The Loved Ones have announced plans to release a new EP in January of 2009. The band explained:
We are battening down the hatches for the rest of ’08, thanks for a great year. We are writing the follow up to Build & Burn and making 09 plans, we’ll let you all know what’s up once we figure out where and what we’ll do next. Look out for an EP release in January, entitled Distractions.
The band released Build & Burn in early 2008.
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Past Lives (featuring three members of Blood Brothers) have exclusively launched a download of their song “Strange Symmetry” through RollingStone.com. The band also detailed their debut EP release not to long ago, which will see the light of day through Suicide Squeeze on election day, November 4th.
You can download the track here.
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Joost, the online video service from the creators of Skype and Kazaa, have announced the launch of a punk and rock channel. The “station” includes on-demand videos and television programs from Green Day, NOFX (including Backstage Passport) and many other artists.
You can check it out here.
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Next week, Suburban Home will be releasing new records from Joey Cape (Lagwagon, Bad Astronaut), Useless ID and Two Cow Garage. To celebrate, the label has put together a big prize package featuring the new albums on CD and vinyl, and tons of band merch including pint glasses and more.
Stay tuned to Punknews.org next week as we’ll be streaming all three new releases.
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Oakland, CA’s Neurosis have announced the resurrection of their music festival Beyond The Pale at next year’s Roadburn 2009. The event will take place on April 25th and will have the band hand picking fifteen artists and setting the lineup to perform in conjunction with the Roadburn Festival. Guitarist and vocalist Steve Von Till had this to say:
It is a great honor and privilege to have asked to host our own Beyond the Pale event at Roadburn 2009. Since playing Roadburn 2007, we could think of no better people to work with on this event than the organizers and promoters of Roadburn and the wonderful staff at the 013. Roadburn is a completely different experience than the traditional music festival. It is a small, intimate, extremely well organized festival, put together by people who love the bands, and thrive on creating a unique social vibe where the lines between artist, audience, and staff are often completely blurred.
Participating bands so far include Akimbo, US Christmas, and The Young Gods. Neurosis recently recorded a live show for VBS.tv.
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Red Orchestra MODs will be the first third party game MODs to be made available through Steam. And just to celebrate, Tripwire is reducing the price 75% to $4.99 until Monday 20th October.
Roswell, GA, October 17th, 2008 – Tripwire Interactive is pleased to announce that select MODs created for Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 are now available free of charge directly through Steam to all owners of the popular World War II themed online action title.
The first MOD released, Mare Nostrum, allows players to experience some of the fiercest battles of WWII across North Africa and Italy. The MOD adds three new nationalities to the game including the British, Australians and Italians as well as adding the German Afrika Korps. Featuring 8 new maps, 8 new weapons and 10 vehicles the game play is varied from gritty street to street fighting in urban surroundings to all out tank warfare in the open desert.
To celebrate all this – and to further encourage everyone to try the game and the mods – Tripwire is dropping the price of Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 for the weekend to just $4.99. The mods will appear in your Steam Games list and will now be automatically updated just like any other game released through Steam.
Red Orchestra is available via Steam and at retail outlets worldwide. For more information about Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 and Steam, please visit www.steamgames.com.
About Tripwire Interactive
Based in Roswell, Georgia, Tripwire Interactive is an entertainment software company founded in 2005 by the award winning mod team and winners of the “$1,000,000 Make Something Unreal” competition. Released in early 2006, Tripwire Interactive’s debut retail title Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 has achieved both critical and commercial success garnering several awards including “Multiplayer Game of the Year” and “FPS of the Year” for 2006. With Red Orchestra ranking as one of the most played PC Multiplayer games in the world, Tripwire Interactive have proven that with hard work, determination, and great distribution partners independent game developers can still make a big splash in the games industry. For more information visit Tripwire Interactive’s website at www.tripwireinteractive.com.
About Steam
Steam is a leading platform for the delivery and management of games and digital content, and has pioneered its broadband services to over 15 million customers with core and casual games from today’s leading publishers and developers. For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com.
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Exodus From The Earth, a new action FPS from Strategy First, is now available on Steam for pre-purchase. Buy the game before it’s release on October 24th and save 10% off the regular price.
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Today we’re proud to bring you a full stream of Transfuse, the sole LP from RVA melodic hardcore act Resonance, who officially called it quits earlier this year. The band has garnered comparisons to everyone from Kid Dynamite and Shook Ones to the Get Up Kids and the Revolution Summer era.
Transfuse was released on Collapse Records a few months ago and compiles the band’s first two demos, recorded in July 2004 and July 2005, respectively. The band’s only other release was last year’s split 7″ with Permanent. If Tranfuse seems familiar, it’s because it’s the official vinyl pressing of 2004-2006, a CD-R the band released in extremely limited quantities, with a slightly altered track listing.
If the band’s breakup has you bummed, don’t worry too much — we’re told member(s) have started a new band with Permanent’s drummer, described as “Fugazi meets Hot Snakes.”
You can check out the stream on their Punknews.org profile.”
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Shortly after launching their new imprint on Justice/Universal after leaving Interscope/Universal, …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead have released the first track from their new release. You can stream “Bells of Creation” from the upcoming Festival Thyme EP on their MySpace page.
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Doomriders and Disfear have launched a stream of their upcoming split EP. You can hear the tracks “Crooked Path” and “Fear and Trembling” respectively via Source Continue reading Tours: Doomriders / Disfear EP streaming, tour dates announced
Brian Cook, frontman for Seattle’s These Arms Are Snakes, was recently featured on MTV’s Headbanger’s Blog. Much like Geoff Rickey’s entry, the tone is more like a social essay than your standard blog entry, with Cook touching on a number of different topics that apply to maturity and music:
Punk music was meant to be dangerous, so it’s strange to see so many youth advocacy groups embrace that underground culture. I’m glad to see the torch passed to a new generation of young fans, but I wonder if the music could possibly mean as much when it’s offered in a parent-friendly environment. And this is where s–t just gets weird. I’d really rather it was a non-issue. I don’t want to sit around and contemplate whether I’m a positive roll model.
The post also features six songs from the band’s new album, Tail Swallower and Dove, which was released this year. You can read the entire entry here.
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Tom Gabel of Against Me! has unveiled the fourth in a series of videos to coincide with tracks on his upcoming solo EP. The record is titled Heart Burns and is due out October 28, 2008. The videos represent tracks on the EP, but will feature live performances of those album tracks.
The video was shot in Montreal on Sept. 3rd, 2008 by Philippe Tremblay- Berberi.