Earth Crisis have announced the dates for a headlining tour featuring support from First Blood and Thick As Blood.

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Longtime Maximum Rock’n’Roll columnist Bruce Roehrs has passed away peacefully in his home. His colleagues at MRR posted this:

There will be a memorial. As soon as we know more we will let you know. We will miss him and can hardly imagine MRR without him. Play Agnostic Front “Victim in Pain” as loud as you can – and see you fucks at the bar.

Our deepest condolences to his friends and family.
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Modest Mouse will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their most beloved album, 2000’s The Moon and Antarctica, with a deluxe vinyl reissue set for Record Store Day, April 17, 2010. According to a Pitchfork report, the record has been remastered using the band’s preferred 2004 master, but contains only the original tracklisting, not the extras found in the CD release of that edition. It will also feature the original artwork and the locked groove found at the end of the first side.
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John K. Samson of The Weakerthans spoke to Exclaim about their live album and some future plans. He talks about his comfort with performing live and how music improves when performed live:

I think that coming out of punk rock, at least for me, it took me a long time to enjoy playing live. And I remember those first Weakerthans tours, really not enjoying the live part of life. I didn’t really enjoy playing music live until not so long ago. To me, there are a lot of songs where I’m happier with [the live versions] of them than I am with the studio versions, just because a lot of times you make a recording and you haven’t really let the songs grow up in front of an audience yet. They become something else. So it’s nice to have these versions that I’m happy with. Songs can change in a lot of surprising ways.

He also talks about the follow up to 2007’s Reunion Tour, suggesting it might be a little while. He also mentioned that the band’s tour recordings mentioned last year would make a future movie/documentary about their time on the road with the Constantines.

Check out the interview here.
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The L.A. Times have published a new interview with Bad Religion. The band mainly discussed their 30th anniversary and the celebration performances set for Southern California. Greg Graffin noted:

We couldn’t be around for this long if it wasn’t for the expansion and the continued vibrancy of the punk scene. To me, that’s the celebration. I’ve tried to deflect the accolades [for the band] and say it’s really about the community. If you didn’t have a community to play to, then what good is it? We actually got lucky: We wrote some lasting songs that we can play today and that actually have some thought-provoking ideas. There are, some songs from those early records that we might still play, but it’s hard to stand behind the lyrics. Most bands who are celebrating a 30th anniversary are celebrating the glory years. They had a hit record in the ’70s, or maybe a big song in the ’80s, and they’re still playing that [stuff] on their 30-year anniversary. The saving grace for me at least is that we continue to put out new records, Brett continues to expand on the label and the marketing side and the intellectual development of the band.

Brett Gurewitz added:

Far from being the great iconoclast, punk rock has turned out to be the most successful movement in rock ‘n’ roll history. It has spawned myriad genres. . . . Whether it’s indie rock, emo, screamo, hard-core, post-hard-core or whatever the hell it is, they all have punk rock as their common ancestor. We were very young when we named the band Bad Religion and we started writing about what we considered to be serious topics, Maybe the reason we started in that direction was because we were serious kids or troubled kids, but whatever the reason, it has served us quite well. We can age gracefully with that. We weren’t a zany band that found ourselves as adults trying to change what we write about.

Check out the piece here.
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Propagandhi have announced a release date and other details for their upcoming digital rarities EP that is designed to raise money for Partners in Health. As we reported last month, the 3-song EP will feature unreleased songs recorded during the sessions of the band’s first two full-lengths, 1993’s How To Clean Everything and 1996’s Less Talk, More Rock, including a track entitled “Leg-Hold Trap” sung by former member (and now The Weakerthans frontman) John K. Samson. The band noted:

Accompanying the release is a 19-page digital booklet in which Chris drones on endlessly about recording techniques or some shit. All net proceeds benefit the Partners In Health organization, so quit whining about the fact that it’s only 8.5 minutes long and plunk down your cash.

The EP is due out April 6, 2010. Check out the artwork here.
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Deftones have posted the title track from their upcoming album Diamond Eyes, due out May 18, 2010.

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