Maylene and the Sons of Disaster have released a new download from their upcoming album. The record is titled II and is due out March 20, 2007. It will be their first release for Ferret.
You can check out the song, titled “Dry The River” via The Syndicate Blog.
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Today we’ve got a new interview with Mike Wiebe of the Riverboat Gamblers. The interview was performed by Todd Taylor, and he had this to say about he band:
Silly Putty transfer the inky goodness of a classic rock and’n’ roll band, like AC/DC, and hard press that into the kickass catchiness of a DIY grassroots punk band like the Bananas. Or the Saints transposed on The Future Virgins. Or Rocket From the Crypt and the Potential Johns. Don’t forget to add a couple of lightning bolts (And if these references have you scratching your belly button, it’ll do your “I’ve heard it all before. There’s no good bands” self to check them out.)
Punkradiocast recently spoke with Propagandhi‘s drummer Jord Samolesky. The interview features live photos of the band as the interview and related imagery based on the interview itself.
The band most recently released Potemkin City Limits. The video was shot during Propagandhi’s recent tour of Western Canada.
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Details on Bad Religion‘s follow up to 2004’s The Empire Strikes First have been unveiled. The band’s new full length is titled New Maps Of Hell and will arrive on July 10, 2007 via Epitaph Records. The 17 song full length album was recorded at Grand Master Studios in Los Angeles, California by Grammy-nominated producer Joe Barresi (Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer).
As previously announced the band, now in their 27th year, will support the record by headlining this summer’s Warped Tour. 2006 saw the release of the Live at the Palladium DVD along with frontman Greg Graffin‘s solo effort Cold as the Clay.
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Today marks an interesting punk anniversary, as 30 years ago to this day the Sex Pistols were dropped from A&M Records. On March 10th of 1977 the band, who had been previously dropped from EMI two months prior, signed to A&M for £150,000 in a high profile press ceremony outside of Buckingham Palace. Following a reportedly unruly party at the label’s offices, as well as pressure from the label’s employees, artists and distributors, the label severed their contract a mere 6 days later. That week of time brought about a limited pressing of God Save The Queen and left the band with £75,000 in their pockets.
By June the band has arrived at their ultimate home of Virgin Records, selling 150,000 copies of “God Save the Queen” in just one day. Despite a BBC Radio One ban and several chains refusing to stock it the single reached number 2 on the charts.
The A&M pressing has since become one of the most valuable and sought-after records ever pressed in the UK. In 2006 a copy sold for £13,000.
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Scars Of Tomorrow have decided to call it quits after their upcoming West Coast tour. Formed in 1999, the band has released multiple albums with both Victory Records and Thorp Records including The Failure in Drowning and The Beginning Of…, both of which were issued last year.
The band made a lengthy statement, some of which explains:
We believe though the time of SOT is finished and are going to be moving on to a new endeavor. The current lineup of [Scars of Tomorrow] are all on the same page but we want to start something fresh and new and will re emerge in the near future.
You can find the rest of the statement here.
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Arctic Monkeys have posted the artwork as well as a new video for their upcoming album, The record is titled Favourite Worst Nightmare and is due out April 23, 2007. It is the follow up to their surprise hit, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not .
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Josh Homme’s Queens Of The Stone Age recently spoke with Billboard about their new record. The album will be titled Era Vulgaris (Latin for “Common Era”) and will arrive in June. It follows up 2005’s Lullabies To Paralyze.
Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and the Strokes’ Julian Casablancas are both scheduled to appear on the record, as is on-again/off-again contributor Mark Lanegan. The article also describes the album as harder and faster than past outings, naming songs “Sick, Sick, Sick,” “Battery Acid,” and “3’s + 7’s” as examples.
Lullabies was the first record following former Dwarves bassist Nick Oliveri’s boot from the band. The period which also saw Homme scuffle with Dwarves frontman Blag Dahlia, an incident that resulted in a court order to keep the two 100 yards apart at all times.
In addition, the band recently confirmed a number of European festival appearances this summer.
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After wrapping up their upcoming support slots on the Bouncing Souls Canadian tour, labelmates Strike Anywhere and The Loved Ones will be touring together for just under two weeks in May.
The Loved Ones continue to maintain a heavy tour schedule in support of Keep Your Heart, and Strike Anywhere continues to tour on Dead FM.
Vice Magazine‘s online network VBS.tv has posted a new four-part interview with beloved hard partier, Andrew W.K..
You can check that out here.
Andrew has kept busy with a number of recent projects, though none are music related. Beginning tomorrow, he will be hosting a scavenger hunt at SXSW and is currently in the midst of a three week spoken word engagement in New York City.
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The lineup has been announced for the upcoming Summer Sonic Festival in Japan. The event will feature headliners The Arctic Monkeys and Black Eyed Peas and other acts confirmed include The Offspring, Sum 41, The Offspring, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, The Horrors, Interpol and more.
The Offspring are working on their next album: their last non-compliation album was Splinter released back in 2003.
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Today we’re bringing you 29 blasts of raw pop-punk goodness from Short Attention. Clever, Maddening, Annoying comes out soon on Cold Feet Records and manages to cram all of these 14 to 30 second songs onto 7 inches of vinyl. Talk about quick and to the point!
You can hear the tracks at the Short Attention Band Profile.
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It seems that NPR will be leading the fight against the recently announced increase in internet radio prices.
The internationally known public radio station released a statement condemning the recent move, which estimates to cost most small internet radio stations as much as 100% of revenue, or more. NPR’s stance is that internet radio serves a “non-profit” and “public service” function, therefore certain concessions should be made. Additionally, the new rates for internet are also much more expensive than their on-air rates, though oddly enough internet radio reaches a much smaller audience. NPR’s VP of communication stated the following about the new rates and NPR’s course of action:
This decision penalizes public radio stations for fulfilling their mandate, it penalizes emerging and non-mainstream musical artists who have always relied on public radio for visibility and ultimately it penalizes the American public, whose local station memberships and taxes will be necessary to cover the millions of dollars that will now be required as payment. On behalf of the public radio system, NPR will pursue all possible action to reverse this decision, which threatens to severely reduce local stations’ public service and limit the reach of the entire music community.
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