News from the Punk Rock music scene.
L.A. Weekly has posted a series of photos and commentary from Rancid‘s recent benefit performances for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. The Adolescents and Thelonious Monster opened up the Friday night shows as well.
Check out the feature here.
Source Continue reading LA Weekly documents Adolescents/Rancid benefit show
New Creases and Vacation will be hitting the road later this week for a tour of the east coast and midwest.
New Creases’ latest 7″ for Traffic Street Records, About Last Night…, is streaming at their Punknews.org profile.
Source Continue reading Tours: New Creases / Vacation
Unwelcome Guests have released a new song from their upcoming split 7-inch with England’s 255s. Earlier this year, the band issued Don’t Go Swimming.
Check out the song on their Bandcamp Profile.
Source Continue reading Unwelcome Guests: “Patience”
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To celebrate the upcoming Red Oktoberfest, the promoters have obtained a piece of communist propaganda, featuring some very pretty pictures and the signature of one Canadian communist band called Propagandhi. We’ve got this poster to give away and you can put it on your wall, or use it to give tea partiers nightmares. It’s up to you.
The show takes place October 7th, 2010 at The Metro in Chicago, IL. Be there and be square.
Source Continue reading Contests: Win a Red Oktoberfest poster signed by Propagandhi
Weezer has revealed the track listing for their long-promised reissue of 1996’s Pinkerton. The remastered double CD release will hit stores on November 2, 2010 via DGC. Along with the original album, it will feature B-sides including “You Gave Your Love To Me Softly,” “Devotion” and “I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams” as well as live tracks, acoustic versions and original demo versions of songs.
Source Continue reading Weezer’s deluxe “Pinkerton” reissue detailed
SPIN and MySpace Music are teaming up to present Germs of Perfection: A Tribute to Bad Religion, a digital compilation in honor of the influential band’s 30th anniversary. The first track available for streaming from the release comes from Tegan And Sara, who tackled the band’s 1988 classic “Suffer.”
Listen to it here or by clicking Read More.
Source Continue reading Tegan and Sara: “Suffer” (Bad Religion)
Our stream today comes from upstate NY’s Casting Curses in the form of their new EP for Panic Records, Cold All Over Again.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
Source Continue reading Casting Curses: ‘Cold All Over Again’ EP
Senses Fail have posted the second song from their upcoming album, Fire. The record is due out October 19, 2010 via Vagrant and will be supported by a co-headlining tour with Bayside.
Epitaph Records‘ metalcore act Bring Me The Horizon will be touring Europe with Rise Records‘ The Devil Wears Prada in early 2011.
Source Continue reading Tours: Bring Me The Horizon / The Devil Wear Prada (Europe)
A Day To Remember, Underoath, The Word Alive and Close Your Eyes have booked a fall tour together beginning November 2nd.
Source Continue reading Tours: A Day to Remember / Underoath / The Word Alive / Close Your Eyes
Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong will be making his broadway debut for eight performances this month. Armstrong, who co-wrote the American Idiot musical, will play drug dealer St. Jimmy. He is temporarily replacing actor Tony Vincent who is on leave until October 12th for a personal matter.
The musical has earned two Tony awards, a Football halftime show, an AOL session and a biting parody in the last few months since it’s premiere.
Source Continue reading Billie Joe Armstrong plans Broadway debut
Post-punk pioneers Gang of Four have released a new song from their first album of original material in 16 years. The record is titled Content and is due out January 25, 2011 via Yep Roc. The album will be available in a standard CD release and on vinyl. It will also be available in the Ultimate Content Can – this contains the new album on CD, a book version of an art piece Jon and Andy have done on ceramic tiles depicting the last 40 years of world history, a book of lyrics, a book of Rotoscoped photographs of the band’s emotions, vials of band members’ blood and a scratch and sniff booklet which reflects the key areas of human activity.
Check out the song via Pitchfork.
Source Continue reading Gang of Four: “You’ll Never Pay for the Farm”