The new music sees founding members Bradley Bell, Pat Mcmanaman, Derrick Frost, and Matt Goddard reunited with charismatic founding front man, Craig Owens and also introduces fans to the band’s newest member, guitarist Thomas Erak (formerly from The Fall Of Troy).

Chiodos’ Craig Owens comments, “We’re very excited to be working with Razor & Tie. The label is one that we as a band have looked to as a source of integrity filled rock music for some time now. Having our own imprint gives us the opportunity to be as creative as we choose, while also giving us a way to get it to the fans in a direct and focused way. This will be the first time we have released music together, since 2008. To say that we are anxious is an understatement.”

Chiodos’ Bradley Bell adds, “We’re extremely excited to do the Warped tour again. It’s a tour we first did seven years ago that helped define us as a band and as people. After writing new material for the past few months, it will be very relieving to get back on the stage again and play music for our friends and fans. There needs to be more labels like Razor & Tie out there. I feel like they actually understand the bands motives and will do what it takes to help us present our vision. It’s going to be a fun adventure that we are about to embark on with them.”

Formed in 2001 in Davison, Michigan (just outside Flint, MI), Chiodos released two full length studio albums with lead vocalist Craig Owens (All’s Well That Ends Well and Bone Palace Ballet) resulting in sales of over 500,000 units and 740,000 digital tracks in North America alone. All’s Well That End’s Well (2005) debuted at #3 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and Bone Palace Ballet (2007) debuted at #5 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart and #1 on the Billboard Independent, Alternative, Rock and Hard Rock Charts.

During a well-documented brief time apart from Chiodos, lead vocalist Owens formed/played with new band D.R.U.G.S. and Chiodos released their third album, Illuminaudio in 2010. Owens reunited with Chiodos in early 2012 and soon after added guitarist Thomas Erak. During the last year, Chiodos played a handful of high profile U.S. shows and toured the UK in early 2013 as part of an annual Kerrang! Magazine branded tour. Chiodos has graced the covers of Alternative Press three times and have received accolades worldwide praising the band’s innovative and exhilarating sound. The band has toured extensively headlining the world over, as well as touring with bands such as Linkin Park, Coheed And Cambria, N.I.N., Alice In Chains, The Devil Wears Prada, Bad Religion and many more.

Ed Banger hasn’t put a full compilation out since Vol.III in 2008 and the time is ripe. All their artists contribute exclusive tracks, from long-standing label figureheads Justice, who soon release their own live album, to new disco-house kid on the block, Boston Bun. The Balearic android cocktail-disco slowie ‘The Beach’ by Breakbot sits easily with DSL’s sleaze-funk electro throbber ‘In Your House’, and there’s plenty more, from Mr Oizo, Feadz, Cassius, SebastiAn, Krazy Baldhead, Mr Flash and Mickey Moonlight. As if that wasn’t enough, Ed Banger are taking their birthday party around the world. They started with a spectacular 7000 capacity rave in Paris live streamed on You Tube with more than one million viewers, followed by a May 3 performance in London, and will venture on to Brussels, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Tokyo, New York City, Montreal, Mexico, Sydney and Berlin in the coming months.

Over the years, Ed Banger has released music by everyone from Rick Rubin to LFO to, recently, Laurent Garnier, and the new collection represents such diverse thinking. The imprint’s illustrious history and adventures have been documented in a new photographic book by label designer So Me called ‘Travaille. Famille. Party’ – Work. Family. Party.

As Pedro explains “After managing Daft Punk between 1996 and 2008 I wanted to create my own history. By creating Ed Banger records I launched my own musical adventure in a way. I learnt so much with Daft Punk, I owe them a lot. Celebrating this 10th anniversary is very emotional, I’m proud I managed to write a pretty nice musical chapter in my life. Daft Punk as chapter #1 and Ed Banger records as chapter #2 is pretty cool.”

A decade in, Ed Banger shows no sign of slowing down. “I am a happy boy. It’s been 10 years of fun, travel, hard work and discovery. I feel lucky too, I met some strong artists, they are Ed Banger records. My main goal is to keep challenging ourselves. We are an alternative label, we are free to go where we want.”

