Power pop icon Butch Walker has released a new video for ‘Summer of 89’.

The track comes from Walker’s new disc ‘The Spade’ (by Butch Walker & The Black Widows), which was released on August 30th.

Singer-songwriter Andrew Belle has released a new video for his song ‘The Ladder’.  The lavish clip, directed by Emily Wormley, captures Andrew in cartoon form.  See it for yourselves below.

Andrew is currently touring the US and you can see him at the following venues this autumn:

w/Ten out of Tenn

SEPTEMBER
14th Knoxville, TN The Square Room
15th Charlottesville, VA The Southern
16th Arlington, VA Iota
17th New York, NY Highline Ballroom
18th Boston, MA Brighton Music Hall
20th Philadelphia, PA World Cafe Live
21st Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live
22nd Louisville, KY Headliners Music Hall
23rd Chicago, IL Park West
25th St. Louis, MO Old Rock House
26th Oxford, MS Proud Larry’s
27th Jackson, MS Hal and Mal’s
28th Birmingham, AL WorkPlay Theatre
29th Nashville, TN Live on the Green
30th Charlotte, NC Neighborhood Theatre

OCTOBER
1st Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse

Supporting Ben Rector

OCTOBER
19th Houston, TX House of Blues
20th Austin, TX The Parish
21st Dallas, TX House of Blues
23rd Norman, OK Sooner Theatre
25th Tulsa, OK Cain’s Ballroom
26th Little Rock, AR Juanita’s
27th Nashville, TN Exit/In

Progressive metal/math metal band Animals As Leaders have announced the tracklisting for their forthcoming second LP.

‘Weightless’ – released in Europe on November 4th and the UK on Nov 7th – will include the following tracks:

01. An Infinite Regression
02. Odessa
03. Somnarium
04. Earth Departure
05. Isolated Incidents
06. Do Not Go Gently
07. New Eden
08. Cylindrical Sea
09. Espera
10. To Lead You To An Overwhelming Question
11. Weightless
12. David 
The band are also playing live in Europe and the UK this month, in support to Between The Buried And Me:

Sep 09 Istanbul, TUR @ Unirock Festival
Sep 10 Tel Aviv, ISR @ Barby
Sep 11 Bratislava, SVK @ Randall Club
Sep 12 Vienna, AUT @ Chelsea
Sep 13 Prague, CZE @ Rock Café
Sep 14 Berlin, GER @ Magnet
Sep 15 Hamburg, GER @ Logo
Sep 16 Amsterdam, NLD @ Melkweg
Sep 17 Cologne, GER @ Underground
Sep 18 Antwerp, BEL @ Trix
Sep 20 London, UK @ Underworld
Sep 21 London, UK @ Underworld

Megadeth’s thirteenth studio album is to be released on November 1st.

Titled ‘TH1RT3EN’, the album is the first to feature bassist David Ellefson since 2002’s ‘Rude Awakening’.  Ellefson rejoined the band in 2010.

The album is produced by Johnny K, who has previously worked with Sevendust, Staind and Machine Head.

Tracklist:

01. Sudden Death
02. Public Enemy No. 1
03. Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)
04. We The People
05. Guns, Drugs & Money
06. Never Dead
07. New World Order
08. Fast Lane
09. Black Swan
10. Wrecker
11. Millennium Of The Blind
12. Deadly Nightshade
13. 13

The album will be available on CD, download and limited edition 2LP picture disc.

Aussie punks Frenzal Rhomb wind up their current Australian tour this weekend.

The remaining dates are as follows:
Thu 8 Sep | Governor Hindmarsh Hotel, Adelaide, SA
Fri 9 Sep | The Arena, Brisbane, QLD
Sat 10 Sep | Civic Hotel, Perth, WA 

Support at all three shows comes from Teenage Bottlerocket.

The tour has been in support of Frenzal’s 2011 release ‘Smoko at the Pet Food Factory’ which was recorded in Colorado with the legendary Bill Stevenson (Descendents/ALL).  Clocking it at just 27 minutes, the band have joked “we get faster as we get older!”

In an interview with Australia’s Triple J, frontman Jay Whalley talked about the band’s experience working with the noted punk producer:

“He’s quite an eccentric fellow and a real sweetheart as well, a really lovely guy. My memories of him are mainly around me getting my vocal takes together. Because he’s very anti, as he would say, “fixing it in the lab” which is what a lot of bands do these days. They just do what they can and then go and fix it with all the technology. But I guess he knew that we could all play if we just tried a bit harder. 

So I ended up singing for six days straight, just signing these bits over and over again, which I’d never done before. I’m normally the guy, because I’ve done so many records, I know my own limitations and if I sing something I’ll listen to it and say that is by far the best I’m ever going do this. But he would just be standing there going, ‘that was terrible, do it again’.”  [source: triple j]