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As we know, pop music abhors a vacuum. And so the moment Avril Lavigne drifted off into whiney kidulthood and divorce, Paramore's Hayley Williams bounced forth as the legitimate voice of frustrated 15-year-old girls and the legitimate fantasy of frustrated 15-year-old boys.

Reviewed by: Ashland112 , on december 21, 2009 0 of 0 people found this review helpful Sound: Crime In Stereo , an intensely creative hardcore band, has outdone themselves with this genre bending album.

Songs like "At the Bottom" and "Gasoline" writhe like a beheaded snake, "Vices" wails like a wraith, and "Be Gone," well, it basically just sounds like an Ugly Casanova B-side. Still, after a dozen years, it's nice to finally have the old MM back in our lives, especially when the new one seems content to simply re-record sea shanties.

Monday, December 7, 2009 10:48 p.m. Vote 0 Votes If there's one thing I learned in the last semester of my four-and-a-half-year collegiate career, it's that you're just looking for trouble when you slap a "Top 10" label on anything.

On November 28, Long Island band Brand New returned home to play the Nassau Coliseum, closing up their tour.

Paramore and Weezer are the first acts confirmed to headline the 2010 Bamboozle music festival in New Jersey, slated for May 1-2 at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford.

Pop punk genre leaders Brand New rocked the Oakdale Theatre Nov. 25 playing almost 20 songs spanning four albums for a crowd-pleasing night full of singing along to popular songs like "Seventy Times 7" and "Sic Transit Gloria...Glory Fades." Glassjaw and Crime in Stereo opened the show.

Speaking of Twilight mania, Paramore, the band who gained a lot of momentum by giving a couple of songs to the first film's soundtrack, have announced a gig, or two, Downunder.

Brand New headlined a pair of sold-out dates at the Kool Haus this past weekend, bringing along fellow Long Islanders Glassjaw as primary support.

If there's one word you could use to sum up Brand New's ever-changing sound, it's "brooding." The Long Island, N.Y.-based band have increasingly moved their music and lyrics into darker territory with each release, and as they demonstrated at the first of two sold out gigs at the Kool Haus in Toronto this weekend, they're not afraid to explore ...

Brand New plays "You Won't Know" at the House of Blues. Click here to see a full gallery of photos from the show I'd like to say that veteran emo-punkers Brand New 's fans have matured with the band, if only because it would make a good opening line, but it wouldn't be true.

After several years of avoiding the prying eyes of the music media, particularly here in North America, Long Island, N.Y. emo-heroes Brand New decided to open up about their new record, Daisy , on a brief stop-over in Toronto.

When Brand New released its debut album in 2001, few would have guessed that the Long Island quintet would evolve into one of the most genre-challenging, difficult-to-pigeonhole hard rock acts of the decade.

Crime in Stereo: Stuck in-between two worlds. Crime in Stereo With Brand New and Glassjaw.

This is how artist development is done: digital marketing, label promotion and strategic touring -- lots of touring.

WEDNESDAY: This thing called Ska Is Dead IV rolls through the Ottobar with the corpses of the Toasters , Deals Gone Bad , Eastern Standard Time , the International Jet Set , and the fucking Voodoo Glow Skulls .

The young pop-punk band looks at the world through brand new eyes in a moody and yes, edgy, makeup show.

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Ritz Ybor's website boasts a capacity of 1,150A for its concert hall. I would call that a conservative estimate for Brand New and Thrice as IA politely pushedA through the throng of mostly teenage girls clogging the stairways leading to the pit.

Details: 8 p.m. Saturday. The Neptune Lounge, 13 S Safford Ave., Tarpon Springs.