News From The Great Beyond

Doubling Cube Records, the home of Robbers on High Street and I Am The World Trade Center, will be releasing the debut full-length disc, entitled Fantastic Success, from NYC's Measles Mumps Rubella on February 21, 2006. Recorded and mixed by Jonathan Kreinik (Apes, Hot Snakes, Trans Am) at Trans Am’s National Recording Studios, Fantastic Success features the first recordings with Chuck Bettis on vocals.

Gossip is a punk band from Portland, OR with a hip danceable sound. After recruiting a new drummer (Hannah, a.k.a. "Stangela Handsbury," from Shoplifting), suffering through a lost tooth and a lost gall bladder, Gossip has completed their forthcoming release entitled Standing in the Way of Control. The CD will be released on January 24th on the Kill Rock Stars label. The band also released their first dance 12", backed with a Le Tigre remix and art by Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth fame! This disc is also available on the KRS imprint. Gossip will be touring the states in January before venturing to Australia in support of Pretty Girls Make Graves.

The Hot Topic Presents The Sub City Take Action! Tour 2006 will begin March 1, 2006. Hopeless/Sub City Records acts Amber Pacific, Paramore, I Am Ghost, and Hit The Lights join Silverstein, The Early November, and headliner Matchbook Romance for the nationwide tour. Take Action! raises funds and awareness for The Kristin Brooks Hope Center to prevent teen suicide. The Take Action! Compilation Volume 5 will be available February 21, 2006. The CD contains 45 tracks on two discs, including Underoath, Hawthorne Heights, Sugarcult, Panic! At The Disco, Amber Pacific, Against Me!, As I Lay Dying, and many more. www.takeactiontour.com

Hopeless Records continues to stay busy with the announcement of the signing of New Jersey natives Royden. The five-piece band draws on many influences, most notably Life, Injury, Post-Punk, and Metal, as well as from bands like At The Drive In, Led Zeppelin, The Who, and The Talking Heads. Royden is currently writing and preparing to record their upcoming Hopeless Records debut to be released in summer of 2006.

Also, Hopeless has announced the track listing for the Ever We Fall upcoming album We Are But Human, which will be available on February 21, 2006. It will be:
1. Youth Like Tigers
2. Late Night Dance Party
3. School Yard Crush
4. No Sleep For Dreaming
5. Bring Em’ In Billy
6. G
7. State Bird The Mosquito
8. No Words To Describe
9. Great Day For An Air Strike
10. Evacuate!
11. My Dog The Senator
12. Welcome To Floston Paradise