Today’s stream is brought to us by Trenton, NJ’s Minnesota’s Calling. Their new self-titled EP was recently released by Death to False Hope Records.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Street Dogs will be releasing their next album at the end of the summer. The record is titled Street Dogs and is due out August 31, 2010 via Hellcat. It will be their second for the label coming two years after State of Grace in 2008. The first track from the 18-song album appeared on Epitaph Records‘ recently released New Noise compilation and the band will be touring this fall in support.
The tour kicks off September 7th and most shows will feature Devil’s Brigade (Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong of Rancid), Flatfoot 56 and Continental.
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Sum 41 have set a release for their next album. The record is titled Screaming Bloody Murder and is due out August 31, 2010 via Island. They’ve also unveiled the first single from the album, titled “Scumfuck.”
Check it out here.
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Big D and the Kids Table have three July shows in the North East before heading to Europe for the month of August. The ska band is continuing to tour on their Side One Dummy Records album, Fluent in Stroll, from 2009.
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Desaparecidos, the short-lived noisy punk project from Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes, will be reuniting for an upcoming Arizona protest event to be held in Omaha, Nebraska. The band, which also features Denver Dalley of Jade Tree Records act Statistics, released just one album: Read Music / Speak Spanish in 2002.
The show will take place July 31st in Benson and will be part of the Concert for Equality. Labelmates Cursive, Bright Eyes and Lullaby for the Working Class will also be part of the bill. All proceeds go to the ACLU Nebraska’s effort to repeal Fremont’s Anti-Immigrant Law. Tickets are $20. Tickets will go on-sale on July 10th via this link.
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Against Me! is a late addition to this year’s Lollapalooza in Chicago, IL. The band will be hitting the stage on the Saturday at 2:45 PM just after wrapping up the second leg of their ongoing tour with the Silversun Pickups. Other bands set to appear include Green Day, The Strokes, The Arcade Fire, Social Distortion, Gogol Bordello, AFI, Devo, Jimmy Cliff, The New Pornographers, Metric and Stars. The event will take place from August 6th through the 8th in Chicago’s Grant Park.
The band has also confirmed several months of touring with appearances in Europe, Australia and the UK. The band released White Crosses in 2010.
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Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ is now available on Steam!
Expanding on the highly successful The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition in just about every way, fans will now experience new unique special edition features and interact with the world of Monkey Island like never before.
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In a new interview with ThePunkSite.com promoting the Warped Tour, Bryan Kienlen of Bouncing Souls announced details about an upcoming split seven inch with Hot Water Music:
This year The Bouncing Souls and Hot Water Music are going to put out a split. They’re going to cover “True Believers” and I think we’re going to cover “Wayfarer” but we haven’t decided yet. We’re going to cover each other’s songs; put out a split seven inch and we’re going to go on tour in Australia and New Zealand.
Check out the interview here
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Social Distortion have announced their fall touring schedule. The veteran punks will be hitting the road with Lucero and Frank Turner beginning October 14th and travel until later November. On this run, the band will be hitting venues in the US and also Eastern Canada including Toronto.
The band recently signed to Epitaph Records who will release the album in the fall. The record is the first studio release from the long-running band since 2004’s Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll in 2004. The band will spend the summer on the road with Dan Sartain and The Action Design. Those shows kick off later this month.
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The erratically scheduled Day 2 review of Long Island Fest 2010, which took place early last month, is now up for your perusal.
Day 3 is forthcoming.
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In a new Velocity Magazine interview cited by Buzzgrinder, beloved indie/punk musician Ted Leo mulls over the future and how he and his band can continue on. Quotes from the interview have been widely misinterpreted to state that Leo is considering retirement in 2011. In a post on his website he states that this isn’t true.
It’s true – I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – doing this as a full-time thing, as wonderful as it is, has been a losing proposition for us for a while now. The crowds, while amazing, are mostly diminishing, the record sales, while appreciated, are a pretty weak percentage of what they were during the brief two year window in which we actually seemed to crack some sort of indie glass ceiling and make all ends meet and have a little left over to boot; and regarding other income streams that everyone likes to point to, I don’t sell my songs to commercials, and we keep our CD, LP, and t-shirt prices $10.00 a piece. There’s no money in it for us anymore, and to maintain even a semblance of solvency, we have to keep up the same touring schedule that we and I have been keeping up for the last nearly twenty years – a touring schedule that even the most hardened in our community will tell you is exceptional.
The energy we have inside us is not as boundless as it once seemed, and the amount we have to expend each year becomes more and more of a drain for less and less pay off. These are simple facts – it’s not at all a “woe is me” type of complaint – in fact, it’s not even a complaint at all – anyone who’s seen us play in the last few months knows that we’re having as good a time doing it as we ever have, and from my side of things, I can tell you that we’re actually having MORE fun most of the time – but I’ve decided to be honest with interviewers who ask me about “the state of things,” because what’s the point in sugar coating the realities? As we all push toward forty, exactly how to go forward wisely, in a way that allows each of us to live a full life (and not die between rest stops on I-80), is something I need to think about, and I am thinking about it.
It’s true – there’s no way we can continue forever as we have – but that doesn’t mean we won’t continue in some other way.
Leo states that while by next year he will make some changes he’ll never stop making music. Leo has been active in independent music for almost twenty years. His current, (almost) eponymous band, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists released The Brutalist Bricks in 2010 to critical acclaim on Matador Records.
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Queens of the Stone Age will be reissuing their 2000 album, Rated R. The band is celebrating the tenth anniversary of the critically acclaimed album with a double CD reissue including a second disc with six B-sides and the band’s summer 2000 Reading Festival concert–featuring nine previously unreleased songs, including live versions of Rated R’s “Feel Good Hit Of The Summer,” “The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret,” “Better Living Through Chemistry” and “Quick And To The Pointless.” The B-sides are “Ode To Clarissa”; “You’re So Vague,” a spoof of Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain”; covers of Romeo Void’s “Never Say Never” and the Kinks’ “Who’ll Be The Next In Line”; a live version of the album’s “Monsters In The Parasol”; and a re-recording of “Born To Hula,” an early QOTSA song. The other Reading Festival tracks are concert takes on “Ode To Clarissa,” three songs from the band’s debut album (“Regular John,” “Avon” and “You Can’t Quit Me, Baby”), and “Millionaire,” a song originally from Josh Homme side project Desert Sessions.
NME described the album as “the best, most important rock album for years–No gimmicks, no postmodern guilt-trip bullshit, just punk rock space-cadet genius,” It’s due out August 3, 2010.
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Hardcore act The Effort have launched a stream of their brand new album, Wartime Citizens. It’s their first for Panic Records and is the follow up to the four-star reviewed Iconoclasm from 2008.
Check out the stream here.
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