Reunions, debuts, and anniversaries!

Big news first folks:

The original lineup of Taking Back Sunday have reunited.



That's right, John Nolan and Shaun Cooper are back. Trust me this is exciting news. The two left TBS after the bands first album Tell All Your Friends to form Straylight Run. While the reunion is pretty freakin sweet it is hard not to feel for bass player Matt Rubano who has been with the group since Cooper's departure and guitarist Matt Fazzi who replaced Fred Macherino and played on the bands last album, New Again, released just last year. Both Rubano and Fazzi announced that they were no longer in Taking Back Sunday on the bands website March 29.

There has yet to be an official announcement but the video above ends with a string of words stating "Sometimes it takes some time to remember where you were headed in the first place and the people you intended to to go there with. There's no hard feelings, just the future." It's also been reported that John Nolan updated his bio on his Twitter account to say that he was in Taking Back Sunday as well as continuing to be a solo artist.

Last but not least in an interview with 103.9 WRCN, guitarist Eddie Reyes said the band intends to record soon.

This is where my head explodes.
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Tune in (or set your Tivo or what have you) tonight to Last Call with Carson Daley, as it will be the network television debut of band Never Shout Never. The band will be performing "What is Love?" and "Can't Stand It" from new album What is Love? released earlier this year. The record was produced by Butch Walker (go pick it up if you haven't already:P). Never Shout Never is singer Christofer Drew's project, but has become a full band.

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In other news, Owl City (ya know, that dude Adam Young that ripped off The Postal Service? Yeah, that schmuck) has remixed Something Corporate's "I Woke Up in a Car." Surprisingly, it isn't bad. I was sure he would have ruined it. Putting my bias aside it is well worth a listen. I mean come on, it's Something Corporate! The band is releasing a greatest hits record on April 27 to mark its ten year anniversary. Maybe the remix will be on the album?

Check it out here and let me know what you think.
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And last but not least:

As most music lovers know Record Store day is this upcoming April 17 and to celebrate Blur will be releasing a limited 7" single to 150 independent record stores in the UK. Too bad it won't be in states *sadness* This will be the first new single in the last seven years and is limited to 1000 copies. Bon Iver will release a little something special in America for the special day as well.

If we have any international readers you should buy two copies of the Blur 7" for your girls at Shennantics. Word.