Ben Weasel has announced two more shows this November. Both shows will take place on November 14th and 15th at Reggie’s Rock Club in Chicago, IL and will feature The Girls and The Challenged.
Ben released These Ones Are Bitter last year through his own Mendota label. You can get tickets here.
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Legendary Irish folk musician Ronnie Drew has passed away. The 73-year-old founder of The Dubliners had been battling ill health for some time. His family confirmed he passed away at St Vincent’s Private Hospital in Dublin at 2pm on Saturday.
In 1962, he founded the Ronnie Drew Group with Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna and Ciaran Bourke. This group was later to be known as The Dubliners, and would become one of the best known Irish folk groups. After the end of the band in 1995, he pursued a solo career and also became a frequent collaborator. Among the artists he recorded with, were Christy Moore, The Pogues, Antonio Breschi, Dropkick Murphys, Eleanor Shanley and others.
His collaboration with the Dropkick Murphys and Spider Stacy can be seen here.
Our deepest condolences to his friends and family.
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Dallas, TX’s Soviet, the new band featuring Jason Roe (ex-Between The Buried And Me) and former members of Man is Mostly Water, have posted a demo track on their MySpace page. The track is titled “Aneurist.”
The band so far hasn’t listed any information about upcoming recording or touring plans, but have listed one show on their page.
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Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I’m Adam White and I’ll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here’s what got the strange, slow, old people in the community talking…
Given the line-up each year it’s not too hard to see why The Fest has become one of the most important US punk festivals of the year. The official line up hasn’t been unveiled by the organizers yet, but flyers are appearing online revealing that bands like Leatherface, None More Black, Less Than Jake, Atom and his Package, Bouncing Souls and Dillinger Four will be among the 250 slated to converge on Gainesville this Halloween. Not to be overshadowed (well, maybe), Liskfest in Irvine, CA will feature bands like Pennywise, Gorilla Biscuits, Strung Out and the Vandals this October. We saw an interesting article this week discussing life without labels for indie bands empowered by the new digital landscape. It’s fitting that this came out the same week that Pulley revealed that they were going it alone and parting ways with Epitaph for their next record. I’m sure 30 Seconds To Mars would love to be in that situation, given that their label Virgin is suing them for $30 million.
We had a number of bands speaking out on political issues this week. Anti-Flag‘s Justin Sane and Chris #2 spoke out on the US elections and music industry. The band also launched a clothing drive with Atticus for their UK shows. Rage Against The Machine announced their free Tent State Music Festival to End the War to coincide with the DNC Convention. Saul Williams spoke his mind on everything from presidential politics to animal cruelty and more in a letter as well. Maybe everyone would just get along better if we vote in Agnostic Front‘s Vinnie Stigma for President.
This week saw new tour dates from Bad Religion (Europe, Canada, US), Death Cab for Cutie (US), and the Sword (supporting Metallica). The CMJ music marathon will see appearances from bands like Broken Social Scene, Jay Reatard, Minus the Bear and Parts & Labor. The Mad Caddies talked about their plans for upcoming releases while Of Montreal detaled their new album’s unusual packaging. On the audio front we saw country legend Glen Campbell covering Green Day and a full album stream of The Gaslight Anthem‘s The ’59 Sound. Paint It Black also confounded fans with a link to a high production value video, of sorts for the track “We Will Not.”
This week ended on a sad note with the death of the Skatalites‘ Johnny Moore (1938-2008). We also had troubling news that Jerry Finn has been taken off life support. The producer is currently in hospital following a severe brain hemorrhage last month.
This week we spoke with John Joseph McGowan of Cro-Mags (interview) and Jonathan Cummins of Bionic (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including, a full album stream from Boston’s Deadly Sins, and Resignation Day from Minneapolis’ Banner Pilot.
So what’s coming up this week? Look for releases from Gaslight Anthem, Lagwagon, The Academy Is…, and Bridge and Tunnel with tours kicking off from As Friends Rust (Gainesville, Europe), Reggie and the Full Effect (Final Tour), and Authority Zero / Architects (US).
