Despite what you’ve heard, some punks do have mothers. So we’ve teamed up with artist Heather Gabel to give a away a special prize. Heather has designed some plate sets, and is giving a set away to one lucky Punknews reader.
You can check out the plates here
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Adolescents have announced a full-scale tour to kick off this summer, which includes stops in Europe and the US, while they continue supporting 2005’sO.C. Confidential. A new album is in the works and is due out this year.
Cursive have announced some more US tour dates this June and July. The shows are in support of their 2009 album, Mama, I’m Swollen.
The Story Changes and Let Go (ex-The Stereo) will be releasing a split release together. The Story Changes posted this update on their myspace blog. Along with Twitter and Myspace, the band is posting updates on their tour journal.
We’re currently in Tempe, AZ and will be spending the next week and a half here recording for a Summer release. We’re doing a split with our good friends Let Go(Militia Group, ex the Stereo).
The Story Changes released The Way Of The Dinosaur in 2007.
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The Number Twelve Looks Like You have announced a Canadian run this month with support from The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza and Stray From the Path.
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Closure in Moscow have launched a stream of their new full length. The album, First Temple, is their first for Equal Vision Records.
Check out the stream on their purevolume page.
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Former Plan-It-X Records act Carrie Nations have unveiled plans to release a new 7-inch via Stankhouse Records. The band split up in 2005, but the material was previously recorded but never released. The record will feature two unreleased tracks, (which were originally slotted to appear on a split with The Devil Is Electric), and two hard to find cuts (which were released on the split with This Bike Is A Pipebomb)
The record is due out in July. The band has a myspace page with some other tracks which you can find here.
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Down By Law have announced a trip to South America, which kicks off next week. The band recently announced that they are planning to release a new album this year for their new label Jailhouse Records. Their first release with the label will be their first studio album since 2003’s windwardtidesandwaywardsails.
MTV has launched a new “musical drama” called $5 Cover which focuses on the Memphis Music scene. Among the performers on the show was Ben Nichols of Lucero who performed the band’s track, “San Francisco,” and also contributed to the show’s official soundtrack. You can find more details about the show here.
You can find Ben’s performance of “San Francisco” right here.
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Guitar Hero: World Tour has announced the downloadable content for May. The game will be adding a free pack from Metal Blade/Ferret Records featuring music from The Devil Wears Prada, Unearth and Chimaira on May 7th.
On May 14th, the game will add Angels and Airwaves‘ “Everything’s Magic” and May 21st will add In Flames‘ Disconnected. You can find the full list of releases here.
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Though dates have not been announced, Matt Caughthran of The Bronx and Mariachi alter ego El Bronx, told Phrequency that the latter band will be touring with The Hold Steady this summer. Matt also talks about a projected release for the El Bronx record:
The records been done for a while now, hopefully it’s gonna come out in like early or mid summer. It’s a really really important record; it’s the best thing I’ve ever done. It’s all original music, traditional mariachi stuff, and it’s the punkest thing in the world for a band like The Bronx to put out a record like that. I think the first El Bronx tour when the record comes out is going to be El Bronx and the Hold Steady. It a whole different outlet – we can go tour with band The Bronx couldn’t go on tour with.
Check out the entire interview here.
The Bronx released The Bronx in 2008
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The Circle Jerks have announced two shows to kick off next month. The first one will be at the House of Blues in San Diego, California and the second show will be at the same venue in Anaheim.
The band’s guitarist Greg Hetson (also a member of Bad Religion) recently noted that the Circle Jerks are planning to record a new album in June with producer Dimitri Coats from the Burning Brides. With the exception of a single song released in 2007, the band has not released any new studio material since 1995’s Oddities, Abnormalities, and Curiosities.
Spin has posted one of the first reviews of Green Day‘s upcoming album, 21st Century Breakdown, due out May 15, 2009:
Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tré Cool push Idiot’s conceits even further on 21st Century Breakdown, a slick, class-obsessed, 70-minute, 18-song, three-act cycle that trades Bush-era indignation for Obama-era resignation. […] There was humor in Green Day’s vitriol last time around, and that’s sorely missed here. There’s some stretching stylistically […] if the Cars did a tune about impending nuclear winter, it might sound like “Last of the American Girls.” […] for an album-length rock opera about staving off the end of days, 21st Century Breakdown feels terribly comfortable.
Check out the review here.
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