News from the Punk Rock music scene.
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, Jello Biafra’s first full time band since the Dead Kennedys have announced the bulk of their summer schedule. Along with spending most of June hitting Festivals in Europe, the band will open for Tool in California, and visit Quebec and Nova Scotia. They released their debut, The Audacity of Hype, last year.
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A stream has been launched for This Comp Kills Fascists, Volume 2. The Relapse Records distributed compilation features underground grindcore, hardcore and punk and was curated by producer Scott Hull Pig Destroyer. The album features new and exclusive material from Despise You, Lack of Interest, Crom, Apartment 213 and other contributions from Noiseear, Owen Heart, Exortion and more.
Check out the stream here.
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Brendan Kelly of Lawrence Arms and Tobias Jeg of Red Scare had a chat with Tom Delonge of Angels and Airwaves and Blink 182 on the latest episode of JBTV. Starting about 6:06 minutes into the episode, Toby and Brendan grill Delonge on spirituality, empiricism and Toby’s obsession with a pigeon which actually segued into a detailed answer which proves that Tom is smarter than Toby.
Check it out here.
Angels and Airwaves released LOVE this year as a free download.
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On the eve of his opening for Green Day at Wembley last night, Frank Turner visited The Sun to perform the Queen classic, “I Want to Break Free.” The song and band had a special significance to Turner who mentioned it when the show with Green Day was first announced:
The [Tribute to Freddie Mercury] was a major musical milestone in my life. My older sister made me watch it with her, and we taped the whole thing over a number of VHS cassettes (swapping them over as fast as possible so as not to miss anything). I was 10 years old, I’d just started finding out about music, but seeing Metallica, Guns n Roses, Spinal Tap (!) and a host of others playing Queen tunes was a major eye-opener for me. We watched those tapes till they broke.
Check out the video here.
Turner continues to support his 2009 Epitaph Records debut, Poetry of the Deed.
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Four Year Strong have posted the video for “It Must Suck to Be Four Year Strong Right Now.” The band filmed the video for the single in London’s East End earlier this month. The band is also gearing up for the release of a “deluxe” version of their 2010 album, Enemy of the World. As we reported earlier, the reissue is due out June 25, 2010 (June 22 on iTunes) and will feature a new studio track, “Bad News Bearz” and acoustic versions of four songs: “Tonight We Feel Alive (On A Saturday),” “One Step At A Time,” “Find My Way Back” and “Wasting Time (Eternal Summer)”
Check out the video via Kerrang.
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Black Lips have released a new single as part of the Adult Swim Singles Program. The band contributed the song, “Before You Judge Me,” to the weekly series which also featured Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, and others. If you like it, I think you have to buy a Kia or something.
Check it out here.
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BlankTV is hosting the premiere of the new video from Mixtapes. “Sprinkles” comes from the band’s new EP Thought about Growing Up, recently released by Death to False Hope Records and streaming at Mixtapes’ Punknews.org page.
William Control, the side project from Will Francis of Aiden, has released a new video for the song, “Only Human Sometimes.” The track comes from the their debut, Noir. Along with the clean version below, an R-rated version (registration required) was released last week.
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Influential experimental trio Primus have announced the second leg of their first headlining tour in four years.
The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza have unveiled another new song. “W.A.L.L.S.” comes from the band’s upcoming full-length Danza III: The Series Of Unfortunate Events, due out July 13, 2010.
Check it out here.
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Bloomington Indiana’s Austin Lucas is in the midst of tour of Canada and the US. Having just cleared the stage in St. Catharines the singer / songwriter will teck back to Toronto on the 18th for a recently added house show before hopping the border for a short US jaunt with The Wooden Sky. At the end of July Lucas will cross back into Canada and head west to perform at the Sled Island festival in Calgary alongside bands like Hot Water Music, The Melvins, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, and Fucked Up.
Lucas is supporting 2009’s Somebody Loves You as well as his new demo and b-sides collection on Suburban Home Records titled Collection. On the tour the songwriter has a new split demo available which features five new songs recorded in January plus four from his tourmate Christina Wagner. Wagners songs, one of which features Lucas as a guest, were recorded this past February by Rob McGregor at Florida’s Goldentone Studios.
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Post-rock quartet This Will Destroy You has been through a lot in recent years, but now the band has a light at the end of their tunnel…blanket. The entire band sat down for a chat with myself in a foggy backroom at Brooklyn’s Knitting Factory last week and we have the textual results ready for you.
The Texas act recently completed recording their sophomore full-length, Tunnel Blanket. and is currently wrapping up a U.S. headlining tour with dates in their home state.
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Cincinnati, OH pop-punks The Dopamines will unleash their new album Expect the Worst on June 29, 2010 and in the name of taking things too far, we’ve teamed up with the band and Paper and Plastick to give one unlucky winner a prize pack that includes a skipping Expect the Worst test press, a broken iPod and Mikey Erg’s broken guitar.
None of it works, but it can all be yours!
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