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The Casting Out (ex Boy Sets Fire) details Debut Full Length

By lauren | August 28, 2008

The Casting Out, which includes Nathan Gray of Boy Sets Fire, have detailed their debut full length Go Crazy! Throw Fireworks!. The album will be self-released in October and will feature 12 songs. Click below for the track listing.

The songs “Quixote’s Last Ride” and “These Alterations” are available at the band’s MySpace page. The band will play shows in October with the Bouncing Souls and Strike Anywhere, cumulating in an appearance at The Fest weekend in Gainesville.


  1. Quixote’s Last Ride
  2. Don’t Forget to Breathe
  3. Lullaby
  4. I Feel Fine
  5. Walk Away
  6. The Ebbing of the Tide
  7. Liar (and the Award Goes to…)
  8. These Alterations
  9. Just Pretending
  10. May I Have This Dance
  11. A Sort of Homecoming
  12. Dial 9-1…and Wait

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Iggy Pop injured on stage in London

By heart throb media | August 27, 2008

Iggy Pop was reportedly injured at London’s Get Loaded in the Park Festival this past Sunday. The godfather of punk wounded his leg after falling from a speaker stack on the festival’s main stage. Of course, being Iggy Pop he kept on performing and the show went on as planned. The 61 year old icon was performing with The Stooges and had invited the crowd on stage for “No Fun.”

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Trever Keith of Face to Face on Fuel TV today

By heart throb media | August 27, 2008

Face to Face frontman Trever Keith will perform a solo acoustic set on Fuel TV’s The Daily Habit this Wednesday, August 27th. The show will air at 9:00 PM EST / 6:00 PM PST and will re-air later at midnight EST and on the following weekday at 2:30 PM EST.

On the program Keith will perform the songs “Everyone Hates a Know-it-all” from Face to Face’s 1999 release Ignorance is Bliss and “Absolution” from his new solo record Melancholics Anonymous.

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Fans riot at Reading Festival when punk band FF’ers mistaken for Foo Fighters

By heart throb media | August 27, 2008

NME is reporting that rumors of a secret Foo Fighters gig on August 24th at the Reading Festival caused a near riot among fans. A British punk band unfortunately named The FF’ers were to perform on the BBC Introducing Stage at 5 pm, but the estimated 3,000 fans who had gathered were expecting a secret Foos set. When the Grohl-less band took the stage they were pelted with mud, bottles and shoes and had to abandon their set. A similar treatment was given to the following act until organizers emphatically stated that there was no Foo Fighters appearance planned, secret or otherwise.

Dave Grohl was around, mind you, performing with Queens Of The Stone Age and Tenacious D at the simultaneous Leeds Festival.

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SPLIT FIFTY signs to EULOGY!

By heart throb media | August 27, 2008

A message from the singer Zach from the band:

So no more suspense, the news is… Split Fifty has signed a deal with Eulogy Recordings
. The same label that brought you, Dashboard Confessional, Set Your Goals, Evergreen Terrace and so on now will bring you the next Split Fifty record! We had gotten an offer from Eulogy over a year ago but because of situations we were unable to accept the offer. The great news is after a six month vacation, some old contracts running out and John at Eulogy being a stand up business man, we made the choice. The new record, which is still untitled, will be a revisit to Split Fifty’s older heavier style while trying to keep with the pop/punk feel of our last record. Basically we want to kick your ass and make you feel pretty at the same time.

On top of that we just confirmed a short tour with THE ATARIS, and another with Patent Pending this fall. We’re excited to be making a good record, we are happy to have a solid label supporting it and were ecstatic to see you all again soon and share the love. God bless you guys and thanks so much for the support from the bottom of our hearts.

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Propagandhi Hard at Work

By lauren | August 26, 2008

It’s not a very informative update but I doubt many of you will mind. Todd Kowalski of Winnipeg’s Propagandhi posted a brief update on the band’s next record:

We are very, very hard at work on writing songs for our new record. It is going extremely well. We are literally spending almost every moment we are awake working on them. We are having a blast!! Time is the only enemy!!! Yikes!!!!!!

The band previously announced plans to hit the studio in October to record the follow up to 2005’s Potemkin City Limits.

