Category Archives: Punk Rock

News from the Punk Rock music scene.

Interviews: Patrick Kindlon (End of a Year)

End of a YearAfter just wrapping up a tour of the U.S.,End of a Year continues to celebrate their latest release on Deathwish, You Are Beneath Me. Heavily influenced by the Revolution Summer in DC, EOAY continues to offer something a little different in the world of modern hardcore. As a fresh band on Deathwish, vocalist Patrick Kindlon has nothing but positive things to say about their new label since they allow EOAY to be, “weird,” as he puts it. He also shared some thoughts with Punknews interviewer Stephanie Thornton about the response to the new album, lyrical inspiration, poking holes in Cruel Hand‘s condoms, and receiving criticism from Gnarls Barkey fans.

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Tours: Bad Religion planning three full album shows

Bad Religion Bad Religion has announced three decade-spanning sets. The veteran band will spend three days at New York City’s Irving Plaza with Off With Their Heads and The Aggrolites. On October 20th, the band will cover How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, Suffer and No Control. October 26th will take Against the Grain, Generator, Recipe For Hate, Stranger Than Fiction, The Gray Race and No Substance. The final night, October 27th , will cover New America, The Process of Belief, The Empire Strikes First, New Maps of Hell and The Dissent of Man.

Tickets go on sale August 28th at 12pm for $27.50 and VIP 3 Day Passes will also be available for $99.00.
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Carpenter with Cheap Girls, Laura Stevenson, Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, Cobra Skulls

Carpenter Vancouver, BC’s Carpenter are set to hit the road this October in support of their new full length Sea to Sky. The band will head east across Canada from British Columbia through Ontario. There they’ll join up with Paper and Plastick labelmates Cheap Girls for a tour. The pairing will play a trio of dates with Cobra Skulls and another three with Mockingbird Wish Me Luck before hopping the border to play Buffalo with Two Cow Garage. The tour will then be welcomed to New York City by Bomb The Music Industry! and Laura Stevenson and The Cans, with Laura’s band joining them for some East Coast US dates afterwards.

Carpenter will release their new full-length Sea To Sky on September 2st via Goldstock Records in their native Canada and Paper and Plastick in the United States. It follows up 2008’s Law of the Land.
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Sum 41: “Skumfuk”

Sum 41 have posted an “unofficial” video for their song, “Skumfuk.” The video features the new song set to images from the band’s summer tour. The track itself will appear on the band’s next album. The record is titled Screaming Bloody Murder and is due out August 31, 2010 via Island.

The band released Underclass Hero in 2007. They will be supporting the record on an upcoming European tour with The Black Pacific (ex-Pennywise) and Veara.
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Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: “Bottled in Cork”

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists have posted the star-filled video for “Bottled in Cork.” The video features the band staging an elaborate punk musical and features John Hodgman, Julie Klausner, Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles, Paul F. Tompkins and more. The video itself is being hosted by Funny Or Die. The song itself comes from The Brutalist Bricks.

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