Hey everyone! Because of Labor Day Weekend, I’m spending all the time I can with my family.

IndieUprising will be back next Tuesday.  Talk to you then!

-Sean

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The Sound of Animals Fighting will release their third album—The Ocean and the Sun—on September 9, 2008 through Epitaph Records.

Characterized by their experimental mashing and molding of musical form, style and genre, the members of The Sound of Animals Fighting—known only by their zoological pseudonyms—have sought to redefine the process and reception of music using whatever tools they can get their hands on; whatever methods, science or alchemy.

The Walrus, the Skunk, the Lynx, and the Nightingale return, delivering the latest piecemeal collaboration as both an album aimed at redefining the structure and style of modern music, as well as telling a story of the raw, awe-inspiring power of nature, and how we can so easily forget it. The record, like the ones that preceded it, was assembled over gaps of geography and time, coalescing as a hand-crafted object from percussion up, passing from one animal to another as a story and aesthetic formed beneath and around it.

At the core of the album is the cornerstone song in four tracks: “I, The Swan”, “Another Leather Lung”, “Cellophane” and “The Heraldic Beak of the Manufacturer’s Medallion.” Collectively, they form the crux of the story of the record around-which the other tracks act as a frame and context.

The nine-track epic from the fringe musician collective embodies the group’s earlier endeavors while simultaneously rocketing into unexplored regions, giving new and old fans alike an aural, operatic feast.

Watch the brand new album teaser here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8867ILQ1g0

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The long awaited Dillinger Four record is finally done, and the release date is set for my birthday!!! October 14th, 2008. It is called C I V I L W A R.  More information & MP3s will be sent in soon from Fat Wreck Chords.

Don’t forget to check out their tour dates with NOFX this fall.

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As the first band to sign to Fat Wreck Chords and the label’s flagship since its inception, Lagwagon continues to forge a unique path through today’s complex musical landscape. The band maintains a sense of humor about their enviable longevity with the title of their latest offering, but the content of the album is anything but laughable. The new 7-song EP, I Think My Older Brother Used To Listen To Lagwagon, is the follow-up to their critically acclaimed full length, Resolve, released in 2005. They will tour the U.S. & Canada with MXPX, Only Crime, and TAT beginning next week:

09/15/08 Allston, MA at Harpers Ferry
09/16/08 Philadelphia, PA at The Fillmore at the Theatre of Living
09/17/08 New York, NY at BB King’s
09/19/08 Detroit, MI at St. Andrews Hall
09/20/08 Chicago, IL at Metro
09/21/08 St. Paul, MN at Station 4
09/23/08 Sauget, IL at Pop’s
09/25/08 Denver, CO at Ogden Theatre
09/26/08 Salt Lake City, UT at In The Venue
09/27/08 Las Vegas, NV at Jillian’s/Neonopolis
09/28/08 West Hollywood, CA at House of Blues
09/30/08 Tempe, AZ at The Clubhouse
10/01/08 San Diego, CA at House of Blues
10/03/08 Anaheim, CA at House of Blues
10/04/08 Petaluma, CA at Phoenix Theatre
10/05/08 San Francisco, CA at Thee Parkside

 
Buy the new CD here (vinyl coming soon).

 
Purchase show tickets here.
Download an MP3 of “Memoirs and Landmines” here.
Buy a ring tone here.

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Anti-Flag will be playing Bumbershoot in Seattle and some important shows in the coming weeks.  First, on August 30th, they will be at the famous Bumpershoot in Seattle, WA.  Be sure to go to the Washington Bus booth for the Anti-Flag signing, exact time TBA.  And while you’re there you can register to vote if you’re a Washingtonian!  Check out their website at www.washingtonbus.org.

On September 2nd, Anti-Flag will be playing in St. Paul, Minnesota on the Capital Lawn!  Other artists will include Michael Franti & Spearhead, Dead Prez, Wookiefoot w/ Matisyahu, I Self Devine, and many more.  This event, dubbed Ripple Effect, was organized by Substance, a non-profit begun by three activists under the age of 23 all determined to break down issue and generational barriers, while addressing pertinent environmental and social justice topics.  For more info visit www.livewithsubstance.org.

The next day, September 3rd, Anti-Flag will be playing with the legendary political rock band Rage Against The Machine in Minneapolis as part of  a protest show organized to take place at the same time as the Republican National Convention.  You can buy your tickets here.  Read more about the event here and here.

