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The Militia Group signs the Jealous Sound

Posted by brian on Saturday, January 15, 2005 at 12:57 AM (EST)

The Militia Group has announced their newest addition, Silver Lake, CA's the Jealous Sound.

The band's signing follows their last full-length, 2002's Better Looking-released Kill Them With Kindness, and playing dates with the assorted likes of the Foo Fighters, At the Drive-In, Death Cab For Cutie, the Get Up Kids, and the Promise Ring among others.

The Jealous Sound plan on heading into the studio by this spring with hopes of releasing their Militia Group debut by the summer.

Militia Group (34 comments)

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maverick (scott) (January 15, 2005)

Awesome band, awesome songs. Here's to hoping they get the success they deserve. -Scott

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Allular (January 15, 2005)

Word.

Someone (January 15, 2005)

I remember you ranting about (it was a good rant though) how all milita group bands were copys of other copy-bands, so you must be happy now that they finally have a band that isn'´t.

Anchors (January 15, 2005)

If The Militia Group ruins this band, I will never forgive them.

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Someone (January 15, 2005)

Never before in the history of rock music has a label ruined a band. Band's can only ruin themselves. Labels don't write or perform the music, they promote it.

maverick (scott) (January 15, 2005)

Incorrect. MCA Records and H2O. -Scott

Anchors (January 15, 2005)

Beat me to it.

Someone (January 15, 2005)

oh god please dont mention H20 so sad...soooooooo sad

Someone (January 15, 2005)

Seriously, i hate the all we want ep as much as anybody, but couldn't you tell that they were going that way?! I mean it's not like everready is noise hardcore or anything.

Someone (January 15, 2005)

Rise Against

Someone (January 15, 2005)

i enjoyed the new Rise Against

LiberationFreak (January 15, 2005)

me too, though i want to know how much influence the label had with those Acoustic tracks

Someone (January 15, 2005)

this could be good. or it could be really bad. this is a great band. please dont become screamo.

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Allular (January 15, 2005)

VERY doubtful that they will be screamo.

Someone (January 15, 2005)

i never thought id see this. :(

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Someone (January 15, 2005)

yea, it was much of a shocker to me as well but they will still remain one of the best bands EVER. im not kidding about the best band ever part.

Someone (January 15, 2005)

Great band... hope they are successful with their new label. Definitely on my list of cds to look forward to..

Someone (January 15, 2005)

surprised...i definetly thought that this band was breaking up at teh end of last year.

Someone (January 15, 2005)

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show rest of commentQUOTE By Dana Priest, Washington Post Staff Writer Iraq (news - web sites) has replaced Afghanistan (news - web sites) as the training ground for the next generation of "professionalized" terrorists, according to a report released yesterday by the National Intelligence Council, the CIA (news - web sites) director's think tank. Iraq provides terrorists with "a training ground, a recruitment ground, the opportunity for enhancing technical skills," said David B. Low, the national intelligence officer for transnational threats. "There is even, under the best scenario, over time, the likelihood that some of the jihadists who are not killed there will, in a sense, go home, wherever home is, and will therefore disperse to various other countries." Low's comments came during a rare briefing by the council on its new report on long-term global trends. It took a year to produce and includes the analysis of 1,000 U.S. and foreign experts. 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"The al-Qa'ida membership that was distinguished by having trained in Afghanistan will gradually dissipate, to be replaced in part by the dispersion of the experienced survivors of the conflict in Iraq," the report says. According to the NIC report, Iraq has joined the list of conflicts -- including the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate, and independence movements in Chechnya (news - web sites), Kashmir (news - web sites), Mindanao in the Philippines, and southern Thailand -- that have deepened solidarity among Muslims and helped spread radical Islamic ideology. At the same time, the report says that by 2020, al Qaeda "will be superseded" by other Islamic extremist groups that will merge with local separatist movements. Most terrorism experts say this is already well underway. The NIC says this kind of ever-morphing decentralized movement is much more difficult to uncover and defeat. 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Other than reports and studies, the council produces classified National Intelligence Estimates, which represent the consensus among U.S. intelligence agencies on specific issues. Yesterday, Hutchings, former assistant dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, said the NIC report tried to avoid analyzing the effect of U.S. policy on global trends to avoid being drawn into partisan politics. Among the report's major findings is that the likelihood of "great power conflict escalating into total war . . . is lower than at any time in the past century." However, "at no time since the formation of the Western alliance system in 1949 have the shape and nature of international alignments been in such a state of flux as they have in the past decade." The report also says the emergence of China and India as new global economic powerhouses "will be the most challenging of all" Washington's regional relationships. It also says that in the competition with Asia over technological advances, the United States "may lose its edge" in some sectors. Staff writer Bradley Graham and researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.

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Someone (January 15, 2005)

... woo jealous sound!

Someone (January 15, 2005)

i thought they were on universal...

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Someone (January 16, 2005)

are you kidding me?

Someone (January 15, 2005)

The members of Jealous Sound obviously know what they are doing. Knapsack was an active band for quite a long time and so was Sundays Best (damn, i miss them). I think is a good move for them because TMG really does a great job of band promotion and they LOVE their bands. There's no way TMG would muck it up. I'm hoping they record w/ Ed Rose on this next album. Does anyone have any info on who they'll record w/?

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Someone (January 16, 2005)

Every label says they "love their bands" but that just isn't reality. Peoples' tastes change and labels and bands grown apart. It has nothing to do with sales. I doubt TMG "loves" their new bands any more than any other label.

Someone (January 15, 2005)

Great Signing! I'm surprised a bigger label like Epitaph didn't pick these guys up.

Someone (January 15, 2005)

Is Rufio the only reason this label is still around?

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maverick (scott) (January 15, 2005)

That's and all the money they got from Columbia for Acceptance and Lovedrug. -Scott

Allular (January 15, 2005)

I think the success of Copeland doesn't hurt either.

maverick (scott) (January 15, 2005)

What's your definition of success, numbers-wise? I know how many records they've sold, so I'm curious to see what you think is a "success." -Scott

Someone (January 16, 2005)

what are the numbers on that scott? cause i was kinda wondering myself

Someone (January 16, 2005)

The Beautiful Mistake have sold a respectable amount of records on TMG as well. I believe their first cd was at around 30,000 and their new one was around 18,000 which isnt bad. I think Copeland has done around 35,000 of their full length.

Someone (January 17, 2005)

Copeland Soundscan #'s Beneath Medicine Tree sold 37,765 No Nothing Stays the Same 8,625

Someone (January 18, 2005)

hawthorne heights sold more in the first week, what the fuck is this?

Someone (January 19, 2005)

wasn't the HH cd sold with the taking back sunday cd? or at least at an extreme discount if you happen to buy the TBS record? victory pads their #'s anyways...most of their bands add zeros after their venue scans. the sad thing is a few bands have out-scanned what they pressed. hmm....

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