Dance Gavin Dance have posted a new song from their upcoming full length for Rise Records. The record is titled Dance Gavin Dance and is due out August 19, 2008. It is the follow-up to Downtown Battle Mountain which was released in 2007.
The song features guest vocals from Chino Moreno of Deftones and you can find it on their myspace page.
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Minneapolis punk band Banner Pilot have announced their summer tour dates in support of their new album Resignation Day.They have also announced a tour blog they will be maintaining while on the road. The band explained:
“Due to recent upgrades in band electronics, we’ll be able to blog from the road just like Black Flag did back in the day. It’ll be non-stop excitement and you’ll feel like you’re crammed in the van with us. The typical tour blog is probably like ‘Great show in St. Louis last night… we have such amazing fans’, but fuck that shit. We’re going to be writing about the various Doritos flavors we encounter across the nation, the quality of motel rooms we stay in, the progress of our find-a-license-plate-from-every-state games, and so on. It’ll be enthralling.”
The tour blog can be found here.
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Cleveland, OH’s Integrity recently was recorded by VBS.TV playing a set at The Old Blue Last. In this intimate atmosphere, the band played “Mischa: For Those Who Fear Tomorrow” and “Die Hard” to the eager Vice-manned cameras.
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Louisville, KY’s Head Above Water have posted some tracks from their upcoming full length entitled Alone. Recorded with Kevin Ratterman (elliott, wax fang) at the Funeral Home in Louisville, Alone promises “nine songs of introspective and melodic hardcore for fans of Turning Point, Dag Nasty and Stay Gold” (guitarist Eagle Barber played drums in the influential northwest hardcore band). The record will be released on August 16th and a split 7″ with Birmingham AL’s monoliths (ex-Holy Trinity) will be following soon afterwards along with the LP version of the album.
You can hear “Lament” and “Greener Pastures” from Alone and one of the tracks from the split, “Fraud” on their myspace 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 community talking…
Hoo boy. So LA pop-punk act Say Anything announced that for a cool 150 bones frontman Max Bemis would write and record an acoustic song based on the payee’s provided subject matter. The band sold these services for three days or so before demand apparently overwhelmed them and the offer was temporarily pulled. Some plucky, irreverent and often mind-bogglingly insulting Punknews commenters let the band know what they thought of the idea (as they do when any band announces anything round here), and Mr. Bemis pretty much wigged out. I believe he called the collective Punknews community “strange, slow, old people.” Now in the days since we’ve had the Swellers come out and offer the same service for free, and several bloggers chew over the subject of for-pay songwriting and the frontman’s little tirade [1] [2] [3]. Welcome to the internet Max.
In non self-referrential news, we had word that founding Dead Kennedys bassist Klaus Flouride was leaving the band due to a reoccuring medical condition. Rage Against The Machine is up to their old tricks, with a show planned to coincide with the Republican National Convention. Former Escape The Fate singer Ronnie Radke was sentenced to four years in jail on a battery charge in Las Vegas. Riverside, CA ska/punk act Assorted Jellybeans are back together, although their future plans are unrevealed.
We had word that Tiger Army and Rise Against will appear on the compilation Nightmare Revisited. Vampire Weekend and Devo songwriter Mark Mothersbaugh will collaborate on the new Michael Cera film. Popular act Paramore is writing and plans studio time in January. The Lemonheads are planing to cover acts as diverse as GG Allin, Wire, Leonard Cohen and Christina Aguilera on their new album. This week had tour dates from Against Me! featuring Ted Leo and the Pharmacists and Future Of The Left. The Bouncing Souls added dates with Strike Anywhere and Youth Brigade. Weezer will also hit the road soon with Angels and Airwaves. This week brought new music from Lagwagon with the song “Memoirs and Landmines” as well as Less Than Jake‘s video for “Does The Lion City Still Roar?.”
Also, this week Punknews.org passed the milestone of posting 30,000 stories. In the 8 years, 10 months and 4 days that we’ve been online that averages out to a little more than 9 stories per day.
This week we summed up all your album ratings and presented the list of your favourite albums from July. Keep clicking those star ratings to let us know what music you’re enjoying. Our Video of the Week featured Rob Huddleston, frontman for Ann Beretta and Foundation, interviewing members of Hot Water Music about their recent reunion. This is the first in a multi-part video feature. This week also brought new Streaming Music from, Static Radio NJ‘s new full length An Evening of Bad Decisions, Think Fast! Records act No Harm Done, the new album from Gainesville, FL-based Anchor Arms, Shot Baker‘s full length Take Control, and two new songs from Nashville, TN’s Cactus’s.
