There’s been another bout in the ongoing fued between members of the Dead Kennedys. Bassist Klaus Flouride is claiming that Jello Biafra had him banned from DirkFest, a Biafra MC’d event from July 8th in celebration of the late “pope of punk,” promoter Dirk Dirksen. The event in question was the second night performances, featuring the Avengers, the SF Mutant Non-Allstars (playing Mutants covers), the Contractions, the White Trash Debutants and No Alternative among others.

According to Flouride, Biafra had him barred from the event.

Dirk Dirksen was of course godfather of San Francisco punk. He ran the Mabuhay Gardens “Fab Mab” nightclub and later the On Broadway. He passed away last year at the age of 69.
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Austin, Texas’ Bitter Tongues has have returned from a year and a half hiatus as a new band. While writing and recording with new guitarist Ribs Mason (Pride Kills, 10 Crowns, Iron Age), the band spun off into a new act dubbed Career Criminal. The group is self-described as “stripped-down oi/punk/hardcore influenced in no small part by Sham 69, The Four Skins, Cro-Mags and Slapshot” and features vocalist Richard Crenwelge (Bitter Tongues, HoldxFast, Coptic Times), guitarist Zach Frady (Bitter Tongues, Coptic Times), bassist Colby Holiday (Exit the King, Black Past), drummer Jared Cannon (Bitter Tongues, 28 Cent Solution) and the aforementioned Ribs Mason also on guitar.

The band has a handful of summer shows scheduled with bands like Fucked Up, Down To Nothing and Reagan Youth. Career Criminal will hit the studio this summer with Stan Wright (Death Threat, Signal Lost, Balance of Terror) to record an EP due out this summer. .

Bitter Tongues looks like they’re still around, albeit still on hiatus. The band released Clovis in 2005 on United Edge.
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Cobra Skulls have posted three new songs from their upcoming Red Scare debut. The record is titled Sitting Army and is due out July 10, 2007.

You can check out the songs on their myspace page.
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Looks like all of those taking shots at Fall Out Boy on message boards may want to think before taking it to Pete in person. A recent incident saw a heckler beaten down by Fall Out Boy’s security team.

According to a witness:

A guy started calling Pete a sell-out, asking him ‘Where’s [girlfriend] Ashlee [Simpson]?’ and making fun of his hoodie.

“They did their last song, walked off the stage and headed toward a side door to go out onto the sidewalk. But that’s when the scuffle happened. The crowd surged back, then snapped forward. From my vantage point, I could see Fall Out Boy security was pounding on the guy. The guy was down on floor, shirt ripped, bleeding from ear and nose. There was a lot of blood.

Wentz denies that the incident was malicious, claiming self-defence:

The truth is on the way out the door I had to pass directly next to the guy and I knew it, so I kept my head down and walked out. As I did, the guy reached out and grabbed me and said something I couldn’t really hear — it was a glorious use of the English language, though,” he continued. “As he grabbed me, I punched him. Yell all you want at me, say whatever, but in a situation like that I will defend myself. After that, of course, it got chaotic, [but] we have several independent witnesses that gave statements saying he grabbed me first … I am not worried over the outcome, as I was clearly in the right. Anything anyone else is saying or writing is simply not true

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Portland, OR synth-punk act the Epoxies have signed to Philadelphia based Metropolis Records, a label famous for their industrial music offerings. The band is working on a new full length, the follow up to 2005’s Fat Wreck released Stop The Future, for this fall. Prior to that the group will release a 5 song EP through Metropolis titled My New World. It’s set to hit stores on August 21st.

The Epoxies recently released the Synthesized CD EP though Dirtnap, collecting two out of print 7″s released on the label.
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