News from the Punk Rock music scene.
UK pop-punk outfit Pacer have unveiled a new demo. The band features two former members of The Steal, who called it a day last year.
Check out “Circles Around a Square” at the band’s MySpace page.
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Motion City Soundtrack recently stopped by the AV Club’s Chicago offices to perform an acoustic cover of the Pavement classic “Cut Your Hair,” as part of the website’s Undercover series.
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LCD Soundsystem have posted a new video featuring their cover of Suicide frontman Alan Vega’s solo track, “Bye Bye Bayou.”
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War of Ages have posted the video for “Collapse.”
Thrash/hardcore outfit Racebannon have announced a new release prior to their upcoming full length. The band is planning a new collaboration with Jilly Weiss (We Are Hex), Yea Big, Kid Static in the form of a DJ-friendly 12-inch featuring remixes of the abrasive outfit’s material. The record is titled Wrap The Body and is due out June 15, 2010. The 12-inch features the studio cut (recorded by Mike Bridavsky at Russian Recording), as well as instrumental and acapella versions on Side A.
The flip offers a mega-remix from Yea Big, who gives Wrap the Body a glitchy, organ-driven rework that keeps the essence of the original intact while leaving an indelible blueprint of his trademark sound. Long-time collaborator Kid Static also contributes verses to the remix, as does Bloomington rapper Stak, making this a remix in the truest sense. Both rappers offer performances rooted equally in both the cerebral and the visceral spheres, and help to take the track to an entirely different ether than the original.
The band has posted a “teaser” of the 12-inch on their MySpace page.
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Dayton, Ohio’s Hawthorne Heights have had a steady release of albums since their formation in 2001. Now on the brink of releasing their fourth album, Skeletons, which comes out on June 1, the band is toying with a few changes, including a new label, innovative artwork and an inexpensive summer tour (11 bucks gets you a ticket to a show AND a copy of the album.) Punknews writer Laila Hanson had the chance to chat with lead singer JT Woodruff earlier this month.
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The Flatliners, just released their most recent album Cavalcade, and in celebration made their way across Canada with Broadway Calls and Cobra Skulls. The band has been giving us some great Dispatches documenting the trip, and today we bring you the last, in which the band wraps up the tour. Thanks to The Flatliners for providing such entertaining reads.
Our stream today comes from , Gainesville, FL-based Coffee Project. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Moved On.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Punkcore Records has posted an update on their status as a label:
As many of you have noticed, we haven’t released any new albums in over a year. There seems to be a lot of confusion about the status of Punk Core these days so here’s the deal. For our 20th anniversary we’ve decided to put the label to rest and go back to where we started 20 years ago, as a mail order service. We’re launching our new web store and bringing back the feature that we’ve missed the most….rare vinyl! Click on the banner above or the link to the left to check it out. Much of our back catalog of Punk Core releases are still available at Itunes or on CD or both. We may start releasing new albums again in the future, we may not. Time will tell. We’ve received your messages and once again we wish to thank everyone who has supported Punk Core over the last twenty years, past present and…future!
The label was responsible for a number of bands, including The Havoc, Cheap Sex, Defiance, Action, Blood Or Whiskey, Career Soldiers and The Casualties. The label was founded in 1989 by Dave Amcher and was one of the labels credited with reviving street punk in the early 90s.
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Social Distortion have updated their Twitter with this news: “The album is tracked… finishing up writing and getting ready to head back into the studio to record vocals.”
The band, who recently signed to Epitaph Records, will release their new album in the fall. The record will be the band’s first of all new material since 2004’s Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll. It will also be their first release with a new lineup consisting of Mike Ness (vocals, guitar), Jonny “2 Bags” Wickersham (guitar) and Brent Harding (bass). There has been no confirmation whether drummer Atom Willard (who left last March) or his replacement Scott Reeder has been involved in the recording.
In addition to a new album, Social Distortion will tour the U.S. this summer with Dan Sartain and The Action Design. The tour kicks off July 27 in Poughkeepsie, NY and makes seven stops in the Northeast before the band heads to Chicago for an August 7 main stage performance at this year’s Lollapalooza. Dates with Dan Sartain and The Action Design resume in Green Bay, Wisconsin on August 8. Check out those dates here.
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In a new interview, Bad Religion‘s Jay Bentley provides an update on the band’s new album and also hints at what kind of sound we can expect:
We’re probably just about at the halfway point. In a typical Bad Religion way, the songs are coming together. We’re throwing around album titles and visual ideas. It’s kind of how we’ve been making things for thirty years. Probably at the very last minute, we’ll come up with an album title and some photograph, sequence the record and it will come out.
I’ve heard Greg and Brett both saying that if our last three records were the ‘Suffer’, ‘No Control’ and ‘Against the Grain’ of the 2000s, then this would be ‘Recipe for Hate’. I said, “You’re leaving ‘Generator’ out” and Brett said, “Yeah but that’s intentional.” Then, listening to the material, it sort of is ‘Generator’ mixed in with ‘Recipe for Hate’. There’s gonna be a lot of stuff that’s gonna surprise people on this record.
The band released a free live album last week. Thanks to TheBRPage for the link.
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We’re happy to bring you the finalized lineup for this year’s Sound and Fury Festival. The fest is being sponsored by Hellfish Printing, AMP magazine and us, Punknews.org. It’s set for the the weekend of July 23rd and runs until July 25th (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) at the Earl Warren State Fairgrounds in Santa Barbara, CA.
Latest additions to the lineup include 50 Lions, Backtrack, Bitter End, Deadhead, Defeater, Downpresser, Earth Crisis, The Effort, Gravemaker, Hostage Calm, Mammoth Grinder, Man Overboard, Mindset, The Mongoloids, Naysayer, Outspoken, Retaliate, Touché Amore, and Transit. They’ll join previously announced acts such as Bane, Terror, Strife, Sick of it All, Down to Nothing, Daylight, Tigers Jaw, Such Gold, Heartsounds, Donnybrook and a slew of others.
Tickets are available here.
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