Gainesville, FL’s Hot Water Music have announced that they will be performing at the Shirts for a Cure/Photo Finish Records showcase at this year’s South By Southwest festival in Austin, TX. The show will be all ages, free, and at Red 7. Doors will open at noon.
The band previously has played a few reunion shows to much critical acclaim.
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You’re the lucky reader of the 28th edition of the Punknews.org Vinyl File. This column aims to keep you informed with upcoming releases as well as spotlighting interesting releases, your favorite bands’ own collections and labels with a history of vinyl releases worth talking about. As always, Vinyl File is brought to you by Ben Conoley.
This week’s Vinyl File is the second of a two-part interview with two members of Paint it Black, who have a new album, The New Lexicon ,dropping in early February. This week we talk to bassist Andy Nelson. Last week we spoke with the band’s vocalist, Dan Yemin. Both interviews are totally sweet.
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The Raleigh, NC based Birds of Avalon have announced a new EP due out on on March 18th titled Outer Upper Inner. The band has also revealed a slew of upcoming tour dates for the month of March, seemingly in support of the new EP. The EP was recorded by Mitch Easter (REM, Pavement, Wilco), who used an elaborate four track analog set up. A sample MP3 is available here.
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Louisville, KY’s Young Widows are hitting the road for most of February. As was previously announced, the band will be recording four shows to be used when tracking their new album for Temporary Residence. Those recorded dates have not been specified, but speculation would say that they would be a part of this tour.
San Francisco, CA’s Flipper will be playing a free all ages show at Amoeba Music in San Francisco, CA in celebration of the release of their upcoming DVD, Flipper – Live Target Video 1980-81. The shindig will go down on Monday, February 18th at 6pm and will feature a meet ‘n greet and possible DVD signing after the show.
The band has also been working on a new album with former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic. It’s the first new material for the band in fifteen years.
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Former Face to Face frontman Trever Keith has posted a full stream of his new album, Melacholics Anonymous. The album is also available to purchase as a download for five dollars. Keith has eschewed the typical label set up and is instead offering the album online through his website or as a limited edition CD sold at live shows. The formats offered are FLAC, MP3@160kbps, or AAC@128kbps. Both the streaming player and download link can be found here.
Trever Keith previously announced the first few dates of the tour he’s planning for his new material.
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A rally for Barack Obama has been planned to take place in Omaha, NE featuring Bright Eyes, M. Ward, Jim Ward (Sparta, At the Drive In), and Secret Life of Sparrows. The 18+ show is scheduled for Thursday, February 7th at 8pm at The Slowdown.
Tickets are free and available at the box office, but you must register to vote or sign a pledge card in order to get a ticket. There is a limit of two tickets per person. Those that had tickets to the Jim Ward show before this announcement will have their tickets refunded and will be guaranteed admission.
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End Sounds have unveiled their plans for their pre-SXSW party. The show will take place at Emo’s Lounge on March 10th and will feature a cavalcade of bands. Included will be a cover band named Nervous Breakdown featuring Frank Carter from Gallows, Mike Herrera from MXPX, and “a few suprise guests (some of them you might have listened to on releases from the 80s),” Tumbledown which is Mr. Herrera’s country project, True Widow which features Dan Phillips from Slowride and the Mag Seven an instrumental band featuring Doni Blair.
They are expecting more bands to be added and remind fans that this is not an SXSW-policed event so no badge is required.
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In a week of never ending The Loved Ones news, the band is now streaming the full album of the newly released Build & Burn. You can find that stream here.
Also, don’t forget the contest that Punknews is currently running, and check out some tour dates here.
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Leading Platform for PC Games Building Phenomenal Annual Growth
February 7, 2008 – Valve® today announced that Steam®, a leading platform for PC games and digital entertainment, has surpassed 15 million accounts and realized year-over-year sales growth of 158% through the holiday season. The year also marked the debut of the Steam Community and launch of several best-selling and critically-acclaimed titles such as Call of Duty 4, Bioshock, and The Orange Box. Throughout 2008 more Community features will be introduced to support existing games as well as new titles such as Valve’s Left 4 Dead.
Also new for Steam in 2008 is Steamworks, giving game developers access to game features and services available on Steam ranging from product key authentication and copy protection to auto-updating, social networking and matchmaking. Most importantly, the game features and services available in Steamworks are free of charge and can be used for both electronic and tangible versions of games.
“PC gaming is thriving, and has evolved into an era of constant connectivity,” said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. “That connectivity gives us the ability to have a much better relationship with customers, not just for delivering our games, but across all aspects of our business – including the design, development, and support of our games. Features like Guest Passes, Free Weekends, Gifting, and the Steam Community have been very well received both by customers and the developers who are using Steam. We are accelerating our release of new functionality in the next year as well as finding new ways to work with our partners such as the release of Steamworks, which allows them to bring the many benefits of Steam to their packaged products.”
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Seattle, WA’s Akimbo have posted new videos of live performances on their MySpace page. The videos feature a Nirvana cover filmed in France and “Dangerousness” filmed in Wisconsin.
The videos come with the news that the band will be lying low for the first part of the year, playing local shows and taking some time to relax.
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The Low Budgets, featuring Joe Jack Talcum of Dead Milkmen, are headed to Europe in support of Leave Us Alone. You can see the tourdates below.
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Updates to Speedball 2 – Tournament have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Speedball 2 – Tournament
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