News from the Punk Rock music scene.
Wilmington, NC’s public radio station WHQR recently spoke with Rad Fest curator Chason Huggins about the upcoming festivities this weekend, where bands such as New Mexican Disaster Squad, None More Black, Leatherface and others will be performing.
Check it out here.
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State of Mind Recordings has added Salt Lake City, UT hardcore outfit Reviver to its roster. The band recently wrapped recording on a new 7″ entitled Potential Wasteland for the label. More information on the release is expected soon.
“Legacy,” a track from the aforementioned 7″, can be heard at the band’s MySpace page.
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Jukebox Romantics have unveiled a new video for “Death Sentence,” a track from their eponymous debut.
Members of No Trigger and Wasteland have formed an acoustic trio dubbed Commons. The band’s debut cassette is currently available for pre-order over at Galambis Records. Their first show will take place on May 25 at The Flywheel in Easthampton, MA alongside RVIVR, Ampere and Daniel Striped Tiger.
Some music can be heard at the band’s MySpace page.
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Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I’m Bryne Yancey, filling in for Adam White as he and much of the Punknews.org staff are currently in Las Vegas for Punk Rock Bowling, presumably rolling an inordinate amount of gutter balls between losing all of the money in our massive bank account at the blackjack tables. I’ll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here’s what got the community talking this week:
With that we hand over this Sunday evening to you, the Punknews community. From that glorious, likely bearded rabble we’ve seen the creation of everything from message boards and Punknews fantasy sports leagues to even a band or two. So talk amongst yourselves and we’ll see you Monday…
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Our stream today comes from Philadelphia, PA-based Dirty Tactics. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, It Is What It Is.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Loose Charm Records will be giving the vinyl treatment to Red City Radio‘s 2009 EP, To the Sons & Daughters of Woody Guthrie. The release will be a one-sided 12″, limited to 500 copies (100 on transparent yellow vinyl and 400 on white vinyl) and with hand-screened artwork on the b-side of the wax. Each record will also come with a download card packing two bonus tracks that were previously only available in Europe.
Pre-orders are expected to begin in July. The band is currently on tour in support of the release.
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Shortly after their summer run with Streetlight Manifesto, Philadelphia’s The Wonder Years will head to Australia for a few dates in September alongside Tonight Alive.
The band will be supporting their recent full-length for No Sleep Records, The Upsides.
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Against Me! have unveiled the official video for “I was a Teenage Anarchist,” the lead single from the band’s upcoming full-length White Crosses, due out June 8, 2010.
The band will be supporting the album this summer on a run of dates with Silversun Pickups.
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Astoria, NY’s The Austerity Program have launched a stream of their new EP for Hydra Head Records, Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn.
Check it out here.
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Ottawa, ON’s The Creeps have posted two new songs from their forthcoming 7″ for It’s Alive Records.
Check out “It’s Not Right” and “Ready Roll” at the band’s MySpace page.
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Deep Elm Records has announced its newest release. It’s Share This, the new full-length from Salt Lake City, UT’s Les Sages.
A preview of the release can be downloaded here.
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The Flatliners, hot on the heels of the release of Cavalcade, recently made their way across Canada with Broadway Calls and Cobra Skulls. The band has agreed to drop in and give us some dispatches, the third of which we bring you tonight.