Mock Orange will be releasing their new album, Disguised as Ghosts in February of 2011. The 10-song album is due out on Wednesday Records and follows 2004’s Captain Love.
Young Governor, (a.k.a. Ben Cook of Fucked Up and the Marvelous Darlings) has posted a video for one of his two recently release 7-inches. The video is for the title track to Bedtime Stories which was released via Southpaw Records. It was followed by a 7-inch on Dirtnap Records titled Cindy’s Gonna Save Me.
Fearless Records has launched a stream of their new, mainly irony-free compilation Punk Goes Pop, Volume 3. The album is the tenth in their Punk Goes series which featured Punk Goes Classic Rock earlier in 2010. Like the previous iteration, the new album will feature punk and emo acts covering mainstream pop hits. Participating bands include: Breathe Carolina, Woe, Is Me, Artist Vs Poet, Mayday Parade, Asking Alexandria, This Century, The Word Alive, Family Force 5, Of Mice & Men, Miss May I, The Ready Set, Cute Is What We Aim For, Sparks The Rescue and We Came As Romans.
Winnipeg’s own War On Music has set a release date for the highly anticipated split featuring Propagandhi and Canadian metal legends Sacrifice. Each band contributes a cover, with Propagandhi taking on Corrosion of Conformity’s “Technocracy” while Sacrifice will offer their take on Rush’s “Anthem.” The split is due out just in time for Christmas and the birthday of Ada Lovelace on December 10, 2010.
The Get Up Kids will be self-releasing their next album. The record is titled There Are Rules and is due out January 25, 2010. Matt Pryor explained the decision to self-release
We had a really great relationship with Vagrant but we felt that with the proverbial rebirth of the band we wanted to start our own label. Do everything ourselves like we did in the beginning.
The band reunited with producer Bob Weston who previously collaborated with the band on 1997’s Four Minute Mile.
The Aquabats have announced a new EP set to precede their upcoming fifth album. The record is titled Radio Down and is due out November 9, 2010 via Fearless. It will feature a guest appearance from hip-hop legend Biz Markie.
JEFF the Brotherhood have announced the follow up to their debut, Heavy Days. The new record is titled We Are The Champions and is expected in 2011. The band is currently in the middle of their final run of US tour dates for the year, including a headlining gig at New York’s Music Hall Of Willamsburg on October 28th, a Cannery Ballroom hometown show with Die Antwoord on November 3rd, and a performance at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, TX. The band will finish out 2010 with tours in Australia and New Zealand.
The Static Age have posted an update about their plans for 2011. They had this to say:
We spent much of the summer writing and demoing, and, two weeks ago, we started tracking for a new record to be released in late Spring 2011. At this point, the drums are done, the bass starts soon and the rest will be in place by year’s end. The songs span about three years of writing, including a couple of fragments we were working on originally during the Blank Screens tours on up through a couple of songs we completed in the weeks before drum tracking began (and a bunch in between). At this point, all signs point to a record about 11 songs in length, with some plans of possibly releasing some b-sides as well.
As we approach zero hour for this year’s inevitable Fest, Punknews continues our series of Fest focused freewheeling. Today, interviewer Matt Sweeting talks with Twelve Hour Turn regarding their music and decision to play for No Idea’s 25th anniversary. Sweeting writes: When one thinks of Jacksonville, Florida, the bustling punk community is usually not the first thing that comes to mind. Over the years there have been glimpses of creative energy. Whether it was “progressive night” at Einstein-a-go-go, Rein Sanction or Lysergic Garage Party, it was Twelve Hour Turn that proved to be the city’s finest contribution to Florida’s underground music continuum. Starting in the mid 90’s and continuing into the early 2000’s, Twelve Hour Turn bled, sweated, and churned out some of the most dynamic and compelling music of the time. Between house shows, the Moto Lounge, Art Bar, Jack Rabbits, Thee Imperial, Heartworks, and more, these guys truly created a flower in a sea of shit. They made my life more enjoyable while they were doing their thing, and I can’t wait to rock out with them again.