According to an Exclaim report, Variety magazine has once again sued The Vandals for their 2004 parody version of the logo from Hollywood Potato Chip. The band settled the issue initially in late 2004, but the issue has come up again due to the parody mark appearing on other sites. The Vandals posted this statement:

We also need other help. The Daily Variety claims that our old logo for Hollywood Potato Chip, which is a parody of the Daily Variety logo commenting on the materialistic culture of Hollywood, is still on the Internet and they are suing us for this. We agreed not to use this logo anymore and we have no product for sale with this logo so their claims that we are intentionally using it and harming the Daily Variety are ludicrous.

Now they are in the process of punishing us with an abusive law suit filed in Delaware, where none of the parties reside or do business, because this will cause us the most financial harm and when we get sick of it, and realize we can’t afford to fight them, we will pay them the money. That is our opinion of what is going on because we cooperated in every way to try to take the images down, but they filed the suit anyway…. in Delaware.

The band is planning a Vandals benefit show in the next little while to raise money to cover the legal fees.
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Alternative hip hop experimentalist M.I.A. have reposted their video for “Born Free.” The controversial video which was directed by Romain Gavras was pulled from YouTube due to nudity, graphic violence and a scene where a young boy is shot in the head. The video itself is drawing allusions to the alleged killing of Tamil males by Sri Lankan government forces in 2009 with red-headed kids filling in for Tamil youth. The song is also notable for sampling “Ghost Rider”, a 1977 song by the post-punk band Suicide.

Check out the video here.

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Streetlight Manifesto will head out on a nearly six-week tour with the Wonder Years and Dan Potthast supporting. Crime in Stereo will also join the lineup for a quintet of shows after wrapping up their upcoming tour with the Swellers and a run through the UK.

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Streetlight Manifesto will head out on a nearly six-week tour with the Wonder Years and Dan Potthast supporting. Crime in Stereo will also join the lineup for a quintet of shows after wrapping up their upcoming tour with the Swellers and a run through the UK.

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Our stream today comes from New York City, NY-based Jesse Malin and The St. Marks Social. As the name suggests, the band is the new project from Jesse Malin of hardcore trio Heart Attack and glam punks D Generation. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Love It To Life.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Today, we’ve stoked to bring you a stream of the recent split 7″ featuring Bob Nanna & Lauren Lo on one side, and Into It. Over It. on the other side. The record was released physically back in February via Big Scary Monsters.

You can check it out at Nanna’s Punknews.org page.
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Today we’re stoked to bring you a Dispatch from our good buddies Bridge and Tunnel and Young Livers. They’re currently over the pond in Europe and (from the sounds of it) having a great time. Today we’ve got a message from Matt Farrell of Young Livers. Read the whole thing below.

Bridge and Tunnel just dropped Indoor Voices, which you can stream here and Young Livers are anticipating the release of Of Misery and Toil on April 27, 2010
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Green Day has tapped Joan Jett and the Blackhearts to provide support on their upcoming European run which kicks off June 2nd. The shows precede the band’s upcoming August tour with AFI.

As for Jett, she is the subject of the new film, The Runaways, which documents her experiences in the eponymous band in the 1970s. The film stars Kristen Stewart of Twilight fame and Dakota Fanning and was directed by music video director, Floria Sigismondi.
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Henry Rollins, Fat Mike of NOFX, Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine, Jello Biafra, Justin Sane of Anti-Flag are among the participants in a new documentary titled Sounds Like a Revolution. The recently completed film was directed by Summer Preney and Jane Michener and written by Margaret Susan Martin. The only details about the film so far are from the IMDB summary which says:

Documents the rise of a new generation of activist musicians who are living proof that music is a powerful tool in the ongoing struggle for social change. From the Dixie Chicks to Michael Franti to the punk band Anti-Flag, artists across the musical spectrum recount their motivations and struggles over the last decade, in a post-9/11 world where dissent has been silenced and censorship is commonplace. No ordinary music doc, this inspiring rockumentary draws on the power of music and insights of artists to help us understand our world and find the courage to speak out about issues that concern us all.

No word on when the film will surface in theatre or home video formats.
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Mesa, AZ’s Authority Zero have posted a new track. “Get It Right” comes from the band’s upcoming full-length Stories of Survival, slated for a May 25, 2010 release through Fletcher Dragge of Pennywise‘s new record label Viking Funeral and Suburban Noize Records.

Check it out at their MySpace MySpace page.
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Silverstein has announced that they will soon be releasing a new live CD+DVD documenting their recent catalog showcases at Toronto’s El Mocambo club this past March. 2003’s When Broken is Easily Fixed, 2005’s Discovering The Waterfront, 2007’s Arrivals & Departures, and 2009’s A Shipwreck In The Sand were each performed on separate nights.

The record is titled Decade (Live At El Macambo) and is due out June 8, 2010.
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In a new interview with ThePunkSite.com, Tom DeLonge and David Kennedy of Angels and Airwaves discussed their plans regarding their upcoming William Eubank directed film – Love. They are aiming for a theatrical release of the film but will have more details once they put complete the film this July. They did explain their thoughts on the film saying:

I can tell you, honestly, the movie is ten times better than I thought it would be. But it’s not meant to compete with Transformers. This is an art-house film and no band has really done this in a very long time. So we’re hoping that we catch some people off guard and we’re also hoping that we do something that is very credible as far its artistic acumen goes.

DeLonge also explained the reasoning behind using LOVE as the soundtrack rather than the originally planned I-Empire album:

Well, what happened was we set up these ideas about what we wanted to do for the film. We hired the director, we set up a big kind of overall reaching message and tonality and parameters for what the film would be. Then we shoved the director off on his maiden voyage and he goes out. Well he comes back two years later and we’re all thinking it’s going to be finished, we’re gonna wrap it up, we’ll let it come out with this record; and when we saw it, it just blew us away. We couldn’t believe what he did. But we also knew that it wasn’t finished yet – it needed more.

So we made a decision to clip the idea of it coming out that year and really re-invest in it and take a big swing at the fences – forgive the baseball term for people that might read this in different countries – and try to have it come out with a free record. This will be our big moment to have a hundred percent independent release. Not only with the film and the music and album or whatever, just a very DIY – do it yourself. And show what could happen if you work your ass off.

Read the entire interview here.
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Polar Bear Club have posted their new video for “Living Saints” from their Bridge Nine Records debut, Chasing Hamburg. It was directed by Thomas Colella and promises “a conceptual piece in the same vein as Peter Gabriel’s 1986 “Sledgehammer” complete with animation and never-before-seen visual effects”

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