From the inbox:

The tracklisting for Double Blind Music’s very first release, {un}Known Vol. 1 has been revealed. The compilation will be out June 28, followed by the release of 32 Leaves’ album Welcome to the Fall, out in, well, the fall.

1. Dead Poetic “The Dreamclub Murders”

2. Halifax “Broken Glass Syndrome”

3. Greeley Estates “Life Is A Garden” (Previously unreleased)

4. 32 Leaves “Blood on My Hands”

5. Opus Däi “Rain” (Unreleased version)

6. He is Legend “The Seduction”

7. Project 86 “A Shadow On Me”

8. Boys Night Out “Where We Breathe (Unreleased version)

9. Bleed The Dream “Broken Wings” (Acoustic version)

10. Fivespeed “She Holds” (Unreleased version)

11. Tripside “Fear of Falling” (Unreleased version)

12. The Panic Division “Verses” (Previously unreleased)

13. The Revolution Smile “Does Anybody Even Care?” (Previously unreleased)

14. Hopesfall “The Ones” (Live)

As pointed out today by the yet-again-redesigned buzzgrinder.com, music media/promotion site, pureVOLUME has been given some business love in the pages of Billboard, with Reuters picking up the story as well.

Purevolume’s popularity stems from its ease of use and its pricing. There is no sign-up required to sample an artist, and downloads and streams are free. It costs an artist nothing to place a song on the site, but those who want to open their wallets can purchase a weeklong plug on the home page for less than $400.

Indeed, the oldest employee at Unborn Media is 25. Founders Brett Woitunski, Mitchell Pavao and Nathan Hudson wanted to showcase some friends in bands when they launched Purevolume on Dec. 1, 2003. They based the site on the first incarnation of mp3.com, and things accelerated quickly.

From the inbox:

Expect the unexpected when the New Jersey-based quintet AGENTS OF MAN unleashes their stunning debut album, Count Your Blessings, on June 14th. The album was produced at Purple Light Studios with acclaimed producer Mike Barilie (Candiria, 40 Below Summer), and is an extremely dynamic offering that can easily appeal to any audience.

The group recently shot a video for the track “Death of Me” with acclaimed director Dale Resteghini (Fear Factory, Hatebreed, Dillinger Escape Plan); look for it to make its network debut in June. Composed of former members of such acclaimed hardcore acts as Bulldoze, One 4 One and Train of Thought, and with a new rock-solid lineup recently completed by bassist Mike Couls (Sworn Enemy, Cold As Life), the group are more determined now than ever before.

mp3: AGENTS OF MAN – Death of Me

Click the KLOB: Lobster Radio link on the brand new lobsterrecords.com site to check out the new song “”Welcome Home,”" by DAYS LIKE THESE. The band hits the road on May 15th for a two week stint with Atlanta’s ragin’ act, THE LETTERS ORGANIZE.

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Currently in FINCH’s media section, you can stream the song “”Ink,”" from their upcoming album, Say Hello to Sunshine. The album is out on June 7th.

- Not bad… about a 1000 timing changes in this song though.

According to a story today in The Register, The Netherlands is considering new levies on the sale of digital music devices such as the iPod that could amount to $4.30 per gigabyte. (You can do the math of what that amounts to as a tax on a 20, 40, and 60 gig iPod). These fees are collected by a copyright collection agency and are then distributed to labels and artists under the guise of off-setting damages from digital piracy (known as the remuneration right). This concept isn’t new, as we have it to some degree in the US via an old copyright law, and other European nations have explored such taxes as well in modified degrees. As some of my readers may remember, I wrote at length about the remuneration concept in the spring of 2004, looking at the feasibility of adopting such a scheme here for the US. And although I recommended such a scheme a year ago (in a much less drastic form), a year of progress in the digital music market has shown that such a tax would be devasting in curtailing adoption of new technologies, and would clearly displace money that would otherwise go more directly towards the respective rightsholders. Although talk of remuneration rights in the US has mostly been left to the academics, this is an issue that should be very carefully watched by those who oppose its implimentation here. We all know that Congress is a captive audience when the lobbyists come with their bags of cash.

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE released a near-perfect debut full-length in “I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.” That release displayed a merciless spirit in dishing out intense, melodic, but spooky, hardcore, in the vein of STRUNG OUT, but with a frilly, dramatic overbite. As much as I enjoyed the music on “I Brought [...]

A couple of things from the Reignition gang (formerly Law of Inertia Records… I hope I can stop mentioning that in like six months):

- The new site: reignition.com. It’s sweeeet looking, and like all good label sites, there’s plenty of info posted about every one of their releases.

- New releases: MARATHON – S/T. It’s not out until May 31st, but there’s a pre-order on at Suburban Home distro, and usually those who do that get their copies pretty earlier! Also coming soon is an official “”in store”" release for THE RISE’s Reclamation Process, and the debut disc from FIRE WHEN READY. According to the label, “”this CD, And The Sky Stared Down With Angry Clouds, will be the first release on Marathon’s Art Injection Records, and trust us when we say this CD rocks. A mix between Mars Volta and Coheed & Cambria.”" Hmm… sounds contemporary.