News from the Punk Rock music scene.
Our stream today comes from The Menzingers. The album is already out, but so many of you are digging the album that we figured we’d stream some songs for those of you who hadn’t heard it yet.
Check out some crowd-pleasers from Chamberlain Waits on their Punknews.org Profile
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Our stream today comes from Cleveland, OH’s Heads Held High. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length for Fail Safe Records, Dogs and Cats, Living Together.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Terrible Things, a new project from former Taking Back Sunday member Fred Mascherino, Coheed and Cambria alumnus Josh Eppard, and Andy Jackson of Hot Rod Circuit have unveiled plans to release their debut together later this year. The band has developed a concept album about a series of fires that haunted Fred’s former hometown, the depressed Pennsylvania steel-millburgh of Coatesville, PA, located 40-plus miles west of Philadelphia. It was produced by Jason Elgin and prior to the release, the band will be on the road with Story of the Year and Anberlin before heading out for Warped Tour this August.
The band has posted the first single from the album, “Revolution,” and you can find that in Quicktime format here.
The band has also created a short introduction video which can be found via Vimeo.
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The A.V. Club has posted the latest video of their ongoing Undercover feature, a series of music videos featuring 25 bands covering 25 different songs inside a small, round room at the site’s Chicago offices. This week’s chapter features Maritime with a keytar covering Depeche Mode‘s “Enjoy the Silence.” Maritime released Heresy and the Hotel Choir in 2007. The band just signed to Dangerbird Records and will be releasing their fourth album through the label this year.
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Polar Bear Club have announced the first block of dates for a headlining tour to be supported by Moving Mountains, Lemuria and Living with Lions.
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The Bled have posted the video for their track, “Smoke Breaks.” It comes from their recent Rise Records album, Heat Fetish.
Runner Runner, the side new project from members of Over It, Rufio and Don’t Look Down, has signed to EMI Group. The band will see its debut album released through a new partnership with EMI Music’s Capitol Records, Clear Entertainment/C.E. Music (a new label formed by David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants Inc.), and Jack Ponti’s MRV label. The self-titled debut will be released in late summer.
Check out some music on their MySpace page.
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IMDB is listing some more details including the cast and crew of a the longtime in-development documentary about legendary hardcore pioneers Bad Brains. The film is marked as “in production” and appears to be titled Bad Brains: A Band in D.C. . Participating commentators include Henry Rollins of Black Flag, Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat/Fugazi, punk rock filmmaker and musician Don Letts (Big Audio Dynamite). Members of the Bad Brains including Paul ‘H.R.’ Hudson, Gary ‘Dr. Know’ Miller, Darryl Jenifer and Earl Hudson all participated as did Bad Brains producers Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys and Ric Ocasek of The Cars. The yet-untitled film was directed by Mandy Stein and Ben Logan and traces the history of the band from their formation in Washington, D.C. in 1979 to the present day.
Check out more details on the IMDB page.
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In a recent fan-curated interview of sorts with Taking Back Sunday vocalist Adam Lazzara on social media question-and-answer site Formspring, he admitted his own personal disappointment with the band’s 2009 major label album, New Again:
[New Again] was a gigantic step backwards for us. I’m proud of what i said however not fully satisfied with what we put out. I/We are making up or that now. cant wait for you to hear it.
Since that album was released, the band went through a significant lineup change and reunited with their most beloved (and critically acclaimed) lineup from 2002’s Tell All Your Friends. Check out the rest of his answers here.
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Valient Thorr have posted the first song from their new as-yet-untitled album, tentatively due out this fall. The band recorded with Jack Endino, producer of seminal albums by Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney as well as their own previous album, Immortalizer, from 2008.
Check out “Doublecrossed” on their official website.
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All Time Low have announced a new live CD+DVD titled Straight to DVD. Due out May 25, 2010, the disc features live performance and on-the-road documentary filmed and recorded during the band’s 2009 headlining tour. It also adds some “old stuff from the early years that we know you have never seen before.” he live performance was filmed and recorded at Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC on December 4, 2009 where the band played fan favorites like “Jasey Rae”, “Dear Maria, Count Me In” and newer cuts “Weightless” and “Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t).”
The band is also planning a limited, deluxe edition with a 32 page hard cover book, a bonus DVD disc including the director’s cut Documentary and other extras. Check out the trailer/pre-order here.
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519punkvids has uploaded several videos capturing Israel’s Useless ID on the band’s recent Canadian tour. Check them out here.
The band released The Lost Broken Bones in 2008.
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Whether you like them or not, one thing about Killswitch Engage can be said for sure: they have a solid fan base – one that will attend their shows with the same feverish excitement and energy even though their operatic singer, Howard Jones, is sitting out the tour. The March 19th show featured not only All That Remains singer Phil Labonte but also original Killswitch Engage vocalist Jesse Leach on seven songs from Alive Or Just Breathing. This was his first time performing with the band in nine years and he was STOKED. Punknews interviewer Jason Epstein, sat down with guitarist Joel Stroetzel (and found out that his last name does indeed rhyme with “pretzel”) to have a conversation in Irving Plaza’s dressing room just a few feet away from a friend who was getting a tattoo done. Wait for it…Metal.
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