News from the Punk Rock music scene.
Drag The River recently left for an extensive tour that will run into November and include shows in the United States, Canada and Europe. Select legs of the tour will also feature Cory Branan and Austin Lucas.
The group last released the Bad at Breaking Up collection in 2009.
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Scranton, PA’s Captain, We’re Sinking recently wrapped up a tour in support of their new 7″ for Kind Of Like Records, It’s a Trap. Today, we’re happy to bring you the third and final installment of their diary from the road. In this dispatch, the band begins to traverse the midwest and deals with a Creed fan in Louisiana, a kitchen show in Illinois, and Star Wars-themed rapping in Ohio, among other things.
Salt Lake City’s Reviver have posted the video for the title track from their new EP, Potential Wasteland. The video was shot at a hometown show and edited by NoCuff Kid Productions. The new EP is the follow up to the band’s 2008 debut, Versificator.
Sage Francis has debuted the latest video from his 2009 Anti- Records album, LI(F)E. The track was a musical collaboration with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse and the video was stop motion animated by Jim Foltice.
The Toasters have announced a US and Canadian tour set to kick off in late September. The ska band will be on the road till Halloween.
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 posted a stream of their self-titled debut due out August 31, 2010.
Check it out on their MySpace page.
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Asian Man Records has launched a free compilation featuring new music on the label. The compilation features music from all your favourites including: The Wild, Bomb the Music Industry!, Classics of Love, The Riptides, The Apers, Kevin Seconds, Noise by Numbers, Laura Stevenson and the Cans, Sundowner, Jaake Margo, Matt Skiba, Kepi Ghoulie, Mugwumps, Monkey, The Hot Toddies, Smoking Popes, For.the.Win., The Max Levine Ensemble and Andrew Jackson Jihad.
Grab it here.
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Solidarity Recordings has announced the first in a promised series of benefit compilation, this one benefiting the Plea for Peace foundation. The album will feature 30 songs from the likes of Cobra Skulls, The Brokedowns, RVIVR, The Methadones, Anti-Flag, Vultures United, The Menzingers, Sundowner, The Honor System, Fifteen, The Falcon, O Pioneers!!!, Hanalei and many others.
The album is due out September 28, 2010 and features artwork with your favourite winking political opportunist and rabble rousing mama grizzly who also shoots mama grizzlies.
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A dedicated fan, has posted a massive NOFX discography review spanning the band’s entire catalog and 27 year livespan. The four part series looks kindly on controversial albums like 1991’s Liberal Animation calling it a “ truly notable achievement.” but seems less fond of S & M Airlines. Of course, the review speaks well of the band’s 1994 breakthrough Punk In Drublic noting “stupendous songwriting.” It’s worth noting that the writer looks at the intervening 7-inches and EPs including The Decline which it notes “ beats Green Day to American Idiot’s punch” Each segment also includes a discography “mix tape” to provide some musical context for the writing.
Check out the entire four-party feature here
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In a new interview with Noisecreep, Every Time I Die confirmed their schedule for the remainder of the year. First up in November is a headlining tour, focused on small clubs and low door prices. The band noted:
We will bring it down to affordable shows, and we don’t have a huge overhead, so it’s totally more punk rock. We will be out all of November.
After the tour wraps up, the band will head back to Buffalo in December to begin writing and begin recording in early 2011. They released their Epitaph Records debut, New Junk Aesthetic, in 2009.
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Long Island, NY record label and fanzine 86’d Records has posted a name-your-price download of For Victory, the new full-length from Rations. The record features guest vocals from Iron Chic’s Lubrano, and guitar spots by Lou Fontana, formerly of On the Might of Princes and currently of Fellow Project.
You can check it out on the band’s bandcamp page.
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According to The Art of Fiction by John Gardner, the best stories ever written are the result of genre bending of some kind. Taking something that people are used to experiencing a certain way, and blending it with something they wouldn’t expect, like mash potato quesadillas. It’s awesome try it. A lot people have purported to combine punk rock with hip-hop. With the success of 311 in the mid 90’s, a slew of hip- hop-mixed-with-everything-else bands emerged, most of them rap-core, most of them boring. Therefore, when people describe POS as a rapper with punk rock influences, it doesn’t really convey the reality of what he does. POS’s brand of punk rock hip-hop is more visceral. Rather than carefully inserting rock and roll moments into rap songs, he injects the energy of punk into hip-hop songs. Hip-hop is his style, without question, but behind it lays an attitude, an ethos that we don’t usually equate with hip-hop. He’s collaborated with artists such like The Bouncing Souls and Jason Shevchuk from Kid Dynamite. Listening to these collaborations there’s a sense of shared excitement between the artists, and never an awkward mashing of styles.
Punknews writer Jon Reiss, having grown up in DIY punk, believes that it can be a meaningful experience that can affect any number of aspects of one’s life. Perhaps most interesting are those who carry that spirit into things we wouldn’t expect, be it music writing, cooking or even parenting. He’s written extensively on the subject looking for examples of people whose roots in punk manifest in interesting and different ways. POS’s music is a great example of how punk can pop up where you might not expect to see it.