Taking Back Sunday to release new album on June 28

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Taking Back Sunday have announced the release date of their next album. Their upcoming self-titled LP (their fifth overall) will be released on June 28th. The disc will be the first release with the band’s original lineup since their 2002 breakthrough debut, Tell All Your Friends, which has sold over a million records worldwide and helped established TBS as one of the emo era’s most successful acts.
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The band’s new album was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Eric Valentine (Queens Of The Stone Age, All-American Rejects) and the disc’s first single “Faith (When I Let You Down)” is set to be released on May 3rd (the band made the song “El Paso” available late last month). A special pre-order for the album containing limited-edition packaging and a bonus disc of demos, among other collectibles, will be available on the band’s official website starting today.

Odd Future announce tour dates

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Wondering about the insane hype regarding buzzing hip-hop group Odd Future, also known by their full name (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All)? Well, wonder no more: the buzzing hip-hop collective have announced tour dates beyond their scheduled festival appearances.
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The group, who will play Coachella this weekend, kick off their tour on May 12th in Boston and head around the East Coast and Canada until their May 20th gig in Philadelphia. The band wrote on their Tumblr page, “OFWGKTA Will Be Doing An East Coast Run. Click The Fucking Photo For Tickets And Shit.” Which means tickets are now on-sale for all seven dates. You can snag those here.
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The band will also trek overseas to play several festivals, including Reading & Leeds, Spain’s Primavera Sound Festival and London’s Camden Crawl. An appearance at the Pitchfork Music Festival on July 17th in Chicago has also been confirmed. It’s unclear if the group will add additional North American club shows, but it seems likely.
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The group also recently released a video for their tune “Yonkers,” which is interesting but definitely rated NC-17. Check that out here and then see a complete list of tour dates below.

Wiz Khalifa announces summer tour with Big Sean

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Wiz Khalifa has announced tour dates for this summer when he will embark on his official “Rolling Papers” tour. Khalifa, who is currently on a tour of colleges, will kick off his summer trek on June 12th in Maryland Heights, Mo. and will wrap up on August 3rd in Canandaigua, N.Y.
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Joining Wiz on the road will be Big Sean, whose debut album, Finally Famous: The Album, will drop June 21st. Also opening is Chevy Woods, who is a member of Khalifa’s Taylor Gang crew. Tickets for the tour will go appropriately go on sale April 20th, however if you are a member of Khalifa’s official fan club, you can score tickets tomorrow. Join the club here. Khalifa is also confirmed to perform this weekend at Coachella as well as at Bonnaroo on June 11th
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Khalifa’s new album, Rolling Papers, debuted at Number Two on Billboard last week and has slid down a few slot to Number Five this week, selling 59,000 copies.

Foo Fighters headed to Number One

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It looks like Foo Fighters will score their first ever Number One album. The band’s new disc, Wasting Light, is expected to sell upwards of 200,000 copies in its first week, which should be enough to beat out new releases from, among others, TV On The Radio, Paul Simon, Jessie J and Alison Krauss and Union Station.
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The fact that this would be the band’s first Number One album is sort of insane when you consider that they’ve released six studio albums, a live disc and a greatest hits collection. Five of those past releases have made it into the Top 10, but Wasting Light would be the first Number One. 2005’s In Your Honor was the band’s previous best-seller, coming in at Number Two in its first week.
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In other Foos news, the band recently revealed that after recording Wasting Light, they destroyed the original master tapes. But the pieces aren’t gone for good. Dave Grohl says that a small chunk of tape has been inserted in the albums you can purchase. Grohl told LA Weekly, “Everyone was so precious about tapes, so afraid they’re gonna shed or break or something will happen to them. That just made me want to destroy it. To prove a point to everybody to show how intangible a real tape can be. I thought, let’s chop it up into a million pieces, and give it to the people who buy the album so they can hold it in their hands and see it. A lot of the records you buy, there’s nothing you can hold in your hand, it’s all 1’s and 0’s, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.”

Asking Alexandria turn down Charlie Sheen

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As if Charlie Sheen needed any more debauchery in his life, the actor-turned-comedian, who specializes in “winning” and possesses “tiger’s blood,” recently reached out to U.K. metalcore titans Asking Alexandria to see if they would be the opening act for his “My Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour.” Apparently, Sheen caught wind of the band’s notoriously riotous behavior and thought they would perfectly compliment his “bangin’ seven gram rock” antics.
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Unfortunately, due to scheduling conflicts, the band was forced to decline Sheen’s offer. In an official press release, the band issued the following (brilliant) statement: “The group would like to publicly thank Sheen for this special invite and promise him that the tiger’s blood runs deep in all of them. Sheen claims to be a rockstar from Mars, but the real question is if he can hang with these British titans. Hopefully their paths will cross one of these days. Winning!”

Radiohead not putting out ‘King of Limbs’ sequel

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The latest Radiohead album King Of Limbs is pretty brief, which has lead some fans to predict that a companion album would follow it in the near future. Unfortunately BBC 6 Music dashed our hopes when they recently talked to guitarist Ed O’Brien about this seemingly plausible theory.
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“There are [other] songs that we have started, that we never finished, but there’s not like seven or eight finished songs waiting in the wings to be released now, or in the autumn, or something,” O’Brien explained. “When we start a new record, we tend to start afresh. It’s kind of an evolutionary thing… only the fittest survive.”
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If you do want to hear some new Radiohead material,  you’re going to have to get up early this Saturday and head to your favorite retailer because to celebrate this year’s Record Store Day the band will release a single featuring two new songs: “The Butcher” and “Supercollider.” O’Brien also confirmed that those two tracks are the final songs from the King Of Limb sessions that will be released to the public. (The band have been performing “Supercollider” live for years, but this will be the first time that a studio version of the track will be released.)
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Then again, this is Radiohead, so for all we know they could have a new double album ready to go next week… or at least that’s what we’re going to keep telling ourselves so we can fall asleep at night.

Black Cards release new demo

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Black Cards seem to be taking their sweet time releasing their debut album. Luckily the Pete Wentz-fronted band have leaked a new demo for a track called “Paradox.”
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The song, which the group has been playing on tour, appears in a YouTube video which documents a computer screen as it plays the track’s demo. It’s a little stripped down and sort of whiny, but then again it’s not the final version of the track.
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Black Cards frontman Pete Wentz recently told MTV News the band’s album is complete and that he hopes to release it this summer. He said, “Summer, the month of summer is when we want the album to come out. It’s done and I’m just going to keep putting songs out, so we have to keep putting more songs on the album.”
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Wentz has also confirmed that the disc features guest appearances by Travie McCoy, Neon Trees frontman Tyler Glenn and Shaggy (yes, really). He mentioned that one of the delays involves his record label Island/Def Jam. “I don’t feel like there is a holdup. I feel like people know that it’s a new project at the label and really want to roll it out in the right way, and the building has really gotten behind it,” Wentz said. “But it’s different than Fall Out Boy, and it’s different than stuff we’ve done before, so… with Fall Out Boy, it’d be like, ‘OK, this is rollout, we’ve got it, we’ll go around the world.’ And with this, it’s new and it’s new territory, so we’re working with new people and it’ll be exciting.”