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I Read The News Today... For June 21, 2011

Cancer Bats are working on the follow-up to last year's Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones, which they say should feature plenty of Sabbath-esque riffs. And, y'know... screaming. That, too. Anet Mook, singer for '90s indie rockers Cay, died earlier this month after she was hit by a bus in Amsterdam. Her funeral was held last Thursday.Your mom...
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Tegan Quin On Jim Ward EP

Tegan And Sara's Tegan Quin appears on former At The Drive-In guitarist and current Sparta and Sleepercar singer/guitarist Jim Ward's recently released In The Valley, On The Shores EP. Quin shows up on "Broken Songs," the second of the disc's five songs. In The Valley, On The Shores is the second of Ward's three-part EP series....
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Sparta Side Project Sleepercar To Release Debut Album

Sleepercar, the alt.country side project from former At The Drive-In and current Sparta guitarist Jim Ward, will release their West Texas debut album digitally on April 22. It will hit record stores on April 29 through Dine Alone Records. The album was recorded at Ward's home studio and a loft in his hometown of El Paso, Texas. Justin Leeah...
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Sleepercar's Jim Ward

New Releases: My Chemical Romance Lead The Parade

Record companies are officially moving into the Christmas rush, so beyond greatest hits packages there are few big releases on the horizon. Chief among them is My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade, which comes out on Tuesday. All we can really say about this is, what the hell is up with Gerard Way's bleached hair? Who thought that was a good...
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My Chemical Romance

Sparta Work In Threes: An Album, A Film And A New Label

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Texas-based rockers Sparta are back with their latest release, Threes — the band's third studio album, but first for Hollywood Records. Threes is the first Sparta release to feature Keeley Davis, who previously fronted the rock band Engines Down. Davis fills the void left by Paul Hinojos, who exited the group in May 2005 to join his former At...
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