Vice Records has signed 17-piece psychedelic rock band Dark Meat.
The label will release an expanded edition of Dark Meat’s Universal Indians, featuring three previously unheard bonus tracks, on April 8.
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The Starting Line will be “taking a break,” according to a recent blog:
This is one of the most difficult decisions we’ve had to make but after eight years of nonstop touring and recording The Starting Line will be taking a break after their headline tour with Bayside, Four Year Strong and Steel Train (March 18 – April 20) and the college shows following the tour. This break does NOT mean the band is breaking up or going on hiatus it just means were going to stop for a little while and focus on other things in our lives besides The Starting Line. This break may last a year, two years or a few months, as of right now we don’t know. We’re talking to some friends about doing a quick tour to South America as well as options to tour Europe, Japan and Australia again and we’re not ruling them out. We just aren’t going to be doing any full time touring or recording as The Starting Line for a while.
The band released Direction last year through Virgin Records.
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Shellac have announced a rare tour set to kick off in March and take the band through South America and Europe.
The band released Excellent Italian Greyhound last year, their first album since 2000’s 1000 Hurts.
The Black Keys have posted streams of the second new song from their upcoming Dangermouse-produced album. The record is titled Attack & Release and is due out April 01, 2008.
You can check out “Psychotic Girl” in Quicktime or Windows Media formats.
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Ipswitch cult legends The Adicts have a number of shows scheduled this month in Australia and New Zealand.
Jumping ahead a half year, the band has several festival dates scheduled in the UK. This includes the Durham Punk Fest in September.
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Hermosa Beach’s Pennywise have confirmed their US Warped Tour performance dates. This will be preceded by shows in Japan and Australia (with Sum 41, The Vandals and Bowling for Soup).
The band will be supporting their upcoming release, Reason to Believe. It is the follow-up to 2005’s The Fuse and due out March 25, 2008.
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The Sword has posted a new ecard featuring selections from their upcoming sophomore Kemado release. The record is titled Gods of the Earth and is due out April 01, 2008. It is the follow-up to Age of Winters which was released in 2006.
You can check out the e-card here.
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Detroit garage punk legends The Dirtbombs have dates scheduled through late May. The band will be play shows with Kelley Stoltz through April followed by a tour with Dan Sartain and the Terrible Twos.
This February the band released their fourth full length We Have You Surrounded on In The Red Records. The new set features nine new originals, a Sparks cover, a Dead Moon cover and a lengthy free noise jam with artwork by Gary Panter.
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This Saturday a number of punk personalities will take part in a roundtable discussion in Eugene, Oregon. The event, hosted by David Ensminger, will feature Roxy from the Epoxies, Tim Hinely from Dagger fanzine, Bruce Hartnell from the Detonators, Colin Sears of Dag Nasty and Karen McFarlane from the Funhouse Strippers. The musicians will be joined by University of Oregon folklore faculty members John Fenn and Daniel Wojcik.
During the session a short film titled Chronicles from the Zero Hour: The Punk Legacy will be screened. The film was co-produced by Ensminger and features interviews with members of MDC, Chumbawamba, Strike Anywhere, Lifetime/Paint it Black, the Epoxies and Dag Nasty/Alloy. The project features live footage of TSOL and the Circle Jerks as well.
The panel will take place at the Diva Centre from 7 to 10 PM and attendance is free.
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Due to apparently serious medical issues, Forrest Olsen, singer and guitarist for the Minneapolis based Somerset, has announced that he will bow out from the band’s previously announced final show. In his absence, the show has been canceled entirely. Forrest had this to say:
Over the past few months, serious health issues have resulted in my hospitalization on three occasions. Unfortunately these health issues are so serious that I must bow out of the March 15th show at the Varsity Theater. Furthermore, professionally I would not want Somerset’s audience to experience anything but a top-notch performance, which at this time, i can not achieve. This has been a near-impossible decision I’ve had to make. I spent many of the best times of my life with Somerset, and am sorry that it has come to an end. I hope there is a time in the future when I’ll be able to honor this ending with a show; but for my sake, and for the sake of the people I love who help care for me, I cannot now.
The rest of the band responded with a clarification:
We want to thank everyone so much for the enthusiasm we received in the build-up to the show. It kills us to have to disappoint everyone like this, especially those who went to great lengths and spent a lot of money on flights to be able to be there. At the risk of sounding spiteful, we do think it’s fair to clarify that canceling the show was not a unanimous agreement. It was Forrest’s decision alone (for reasons that he outlined in the bulletin preceding this one). He didn’t present us with any explanation beyond that which he ultimately posted on his myspace page, and later on ours. We gave our best effort to change his mind, but we were unsuccessful. Since it wouldn’t really be our final show without Forrest, we were forced to concede. In the past, there have been times where we have gone months without even practicing. These long periods had always ended with a rehearsal or show that reignited our passion for this group. Forrest, more than anyone (in our opinion), seemed the most positively impacted. We’d hoped that this show could provide a similar type of catharsis and be a great final chapter to the Somerset story. Sadly, it wont be happening anytime soon.
The full text of both statements can be found by clicking Read More.
The show was previously announced to include The City On Film (Bob Nanna of Braid and Hey Mercedes) and Justin Pierre, frontman for Motion City Soundtrack. Somerset released Pandora in 2005 via Punknews Records.
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Misery Signals have posted another studio video documenting the work on their their next album. They released Mirrors in 2006. The band is currently in Vancouver, BC working wiht producer Devin Townsend (Darkest Hour)
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Long-running punk label TKO will team up with Hellcat and Devil Dolls and Crawlspace Booking for an upcoming SXSW showcase. The bill will include Complete Control, The Heart Attacks, Nekromantix, Krum Bums, Roger Miret & the Disasters, Channel 3, Horrorpops, Steve E Nix & the Cute Lepers and Lower Class Brats. The opener and closer for the event will be announced shortly.
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Long-running punk label TKO has announced the lineup for their upcoming SXSW showcase. The bill will include Complete Control, The Heart Attacks, Nekromantix, Krum Bums, Roger Miret & the Disasters, Channel 3, Horrorpops, Steve E Nix & the Cute Lepers and Lower Class Brats. The opener and closer for the event will be announced shortly.
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