another great release day

Albums dropping today:

The Album Leaf: Into the Blue Again [wicked-cool album]
The Rapture: Pieces of the People We Love
The Matches: Decomposer
Xiu Xiu: The Air Force [wicked-cool album]
Heavens: Patent Pending
The Mars Volta: Amputechture
Emily Haines: Knives Don't Have Your Back

New records by The Album Leaf and Xiu Xiu are must haves... listen to The Rapture’s Pieces of the People We Love if you like dancepunk. I am also listening to a lot of Emily Haines and The Matches, so check those out too! Have fun record shopping!!!

exclusive: patent pending

Here is the highly anticipated debut from Heavens. Is it worth the wait? ...You’ll be the judge of that.

1. Gardens
2. Counting
3. Heather
4. Patent Pending
5. Dead End Girl
6. Doves
7. Another Night
8. Annabelle
9. Watching You
10. True Hate
11. Leave
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Patent Pending comes out on September 12, you can preorder it here.

cool... but when's the next a3 album??

Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio along with Joe Steinbrick of F-Minus started a new side-project called Heavens. They were recently signed to Epitaph and their first record is scheduled to release on September 12, 2006.

go check out Heavens' Myspace page here, Epitaph Records artist info here
you can also listen to the track "Patent Pending" here