Richmond’s Pink Razors are getting set to release a new record this October. The release, titled Leave Alive, will be available on 12″ vinyl via the band’s own Houseplant Records before their apperance at the Fest in Gainesville. You can stream the song “Not the Wrong Son” at their MySpace.
The group last released Waiting to Wash Up in 2006 via Robotic Empire, followed in 2007 by the First Degree 7″.
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Fail Safe Records is planning to release a new split 7″ between Exeter, UK’s OK Pilot and Gainesville, FL’s Dirty Money. The release should be available in time for the Fest on Halloween and features two songs from each group. The bands are streaming one new song each from the release. You can check out “From the Corazon” at Dirty Money’s MySpace page and “Too Hot To Stop” at OK Pilot’s.
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Portland, Oregon’s Hit & Run have posted two new online for free download. The tracks can be found at the band’s MySpace page. The group has plans to hit the studio next November to record their next full length. The group will hit KBC Records in Portland and have the songs mixed and mastered by Dan Precision (88 Fingers Louie, Rise Against, Break The Silence) at his Bombshelter studio (Naked Raygun, Shot Baker, Ryan’s Hope).
Tom from You & I and The Asssistant Fame has started a new hardcore act dubbed Black Kites with Jeff from Cannonball and Jay from Zhenia Golov. The band claims a heavy 90s influence from New Jersey hardcore acts like 108. Three songs from the band’s upcoming Advancement to Ruins LP can be downloaded at Mediafire with more streaming at MySpace.
Phoenix, Arizona’s Run With The Hunted will hit the road this October with local friends Red Son. Seattle’s Ill Intent will join the latter half of the tour as well. You can find dates and details at the band’s 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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking…
This week had harrowing news for fans of Plus 44 and Blink-182 as drummer Travis Barker was one of two survivors of a plane crash. Four people were killed in the accident, which saw Barker and DJ AM in critical condition with second and third degree burns. Reports have come in that they’ve since stabilized. Our best wishes go out to them for a quick recovery. With the XM and Sirius merger in full swing the networks’ punk rock stations seem to have been lost in the shuffle. Fungus 53 and Sirius Punk are soon to be replaced by a 24/7 AC/DC channel. Alt-country act Lucero is delving further into the major label system, singing to Universal Republic for a four album deal. On their way out of that world, popular act New Found Glory has found a new home at Epitaph Records. One thing that the majors have noticed is the resurgance of vinyl, and Sony/Legacy is planning to bring it back for select releases. Finally it looks like the Foo Fighters are taking a hiatus. There’s no word when we’ll next hear from Grohl and company, but given their prolific sideprojects they’ll hardly go unheard.
There’s some interesting new relases on the horizon. Tom Gabel of Against Me! has detailed his solo EP. A Wilhelm Scream has looked ahead to their Career Suicide follow up. Even Reagan Youth are working on new album. Fall Out Boy has posted artwork for their next as well. We had details on the upcoming video game Guitar Hero World Tour, and word that it will feature NOFX, the Sex Pistols, Blink-182 and Rise Against. On the new music front we got to check out “AMERICASPREMIEREFAITHBASEDINITIATIVE” from Dillinger Four and ” Collapse (Post-Amerika) from Rise Against.
Punknews’ own Ben Conoley is on the road now with Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish and the Flatliners. Expect pictures, set lists, a tour journal and maybe even some video over the next few weeks. Our first report just came in.
This week we spoke with Matt Farrell and Dave Hall of Young Livers (interview) and a two part interview with Set Your Goals. We chattted with Junior (aka Audelio Flores) and Mike Ambrose on two seperate occasions (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including a few tracks from the new split between Thursday and Envy, the new full length from Monikers, the return of Dirtnap power pop act The Girls, the new EP from Bridge 9 melodic hardcore act Energy, and new music from Gainesville-based duo Liquid Limbs.
