The Rapture have posted a new song on their myspace, off their new record, Pieces of the People We Love, out Sept. 12.
You may listen to it, here.
Spoiler alert: It doesn’t suck.

In 1963, the flight from Jamaica to Toronto was 8 hours. Today it’s 3 1/2. Countless people have made the dwindling journey over the years, but in the sixties and seventies there was a new breed of traveler: the finest ska, rocksteady, and reggae recording artists the West Indies have ever produced. We’re talking Studio […]

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Demon Hunter were just in the store and this is what they bought:
Conjure One - Extraordinary Ways
Burden Brothers - Buried In Your Black Heart
Arsis - Diamond For Disease
Vader - Art of War
Paatos - Kallocain
Manmade - God
Course of Nature - Superkala
Various Artists - Roadrunner United All Star Sessions Comp
Dashboard Confessional - Dusk and Summer (wtf?)

Thursday, June 29th is the latest Channel 757 Film Festival! For the low low price of $2 (Cheap!) see up to and including several independent films from the Seven Cities, including a short documentary that has something or other to do with Relative Theory. The festival will play twice for your convenience, at […]

the video is very nice with incredible editing. this cd on first listen came off average but with every listen it just grows to my heart’s liking. I play the song “Monsters” as loud as the stereo goes - it is my medicine.

Solo Guitar is the album length debut from Alan Sparhawk of the minimalist-indie-pop band Low. Listeners expecting the rock & roll element Sparhawk’s recently become known for with the Black-Eyed Snakes will be surprise to hear guitar exploration in the vein of “Do You Know How to Waltz?” or “Will the Night.” […]

Known mostly for his tenure performing as Pedro the Lion, songwriter David Bazan recently retired the band moniker to continue making music under his own name. On his debut self-released EP “Fewer Moving Parts,” his signature songwriting, voice, and melodies are framed in layered harmonies, multi-tracked guitars, analog keyboards, and intricate production he was never […]

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If you dont like this you are a freedom hater!

at Relative 06/28/06
w/The Talk and Selmaniares
$5 adv / $7 day of show
8 PM
plus download 6 live tracks of Birdmonster here!

This is tonight!
This event is the kickoff of our Cinescape Concert Movie Series, with a LIVE performance by The Refugee All Stars!
“The Refugee All Stars of Sierra Leone,” West African refugees form a band, record an album and inspire a nation. Their struggles are almost unbelievable, and the music will make your heart smile.
Come […]

Windmills By The Ocean is the title of a recently unearthed recording from August 2003, the sole output of Boston natives Mike Davis, Dave Dunbar, Brooke Gillespie, Bryant Clifford Meyer and Thos Niles. Since the project’s beginning and end, the creators have moved on to form such bands as 27, ANODYNE, ISIS, and RED SPAROWES, […]

Echo and the Bunnymen were just in the store and this is what they bought:
Low in Europe DVD
Howe Gelb - Sno Angel Like You
One Button
Relative Shirt

saw this video for Mandy via yewknew.com and it is simply incredible. I have never made a stop-motion video but when I do I hope my work is this good.
Spinto Band - Mandy | video

do you have a website and want to help spread the word about the Summer of No Rulez? Here - use this banner and put it on your website. Summer of No Rulez does not have an advertising budget so we can only pay you in spirit. Get down - Get out […]

So the site is up and while it is not completely done I figured you readers would help make that happen. Spread the good word and give the good feedback. Keep in mind Summer of No Rulez is not a Relative Theory thing - it is a movement to be shared by all […]

Are you ready for the revolution summer?

It seems the fine folks at French Kiss have a busy second half of the year planned. Next month, FK is re-releasing Les Savy Fav’s first album, 3/5 (finally) and in September, putting out The Big Sleep’s album, Son of a Tiger (stoked). They also have a few other releases coming out from bands such […]

I am still working on the Summer of No Rulez website. I am really not sure what purpose it is going to serve since it doesn’t seem very interactive and I think most no rulez enthusiasts have minimal contact with the internet. But at least it will have some cool features like a […]

“Start your own band, paint your own picture, write your own book.”
-Mike Watt of the Minutemen
We Jam Econo - the story of the Minutemen coming June 27 via Plexifilm.
trailer