Quickies

Pure Volume has a new Motion City Soundtrack track from their upcoming split with Matchbook Romance. If you haven’t heard them before, check out the five songs from their older albums too.

BODY COUNT guitarist D-Roc (real name Dennis Miles) passed away Tuesday morning (August 17) at the City of Hope Cancer Center in Duarte, California after a battle with mycosis fungolis, which attacks the lymph nodes and the skin. The band will reportedly go ahead with their previously announced appearances in Boston and New York with substitute guitarist Bendrix Williams (MACY GRAY, PITCH BLACK).

BODY COUNT, the metal/punk band fronted by legendary rapper Ice T, recently announced plans to record their first album in seven years, tentatively titled “Murder for Hire”.

The Decemberists are recording “Lady Waters and the Hooded One” for an upcoming Robyn Hitchcock tribute album.

Tickets go on sale Friday for Brian Wilson (from the Beach Boys) performing Smile at Carnegie Hall on October 12th and 13th.

Tickets for both of Guided by Voices’ last NY shows ever at Irving Plaza go on sale Saturday. You can also catch them for free with Ambulance Ltd tomorrow night at Pier 54.

Have you seen Paris’ Chihuahua?

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