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Monthly Archives: October 2010
The Creepshow: “They All Fall Down”
Toronto’s The Creepshow have posted their new video for the song “They All Fall Down.” The track appears on the album of the same name which arrived this week via Hellcat Records.
The Toronto-based band is headed out on tour in support of the album on September 30th. We posted the dates earlier.
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Kiss’ Gene Simmons: “Be litigious. Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars.”
While participating in a panel discussion at MIPCOM 2010, Gene Simmons, bassist of hard rock outfit Kiss, had some harsh suggestions and comments on the effects and his suggested response to file sharing:
Make sure your brand is protected. Make sure there are no incursions. Be litigious. Sue everybody. Take their homes, their cars. Don’t let anybody cross that line. The music industry was asleep at the wheel and didn’t have the balls to sue every fresh-faced, freckle-faced college kid who downloaded material. And so now we’re left with hundreds of thousands of people without jobs. There’s no industry.
Simmons went on to tell a parable about the grasshopper and an octopus, no wait, it was this:
But that little fox went back with a free egg and told all the other little foxes about it, and then the foxes overran the farm, killed all the chickens, took all the eggs, and didn’t pay for it. Now the farmer lost his farm. His wife divorced him and went with another farmer who was smarter. The kids ran off because the spineless farmer didn’t have enough sense to kill the fox. The trucks that delivered the chickens-they’re all out of business. The stores that sold them-they’re out of business. Why? Because of one goddamn cute little fox. So don’t let any cute little foxes get near your henhouse!
Just in case you weren’t following this one, file sharers are the fox and I guess, music is the egg. The chicken represents Stonewall Jackson.
You can find Ars Technica’s more detailed analysis here.
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Max Bemis and The Painful Splits: “Do the Dohnk”
Max Bemis of Say Anything has posted the first sample of his new solo project, Max Bemis and the Painful Splits. He announced the project on his twitter noting that the album will be “Lofi fun postpunk” and he’ll be selling the album on Say Anything’s upcoming co-headlining tour with Motion City Soundtrack.
The album will be $10 and only available on the tour.
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Alexisonfire to release “Dog’s Blood” EP
Alexisonfire have set a November 2, 2010 for their Dog’s Blood EP which they announced in September of 2009. Co-produced by Alexisonfire and Jon Drew (F*cked Up, Tokyo Police Club, Quest For Fire, Arkells) the EP features three vocal tracks and one instrumental.
Aterm coined by vocalist George Pettit, Dog’s Blood features brand new songs from the band. Guitarist Dallas Green commented:
They’re completely different-sounding songs and would probably never make it onto a full-length record.
A limited run of 2000 vinyl records will be available in three different color variations: one color will be sold through the labels, one color via the band’s official online store, and one color will be sold on tour.
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Me First and the Gimme Gimmes recording new music
According to primitive Twitter user and band member Fat Mike, Me First and The Gimme Gimmes recently hit the studio to record, at the very least, a cover of an unnamed INXS song. No word yet on the breadth of said recordings, but we’ll keep you posted as more details emerge.
The infamous punk rock covers supergroup last released Have Another Ball in 2008, and will be touring the east coast later this month with labelmates Teenage Bottlerocket and Cobra Skulls, including an appearance at The Fest 9 in Gainesville, FL over Halloween weekend, where we can only speculate as to what their costumes may be.
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Cro-Mags plan 2011 album
The current lineup of New York hardcore pioneers Cro-Mags are aiming to release a new album. The band, which includes vocalist John Joseph, guitarist AJ Novella (Leeway), bassist Craig “Ahead” Setari (Sick Of It All), & drummer Mackie Jayson (Bad Brains, Madball, Hazen Street), are aiming for 2011 with Joseph saying this:
You know, we are looking to release something next year. We always just roll with the punches. We want to release something with this line-up. My philosophy is: “I don’t talk about shit; I just do it.” When it’s getting ready to come out you will hear about it. That’s what I did with my books. I just wrote a film. There is no need to “big-talk” something. I think everybody knows what to expect, so when it’s getting ready to come out people will hear about it.
The band released Revenge in 2000, but without Joseph. Their last album with him was 1993’s Near Death Experience.
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Tours: Transit / Hostage Calm / Aficionado (US)
Fresh off the release of their new full-length Keep This to Yourself, Transit have announced another round of tour dates, kicking off later this month and featuring support fRun For Cover labelmates Hostage Calm as well as Albany, NY outfit Aficionado.
Pertaining to the other bands on this tour, Hostage Calm will be supporting their self-titled sophomore full-length released earlier this year, while Aficionado’s debut EP When It Comes to Creation is currently available for pre-order from their label, No Sleep Records, and we’ll be streaming the whole thing right here later today.
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R.U.S.E. Update Released
An update to R.U.S.E. has been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.
The major changes include:
- No more region lock applied to the multiplayer matchmaking
- VAC (Valve Anti-Cheat System) activation including in-game kick plus ban from official servers for players identified as cheaters
- Several measures and tweaks to combat cheating
The Chariot join Good Fight Music
The Chariot have joined Good Fight Music, the hardcore and metal label formed by former Ferret founders and home to Cancer Bats, Madball, Conditions and more. Frontman Josh Scogin commented on the new album:
This is easily my favorite material that we have ever written for an album. I believe it is the most passionate release we have ever done, as well as the most impulsive. All of our records have a very spontaneous pulse to them, the songs are always in a constant state of evolving and growing, but for the songs for Long Live, we literally just let go. It was a very natural process and I think that comes across in the music
The band will make their debut for the label with their record titled Long Live and due out November 23, 2010 . They last released Wars and Rumors of Wars on Solid State Records and will be touring with The Cancer Bats and Stray From The Path beginning in November.
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Tours: Shai Hulud / Lionheart / Hundredth / Counterparts (Canada)
Shai Hulud has announced a 17-date Canadian tour that will hit big cities like Toronto and Montreal as well as smaller towns like Oshawa and Lethbridge. They will be accompanied on the tour by Lionheart, Hundredth and Counterparts.
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Dan Padilla: “The Last Arrivals”
BlankTV is hosting the new video from San Diego, CA’s Dan Padilla for “The Last Arrivals.” The track is culled from the band’s recent full-length and Paper and Plastick debut, As the Ox Plows, which is still available for free download from the label.
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Interviews: MC Lars
With all the genre blending that happens in punk it’s no surprise that as the years pass hip-hop would gain an even stronger following with the punk crowd.MC Lars continues the trend with his self-stylized “post-punk laptop rap.” Although he’s a hip-hop artist Lars has sampled Fugazi, worked with Gabe Saporta and disses Gerard Way. And that was all from his last album. The emcee sat down with interviewer Alex Eschbach to discuss his follow-up to This Gigantic Robot Kills, Herman Melville, rapping in a library and the Insane Clown Posse.