Triple Crown Records Signs North Korea Featuring Former Envy On The Coast Members Ryan Hunter and Brian Bryne and Dillinger Escape Plan Drummer Billy Rymer Band Giving Away Free Downloads of First 2 EP’s; Debut Full Length Released this Winter

NORTH KOREA, the Long Island, NY based band made up of Ryan Hunter (vocals, guitar), Brian Bryne (guitar) formerly of Envy On The Coast, Michael Sadis (bass) and current Dillinger Escape Plan drummer Billy Rymer, has signed with Triple Crown Records. The band has released 2 EP’s which they are offering as free downloads via their Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/northkoreamusic/app_182222305144028. Currently in the studio with Mike Sapone (Brand New, O’Brother, Sainthood Reps) NORTH KOREA is working on a full length for a winter release.
www.triplecrownrecords.com

UK Indie Rockers Basement To Go On Indefinite Hiatus After Current U.S. Tour – Band’s 2nd LP Colourmeinkindness Out This Fall on Run For Cover Records

The UK indie rockers known as Basement have announced plans to go on an indefinite hiatus after wrapping up their .U.S. tour which kicks off today at Santa Barbara’s Sound & Fury Fest. The band just finished recording their 2nd LP, ‘Colourmeinkindness’, with producer Sam Pura in Northern California this week. The album will be released by Run For Cover Records this fall. In a joint statement released to the media yesterday, the band says: Now ‘Colourmeinkindness’ is finished, we head out to play a string of shows across America. Due to a number of personal commitments, this record and these shows will be the last thing we do as a band for a very long time. Basement has never been about achieving anything; it was simply an enjoyable outlet for creativity and emotion. That being said, we are incredibly grateful for the support we have received over the last two years. We have managed to do some amazing things and see some incredible places and the people we have met along the way will be our friends forever. We seriously cannot express sufficiently how much this means to us. We all have things going on outside of the band that require a lot of time and attention and now more than ever these things have to come first. – Basement

Upcoming Tour Dates:

Jul 20 Sound & Fury Fest Santa Barbara, CA

Jul 21 Sound & Fury Fest Santa Barbara, CA

Jul 22 Sound & Fury Fest Santa Barbara, CA

Jul 23 East Side Joes Las Vegas, NV

Jul 24 Aladdin Jr’s Pomona, CA

Jul 25 Pioneer Santa Cruz, CA

Jul 26 Branch Street Sacramento, CA

Jul 27 The Holland Project Reno, NV

Jul 28 Salt Lake Foursquare Salt Lake City, UT

Jul 29 The Blast O Mat Denver, CO

Jul 30 TBA Oklahoma City, OK

Jul 31 1919 Hemphill Dallas, TX

Aug 01 The Mohawk Austin, TX

Aug 02 The Firehouse Birmingham, AL

Aug 03 No Control Savannah, GA

Aug 04 Transitions Art Gallery Tampa, FL

Aug 05 The Talent Farm Pembroke Pines, FL

Aug 06 Buro Bar Jacksonville, FL

Aug 07 Local 506 Chapel Hill, NC

Aug 08 Shaka’s Virginia Beach, VA

Aug 09 Planet Trog Allentown, PA

http://www.runforcoverrecords.com