Thursday has entered the studio to begin recording their next full length with producer Dave Fridmann. The record is their first studio album since 2006’s A City by the Light Divided.
As they go, the band is documenting the process via popular “micro-blogging” service Twitter. You can follow the process here.
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Comeback Kid will be headed across Canada this October. The band will be joined by Bane, Misery Signals and Shai Hulud.
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Pittsburgh, PA’s Anti-Flag have teamed up with Atticus clothing to organize a clothing drive for Project Emmaus in the London and Colchester area. The drive coincides with two shows that the band will be playing on the 18th and 19th. The clothing drive will benefit homeless people in the area, and there will be stands set up at each show for attendees to donate clean clothing. Everyone who donates will get a download card for three acoustic Anti-Flag songs. Says Chris No. 2:
Anytime we can actually give back to the city and community we’re playing, it is huge for us. It’s not up to one song or one band to have an impact on this world. We will be in Colchester and London for one day, and the people coming to the shows live there and it is their towns, their scene. Were just providing an opportunity to impact some people who live nearby who are less fortunate. Bring an article of clothing to the shows, your donation will be greatly appreciated. Atticus UK who we have met on various occasions were amazing enough to help out as by donating clothing to Project Emmaus, who have a local shelters in both Colchester and the greater London area. So if you’re coming to the show in Colchester or the Kerrang show in London at ULU, please bring an article of clothing for the Project Emmaus Shelter. The show will be a tremendous amount of fun and tremendous show of humanity, we are greatly looking forward to it.
The band is busy touring supporting this year’s release, The Bright Lights of America.
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Some sad news as producer Jerry Finn has been taken off life support after suffering a severe brain hemorrhage last month. The famed producer worked on notable albums from Blink-182, Morrissey, Green Day, Rancid, Bad Religion, AFI and Alkaline Trio.
According to a Billboard report, a friend made the announcement via the Prosoundweb forum:
Even though he did make snail-like improvement these past 31 days, he is not any better for words and has not had any consistency in the tests that the medical team have done for him. At this time the hemorrhage has done massive damage to his body which will leave him severely disabled and in need of acute care for the rest of his life. We know Jerry wouldn’t want to live like this in a vegetative state.
Our deepest condolences to his family and friends.
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Canadian hardcore act Comeback Kid have announced the release of their first DVD. Along with a full length live show, the DVD will include a retrospective documentary. Dubbed “”Our Distance,” the film uses intimate footage to follow the band both onstage and off, touring, and recording from Comeback Kid’s first show to present day.
Alongside the documentary, the DVD features “Live in Leipzig” a live performance of Comeback Kid playing in Germany on November 23, 2007. A 17 track audio CD of “Live at Leipzig” is also included in the package. The set is due out October 14, 2008.
Authority Zero and Architects will be hitting the road together later this month.
Montreal, Quebec’s The Stills have posted a full stream of their new album, Oceans Will Rise, due out August 19th. This will be their first album for Canadian based label Arts & Crafts. The band previously released Logic Will Break Your Heart and Without Feathers on Vice.
You can click here for the stream.
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All That Remains have posted a new song from their upcoming full length. The record is titled Overcome and is due out September 16, 2008.
You can check out “Chiron” on their myspace page.
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DemonWare will be conducting some emergency maintenance on their cluster of game authentication servers tomorrow, which includes the login servers for Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars. This sounds worse than it actually is – the issue in question involves a software update for one of the routers and is not expected to disrupt the service for more than 5 minutes. If you’re connecting to the master server via Telia routes, you may be disconnected during that time, but if all goes well, the maintenance should go without a hitch and you won’t notice a thing.
John Joseph McGowan has been a lot of things in his life, a drug dealer, brawler, crack head, scam artist, hardcore legend, cult member, spiritual pilgrim, storyteller and more. He’s hated by many in the New York City scene and loved by perhaps an equal amount. He’s opinionated, honest and unwilling to compromise his beliefs. He is also the author of one of the funniest and most disturbing punk autobiographies in recent years.
If he had only been the lead singer of the legendary Cro-Mags, his book would get enough attention for those who want to know more about the minutia of the eighties and nineties hardcore scene in New York, But John Joseph was only a Cro-Mag for a part of his life and in his new autobiography, Evolution of a Cro-Magnon, John Joseph not only talks about the years he spent singing for the Cro-Mags and working as a roadie for the Bad Brains, but he also reveals with unflinching, hilarious and sometimes horrifically sad anecdotes about a life lived in foster homes, institutions and the streets.
Bad Religion have announced a batch of upcoming shows for a tour outside the U.S., which includes stops in Germany, Brazil, Canada as they continue to tour in support of their latest release, New Maps of Hell [Deluxe Edition] [CD/DVD].
As of June (http://www.punknews.org/article/29193), the band has recently begun writing their next record, which is expected to drop next year. Frontman Greg Graffin is set to teach at UCLA from January through March 2009 before the band could start work on the album.
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Los Angeles-based hardcore outfit Terror are currently on a huge US tour in support of their third full-length release, The Damned, The Shamed, which just hit stores via Century Media. We were able to get Scott Vogel to start keeping a tour journal which we will be publishing here on Punknews.org.
Hardcore label 6131 Records have announced two new signings. First, the label has signed Los Angeles-based Rotting Out. The band is described as “energetic, fast paced hardcore in the vein of Striking Distance and Black Flag and the band has their entire demo available for download on their myspace page.
The second new signing is the Bay Area’s Foreign Nature. The band has posted their entire five song EP for download and you can find it here along with art and liner notes.
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