The Offspring have announced additional tour dates in preparation of the release of their upcoming album. The band will join the May 30 lineup of Madrid‘s Electric Festival alongside Rage Against The Machine, Queens Of The Stone Age, Iggy & The Stooges and more.

They will also headline the Rockwave Festival at Terra Vibe Park in Athens, Greece on July 8, which will be the band‘s first ever visit to Greece. Finally they will headline Santa Barbara, CA radio station KJEE‘s Summer Round Up on Sunday, May 18 at the Santa Barbara Bowl.

The mysterious new album is the follow up to 2003’s Splinter. The band hasn’t revealed too much about the record, only saying: “ think all our albums are relevant to punk when they were created, and this one will be no different..”
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Agent Orange has been added to the already full lineup for this year’s Insubordination Fest. Joining the band in this newest update is Sick Sick Birds, Team Stray, Be My Doppleganger, plus two more mystery bands. This newest lineup will play the June 26th pre-show kickoff party.

The full lineup can be seen here, which includes Ann Beretta, Dear Landlord, Lemuria, Off With Their Heads, Teenage Rehab, the Copyrights, the Steinways, Weston, the Ergs, the Parasites, the Queers and more.
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Public Serpents have posted new tourdates. The band will cruising the mostly northeast coast, with a short trip into Ohio. This will all take place during the month of June.

The band is the newest project from Skwert (IN-DK, Choking Victim) on vocals, Early Gates on drums (the Ray Gradys), Adam Sixgun playing guitar (Sixgun Radio), Jon Fawkes on the other guitar (The Filaments and Suicide Bid), “Heavy Metal Chris” on bass (American Distress) and “Xray” playing third guitar (Piss Shit Fuck and American Distress).

The band has been trickling out updates and songs for quite some time now.
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Boston’s Tomorrow the Gallows has posted a new demo track. The new song is “No Place” and joins “Stolen Songs” and “Dirty Bars,” two other new tracks that have been posted recently.

You can check out the demos at their MySpace page. You can stream their last album at their Punknews.org band profile.
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Jeff Brosenstock has uploaded a whole host of Bomb the Music Industry! demos. The tracks come from their upcoming album, to be recorded sometime after their Asian Man Records tour. You can read Jeff’s explanation here, at his MySpace blog and get some background on all the tracks.

One track is titled “9/11 Fever!” and apparently bears some explanation:

So this song does warrant some explaining… I need to stress that it isn’t really a political song, per se. It’s about how on the 5th anniversary of September 11th there was a lot of weird shit going on… movies, made-for-tv movies, sales, books, articles… it almost felt like the media was just waaaaaiting for the day when they could start capitalizing HARD on this and the opportunity presented itself on that 5th anniversary where it really felt to ME at least, that it wasn’t really soon enough to have obnoxious shitty ass movies with celebutards running around trying to drum up some oscar nods. Especially not all at once.

I was also in Richmond, VA on this 5-year-anniversary and watching the local news was FUCKING GODDAMN INSANE. The amount of time they showed the footage, the amount of people they showed at stores buying flags, talking about how they are coping with this anniversary but seemingly doing nothing to actually enjoy their lives and the freedoms we are allowed (except for the free speech right to gay-bash or racially profile (which seems to be a lot of rights canceling each other out)) just continuing to keep the same ol’ boring as grind going. Whatever. I buy gas too, I eat at fast food joints, we’re all part of it sorry ya’ll…

And sure fuck it that’s fine, that’s cool. And that’s not really the point, to bash that. It just really fucking freaked me out to see this bizarre thing happening.

You can them all out for a limited time at their MySpace page.

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Jeff Brosenstock has uploaded another Bomb the Music Industry! demo. The track is titled “9/11 Fever!” and apparently bears some explanation:

So this song does warrant some explaining… I need to stress that it isn’t really a political song, per se. It’s about how on the 5th anniversary of September 11th there was a lot of weird shit going on… movies, made-for-tv movies, sales, books, articles… it almost felt like the media was just waaaaaiting for the day when they could start capitalizing HARD on this and the opportunity presented itself on that 5th anniversary where it really felt to ME at least, that it wasn’t really soon enough to have obnoxious shitty ass movies with celebutards running around trying to drum up some oscar nods. Especially not all at once.

