News from the Punk Rock music scene.
Australian hardcore act Miles Away has posted a new unmastered sample MP3 from their forthcoming Resist Records release Rewind Repeat online. You can check out the song “Affidavit” on the band’s MySpace.
Rewind Repeat is scheduled for a June 16 release.
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Basement Records have signed Strength Behind Tears. The label notes they have a “modern hardcore edge to them” and recommends the band for “fans of Poison the Well, Glassjaw, and Refused”.
Their new record, Bridges Betwen Us, will hit the streets on June 26th. The band has posted some media online as well. You can check out the video for the song “On Your Back Or On Your Feet” and listen to the new track “November Tenth” at the band’s MySpace page.
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Katie Ellsweig recently gave us a wonderful interview she did with Avail front man and solo artist Tim Barry. She explained:
Tim Barry doesn’t know why he writes songs. Sometimes it’s because he’s lonely, sometimes he’s angry and sometime’s he’s had one too many beers down by the river James. Whether he’s singing in seminal punk band Avail , or writing folk songs with his siblings, Barry makes sure that whatever comes out of his mouth also comes out of his heart. “Rivanna Junction,” his debut solo effort, is a collection of acoustic guitars, violins, pianos and stories about a life lived hopping trains, driving trucks, writing songs and trying to keep up. Go ahead, ask Tim Barry if he’s happy.
Dates have posted the dates for the All Hands On Deck tour featuring Funeral For A Friend and Alexisonfire. The tour will kick off in New York City on June 12 and will wrap up in Los Angeles on June 26.
Funeral For a Friend recently launched a full album stream on MySpace for their forthcoming full-length Tales Don’t Tell Themselves.
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On Monday, May 14th, 2007, Elvis Costello and his band, The Imposters, will be performing a special live webcast at 8:25pm. The performance is to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the release of his groundbreaking debut album, My Aim is True and he will perform songs from his newly released The Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years and Rock and Roll Music, a collection of hits, key album tracks, B-sides and rare, previously unreleased cuts.
The event will go down via this page on the Late Night with David Letterman website.
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Today we’ve got the first new track from Sound the Alarm‘s upcoming full length. The record is titled Stay Inside and is due out July 17, 2007. It is the follow-up to Sound the Alarm which was released in 2006.
You can check out “Suffocating” on the band’s Punknews.org Profile.
For those keeping track, we’ve posted new music each and every weekday since April 20th and we’ve got plenty more in store for the coming weeks. You can find tons of music and exclusive material on our Streaming Music page.
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The Number Twelve Looks Like You has announced that they’ll be releasing a four song EP exclusively through Hot Topic May 22. The EP will feature the new song “Sleeping With The Fishes, See?” from their forthcoming full-length Mongrel.
Mongrel, the follow-up to Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear., will see a June 19 release.
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Set Your Goals have announced a spring tour featuring Fireworks, Just Surrender and Driving East. Set Your Goals continue to tour in support of last year’s Mutiny!. The band also contributed an acoustic performance to Punk Goes Acoustic 2.
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Doghouse act Weatherbox was robbed in New York City at the start of their recent tour and release date of their new album American Art. The band’s press release reads:
The rumors are true. Weatherbox was about to go on their first national tour ever. Since they live in San Diego and the tour started in New York City, they had to drive cross-country to start this shindig with The Casket Salesmen. They arrived in NYC this past Tuesday when…bam! it happened. Apparently, some good Samaritans in Brooklyn thought it would be awesome to steal the band’s van, all of their equipment, and pre-made vegan snacks ready to eat. Bummer. It was a bitter-sweet day. On one hand, the band got to release their first full-length record, American Art. On the other hand, they got jacked hard and thought they’d have to cancel the tour.
Luckily, The Casket Salesmen are great dudes; they’re letting Weatherbox use their equipment for the entire tour letting the show still go on!
However, if you have any information about the band’s stolen gear, van, and vegan cheese, please contact [email protected]. In lieu of accepting any donations, the band is just asking for supporters to check out their music at Interpunk or iTunes.
The man at the centre of a Canadian government leak scandal is a member Ottawa punk band the Suicide Pilots. Jeff Monaghan drums for the Dead Kennedys influenced act, who with songs like “Harper Youth” and artwork depicting an airplane flying into the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill leave no question to their political allegances.
The 27 year old was a contract employee with Environment Canada for the past four years. He was recently arrested by the RCMP for breach of trust for allegedly leaking the Conservative government’s regulations plan for air pollution and climate change to media. No charges have been laid at this time.
Monaghan’s affiliation with the band came to light as reporters delved into his past. Furthermore he’s been labeled as an anarchist in the press due to his work as part of the collective who set up the independent bookstore Exile Infoshop. Perhaps less controversially three years ago he was awarded for founding a student-run food collective at Carleton University. On the charges Monaghan commented in a prepared statement:
The spectacle of my arrest, the subsequent RCMP press release and the prepared statements from Environment Canada, including [Environment Minister John] Baird, have been crafted to bully public servants… What I can tell you is that the proposed charges against me pose a profound threat to the public interest. They are without precedent in their disproportionality, they are vengeful, and they are an extension of a government-wide communications strategy pinned on secrecy, intimidation and centralization.
You can hear music from the Suicide Pilots via their MySpace page.
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Some people really, really didn’t want to miss their change to see goth-punk faves My Chemical Romance and Muse and aren’t taking the band’s recent cancellations lightly.
According to notorious gossip site TMZ, the owner of the cafe implicated in the food poisoning has been receiving death threats from irate fans. After a gig at the nearby College of William and Mary on April 28, the bands stopped for a bite at Glenn Gormley’s Green Leafe Cafe. Shortly afterwards, the musicians (and other patrons) got sick, which forced MCR and Muse to cancel several dates on their tour. Since then, Gormley says angry My Chemical Romance fans have been leaving him death threats.
It seems like it might be a bit of an overreaction, particularly considering the band is already scheduled to take another trip through the United States in July and August.
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Influential rockabilly act the Stray Cats have begun announcing dates for a reunion tour. The original trio — Brian Setzer, Slim Jim Phantom and Lee Rocker – will be touring this summer. and will be joining a bill that includes ZZ Top and The Pretenders.
Formed in 1979, the band originally split up in 1984 but reunited briefly in 1986, 1984 and 1992. Their last reunion dates took place in 2004.
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Legendary LA Punk Rock band Angry Samoans are heading over to Europe for a set of shows in May. Along the way they are playing with The Soundtrack of Our Lives, and a stop at the Spring Madness Festival with Demented Are Go and The Peacocks.
The band is an early Los Angeles act formed by rock critics “Metal” Mike Saunders and Gregg Turner. The band released several albums starting with 1978’s Live At Surf City, including 1982’s Back from Samoa. Their most recent release was 1999’s The ’90s Suck And So Do You.