Spreading Like Wings

Ben has recently tweeted that The Dillinger Escape Plan will be doing some shows with High on Fire surrounding Bonnaroo Festival, at which both bands are appearing.

Peta 2 are giving away one of Liam Wilson’s bass guitars (also autographed) in a contest that ends April 19 (with winners announced April 22). For those who don’t actually win, 10 runners up will also win a Dillinger Escape Plan guitar pick. Go here for full details.

Dillinger Escape Plan’s Twitter account was listed in Rock Sound’s Top 50 artists of interest on Twitter article, which you can read here.
And, while I’m on this topic, here’s a list of other DEP-related people you might be interested in following, too, if you’re on Twitter:
Spreading Like Wings
Asian Steve
Greg Puciato
Liam Wilson
Relapse Records
Carrie Knific
Stubbadub
Fourth Eye
NIN Hotline
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Bonnaroo have announced some additional artists for their festival, and Dillinger is one of them. Other notable acts also confirmed include Public Enemy and High on Fire. Thanks to Maria Burks for the heads up.

Liam Wilson of The Dillinger Escape Plan played with Frodus the other day. Sorry for not posting about it, it completely slipped my mind. Fortunately, there’s a shit load of footage from their performances, which I’ve added below (originally taken from Frodus’ blog):

frodus sxsw from corey bounds on Vimeo.

Frodus (esc. plan) 3/18/09 – Part 1 [...]

As posted by the Dillinger Merch dude over at the SMN Forums:

Greg is better at typing out random long winded posts that you guys all eat up like drones so I won’t try and do that. Basically we want you guys to send us pictures of you in your Limited Edition shirts so we can [...]

Greg Puciato has remixed a track by Prong, which is being featured in an upcoming remix compilation of their’s called Power of The Damn MiXXXer. Here are the full details from their MySpace page:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 10, 2009 (LOS ANGELES) – 13th Planet Records readies Power of The Damn MiXXXer remix compilation in follow-up to [...]

OK, I’m a bit slow in reporting this, but Relapse Records have an awesome buy 1 get 1 free sale on at the moment for any orders on the Relapse label. All orders come with a free poster, orders over $100 entitle you to a free shirt and random orders will be getting free stuff [...]

Carrie Knific announced a little while ago that the winner for the Dillinger Escape Plan streat team has been chosen and today The Dillinger Escape Plan blogged about it on their MySpace page. Here’s what they wrote:

THIS KID VANDALIZED A LOT OF SHIT AND WON A CONTEST TO GET A SIGNED SMASHED GUITAR [...]

Ben Weiman has revealed that The Dillinger Escape Plan are working on a new remix EP in a recent Twitter update. No word of a release date so far.
Update: Ben has also revealed that the next EP will come free with the next batch of limited edition t-shirts and so they will be very limited.
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