE.
Listen to The Devastated HERE
We have some new shirts up from the bands participating on the tour so be sure to support them if you can’t make it to a show.
Click here to shop.
House of Blues Entertainment, Decibel Magazine, Metal Blade Records, IndieMerch and RED/’stache Media have joined forces to present the first ever Metal, Arise! Tour for developing metal artists, it was announced by Kelly Kapp, vice president, House of Blues Entertainment. The debut tour will feature Metal Blade recording artists Allegaeon, Earache recording artists The Browning and Century Media recording artists The Devastated.
“We are really proud and excited to team up with Decibel, Metal Blade, IndieMerch & RED,” Kapp said. “This is a tour that will pair developing metal bands and great local artists. We feel we can create a circuit that benefits metal artists throughout the country. We hope to grow Metal, Arise! into a quarterly tour so we can continue to cultivate great heavy metal talent.”
Kelli Malella, vice president, publicity & advertising, Metal Blade Records, said, “When Kelly first brought up the idea of a tour to help develop new metal bands in the states, I immediately wanted to be involved. And not just for the sake of my own bands trying to launch their careers, but for all the bands out there just trying to get a break and land a U.S. tour. The Metal, Arise! Tour has been created by people who truly love our scene and want to give new bands the chance to tour the U.S. and prove themselves to metalheads across the states. The Metal, Arise! Tour also gives local bands the chance to showcase their talents while giving them a shot at getting noticed by labels who are constantly keeping an ear to the ground for up-and-coming local acts to sign. We’re keeping ticket costs as low as possible in hopes that you, the fans, will give these bands a chance and check them out.”
Tickets go on sale Friday, June 24th and more info can be found at www.houseofblues.com.
Be sure to bookmark www.indiemerchstore.com/metalarisetour/ for updates!
8/9 Dallas, TX Cambridge Room @ House of Blues
8/10 Houston, TX Bronze Peacock @ House of Blues
8/11 New Orleans, LA The Parish @ House of Blues
8/12 Jacksonville, FL Unit Six
8/13 West Palm Beach, FL Propaganda
8/16 New York, NY Gramercy Theatre
8/17 Philadelphia, PA Theatre of Living Arts
8/18 Cleveland, OH Cambridge Room @ House of Blues
8/19 Cincinnati, OH Bogart’s Front Room
8/20 Detroit, MI Shelter
8/21 Chicago, IL House Of Blues
8/23 Denver, CO Marquis Theatre
8/25 Los Angeles, CA House Of Blues
8/26 San Diego, CA Delta Room @ House of Blues
Snag a shirt and a cd from Allegaeon at the Metal Blade Records official merch store.
Hello there! We just added a TON of new merch from some of your favorite bands! Be sure to scope out all the new designs from A Day To Remember, Within The Ruins, Asking Alexandria, and way more! Enjoy! Click the links below to check out the selections.
MMA fighter and IndieMerch family member Josh Barnett won his fight against Brett Rogers at the 49th Strikeforce event on Saturday. Barnett submitted Rogers with an arm triangle in the second round of the bout, improving his record to 30-5.
Following info was taken from Fightline.com:
“The fight was all Barnett from the opening bell, with the 33-year-old managing to get “The Grim” to the mat in short order, where he quickly established mount. Rogers tried hard to shake Barnett off, but the seasoned fighter held his ground and the position for the entirety of the first frame.
The second round showed more of the same, with Barnett getting Rogers down and mounted early on. Once there, Barnett applied an arm triangle which had Rogers tapping before he had fully established the position.
Keeping up his pro-wrestling inspired act, which he debuted at the open workouts — MMAFighting.com has a video up of Barnett and his teammate engaging in a full-on pro-wrestling match before launching into an impassioned tirade on the hard times he’s gone through, which you should definitely check out if you haven’t already — Barnett politely snatched the microphone from Strikeforce commentator Gus Johnson’s hands post-fight and delivered another memorable speech ending with the promise that he’ll end the Grand Prix standing over his fallen competitors with the belt.”
Huge congrats to Josh to a well deserved victory!
Show some support to the baby faced assassin by snagging his shirt from the Josh Barnett official merch store!
