The Lawrence Arms have announced a week-long tour of the west coast in November. Joining them will be Cobra Skulls and new labelmates Teenage Bottlerocket. The Lawrence Arms recently entered the studio to record a new EP, while Teenage Bottlerocket’s debut for Fat is expected out later this year and Cobra Skulls’ new record American Rubicon dropped yesterday (and is streaming at the band’s Punknews.org page).
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Spanish Gamble have been at work recording their first full length for Paper + Plastick. In the meantime, the band has made two of the demos from the recording sessions available for free download.
The band recorded the songs at Roger Manganelli’s (Less Than Jake, Rehasher) studio, Moat House Studios. Manganelli has also been helping the band pen some songs for the forthcoming album.
You can download The Moat House Sessions here.
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Mark Hoppus (Blink 182, Plus 44) and Chris Holmes have posted their remix of Sweden’s Peter Bjorn and John.
Download the song via Mark’s blog.
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Saosin will release In Search of Higher Ground on September 8, 2009. The band worked with producer Butch Walker (Sevendust, Fall Out Boy, P!nk) on five songs, John Feldman (The Used, Good Charlotte, Story Of The Year) who produced two tracks and with Lucas Banker/Logan Mader (Five Finger Death Punch, Soulfly, Machine Head) on one album track. Band guitarist Beau Burchell mixed all songs on In Search of Higher Ground.
Yep Roc has announced a new album from Reverend Horton Heat. The record is their first (non-holiday) album since 2004’s Revival and is described as the “‘billy’ side of rockabilly,” with more influence from mid-20th century country music.
The album will be released September 1, 2009 and a deluxe edition will feature a custom metal speedometer packaging designed by Gamil Design, a bonus CD of some of artists covering The RHH songs and a commemorative shot glass. The band will kick off a tour for the album with headlining dates in the US followed by a US tour with Motorhead getting underway 8/28 in Minneapolis.
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Franz Nicolay of World/Inferno Friendship Society, The Hold Steady and his own solo project, has written a detailed and researched look back at the legendary Subhumans.
Here’s an excerpt:
Like Zappa, Dick’s default lyrical mode is face-value anti-culture sarcasm; but there are two other increasingly apparent, related, and slightly mystical strains. The first is a fascination with fantastical, Kafka-esque transformation. The guitar-gothic nightmare “Wake Up Screaming” strikes themes of Ovidian, even alchemical metamorphosis: “I don’t think I am what I was before”.
“Us Fish Must Swim Together” is a swinging creation tale with a back-to-basics moral, in which “we are descended from fish” means literally that (“If we progress much further/We’ll put our lives at risk/We’re starting to destroy ourselves/With pollution, war, and greed/When food and sex and water/Is all we really need”). “Heads Of State” evokes a Lewis Carroll allegory, a strange vision of literally-replaceable “heads of state” that aren’t “screwed on”.
Check out the whole thing via Impose Magazine.
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The Story Changes have posted two new tracks from Analogies, the new split album with Let Go (The Stereo, Pollen) on Future Destination Records.
Check out “Move Forward” and “New Ground” on their Myspace page.
More info on Analogies can be found at the newly launched album site .
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Fallen From The Sky have posted a new demo from their forthcoming album.
Check out “Wolves” on their myspace page.
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According to a Chicago Breaking News Center report, the alleged founder of infamous punk/hardcore gang FSU has been arrested.
Accused of extortion is Elgin Nathan James of Righteous Jams who appeared in the Boston Beatdown DVD series, National Geographic’s documentary on Straight Edge and also shot a film Goodnight Moon with Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy . Authorities allege James started the FSU street gang in Boston the 1990s to establish control over the punk rock scene there.
The alleged extortion took place when an undisclosed band was on tour in 2005 and 2006, prosecutors say. The victim was attacked in Boston and was told he could stop further attacks by making a $5,000 “donation” to FSU, according to the court.
You can find more information here.
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On August 11, 2009, The Mylene Sheath will be releasing the highly anticipated new album from Caspian. The record is titled Tertia and the label has provided some copies of the record on limited vinyl and CD for three lucky winners.
A tour has been announced with A Day To Remember, Parkway Drive, In Fear and Faith and I See Stars.
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In a new feature that is relatively safe for work (it’s hosted on Playboy.com but is otherwise pretty clean) Dinosaur Jr. talked about their love of The Cure and performed their famous cover of “Just Like Heaven.” The cover was originally released on a EP titled “Just Like Heaven” and also on the 2005 reissue of Dinosaur Jr.’s SST Records release, You’re Living All Over Me.
Check it out here.
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