Southern California ska/punk/reggae outfit Slightly Stupid has started recording on their new album. It’s the first studio album since 2005’s Closer to the Sun and first release since their Acoustic Roots Live & Direct.
Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/22418. Continue reading Slightly Stoopid recording new album →

Parkersburg, WV is playing host to the upcoming 8th installment of the Don’t Break Anything Fest on April 20th. The festivities will take place at the Parkersburg American Legion Hall and will feature local acts like Love & Squalor, Its Birds, Holden Caulfield and more alongside touring acts like Lemuria, Delay and Some Kind of Sleeping Giant.
Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/22417. Continue reading Don’t Break Anything Fest 8 details →

Connecticut’s Call It Arson have announced upcoming tour dates beginning later this week. The Kill Normal Records act will be joining a number of acts including Kiss Kiss (Eyeball Records), The Quiet Life, and Limbeck (Doghouse Records).

They most recently released The Animal Strings..

Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/22416. Continue reading Tours: Call It Arson →

Mustard Plug is still truckin’ along and we have another new update from the boys in yellow. The band has announced some more blocks of dates, with a tour of the midwest featuring The Methadones, Toasters, and Briggs followed by a West coast tour with Buck-O-Nine and Satori.
Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/22415. Continue reading Tours: Mustard Plug →

Hot Cross have posted the dates for a brief UK tour in June.

The band will be touring in support of Risk Revival.
Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/22414. Continue reading Tours: Hot Cross (UK) →

Hewhocorrupts, Inc has officially added Chicago, IL’s Plague Bringer to its roster. The band is described as: “an ever-changing metal duo whose mission to bridge the gap between TOOL and NAPALM DEATH is as prevalent as its necessity to puncture and pulvarize headbangers across vast musical spectrums.”

An upcoming release, titled Life Songs in a Land of Death, is currently in the works and is scheduled for a Summer 2007 release via Hewhocorrupts, Inc.

You can find more information and listen to some music at the band’s MySpace page.
Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/22413. Continue reading Plague Bringer signs with Hewhocorrupts Inc →

The Swellers have posted a live acoustic cover of the Foo Fighters track, “My Hero.”

The band recently wrapped up a tour. They released their last album, Beginning of the End Again, in 2005.

Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/22412. Continue reading The Swellers post acoustic Foo Fighters cover →

Vancouver’s By A Thread have announced plans to release their long-awaited second full length this summer. The band issued their last album, The Last of the Daydreams, in 1999.

The album was produced by Theo and Tom from the punk rock outfit Gob. A title as well as a final release date are expected shortly.

Some music is available on the band’s myspace page.
Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/22411. Continue reading By A Thread to release new record →

The Los Angeles Times has announced that Rage Against The Machine has confirmed an additional three dates with Wu-Tang Clan.

The shows will be under the banner of Rock the Bells, the acclaimed hip-hop festival that kicks off in New York on July 28 and hits Southern California on Aug. 11. The Southern California show will be at the National Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino while the third show, on Aug. 18, will be in San Francisco.

According to the story, the Coachella show was announced as a “one-and-done” affair but the quick sellout and the harsh-priced ticket scalping already underway are among the factors in the added shows, according to sources close to the band.

Wu-Tang Clan released Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) in 1993. Rage released their final live release, Live At The Grand Olympic Auditorium in 2003.
Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/22410. Continue reading Rage Against The Machine set to play three more shows with Wu-Tang Clan →

Legendary Boston-based punk/hardcore act Gang Green has announced the dates for an upcoming European tour.

This summer, the band is promising both a trip through Japan and another through Canada.

Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/22409. Continue reading Tours: Gang Green (Europe) →

The Warped Tour confirmations keep coming, with the latest additions including Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Flogging Molly, As I Lay Dying, The Briefs and The Toasters. Also, Hawthorne Heights have confirmed via their MySpace page that they will be playing dates on this year’s tour as well, and will specify which ones soon.

The promoters are also promising “a bunch of ska bands” though doesn’t name which just yet.

Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/22408. Continue reading Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Flogging Molly, Briefs, Hawthorne Heights, more added to Warped Tour →

Kirk Rundstrom, vocalist of cow-punk/bluegrass act Split Lip Rayfield has passed away after a long battle with cancer. Rundstrom, the 38-year old, was diagnosed with the disease last spring and managed to fight – and still perform – for months longer than he had originally been given by doctors.

His friends and label had this to say:

Kirk was, without debate, one of the most dynamic and passionate performers we have ever seen. To see him on stage was to see a man totally focused on, totally POSSESSED with, the music of the moment. He never ever took his audience for granted and delivered the goods with a ferocious energy that flowed through the room. I had personally seen him play some 75 times and it was never boring, it was never phoned in and it was hard to take my eyes off him. If you left a show of theirs without sweating, without losing yourself in the joyous abandon of music, it wasn’t from his lack of trying.

Our deepest condolences to Kirk’s friends, family and fans.
Source: http://www.punknews.org/article/22407. Continue reading Kirk Rundstrom of Split Lip Rayfield (1968 – 2007) →