Help The Graduate fix their van by purchasing some on-sale merchandise. Check the merch out here.
Kanye West will be performing at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade. The show will, of course, be “family-friendly.”
Jimmy Eat World‘s new record Invented will be on sale for $5 for the month of November. Read the band’s (short) blog post here for an Amazon link. You can also check out my review of Invented here.
Read Benji Madden’s track by track explanation of Good Charlotte‘s new album Cardiology with AltPress here.
Matt and Kim’s new album Sidewalks is now streaming on their Myspace.
Listen to Jimmy Eat World cover Superchunk‘s “Precision Auto” on their Purevolume.
Anberlin‘s new single “Impossible”, the second track on the band’s new album Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place, will hit radio on November 16, 2010. You can see more radio release dates here.
Kanye West‘s newest G.O.O.D Friday release is “The Joy,” featuring Pete Rock, Jay-Z, Charlie Wilson, Kid Cudi, and a sample of Curtis Mayfield‘s “The Makings of You.” You can download the track here.
At the preview for his new album Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager in New York City, Kid Cudi revealed that he will be slowing down on hip hop to focus on his newly-created rock band. Cudi and producer Dot Da Genius have formed Wizard, which will allow Cudi to focus more on his guitar-playing and singing (in the vein of new single “Erase Me”).
“I’m just over rapping. I don’t get any fulfillment out of it anymore. I don’t get fulfillment out of writing a 16. That’s why you don’t ever hear me on Kanye joints like that,” Cudi explained to MTV. “I’m more passionate when he’s like, ‘yo Cudi, come up with a hook.’ Cause he asks me to put verses down but I’ll try to procrastinate or disappear or something. I just really get more fulfillment out of singing now. I’m teaching myself the guitar, that’s my new found love. I never thought that I could play an instrument. Picked it up, surprised myself. It’s been two and a half months I’ve been playing, I’m already starting my next project. It’s a rock album, I’m doing a band with Dot [da Genius] called Wizard.”
Kid Cudi’s sophomore album Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager is set to be released on November 9, 2010 via G.O.O.D Music.
Thrice has opened a new webstore with new merch for sale.
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