Pearl Jam wrapped up a four-night, sold out run at Philadelphia’s Wachovia Spectrum by dressing up in Devo‘s famed jumpsuits and “energy dome” hats and launching into the band’s hit “Whip It” Halloween night.
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Rx Bandits have launched their own iPhone application and also contributed two songs to Tap Tap Revenge 3. The custom iPhone app connects users to the band’s news, media, tweets and other networked content. The long-running band’s iPhone app was created in conjunction with Mobbase
Check out the app here.
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Paul Preminger, founding drummer of Vancouver-punks The Smugglers, has passed away from a heart attack. Smugglers vocalist Grant Lawrence remembered Preminger to Straight.com as:
A guy that hit the drums hard, and who lived hard. He was a Joe Pesci, bulldog kind of a guy, but very smart, very funny, and very kind.…He was one of those guys who’d sit on the couch and answer every single question on Jeopardy!, and you’d be like, ‘What the fuck? How does this Bukowski-esque character know all this?’
“He was much more experienced in every facet of life. He had a hundred stories. It was like touring with a merchant sailor. And he had a lot of strange quirks. He developed a quirk where he’d puke before every show, sometimes on-stage.
Paul recorded one album with the band before leaving in 1992 to become a chef. Our condolences to his friends and family.
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Better late than never, our Fest 8 videos continue tonight with a live performance from Orlando, FL outfit How Dare You. Despite some power issues at The Venue pushing back set times on Saturday afternoon, the crowd continued to wait outside the doors (have your bags ready!) and once inside, raged hard to the band’s brand of melodic punk rock.
“Eat at Charlie’s” comes from the band’s 2008 full-length Comfort Road. The band’s newest release is a split 7″ with The Knockdown, out now on Kiss of Death Records.
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Melodic hardcore band I Refuse have seen a lot of action over this past summer. The band enjoyed a North American tour, which included dates in Canada and the United States. In addition, they recorded and released their newest EP, Speaks Fork-Tongued, a recording replete with as many political overtones as chugging guitars. Self-proclaimed “foodie” and guitar player for I Refuse, Dominic Maggiolo, gives us some insight behind the band’s moral underpinnings and ruminates over what it means to be a modern-day punk rocker in this candid discussion with Brandon Campbell.
Constants are set to record with Jesu and Godflesh member, Justin Broadrick. The band is currently on a fall tour supporting their album, The Foundation, The Machine, The Ascension, and they have begun demoing with plans to begin tracking later this year in guitarist/vocalist Will Benoit’s burgeoning recording studio, located in a historic barn deep in the woods of Connecticut.. They commented:
Justin remixed a song for the Japanese version of our last album (Stiff Slack Records), and we were really into the direction he took the music. After talking with him for a while, we asked if he’d be interested in mixing our next record, and he offered to produce it. The material so far is faster and heavier than anything we’ve done yet, and it’s exciting for us to be working in a fresh and isolated environment, free from city distractions. Presenting our ideas to Justin, who has had such an impact on modern music – we’ve upped our level of intensity and focus. Surprisingly the process has been more inspiring than intimidating so far.
Broadrick began his musical career in grind-pioneers Napalm Death before forming industrial act Godflesh and then post-hardcore/shoegaze outfit Jesu.
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Jason Mazzola, singer for Cloak/Dagger recently spoke to Decibal Magazine about his top 5 hardcore albums. He omitted Bad Brains, Black Flag, Minor Threat, and 7Seconds because he said they belong in a category of their own. Instead, he mentioned second wave acts like Turning Point, Youth of Today, In My Eyes, Gorilla Biscuits and Cro-Mags.
You can check out the list and explanations here.
You can stream Cloak/Dagger’s brand new album, Lost Art, on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Hear The Sirens have posted a new song from a forthcoming EP. The Livermore, CA-based band released Rebel Hearts Lost this year and will be supporting the Lawrence Arms on a upcoming California date.
Check out “Sum of All Parts”on their MySpace page.
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Coverlaydown has put together a collection of classic punk tracks covered by folk artists and in folk styles. Among the acts covered are Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, Black Flag, Blondie, Husker Du, The Stooges, The Clash, The Damned, The Jam, The Ramones, The Wipers and Wire. Artists producing the covers include Indigo Girls, Lisa Loeb, Walter Schreifels and many more.
The compiler notes:
the thread that runs from folk to punk seems such a vibrant and easily spotted one to pull at
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Swedish punks Millencolin have finished a year and a half long tour in support of their 2008 record, Machine 15. Now, the members each have separate projects that they are working on until the time comes to record the next record.
The band had the following statement:
Mathias is currently at our Sound Lab studios recording the second Franky Lee album. Nikola Sarcevic has finished the recording of his new solo album. Larzon is playing shows with his Kvoteringen. A new album is recorded and will be out soon. Erik is working with his graphic design company Eckhouse Design. Currently he’s working on Nikolas new artwork and lots more. Erik has also together with Sejka (former Burning Heart/Epitaph, now Live Nation) just started booking bands at the newly opened nightclub the Ritz in Örebro.
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In an interesting interview with ITN News, Ed O’Brien of Radiohead suggests that bandwidth throttling (the practice of limiting the quantity of data a sever transmits and/or accepts within a specified period of time) may be a viable method to combat illegal downloading and filesharing.
Radiohead made waves in the worlds of music and technology by initially releasing their last record, In Rainbows, through their website as an optional ‘pay-what-you-want’ download. The move, initially thought by many to be a sign of sea change in the industry, was quickly revealed by the band to be a stunt thought up by their management, and the band drew more criticism when they elected to sign with another traditional label for physical distribution of the record, and then disappointment when the band revealed they would not reinstate the ‘pay-what-you-want’ option for their next record.
What do you think? Is bandwidth throttling an answer in the fight against illegal filesharing, or is it just a way of punishing everyone for the actions of the few?
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Dead To Me is streaming their new album, African Elephants.
Check it out on their MySpace page.
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Lou Koller, the lead vocalist of New York Hardcore legends Sick Of It All, has posted a message online regarding their new studio album. The message reads:
Whats up everyone. Well we’re here Denmark for two days and its dark and cold here! As for us the drum tracks are done! 16 songs in two days, Thats how it’s done! I think Armand buckeled down just to get to go to the scoccer game tomorrow ha ha. The tracks sound brutal!
They released Death to Tyrants in 2006.
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