Darkest Hour has posted their new album The Eternal Return The album is the follow-up to 2007’s Deliver Us and their first album with new guitarist Mike “Lonestar” Carrigan.
Check it out on their Myspace Page.
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In addition to their previously announced west coast tour dates (and new album news), The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have added two east coast shows for August.
The band’s most recent release is the 2007 collection Medium Rare, while 2002’s A Jackknife To A Swan was their last proper full-length.
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Strung Out have posted the first two video studio diaries from their recording sessions. The band is working on their next full length and follow up to Blackhawks Over Los Angeles from 2007. Since then, they’ve also released their second b-sides/rarities collection, Prototypes and Painkillers.
This Wednesday, Philly will play host to a rad show with a line-up of Lemuria, Amateur Party, Everyone Everywhere, Cheap Girls and Restorations. Our friends at Heyday have been gracious enough to supply 2 tickets to one lucky Punknews reader.
The show will take place this Wednesday, June 24th, at the Khyber Upstairs (recently moved from the Adobe Upstairs). The venue is located 56 S 2nd St in Philadelphia. The show starts at 7pm, and if you don’t win, tickets are $10.
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Green Day has posted the new video for their track, “21 Guns.” The video was directed by Marc Webb, who is making his feature film directorial debut in July with (500) Days of Summer. The song comes from 21st Century Breakdown.
Shook Ones guitarist Kelly Aiken recently sat down with…Shook Ones vocalist Scott Freeman. The two, as you might guess, discuss with Punknews (sort of) their new record, The Unquotable A.M.H., providing in-depth commentary on a few songs, the joys of touring and recording, and things you never needed to know about Rivers Cuomo.
The Unquotable A.M.H. was recently released via Paper + Plastick.
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Portland, OR’s Wooden Teeth have posted three new songs. The new band features Mike Shanahan, previously of Lock And Key who last released a self-titled full-length in 2008 before calling it a day.
Check out “Guilty/Innocent”, “Game Without Ending” and “Pride and Purpose” at the band’s myspace page.
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Los Angeles, CA’s Majority Lost has released a new EP entitled …Falls off the Bandwagon via Horns Up Records.
Three songs from the EP can be streamed at the band’s myspace page.
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Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I’m Adam White and I’ll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here’s what got the community talking this week…
This week Against Me! unveiled that George Rebelo of Hot Water Music has joined the band as their new drummer. Rebelo replaces the recently departed Warren Oakes, who left the band after a number of years to, at least in part, focus on his new Mexican restaurant. Blink-182‘s high profile reunion continues to roll along. Tom Delonge discussed the Rush and Pink Floyd inspired new song that they plan to unveil on tour, along with a free film and album from his other project Angels and Airwaves titled Love. Anti-Flag protest California’s Proposition 8 with a new 7-inch EP on Fat Wreck Chords. The band will also be joined by Alexisonfire as co-headliners on the forthcoming Eastpak Antidote Tour. With the start of this year’s Warped Tour imminent there’s lots of news from that camp. Popular video game Rock Band is promising the release of Warped-themed track packs, while NOFX is set to be featured on the upcoming Warped Tour comp with an unreleased song. In other festival news the lineup for Riot Fest has been expanded to feature Butthole Surfers, New Bomb Turks, Off With Their Heads, 88 Fingers Louie, and Pegboy.
Many bands are hard at work on new records. Face To Face is writing and plans to hit the studio in July. Cobra Skulls detailed the art and track listing for the July release of American Rubicon. The Lawrence Arms will enter the studio soon to record a new 7″. Moneen‘s next will be The World I Want to Leave Behind and will arrive on September 15th. Polar Bear Club detailed their upcoming Chasing Hamburg. Finally Glassjaw looks to have completed their new EP. The Mad Caddies have tour dates set for California and Europe soon. Naked Raygun, Paint It Black and Shot Baker will tour together this September. Rx Bandits posted a new song from their forthcoming record Mandala titled “Hope Is A Butterfly, Not Net Its Captor.” Set Your Goals unveiled the track “Gaia Bleeds” from their Epitaph debut, featuring Jon Gula of Turmoil. This week brought us video footage of the Gaslight Anthem performing “Live on the Interface” as well as Rancid on the Tonight Show playing “Last One To Die.”
Punknews.org will be represented this year at the 2009 San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 19th. The current team features Punknews readers, staff from Fat Wreck Chords and our pal Mike Park of Asian Man Records. You can register here or make a general donation here.
Our Dispatches series of band blogs featured Cleveland, Ohio’s The Sidekicks (Episode 3). We also featured Episode 11 of Mike Hale‘s ongoing tour diary “For Those Still Standing.”
This week we spoke with solo artist Warped Tour mastermind Kevin Lyman (interview), Chris Wollard of the Draft, Hot Water Music and most recently Chris Wollard and The Ship Thieves (interview), and the legendary Keith Morris of Black Flag and the Circle Jerks (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new song “No Rest” from St. Catharines, Ontario’s Alexisonfire, the new full length from Calgary, Alberta’s This Is A Standoff, and Minneapolis’ the Gateway District (members of the Soviettes, Banner Pilot, Off with Their Heads, Rivethead). So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Alexisonfire, Classics Of Love, Bouncing Souls, Darkest Hour, Dinosaur Jr., Future of the Left, Spinnerette and the Lemonheads with tours kicking off from Brand New / Moneen (UK), Squirtgun (US / Europe), Sick Of It All (Europe), Teen Idols / The Leftovers (US), Fake Problems with Kiss Kiss, Ninja Gun (US / Canada), Sonic Youth (US), and Subhumans (UK) / Ray Gradys / Witch Hunt (Canada / US). This week also marks the kick off of the 2009 Warped Tour featuring bands like Bad Religion, NOFX, Bouncing Souls, Less Than Jake, Anti-Flag and many others.
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Brian: Restorations feature three-fifths of gruff, quirky post-hardcore revivalists Jena Berlin. While similarities between the two are present enough to bridge the gap for JB fans, there are plenty of atmospheric flourishes and a wonderful restraint to Restorations’ procedure to sensibly warrant them being their own truly unique and self-standing project. You can hear hints of admitted influences like Lucero and the Weakerthans in there, but there’s a surprising sparkle in the guitars that reaches far past any home/prarie-land punk acts. I like to think of them as what might’ve happened if Polar Bear Club took it in another whole direction after their demo release (that just woke mikexdude up from his Sunday nap).
I probably should have featured them a long time ago, but something recently jogged my memory and I noticed they finally had legitimate songs on their MySpace page after a long period of only providing live YouTube videos. They’ve been active for over a year, but no real demo or release has seemed to surface; here’s to hoping they get their asses in gear while JB continues resting.
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Mountain Men, who feature ex-members of Massachusetts hardcore acts Last Lights and Move Ahead, have posted a stream of their four-song demo. You can check it out on their newly launched MySpace page.
Lyrics are also available at this blog posting.
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The Dear Hunter have posted two more songs from their forthcoming album, Act III: Life and Death which is due out June 23, 2009. It follows Act II: The Meaning of, And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading.
You can check out the songs on their myspace page.
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Copeland, Sherwood and Anchor & Braille will be touring together in July.
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