I have a problem. When people start wetting their pants about a band or song, I tend to shy away from said artist. Call it elitism or whatever but I like finding stuff on my own, not from some know-it-all blogger (I know this may sound hypocritical, haha). This was the case with Jay Reatard. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of his previous band The Reatards. There was something about his solo album Blood Visions that I just didn’t get. Maybe I was just having a bad day but the album just sounded like a watered-down version of The Adverts. I got more and more peeved when everyone and their mother was saying it was the best thing since sliced bread or, uh, No Age.  

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Episode 34 of Issue Oriented features Brian Cook (Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes, Botch) and Jesse Luscious (Blatz, Alternative Tentacles, overall punk rock renaissance man). Check it out to your right or over at Issue Oriented HQ.

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Sakes Alive are giving you a chance to pick up their debut 7-inch Act I a bit early. You can pick it up here. The record will be released on August 27th via Barrett Records. Check out the tracklisting and pressing info after the jump.

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The Gaslight Anthem have posted their first video from their highly anticipated album The ‘59 Sound due out in August via SideOneDummy.  The video is for the title track, check it below.

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RollingStone.com has an interesting article up that shows what some past industry bigwigs are doing with their time now, since they’ve left the sinking ship that is the music business. Check it out here. Our own Jason Bergman has a picture in there too so be on the lookout.

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