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Pygmalion Music Festival will take Champaign-Urbana, Ill. by storm again this fall. Now in its fourth year and taking place over the course of four days, September 17-20, Nicodemus Agency has again partnered with Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and Polyvinyl Record Co. to present twenty different shows in 9  different venues. Confirmed artists include everyone from Yo La Tengo and Dan Deacon to High Places and Black Mountain to Asobi Seksu and Times New Viking.

2008 marks a decidedly different approach to the festival, as a great majority of the venues are located within a few minutes walk from each other. The festival will be centered around staple venues The Canopy Club and Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, as well as neighborhood additions, Krannert Art Museum and Red Herring.

New to the festival this year as well is the premiere of day parties and pre-parties. Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the festival, venues will be showcasing some of the best up and coming local talent that Champaign-Urbana has brewing, crossing genre lines and mixing it up along the way. And in the weeks leading up the festival, Pygmalion will partner with sponsor Urban Outfitters to present four pre-parties, including a performance from Polyvinyl and Nicodemus roster artist, Headlights, who are local to Champaign-Urbana .

Buy Festival Passes: http://ev9.evenue.net/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/SEGetEventInfo?ticketCode=GS:IBM:08-09:PYGM:&linkID=kcpa&shopperContext
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Pygmalion 2008 Website: http://2008.pygmalionmusicfestival.com/

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* New 7-inch available for pre-order
* Quo Vadimus on vinyl
* Best 5 day tour EVER (with Scream Hello, Static Radio NJ, more)
* European tour with Antillectual (Sept 05 – 21)

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Philly’s Jena Berlin has just announced that their upcoming 7-inch, This Is Yours As Much As It Is Mine, is now available for pre-order from Jump Start.

Limited to 300 copies, pressed on red vinyl with hand-printed sleeves and inserts, the 7-inch contains two brand new songs as well as a digital download coupon for both, plus two additional tracks not included on the vinyl. The four songs were recorded by Zolof The Rock & Roll Destroyer’s Vince Ratti, who has also worked with Circa Survive, None More Black, Valencia and Achilles. You can currently stream “The Great Plains” on the band’s myspace page. You can also stream “Foolish Optimism” at Jump Start’s myspace page.

Also, for anyone pre-ordering the 7-inch, you can pick up Jena Berlin’s two long players, Passion Waits As The Program Keeps Going and Quo Vadimus, for a mere five bucks each.

Speaking of Quo Vadimus, Jena Berlin’s amazing 2007 sophomore full-length will also be receiving the vinyl treatment from Ass-Card Records in Europe.  More details soon on how you can pick that up, but it should be available for their upcoming European tour.

Before their trek overseas, the boys will be leaving next Wednesday for a short five-day tour with Scream Hello. They’ll be joined by Static Radio NJ on a few of those dates, as well as cast of amazing bands: Bridge And Tunnel, One Win Choice, The Ergs, Sakes Alive and Nakatomi Plaza.

The August 29th show (see below) in the bands’ shared hometown of New Brunswick will serve as the record release for both albums. Additionally, SRNJ will have another all-ages release show in New Brunswick on the 31st at The Loft with Seasick and Rapid Cities.

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Equal Vision Records has announce the latest addition to their roster: Boston, MA’s Therefore I Am. The five-piece is set to record their debut full length later this year at Strangeways Recording studio in Providence, RI with producer and ex-Hot Rod Circuit drummer Michael Poorman (Piebald, Tsunami Bomb, Paulson) for a Spring 2009 release. Poorman also produced the band’s 2007 EP, Escape. 

Since Therefore I Am’s formation in 2004, they’ve self-released 3 EP’s and toured the U.S. many times over with the likes of Vanna, Endwell, The Dear Hunter, and The Receiving End Of Sirens. The band - Alex Correia (Vocals), Brian Marquis (Guitar/Vocals), Travis Alexander (Guitar), James Creighton (Bass), and Chris Fernandes (Drums) - plan to get back on the road once they are finished recording, tentatively in February ‘09.

About their decision to sign with Equal Vision, Marquis explains, “EVR’s past and current roster boasts bands that have fought the same battles that we face today being thrown between many different genres. Growing up with many of those bands and seeing their success, and more importantly their impact, in underground and popular music is what gives us the reassurance that we’re working with the right team.”

The band has prepared a video announcing the signing at AbsolutePunk and can be viewed here: http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=488541

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NOFX are headlining the opening of the Democratic National Convention at Red Rocks in Denver, Colorado this Friday, August 22nd. To celebrate Barack “Punk Rock” Obama’s nomination, NOFX will perform Punk in Drublic in its entirety and in order.

Buy your tickets right now, right here.

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