Death In The Park, Andy Jackson and Joe Ballaro from Hot Rod Circuit‘s new band, has announced a new set of tour dates with Victory Records‘ 1997 (the band, not the year) and Galaxy Down. The band will be releasing an yet to be titled full-length on End Sounds in late Spring ’09.
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SoCal punk legends T.S.O.L. have completed their 30th anniversary album and are now offering the entire record as a free release, thanks to sponsorship from Hurley. The album was recorded at the Hurley studio and produced by David Bianco. Throughout the recording process – December 17th to December 24th, 2008 – visitors to Hurley.com were able to access live streaming video of the band while at the Hurley Studio.
You can download the entire record here.
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Smoke Or Fire have announced that they will be recording the follow up to This Sinking Ship in late March or early April. The band is planning to record with producer Matt Allison.
Before that, the band will be hitting the road with NOFX for a West Coast tour.
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Rock Reader Books has announced Ramones: Interviews which will compile three decades worth of interviews with the pioneering punk rock band. Edited by John D. Luerssen, the book begins with the band’s earliest publicized moments in 1975 and ends with a series of reflections from its principle members prior to their untimely deaths.
You can find some more information here.
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Silverstein have released their contribution to the upcoming Punk Goes Pop 2 compilation. The Burlington-based band – who most likely have a better record collection than you – covered OneRepublic’s “Apologize” for the comp. which is due out February 17, 2009. The band commented on the song:
The interesting thing is that even though we’ve been a band for 9 years, we’ve never really done any covers. The only one we did was a cover of Lifetime’s “Rodeo Clown” for a tribute album that never came out. Most bands start out doing some covers before they write their own songs, but we jumped right into originals.
When we had to choose a song, there was a million we talked about doing, but we all agreed that “Apologize” would be rad. It was a song we all secretly rocked out to, a total guilty pleasure. It’s super catchy, it’s the kind of song you hear once and it’s instantly stuck in your head.
We had so much fun recording this that we decided to do some other covers as well. We’re almost done recording our new album and we’re going to have some B-Side cover songs as well. Check that out on March 31st!
Bands on the disc include Alesana, Attack Attack, August Burns Red, Bayside, Breathe Carolina, The Cab, A Day To Remember, Escape The Fate, Four Year Strong, Mayday Parade, Silverstein, A Static Lullaby and There For Tomorrow.
You can check out the song here.
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Animal Collective have posted a song from their upcoming album. The record is titled Merriweather Post Pavilion and is due out January 20, 2009. It is the follow-up to Strawberry Jam which was released in 2007.
Check out “My Girls” on their myspace page.
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Revolver recently spoke with Slayer bassist/vocalist Tom Araya about their upcoming album, 25th anniversary and more. Regarding their recording process
We have an idea of what we want the song to sound like; it’s making it sound the way we want it to that’s hard. And we’re our own worst critics. If Jeff [Hanneman, guitar] puts together a song and it, to him, doesn’t sound good, then he won’t even bother presenting the song. The guys have to like the songs they write before we get to see and hear them. So this time [for the band’s recording session in October] he had these three he liked, and we went into the studio with ’em and we knew how we wanted them, the basic idea of the songs, and we needed someone to come in and take charge. It wasn’t like we went in there and started playing a bunch of riffs and said, “OK, this sounds good…
As for the 25 years since Show No Mercy:
Y’know, one day someone said, “You guys have been together this many years.” “Really? Wow!” We all kind of looked at each other, dumbfounded, and stunned. It’s not something where we’ve ever sat down and said, “We’ve been together five years, let’s have a party! We’ve been together 10 years, let’s have a party!'” or anything like that.
The rest of the interview will appear in the 2009 Preview issue of the magazine.
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Bomb the Music Industry! have finished up work on their new album. The band had this to say:
So the record is done. Have I said that yet? The record is done done done done done done. I have been sitting in front of my computer for a few days straight throwing together the artwork and I’m pretty excited about it. We’re still not sure exactly how we’re going to approach the decoding, but this is what the cover looks like when it isn’t decoded:
Two songs from the album are available on the Quote Unquote sampler. The band is promising that the physical version of the album (CD/LP) will feature a 34-page fanzine made with former members of Latterman.
The band released Get Warmer in 2007.
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Dillinger Four has announced plans for a one-off show in Fargo, North Dakota. The band explained:
For reals, in the 39 years we’ve been a band we have NEVER played Fargo? And it’s, like, right over there yknow? What the hell? Anyway, Chris was all “dudes?” and we we’re like “I know right!?” So now the shit is going down on Jan. 10th, which also just happens to be Paddy’s 16th annual 21st birthday.
The show is planned for the Fargo Theater.
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Our stream today comes from Nashville, TN-based Sound and Shape. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, The Love Electric.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Recent Epitaph signing, The Color of Violence, have posted some new music.
The band includes From First to Last guitarist Travis Richter and drummer Derek Bloom on vocals and instruments respectively, though they have listed themselves under pseudonyms.
The record, Youthanize is due out in 2009. You can find “Christina, Christina” here.
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Denton, TX’s The Marked Men have posted two new songs to their MySpace page. The tracks are titled “Fortune” and “Ditch” and are off of the group’s new album Ghosts, set for release on January 27, 2009.
The band had this to say about their rumored demise:
‘Hiatus’ may not be the right word to use. It’s all up in the air. With Jeff in Japan, Joe in El Paso, Mike having two kids, I really don’t know if we’ll be able to play again. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. It’s okay, though. The band had been around for a while, since 2002. I don’t want to beat it to death.
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Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes, The City On Film) has announced that he has formed a new band with drummer Damon Atkinson. The two previously played together in Hey Mercedes. While little information is currently available, the announcement was made via Twitter here.
The other participant in the conversation has some info here.
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