August 22, 2008 – After lots of internet speculation, full album details are finally here, exclusively at SPIN.com: Post-hardcore powerhouse Thursday's and Japanese melodic shredder Envy's split LP will arrive November 4 via Temporary Residence Ltd. More than two years in the making, the split features four new Thursday cuts alongside Envy's three, and arrives packaged as an 180-gram vinyl record with a free CD version inside. What's more, Anthony Molina of Mercury Rev remixes the dark instrumental tune "In Silence." Additionally, three limited screen-printed album editions will be available exclusively through Temporary Residence's and Thursday's web stores starting September 15. The standard black and white album cover (see below) will be replaced with metallic silver on chipboard, metallic pale-orange on uncoated white boardstock, or metallic orange on uncoated white boardstock.

August 20, 2008 – Heavy Heavy Low Low's pummeling assault of experimental thrash rock explodes with eruptive force. And here, you can experience the sonic flogging for yourself with SPIN.com's exclusive stream of the band's sophomore record, Turtle Nipple and the Toxic Shock, which dropped yesterday on Ferret Music. Check out the album via the player below. The San Jose, CA, quintet's frenetic, and sometimes cartoonish, affect is on display in the album's psychedelic artwork and opening cut "Hahahahahahaha," a 39-second collection of electrical white noise and ambient industrial decay sounds.

August 20, 2008 – After seven months of silence following the demise of the Format, former frontman Nate Ruess returns with Fun, his pastoral and rollicking proclamation that alongside Steel Train's Jack Antonoff and Andrew Dost of Anathallo, he can once again have, ahem, fun as a musician -- proven here with demo tune "Benson Hedges" (DOWNLOAD MP3), an undeniable joyride of unsteady, soaring vocal warbles, and prancing honky tonk piano with a crooning, buoyant swagger. "When the Format broke up, for at least a little bit of time I lost confidence," Ruess tells SPIN.com.

August 18, 2008 – East bay punk pioneers Rancid charged through their penultimate gig in a five-night stand at New York City's Irving Plaza Saturday, August 16 with a blistering and motivated wallop.

May 14, 2008 – Teetering on the edge, where nature collides with urban sprawl, tucked away in the heart of Westford, MA on an outdoor stage, the luminous British Sea Power took an otherwise serene scene of beer-sipping professionals and unfurled a cacophony of bright and lively sounds Tuesday (May 13) in a special afternoon event at Puma HQ before their Boston show later that evening. Although the Brighton-based band kept the set snappy at six songs, they managed to turn a slow rumble into a crashing wave after opening with the brooding, ethereal song "True Adventures" from 2005's Open Season and closing with the rollicking "Lights Out For Darker Skies," off this year's acclaimed release Do You Like Rock Music?. From there, the blossoming band cherry-picked more songs from the new album, including the symphonic crescendo "Waving Flags" and the drum-pounding "No Lucifer," as brothers Scott Wilkinson (