Music News: Set Your Goals

Check out a track by track analysis of the new Set Your Goals record right here: http://www.rocksound.tv/features/article/track-by-track-set-your-goals-burning-at-both-ends

Music News: Amor de Dias Album Stream

You can stream a new album from Alasdair MacLean's (of The Clientele) new side project Amor de Dias by clicking "Read More".

Music News: Arcade Fire "Scenes from The Suburbs"

 Arcade Fire will be releasing a deluxe CD/DVD rerelease of The Suburbs. But I've got one question; who is Arcade Fire? Click "Read More" for the full press release from Hopeless Records.

Music News: Hopeless Records Announces New Samiam Record

Hopeless Records sent out a press release today announcing a new Samiam album--recorded in the famous Jingletown studio! It's the band's eighth major label effort, and it will be out later this year. Click "Read More" for the full press release!

Music News: Avenged Sevenfold to Release New Video

Avenged Sevenfold will be unveiling their new music video for their next single "So Far Away", a tribute to the late Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan, the band's former drummer. The video will be posted online at MTV.com and AvengedSevenfold.com tonight at midnight (first thing Tuesday morning) and we'll be posting it shortly after. Stay tuned!

Music News: Patrick Stump "Explode"

Check out a new song off of Patrick Stump's upcoming record Soul Punk by Clicking Here!
The song is currently in rotation during P-Stump's live sets, and it's definitely a further step removed from his recent Truant Wave EP.

Music News: DNF "Outta My System (Remix)"

Check out one of Drew & Fev's most popular tracks, their Outta My System remix. The boys go hard on this one, but who had the best verse? Let us know in the comments!

Music News: Manchester Orchestra B-Side Album in the Works

According to an interview with PropertyofZack, Manchester Orchestra will be releasing a record later this year comprised of songs that didn't make the cut for the band's upcoming release Simple Math.

Music News: Taking Back Sunday "El Paso"

Yet another song off of the new Taking Back Sunday album...personally, this track doesn't do it for me. It's just not the Taking Back Sunday sound. What do you think? Let us know in the comments!

Music News: Taking Back Sunday "Best Places to Be a Mom"

Check out another new song from Taking Back Sunday's upcoming self-titled record. What do you think about this song? How does it compare to the rest of what we've heard from the record?

Music News: Taking Back Sunday "Faith (When I Let You Down)"

Check out a new song from Taking Back Sunday's new self-titled album, entitled "Faith (When I Let You Down)". The song starts off a little weakly, but by the end of the track it picks up enough steam to be a worthy offering from the newly reunited Tell All Your Friends lineup of TBS.

Music News: Hopeless Records Breaks Record

 

Congratulations to Hopeless Records,  who have three records in the Billboard Top 200 this week. We here at Lock and Key Music are big fans of the music Hopeless manages, and we look forward to seeing this record broken time and time again in the months and years to come! Below is a quote from the President of Hopeless Records.

"The sales gods must have been on our side this week!  3 albums on the top 200 in the same week is an achievement which has the fingerprints of great bands, a great staff and great partners all over it.”- Louis Posen, President of Hopeless Records.

 Click "Read More" to read the Hopeless Records press release announcing the details of the milestone achievement. 

Music News: Richard Buckner's "Our Blood"

Richard Buckner's got a new album coming out in August, and Lock and Key Music has the details. From the press release sent out by Merge Records:

Since 2006’s Meadow, fans of Richard Buckner have been clamoring for new material and
wondering what was keeping their hero from releasing the new songs he
would perform on the road. Well, it’s a long story!

First, there was the score to a film that never happened. Then there
was a brief brush with the law over a headless corpse in a burned-out
car that had all eyes in Buckner’s small hometown in upstate New
York turned toward him and his long-suffering truck. Shortly after a
move to a safer, less popular corpse dumping ground, the death of his
tape machine led to yet another reboot. After Richard called in pedal
steel and percussion players and put new mixes on his laptop, his new
“safer” place was burglarized. Goodbye, laptop.

Buckner says: “Eventually, the recording machine was resuscitated
and some of the material was recovered. Cracks were patched. Parts
were redundantly re-invented. Commas were moved. Insinuations were
re-insinuated until the last percussive breaths of those final OCD
utterances were expelled like the final heaves of bile, wept-out long
after the climactic drama had faded to a somber, blurry moment of
truth and voilà!, the record was done, or, let us be clear, abandoned
like the charred shell of a car with a nice stereo.”

And so finally, we present Our Blood, in stores August 2, 2011!

Download a free MP3 of “Traitor” now
<http://www.mergerecords.com/audio/buckner/OurBlood/traitor.mp3>


Pre-order Our Blood <http://bit.ly/lwd0Ni> on CD and LP now in the Merge store.