The Stooges have announced plans to reunite their surviving Raw Power lineup and perform the album in its entirety. The band will be performing under the “Iggy and Stooges” moniker which was the name that Raw Power was released under. Frontman Iggy Pop insists that “The Stooges” as a band no longer exist due to the sad death of guitarist/bassist Ron Asheton in January.

Three of the four original members of the Michigan band re-formed as the Stooges in 2003 and toured regularly for five years, including in Australia, but they played nothing from Raw Power because the band’s line-up changed after its first two albums, the Stooges and Funhouse. When the band became Iggy and the Stooges to make their third album in 1973, guitarist Ron Asheton was replaced by James Williamson and Asheton played bass.

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Vinyl Vlog have posted their 11th episode, this one featuring Joey Cape (Lagwagon, Bad Astronaut) and Jon Snodgrass (Drag the River, Armchair Martian)

The interview also features a contest to give away a split featuring both musicians and confirms the show’s first event, June 22nd 9pm at the Plough and Star in Cambridge. MA.

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Left Alone have posted the first video from their 2009 self-titled album,

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Evergreen Terrace has posted the album title and an update from the studio as they work on the follow up to 2007’s Wolfbiker:

We are almost finished tracking the music for our new record titled Almost Home and let me be the first to say that this record is not going to suck! Next week we head down to Audio Hammer Studios in Orlando, FL to start laying down vocals with metal mastermind, Jason Suecof. We are currently working on some US and European tour dates so keep your ears/eyes open.

If you live on Earth then we might be coming near your town once this record comes out.

Almost Home is expected later this year.
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Hunter, which features current and former members of Alexisonfire, Moneen, and Abandoned Hearts Club, has posted a new song to their MySpace page, along with a handful of demos and previously released material.

The band made their live debut last month opening for hardcore legends 108 and will be playing their second show ever this week as part Toronto’s all-ages Over The Top Fest.
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Halo of Snakes, who feature Rich Hoak (Brutal Truth), Brandon Wallace (ex-Champion / I Hate You), Matt Smith (ex-Hot Cross / Off Minor), Joey Angel (Hey Angel, Belegost) and engineer Dan O’Hare, have announced plans to record a debut demo in early June.

The band has been described as both “a gloriously ill-tempered mess” and “Bad Brains and Black Flag meets Black Sabbath and Rocket from the Crypt… but with that Philadelphia twist of course.”

They’ll play what seems to be their first show at Marvelous Music in west Philadelphia on May 27th.
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To many in the New York hardcore scene of the early to mid nineties, Serpico was an intriguing combination of melodic Dischord-esque harmonics and Jawbreaker style start and stop dynamics. The band, started as Sleeper and eventually, changed their name after getting paid off by the English band Sleeper (who kept the name and quickly faded into obscurity). Over the years members came and went at an alarming pace as the band played successful European tours, released seemingly hundreds of singles and several records, memorably on Excursion and C.I., the last on Equal Vision.

After the departure of original lead singer John Telenko (later of Darien and Amber Jets) he band went through more personnel turmoil, with the only constant being mainstay guitarist (and later lead vocalist) John Lisa. Lisa led the band on to what was perhaps their best record, the Rumble album on Equal Vision, before the band, tormented by personnel changes, infighting, and problems with Lisa’s conflicted feelings about his own closeted homosexuality, finally broke up in 1998. For years the band resisted any impetus to reunite as Lisa’s only musical forays were as a house music DJ! Now, after a hiatus of over a decade, the band has reunited for what may be their only new show, a reunion at Martini Red on Staten Island on January 17.

Brian Cogan caught up with John Lisa to find out the scoop on the reunion, and Serpico’s place in punk history. For the tour, the band will be a mixture of different eras with, consisting of: John Telenko: Vocals (later of Darien, Amber Jets), John Lisa: Guitar, Vocals, Michael Thomas DeLorenzo: Guitar (who later played in Kill Your Idols, Death Cycle and S.S.SP), Marc Treboschi: Bass (later of in Crowd) and Chris ‘Niser’ Guardino: Drums.
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Between Hot Water Music “reunions” and a solo-effort that has resulted in what promises to be an extremely prolific endeavor, Chuck Ragan, hasn’t really slowed down since he set out to do just that. Either way, his fans are luck for his decision to remain active. Punknews reader Dan Balada recently caught up with Ragan and asked him a few questions.

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Green Day has come into conflict with the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, over the content of their new album, 21st Century Breakdown. The superstore chain refused to stock the CD because they wanted a version of the album edited for language and content and the band refused.

Billie Joe Armstrong responded:

Wal-Mart’s become the biggest retail outlet in the country, but they won’t carry our record because they wanted us to censor it. There’s nothing dirty about our record. They want artists to censor their records in order to be carried in there. We just said no. We’ve never done it before. You feel like you’re in 1953 or something.

If you think about bands that are struggling or smaller than Green Day … to think that to get your record out in places like that, but they won’t carry it because of the content and you have to censor yourself. what does that say to a young kid who’s trying to speak his mind making a record for the first time? It’s like a game that you have to play. You have to refuse to play it.

Wal-Mart said that it’s the company’s long-standing policy not to stock any CD with a parental advisory sticker. While Armstrong, Dirnt and drummer Tre Cool are still top-sellers without Wal-Mart, Armstrong said the store’s policy is disappointing, considering it has become the dominant seller of CDs with the decline of traditional music stores.
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Philadelphia’s Dirty Tactics recently hit the studio to pen the followup to their 2008 EP, Gangster Stamina. The band’s Gary Viteri checks in with their studio progress. Not only that, but Dirty Tactics will be offering a free rough-mix of a song with each Dispatch. Tonight’s song comes in the form a a video

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The Falcon are promising some new material at Windy City Soundclash this Saturday. The band posted this update:

One important thing of note is that we’ll be trying out a new song this weekend. At this point we’re calling it, “Spit Shining Shit”. Elegant, no? Maybe some more new stuff too, who knows. The final kicker in regards to this upcoming show is that we’ve got the last copies of “Unicornography” on LP and the only place you can still get ’em will be at the merch table. That is until those lovable, lazy dongs at Red Scare re-press it, but still, come out to the show and drink with us.

We posted the schedule for the event this week.
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Doylestown, PA-based hardcore band War Pigs have announced some tour dates kicking off tonight.

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Kepi Ghoulie and Vic Ruggiero of The Slackers, have announced a split CD, to be released on Asian Man Records:

KEPI GHOULIE will be teaming up with VIC RUGGIERO to do a split release on CD. This will only be available through mailorder and at the respective artists live shows. We hope to debut it at the SLACKERS show in San Francisco on JUNE 4th. Let’s see if we can get it by then?

Kepi released American Gothic in 2008. Vic released Something in My Blindspot the same year.
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