Modest Mouse will be reissuing two of their earliest releases next month. Frontman Isaac Brock’s Glacial Pace will issue new vinyl and CD versions of The Fruit That Ate Itself and Sad Sappy Sucker on November 9, 2010. The LP versions will be pressed on new 180g vinyl with a bundled download card and the CDs are being repackaged in new fold-out two panel digi-paks.
I’m furious about the way we’re being led towards socialism. I have come to believe (not just wonder) that Obama’s plan is to destroy America from within.
In the new interview, she is critical of those who judged her for her participation:
No country can provide all things for all citizens. There comes a point where it just isn’t possible, and it’s proven to be a failure everywhere it’s been tried. I am not oblivious to the plight of the poor, but I don’t see any reason/sense to the idea that everyone has to have everything, especially when the economy is so bad. I see that philosophy as merely a ploy to control.
Today it was announced that there would be no cost of living increase for Social Security recipients because “there’s no inflation.” I’d love to know what makes them think that! Where the hell do they shop? Prices have been rising for over a year. Inflation is a natural happening, I know. But why is it that suddenly food prices don’t go up two or three or five cents, but instead they’re going up 40, 50, 60 cents at a clip? No inflation my ass!
[Democrats say that tea partiers are] all racists, they’re all religious nuts, they’re all uninformed, they’re all stupid, they want no taxes at all and no regulations whatsoever. I’m stunned that so many people who call themselves liberal yet are completely intolerant. I thought liberals loved everyone: the poor, the immigrant, the gays, the handicapped, the minorities, dogs, cats, all eye colors, all hair colors! Peace, love, bull! Curious they have no tolerance whatsoever for anyone who doesn’t think exactly as they do. You disagree and you’re immediately called a fool, a Nazi, a racist.
Weezer is planning a third release from the vaults this year, with vocalist Rivers Cuomo announcing plans to release his third Alone collection. Rivers promises that it will include more solo recordings of tracks from the “lost” pre-Pinkerton concept album. He is planning to accompany that release with the publication of “The Pinkerton Diaries which will compile Cuomo’s journals, emails and Harvard papers from that era.
For the first time in 14 years, the original line-up of New Jersey hardcore band Ensign will be performing together for a special pre-Halloween event on October 30th at the Court Tavern in New Brunswick, NJ. The show will feature vocalist Tim Shaw, original drummer Chris Ross (Nora/Torchbearer), founding guitarist John Fraunberger, and touring bassist Nate Gluck (Strength 691/Vision/Detournement). The band will only be performing material from their first and second 7-inches as well as a few extra trackss, most of which have not been performed live since the departure of Ross & Fraunberger in the late-90’s.
Also performing will be Frontier(s), the new band from Chris Hidgon (Elliott) and Matt Wieder (Mouthpiece/Automatic), Karma Never Forgives (members from Agents of Man, Bulldoze, For The Love Of, and IDK), and Skull Crusher (Resurrection/Hands Tied). Doors open at 9:00 PM with an $8 entry. SourceContinue reading Ensign to perform with founding lineup on October 30th→
Chicago-are bearded supergroup Stay Ahead of the Weather have posted another new song. The band is the new project from Evan Weiss, formerly of Damiera and currently performing solo under the moniker Into It. Over It., as well as Nick Wakim of Castevet and Native‘s Bobby Markos. Their debut 7-inch We Better Get Goin’ If We’re Gonna is due out December 7, 2010 via No Sleep Records.
Ariane “Ari Up” Forster of The Slits has passed away at 48. Ari Up formed The Slits when she was 14, in 1976. After The Slits split in 1981, she moved with her husband and twin children to jungle regions of Indonesia and Belize, living among indigenous people in those areas. Later, they moved to Jamaica, eventually settling in Kingston. She continued to make music, first with the New Age Steppers, then solo as Baby Ari, Madussa, and Ari Up. John Lydon made the announcement on his official website:
John [Lydon] and Nora [Forster] have asked us to let everyone know that Nora’s daughter Arianna (aka Ari-Up) died today (Wednesday, October 20th) after a serious illness. She will be sadly missed.
As we at Punknews begin gearing up for the inevitable chaos that is this year’s Fest , we have teamed up with the fine people behind this years FESTivities (zing!) to bring you a series of interviews with some of the bands playing this year. Kicking off our series is Gainesville’s (by way of New Mexico) own Spanish Gamble. The boys sat down with No Idea’s own Tony Weinbender to discuss touring, drinking, cooking and of course, Fest.
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The Punknews Podcast rolls on this week with news editors Bryne Yancey and Adam White as well as managing editor Ben Conoley hitting the roundtable to discuss such world-beating issues as the 
