Bad Religion have posted a trailer for their upcoming deluxe reissue of New Maps of Hell. The record is due out July 08, 2008 and features a wealth of bonus material and a full concert DVD.
The teaser includes clips from the video content including the live show.
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In a mad stroke of genius, narcissism, and theatre, the one, the only Tom Waits has interviewed himself for The Independet. Comedy abounds, but interesting questions and answers too:
Q: What’s heaven for you?
A: Me and my wife on Route 66 with a pot of coffee, a cheap guitar, pawnshop tape recorder in a Motel 6, and a car that runs good parked right by the door.
Waits also names his favorite artists, songs, philosophies, scenes from movies, and so on and so forth. You can read the whole interview here.
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The Finale, the indie-tinged side project from Every Time I Die frontman Keith Buckley, has posted a cover of The Shins‘s track “Gone for Good.” The song comes from their 2003 album, Chutes Too Narrow.
You can check out the song here.
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Transistor Transistor have been forced to cancel their ongoing tour after one of their members contracted appendicitis:
He’d been having some stomach pains lately, so after a brief debate we decided to stop in an emergency room in bum fuck Connecticut. Long story short, Nat got checked out, juiced up on pain medication, and eventually went under the knife. His appendix was succesfully removed and he is currently recovering.
So the good news is that Nat is ok. The bad news is that surgery doesn’t allow a man to rock out on stage and sleep on dirty floors as is neccessary for a tour, so we have to cancel all the shows for this current tour. This is a major bummer, we were really looking forward to playing Dude Fest and all the other shows, but these are the cards we were dealt.
The band released Ruined Lives this year.
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Lousiville, KY’s Young Widows announced that their new album, Old Wounds will be released September 9th through Temporary Residence, Ltd.. As previously reported, the album was recorded over four live shows and nine days at God City studios with Kurt Ballou (Converge).
The band also went on to say that they wanted to be a band with “no limits,” citing Wire, Melvins, and Gang of Four of examples.
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Today we’ve got a full album stream from Philadelphia’s Jekylnhyde. The band claims influence from bands like Fantomas, Dillinger Escape Plan, Melvins, Meshuggah and the Beach Boys.
You can check out the album on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Graham Graffin, son of Bad Religion frontman and UCLA professor Greg Graffin, has unveiled his own band, The Rolemodels. The band is headquartered in Ithaca, NY (home of Cornell University) and also consists of Ari Kaputkin (bass and vocals), Alexi Bouvet Boisclair (drums), Jacob Brock (guitar) and Corey Mahaney (rythym guitar and vocals).
The band has posted several songs on their myspace page.
They will be making their live debut at the Nines in Ithaca on June 27th.
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Graham Graffin, son of Bad Religion frontman and UCLA professor Greg Graffin, has unveiled his own band, The Rolemodels. The band is headquartered in Ithaca, NY (home of Cornell University) and also consists of Ari Kaputkin (bass and vocals), Alexi Bouvet Boisclair (drums), Jacob Brock (guitar) and Corey Mahaney (rythym guitar and vocals).
The band has posted several songs on their myspace page.
They will be making their live debut at the Nines in Ithaca on June 27th.
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Montreal-via-Berlin’s King Khan and the Shrines are streaming their newly released North American compilation The Supreme Genius of King Khan and the Shrines. The set features tracks from the 12-piece rock band’s history with liner notes by Jared Swilley the Black Lips. The band released What Is? last year.
Khan is of course one half of the acclaimed King Khan and BBQ Show with his former Spaceshits bandmate Mark Sultan.
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Boing Boing has shone the spotlight on a recent Boston Herald expose on punks in the Freemasons. That city’s Masonic lodges have seen increasing enrollment from the independent music community. In the article members of local punk, hardcore and metal acts are interviewed, with statements from the ranks of Sam Black Church, The Men, Victory At Sea, Dashboard Jesus and a former Slapshot roadie. The musicians discuss why they’ve found solace in the fraternal organization, the traditional values and structure of which would seem to be an ill fit for punk rockers.
You can check out the full article at the Boston Herald.
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KISS bassist Gene Simmons has accused Radiohead and other bands who give away music for free of “contributing to the demise of the record industry” and insists his band would never follow suit. Gene went on to say:
The record industry is dead. It’s six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this. They’ve decided to download and file share. There is no record industry around so we’re going to wait until everybody settles down and becomes civilised. As soon as the record industry pops its head up we’ll record new material.”
Radiohead was the most high profile of a number of bands who have begun experimenting with alternative methods of getting heard. Nine Inch Nails took a similar tact by giving away their albums and offering higher quality and special physical versions of their albums, Pennywise offered their album for free to MySpace friends of a sponsor and Green Day gave away half their side projects’ material for free, while providing DRM-free MP3s for the normal CD price.
Kiss released their last album, Psycho Circus in 1998.
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Against Me! will be appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on tonight’s episode. The band is promoting their new album, New Wave, and the upcoming deluxe reissue due out June 10, 2008.
In related news, frontman Tom Gabel has confirmed plans for a short solo set of new material at Emo’s Outside in Austin, Texas on the 4th of July. Also performing will be Andrew W.K. and O Pioneers!!!.
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Alkaline Trio has posted a pre-order for the deluxe version of their forthcoming major label debut, Agony & Irony. Due out the same day, July 01, 2008, the deluxe edition includes six bonus tracks. Among the bonus tracks are five acoustic tracks including “Maybe I’ll Catch Fire” as well as a b-side.
You can check out the track listing here.
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