Dan L., former guitarist for the Suicide Machines, has resurfaced with another project. The One Thought Moment is based out of Tokyo, Japan, and has posted a track titled “White Ashes” for your sampling. He recommends it for fans of “later Suicide Machines stuff.”
Mr. L’s previous project Bayonetting the Wounding is now “long defunct” according to their MySpace.
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Anti-Flag‘s Justin Sane recently sat down with our friends at ThePunkSite.com to discuss the band’s upcoming full length, The Bright Lights of America. The band discussed the new elements they tried to introduce into their sound:
We had ideas of things we wanted to do before we made the record and working with Tony Visconti we knew we were working with somebody who would know how to execute those ideas. We wanted to bring some new elements to punk rock. We brought in cello players, we brought in brass players, we brought in a lot of orchestral instruments – you know, timpani drums, and tubular bells. We even have a children’s choir on the record made out of our families’ nieces and nephews. It’s a very personal record in general. We wanted to expand in new ways and include new people in what we were doing. We felt like Tony Visconti was somebody who had experience with trying to do those things and would be able to help us supervise. What we tried to do too though was play as many instruments as we possibly could. So rather than bringing in players from the symphony to bang on the timpani, we wanted to play them ourselves. Again, because we’ve never done that before, we thought it would be helpful to have somebody who has.
The group is following up their major label debut, 2006’s For Blood and Empire. In the interview Sane also discusses plans for another solo record to follow up Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Justice.
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Kennebunk, Maine’s Pinkerton Thugs will reunite to play some shows in early 2008. The band, which split in 2000, had members go on to play in bands like the Unseen, Micah Blue Smaldone, the Strings and Ironside. Paul Russo commented on the band’s MySpace page:
Hey guys, just to let everyone know The Pinkerton Thugs will be playing shows again! I live in Boston again and we’ve been in the basement practicing and having a lot of fun playing music as a band again. I cannot express how much this means to me. The Thugs are something I take SO much pride in and believe in 1000%. We want to bring back the unity, message, anger, and love to the street again, where it belongs. But most of all we want everyone to have FUN. Over the years, a lot of people have enthusiastically asked us play shows again, but I can tell you no one is more excited than we are. I know I speak for the rest of the guys when I say that we are doing this because we /want/ to. The Thugs always did what we want and people always seemed to give us the room to do so. So anyway, leave us a comment, we’d love to hear from you, and see you at the shows!
The Locust, Despised Icon and other bands on the Aggressive Tendencies Tour, currently making its way across Canada are featured on the latest episode of Exclaim! TV. Serious music, not so serious questions.
Prosthetic Records has signed Houston’s Scale the Summit.
The band, which formed in 2004, is currently at work on their Prosthetic debut, tentatively scheduled for a late 2008 release.
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Descendents / ALL guitarist Stephen Egerton is collaborating with guitarist Jason Crowley on a new project suitably titled Crowley/Egerton. Egerton is playing drums and bass for the duo with Crowley on guitar. Two songs are now available via the band’s MySpace page.
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Fat Wreck Chords has unveiled the cover art for the second full length from Philadelphia’s The Loved Ones. .
Build & Burn was produced by Pete Steinkopf and Bryan Keinlen from the Bouncing Souls and features guest apperances from the Hold Steady’s Franz Nicolay (piano, Hammond B3 organ, harmonica, accordion, saw) and Tad Kubler (guitar). The label explains that the new record “hints at Americana rock n’ roll with expanded instrumentation, plenty of backing vocals and a thematic concept based on the album title.” The 10 song full length will arrive as either a CD or an LP with CD insert on February 05, 2008.
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Following their trip to Australia with Set Your Goals in January, Burlington, ON’s Silverstein will be headlining the Chillers: Bros In The Snow tour in the United States.
The band released Arrivals & Departures this year.
Dates have been announced by Karate High School, Foxy Shazam and Peachcake for a tour in early 2008.
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According to a report from Buzznet, members of Green Day have unveiled a new side project dubbed Foxboro Hot Tubs. The band is apparently fronted by Billie Joe Armstrong and seems to be influenced by 60s-era rock’n’roll. No word of which of his Green Day bandmates show up in the project but if their previous output is any indication, both Tre and Mike are likely to appear.
You can check out some music on their myspace page. A free six-song EP is expected soon.
This is the second semi-secret project from the members of Green Day who previously released Money Money 2020 under the name, The Network.
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Horror High have signed Son of Sam, the Misfits-inspired side project originally formed by Todd Youth, Davey Havok, London May and Steve Zing.
The band recorded just one album with that lineup, 2001’s Songs From The Earth. Now, 7 years later, some members of the band will be recording together for a new album. According to band leader Todd Youth:
After doing the 3 weeks of this past Halloween tour with Danzig, Steve and I had so much fun playing together again we decided the time was right for Son Of Sam II.
Though Havok is unlikely to be participating this time, the band will presumably be working with a different vocalist for a 2008 album.
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Throw Rag has put together a song for the recently announced Punk Rock Circus DVD. The disc features Civet, The Breakdowns, Sledgeback, The Irish Brothers, Final Summation, Rat City Riot, Hell on Heels Burlesque, Hit By a Semi, Technomania Circus, The Generators, Dreadful Children, Don Bolles The Germs, Franki Doll, Throw Rag, The Hollowpoints, ADHD, The Politicians and The Sore Thumbs.
You can check out a short video featuring the recording process here.
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Alternative Tentacles is throwing a contest in celebration of Akimbo‘s new full length Navigating the Bronze. Here’s the scoop:
“Dude, I totally navigated the bronze last night!”
What does that sentence mean to you? This elusive phrase has not been explicitly defined by Akimbo, the band who created this mysterious album title. Many theories have been informally offered, none to our satisfaction. However, we want to make “Navigating the Bronze” as ubiquitous as “Ghostriding the Whip” or “Oh no you dih-ent!” in the youth lexicon.
We leave it up to you, the creative AT fan, to fill in semiotic gap left wide by our well-coiffed Seattle trio. Stretch those vocab muscles and enter to win a signed vinyl copies of said album Navigating the Bronze. We have two LPs, both signed and embellished by all three members of Akimbo.
That sounds like something you guys can accomplish in your sleep.
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