So what’s coming up this week? Look for reissues and collections the Undertones and the Replacements with new music from Akimbo, Sing It Loud and the Action Design with tours kicking off from Weezer, Angels and Airwaves and Tokyo Police Club (North America), and Underoath (South Africa).
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Today marks the first day of Punknews.org’s trip across Canada with Less Than Jake. Ben got up at the ungodly hour of 5:15am to catch a flight to Edmonton in time for tonight’s show, meeting up with the band who played both Calgary and Vancouver before making their way to Champion City.
Look What I Did has announced dates for a fall tour with labelmates Born Empty. The Nashville, Tennessee based bands will both be releasing new records soon via Modernist Movement, a new label started by producer Brian Virtue (Janes Addiction, Horse The Band, The START).
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Look What I Did has announced dates for a fall tour with labelmates Born Empty. The Nashville, Tennessee based bands will both be releasing new records soon via Modernist Movement, a new label started by producer Brian Virtue (Janes Addiction, Horse The Band, The START).
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Long Beach, CA’s I Am Ghost have announced a European tour with Blessed By A Broken Heart.
The band is getting set to release “Those We Leave” on October 7th on Epitaph. The album was recorded with producer Paul Leavitt (Senses Fail, the Bled, Circa Surviva) in Baltimore, MD. They’ll hold a CD release party on October 12th at the Glass House in Pomona, CA before the kickoff of the tour. Late last month the label unveiled a studio video of the band at work on the record.
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That Dillinger Four song you were streaming last week? Here’s the download. “AMERICASPREMIEREFAITHBASEDINITIATIVE” appears on Civil War, the band’s long awaited full length that’s due out on October 14th of this year.
Fat Wreck Chords has also unveiled the full track listing, which as per usual is weird, funny, and sure to be mimicked by every bad emo band in the next five years.
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Following up on yesterday’s story, Billboard has an update on Travis Barker and DJ AM, who were critically injured in a plane crash this past Friday.
The medical director at the Georgia burn hospital where both men are being treated says they are expected to make a full recovery. Dr. Fred Mullins has revealed that the musicians are being treated for second and third degree burns, recovery from which can take as long as a year. Barker was burned on his torso while DJ AM, real name Adam Goldstein, was burned on his hands and part of his head. Both men are in critical but stable condition and have no other injuries from the crash.
Four people were killed on Friday when a Lear 60 on which the two men were passengers failed to take off and crashed in Columbia, South Carolina. You can find the original story here.
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Chicago, IL’s Rise Against have posted the song “Collapse (Post-Amerika)” on their MySpace page. It is the lead track from the band’s upcoming album Appeal to Reason, set for release on October 7th via Geffen.
You can listen to the song here.
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O Pioneers!!! have pushed back their new full length Neon Creeps. The record is now due in January 2009 via Asian Man Records.
So Neon Creeps is finished. Drums, guitars, vocals and bass are recorded. It’s Mixed. It’s mastered. Artwork is being pressed, and Vinyl is about to be pressed. The only thing is we fucked up, missed all the deadlines, and now this record is coming out in January 2009. YES for stoners! we don’t have an exact date, but we do know jan. We will still have copies for sale starting this saturday. We’ll have them for our leg of the gaslight tour, and they’ll be in limited edition, screened, tracklisting out of order digi packs. We have 60 of them. Then when we get home oct. 1st, we’ll have the real cds for bridge and tunnel. We’ll probably make more screened sleeves. They are like 7 colors with glow in the dark ink! its fucking awesome!!!
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It’s Sunday morning and I’m not trying very hard so here’s something fun that’s making the rounds in the blogosphere.
Boing Boing and Laughing Squid recently put the spotlight on the notorious “punk episode” of 70s forensic medical drama Quincy. The episode, titled “Next Stop, Nowhere” first aired in December of 1982 and features John Klugman trying to save a girl lured into the sordid and violent punk underground. Given the amount of eyeliner kids are wearing these days, the amount of face paint on display here is less funny than it should be.
Click below for a few clips.
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