News from the Punk Rock music scene.
The Motorleague out of Moncton, New Brunswick have launched their new video for the song “You Wear Me Down.” The track appears on the band’s most recent Ian Blurton produced full length Black Noise.
A follow up full length is in the works now, with the band recording in Toronto earlier this year.
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Brawltimore’s Pulling Teeth recently announced that they were going to take a break from the band. Punknews Interviewer Matt talked to PT’s singer Mike Riley about this, his record labels (Firestarter and Toxic Pop), and his opinions on the hardcore scene in general. You can listen to the extended audio of this interview here.
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Paper+Plastick act Protagonist had their trailer stolen when they made a stop in Tulsa, OK yesterday. The band made the following statement:
We’re all a little scatter-brained and shocked right now so I don’t even know where to begin, but our trailer was stolen off of our van sometime between 5-7:30am this morning from a Days Inn Airport Hotel/Denny’s parking lot last night in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The van was parked right side of our hotel room in a very well lit parking lot that the hotel shares with a Denny’s Restaurant. That lot is where the hotel asked us to park it, and the staff at the 24-hour Denny’s told us the van would be safe there as well. But we were wrong. The pin lock was somehow removed, the chains were cut, and no trace of the trailer was left behind. We drove 18 hours straight from Florida to Tulsa,OK to record with Stephen Egerton. We were supposed to start early this morning hence pulling into town yesterday evening.
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Jeff Rosenstock, provocateur behind Bomb the Music Industry! and Quote Unquote Records recently sat down with Jewcy for an interview about his influences, goals and feelings about the punk scene. For example, he explains the short road from Dookie to Operation Ivy:
I did the Epitaph thing a lot more than I did the Lookout! thing just because Epitaph had better produced records. I wasn’t ready after listening to Green Day, to take in Crimpshrine right away. But I was definitely was ready to listen to NOFX and Down by Law and Rich kids on LSD. Then somebody had the Operation Ivy Record. I remember listening to it in somebody’s basement and just sitting there and reading the lyrics and being like, “Oh fuck!” From that point on I was listening to stuff more like that.
He also notes his love of Titus Andronicus and LCD Soundsystem and the real reason he thinks people were disappointed in Against Me!:
It’s no secret to the public that Tom Gabel feels like he’s been rejected by the punk scene that he really cared about ever since they signed to Fat and got their tires slashed. So I can see where he’s coming from. I don’t personally like New Wave or White Crosses and not because they signed to a major label. I was a little disappointed that instead they became a more focused and polished rock band. But that’s just me. I think a lot of us were like, “Yo, Against Me! is this band that plays loud and hard every night and they don’t even care how many tickets are counted at the door! I could do this too!” I guess seeing them sign to a major label was a little disenchanting but, I mean fuck, who am I?
Check it out here.
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The soundtrack to the upcoming film, Twilight: Eclipse is streaming online. Despite the tween-focused demographic for the film, the soundtrack producers enlisted a variety of music including songs from Metric, Muse, The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses, The Dead Weather, Battles and more.
Check out the stream here.
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We’re stoked to bring you the highly anticipated Epitaph Records debut from Minneapolis, MN-based Off with Their Heads. The band’s previous album, 2008’s From The Bottom, was among the top ten albums of 2008 according to Punknews.org readers.
We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, In Desolation. You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Today, we’re excited to bring you a stream of the new 7″ from Philadelphia, PA’s The Holy Mess. Benefit Sesh is scheduled for release next week through Evil Weevil Records.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Voodoo Glow Skulls have posted a stop-motion video for their new song, “Dead Soldiers.” The song will appear on an upcoming release from the veteran ska bands, though the band has not revealed any release plans currently.
None More Black have posted the first two blog updates as they begin recording their first new album since This Is Satire in 2006. The first entry talks a bit about the album itself:
We started writing this record in February of 2009 – it’s not that the songs were so complex that it took that long to get right – it’s more like not really having time to nurture them like we have in the past. We all live in separate cities spreading from NYC to Orlando, which means we can’t just get together on a weeknight to work out some tunes. [N]ow, year and half later, 11 have survived to make up the albume we will call “Icons”
It was stressful few months before the recording, since we were unsure what Fat was willing to give us as a budget. […] Our budget pretty much meant that J. Robbins would be out of the question in terms a producer role, or any role for that matter. The budget would mean we have to become weekend warriors in the studio as well.
The good thing is that over the passed few years Colin has developed a relationship with wunderkind musical engineer/producer Will Yipp. He works out of the most famous recording in the Philly area called Studio, owned by the great Phil Nicollo. Will said he would be very excited to work on the project.
Check out the lengthy and detailed blog entries here.
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Next week, Burning Streets will embark on a two month long, US and Canadian tour. The band is supporting their Sailor’s Grave Records album, Is It in Black and White and the band is promising regular video tour reports from the road with help of tour sponsor, BLANKTV.COM. The band announced the tour via a video and you can find that here.
Against Me!‘s recent visit to Daytrotter has been posted. The band recorded four songs, including two songs from their upcoming album, White Crosses. They also contributed two covers of classic punk tracks: “Because You’re Young” by Cock Sparrer and “Moon over Marin” by the Dead Kennedys.
Check it out here.
White Corsses is due out June 8, 2010.
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Defiance, Ohio has launched a stream of a new song from their upcoming album. The record is titled Midwestern Minutes and is due out July 6, 2010 via No Idea. It is the follow-up to The Fear, The Fear, The Fear which was released in 2007.
Allister have posted the new video for “Runaway.” The track comes from their upcoming album, Countdown to Nowhere, which is slated for a June 16, 2010 through Universal Japan. Allister notably issued much of their earlier material through Drive-Thru Records, including their most recent full-length, 2005’s Before the Blackout. The band split in 2007 and reunited earlier this year.
Check out the video via YouTube.
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