News from the Punk Rock music scene.
Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem visited KEXP Studios to record four acoustic tracks; three of the songs come from Gaslight’s upcoming album, American Slang, due out June 15, 2010. Brian also covered “Antonia Jane,” a cover of a track by Canadian act Lightning Dust.
Check out all four songs here.
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Teenage Bottlerocket have announced some dates in July with support from Banner Pilot. The two bands will spent about ten days on the road together. In later June, TB will also be performing at American Skate Fest and Insubordination Fest.
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GBH have announced a run of US and Canadian dates (including some Warped Tour shows) as they support their newly minted Hellcat Records album, Perfume & Piss.
Solidarity Recordings will be releasing a new three-band split from Fifteen, For.The.Win. and Hanalei. Fifteen will cover Jawbreaker’s “Caroline” which was originally on Old Glory and reissued on Etc.. For.The.Win. and Hanalei will each cover a Fifteen track: “Middle” and ” Petroleum Distillation” respectively. The split is due out in early summer.
The label is also promising a summer release for a re-release of Fifteen’s 1996 album, Buzz. Some details on that can be found here. It will be remastered and release with the originally planned artwork.
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Merchant Ships have signed to Count Your Lucky Star Records. The group is finishing up with their debut EP for the label titled For Cameron, and will be on tour most of the summer.
There maintains a certain fascination with the elusive “Gainesville sound.” Maybe it was yet another easy term to help classify bands. Perhaps the phrase is in part due No Idea Records, where some of the most successful bands shared more than location in common: rough, raspy vocals, loud guitars, and beards. Because of this affinity, it didn’t take long for Gainesville transplants Young Livers to be given the label. Whether accurate or not, it does not seem to factor for these guys or their success. With the release of their sophomore effort, Of Misery and Toil, last month, and a series of supporting dates (formerly with Leatherface) things seem to be rolling in the Young Livers camp. Punknews contributor Matthew Bentel recently spoke with Livers’ guitarist Dave Hall about the direction of the new record, the difficulty of producing good cover art, and the eclectic, surprising comparisons this “Gainesville” band receives.
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Toronto’s Junior Battles recently embarked on a US tour with O Pioneers!!!. This first episode in a series of Dispathces sees the band starting to head South to Rad Fest.
Silversun Pickups have announced the second leg of their upcoming summer tour. The second run kicks off about two weeks after the first wraps up and will feature another two weeks of shows supported by Against Me!.
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Those Who Lie Beneath have posted a new video from their 2009 album, An Awakening. The tech-metal outfit is compared to Behemoth, Black Dahlia Murder and Job For A Cowboy.
Check out the video here.
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Tomorrow, Good Old War will kick off a headlining tour in support of their upcoming self-titled sophomore full length. Due out June 1, 2010, the record is the follow up to Only Way to Be Alone which was released in 2008. The run will feature support from Yukon Blonde and Audra Mae. The band has also announced that they will be performing live on UStream every week up to the album release. There will be a performance tonight at 7pm and then each subsequent Monday until the 1st. The band’s first live Ustream event, which took place on May 11th, attracted more than 20,000 viewers and resulted in more than a thousand Facebook and Ustream comments.
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Epitaph Records metalcore outfit Parkway Drive have posted a new song from their forthcoming album, Deep Blue. (No, it’s not the one with Brett Gurewitz) The record is due out June 29, 2010 and follows Horizons which was released in 2007.
Check out “Sleepwalker” on their MySpace page.
After performing on the Warped Tour this summer, the band will head to Europe with Comeback Kid and Bleeding Through.
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Music 4 Cancer, a Canadian non-profit, has announced a new compilation set to benefit the Canadian Cancer Society. The charity is still rounding up musicians, but has confirmed the following bands thus far: Ten Foot Pole, Good Riddance, NOFX, Nikola Sarcevic of Millencolin, The Sainte Catherines, The Hot Showers, Kvoteringen (feat. Fredrik Larzon of Millencolin, Franky Lee (feat. Mathias Färm of Millencolin, Everything Against Them, Teen Idols, Tom Petta of Bigwig, Frank Turner, Les Vulgaires Machins and Pour Habit.
You can follow their progress on their Facebook Profile.
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Captain, We’re Sinking have two new, free releases available for download today. First, a live EP titled Live At Fest 8. The EP includes tracks from a performance at a warehouse show the night before The Fest in Gainesville, FL. Bassist Zack Charett explains:
We set out from Philly and headed straight through to Florida. It was us along with Bill’s brother Vinny, Joe Rogers and Shawn. Lots of cigs, tall boys of Arizona and bags of chips. Later we roll up to to meet with our boys American Armada, it’s like 2 in the am. All of us were looking like some zonked weirdos from being trapped in a van for an indefinite amount of hours, when Cory Aramda says “You guys wanna play?” And we did. It was pretty rad and it is what it is. I had no idea it was being recorded and probaly would have begged them not to if i had, but fuck! It’s not to shabby for some sleep deprived fools!
The band has also posted a free download of their new 7-inch, It’s A Trap also available on vinyl through Kind Of Like Records. Grab that here and the live album via National Underground.
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