Friday, July 10 2009

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Penny Rimbaud (Crass)

Crass Ever since I first heard Crass I try to incorporate them into anything I write, even if it’s just a name drop. I’m serious about this; just do a search on the internet, and you’ll find that I even incorporated their name in a piece I wrote involving Katy Perry. They’re that great.

For those of you who are new to the name, Crass were one of the many anarcho-punk bands springing up in the UK in the eighties, and probably the most important one. They were truly a political machine who meticulously thought out every action in their relatively short-lived life together as a band. So, when I was granted an interview with Penny Rimbaud (drums), I felt truly honored.

When I actually spoke to him, Penny sounded like a calm, friendly, articulate, and very forward thinking individual, which made learning of the impending doom facing Dial House (the farm/commune the band lived in, and where Penny still lives) and the Crass catalog a little harder to deal with. What follows is the transcript of the chat I had with Penny last Sunday.

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Shudder to Think to release live album

Influential post-punk/post-hardcore act Shudder to Think have announced plans to release their first ever live album. The record is titled Live From Home and is due out September 15, 2009 via Conor Oberst’s Team Love label.

In the fall of 2008, ten years after the band’s breakup, Shudder To Think reunited and embarked on a limited number of tour dates. The lineup for these live recordings was: Craig Wedren, Nathan Larson, Kevin March, Jesse Krakow and Mark Watrous.

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Living Things Set to Play the Ramones in Upcoming Runaways Film

Living Things Garage rock act Living Things have been enlisted to play the Ramones in the forthcoming biopic of The Runaways. Production on the film began earlier this year and Kristen Stewart of Twilight has been cast as Joan Jett.

Living Things spoke to Spinner about how it came together:

[Frontman] Lillian [Berlin]’s wife, Floria [Sigismondi] is directing the film. She asked us if we wanted to be in the Ramones in a scene that takes place at Rodney Bingenheimer’s English disco.

The challenge, according to the band was:

Pretending like you don’t give a s— about you’re wearing, even though you know Johnny Ramone obsessed over their image.

The film is expected in 2010.
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Anti- signs Dead Man’s Bones

Anti- Records has signed Dead Man’s Bones, a new project from actors Zach Shields and Ryan Gosling. The project began as a soundtrack to a a play about a monster-ghost-love-story. The duo scrapped the stage show when costs because prohibitive but decided to use the songs they had written. The pair chose to play all the instruments on the record, even those they had never touched before.

The band promises “a striking collection of doo-wop songs about werewolves, haunting melodies telling tales of zombies with broken hearts, and children singing the joys and pains of being alive or being dead.

Check out some music on their myspace page.
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Thrice to debut song in Guitar Hero: World Tour

Thrice will debut the first single from their forthcoming album, Beggars, exclusively in Guitar Hero: World Tour. The song will be part of the Vagrant Records three song pack which will also feature new music from Alexisonfire and Senses Fail.

Thrice is featuring “All The World Is Mad” which will be released on Beggars in October. Alexisonfire will include “Young Cardinals” from Old Crows / Young Cardinals released this year. Senses Fail rounds out the package with the song, “The Martyr” which is previously unreleased.

The pack is due out July 23rd.
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Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Sid and Nancy

Will Arnett, Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Milo Ventimiglia and Channing Tatum have signed up for Mean Magazine’s Cinemash, which re-creates scenes from well-known movies in short online films.

The first video features Deschanel and Gordon-Levitt recreating a scene from the 1986 Gary Oldman/Chloe Webb classic, Sid & Nancy.

Check out the Sid & Nancy clip here.
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