News: The Get Up Kids & Saves the Day Release Split Children’s EP
Want to feel old in the strangest way possible today? Then have I got news for you.
The Get Up Kids and Saves the Day have released a split EP, where they reworked two of their classic songs into children’s songs under the names The Get Up Dads and Saves the Daycare. The Get Up Kids reworked “10 Minutes to Downtown” into “10 Minutes to Bedtime”, and Saves the Day took “Hold” and made “How to Spell (ABC’s)”.
As odd as this news may sound, it’s for a good cause. All proceeds from the Bandcamp page will be donated to Little Kids Rock, a charity that helps bring music programs to schools.
Check out the album here, and be sure to donate for a good cause.
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News: Parkway Drive Announce New Album
In the next chapter of “Australians are really good at music,” Parkway Drive have announced a new album, Ire, due out on September 25th on Epitaph Records. They paired this announcement with a music video for their newest single “Vice Grip”, as a taste of what we can expect from their new material.
Based of “Vice Grip”, we can expect fairly traditional fare from Parkway Drive – which is hardly a bad thing – with a slightly more melodic take – which is a very good thing. If the rest of the album follows suit, this will be a very solid progression for the metalcore band.
Check after the jump for the music video for “Vice Grip” and stay tuned for more news on Ire.
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News: BMG acquires Rise Records
According to Billboard, BMG has purchased metal record label, Rise Records. Rise is based out of Portland, Oregon and was founded in 1991 by Craig Ericson. The label really began to take off in the mid-2000’s thanks to their prodigious employment of digital media in a time when other labels were either fumbling to understand the new technology, or simply ignoring it all together. Rise’s early adoption, and fantastic integration of the new media format skyrocketed the label to the forefront of the metal scene, and they haven’t looked back since.
This is fantastic news for Rise Records, as Ericson will remain at the helm, the label will remain at their Oregon location, and for all intents and purposes, their stellar business model will remain intact. They will, however, be receiving a massive push from BMG in the form of a huge, international distribution network. So it really goes without saying that big things are on the horizon for Rise Records, and I, for one, am really excited to see what they do with these new resources.
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Dreamscape Festival Day 2 Recap + Photos
–Written by Kevin Madert
I awoke to a dull gray sky. The chatter of birds echoed through the trees over my tent. Interspersed were the overlapping conversations of others who’d either just woken up or hadn’t yet gone to bed. I checked my phone, hoping to see four digits. 8:45 – damn. I try for maybe ten more minutes to fall back asleep, fail, sit up, and rub last night from my eyes. Unzipping my tent, I step out into the cool post-dawn mist and into the second day of Dreamscape.
Happenstance has other ideas as a vibration in my pocket informs me of some rather unfortunate news. A friend who’d left the festival for work around when I went to bed (call it crazy, call it dedication) had blown a tire not once but twice on the Baltimore Beltway. My next several hours were spent on a round trip journey to fetch him from the mechanic’s shop, with a stop at Chipotlé wedged in between. All the alone time (my friend slept through most of the drive back) saw me thinking about how the day would unfold. How would the music compare? The crowds? Could it top Friday? Thoughts ran rampant as I eased under the shade of a low-branched tree behind the eerie white house that served as the Dreamscape ops center and put my car in park.
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News: Luna Light Rounds Out Impressive Lineup With Papadosio, Tauk, The Motet + More
–Written by Kevin Madert
October is looking mighty fine for DMV residents. Luna Light Festival – set for October 1-4 at Camp Ramblewood in Darlington, MD – just improved an already impressive lineup with jamtronica pros Papadosio, jam-rockers Tauk, and the funktastic Motet, among others. These acts will join Michal Menert, Keller & The Keels, Dopapod, Ott., Desert Dwellers, and many more for an early fall weekend full of great music, live art, and informative workshops.
Dreamscape Festival Day 1 Recap + Photos
–Written by Kevin Madert
Over the weekend, the annual event known as Dreamscape experienced a plethora of firsts in its fourth year of existence. It was the first year Badass Raves chose to expand the event into a two-day festival. As a result, it was also the first time Dreamscape called Camp Ramblewood home, allowing attendees to pitch tents and spend the weekend in rural Darlington, MD. Perhaps most relevant to this write-up is the fact that it was the first time I attended a Dreamscape – after the weekend I had, it certainly won’t be my last.
Ended up parked all the way in the back of Camp Ramblewood. Nice view though.
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