EDIT: The previous title of this post (Choose A Favorite Unsigned Band) was a poor choice of words. This isn’t a competition to vote up your favorite and vote down the other bands. We want you to listen to each band and indicate whether you like or dislike the sound, and vote appropriately. If you are neutral, then please just skip voting for that band.

A lot of you noticed a while back that we stopped doing the featured band. Well now we’re doing it a little bit differently. Instead of us picking a featured band, we’re going to post in this section any unsigned band we feel is deserving of more recognition. Your votes will be tallied and the rank will determine a power ranking of sorts for fans and industry folks to see who they should be paying attention to.

If you have suggestions on bands to add, please leave a comment on this post only. Feel free to leave comments in each individual band posting explaining why you voted for or against that particular band.

The bands are listed below at random and in no particular order. Just click on the individual post titles to listen to the music and rate the bands.

Quick Links: Tread | Black Water Rising | Seven Day Sonnet | BulletProof Messenger | Echovalve | Freestate | Venture | Under the FLood | Fixer | Wake the Light | Neverset | Cold Driven | Day Minus 7 | Silent Season

Please LISTEN to the band’s music and decide if you like or dislike it. If you like it, click the green UP arrow. If you dislike it, click the red DOWN arrow. If you can’t decide, please don’t click anything. PLEASE do NOT vote a band down simply to improve the ranking of another band. [...]

Pearl Jam have their new single “The Fixer”, listen to it here. The track is taken from their upcoming new album ‘Backspacer‘ due out September 22nd.

Thanks bill

Pearl Jam have revealed the track list to their upcoming new album ‘Backspacer‘ due out September 22nd, check it out below:

1. “Gonna See My Friend”
2. “Got Some”
3. “The Fixer”
4. “Johnny Guitar”
5. “Just Breathe”
6. “Amongst the Waves”
7. “Unthought Known”
8. “Supersonic”
9. “Speed of Sound”
10. “Force of Nature”
11. “The End”

Pearl Jam will send their new single “The Fixer” to rock radio on July 20th. The track is the first single taken from the band’s upcoming new album ‘Backspacer‘ tentatively set for September 22nd.

Fixer have posted an interview with Muen Magazine where they discussed what it’s like coming off the road to write and record their new album, check it out here.

2009 TBA:

7 Days Away – ‘1,2,3,1‘
12 Stones
Aaron Lewis (solo album)
Allele – ‘Something Cured‘
Alex Band (solo album)
American Hi-Fi
Ashes of Soma
Barenaked Ladies
Biffy Clyro – ‘Only Revolutions‘
Blink-182
Burning Vegas
Burn Season
Cinder Road
Deepfield
Dev Electric
Digital Summer
Divide The Day
Drowning Pool
Early Pearl
Egypt Central
Filter
Finch
Fixer
Flaw
Future Leaders Of [...]

Fixer have streamed three videos from the studio where they are recording a new album, check em out here. The band has seven dates left on their current tour, check em out in the following locations:

March 18th in Reading, PA @ Silo
March 19th in Cambridge, OH @ Shakers
March 20th in Heath, OH @ Captain Jacks w/ [...]

Fixer have posted the track “Tuxedo” online on their MySpace page. The track is from the album ‘Before the Sun’. The band is currently midway through their 2009 “Black Velvet Sessions” tour, click here for dates.

Stereoside and Joan Red will begin the “On Our Way” tour on April 24th, current dates include:

April 24th in Augusta, GA @ Sky City
April 25th in Goose Creek, SC @ The Dive
April 26th in Murfreesboro, NC @ Zakk’s
April 29th in Jacksonville, NC @ Hooligan’s
May 7th in Columbus, GA @ Soho w/ Fixer
May 8th [...]