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Hey Warped Tour fans, are you ready? Are you pumped?

The 16th year of the Vans Warped Tour kicked off today in Carson, California, and was (obviously) a total success! If you’re going to Warped Tour this summer, which bands are you most stoked to see? If you’re not, WHY.

Check the first official pit blog and video below!

PIT BLOG 1 – CARSON

If you’ve got one of those fancy iPhones or iPod touches, then get stoked, because the Vans Warped Tour has announced a brand new app to download for the devices, for free! Check the video below!

It can be pretty tough for a band to come up with enough money to record a new album, so the members of Blameshift are asking for your help. They have set up a pledge system so you, the fans can pledge money towards their ultimate goal of $5,000 which will be used to record their new album. If they reach their goal, 20% of the money will be donated to the Haiti Relief Fund and Music Saves Lives.

So, how do you help?

First off, click here.

On that page you will find different amounts of money that you can pledge, but you aren’t just donating money, the band is offering different things based on how much you pledge. By pledging, if the band meets their goal, you could receive anything from the new single before it’s released, to a round trip airline ticket to New York for the cd release show based on how much you pledge.

So help an awesome band and get something back!

Make sure you make a plede because if they don’t make their goal of $5,000, then nobody will get anything .

Get pledging!!!!

As you most likely already know, last week Haiti was hit with a massive earthquake that tore apart their whole world-and then another quake hit shortly after, which did even more damage. New Jersey-based indie clothing outlet Kill Brand Apparel has been generous enough to come up with a benefit t-shirt designed specifically for the victims. Here’s the message from Kill Brand, themselves:

Here at Killbrand Apparel we are lucky enough to make our voice heard and use our ability to make a difference.
100% of all proceeds from these exclusive Killbrand Haiti Benefit Tees will be donated to the Red Cross Organization to help aid the victims of the recent earthquake tragedy.
Each shirt will also come with a FREE support Haiti pin.

So, do them a favour, do us a favour, do Haiti a favour, do the world a favour; grab this awesome shirt only $10 from the Kill Brand online store today.

The 11th annual Coachella festival officially announced its line up today on coachella.com. The 3-day music and arts festival is set to feature over 130 acts, among the likes of Jay-Z, Muse, Phoenix, The Gorillaz, Them Crooked Vultures, Thom York, MGMT, Vampire Weekend, and a slew of other performers (See full list below).

The annual festival comes around for three days every April (16th-18th) and is based in the Coachella Valley of sunny California. Tickets go on sale this Thursday, the 22nd of January for about $270, and you can grab them on the Coachella website.

Official Line-up (via coachella.com)

FRIDAY APRIL 16: Jay-Z, LCD Soundsystem, Them Crooked Vultures, Vampire Weekend, Deadmau5, Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Echo and the Bunnymen, Benny Benassi, Fever Ray, Grace Jones, She & Him, Erol Alkan, The Avett Brothers, Calle 13, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Cribs, La Roux, Yeasayer, Lucero, DJ Lance Rock, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Proxy, Ra Ra Riot, Deer Tick, Wolfgang Gartner, Aeroplane, Iglu & Hartly, Sleigh Bells, P.O.S., Baroness, Hockey, Little Dragon, White Rabbits, Wale, Kate Miller-Heidke, As Tall as Lions, Jets Overhead, Alana Grace, Pablo Hassan.

SATURDAY, APRIL 17: Muse, Faith No More, Tiësto, MGMT, David Guetta, The Dead Weather, Hot Chip, Devo, Coheed and Cambria, Kaskade, 2Many DJ’s, Major Lazer, Dirty Projectors, Gossip, Z-Trip, The xx, John Waters, Les Claypool, The Raveonettes, Mew, Sia, Camera Obscura, Tokyo Police Club, Porcupine Tree, Old Crow Medicine Show, Aterciopalados, Bassnectar, Frightened Rabbit, Dirty South, Flying Lotus, Corinne Bailey Rae, Pretty Lights, Shooter Jennings, RX Bandits, The Almighty Defenders, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Craze & Klever, Zoe, The Temper Trap, Portugal. The Man, Band of Skulls, Girls, Beach House, Steel Train, Frank Turner.