Ed Rec Vol. X Tracklisting:
1/ Mr. Oizo – “IntroX”
2/ Krazy Baldhead – “My soul is like a tree”
3/ Breakbot featuring Pacific! – “The Beach”
4/ Busy P – “Still Busy”
5/ Mr. Flash – “Reckless”
6/ Justice – “BrianVision MMXIII”
7/ Cassius – “Sunchild”
8/ Mr. Oizo – “Secam”
9/ So Me – “TX/FL/PA”
10/ DSL – “In your house”
11/ Mickey Moonlight – “Transition”
12/ Feadz – “Coleslaw43″
13/ Boston Bun – “Grinded”
14/ Sebastion – “Moi” (demo version)

The new, yet to be titled effort, is the follow up to Deathless, which came out in 2009 highlighted by the tracks: “This Continuum,” “Burial at Sea” and “The Scythe.”

Vocalist, Dave Peters, offers a statement on the current state of the band and the mindset behind making this next record:

“It’s really exciting, if not a little nerve-wracking to be recording again. It has been almost four years since Deathless came out, which is about twice as long as the time between albums before it. While that has probably been annoying for fans that have been waiting and expecting a new record, it has also been the best thing for the writing process for the new album.

“I’m really meticulous when writing and arranging even the simplest riffs and songs, so I like to take my time. It has been strange and nice having the freedom to come back to a song or part several weeks later with a different perspective after hitting a wall with it.

“We’re taking a very minimalist approach with these songs, more like Vendetta and (the first half of) Haymaker. I avoid putting the cart before the horse, but I see the songs on the record coming out stripped down and yet still refined. A two-minute song can arrive at the same place as one that fucks around for six, and while it’s more challenging to get there in less time, it is a lot cooler when you do. I’ve been going back to that when I find myself maybe adding parts or lines that are at risk of being superfluous.

“I’m very proud of Deathless and all the work that went into it, but it wasn’t a record that Throwdown fans expected. It was really polarizing on account of that. I’m simply not looking to continue down that stylistic road with these songs. This is going to be a hard record. I look forward to making it as much for myself as for longtime fans of the band.”

Boards of Canada Tomorrow’s Harvest Tracklist:
01. Gemini
02. Reach For The Dead
03. White Cyclosa
04. Jacquard Causeway
05. Telepath
06. Cold Earth
07. Transmisiones Ferox
08. Sick Times
09. Collapse
10. Palace Posy
11. Split Your Infinities
12. Uritual
13. Nothing Is Real
14. Sundown
15. New Seeds
16. Come To Dust
17. Semena Mertvykh

The Sword Tour Dates With Clutch
5/09 St Petersburg – State Theatre
5/10 Fort Lauderdale, FL – Revolution Live
5/11 Orlando, FL – House of Blues Orlando
5/12 Pensacola, FL – Vinyl Music Hall
5/14 New Orleans, LA – House of Blues New Orleans
5/15 Atlanta, GA – Center Stage Theatre
5/17 Philadelphia, PA – The Electric Factory
5/18 Columbus, OH – Rock on the Range Festival*
5/19 Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue
5/21 Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall Ballroom
5/22 Fargo, ND – The Venue
5/23 Lincoln, NE – Bourbon Theater
5/24 Pryor, OK – Rocklahoma Festival*
5/25 Houston, TX – House of Blues Houston
5/26 San Antonio, TX – River City Rock Festival*

Damage is currently available for pre-order. All pre-orders of the CD will immediately receive the first single, “I Will Steal You Back.”

Jimmy Eat US Damage Live 2013 Tour Dates
6/30 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Zoo
7/02 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blue
7/03 – Clifton Park, NY @ Upstate Concert Hall
7/06 – Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
7/08 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
7/10 – Missoula, MT @ The Wilma Theatre
7/15 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
7/16 – Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
7/17 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
7/18 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
7/20 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
8/04 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre
8/05 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
8/07 – New York, NY @ Central Park Summerstage
8/10 – Richmond, VA @ The National
8/11 – Washington, DC @ 930 Club
8/13 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte
8/14 – Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage
8/16 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
8/17 – Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room
8/18 – Chicago, IL @ Vic Theatre

Each of the three hosting bands will play three shows with details to be announced later in the year, along with additional support acts/special guests.

