Alt-country act The Weight are set to hit the road in the US this fall in support of their recent album Are Men. The band kicked things off a few days ago and will be touring up through the middle of September.
In addition to the recent full length The Weight have pressed an extremely limited (300 copies) version of their new self-titled record. .
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Fake Problems have posted their video for the song “Diamond Rings” from their latest SideOneDummy full length It’s Great to Be Alive.
The Florida-based band also recently released a split 7″ with Ninja Gun on Sabot.
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The Loved Ones frontman Dave Hause has posted a new song at his personal MySpace page. “Prague (Revive Me)” can be heard here.
Hause recently entered the studio to record his first solo album, and will be playing a handful of dates on this year’s incarnation of the Revival Tour.
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After Asian Man Records recently confirmed that Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba was planning a new solo album comes the news that recording for the album is imminent. Matt posted this on his MySpace page:
So it is definitely happening. I will be recording a new solo album at the end of August. Not sure of a release date yet, but it’s happening. Asian Man Records will be releasing the new record. It’s nice to be back with family.
Alkaline Trio will be self-releasing their next album after a short stay with Sony BMG. Matt’s previous solo release was a split CD with Kevin Seconds.
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Having just wrapped up a three month-long North American tour, Orlando, FL-area group No Harm Done has decided to call it a day. Vocalist Matt Cantwell provided the following statement:
“These past few years have been nothing short of amazing, and I wouldn’t change a single thing. Thank you to anyone who ever supported this band. First off, I want to apoligize to everyone else in No Harm Done. I have been losing touch with you, and at the same time I have become more bitter. I take full responsibility for everyone’s discontent. I realize we will never agree on certain things, and that’s ok. I’m glad this ended the way it did. We played our last show on August 19th, 2009 in Tallahassee, Florida.”
The band’s final full-length, 2008’s Escape, is streaming at their Punknews.org page.
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Poison the Well have added a few more dates to their upcoming tour schedule. The band will hit up Loud Park Festival in Japan on October 17 with Slayer, Megadeth, Judas Priest and other heavyhitters, and then depart for a short run in Australia a few days later.
The band is in the midst of a trek with Vanna and This Time Next Year in the southeast area, and also have a wider-spanning U.S. tour with Billy Talent scheduled for next month.
They recently released The Tropic Rot.
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Hepcat Records has announced plans to reissue full discographies from The Gears and D.I.. The two bands shared vocalist Axxel G. Reese and drummer Dave Drive and so the label is packaging the catalogue together on a single double CD album.
The record is titled Rockin’ at Ground Zero (Deluxe Edition) and is due out September 8, 2009. The album features the complete 1980 LP packaged with the first single (“Let’s Go to the Beach”) as well as five never-before-released demo recordings from 1979, a total of 23 Gears songs, all remastered. This edition also contains Rare Cuts!, 22 studio recordings by The D.I.s, including the entire Billy Zoom-produced five-song 12″ vinyl EP Lock and Load.
Individual reissues and vinyl are also being produced. You can find some details on those here.
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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…
Fans were shocked this month as after 20 years, nine albums and thousands of shows, vocalist Jim Lindberg left Pennywise. The band will however continue on, with the remaining three members in search of a new singer. Former Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil frontman Blake Schwarzenbach has put a fork in his new band Thorns of Life. The short lived and much buzzed about act leaves behind no studio work, but they do have a successor. Schwarzenbach’s new band is forgetters, a band which apparently includes former Against Me! drummer Kevin Mahon. AFI has unveiled the track listing and cover art for Crash Love. The album’s due on September 29th and is the band’s first since 2006’s Decemberunderground. Nirvana was in the news a few times this week. The band’s debut full length Bleach is headed for a deluxe reissue on Sub Pop. A plaque in honor of late frontman Kurt Cobain also stirred controversy in his hometown of Aberdeen, Washington. Town officials aren’t happy with the language in the engraved “drugs are bad for you, they will fuck you up” quote.
