THE RAVEONETTES have released the first video for the track “Dead Sound” from the upcoming record Lust Lust Lust. The vid has your ususal Raveonettes tomfollery with an on old movie feel to it.

AGAINST ME! is looking to help the charity, Harvest Of Hope Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to raise money for migrant farm workers and their families. The band and foundation are currently working to help a 6 year old girl from Tifton, GA who needs a life-saving bone marrow transplant.

Last year, Diana Olalde was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, an aggressive cancer that makes white blood cells multiply and damage normal cells due to overcrowding. Olalde recieved chemotherapy, but relapsed in August 2007. Her doctors are saying the young girl needs a transplant within the next month and mounting medical bills and the costly proving to be something the family is unable to raise. Against Me! has urged people to to make a contribution to the over $500,000 in medical bills.

The Olade family has set up a myspace page to handle donations. They ask if you can help in any way to please visit www.myspace.com/olalde2007 and make a donation.

To continue in the tradition of helping out their local scene, THURSDAY are also going to make an appearance at Looney Tunes to help with the store’s grand re-opening in December. The band will join the likes of Cobra Starship and Long Island natives Patent Pending and Brand New to help draw people out to the legendary record store that was just rebuilt after a massive fire earlier this year.

The appearence will be on Wednesday, December 5th at 6pm, right after Patent Pending’a appearance. Here’s what the band had to say about the appearence.

Everyone that’s in the Long Island / NY area and had the pleasure of going to the Looney Tunes store in West Babylon, NY it’s exciting news for us that after a destructive fire the store is finally re-opening. We are so excited that we will be there on Wednesday December 5th at 7 pm to show clips from our new DVD / CD Kill The House Lights as well as answer any questions you may have and do a signing. Make sure you get there early because our friends in Patent Pending will be performing at 6 pm! It should be a great time so make sure you head out to Looney Tunes (31 Brookvale Ave West Babylon, NY 11704) on Wednesday December 5th.

Ohhhh Lawdie, two little slices of heaven have just been combined.
UNKL Brands toy & design has teamed up with Ipecac Recordings for an extremely limited run toy subscription for 2008.

Ipecac Records? Toy Subscription? Yes, that’s right. For $100, you can subscribe for all twelve Ipecac Custom UniPo from UNKL designs. It’s limited to only 500 pieces, which makes it even more of a deal, as limited run pieces like this don’t typically come that cheap. Icluded are designs for some of my favorite artists, including Dalek, Peeping Tom, Fantomas, and Tomahawk (!!!), as well as the illustrious Desert Sessions. Alongside each toy delivered to your doorstep fresh and squeaky-clean every month, you also get limited edition show posters to go hand-in-hand with each month’s release (again, !!!!).

A definite must for any toyhead/audiophile or combo of the two (like me) that may be in your xmas gift list…Mom, Dad, Sis - I’m lookin’ at you…Who wants to be my favorite this year?

Purchase your set here.

Wondering what to gift to get for a loved one this hoiday season? Well look no further than The Syndicate’s Official Holiday Gift Guide.

We found products that are exciting to us, this means lots of randomness and even more related to monkeys. Check them out, who knows maybe you will like them too. Happy shopping. (more…)

It seems smaller internet radio stations aren’t the only ones that are feeling the pressure since the Washinton-based company SoundExchange proposed and got their agenda passed that increased streaming fees for artists this summer.

SoundExchage’s push was heavily objected to by many internet radio statons big and small. Now that the higer royalty fees are in place the burdon is getting too big for many to handle, forcing many online entities to shut down shop.

However, no one expected this “death blow” to be as far reaching as two major internet players. Both AOL and YAHOO! have announced that if revenues for their internet stations did not get better, they would be shutting down operation of those areas of their business.

So question…Is SoundExchange, which is intended to operate in the best interest of their artist clients too aggressive to get royalties and not operating in their clients best interest? For if they manage to shut down two of the largest sites out there? Are they cutting off an entire revenue stream for their clients even if at a lower royalty rate?

Long Island Pop-Punkers PATENT PENDING have brought their sugary sweet hooks to an original Christmas song, complete with a hip-hop-holiday breakdown! The song titled “She’s a Ho-Ho-Ho Merry Christmas” will make an excellent addition to any holiday mix! You can buy the song over at Amazon.com or stream it below!

STREAM: Patent Pending :: “She’s A Ho-Ho-Ho Merry Christmas”

The band will also be embarking on the Ho-Ho-Holiday Tour this December. More info here.

Have you seen the new SNOOP DOGG video for “Sensual Seduction” yet? Watch it now for that shizz is off the chain! “Snoop! Snoop-A-Loop!”

Okay the contest has been held and we put it to a vote. There was one clear winner and some runner’s up. We would like to thank everyone that entered and we wish we could give every person a prize but we can’t.

But we were able to secure another copy of the album so there will now be 3 Second Place winners in addition to the Grand Prize Winner. So without further fanfare here are the winners of the contest.

GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Jesse KWVA: Jesse suggested that Sifl & Olly would be the best duo out there and our staff agreed! Congratulation Jesse! You are now the owner of No World For Tomorrow on vinyl and cd as well as a 7-inch of the band’s single “The Running Free”.

SECOND PLACE WINNERS
Graber: Who suggested that Mr. Pibb & Red Vines were crazy delicious!
Scarrott: Who thought Love & Hate worked perfectly when tattooed on someone’s knuckles.
Brandon Lahoud: Who did the ultimate buttering up and thought Matt & The Syndicate were a perfect group. Hey Brandon, flattery will get you everywhere in this world.

Congratulations to all our winners! Thanks to everyone who entered and we’lll definitely have another contest go live in the very near future for you to enter again.

We’re excited about the CARBON/SILICON show that’s happening next week here in NYC. Since they are only doing about 2 shows here in the US. It’s definitely going to be a hot ticket. To get our fix of Mick and Tony in the meantime, we’ve been blasting their new album, The Last Post in the office. They recently show a video for the album’s first single, “The News.” So now it’s time to share.

If the above link doesn’t work use these.
REAL: hi | lo
WIN: hi | lo
MP3: Carbon/Silicon :: “What The Fuck”

Reno 911, Blades of Glory, I Know Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, The Benchwarmers…all parts of Nick Swardson’s career as an actor and comedian.

Plus, he just released his own CD called Party so it’s no surprise to hear people talking about him as the new Adam Sandler. While checking out HeyNielsen.com today to see if anyone else is as obsessed with Man Vs. Wild as I am, I checked out this post.

I don’t know if I can see him doing a Reign Over Me in the next 10 years, but I do think he is one to keep an eye on!

Since everyone here in the office seems to have at least a small geek streak in them we found it tremendously funny that the creaters of the ridiculously large online video game World Of Warcraft tapped Mr. T and William Shatner to be spokesmen for them, “I’m A Shaman!”