The all-inclusive luxury lodging packages for Now Sapphire are available for an intimate number of lucky fans. Check-in begins on December 16, 2013 and the music kicks off that night. There will be a pre-sale for returning Mayan Holidaze guests on April 23-24. If any rooms remain from the Pre-Sale the packages will go on sale to the general public beginning April 25 at 12:00 PM ET at www.mayanholidaze.com .

The band is seeking support for a special fan edition CD/DVD. This edition and its perks will only be available to campaign supporters and will not be sold anywhere else. Specifically, supporters will be contributing to the following:

• Two narrative music videos;
• A behind the scenes, Crown Of Phantoms making-of documentary;
• Seven additional tracks exclusive to the fan edition;
• Various behind the scenes videos;
• Expanded version of “Dr. Z” with fan determined ending;
• Full length album commentary that features dialog from all the band members as they listen to the record start to finish;
• Graphic art storyboards created specifically for the music videos included in the fan edition booklet;
• Original Artwork & Packaging exclusive to the fan edition.

To further conceptualize their plan, the band has released a video explaining, with some satire, the details of their campaign along with a sneak peek of a brand new track called “Kings of the Shadow World” and a visual display of the many creative perks they’re offering to contributors. Visit the official campaign site for full details on the endeavor and its perks.

Last week the band released their first offering from the LP, “I Play The Fox” with their self-made video featured here. Further, this week, the band presents you with “One Big Table” on their Bandcamp page.

I Can See Mountains, Life On A Houseboat is set for a release date of July 2nd, 2013 on Vinyl, CD and Digital formats through Panic Records.

Recorded in a single day at Livingston Studios, London, and subsequently edited by lead songwriter, Andreas Pallisgaard and drummer, Jaleh Negari in their former adopted hometown of Berlin, this EP is a testament to the band’s talent for not only musical composition, but also their ability to successfully experiment with innovative techniques of production and the layering of various textures of sound. Pallisgaard explains the band’s motives: “We initially wanted to make a pure, live documentation from the sound we had built together whilst touring, but I think in the end we always find it a bit boring to just do that. Listening to our music on record should be more of a fictionalized space rather than an attempt to present something as being real and happening in front of the listener when it, in fact, is not.”

With a title that eloquently summates the motives behind this EP, it is obvious from the outset that Pinkunoizu have an ambition to advance their visions of songwriting and explore their musical capabilities. They have evolved from previous releases; they have revised the real and are at the second stage of their artistic exploration. The band had voiced concern at being associated with a particular type of sound, which is so often an issue with only one full length album on the market, but, after their latest libation to the world of music, suffice to say, they needn’t have worried. This is quite literally, the Second Amendment.

Pallisgaard creatively expands upon this simple explanation for the name: “the title also hints at clouds of gunpowder, men on horses, frantic ideas of property rights on a deserted barren continent, weary attempts at defining cultural structures and personal freedom. In fact, this whole notion of freedom that is seen discussed so much in recent years in the world media, is a theme that runs throughout our EP as an ambiguous thread running along various colourful excursions.”

Pinkunoizu Second Amendment Tracklisting

1. The Abyss Part II
2. Moped
3. Santur Part 1
4. Santur Part 2
5. I Chi
6. Gospel Of John
7. Tin Can Valley

Pinkunoizu Tour Dates
5/15 – Electrowerkz, London
5/16 – The Great Escape, Brighton
6/28 – Glastonbury Festival (Williams Green Stage, 2pm)
9/27 – Loppen, Copenhagen
9/30 – Festaal, Berlin
10/1 – Zoom, Frankfurt
10/2 – Ampere, Munich
10/3 – Bogen F, Viadukt, Zurich
10/6 – Rotonde, Botanique, Brussels
10/7 – La Maroquinerie, Paris
10/8 – Heaven, London
10/11 – Colston Hall, Bristol
10/12 – Brewery, Kendal
10/13 – Broadcast, Glasgow
10/15 – Band On The Wall, Manchester
10/16 – South Street Arts, Reading
10/17 – The Apex, Bury St Edmunds
10/19 – Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
10/20 – East Village Arts Club, Liverpool
10/21 – The Old Market, Brighton