Social Distortion continue to trickle out details about their highly anticipated and recently delayed new Epitaph Records album. The record is titled Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes and is due out January 18, 2011 via Epitaph.
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Tumbledown, the country-influenced project from Mike Herrera, are streaming their new full length, Empty Bottle.
Find the stream here.
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Bridge Nine Records‘ Lemuria have posted a new song from their debut for the label. The record is titled Pebble and is due out January 11, 2011. It’s the follow up to Get Better from 2008.
Check out the song on their MySpace page.
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Spin recently posted an article looking back at Epitaph Records and the evolution of California punk rock. The feature includes background on the label and quotes from people like L7 member (and Pirates of the Caribbean director) Gore Verbinski, Fletcher Dragge of Pennywise, Fat Mike of NOFX, Tim Armstrong of Rancid, Dave Smalley of Down By Law and Dag Nasty.
Label owner Brett Gurewitz talked off punk rock prior to the explosion of bands like Green Day and The Offspring:
To the rest of the world, we were like Civil War reenactors. “You guys are still doing punk shows? How cute.”
Check out the article here.
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Some footage has been posted of Chiodos‘ recent appearance on The Daily Habit. The band is promoting their newest album Illuminaudio.
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Good Old War have announced their dates over the next few months. The band will hit the road with Dr.Dog, Here We Go Magic, Joshua Radin and Dashboard Confessional.
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The third expansion for Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers is now available via Steam.
Take on Magic’s troubled Planeswalker Sarkhan the Mad, one of the new opponents featured in the third Duels of the Planeswalkers expansion. Plus, three new playable decks; three new unlockable cards for each of the fourteen previously released decks, three new achievements, four new two-headed local co-op levels, and five new puzzling challenges.
If you’re just getting started, check out the Duels of the Planeswalkers – Complete Pack which includes the base game, all three expansions, and 28 decks for one low price.
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Influential political hip hop group Public Enemy have completed the fundraising round begun earlier this year. The band aimed to raise $75,000 (€59,100) via Sellaband.com. Frontman Chuck D. posted this notice:
We just received word that our fund raising campaign has completed. This is truly a great moment for us and we owe it all to our [fans] on SellaBand – our true ‘Believers.’ As the title of this entry suggests, it has been a long and winding road. We’ve had explosive starts, media attention, corporate troubles, media criticism, recalculations and finally resurgence. When its all said and done, the bottom line is that we never lost faith in ourselves, our fams and the future of fan funding as a model.
The band had different offers for contributors including a copy of the album, a download and a revenue share along with more elaborate packages like a studio visit for €7,880.00 ($11069) The as yet untitled album will follow 2007’s How You Sell Soul To A Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?. The band has already promised collaborations with Rise Against and Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine.
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Jimmy Eat World have posted their cover of Superchunk‘s “Precision Auto.” The song comes from Superchunk’s 1992 album, On the Mouth, which was produced by John Reis of Rocket From the Crypt. The song has previously been covered by Les Savy Fav and Fucked Up recorded a live version of the song at Matador 21 this past summer.
Check out the cover via Purevolume.
If you’d like to compare it to the original, the video and song are available via YouTube.
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Paramore have posted a studio recorded cover of the 1966 Loretta Lynn song, “You Ain’t Woman Enough. (To Take My Man)”
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The Decemberists have posted a new song from their upcoming album. The record is titled The King is Dead and is due out January 18, 2011. Find the new song on their official website.
The band has also revealed the track listing for the record, which follows The Hazards of Love from 2009.
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Mockingbird Wish Me Luck have launched a stream of their new 7-inch, Branches. The 7-inch follows the band’s album, Goodbye Debris, released in 2009. They will be supporting the new 7-inch on a Canadian tour with The Menzingers, Flatliners and Fake Problems.
Check out the stream here.
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Hellogoodbye have launched a stream of their new album, Would It Kill You?, due out on Rocket Science Ventures and Wasted Summer Records. The entire album was self-funded by the band.
Find the stream on their MySpace page.
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