Atmospheric hardcore act Trenches has some new music posted.The band features former a Haste the Day vocalist but is more influenced by the likes of Isis, Masodon and Neurosis. You can check out the music on their myspace page

English post-hardcore act Reuben have released a video for their upcoming single ‘Blood, Bunny, Larkhall’ on Youtube.

Minneapolis punk/ska act the SuperSmashers have posted two new tracks on their myspace page. The tracks are from the new album entitled Someday which will be released via Neutral Run Records on May 29th. The band has posted their June Midwest/East Coast dates as well. You can find the songs and the tour dates on their myspace page.
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The details on the 2007 Joey Ramone Birthday Bash have been announced. The event, which would have been the 56th birthday of the Ramones frontman, will take place on Sunday, May 19th at the Fillmore in New York.

One of the few bands to influence the Ramones will be paying tribute to that band’s late singer at the annual Joey Ramone Birthday Bash. The highlight of the popular event will be a full set from the New York Dolls.

The celebration also features the debut of Slinky Vagabond, a new band featuring the Sex Pistols frontman Glen Matlock and Blondie’s Clem Burke along with Earl Slick and Keanan Duffty (both members of David Bowie’s touring band). Underground Garage favourites the Chesterfield Kings and NYC punk band the Bullys will also perform. The event will be MC’d by Little Steven Van Zandt of the aforementioned Underground Garage and the E Street Band along with Matt Pinfield.

The bash concludes with The Friends of Joey All-Star Jam. That performance will feature original Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone and the first appearance of Elvis Ramone (Blondie’s Clem Burke, but don’t tell anyone) since he left the band in 1987. They’ll be joined by Ramones producer Ed Stasium, Joey’s brother Mickey Leigh, queercore pioneer Jayne County, ex-Heartbreaker Walter Lure, the Dictators’ Andy Shernoff and J.P. “Thunderbolt” Patterson, Furious George’s George Tabb, Willie Nile, the Plasmatics’ Richie Stotts, Al Maddy, Walt Stack and Tish & Snooky.

Joey Ramone passed away in April of 2001 after a seven-year battle with lymphoma. Net proceeds from the Birthday Bash and proceeds raised by a special raffle will go to the Joey Ramone Foundation for Lymphoma Research.

Sadly, this will be the first year without both the show’s founder and Joey’s mother, Charlotte Lesher,. Charlotte passed away in January of 2007.
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Last Sunday, I battled the post-Nascar race traffic from Richmond to catch Fake Problems and Gaslight Anthem at a small theatre in Washington, DC. Though only a small amount of people showed up, both bands played with the energy you’d expect in a high-capacity venue. Afterwards, all nine folks from both bands managed to defy the very logic of physics and geometry by fitting in secure places to sleep in my small living room. It’s like someone in the group was a Tetris master.

This week’s video comes from Fake Problems, and features the track “Real Problems in SRQ”, a true story about the band’s run-in with the law a few months ago.
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Revelation has posted brief updates on two melodic hardcore acts from their roster.

Sinking Ships have entered the studio to record a new 7″, which will follow up 2006’s Disconnecting.

Capital has titled their nearly completed sophomore full-length Homefront. It will follow up 2006’s Iron Pier debut, Signal Corps. The band also still has a completed split with fellow Long Islanders Crime in Stereo to be released some time on State of Mind Recordings.

The label itself was a recent subject of Virgil Dickerson’s IndieHQ.com interview series.
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Mayday Parade, Bedlight For Blue Eyes, Driver Side Impact and Sick CIty have booked a tour together kicking off later this week.

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Wisdom in Chains has posted some new music from their upcoming re-release via Eulogy Recordings. The record is titled Class War and is due out June 19, 2007.

The three tracks: “The Land of Kings”, “Life isn’t Fair”, and “Cap City” were recorded at Mountainside Studio in Tobyhanna, PA in February of 2007 and are new to the reissue. You can check them out on the band’s myspace page.
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Seminal bay-area pop-punk band American Steel has signed to indie behemoth Fat Wreck Chords. The band had the following to say:

Hey gang, Five years after our last show, we played a house party together again as American Steel. We have also started recording a new studio record for our friends at Fat Wreck Chords. Five years ago, we were tired, listless and frankly not having as much fun as when we first started off. Our attitude has always been to do whatever, whenever, and most importantly to have a good time, so we called it a day. Gladly, this preserved our friendships and love for the music we had created. Basically, we missed playing the songs and still have something to say. It is often a farcical and self absorbed world that many rock groups find themselves in, and while we have always been concerned with expressing our views on ideas like equity and justice, we’ve also tried to not take ourselves or the music industry too seriously. So we’re kinda playing things by ear, but we will be playing shows, doing tours, and putting out a new record, probably in September 2007. As for Communique , a band which some of us have been playing in for last few years, it is basically in a holding pattern for 2007 but is by no means dead. Thanks for all the support and radness over the years and we’ll see y’all soon!

