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Streetlight Manifesto announce final shows at Starland Ballroom

Streetlight Manifesto’s As The End of The Beginning tour begins this week in Albany, NY. Besides that, the band has announced their final two shows as a band. It will be 2 nights, November 15th and 16th at Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey. This final two night stand will be called “The End Of The End Of Beginning” and each of the two nights will feature completely unique sets including songs from all of our records and plenty of surprises. The opening acts for both evenings will be Dan Potthast and Mike Park. I’d want to go just for the opening acts haha.
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RIP: James Gandolfini

Sad news, another actor taken from this world too soon. James Gandolfini, a.k.a. Tony fucking Soprano, has passed away at the age of 51 from a heart attack. He was in Italy for the 59th Taormina Film Festival in Sicily and a friend’s wedding(?). He was such a brilliant actor and was pretty much the main reason to watch The Sopranos! He also starred in True Romance, Crimson Tide, the remake of 12 Angry Men, The Last Castle, The Mexican, and most recently in Zero Dark Thirty, Not Fade Away and The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. Smoke a stogie and take a drive through New Jersey for him.
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Specialized 2 – Beat Teenage Cancer album out now!

Specialized 2 – Beat Teenage Cancer is an English Beat cover compilation featuring over 40 artists! Some of the bands featured on this amazing comp include Dave Wakeling, Ranking Roger & The Spritely Allstars, Buford O’Sullivan, Bigger Thomas, The Amphetameanies, The Talks, The Simmertones, The Splitters, Neol Davies and many more! Proceeds will go to Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) in the U.K. Below you can hear some samples and see the tracklisting.
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Iron Reagan announce new tour dates

Richmond, VA’s hardcore/thrash band Iron Reagan have announced a bunch of new tour dates starting June 27th on both the East and West Coast. They will be playing with Drop Dead, Whiplash, Witchhaven, GWAR, Hatebreed and Mean Jeans among others. They will be playing Brooklyn, NY on June 28th with The Acheron, Drop Dead, Agitator.
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Video: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Trailer

Ron Burgundy, Brick, Champ and Brian Fontana are back! Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues comes out this December and stars Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carrell, Christina Applegate, David Koechner, Kristen Wiig and I’m sure many many cameos. There will be an alternate trailer playing in front of World War Z, another comedy.
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Oz The Great And Powerful (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy)

Starring: James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams, Zach Braff, Abigail Spencer, Joey King, Bill Cobbs, Tony Cox, Bruce Campbell
Written By: Mitchell Kapner, David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed By: Sam Raimi
Studio: Disney / Buena Vista
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Oz The Great and Powerful is an interesting prequel to Wizard of Oz. While it doesn’t hold a candle to the 1939 film, it’s still a fun flick if you’re a fan of the books and the classic movie.
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Help Carbon Leaf make their new album through PledgeMusic

Carbon Leaf released their Celtic-ish album Ghost Dragon Attacks Castle back in the Winter through their own site. Now they are pledging their diehard fans to help them out some more through Pledgemusic! They want to start recording new music ASAP and have a goal of 60 days to raise the money. Besides contributing to the band to make a new album; whatever money that goes over their set goal, they will donate all that money to Love Hope Strength. So let’s get the band way past their goal shall we? There’s loads of different packages to purchase so pick the one that best suits you. You can buy the album, t-shirts, signed posters, music lessons, request a cover song and if you got an extra 20 grand lying around you can have the band over for a BBQ concert in your backyard. They will even grill for you!
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Music Video: Teenage Bottlerocket – “Freakout”

Teenage Bottlerocket premiered a quick music video on Rolling Stone today, for their title track “Freakout.” The video sees the guys playing and smashing beer bottles on their heads. Short and sweet!
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DVD/Blu-Ray Tuesday Roundup (June 18th 2013)

it’s time for the DVD/Blu-Ray Tuesday Roundup of June 18th 2013! Some of titles coming out today include: Jack the Giant Slayer, Stoker, Movie 43, Workaholics: Season Three and more! Each week I’ll list the latest DVD/Blu-Ray releases and point out the ones worth buying. I can’t review everything I get so this serves as a nice guide for what’s coming out each week. Plus, it’s just fun making fun of movies and TV shows!
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Big D and the Kids Table – “Stroll”

Record Label: Strictly Rude Records
Genre: Stroll
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With the help of the fans via a Kickstarter campaign, Big D and the Kids Table were able to round up some dough to release not one but two brand new albums simultaneously. The first album, “Stomp” harkens back to the “Good Luck” era and the sound of the late 90’s ska punk glory days. The second album titled “Stroll” picks up where “Fluent In Stroll” left off with a different sound from the Boston boys that that simply call just that…stroll. Since these are dual albums, I’m going to review both individually. This is what I think of “Stroll”.
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Big D and the Kids Table – “Stomp”

Record Label: Strictly Rude Records
Genre: Ska Punk
Buy On Amazon

With the help of the fans via a Kickstarter campaign, Big D and the Kids Table were able to round up some dough to release not one but two brand new albums simultaneously. The first album, “Stomp” harkens back to the “Good Luck” era and the sound of the late 90’s ska punk glory days. The second album titled “Stroll” picks up where “Fluent In Stroll” left off with a different sound from the Boston boys that that simply call just that…stroll. Since these are dual albums, I’m going to review both individually. This is what I think of “Stomp”.
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