Tom Gabel‘s making my job easy. Here’s another video update of Against Me! from his blog. Tom’s ben documenting the band’s progress as they work on the follow up to 2007’s polarizing major label debut, New Wave.
Earlier this year the band released the collection The Original Cowboy, which compiled demos for their 2003 full length As The Eternal Cowboy.
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The Scenics, an early Toronto-based punk / new wave act that ran from 1976 to 1982, are returning with a new (lost) record and a short tour. The band’s upcoming album is titled Sunshine World and features previously unreleased material, recorded to a four-track recorder between 1977 and 1978. It features 13 original songs along with covers of the Kinks and Tommy James and the Shondells. The record will be released on October 13th via Scratch/Sonic Unyon. A small handful of tour dates in Ontario and Quebec will support the release.
In their time the Scenics released one full length, 1979’s Underneath The Door, and more recently put out a collection of Velvet Underground covers titled How Does It Feel to Be Loved. An album of new material is expected next year as well. Bob Mersereau, author of The Top 100 Canadian Albums commented on the band:
It wasn’t so much that The Scenics were ahead of their time in 1977, it’s more that almost everybody else didn’t even know what time it was. The Scenics were on top of it though, grabbing the freedom promised by punk’s first blush, and incorporating their own smarts…New York has Talking Heads, and England was blessed with XTC, but here was their equal in Toronto and they never got the neccessary push and support. It’s fabulous we finally have the evidence, but it’s a drag we haven’t been able to enjoy it for the past 30 years.
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Self-described Libertarian punk act Right Arm of Wyoming have posted four tracks for streaming.
Check them out on their MySpace page.
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Rise Against have announced plans to celebrate their tenth anniversary with a special hometown show in Chicago, IL at The Metro. Set for December 18th, the show will include fellow Chicago punk band The Bollweevils as well as Noise By Numbers.
The event has been dubbed “Songs from the Fat Years” and will accordingly feature songs from the band’s two albums on Fat Wreck Chords, 2001’s The Unraveling and 2003’s Revolutions Per Minute. Proceeds from ticket sales will go to Chicago’s Intonation Music Workshop (IMW), a music education program that provides access to instruments, instruction, and performance opportunities for Chicago youth aged 6-17 in under-served neighborhoods.
Says Rise Against:
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost ten years since we first planted the seeds of what would eventually become Rise Against. To celebrate, we thought we’d dust off some songs we haven’t played in awhile and bring them to our favorite venue in the city that gave birth to this band. Whether you’re an old fan, a new fan of the old stuff, or in the dark about our Fat Wreck years, it promises to be a sweet night. If all goes well, we plan to make this an annual event in a different city with a different charity every year. Thanks for ten great years Chicago, onward!
The band released Appeal to Reason in 2008.
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Hailing from the east coast of Scotland, Joey Terrifying are among a new wave of UK DIY bands flourishing even in the face of perhaps the harshest economic climate since the 1930’s. Whilst the music industry continues to suffer a prolonged panic attack as a result of declining CD sales, DIY remains as vital a tool as ever. Punknews.org’s crackpotdemagogue caught up with Joey Terrifying vocalist/frontman Deeker Johnston to shoot the breeze about punk rock, DIY and Jane Austen.
Green Day‘s performance of “East Jesus Nowhere” from last night’s VMAs is available online. The band won awards for “Best Rock Video,” “Best Direction,” “Best Cinematography” for their song, “21 Guns” from 21st Century Breakdown.
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Our stream today comes from Washington, DC-based Lion of Judah. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new 7-inch, Number-rology.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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This fall Shook Ones and Title Fight are pairing up for a tour of the US east coast. The bands will trade off the headlining spot each evening. They’ll be joined on the trek by We Are the Union. Look for the events to kick off on November 2nd in Atlanta and run through the 14th in Boston.
Shooks will be supporting The Unquotable A.M.H., while Title Fight recently released their The Last Thing You Forget 7″ and collections CD on Run for Cover.
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Promoter Stuck In The City has announced the line up for the fourth annual Fucked Up Fest! weekend in Toronto. From Thursday October 29th through Saturday October 31st, Hog Town will play host to a number of acts across multiple venues, including (of course) Fucked Up, Cro-Mags, Iron Lung, Brutal Knights, Rival Mob, Waste Management, Free Spirit, Nomos, Urban Blight, Force Fed, Omegas, Mature Situations, Metz and more. Full line ups and schedules are expected to be announced soon.
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Orlando’s Gatorface have posted another new song from their forthcoming album, Wasted Monuments. It is the follow-up to the Sick and Stupid 10 inch, which was released in 2008.
Check it out on their MySpace page.
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Small Brown Bike has announced three upcoming reunion shows. The band will perform in Kalamazoo, MI on the 10th of October, to be followed in December by a show in Chicago and a date in Lansing, Michigan. Cheap Girls will support the December shows. It’s unknown at this time how many shows the band plans to perform. We’ll keep you updated.
Small Brown Bike broke up in 2004, a year after releasing their final album The River Bed. Over the years they issued material through No Idea Records, Second Nature Recordings and Lookout! Records. Ex-members went on to form bands such as Able Baker Fox and LaSalle. The band first reunited in 2007 for a couple of shows, including an appearance at The Fest 6 in Gainesville, FL.
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Social Distortion has announced a change in the line up for their upcoming tour. UK punk act TAT has dropped off the tour due to unforeseen circumstances, to be replaced by Sacramento’s Middle Class Rut. Los Angeles’ Strangers remain on the bill as was previously announced. You can find the dates in our earlier article.
Social Distortion continues supporting their 2004 release Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll. Frontman Mike Ness recently noted that the band plans to enter the studio in either December of this year or early 2010 to record some new material.
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Loren Cass, a punk rock-influenced film first reported on in 2003 has picked up distribution and is being screened in Los Angeles at Laemmle Sunset 5 on Sunset Blvd. The movie is described as “a gritty tale of growing up and fading out. The film follows Cale, Nicole, and Jason through a few weeks of alcohol abuse and loneliness as they struggle to find what’s missing.” The movie features a live show by Leftover Crack and contributions from Keith Morris and Blag Dahlia
The New York Times had this to say about the film:
Overtly, ingeniously experimental in form, “Loren Cass” cuts among these three and an assortment of local wasted youth in an elliptical, intuitive manner, alternating listless scenes of opaque introspection and booze-fueled bumming around with sharp bursts of violence. The movie is a tour de force of mood and milieu, marshalling a hundred vivid details of landscape: parking lots, packing crates, shopping carts, peeling wallpaper, broken bottles, cheap salads, over-lighted diners, oily garages.
For information on New York showings, visit Laemmle.
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