I was also in Richmond, VA on this 5-year-anniversary and watching the local news was FUCKING GODDAMN INSANE. The amount of time they showed the footage, the amount of people they showed at stores buying flags, talking about how they are coping with this anniversary but seemingly doing nothing to actually enjoy their lives and the freedoms we are allowed (except for the free speech right to gay-bash or racially profile (which seems to be a lot of rights canceling each other out)) just continuing to keep the same ol’ boring as grind going. Whatever. I buy gas too, I eat at fast food joints, we’re all part of it sorry ya’ll…

And sure fuck it that’s fine, that’s cool. And that’s not really the point, to bash that. It just really fucking freaked me out to see this bizarre thing happening.

You can check it out for a limited time at their MySpace page.
Source Continue reading Bomb The Music Industry!: “9/11 Fever” (demo) →

Often times you’re on the go or just away from your computer yet you still want to stay on top of all that’s going on around Punknews.org. It can be rather tricky but after some dorking around, we’ve created an easy way for those of you who are so inclined to receive SMS updates when we post stories.

It’s done through Twitter and for those who are already down, you can follow us here: Punknews on Twitter.
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The recently departed Groovie Ghoulies are getting their tribute in the form of Let’s Go Ghoulie!, an album on Knowhere Records. More than twenty bands will turn in renditions of the Ghoulies tracks including The Parasites, The Guts, the Prozacs, Backseat Virgins, The Griswalds, The Bricktops, the 20 Belows, The Hollywood Blondes and more.

It will be available at this year’s Insubordination Fest in Baltimore, MD.
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Tim Kasher, brainchild behind Cursive and the Good Life, is working on his first film titled “Help Wanted, Nights.” According to the LA Times financing has been secured and casting is about to begin.

Apparently Kasher has moved from his hometown of Omaha to LA in pursuit of his film career:

[…] it’s not a friendly city to a drinker, though me and my friend ride our bikes down to the Gold Line. It’s such a sprawling city. In Omaha, a big hike to meet friends was like three miles. Here you drive 11 miles and you’re only in Los Feliz.

Check out the rest of the interview here.
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Quote Unquote luminaries We Versus the Shark have posted another free track from their album of cover songs Murmurmur. This one is a “See No Evil,” originally by Television. They’ve posted covers of Scratch Acid, Tom Waits and Pattern is Movement so far. You can grab it at Quote Unquote’s website.

For those not clued in, Murmurmur is being released for free one track at a time on the first of every month of 2008.
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Dates for the rescheduled tour featuring Mesuggah, Dillinger Escape Plan and Between The Buried And Me have been announced. The shows were cancelled last year due to delays in the record of Meshuggah’s most recent album, obZen.

Dillinger continues to support Ire Works while BTBAM is touring on Colors. Both albums were released last year.

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Brian: Don’t be fooled by Guiltmaker’s home on Kiss of Death Records; if you’re expecting filthy basement punk rock, you’ll be sorely disappointed. That label released the band’s 2006 EP, Driven by Arms, which was promising enough. However, Dilemmas seems like a huge growth for the band judging by the songs they’ve been posting on their MySpace page. Guiltmaker inject a bit of atmosphere and deep emotional textures into their new songs: picture a more energetic Elliott, or Circa Survive about two octaves lower. Be sure to give “Lost Ship,” “Life Given Switch” and “Battle Mountain” a try if this sounds like quality.

Adam: I just can’t get enough of the new Born Ruffians full length. The Toronto three piece plays jangly indie rock with enough sing-along freak-folk thrown in to sound great lined up to your Akron/Family records. Red Yellow and Blue came out just recently on England’s Warp Records and it’s definately worth a look. Just make sure you toss out Warp’s reputation as an electronic music label, as this is nowhere close. You should go hit up “Hummingbird” and “Kurt Vonnegut” at MySpace. Or click below to check out the video for “Hummingbird.”
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The Banner, See You Next Tuesday, Elysia, Knights of the Abyss and a Girl a Gun & a Ghost will be headed out on the Young Guns tour beginning at the end of next month.

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