Focus on the artwork, as the Used are telling you via the title of their fourth album. It's an ugly beast of a picture of a man shoving a syringe labeled "ART" into an arm bearing "WORK" scrawled in blood on it. What it all means is unclear -- is art being injected into work, is art the drug -- but what is evident is that the Used still take all this emotional bloodletting very, very seriously indeed. Four albums in, they're also taking the business of being in a band very seriously too, demonstrating a greater command of dynamics and a certain measure of professional panache, something adolescent, an adenoidal rush of their early screamo. This, of course, isn't quite the same thing as a considerable uptick in songcraft, but hooks never mattered to the Used anyway, so having a higher grade of execution helps underscore the Used's point.
Album Review: The Used - ArtworkThe Used make some adjustments in their sound and end up with an album that will require a few listens to really sink in.The guys in The Used have accomplished quite a bit, and have a lot they can be proud of. Over the course of their career they’ve written [...]
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The Used debuted a new website (www.theused.net) that allows fans to create their own design, upload photos & video, artwork, tabs and more. The new site is part of the Used's master plan to promote their new album, Artwork, due in September.A Camp wrapped up their U.S. Tour with a performance on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic last Friday. Watch or listen to the entire 43 plus minutes here.Rub...
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The Used's new album Artwork isn't due in stores till August 31st but you can stream the whole thing right now on the band's MySpace. Go here to check it out.
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The Used have announced a nationwide headlining fall tour in support of their upcoming album Artwork due out on August 31st on Reprise Records. The month-long trek will launch October 9th in Las Vegas, NV and run through November 14th in Portland, Oregon. The Almost and TK will be ...
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MUSIC NEWS - Orem, Utah rocker's, The Used, who've been exciting fans by with new songs at the Bamboozle and Bamboozle Left Festivals and at their recent headlining shwos, have announced the release of their 4th studio album, Artwork, for a September 1, 2009 release via Reprise Records. And, starting July 21, a deluxe pre-order package of the album will be available at their w
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Dates, names and pictures, we have them all for the post-hardcore Utahns known as The Used, now entering their fourth album together. Entitled Artwork, the album will be amongst the U. K shelving space come August 31 with the U.
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The Used return with an album that you've probably heard someone else make before. It’s their "heaviest and most brutal", apparently.
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MUSIC NEWS - Today, Orem, UT's The Used have announced the video premiere of their new song “Blood On My Hands.” The special Band Cut of the clip debuted exclusively on MySpace, but MNN has it below. “Blood On My Hands” is the first single off the band’s upcoming new album Artwork (order here thru MNN), releasing via Reprise Records on September 1, 2009.The video was
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The Used - Artwork (Reprise Records)The Used have long been known for a few things – bug guitars and even bigger vocals, something the band spares no expense for on their latest, and fourth studio album to date, Artwork. These guys have always been good, but they have yet to be this good. Artwork isn’t just a clever title for this record, it’s also very apt. Artwork is just that, a work of
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