News from the Punk Rock music scene.
Our stream today comes from London, UK’s Cynics. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new 7″, Stones I’ve Thrown. The release notably features a cover of “Memorial Day,” originally by Paint It Black. In fact, the band recently endorsed the cover through their Twitter account.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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The Swellers have posted a brief update indicating they’ve begun work on their next album. They posted this via Twitter:
We are writing a new album.
The band released Ups and Downsizing last year and just wrapped up a short tour with Crime in Stereo.
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Underoath have posted the first video update from the studio as they begin recording a new album with a new drummer. The band is recording with producers Matt Goldman (Lost In The Sound Of Separation and Define The Great Line) and Jeremy SH Griffith. The band also recently announced that Daniel Davison (ex-Norma Jean) will be handling the drumming duties on both the new record as well as the upcoming COOL TOUR with As I Lay Dying, Blessthefall, Between The Buried And Me, The Acacia Strain, Architects, Cancer Bats, and War Of Ages.
The album will be the first since Lost in the Sound of Separation. The band will be on the road this summer with As I Lay Dying, Between The Buried And Me, Blessthefall, The Acacia Strain, Architects, Cancer Bats and War Of Ages.
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Four Year Strong will be producing a “deluxe” version of their 2010 album, Enemy of the World, to coincide with their upcoming run on the Warped Tour. 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)”
The band has posted the acoustic re-imagining of “Tonight We Feel Alive” and you can find that on their Facebook Profile.
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Green Day continue their quest to win one of every award by being among those nominated for three Tony Awards for their Broadway musical version of American Idiot. According to the nominees list, the production is nominated for Best Musical, Best Scenic Design of a Musical and Best Lighting Design of a Musical. Producers Tom Hulce and Ira Pittelman, director Michael Mayer and star John Gallagher Jr. all worked on 2007’s Tony-winning “Spring Awakening.”
In related news, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong visited NPR‘s Fresh Air with Terri Gross to talk about the musical. Check that segment out here.
Green Day themselves have been confirmed as attending the awards gala which takes place at Radio City Music Hall® on June 13.
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In a new interview, Strike Anywhere explain their surprising move from Fat Wreck Chords to Bridge Nine Records. Vocalist Thomas Barnett explained:
Fat was really generous to us from a business standpoint and from a friendship standpoint. They’re nothing but amazing people. But there was a slight disconnect between the roots of East coast hardcore punk and West coast California punk. Particularly the Fat/Epitaph world is a little bloated with larger-than-life personalities, and it showcases a strange, weird part of punk. We just don’t relate to it. With Bridge Nine, there’s more of a sense of accessibility and celebration of extraordinary art from ordinary people.
The band is in the midst of a cross-Canada tour with Bane, Touche Amore and Lowtalker.
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The Pixies have announced plans to make some money hit the road in September for the 2010 edition of their Doolittle tour. The band previous supported the 20th anniversary of the album with a 2009 US run.
The 11-city trek kicks off on September 7 at the Tower Theatre in Philadelphia. All of the shows will be recorded and the CDs will be made available immediately after every show at the band’s merch table. The shows will all be opened by English noise-electronic group, Fuck Buttons.
On this tour, the Pixies – Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering – will perform all of the songs from Doolittle and its related B-sides, “Weird at My School,” “Dancing the Manta Ray,” and “Bailey’s Walk” among them.
Anchorless Records have announced plans to release the new LP from singer/songwriter Jeff Rowe (BoxingWater, Tomorrow the Gallows). The album, Barstool Conversations, was recorded in Richmond, VA at Minimum Wage Studios (Tim Barry, Landmines, the Riot Before) with Lance Koehler. The album will be released in the U.S., and in Europe via Gunner Records, August 24th.
You can check out a track from the record, “Kate” (featuring vocals from Joe McMahon of Smoke or Fire), and some upcoming northeast tour dates, here.
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Rufio have confirmed a two week run of dates beginning shortly which will see them cover the West Coast with The Higher.
Northern Ireland’s legendary punks, The Undertones, will be reissuing their first four albums digitally after limited availability physically in North America over the past few years. Along with the reissues, Union Square Music will be issuing an EP and a new compilation.
The albums set for reissue include: 1978’s The Undertones, Hypnotised (1980), Positive Touch (1981) and The Sin of Pride (1983), the Teenage Kicks EP, as well as a never-before-released Best of the Undertones compilation.
The releases are due out June 28, 2010.
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The S.C.E.N.E. Music Festival has announced a huge slate of bands playing this year’s event. The St. Catharines Event for New Music Entertainment will again bring a number of punk, hardcore, metal and hip hop acts to the Niagara region this summer. Among the 160 bands performing at venues throughout downtown St. Catharines you’ll find Arkells, Cancer Bats, Cute Is What We Aim For, Lights, Shad, The Johnstones, The Artist Life, The Rebel Spell, Orphan Choir, and Mockingbird Wish Me Luck. The shows take place on Sunday, June 27th.
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Berkeley, CA’s The Atom Age are set to hit the road later this month with Treephort.
Punknews is currently streaming the Atom Age’s new Solidarity Recordings full length Kill Surf City. You can find it on the band’s Punknews band profile.
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Berkeley, CA’s The Atom Age are set to hit the road later this month with Treephort.
Punknews is currently streaming the Atom Age’s new Solidarity Recordings full length Kill Surf City. You can find it on the band’s Punknews band profile.
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