Though originally posted earlier this week and then disappearing, Myspace has (re)posted the entirety of their List feature with Bad Religion.
Recorded at the House of Blues in Las Vegas on July 10th, the set features five full tracks including “Sorrow,” “No Control” and others.
You can check out the entire performance here.
The veteran punk band released New Maps of Hell earlier this year.
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Calgary based This Is A Standoff has posted a new song online from their upcoming full length Be Excited. You can check out “You Won’t Pass” at their MySpace page.
The band features Steve Rawles and Graham Churchill of much loved and now defunct skate punk act Belvedere along with John Meloche from Forty Cent Fix and Corey Tapp of Deville and Inventing The Wheel.
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Jacksonvile, FL’s Whole Wheat Bread have posted another new song from their yet-to-be-titled Fall release. The song is called “Girlfriend Like This” and can be heard at their MySpace page. The new record, the follow up to 2005’s Minority Rules, will arrive via Fighting Records.
The band is currently on a west coast tour with No Use for a Name and the Flatliners.
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Dan Yemin of Paint It Black has posted another update on the band’s recording process. The band is working at The Magpie Cage with producer J. Robbins on their next record. He commented:
Started doing vocals last night and blew my voice out pretty quick (after 3 songs), but it was really fun and exciting to hear the songs start to come together on tape after all these months in the basement hammering out these songs. I think we practiced more in the past 4 weeks than we did during the entire writing process for “Paradise”. It’s not that we were over-thinking/over-analyzing everything, but we wanted to be really sure all the arrangements were interesting (not rehashing things we’ve already done, and not sticking to the same old transitions and structures, like verse, chorus, verse, chorus, breakdown) and the tempos were on point. We wanted to make sure that the fast stuff is blazing, and the slow stuff sounds demented and brutal. Also, the writing process was a lot more collaborative, involving much more input from everyone, especially when it came to structure and speed.
The new record will follow up 2005’s Paradise.
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Live from QuakeCon, John Carmack shows us id’s next title, new technology and several other major announcements.
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Santa Monica, CA – Aug. 3, 2007 – Gamers in attendance at QuakeCon 2007 were rewarded with a special announcement when id Software and Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) unveiled that Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars™ Windows PC will be on EU store shelves on September 28, 2007 and North American store shelves beginning October 2, 2007. The game, which is in development by Splash Damage, pits the armies of Earth’s Global Defense Force (GDF) against the invading alien Strogg in the multiplayer strategic shooter that transports players to the front lines of an epic new war for Earth.
Offering the ultimate in objective-based multiplayer action either online or offline with bots, Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars is set within the expansive QUAKE® universe in the year 2065. Gamers choose to play as the human GDF or alien Strogg in one of five unique character classes. Employing an arsenal of weapons, vehicles and deployable armaments, players engage in an action-packed test of skill and coordinated teamwork through a series of combat objectives. Persistent character growth and achievements reward players for teamwork, while clearly defined mission and class objectives guide new players to meaningful contributions on the battlefield.
Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars is also in development for the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft (Nerve Software) and the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system (Activision Foster City).
Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars has been rated “T” for Teen by the ESRB.
Members of Small Brown Bike, the Casket Lottery, and Coalesce have formed Able Baker Fox. The band features guitarist Nathan Ellis (The Casket Lottery, Coalesce, Jackie Carol), guitarist Mike Reed (Small Brown Bike, LaSalle), bassist Ben Reed (Small Brown Bike, The Great Sea Serpents) and drummer Jeff Gensterblum (Small Brown Bike, The Holy Fire). Ellis and the Reeds all contribute vocals to the project.
The band is finishing up their new 11 song CD/LP Voices with Ed Rose to be released on Second Nature Recordings on a date to be determined. The band has two new songs from online at MySpace.
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Behemoth major label the Universal Music Group has bought UK-based Sanctuary Records for a reported for 44.5 million pounds. While the troubled label does come with 59.8 million pounds of debt, it also features a merchandising and artist management arm that the UMG found attractive enough to acquire.
This follows the gutting of the US-based Sanctuary earlier this year. As of June 30th that company scaled back operations and now acts only as a catalogue label. This followed the similar gutting of V2 earlier in the year.
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San Jose’s Shinobu are on the road supporting their recently released Asian Man full length Worstward, Ho!. Their tour includes a number of shows with Pteradon, with whom Shinobu recently shared a split 7″. Further dates will feature I Sing the Body Electric, which features two members of Pteradon and three from Shinobu.
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Fun Fun Fun Fest span two days in Austin Texas, bringing 75 bands to four stages on November 3rd and 4th at Austin, TX’s Waterloo Park. While the event’s official website has yet to announce a full lineup, local concert listing the Austin Show List has posted a pretty impressive line up. Take this with the usual grain of salt until you get an official announcement, but currently the show will feature another Murder City Devils reunion show, Lifetime, Against Me!, Youth Brigade, the Saints, the New Pornographers, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Neurosis, Sick of it All, The Sword, Explosions in the Sky, Of Montreal, Girl Talk, Angry Samoans, Fucking Champs, Madball, Channel 3, Riverboat Gamblers, Horrorpops, Complete Control, Emma Pollock, Final Fantasy, White Denim, MGMT, Zykos, Mates of State, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness and Headlights.
Again, you may want to wait for a full list from the fest itself before booking those plane tickets, but their MySpace page indeed confirms the Murder City Devils. The Devils split in 2001, playing a reunion show last year for the Capitol Hill Block Party in Seattle, WA.
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Amidst speculation about the motives for his departure, the Offspring have posted a short note about the departure of drummer Atom Willard. While Pete Parada (of Saves The Day) is filling the vacant position, for the album itself, the drums were recorded by session musician Josh Freese (he Vandals, Devo, Guns N’ Roses, Suicidal Tendencies).
Frontman Dexter Holland explained:
Atom and I wanted to drop you guys a little note, since we know people have been talking about why Atom has left the drummer seat for The Offspring.
The simple truth is that Atom had been working on a few of his own projects during our down time, including Angels & Airwaves but other things too. We think that‘s great. Unfortunately, in order for him to see those things through he isn‘t left with enough time to devote to future Offspring stuff. It was a tough choice, but we understand.
Atom‘s been a great drummer for us and we‘re sure Pete will be great too!
The band is currently hard at work on their follow-up to 2003’s Splinter.
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The UK-model Subhumans have announced a brand new album set for release next month. The record is their first studio album in 21 years and first full length since 1985’s 29:29 Split Vision. The record is titled Internal Riot. The record is due out via the band’s own Bluurg Records.
The band will return to the US in late August for a tour that will run until the end of September, from September 13th onwards touring alongside the World Inferno Friendship Society. Subhumans released their entry in Fat Wreck’s Live In A Dive series in 2004. The band’s alter ego Citizen Fish recently released the Deadline split with New York squat-punks Leftover Crack.
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Yakuza has posted another new song online from their forthcoming release Transmutations. You can check out “Praying for Asteroids” on MySpace.
Transmutations will hit stores August 7.
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