Epitaph act Sing It Loud have announced the “Guys Guys Guys” tour which will feature support from The Friday Night Boys, The Morning Light, Artist vs Poet and The Summer Set.
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Cursive performed the track "From The Hips" Friday night on Late Night with David Letterman. The track comes from their recent release Mama, I’m Swollen.
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The New York Times has posted an article focusing on the obscure Detroit area proto-punk act Death. The band was playing shows in Detroit in the early 70’s and self-released Politicians in My Eyes in 1976. They passed up a label deal based on a refusal to change their then-shocking name.
The band recently found a demo tape in their attic and released it in February as …For the Whole World To See. It’s available on all the usual digital media outlets for purchase.
editor’s note:
I just bought the album and have to say this is a fun piece of music – very garage rock with some sweet guitar lines and shockingly well-developed tones all around. This is something I’d definitely recommend to those interested in the garage/pop punk revival going on right now. This was a band with their own voice and sense of aesthetic for the time period. The (still) frighteningly relevant "Politicians In My Eyes" is like the zanier pieces of Dead Kennedys smashed into the later rhythms of Minor Threat – but 10 years before those bands were making music.
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Tripp Underwood of The Unseen recently put together an article for the Boston Globe looking at the tree of bands and side projects connected to the Dropkick Murphys.
Check out the article here.
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Sebastien Grainger, the former singer/drummer of acclaimed Canadian duo, Death From Above 1979, has announced some tour dates following his appearance at SXSW next week.
Next week, Rock Band 2 will be adding Against Me!, The New Pornographers and Papa Roach to their downloadable content. Along with a “Get the Funk Out” pack featuring 70s-era funk acts, the game will add Against Me!’s “Thrash Unreal,” and two songs each from The New Pornographers and Papa Roach.
The songs will be available Tuesday on XBOX360 and Thursday on PS3.
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Off with Their Heads were shot recording a cover of the song Bobby Charles song “Before I Grow Too Old.” The song was popularized in the punk community after Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros covered it on their final album Streetcore .
The video was recorded for Mike Davies’ Show on BBC Radio One.
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Hella have begun work on their next full length and have returned to their original lineup of Zach Hill and Spencer Seim. They explained:
HELLA is officially back to being a duo! Zach Hill (drums) and Spencer Seim (guitar) are currently writing, working and ripping on their first full length album as a two piece band in four years. The album will be recorded and finished this year of 2009. Hella has not decided on what record label will be releasing it, or whom will be producing/engineering the album. Those details will be figured and announced sooner than later. International touring will most likely follow suit.
The band released There’s No 666 in Outer Space in 2007.
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Defiance, Ohio have posted their newest release for sale/donation/download. You can go to the Songs for the Icarus Project site to make a donation and download the tracks in either 320kbps Mp3 or FLAC files. The band describes the collaboration thusly:
All of us are affected by mental health, either personally or in relation to our loved ones. The power structures that dominate our lives can be so insidious that they dominate the ways we seek to be sound of mind and body. The work the Icarus Project does is important because a fresh, non-judgemental perspective on what makes us brilliant or what makes us mad is sorely needed in a world as confusing and distracting as the one we inhabit. I hope that you are able to donate to their project, but more so I hope that you can get interested in their content and their organization as a whole. It was a revelation to me, I hope it can be for you as well.
The donation amount will be your choice ($2-$50) and 100% of the donation will go to The Icarus Project.
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San Jose’s Shinobu have released their new record, Strange Spring Air, via donation-based indie label Quote Unquote Records. The label had this to say:
This record is dynamic as fuck to say the least and not just quiet / loud dynamic. Shinobu have a knack for being the most gloriously annoying band in the world one minute and the most genius unabashed pop-lovers the next. We are honored to share with you the sixteen tracks that make up their latest.
The band previously released Worstward, Ho! via Asian Man Records. Check out the new album here.
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Sum 41 has posted a trailer for their 2008 Greatest Hits album set for worldwide release this year. The original release was restricted to Japan but this wide release will feature the same material but the band is changing the title and artwork. The hits record is titled All The Good Shit and is due out March 17, 2009
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Coalesce have set a release date for Ox, their first record in ten years. The veteran hardcore/noise band will be releasing their album on June 9, 2009 in North America and June 15, 2009 everywhere else.
The album was recorded with Ed Rose at Blacklodge Studios and is the band’s first new full length since reuniting in 2007. Since then, the band released a new 7-inch, Salt and Passage, and reissued 012:2.
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