News from the Punk Rock music scene.
Hot New Mexicans have two tracks from their new LP streaming here at House Plant Records. The tracks are titled “Through Wind” and “This Is To Be.” You can get the LP (plus digital download) of the album from House Plant or Recess Records. It follows two recent 7″s and is the first long player since It’s Called Leaning Back.
The band just finished up a tour (which we sadly missed posting the dates for).
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Noodlecore pioneers Good Luck are headed over to the UK for the end of July and beginning of August. The band will be spending a few weeks rambling around the English countryside. You can check out the dates below. They are also heading to Ireland – however those dates aren’t around yet. We’ll keep you posted.
While we’re still waiting for their followup to Into Lake Griffy you can grab their newest release Demonstration 2010 at their Bandcamp page for as much as you’d like to pay.
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Panic Records has signed Phoenix hardcore act Run with the Hunted.
The label describes them as comprising “the heaviness and technicality of bands like Indecision and Turmoil intermixed with strong noisy flourishes akin to Botch and Catharsis.” Our review of the band’s 2007 EP, Find Your Way Out, characterized the band has having “influences…obviously rooted in metallic hardcore of the past 15 or so years, with Shai Hulud and Suicide File coming to mind most readily.”
The band is currently in the studio tracking their debut full-length with Cory Spotts at Blue Light Audio Media. Their last release was 2009’s collections album, Everything Familiar (Refoundation), which included the aforementioned Find Your Way Out and last year’s Destroy All Calendars EP (Glory Kid).
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You’ve read the band on band interview. Now it’s time to actually listen to Fight Dirty, the new collaborative release from Mischief Brew and Guignol.
You can check it out at Mischief Brew’s Punknews.org page.
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Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I’m Adam White and I’ll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here’s what got the community talking this week:
With that we hand over this Sunday evening to you, the Punknews community. From that glorious, likely bearded rabble we’ve see the creation of everything from message boards and Punknews fantasy sports leagues to even a band or two. So talk amongst yourselves and we’ll see you Monday…
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Up next is the newest album from Georgia’s The Wild. Perhaps fittingly their album is titled Set Ourselves Free and you can check it out. Make sure you cruise over to Asian Man if you want to make sure the band can make it to your hometown.
Stream Set Ourselves Free by The Wild.
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Our next stream comes from Philadelphia post hardcore upstarts Bearings. The band is poised to release their debut LP Exist.Expire via Runner Up Records and we’ve brought it online for your approval. You can check them out on tour this summer.
We previously reviewed their 7″ demo in 2009.
Stream Exist.Expire at the Bearings band profile.
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While we citizens of the US should all be outside grilling and the like we decided to give you a few new albums to listen to while enjoying our festivities.
The first comes from 7 Seconds frontman, coffeshop entrepeneur and enthusiast and solo artist Kevin Seconds. Good Luck Buttons is his newest release via Asian Man Records. Enjoy it and let us know what you think!
Stream Good Luck Buttons here.
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Fat Possum Records has pushed up the release and launched a stream of the new album from pop-punk trio, Wavves. The band’s new album King of the Beach was headed for an August 3, 2010 but was released early via iTunes after the album leaked last week.
Along with the early release, the label has published a stream on their official website.
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According to a new interview, The Get Up Kids original plan for a series of EPs has been scrapped. The band is now planning a new full length instead. Matt Pryor explained:
I think we’ve scrapped the multiple EP idea, in lieu of doing a full-length album instead. We are working on it, as we are putting out an album in January/February; or in the Spring at the latest. We’ve been working on a lot of new songs, went to Australia and Japan, had a couple of months off, and came here [to London].
The band released Simple Science earlier this year. Check out the interview here.
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In a new letter, Conor Oberst addresses some of the arguments that have been presented against a boycott of Arizona due to their controversial immigration law. Oberst specifically addresses promoter Charlie Levy, the owner of Stateside Presents, who asked musicians reconsider the boycott and to use Arizona performances to register opposition to the law.
Conor had this to say:
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike. I agree with you in part, and the radio host you quoted, that the authors and supporters of SB1070 could give a shit whether or not my band, or any other Artist, ever plays Arizona again. The only thing, clearly, that these people care about is Money and Power, that and the creation and preservation of an Anglo-Centric Police State where every Immigrant and Non-White citizen is considered subhuman. They want them stripped of their basic human rights and reduced to slaves for Corporate America and the White Race. They are engaged in blatant class warfare. It is evil, pure and simple.
Just this past week, the little town of Fremont Nebraska passed a very similar, almost more radical, city ordinance. It was co-authored and championed by Kris Kobach of Kansas who helped write SB1070. I was outraged, saddened and embarrassed for their town and my state. I am already in the process of organizing a fund-raiser for the NE chapter of the ACLU who is suing the town of Fremont. Our situation requires immediate legal action and a campaign for public awareness (there has been very little press on this). Charlie, I promise you, if this Fremont law had been passed Statewide instead of in a rural town of 25,000 people, I would be the first to call for a boycott of my home state. This way of thinking and legislating is so dangerous, and such a threat to our basic ideals as Americans and Humans, that we cannot stand by and do nothing. We cannot play on as if nothing is wrong. This is not just about Arizona. I am not just skipping a tour date. This is not going to be easy for anyone.
The Saddle Creek Records co-founder and long-time musician is among the many artists who have joined the Sound Strike campaign. Other participants include Anti-Flag, Billy Bragg, Gogol Bordello, Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against The Machine, Rise Against and Sonic Youth.
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Our stream today comes from Hamburg, Germany’s Small Town Riot. The band is making their North American debut with the album on Warbird Entertainment and it compiles 19 of the bands favourite tracks so far spanning the period from 2000 – 2010. The label describes the band as “punk rock straight from the heart, it’s basically fast punk rock with lot’s of melodies, catchy choruses and tons of energy. ” We’ve got a stream of Fuck Those Who Go Untried.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Recent Topshelf Records signing Big Kids have announced a run of dates this month along side 1994. They will also perform a few shows with Dead To Me.