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Tragedy for Dr. Dre

By heart throb media | August 26, 2008

According to multiple reports, Dr. Dre’s son passed away this weekend.

The body of 20-year-old Andre Young Jr. was allegedly found at his family’s Woodland Hills, California, home Saturday morning.

Young Jr. was unresponsive when his mother went to check on him around 10 A.M., calling 911 to alert paramedics.

Andre was said to have been out the previous night and returned home at 5.30 A.M.

Young Jr.’s cause of death is unknown at this time. Officials are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination, including a toxicology report.

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A Review of Michelle Obama’s Speech From Last Night

By heart throb media | August 26, 2008

Taylor Bates couldn’t take his eyes off Michelle Obama. Standing just feet from the massive Democratic National Convention stage in the Pepsi Center during Obama’s closing address Monday night, with a clear view of the first lady wannabe from his Vermont delegation’s good seats in the first section to the left of the stage, the 18-year-old delegate was soaking in his first taste of the political big time … and loving it.”You see, Barack doesn’t care where you’re from, or what your background is, or what party, if any, you belong to,” Obama said near the end of her speech. “He knows that thread that connects us — our belief in America’s promise, our commitment to our children’s future — is strong enough to hold us together as one nation, even when we disagree.”

Bates, who will be a freshman at Tufts in the fall, has already logged more time in the political trenches than most of his fellow Green Mountain state compatriots. In addition to being in charge of managing the carbon offsets for the Vermont contingent, Bates is the Facebook president for all the young delegates at the convention and was an intern for Senator John Kerry’s failed Democratic presidential campaign in 2004, as well as a U.S. Senate page in 2007.

Like many at the convention, Bates was inspired by Senator Obama’s stirring 2004 DNC speech. In fact, while Michelle was telling the story of her late father’s struggles with multiple sclerosis, Bates recalled how he turned to his father during Barack’s speech in 2004 and predicted, “He’s going to be president some day.”

Signing a petition to nominate Obama, Bates listened as the candidate’s spouse spun her tale of growing up in a blue-collar family on Chicago’s South Side. “Each one of us also comes here tonight by way of our own improbable journey,” Michelle said, echoing the oft-told story line of her husband’s rise to the Democratic candidacy for president. “I come here tonight as a sister blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend,” she said of her 34-year-old sibling, Craig, who introduced her.

“I think she’s really connecting to a lot of people who don’t necessarily know her as well,” Bates whispered, keeping one eye on the teleprompter so as not to miss any of the address. “The more people get to know them, the better they like them, so I think this is really effective.”

The young Democratic booster was in good company among Obama boosters in the building Monday night, who felt that something unprecedented was in the air. Wandering the concourse just moments before the Michelle took the stage, filmmaker Spike Lee said there was only one reason he had booked a ticket to Denver this week. “To witness history … history. … That’s what I’m here to see that we haven’t seen before, history.”

At a convention where the sometimes raw feelings of disappointed supporters of Senator Hillary Clinton can quickly and loudly rise to the surface — such as the woman walking down 15th Street on Monday who busted into a shout of “Hillary!” when a bus touting Obama drove by — Bates said Michelle Obama’s shout-out to the former first lady in her speech was a sign of the already-gelling party unity.

Speaking of the sacrifices of Americans from all stripes, the senator’s wife praised “people like Hillary Clinton, who put those 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling, so that our daughters and sons can dream a little bigger and aim a little higher.”

“People are already coming together,” said Bates, beaming up at the multiple images of Michelle on the big screens around the room and clapping hard in all the right places. “I think that the fact that she’s talking about the 18 million breaking the glass ceiling — she’s just acknowledging that [Clinton supporters] have really made a difference and that they’re already really behind us all the way.”

As the presumptive Democratic candidate closed the night chatting with his wife and daughters via satellite link on the big screen in the main room, Bates huddled in a hallway deep within the Pepsi Center and gave his instant take on how Mrs. Obama did.

“I think it was really great how she emphasized her own background, how she really tried to reach out to the Americans in the audience instead of just kind of repeating her husband’s point, or instead of attacking the McCain campaign,” he said. “She just built up her own story and let people connect with it, because she knows they will. And it’s really impressive how she chose to do that when she had some different alternatives.”

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