Love,
AmSteel

The band’s last release was 2001’s Jagged Thoughts. They will be playing their next show on June 16th in San Francisco at the Bottom of the Hill with labelmates Dead to Me.
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Bummed that the upcoming Inquisition reunion shows are sold out? Well, do we have a sweet deal for you. Rob and Thomas from the band have graciously offered to place one lucky Punknews reader and a friend on their guestlist for night one on May 18 with support from Ensign and Channel 43. Another winner and a pal will be headed to night two on May 19 with the Draft and New Mexican Disaster Squad.

And your winners are:

(May 18) Canaan from Fairfax, VA who wrote about growing up in Richmond, listening to Inquisition, and wanting to stay connected to his hometown scene: “You see even though I go to school in Fairfax I was born and raised in Powhatan Va. just outside of Richmond. My whole life I grew up in the shadow of the good ole RVA and even at school I try to stay connected to my hometown roots.

(May 19) Mike from Pittsburgh, PA who wrote about touring in 1995 and staying at a kid’s house where he first heard Inquisition: “The next morning I woke up to Colton blasting some music out of his room. IT WAS AMAZING!!! Aggressive, energetic, hard but melodic. I went rushing into his room and asked”what is this? it’s amazing!” he said “it’s a band from Virginia called Inquistion, Im putting out their record and I just got the master today. Your the first person to hear it!” I asked if there was anyway he could make me a copy of it? he said “sure, but only if you play this for every person you know”. We left later that afternoon and I spent the rest of the tour in the back of the van listening to this cassette tape in my walkman over and over and over.”

Congratulations to the winners, thanks to everyone who entered, and a special thanks to Rob Huddleston for putting this contest together and picking the winners.
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Minneapolis metal band With Dead Hands Rising has officially signed with Mediaskare Records. Formed in 2001, the band previously released an album with Life Sentence Records in 2004. The group is currently preparing a new full-length, which should be available late-summer.

In the interim, you can check out some music at their MySpace page.
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Today we bring you a stream of Eternal Happiness and Good Health, the new full-length from Cincinnati’s Black Tie Bombers.

A recent review had the following to say:“The band’s greatest strength is its ability to combine hardcore, pop-punk, and melodic punk. From the pure hardcore 13 seconds of “Stairway to Heaven” to the pop-punky goodness of “Girl I Want to Mess Up Your Hair,” Eternal Happiness and Good Health demands repeat listens.”

You can check out the entire album at the Black Tie Bombers Punknews profile page.
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Looks like those waiting for that reissue of Operation Ivy’s legendary discography CD Energy will need to wait a little longer. The release has reportedly been pushed back to fall of this year, from the recently announced July 10, 2007 date.

The disc is expected by be released via Epitaph. The album is remastered and repackaged in a digipak.

The album was last released via Lookout! Records, but pulled from the label after a series of financial problems.
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Sick of It All and Comeback Kid have announced plans to visit Australia later this month. The two hardcore acts will kick off the tour on May 15th will be joined by local acts including Miles Away and Jungle Fever.

Sick Of It All is supporting their 2006 album, Death to Tyrants while Comeback Kid issued Broadcasting….

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According to bassist Peter Hook, influential post-punk/new wave act New Order has called it a day. The band formed in 1980 from the remaining members of Joy Division after the suicide of Ian Curtis. The band had agreed not to continue under the Joy Division name should any one member leave the band and so rechristened themselves New Order. Their debut release as New Order was the single “Ceremony”, backed with “In A Lonely Place”. These two songs were written the week before Curtis took his own life

Over the years, the band’s sound evolved and like Joy Division, proved wildly influential. The band became notable for fusing synthesizers and dance beats to rock structures on songs including “Bizarre Love Triangle,” “Blue Monday,” “Age of Consent,” “Ceremony,” “Temptation,” “True Faith” and “Regret.”

Hook along with New Order most recently contributed the score to Control, the upcoming biopic about Ian Curtis. The movie will premiere May 17 at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
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