Travis Barker Teams With The Cool Kids For Free Song

Travis Barker and the Cool Kids have teamed up to bring you a brand new single!

“Jump Down” is available to download for free right here (just give them your email address).

If you want to hear it before downloading, we’ve got you covered. You can check out the song here too.

Travis Barker — Jump Down by John Grimley

The second part of the giveaway is that for anyone who downloads the demo (and gives them a mailing address) will get some free 3D glasses! Cool, right?

You can then use those 3D glasses to watch the music video for “Jump Down,” which will be premiering October 11th.

Surfer Blood Ink Deal With Warner Bros

surfer bloodSurfer Blood have taken their upstart status into the major leagues.

The West Palm Beach, Florida band have recently inked a deal with Warner Bros and will probably start releasing albums via both Warner Bros and their current label Kanine.

The band are planning at least another EP with Kanine, as a follow-up to their debut album Astro Coast, which was released back in January of 2010.

No word yet on how or when the band will start recording.

Astro Coast is out now.

Parlovr Preview ‘Heaven/Hell’ on Stereogum!

Parlovr Canadian power trio Parlovr have been exploding onto the scene with their infectious indie pop since their self titled debut was released in 2008 on Dine Alone Records. Since then the boys have been working on their upcoming EP Heaven/Hell/Big/Love which will be released October 19th.

The idea for the EP was based around a song “Hell,Heaven” which the trio were playing continually at live shows. Heaven/Hell/Big/Love was created as 4 or 5 pieces that weren’t directly tied together in a specific theme and were just written without any rehearsal before studio time. The result is an EP split with “Hell,Heaven” which is based on “thoughts of a childhood spent in the middle east” and “Big Love” which is about a “girlfriend who has the ‘look of a man.” Along with the two title tracks are “Where is the Sun” and “Tehching Hsieh” which both add surrealism and romantic dreaminess to the EP.

You can preview “Hell,Heaven”  on Stereogum HERE and be sure to catch Parlovr at Pop Montreal October 2nd at Cabaret Just Pour Rire. The band will also soon be announcing US tour dates for this fall.

OK Go Are Back With Another Awesome Video

OK Go seem to know how to capture the attention of the Youtube crowd.

After bursting onto the scene with “Here It Goes Again” (almost 4 million views on Youtube) and “This Too Shall Pass” (17 million views…17), the group is back with another catchy song combined with a great video.

“White Knuckles” is a pretty good song on its own. Adding dogs (like most other things) only makes it better.

You can check out what I mean in the video below. The group has also joined with the ASPCA to found the “Rural Dog Rescue Fund” which you can check out here.

If you’re wondering how they got the dogs to do all that, they went through four pounds of dog treats…a day.

Buy Deer Tick’s Tour Bus!


Bored of your four door sedan or fixie bike? Feel like you need an upgrade? You can now place bids for Deer Tick’s tour bus and roll in style like the eccentric indie folk rockers themselves. The bus nicknamed “The Flagship” for being what took the band across the country in their 2009 tour promoting Born on Flag Day will be auctioned off in order to raise funds for the Pakistan flood victims.

In July, heavy monsoons in Pakistan caused mass flooding making over 21 million people injured or homeless. Frontman John McCauley states, “The situation over there is so critical, but it seems very few people are aware of it. Maybe it’s a stigma with that part of the world, I’m not sure. Either way, we feel very strongly that people should be more aware of the situation and hopefully we can help with that.”  The tour bus will be up for auction on ebay for  three weeks and Deer Tick will also be taking donations at the merch table for each date of their upcoming tour.

The ebay auction page for The Flagship tour bus can be viewed HERE and to learn more about the Pakistan floods or to make a donation please visit http://oxfamamerica.org/

DEER TICK US FALL TOUR DATES

10/06 Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506
10/07 Athens, GA – 40 Watt Club *#
10/08 Greenville, SC – Fall For Greenville *
10/09 Auburn, AL – Bourbon Street *
10/10 Birmingham, AL – Zydeco +
10/11 New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks +
10/12 Houston, TX – The Bronze Peacock Room @ House of Blues +
10/13 Austin, TX – Emo’s +
10/14 Laredo, TX – Old No. 2 +
10/16 Tempe, AZ – Sail Inn +
10/17 San Diego, CA – The Loft / UCSD +
10/19 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey +
10/20 San Francisco, CA – Regency Ballroom +
10/21 Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom +
10/22 Vancouver, BC – Biltmore Cabaret %+
10/23 Bellingham, WA – Wild Buffalo +
10/24 Seattle, WA – Neumos +
10/26 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
10/27 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge
10/28 Omaha, NE – Bourbon Theatre
10/29 Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock Social Club
10/30 Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
10/31 St. Louis, MO – Off Broadway !
11/02 Washington, DC – Black Cat
11/03 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church
11/05 Providence, RI – AS220
11/06 Providence, RI – AS220 (matinee show)
11/06 Providence, RI – AS220 (late show)
11/10 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
11/11 Boston, MA – Royale
11/12 Newport, RI – Newport Blues Café
11/13 Newport, RI – Newport Blues Café

* = w/ Jason Isbell
+ = w/ J. Roddy Walston and the Business
# = w/ Blitzen Trapper & Malcomb Holcolmbe
% = w/ Phosphorescent
! = w/ Band of Heathens

Black Mountain’s Video For The Hair Song

Black Mountain love rough and dirty rock and roll, and it’s never more apparent than on their newest single, “The Hair Song.”

A down-home slice of Rock, the song now has an accompanying video.

Featuring the members of Black Mountain (and their own spectacular hair) and a round of misplaced love, the video was shot in beautiful Ontario and features lush forest scenes contrasted with the concrete buildings of the city.

Watch it here.