Today, Audio Assault becomes everything, all encompassing, massive: from technology to music to pure beauty, we’re riding a new frequency. Can you hear it? If you hear it, do you dig it?

Our first “cycle” release of t-shirts is finally complete! This time around we’ve ventured into our roots as native Chicagoans to explore a gangland theme. Tommy guns, zombies, cops, and your favorite deranged looking cartoon characters make up our first line of shirts for 2011! 5 designs, 50 prints, 1 free cd with free shipping for $29.99 and then they’re gone forever!

Nas vs Def Jam email with a theatrical reenactment, songs we regret ever liking danger zone, Martin Page, JC Chasez, Bare Naked Ladies, Mambo #5, Chumbawumba Tub Thumping, Seven Mary Three, bush, silver chair, Cory Tendering, Dead Pres, Sublime.

Another episode of crushing insight where we cover the Vampire Diaries, Wall Street 2, The Social Network, cats farting, NPR, Asthmatic Kitty and the Sufjan Stevens album, the danger zone bit. Madmen. Saving Private Ryan, Pixar movies, Dear Zachary, when Twitter was overtaken by Dave Coulier jokes. The end of You Me and Dupree, The Used, Harry Potter, Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight, The Funny People, and Lord of the Rings.

Win a copy of the new Exile On Main Street reissue, plus Sticky Fingers, Some Girls, And Jump Back. Just follow us on Twitter and it all could be yours!

Two winners get a copy of the 7″ Editors pressed for Record Store Day just for following us on Twitter. Do you feel lucky, punk? (Do ya?)

Our clothing line has entered into round two of TeeMadness! We’re in a neck and neck race with another clothing company, and we need your help to advance to the next round! It only takes one second to vote, and two clicks! All you have to do is click on this link, and then click [...]

Today, we have a special treat for our readers: you can stream the new You Me At Six album, Hold Me Down, for free, right here. Yes, you heard correctly: it’s free. So click the little mp3-player there and start jamming. And then buy Hold Me Down so you can hear it the way it’s [...]

We’re having a fire sale at our online t-shirt store. $15.99 shirts + free shipping! Every thing we don’t sell is getting set on fire…

Google’s slogan isn’t just a pile of regular shit, but full on bullshit. (I believe I’m paraphrasing Steve Jobs when I say that.)

Two years ago we launched with a small t-shirt store. (We only had 12 shirts) Now, we’ve become a full fledged design/music/apparel resource with 30 products sold to every state in the US and 20+ countries. To say thanks, we’ve lowered everything by at least 25% and as always, free shipping.

Our resident musicologist Oswald Hobbes has donned his white lab coat and performed a series of experiments to create a comprehensive list of ultimate happy-making jams. Behold the glory!

Nick Diener, guitarist and singer for pop-punk sensations the Swellers, talks to AssaultBLOG about the road, the songwriting process, and navigating the tricky path to ultimate domination.

Chicago Music Commission’s panel on using social media to market yourself as a musician. The panel covers what sites you can use to upload music to for sale on iTunes, Twitter, Facebook, Reverb Nation, Cd Baby, Tune Core, and more.

We scored some great merch from Hollywood Undead that we’re just DYING to give to one of our loyal Twitter followers! We’re giving away a signed skate deck, a Desperate Measures CD/DVD and a t-shirt to one lucky winner!

We’ve been lucky enough to hijack a signed Shwayze CD and poster that we’ve decided to give away to one of our Twitter followers!

IAmTheTrend was nice enough to invite Craig, myself, and a few others to do a live show for IATT.tv from Storenvy’s print facility in Chesterton, IN. It’s been called the best IATT.tv of all time.

During the show we covered screen printing questions, word of mouth marketing questions, how to choose a printer questions, and even touched on design/branding a bit. A must watch for anyone interested in the apparel industry.

We were lucky enough to be featured in the clothing section of the brand new I Am The Trend website with our newest shirt, The Peaceful Revolution T-Shirt.

New t-shirt design in the store from Assault Shirts, Peaceful Revolution–inspired by Rise Against.

I’m not going to add to the gigantic list of of great SEO resources and basic SEO 101 strategies that you can easily find all over the web. Instead, I’m going to go over a few secrets that I have developed specifically for my online store, Assault Apparel, that will help those of you who are like me and don’t have any sort of money to use for marketing and PPC…