So what’s coming up this week? Look for releases from Anchor Arms, and Wolves and Thieves / Bastards Of Young with tours kicking off from Teenage Bottlerocket, the Sidekicks and the Riptides (Canada), Have Heart, Verse, Shipwreck AD (Europe) and Killing The Dream (USA).
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Gallows guitarist Laurent Barnard recently spoke with Rock Sound magazine recording the band’s follow up to Orchestra of Wolves.
We know more people are going to hear this record, so we’re going to make the message bigger. With the current situation in England it’s a pretty dire place to be for a lot of people. It’s a great place, but at the same time everything is getting more expensive and there’s a new teenage knife incident every week. It’s a pretty ghastly place at the moment. The current situation around us is influencing Frank’s lyrics and the way we write the music as well.
The band will record with producer GGGarth Richardson (Rage Against The Machine, Melvins) beginning in September. A worldwide release is expected in February of 2009.
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Sacramento California’s Secretions have debuted their latest video for the track That Kind Of Girl, based on classic footage from The Ed Sullivan Show. Directed by Aaron M. Lane, the video features members Danny Secretion and Paul Filthy playing multiple roles, oftentimes in the same shots.
The song is from the band’s latest album, Faster Than The Speed Of Drunk, released last year on Silver Sprocket.
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Spinnerette has parted ways with Sire Records and launched a new song. The band is offering up the song “Valium Knights” to fans who enter their email on spinnerettemusic.com. Further details on the group’s debut release is expected soon. The band features the remnants of the Distillers, mainly frontwoman Brody Dalle and guitarist Tony Bevilacqua. They’re joined by Jack Irons (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam) and Alain Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age).
The Distillers last released Coral Fang in 2003 and fell apart in the years following.
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Birmingham, UK grindcore pioneers Napalm Death recently posted an update on their progress recording their next album. Bassist Shane Embury commented:
Well, today is the first day in the studio laying down drum tracks for our new album. After all the initial tuning and setting up of the drums, we managed to get four drum tracks down which is a great start, but we have another 13 to go. As people may or may not have heard, we are at Parlour studios in Kettering with producer Russ Russell at the helm laying down the drums and then in a few days we will return to Foel studios in Wales for the recording of the guitars, bass and vocals – finally to return here to Parlour for the mix. So early days yet but we will keep you posted as best we can.
The new record will be the follow-up to 2006’s Smear Campaign. The band expect to release it later this year or in 2009 on Earache Records.
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Ferret Music has signed Corona, California based Christian metal act Underneath The Gun. The band, which started when some members were only 12 years old, previously released two independent albums. Guitarist Trevor described the band’s sound in the press release:
Our goal for the music we write is to bring a pretty aggressive metal approach, but giving our own feel to it without limiting ourselves to one particular genre of metal. We also strive to write lyrics with a meaningful message about what we believe in a way that we feel everyone can relate to.
The band is currently on the road with My Children My Bride and will play the Taking Back The Streets Festival in Pilot Mountain, North Carolina. In late August the band will hit the road with Don the Reader. You can find music and tour dates at MySpace.
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Richmond, VA’s The Riot Before have released the cover art and track listing for their upcoming full length Fists Buried in Pockets. The record, due out on September 9th via Say-10 Records, was recorded by Pedro Aida (ex-River City High) at Detached Sound Recording in Richmond. The album follows up two 7″ releases from last year, the So Long, The Lighthouse EP on Quote Unquote and a split with Oregon’s Broadway Calls. They last released a full length in 2005 with Horseshoes and Handgrenades on Fall of the West.
You can stream “You Can’t Sexy Dance to Punk Rock” at the band’s MySpace page.
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Gainesville, Florida’s, The Know How will reunite to play the Real Big Deal music festival in their hometown. The band will play the September 13th date of the two day music, camping and arts event. The ska-punk act split up in 2007 following the release of Now In Technicolor in 2006. It’s unknown at this time if the reunion will last past the festival.
The Real Big Deal will also feature acts like Motion City Soundtrack, Mates Of State, Straylight Run, Whole Wheat Bread, Whiskey & Co among many others.
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Lagwagon has posted a new song online titled “Memoirs and Landmines.” The track is featured on their EP I Think My Older Brother Used to Listen to Lagwagon, due out August 19.
You can check out the song on MySpace.
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