Tragedy can strike anywhere, at any time. Particularly if you own, operate or attend a traveling summer carnival. A loose screw, a missing nut, a lapse of concentration and your summer ends early.
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Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against The Machine and One Day as a Lion spoke to Billboard about the increasing number of artists who have signed on to a boycott of Arizona due to the passage of SB 1070 by the state government. Critics say the bill legalizes racial profiling has drawn fierce opposition from people all over the world.
Zach mentioned plans for a series of protest performances:
In the coming weeks we are going to be organizing a series of concerts that are respectful of the nature of the boycott in its attempts to isolate the Arizona government but not isolate the people, and especially the organizations that are fighting this on the ground. Many of us have begun to plan concerts that include bands that have signed on the Sound Strike, and make tickets available so that people within Arizona can come and see these concerts as they roll out. These are things that are being set into motion right now – a series of concerts or maybe even one giant concert in late July
So far, almost 300 artists have signed on to the Arizona boycott including Anti-Flag, Billy Bragg, Gogol Bordello, Kanye West, Michael Moore, My Morning Jacket, Nine Inch Nails, One Day as a Lion, Rage Against The Machine, Rise Against, Sonic Youth, State Radio, Tenacious D, The Coup, Street Sweeper Social Club, Serj Tankian of System Of A Down, Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes, Steve Earle, Cypress Hill and many more.
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In Roeser, Luxembourg, the Deftones performed their track “Passenger” with support from Hayley Williams of Paramore. Williams filled in for Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan who performed on the album track from White Pony released in 2000.
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Dead Hearts will be releasing their final album, A Death in the Family, later this year. The band, who split in 2008, are promising four songs on the 7-inch version as well as a very limited CD version with 18 songs. The release will feature the band’s final three songs which were previous available on CD-R and the deluxe CD issue will include the tracks from 2005’s No Love, No Hope and a set recorded live at CBGB.
Both the 7-inch and CD will be released by State of Mind Recordings.
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Bad Astronaut is headed out on their first ever tour this July, playing four acoustic dates in California alongside Mike Hale. Frontman Joey Cape will perform solo at the shows as well. To celebrate this rare occasion Punknews is giving away four pairs of tickets to the tour, one for each date.
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In our latest Band on Band we feature two unique acts who have made a musical career (non-paying career) out of doing things their own way. Mischief Brew and Guignol continue to make their own rules releasing a collaborative full length, Fight Dirty on Erik Peterson of Mischief Brew’s own Fistolo Records earlier this year. The two acts took some time out of endless musical projects and day jobs to discuss Iron Maiden, aging in punk rock and world travel.
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Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer is the first expansion for the best-selling and critically acclaimed massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Age of Conan: The Hyborian Adventures.
As an added bonus, the expansion also includes the original game.
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Updates to ARMA II have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.
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Fireworks, The Swellers, Transit and Man Overboard will be touring North America together this fall. Two of the shows will also feature New Found Glory.
Fireworks continues to support 2009’s All I Have to Offer Is My Own Confusion, while The Swellers will be supporting 2009’s Ups and Downsizing. Transit’s new full-length Keep This to Yourself is tentatively slated for a late summer/early fall release, and Man Overboard’s new LP Real Talk is due out on July 20, 2010.
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The Black Pacific, the new project from former Pennywise vocalist Jim Lindberg, have posted a two song sampler for stream and download. The set includes the previously unveiled “The System” as well as another track entitled “When It’s Over.” Check it out at the band’s website.
So far, little is known about the band other than their affiliation with Side One Dummy Records. Lindberg left Pennywise in August 2009 after spending more than two decades with the band. He was replaced by Ignite’s Zoli Teglas in February.
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Orlando, FL’s The Working Dead have joined Death to False Hope Records. The label will digitally release the band’s new EP, Sleep, on July 13.
In the meantime, Sleep can be streamed at the band’s Punknews.org page.
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This is Hell have filled out their summer touring plans. The itinerary now includes an extended run across the United States, as well as shows in the UK and Sweden.
The band will be supporting their new album (and first for Rise Records), Weight of the World.
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