SUNDAY, APRIL 18: Gorillaz, Pavement, Thom Yorke????, Phoenix, Orbital, Spoon, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul, Julian Casablancas, Plastikman, Gary Numan, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sunny Day Real Estate, Yo La Tengo, MUTEMATH, Deerhunter, Infected Mushroom, Club 75, Matt & Kim, The Big Pink, Gil Scott-Heron, King Khan and the Shrines, Florence and the Machine, Yann Tiersen, Little Boots, Miike Snow, Talvin Singh, Ceu, B.o.B., Babasonicos, Owen Pallett, The Glitch Mob, Mayer Hawthorne, Local Natives, Rusko, The Middle East, Hadouken!, The Soft Pack, Kevin Devine, Paparazzi, Delphic, One EskimO.

Blink-182 have released a new t-shirt to benefit the Red Cross in their efforts to help the people of Haiti after the 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti early Tuesday morning (January  12).

The shirts cost $15 (not counting shipping) and all proceeds go to the Red Cross.

The t-shirts can be purchased here at the band’s webstore and are expected to ship January 22nd.

If you are interested in helping out the cause, you can find various other ways to help donate here.

If you’ve got one of them newfangled Apple iPhones, and you appreciate bands like The Devil Wears Prada and From first to Last, then you’ll be stoked to hear that Rise Records has released the official iPhone Application to keep track of everything Rise-wise. From the app, you can stream music, make purchases, and even see when a band is playing near you! And the best part? It’s completely free!

So go grab the app right now from the iTunes app store!

Atticus Clothing recently announced the bands for their second metal tour.

Dates have not been announced yet, Unearth will be headlining and the tour will also feature the following bands:

Stick to Your Guns

Veil of Maya

The Ghost Inside

Carnifex

and Your Demise

The bands were announced via the official Atticus clothing Twitter.

Who plans on going?! I know I do!

The fifth and final artist announcement for the 2010 Alternative Press Tour — or just AP Tour — revealed Never Shout Never as the headlining act for the tour. Along with NSN, the tour will also include 4 other awesome bands, like Hey Monday, Every Avenue, The Cab, and the Summer Set.

Along with the final act, the tour dates were revealed today as well. The AP tour is slated to take place from March 19th to May 8th. Presale tickets go on sale January 4th, and then regular tickets January 9th.

See the full tour schedule, learn more about the bands playing on the tour, and get tickets (when they’re for sale) all on the AP Tour website.

Oh my goodness! The 2010 Vans Warped tour bands list is officially up!

Check it out below, as well, a special video from Pit Reporter Tiffany Mink and founder Kevin Lyman.. The dates list is also up on the Tour site.

Artist Vs. Poet
Attack Attack!
Polar Bear Club
Reel Big Fish
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
The Rocket Summer
Set Your Goals
I See Stars
iwrestledabearonce
NeverShoutNeverAfter Midnight Project
Alkaline Trio
Enter Shikari
Every Time I Die
Fake Problems
Far From Finished
Fight Fair
Haste The Day
Hey Monday
In Fear and Faith
The All-American Rejects
AM Taxi
Anarbor
Andrew W.K.
Sparks The Rescue
Suicide Silence
The Summer Set
VersaEmerge
We Are The In Crowd
Emarosa
Emmure
Ace Enders
Of Mice and Men
Parkway Drive
We The Kings
Whitechapel
The Word Alive
You Me at Six
Breathe Carolina
Breathe Electric
Bring Me The Horizon
The Cab
Call The Cops
The Casualties
Confide
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Disco Curtis
Pierce The Veil

Warped Tour 2010 Band Announcement

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