To celebrate the rather spectacular lineup for Riot Fest this year, we’re happy to bring you a full album stream from one of the many bands you can expect to check out in Chicago. We’ve got the full length from Shot Baker, titled Take Control which came out on Riot Fest Records earlier this year.
You can find the whole thing on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Zozobra (Cave In, Isis) have posted a full album stream of their new full length. The record, Bird of Prey, is the follow up to 2007’s Harmonic Tremors.
You can check it out here.
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Riverside, CA’s Assorted Jellybeans have re-banded after disbanding some time ago. According to the group’s MySpace page, Assorted Jellybeans were the reason that Joe and Warren from The Vandals started Kung Fu records. Drummer Richard Falomir went on to become The Aquabats‘ drummer, with the alias Ricky Fitness.
No future plans have been laid out so far, so keep checking for more updates.
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These Arms Are Snakes and sBach – the new project from Hella‘s Spencer Seim – will be hitting the road together at the end of the month. TAAS are gearing up to release their new full length and Suicide Squeeze debut. The record is titled Tail Swallower & Dove and is due out October 07, 2008.
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UK-based act Rot in Hell has joined the Deathwish Inc. family. According to the label:
Rot In Hell are one of the most exciting and raw hardcore bands out there today. They have released numerous 7″EPs and split 7″EPs as of late, each one more brutal and vile than its predecessor. Epitomizing the “Holy Terror”/Cleveland Style approach of bands like Integrity and Ringworm, while injecting their own kind of mutation into the contemporary hardcore/punk gene pool.
The band is currently at work writing their Deathwish debut.
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Power-violence/grindcore supergroup, United Nations have revealed the track listing for their debut album. The album is due on September 9th via Eyeball Records. The project features Geoff Rickly from Thursday, Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw/Head Automatica, Chree from the Number 12 Looks Like You and Kiss It Goodbye’s Eric Cooper.
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Los Angeles, CA’s Jubilee, featuring Aaron North (NIN/The Icarus Line), Michael Shuman (Wires On Fire/Queens of the Stone Age), and Evan Weiss (Wires On Fire), have posted a video of Maynard James Keenan (Tool) recording vocals for the song “I Don’t Have An Excuse, I Just Need A Little Help.” The song is slated as a B-side for the band’s second single, “In With The Out Crowd.” The song also features programming from Trent Reznor (NIN), and live drums from Juilan Gross (Liars).
The band previously announced a subscription service for their yearly output.
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Tiger Army, Rise Against, Flyleaf, Korn, Marilyn Manson, Shiny Toy Gun and others will be contributing tracks to the upcoming Nightmare Revisited. The compilation is the second set of recordings associated with 1993’s Nightmare Before Christmas with a previous set of covers coming in 2006 and featuring takes by Fall Out Boy and Panic At the Disco.
The set is due out September 30, 2008.
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The former members of From Autumn To Ashes have posted an update on their new projects. Two members of the group – Fran Mark and Rob Lauritsen – have already confirmed their new project, Warship. The band will be performing live for the first time in Brooklyn on Saturday August 16th as a warm-up show for their tour with Reggie And The Full Effect in August/September. The band recently finished their record with Andrew Schneider (Cave In/Daughters/Unsane) and is expecting a fall release on Vagrant Records.
Brian Deneeve has unveiled his new band, which includes Matt Breen (former lead singer of Emanuel – Vagrant Records), and friends Matt Trinkwald and Joe Magurn. The bnd remains nameless, but recording plans are already set with the group hitting the studio on August 25th with Dean Maher.
Drummer Jeff Gretz is not only gearing up to track drums for a new Zao record but is premiering a new “punk/jazz” quartet titled Ghosts For Breakfast at John Zorn’s STONE club in New York City on Sunday August 10th — the group also includes Steve Moore of Relapse Records’ Zombi.
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The Honorary Title will be releasing the vinyl version of Scream & Light Up the Sky, their 2007 major label debut, on August 19 via Doghouse Records.
The gatefold 2xLP will have an initial pressing of 1,000 copies with a limited number of 500 printed on red vinyl. The vinyl version also includes 2 bonus songs which did not appear on the CD version. Vinyl addicts can go here to grab it: Doghouse Records.
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Ground Control Magazine caught the recent Pioneers of Punk show at The Fillmore in San Francisco. The show featured the bands that launched the punk scene in San Francisco in the late 70’s: Flipper, Avengers, The Mutants and Negative Trend. The show was hosted by standup comedian Neil Hamburger. An excerpt reads:
As they begin ripping through renditions of “Be Good,” “Sacrifice” and “Ha Ha Ha,” the crowd sways with the music. Loose is a dominant and dynamic front man, his rough, raspy growl shaking the walls through the power of the amplifiers. But no matter how good a performer, there’s only so much he can do to rile up the crowd. “We’re having fun. Not sure about you,” he says with his back to the audience. And the truth is, the crowd doesn’t seem to be having much fun. They are enjoying the show, but the urgency and anger that is so essential to punk shows seems to be gone. Then again, maybe it’s just past their bedtime.
You can check out photos and the full review at Ground Control’s site.
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New Haven, CT’s The Flaming Tsunamis have posted two new songs – “Vines” and “The Animal Factory” – to their MySpace page. The songs are rough demos of new material, further taking the band from their ska-punk roots into noise and experimental metal.
The band released Fear Everything in 2006.
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While Every Time I Die roughs the summer heat of this Year’s Warped Tour, Punknews interviewer Jason Gardner did the same and tracked down the band’s vocalist, Keith Buckley, to see how the tour was going and talk about Every Time I Die’s latest album, The Big Dirty.
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