Star Fucking Hipsters have announced their upcoming touring schedule. The band will be hitting the road in support of their sophomore album, Never Rest in Peace due out October 20, 2009. It is the follow up to Until We’re Dead.
The run will be supported by Citizen Fish and Molotov Compromise.
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These Arms Are Snakes have posted a stream of their new digital single, “Washburn.” The song was originally released as part of a single with Touch and Go Records‘ All The Saints on a very limited vinyl single. Now, a year later, the label has issued the single as a digital-only release featuring TAAS’ “Washburn” and All the Saints’ “Host.”
Check out the song here or grab it on iTunes via this link.
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Though it was originally said that Courtney Love was actively involved with the creation of the Kurt Cobain graphics in Activision‘s Guitar Hero 5, Love is apparently unhappy with the game and is threatening legal action.
On her Twitter page she said:
For the record this Guitar Hero shit is breach of contract on a Bullys part and there will be a proper addressing of this and retraction. We are going to sue the shit out of ACtivision we being the Trust the Estate the LLC the various LLCs Cobain Enterprises.
Activision’s vice president Tim Riley had discussed how Courtney Love, Dave Grohl and Universal publishing had together signed a deal securing Cobain’s appearance in the popular game, with the tracks “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Lithium” to be included. Riley even claimed that Love had herself been involved in the creation of the virtual Cobain.
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BYO Records keeps rolling out the band combinations for their upcoming Let Them Know boxed set via weekly e-cards. This week they’re streaming Lower Class Brats covering The Joneses, Dropkick Murphys taking on Youth Brigade‘s “Fight To Unite”, In The Red playing Leatherface‘s “Little White God”, Shark Soup playing Pegboy, American Steel covering the Alkaline Trio, and The Ignorant taking on Hepcat. The songs appear on the LP that accompanies the set.
Let Them Know: The Story Of Youth Brigade and BYO Records features a DVD release of the full-length documentary Let Them Know, directed by Jeff Alulis (Do You Remember? 15 Years of the Bouncing Souls, NOFX‘s Backstage Passport). The aforementioned double LP, is a 31 track audio compilation of bands covering songs from the BYO catalogue. The LP and DVDs will come packaged with a full-color, hardcover coffee table book further celebrating the label’s history.
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The Swellers have posted “2009” from their Fueled By Ramen Records debut, Ups and Downsizing, due out September 29, 2009.
The Flint, MI-based band will be hitting the road with Paramore this fall, kicking off in Pomona, CA also on September 29th. The band will play a handful of one-off dates with The Ataris, This Providence, Broadway Calls, The Years Gone By, and more as well as hitting The Fest 8.
Check out “2009” on their MySpace page.
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The Red Chord have posted the new song from their upcoming album, Fed Through the Teeth Machine. The record is due out October 27, 2009. It is the follow-up to Prey for Eyes which was released in 2007.
Check out the song on their MySpace page.
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Having formed in 1991 in San Fransisco, Pansy Division were the pop-punk pioneer in the “homo-core” movement. The band was a Lookout! Records staple. Touring with Green Day at the height of their “Dookie” popularity just further added to the exposure Pansy Division would get and only made their voice, that much louder. It’s not often that a band as socially important as Pansy Division comes along. They have had a very busy first half of the year, between a new LP, a book and a DVD, Pansy Division are as busy as ever. Michael Kane caught up with Jon Ginoli singer and co-founder of Pansy Division.
As Aaron Scott’s solo project Attica Attica got ready to release its second abum, Napalm & Nitrogen (available from Red Leader Records here), Scott decided to take a fairly unorthodox approach to touring. Scott along with some friends will be touring down the East coast on their bikes. The tour, entitled “Ditch The Van” is being done to raise money for World Bicycle Relief. Scott will be providing Punknews with a series of Dispatches as he and his crew work their way through the tour.
Tonight, Scott discusses his pre-trip preparation.
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Suburban Home Records has announced that they will be distributing the latest project from Murder By Death, an instrumental score for a science fiction/fantasy/horror novel entitled Finch, written by Jeff Vandermeer. The band elaborated on the project:
“Jeff approached Murder By Death about doing a soundtrack to go with the limited edition of his new book, and we thought it was such a strange idea we had to do it. The book reminds us of Bladerunner- with spore-faced bad guys. Bitchin’. We locked ourselves up in our friend’s studio (Farm Fresh) here in Bloomington, IN for 5 days and wrote and recorded an instrumental album inspired by the book. Our old pianist Vincent Edwards lent his hand(s) at the piano, organs, and Rhodes. Each song is attempting to recreate a scene or mood from the book.”
The soundtrack will be released on the band’s own Tent Show Records. Murder By Death’s last proper full-length was 2008’s Red of Tooth and Claw, issued by Vagrant. Cover art and a synopsis for the book itself can be found here.
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We’re happy to bring you the 15th column from Mike Hale. Earlier in the year Mike packed up all his belongings and headed out on the road with no plans to return. We’re pleased to bring you his dispatches.
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Maine hardcore outfit Outbreak have posted a new song. “HL” comes from the band’s upcoming self-titled full-length for Think Fast! Records, due out November 10, 2009 and first detailed here.
Check out the song at the band’s MySpace page.
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In a event today, Apple unveiled their latest salvo against physical media with the iTunes LP. The product is designed to encourage more full album downloads from the store rather than the single song releases which largely dominate iTunes.
Accordingly, the company is bundling lyrics, liner notes, video, photos and “more.” While the “more” is unclear, at the very least, it will include extras like interactive booklets and other bonus material. In the past few years, CD sales have decreased significantly and digital services like iTunes and Amazon have taken over significant chunks of the market.
Interestingly, in the past few years, actual vinyl has had a minor resurgence, with both independent retailers like Vinyl Collective and Interpunk selling more vinyl, and at the same time, large retailers like Best Buy devoting shelf space to the venerable format.
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Rehasher have released their second album, High Speed Access to MyBrain, on CD, vinyl and digitally. The band has also posted a new track from the record, “Turn Around,” for streaming on their MySpace page.
Stream or preview the record via iTunes here.
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