News from the Punk Rock music scene.
Weezer has tapped The Gaslight Anthem to open for them at their upcoming show at The Great Allentown Fair. Set for September 1st, the bands will follow Rush who perform on the 31st of August and precede Justin Bieber and that comedian with the puppets.
Check out more details here.
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Germany’s long-running punk rock act Donots have been tapped to support Green Day on their upcoming three shows in Germany. The band will open the shows which will also feature Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and Rise Against and had this to say:
What gives? We are super stoked that Green Day have invited us to be their support on all 3 upcoming shows in Germany! We got confirmed for Hannover, Munich and Mainz the other day and are more than grateful for the opportunity to open up for a band that has been an inspiration for us especially in our early days. We used to work at a youth club in our hometown Ibbenbüren back in the 90s where Green Day played a post-Kerplunk show. Barely more than 140 people attended that very intimate show. The Donots were completely blown away by the energy, the songs and the attitude. It’s safe to say that night had a huge impact on our sound and songwriting. 16 years later we get to play stadiums with Green Day and once again we are absolutely thrilled!
The band will release The Long Way Home in Japan this year and are currently looking for international labels. Their previous release was 2008’s Coma Chameleon.
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School of Seven Bells have posted the first song from their upcoming album due out July 12, 2010 via Vagrant Records and Ghostly.
You can find “Babelonia” on their MySpace page and an additional song via Pitchfork.
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Morning Glory has announced two Manhattan shows later this month. The band, who haven’t toured in almost two years, includes members of INDK, Leftover Crack, Nausea, World/Inferno Friendship Society and Public Serpents. They released their last record The Whole World Is Watching in 2003. A reissue of that album followed in 2007.
In a recent interview, Moving Mountains discussed what people can expect from the band’s next full length and follow up to 2008’s Foreword:
We sort of built a fan base primarily around a lot of people who are into post-rock bands in bands sort of in that scene. And this record is really not like that. It’s sort of more in the post-hardcore scene that we’re also sort of a part of that we grew up listening to. It’s far more like heavier and more aggressive and more to the point. There’s less like 40-minute ambient reverb delay interludes. It still sounds like us, there are still parts that sound like epic or whatever you want to say, but its definitely like way shorter, way more to the point, and heavier. So far it’s been heavier.
Yeah, one record that still to this day is my favorite record has been released is Underoath’s Lost In The Sound Of Separation. When that came out in like 2008 it was like absurd, and I was totally blown away by it and it totally revamped how I thought about writing music. That record had a big influence on me.
The band also note that they are currently without a label and so have not begun recording. Check out the interview here.
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Details – including Mitch Clem’s artwork – for the upcoming Under the Influence from Fallen From the Sky and The Wonder Years have been revealed. As reported in February, the thirteenth volume of its Under the Influence covers 7″ series will feature Fallen From The Sky covering “This is a Call”, originally by Foo Fighters, and The Wonder Years covering “Zip-Lock”, originally by Lit.
Pressing info for this release will be out of edition of 1,000 copies (300 pressed on transparent brown (whiskey coke colored) vinyl, 700 pressed on transparent blue vinyl. The final artwork can be found here.
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Destroy the Runner have announced an indefinite hiatus. The metal/hardcore outfit explained:
Our time has run its course. We unfortunately must embrace an indefinite hiatus. We have sought to maintain musical integrity and honesty within all facets of our functioning, and, unfortunately, are not able to do so at this point in time. We have grown busier as the pains of real life and financial responsibilities keep us from a full time emersion into our passion for music. This has allowed compromise to enter the creative process. As soon as we could perceive this, we understood that it was time to give up the ghost, as compromise is the last thing we ever wish to entertain. This is the harsh face of reality.
The band released two albums via Solid State Records: 2006’s Saints and 2008’s I, Lucifer.
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Laura Stevenson and the Cans have announced a run of dates beginning later this week.
Something Corporate have announced the dates for their upcoming reunion tour. The band reunited for Bamboozle 2010 and the reunion has turned into a proper tour.
The Effort have posted a new song from their forthcoming release, Wartime Citizens. The album is due out July 4, 2010 via Panic Records and follows the Merrimack Valley-based hardcore band’s 2008 LP, Iconoclasm.
Check it out on their MySpace page.
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Bridge Nine Records hardcore act Cruel Hand have posted art and a track listing for their upcoming third album The record is titled Lock and Key and is due out July 27, 2010 via Bridge Nine. It is the follow-up to Prying Eyes which was released in 2008. It was recorded last month in Wakefield, MA with producer Jay Maas (Verse, Bane, Defeater) The band will head to Europe this summer to support the release.
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails has unveiled the first video from his new project, How to Destroy Angels. The band is a collaboration of the outspoken musician with West Indian Girl frontwoman Mariqueen Maandig. It also reunites Reznor with Atticus Ross, who also worked on albums with Bad Religion, Rancid, From First to Last and Zach de la Rocha and was part of the band Error with Brett Gurewitz. The group will be releasing their debut EP this summer. For previous releases, Reznor has opted to self-release his records and offer deluxe editions for payment. His previous record released this way – the Slip – generated an estimated $1.5M in revenue before being picked up for distribution by a major label.
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Tom Gabel of Against Me! has posted a blog entry reprinted from Antimusic, discussing the story behind “I Was a Teenage Anarchist” and it covers much of his political development as a teenager in Florida and on early, solo Against Me! releases:
I got into radical politics when I was 15 years old, shortly after discovering punk music. At first I thought punk was just nihilism, misanthropy, self destruction, Sid Vicious. Then when I was 15 I got beat up by the cops; the experience changed my life. […] The experience politicized me. I dropped out of high school. I started doing a zine. I started a distro of political pamphlets and Anarcho-punk records. I started a Food Not Bombs chapter with a group of friends. We met other like minded people across Florida and started a radical activist network.
The real revolution was the political awakening. That initial spark that made me want to change the world. And that’s what I’m interested in, maintaining that fire. That’s what the song is about.
Check out the entire piece here.
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