Seminal queercore band Pansy Division are the subject of a new film which takes a look at their formation, rise, and cultural relevance. Pansy Division: Life In A Gay Rock Band features footage of punk personalities like Jello Biafra and Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day). It will be screening this Friday, July 18th, as part of the 2008 Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Showtime is 7:15 on Friday at the Arts Bank. Immediately after, the band will be putting on a special performance at The Trocadero. Admission to the 21 and up show is only $5 with a ticket stub from the documentary screening.

Cheap Shot! Philly has an interview up with Pansy Division singer, Jon Ginoli, discussing the event, as well as a few other topics. You can check that out here.
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Finch has announced that they will be releasing new EP later this month. The band split up in 2006 and then reunited last year. According to the band, the self-titled EP will be released to digital retailers on July 22nd and released at Hot Topic on July 29th

The band is promising two new songs from the EP will be posted tonight at midnight.
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Broadway Calls has had some less than stellar times on Warped this summer. The band posted a lengthy blog covering their bus issues and their own comments on the tour itself:

We’ve been kicked off our bus by a nutcase driver, So we packed up and squeezed into a rental van. The lack of real sleep and real comfort is totally worth it, compared to being on the bus with those lunatics.

When there are 60 bands a day, and a majority of them are made up of either Christian jocks that play REALLY HEAVY MUSIC for jesus, or pop bands with the only thing separating them from boy bands like Backstreet Boys are their de tuned guitars hanging from their shoulders, it’s hard to be comfortable. I walk around at night sometimes after the shows. Back by the busses. BBQ in full effect. I look around, and quickly realize that the only difference between this and a huge frat party is that all these idiots play music. Bad music. Unfuckinglistenable music.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s not all bad. There are some absolutely amazing people out here, and some incredible bands. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not all bad. There are some absolutely amazing people out here, and some incredible bands. We’ll get by. We’re learning as we go, and admittedly it has been a dream to do this tour since i was 15. It’s beautiful out, and I’d rather be doing this everyday than delivering pizzas. We know we’re lucky.

The band recently released a split with Teenage Bottlerocket.

You can find the rest of the blog entry here.
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Grabass Charlestons have just released a new 7″ on Gainesville label Barracuda Sound. You can order it via No Idea.

This release is in preparation for an upcoming tour with Gainesville’s Young Livers in August.
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Lagwagon and the Playing Favorites (and Bad Astronaut) frontdude Joey Cape is going to playing a couple acoustic shows in September. The first will be on Sunday 7 September at Cez Exo in Quebec, Canada. The second will be the upcoming Suburban Home 13th Anniversary. The third will be in New York City with Jon Snodgrass on the 18th. Details are below.
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Cheap Girls are the newest addition to the Quote Unquote collective of bands. The Lansing, MI, based band will be doing the donation-based digital distribution for Find Me a Drink Home via Quote Unquote. The band released the CD via Bermuda Mohawk Productions and Vinyl via Los Diaper Records earlier this year. Check out our review of the album and then go grab the album here.
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The Measure [SA] have went slightly less analog and posted two new tracks on the internet. The first is “Revisionist” from their upcoming EP on Don Giovanni Records. The EP is called Songs About People…And Fruit n’ Shit and is 8 new songs on a 12″. This will be released “by October.” They’ve also posted the song “Remember the Devillock” from the upcoming split 7″ with Flamingo 50 on Ernest Jenning Records, also due out sometime this fall.

Check them out at their MySpace page.
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