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Trumpet player ‘Dizzy’ Johnny Moore, a founding member of pioneering Jamaican ska and reggae act The Skatalites, has passed away. Moore died at his home in Kingston on Saturday after being released from a hospital where he was being treated for colon cancer.
Moore helped form the band in 1964 with saxophonists Tommy McCook and Roland Alphonso and trombonist Don Drummond. The band helped establish the ska sound over 14 months in the 60s before they split up, only to regroup in New York City twenty years later. Moore was one of the most recorded soloists of the early reggae era, appearing on records such as Something Special, Ringo, Man in the Street, Schooling the Duke, the Wailers’ Love and Affection, Lonesome Feeling, and Nice Time. Further details can be found at the Jamaica Observer.
Johnny is survived by his mother, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Our deepest condolences go out to his friends and family.
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According to this report, 30 Seconds To Mars‘s label, Virgin, has filed a lawsuit against the band for their failure to deliver a new album.
The emo/rock band, fronted by actor Jared Leto, sold a million copies of their last album, A Beautiful Lie and hit the mainstage at Warped in 2006. The lawsuit maintains that the band “repudiated” a 1999 contract which required the band to deliver three full lengths.
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We missed this announcement by a few weeks but I’m sure Paul won’t mind.
Former Replacements frontman Paul Westerberg has released a new digital track titled “5:05.” It represents the missing 5 minutes and 5 seconds from his July release “49:00.” That download, a single track that cost 49 cents and ran 43:55, is no longer available for purchase. The new song is available for download from Tunecore for either 99 cents or $5.05, whichever the buyer decides to pay.
Paul’s last conventional release was 2004’s Folker on Vagrant Records. It was followed in 2006 with the soundtrack to the computer animated film Open Season.
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The Cure have launched their new video for the single “The Perfect Boy.” You can check it out over at celebrity gossip hub PerezHilton.com.
The single was released this past August 13th, the last of four that band has been releasing on the 13th of every month leading up to the release of their new record. It was preceded by “The Only One” in May, “Freakshow” in June and “Sleep When I’m Dead” in July. With the album pushed back to the 13th of October, September will now feature an EP of remixes titled Hypnagogic States.
The still untitled record will be released by Suretone/Geffen and follows up 2004’s sThe Cure.
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San Diego, CA’s Finch recently stopped by the Buzznet offices and recorded a short acoustic set in front of a video camera. The band played ‘Season of the Witch” by Donovon and Depeche Mode’s “Condemnation,” as well as material from their recently released self-titled EP, Finch.
You can find the performances here.
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Escapist Records has signed Delaware based Dead And Buried. The label describes the group as a metal / hardcore band with influence from All Out War, Merauder, Cro-Mags, and Slayer. The band recorded at Clay Creek studios with producer Nick Rotundo (Paint It Black, All Else Failed, Knives Out) and features guest vocals from Justice of Trapped Under Ice, Ziggy of Barricade, and Tony from Hard to Kill. The record, titled Bear Witness, is due in the fall.
You can preview two tracks from the record at MySpace.
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Nevada City, California’s sBach, the solo project from Hella guitarist Spencer Seim, has posted three tracks to his MySpace page, as well as premiered his new video for the song “Track 02” on Pitchfork.tv. The album is due out August 19th, via Suicide Squeeze.
sBach is all set to hit the road this fall with These Arms Are Snakes.
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Slow news day eh? Maybe this will wake you up.
None More Black have posted a flyer for The Fest 7 unveiling a number of bands that will perform at the event. According to the flyer, the line up for the 3 day Gainesville, Florida punk gathering will include bands such as Leatherface, Less Than Jake, Atom and his Package, the Bouncing Souls, Strike Anywhere, Dillinger Four, A Wilhelm Scream, Paint It Black, the Ergs, the Methadones and many more. The number of acts appearing should top 250.
The event will take place over Halloween weekend, kicking off on the 31st of October and running through the 2nd of November. Expect a full lineup announcement from the official website soon.
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Los Angeles based Killradio will release a new EP in September titled Good Americans on indie label Nine 12 Records. The nine song release follows up the band’s 2004 Columbia release Raised On Whipped Cream. Music from the long in the works release has been online for some time now, and you can check out the tracks “Rebel” and “Good American” at MySpace.
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