From the band’s Trustkill Journal:

Most Precious Blood will be featured on BBC 1 Radio tonight from 9-11pm on a show called The Lock Up. MPB will be discussing the songs that got them started as musicians as well as playing some of their favourite tracks. You can listen online. Go here… www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/thelockup.

- I have no idea what time zone that is, so it may have already been broadcast, but maybe a recording of the show will appear online somewhere…

Stillborn Records has posted an e-card with a stream of two tracks from the upcoming October release of “”Wake the Demons,”" the first full-length for metallic hardcore headsmashers, FULL BLOWN CHAOS. These guys take the seething anger of ALL OUT WAR and mash it up with the speed and technical blizzard that is SHADOWS FALL. Not for the faith of heart…

ecard: FULL BLOWN CHAOS – Wake The Demons

This was probably watched by everyone yesterday when the posting blitz for it occured, but we were busy doing something else… like washing a cat… that doesn’t exist… Anyway, the video is pretty cool, and this is one of my favorite tunes from “”Siren Song of the Counter-Culture.”"

video:

culture/video/give-it-all/00_hi.ramsiteid=pastepunk”" target=”"_blank”">RISE AGAINST – Give it All (Real)

I Learned it by Watching You, is chock full of exuberant, traditional pop-punk, that if was bred in New Jersey, rather than North Carolina, would surely be in prized courtship of countless larger labels. However, even with that complimentary note, I find myself having a hard time actually paying attention to any of the individual [...]

These shows aren’t for a bit, but it’s never too earlier to get them into your calendar…

November

10: Pomona, CA @ Glass House w/ Gerritt

11: San Diego, CA @ Casbah w/ Gerritt

12: Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour w/ Oxbow

13: Ventura, CA @ The Loft at State Street w/ Oxbow

14: San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall w/ Oxbow

17: Vancouver, BC @ Mesa w/ Luna

18: Seattle, WA @ Neumo’s w/ Crystal Ball Reading, Worm Wood

26: Chicago, IL @ Metro w/ Pelican, Sweet Cobra

- For some reason, I keep on typing THESE ARMS ARE SNACKS… mmm… snacks…

…whereas so many other band vocalists try to get all cleaned-up and strike their best poses when on the cover of Alternative Press, McCracken still maintains the look of a defiant homeless vagrant.

1. THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES – Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps when its antelope go home

2. VAUX – Plague Music EP

3. SPLIT FIFTY – We Live Forever (on Hellbent Records, it’s like a rad mixture of old, skatepunk’d AFI and STRIKE ANYWHERE).

4. SHADOWS FALL – The War Within

5. GREEN DAY – American Idiot

Today’s article is a bit all over the place, starting off by noting the soon-to-be-open serivce, VirginDigital.com, and the moving on to what amounts to be a “”state of the subscription service”" run through. It’s unfortunate that the media is already dividing digital distribution into two distinct channels, purchase vs. subscription, where largely, they can both co-exist to match the expectations and demands of the consumer.

Worth nothing is this brief passage in the article: “”The difficulty of explaining subscription plans to consumers is exactly why Apple chose the path it did. ‘Consumers have been buying music for 50 years,’ said Eddy Cue, the vice president of Apple in charge of its iTunes online music store. ‘They want to replicate that experience online.’”" It’s useless to compare purchasing through online stores such as iTunes with purchasing through traditional retail means, and it’s about time these loggerheads stop treating them in an analogous fashion.

article: Music Sites Ask, ‘Why Buy If You Can Rent?’