NME has posted a video of Brian Fallon from The Gaslight Anthem performing an acoustic rendition of “Casanova, Baby!”.
The song comes from the band’s 2008 breakthrough full-length, The ’59 Sound, which they’ll be supporting with an extensive North American tour kicking off this Tuesday in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Mere weeks after releasing their first 7″, Gary Glitter through It’s Alive Records, The Methadones have already unveiled another 7″, this time via Underground Communique. The record features a new track entitled “Exit 17” as well as a reworked version of “I Believe”, which appeared in its original form on the band’s 2007 full-length, This Won’t Hurt…
Check out the record here.
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The Damned have announced a short run of American dates around Halloween, with a costume contest judged by the band planned for the Halloween show in Seattle, WA. The legendary and long-running English act last released So, Who’s Paranoid? in 2008.
Deep Elm Records has posted a label sampler for free download. Defending The Kingdom features tracks from the likes of Latterman, Appleseed Cast, Sounds Like Violence, Slowride, Burns Out Bright, Settlefish, Desert City Soundtrack, Clair de Lune, Small Arms Dealer and several others.
Check out the sampler 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…
In the wake of Jim Lindberg’s departure comes word that Ignite vocalist Zoli Teglas will temporarily front Pennywise. He’ll appear with the band at the two day Cypress Hill’s Smokeout Fest. We’ve also had word that Sublime intends to reunite for that event. Our best guess is they’ve got Black Lantern Bradley Nowell fronting them (too soon?). forgetters, the new band that features Jawbreaker / Jets to Brazil frontman Blake Schwarzenbach and original Against Me! drummer Kevin Mahon, is set to play a show this September in NYC. Speaking of Against Me! this week saw frontman Tom Gabel post a few videos of the band in the studio.
The Riot Before has signed to Paper and Plastick. The group plans to hit the studio this winter to record a new full length. Punk veterans Bad Religion are repressing some early albums on vinyl. Lucero posted the new song “Smoke” from their upcoming album 1372 Overton Park, due in October. The 4th Annual Red Oktoberfest in Chicago will feature bands like the Lawrence Arms, Off With Their Heads, the Copyrights, La Plebe, Smalltown, the Menzingers, Mike Park and the Reganomics (Ryan’s Hope). The Misfits have a huge tour lined up with dates in Mexico, the US, and Canada. Guttermouth is headed to the great white north. The Bronx‘ new sideproject Mariachi El Bronx will support the Killers on tour. Finally Blink-182 has postponed shows following the death of band friend DJ AM.
This week we spoke with vocalist Thomas Barnett of Strike Anywhere (interview), the voice of geek America Rev. Norb of Boris the Sprinkler (interview), guitarist Chris Chasse of Nations Afire (interview), and drummer Lee Barrett of Gallows (interview).
Paint it Black, Polar Bear Club and Set Your Goals topped the list of Your Favorite Records from August. Our Food Not Songs series of punk rock recipes featured Fake Problems making “It’s Great To Be Shepherds Pie.” As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including the Sidekicks‘ new full length for Red Scare Records, the new EP from Rochester, NY’s Sakes Alive!!, the new full length from Chicago’s The Bomb, and the final full length from Brooklyn’s Nakatomi Plaza.
So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Polar Bear Club, Saosin, Ruiner, Vivian Girls, and Cuff The Duke with tours kicking off from Every Time I Die with Bring Me the Horizon, Oh, Sleeper, Architects (North America), Gaslight Anthem with Murder By Death, the Loved Ones, Frank Turner, the Measure SA (North America), Naked Raygun with Paint It Black and Shot Baker (US), Angry Samoans with Dirty Tactics (US), And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead with Secret Machines and Future of the Left (US), and These Arms Are Snakes with dd/mm/yy (North America).
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Teenage Bottlerocket has their upcoming album now streaming on their MySpace page.
The record is titled They Came from the Shadows and is due out September 15.
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Baroness have announced their fall headlining tour. The band will be joined on various legs by Earthless, Iron Age, U.S. Christmas and Dark Castle.
The band’s next album is titled Blue Record and is due out October 13.
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Struck by Lightning has launched a full stream of their new full-length, Serpents. You can check it out here.
The record was released last week on Translation Loss.
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Saosin will headline this year’s PacTour, set to kick off in November. The band will be joined by Innerpartysystem, P.O.S. and Eye Alaska. Local “battle of the band” contest winners will open each respective date.
Saosin’s next album, In Search of Higher Ground, is due out this Tuesday, September 8. Innerpartysystem released a self-titled album on Island last year, though they parted ways with the label this past June. P.O.S. issued Never Better earlier this year. Eye Alaska recently released Genesis Underground on Fearless.
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Deathwish has inked veteran hardcore/metal act Starkweather.
The band’s first release for the label will be a split with France’s Overmars. Starkweather discussed the material that’s set to appear on the record:
Our contributions to the album are “Armed Memory”, a seven and a half minute long jagged and aggressive song in the vein of “Machine Rhythm Confessional” from Croatoan and the second song “Nightmare Factory”, a Black Sabbath by way of Fear Of God meeting Ved Buens Ende dirge that courses nearly 14 minutes. “Nightmare” was planned to appear on Croatoan but the version we recorded was sub par and thusly shelved. Both songs are dense, claustrophobic, and evoke the paranoia that fueled their writing; containing layer upon layer of guitar, vocals that ebb and flow with the twisting rhythmic passages, and the near telekinetic foundation of the Rosa brothers backline.
The band’s following release will be a full-length, This Sheltering Night, described by the band thusly:
[This] was actually recorded before the split with Overmars at various sessions throughout 2007-2008 at DeadVerse Studios. This is six Starkweather songs (“Bustuari,” “Epiphany,” “All Creatures Damned And Divine,” “Broken From Inside,” “Martyring,” and “One Among Vermin”) and features soundscape interludes created by artist and musician Elizabeth Jacobs, under her guise as Sophia Perennis, and Oktopus from Dalek. Also adding textural flourishes on some songs is Forbes Graham, ex Kayo Dot and long-time auxillary member Bill Molchanow. The entire album can be played as one continuous 73:41 piece or as separate tracks. A release date and other specifics will also be announced soon.
It won’t be the first time Oktopus has contributed to a hardcore record, as he received a co-producer credit on Paint It Black’s 2008 effort New Lexicon.
Starkweather is also planning splits with Singapore’s Little Girl Terrorist and California’s thousandswillide, as well as another full-length the band has already written three songs for.
No word yet on tentative dates for the multitude of releases.
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Hit the Lights will proverbially hit the road for a seven-week tour with There for Tomorrow and Sparks the Rescue. Joining them on various legs will be Fireworks, This Time Next Year, Vinnie Caruana of I Am the Avalanche, and I Rival.
Hit the Lights will be supporting last year’s Skip School, Start Fights. There for Tomorrow recently issued A Little Faster on Hopeless. Sparks the Rescue unleashed a reissue of Eyes to the Sun this past May on Fearless.
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The Black Dahlia Murder have posted the new bowling-themed video from their 2009 album, Deflorate.
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Threat Signal have launched a stream of their new full length, Vigilance.
Check it out on their MySpace page.
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