Legendary British punk act Leatherface have announced four live performances in May. The long-running band continues to support 2004’s Dog Disco.

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Some enterprising and/or weird individual has put together a Black Flag hair timeline showing the haircuts of the influential hardcore band through the years. Beginning with Nervous Breakdown in the late 70s through the bands stoner-metal years circa In My Head.

Thanks to WFMU for finding this.
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The Lost Patrol Band have changed their name to Invasionen and begun writing/performing in their native Swedish. The band explained:

There is a really crappy stuck up American artsy fartsy Indie band from NYC called The Lost Patrol and they copyrighted the name and sent us threateing letters saying that we interfered with their livelyhood and so on. […] This is also a big part of why the last LPB record never came out in the states.

We did The Lost Patrol Band for 5 years, did over a 100 shows and did a couple of great tours but… it was time for a change! So, we choose the name Invasionen. Invasionen is Swedish for The Invasion. At first we wanted to call the band Invasion cause that would work in english as well but given the fact that there are like a million bands called Invasion (Vinnie Vincents Invasion just to mention one ) we went with Invasionen.

I never ever wrote songs in Swedish, ever. For the past 20 years I’ve been singing in a language that is not my own! And when we started writing in Swedish it felt cool, a whole new way of communcating and a whole new set of words to play with. We might still do songs in English, might even do the new record in both a Swedish and English version. Right now we are focusing on the Swedish but….

The band notably features Dennis Lyxzen of Refused and The (International) Noise Conspiracy.
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Along with confirming their appearance at the 2008 Insubordination Fest, pop-punk outfit Weston have confirmed plans to record a new live album in June. The band adds:

On Sunday, June 29, 2008, at Gradwell House Recording, WESTON WILL BE RECORDING A NEW LIVE RECORD INCLUDING AT LEAST TWO NEW SONGS! All details will be soon to follow but in the meantime, block off that block of your datebook and come sing along with us. Let’s frame our voices for the ages.

The band split up soon after the releaese of their major label debut, The Massed Albert Sounds, but have reunited several times since then.
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Broadway Calls have posted the new video from their recent Adeline Records reissue of Broadway Calls. It was directed by Jeff Altrock and shot last month in Redding, CA. The band will be will spend the rest of the year on the road, playing the entire Warped Tour and making stops at Give It A Name Fest, Reading and Leeds.

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This past winter, Brooklyn, NY’s Les Savy Fav visited Berlin, Germany to perform and Hobnox.com recorded a video of the entire performance along with an interview with the band.

You can check out all four parts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.
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Los Angeles’ Jubilee, featuring Aaron North (NIN/The Icarus Line), Michael Shuman (Wires On Fire/Queens of the Stone Age), and Evan Weiss (Wires On Fire), have opened up a digital store on their website. The band’s debut release, Rebel Hiss, is available now to download track by track. Most newsworthy, however, is that the group has adopted a subscription model. For a flat sum, you can “subscribe” to the band’s entire output for the year (slated to be two more singles and a full length album), and are entitled to bonus materials and an exclusive seven inch.

In the wake of alternative distribution methods by Radiohead, Saul Williams, and NIN, this business model more closely represents seven-inch singles clubs in the 90s through various indie record labels. For more information, you can visit the band’s website. Nine Inch Nails are slated to play Lollapalooza in Chicago this year, while Queens of the Stone Age will be playing Reading/Leeds.
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This week’s Vinyl File announced a contest to win a share in Vinyl Collective’s new cooperative label initiative. Shares go on sale this afternoon, but we are pleased to announce that as the winner of the contest Adam Whitman will not have to buy one. Congratulations Adam.

If you find yourself amongst the hundreds of people who didn’t win the contest, head on over to Vinyl Collective for more info on how to take part.
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The Classic Crime have posted the latest video from their 2006 album, Albatross.

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I wasn’t quite sure what to run this week for our video. Then, fellow editor Justin sent me this interesting and hilariously uncomfortable (from a fellow interviewer’s stance) video posted over at anti-hipster-yet-hipster-by-being-anti webzine Buddyhead. It features a young Henry Rollins being interviewed during his days with hardcore legends Black Flag. A few months ago, I tried to set-up a video interview with Mr. Rollins, but it didn’t pan out. After seeing the following video, maybe that was a blessing in disguise.

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In a completely shocking move, Green Day have revealed that they are in fact, Foxboro Hot Tubs. They made the announcement in an e-mail to MTV News , ending months of not-really speculation that the Hot Tubs were Green Day.

The band added:

We think that the only similarity [between the Hot Tubs and Green Day] is that we are the same band. That is basically the only similarity, We are Jason White, Jason Freese, Michael Pritchard, Frank Edwin Wright the Third and the Reverend Strychnine Twitch. … We are four guys who love to play music and be spontaneous, [and] after a few late night jams and a few too many bottles of wine, we were inspired to record some rockin’ eight-track recordings.”

Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt’s real name is Michael Pritchard, and drummer Tre Cool was born Frank Edwin Wright III. As for Reverend Strychnine Twitch, that’s probably Billie Joe’s real name.

Later this month, the band will release their debut full length. The record is titled Stop Drop And Roll and is due out May 13, 2008. It may also be the follow up to American Idiot depending on how you look at it.
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