The Lawrence Arms] have titled their upcoming 7-inch Buttsweat and Tears. Converge detailed their upcoming full length Axe to Fall, due on October 20th. Banner Pilot has posted another song from their Fat Wreck debut Collapser, titled “Skeleton Key.” Broadway Calls streamed their new full length “Midnight Hour.” Weezer has unveiled their first single from their new album, dubbed “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To.” Scranton, PA’s Captain, We’re Sinking! posted a free download of their new demo online. This week also brought new music from Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. The lineup for Riot Fest West includes bands like Screeching Weasel, Dead Milkmen, Adolescents, and Naked Raygun. Fun Fun Fun Fest adds Fucked Up, and D.R.I. among others. Have Heart also detailed their final show with Bane, and Shipwreck a.d..
This week we said goodbye to Lit drummer Allen Shellenberger (1970-2009).
This week we spoke with Jake Kolatis of The Casualties (interview), Aaron Scott of Attica! Attica! (interview), Frank Turner (interview part 2), and Eric Solomon of O Pioneers!!! (interview).
Our Food Not Songs series of punk rock recipies featured John Peck of American Steel‘s Squash Blossoms Rangoon. This week’s Editors’ Picks recommended music from Sainthood Reps and The Republic of Wolves. As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the new full length from Seattle’s The Spits, the new record from New York street punks The Casualties, San Francisco, CA’s Heartsounds, and Punknews community-spawned monstrosity the Sandwiches.
So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Intro5pect, Municipal Waste, Shonen Knife, Soul Control, The Casualties, and The Methadones with tours kicking off from the Mars Volta (US), Earth Crisis with many others (Europe) Motorhead (A Href=”http://www.punknews.org/article/34135″>US / Canada), Fake Problems (Europe), Four Year Strong with Crime in Stereo, Fireworks and A Loss for Words (US), and The Static Age (Europe).
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San Francisco’s Low Red Land are headed out on tour. On some of the tour they’ll be joined by Appomattox and Jared Grabb of Scout’s Honor. They’ll be stopping by The FEST.
The band is supporting their 2008 release Dog’s Hymns (editor’s note: a fantastic piece of music).
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Conceptual Massachusetts hardcore act Defeater have entered the studio to record a new six-song, double 7″ EP dubbed Lost Ground.
The songs, being tracked at Getaway Recording Studio for the next month, will focus on the “prophet” from the song “Prophet in Plain Clothes,” which comes from their debut full-length, 2008’s Travels (Topshelf).
Guitarist Jay Maas commented:
I think it’s going to be a more dynamically interesting record than our last and it will take a few extra chances songwriting-wise. I was pretty pleased with ‘Travels’ but we never want to make the same record twice.”
Bridge Nine has already set a November 17 street date for the release.
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The report is in that Thorns of Life have officially broken up.
The incredibly short-lived and much-buzzed about act was the new musical project for former Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil frontman Blake Schwarzenbach. The lineup was filled out by former Gr’ups bassist / The L Word co-star Daniela Sea and Bay Area figurehead Aaron Cometbus (ex-Crimpshrine / current Pinhead Gunpowder). The trio played a handful of shows, including a brief west coast tour.
Rumors have also circulated that the band had recorded a full-length, Legislators and Prophets, with noted producer J. Robbins. However, one source reports that sessions with Robbins did not go smoothly, while Schwarzenbach promises flatly on his Facebook page that “there is no thorns album… it never got recorded.”
Schwarzenbach has, however, already launched his new project: forgetters, properly typeset as is. The band apparently includes former Against Me! drummer Kevin Mahon, as well as bassist Caroline (no last name given), and played their first show last night in Crown Heights, a neighborhood in central Brooklyn.
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Orgcore superstars Boys Like Girls will head out on a headlining tour in October. They’ll be joined by Cobra Starship, the Maine, A Rocket to the Moon and VersaEmerge.
Their next record is titled Love Drunk and is due out September 8. Cobra Starship recently released Hot Mess on Decaydance. The Maine is supporting last year’s Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop on Fearless. A Rocket to the Moon’s debut full-length, On Your Side is due out October 13. VersaEmerge released a self-titled EP earlier this year on Fueled by Ramen.
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The Black Dahlia Murder will head out on a fall headlining tour with Toxic Holocaust, Trap Them and Skeletonwitch in tow.
The Black Dahlia Murder will be supporting Deflorate, which is due out September 15. Toxic Holocaust last released An Overdose of Death… on Relapse in 2008. Prosthetic‘s Trap Them will begin recording their label debut in the winter, following on 2008’s Seizures in Barren Praise (Deathwish), while labelmates Skeletonwitch have their new effort, Breathing the Fire, due out October 13.
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