Civet have posted a new song from their upcoming Hellcat full length. The record is titled Hell Hath No Fury and is due out August 05, 2008. It is the follow-up to Massacre which was released in 2005.
You can find “Son of a Bitch” on their myspace page.
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Paint It Black have posted a new blog update discussing some of their recent upcoming dates which include the rather different Leatherface and Ceremony, Life Long Tragedy, & Sabretooth Zombie:
The first three shows (San Diego, L.A., & Anaheim) are with Leatherface & Dead To Me. For the uninitiated, Leatherface are an important part of punk history, an older band from the UK who were a huge influence on Jawbreaker, Hot Water Music, and in some ways, Lifetime. This is their first time in the U.S. in ten years, i think. I remember when Kid Dynamite played with them & HWM on that last tour.
Then on Wednesday, we meet up with Ceremony, Life Long Tragedy, & Sabretooth Zombie for shows in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle/Tacoma. Ceremony is one of the most exciting bands currently playing hardcore punk.
The major point of all this idle talk is to make the point that we’re playing shows with two vastly different sets of bands this week, ranging from pop-punk to brutal thrash-dirge assault, yet somehow it all makes perfect sense for Paint It Black. I get so sick of how conservative people can be about music sometimes. I cant tell you how many times people have questioned our judgment when it comes to the variety of bands we choose to play with. Too hardcore, not hardcore enough, blah, blah, blah, fucking ridiculous. We play with bands we like, & with people we respect, end of story.
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The Calgary Folk Music Festival will take place this year from July 24th to the 27th in the city’s Prince Island Park. As with any massive festival the bands involved don’t all quite fall within genre boundaries, so the punk-minded can look forward to sets from the Weakerthans, Bedouin Soundclash, Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band, and Greg MacPherson. You can find the full line up over at Chart.
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Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin has posted a new entry in his blog. In it, he briefly discusses his Rushdie Award, which he recently received from Harvard University.
“I just want to say thank you to all the people who were able to attend the award ceremony last week at Harvard when I received the “Rushdie Award” for Cultural Humanism. It was a great event and I spent at least 2 hours answering people’s questions and signing autographs after the ceremony ended. I really appreciate all the thoughtful questions and genuine interest in Bad Religion, Evolution, and Humanistic topics shown by the students and general public alike. I wish I could take more time with fans everywhere I go on tour, but alas, the rigors of a tour are often too exhausting and especially after a concert I am too beat to hang out much. In any case, even though an award like the one given to me by Harvard and the American Humanist Society come only once in a lifetime, I hope to be able to do more lecturing appearances in the future and look forward to seeing more of you there. Thanks a lot.
Sincerely,
Greg Graffin
In other Graffin news, you can hear a podcast interview with him here. Today, Graffin’s primary band, Bad Religion, continues to support their latest release, last year’s New Maps of Hell. Recent reports suggested the band may have limited touring plans, as Graffin will be busy teaching through semester at UCLA.
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Fans of My Chemical Romance have unveiled plans to march across London in protest against the depiction of the band in the media. The march, to be held on May 31, will begin at Hyde Park’s West Pond and end outside the offices of The Daily Mail
The protest stems from the newspaper’s callous attempt to shift blame to the band in the tragic suicide of 13-year old Hannah Bond. The newspaper referred to the popular emo/punk act as a “suicide cult” band, placing them in stead with previous offenders, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Nirvana and others who were blamed for suicides instead of mental health issues that are almost always at the center of suicides.
As Punknews.org mentioned earlier, people facing depression or suicidal thoughts should consider calling 1-800-SUICIDE where they can speak to a counselor.
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Fallen From The Sky have a full album stream of their new full length. The record is titled Tonight We Radiate and is due out May 27, 2008.
You can check it out here.
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Built to Spill have finished recording basic tracks for its next Warner Bros. studio album, due in spring 2009 reports Billboard. The new record follows You In Reverse which was preceded by a five year gap since 2001’s Ancient Melodies of the Future.
The band has also announced plans for fall tours of North America and Europe, during which it will perform its 1997 album Perfect From Now On in its entirety. As for the new album, the songs will be a mix between newly penned material and retooled tracks considered but ultimately dropped from Reverse and the the band has moved to to Pro Tools rather than analog tape leading to more collaboration between the members.
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Mêlée have launched the latest video from their major label debut. The band released Devils and Angels last year.
On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is an episodic RPG-adventure game series set in a deranged comic-book meets-pulp-horror 1920s u…
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KROQ recently spoke with Rise Against members Tim McIlrath and Joe Principe. The interview took place this past Saturday (May 17th) while the band was about to do their show at this year’s Weenie Roast, which included Bad Religion, Metallica, The Offspring and Pennywise. The Rise Against members talk about their career, a vide about wrestling on YouTube, their upcoming tour, and the new album they have been working on earlier this year.
When asked what the current status of the new Rise Against record was, one of the members said that the band was in the middle of recording it because of their touring schedule. They also mentioned that they had tapped Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore as the producers for the album. The band is aiming for a late 2008/early 2009 release for the follow up to The Sufferer & the Witness.
You can check out the interview here.
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PETA2 has posted it’s 2008 list of the “sexiest vegetarians/vegans” for your voting. The list includes Aaron Dalbec of Bane, Adam McGratch of Cave In, Adam Carson of AFI, Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy, Ari Katz of Lifetime, Cedric Bixler-Zavala of The Mars Volta, Chris Hannah of Propagandhi, Chris #2 of Anti-Flag and many others.
You can vote or check out the full list here.
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Germany’s Kamikaza Records have announced plans for a tribute to Groovie Ghoulies. The label promises plenty of Ramones-style pop punk but also horrorpunk acts, rockabilly, surf and garage bands.
Confirmed acts include Electric Frankenstein, McRackins, Nikki Corvette, The Independents, The Peacocks, The Hawaiians, Zombina and the Skeletones, The Popsters and more covering 30 Ghoulie tracks in all. The record will be titled When The Kids Go Go Go Crazy
Speaking of the Ghoulies, we’re still streaming two new albums from former Ghoulies frontman Kepi. You can find them on his Punknews.org Profile.
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According to reports from Bombshellzine.com, Australia’s finest, The Living End, will be releasing their new album, White Noise on July 19, 2008 in Australia through Dew Process Records.
Frontman Chris Cheney added:
A lot of the songs have a depth and weight to them that people havent neccesarily heard from us before. The songs sound really huge. I wouldn’t say heavy metal as such, although there are definatly a bunch of metal licks and influences in there. There’s more of a hard rock element, but I think you really need to hear it to understand it properly
The album was recorded in Hoboken, New Jersey with producer John Agnello (‘Sonic Youth’, ‘The Hold Steady’, ‘Dinosaur Jr.’) and will be mixed by Brenden O’Brien (‘AC/DC’, ‘From First To Last’). The record follows State of Emergency released in 2006 via EMI in Australia and via Adeline in North America.
Our friend Terry of Ryan’s Hope interviewed Chris around the release of their last album. You can check out the interview here.
On a related, but completely surreal note, here is some video of “Prisoner of Society” being performed by Jesse Blaze Snider, the son of Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider.
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