Black Wine (ex-The Ergs!) will be touring the east coast and midwest extensively after Insubordination Fest.
The band continues to support their 2009 self-titled debut for Don Giovanni Records.
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Rise Against (with Dennis Lyxzén and Brian Baker): “Minor Threat (Minor Threat)”
While in Sweden, Rise Against joined Dennis Lyxzén of Refused and Brian Baker of Bad Religion to perform a live rendition of the track “Minor Threat” as originally performed by Minor Threat. The performance is particularly notable since Baker was a member of the original band and performed on the original Minor Threat EP released just under 30 years ago and collected on Complete Discography.
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You Say Party! We Say Die! changes name, shifts lineup
In the wake of the death of Devon Clifford this past April, Abbotsford B.C. dance-punk act You Say Party! We Say Die! has implemented some significant changes. In a statement they commented:
We have talked at great length with each other and our families and friends about the future. Devon’s parents have encouraged us to continue on and given us their blessing. It is their opinion (as well as ours) that Devon would never have wanted his death to end the band. He would have wanted us to continue on.
In the time between Devon’s passing and this statement, we have all reflected upon our personal lives. Krista has decided that her time with us has come to an end as she no longer desires the long drives, poor sleeps and revolting selection of road food. Instead she’s choosing a home, a garden, some gluten-free baking and a proper education. We will miss Krista very much and she remains a part of our lives.
We have turned to our good friends and former tour-mates Robert Andow and Bobby Siadat of Vancouver band “Gang Violence” to play keyboards and drums This new line up will continue the tradition of excellent live shows and sweaty dance floors, with new strength and a renewed commitment to music and touring. The 5 of us look forward to carrying the spirit of our friend Devon with us everywhere.
Furthermore the band is changing their name to simply You Say Party. Their previously cancelled European tour dates are being rescheduled for this fall under the new moniker.
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Let Me Run: ‘Broken Strings’
Our stream today comes from New Brunswick, NJ-based Let Me Run. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new EP for Paper and Plastick, Broken Strings.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Puzzle Dimension Updates Released
Updates to Puzzle Dimension have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
– Fade transitions between game states.
– Loading screen text localizable.
– Ensure render thread is idle when application is terminated.
– Z-fighting in Water theme ghost blocks.
– Remade portal particle effect.
– Increased specular lighting in shadow area a bit.
– Ambient occlusion on pixel gates enabled.
– De-pixel particle effect halo added.
– Removed unsupported MSAA options.
– Improved resolution detection, fallback on desktop resolution if driver unable to report support display modes.
– Fixed multimonitor mouse input.
– Fixed “pure virtual call” crash on startup.
– Fixed initialization of XAudio2; letting XAudio2 determine speaker setup by itself.
– Added restart option in Pause menu.
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Puzzle Dimension Updates Release.
Updates to Puzzle Dimension have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
– Fade transitions between game states.
– Loading screen text localizable.
– Ensure render thread is idle when application is terminated.
– Z-fighting in Water theme ghost blocks.
– Remade portal particle effect.
– Increased specular lighting in shadow area a bit.
– Ambient occlusion on pixel gates enabled.
– De-pixel particle effect halo added.
– Removed unsupported MSAA options.
– Improved resolution detection, fallback on desktop resolution if driver unable to report support display modes.
– Fixed multimonitor mouse input.
– Fixed “pure virtual call” crash on startup.
– Fixed initialization of XAudio2; letting XAudio2 determine speaker setup by itself.
– Added restart option in Pause menu.
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Frank Turner announces winners of “Try This At Home” contest
Frank Turner has unveiled the winners of the “Try This At Home” single contest. First launched in May, the contest gave two bands/singers the chance to be selected to provide the B-sides for his 7″ single, Try This at Home. Turner said this:
I listened to every song submitted, which took a fair while, and I’ve actually had a really hard time picking just two songs (one UK, one ex-UK) for the single. There were a lot of awesome songs submitted, and I want to say thanks to everyone who took the time to upload their tunes. In the end I decided to mention some runners-up as well as the winners, the tunes were so great. So here we are.
UK Winner: The Retrospective Soundtrack Players – Real Cool Hand
Ex-UK Winner: Isaac Graham – Gold And Steel
Check out the runner ups on his blog.
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The Scourge Project Update Released
The Scourge Project has been updated and will be on sale for $4.99/4.99?/4.99GBP for the next 10 days.
The update will feature the following list of fixes and improvements:
– Echo AI General improvements.
– Echo AI navigation improvements.
– Teleport problem with someone incapacitated experienced by some client.
– Crash when spamming the “E” key to enter and exit a stationary weapon.
– No auto team selection in multiplayer when coming from a Deathmatch server and entering a server with team based matches.
– Skipping system for Action Mode.
– Substitution of the metadata info from some servers in the server browser.
– Other minor fixes and improvements. Some character deformations experienced by some client in checkpoints 1 and 4 from level 3.
– Sound issues with the dropship experienced by some client.
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United Nations (Converge, Thursday) release new 7-inch/EP
United Nations have released a new 7-inch EP on Deathwish. The band features Geoff Rickley (Thursday), Daryl Palumbo (Glassjaw), Chree from The Number Twelve Looks Like You, and Kiss it Goodbye’s Eric Cooper. The four song EP is titled Nevermind The Bombings, Here’s Your Six Figures and promises the “bygone days of the mid-1990’s “screamo” sub-genre. ”
You can stream some music from the EP on the order page.
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Marky Ramone sues to get unpaid royalties
TMZ (sigh) is reporting that Marky Ramone, who took over drumming for the legendary Ramones for the release of Road to Ruin and remained as sole drummer for fifteen years, is suing the people behind his royalties agreement. According to a legal filing in New York Supreme Court, Marky says he signed a new royalties deal in 2005 but stopped receiving payments in 2008 due to “some allegedly shady business dealings.”
Marky claims that the company in charge of managing the bands royalties completely ignored the contract and took Ramones money that didn’t belong to them. Ramone claims he’s owed about $175,000 in back royalties and is also asking for $1 million in punitive damages.
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JBTV produces all-punk episode with NOFX, Teenage Bottlerocket, Lawrence Arms, No Use, Menzingers
The latest episode of Chicago’s longest running music program, JBTV, has been posted. The newest episode features an all-punk rock lineup with segments featuring NOFX, Teenage Bottlerocket, No Use For A Name, The Lawrence Arms, The Menzingers and Dead To Me. As always, the program is hosted by Brendan Kelly of Lawrence Arms and Tobias Jeg of Red Scare.
Check out the full episode here.
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Sniper: Ghost Warrior Updates Released
Updates to Sniper: Ghost Warrior have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Fixes
- Fixed several game stability problems
- Fixed voice-over and texts errors
- Fixed sound errors (i.e. sound of knife stab)
- Fixed a few other minor gameplay bugs
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Sniper: Ghost Warrior Updates Release.
Updates to Sniper: Ghost Warrior have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Fixes
- Fixed several game stability problems
- Fixed voice-over and texts errors
- Fixed sound errors (i.e. sound of knife stab)
- Fixed a few other minor gameplay bugs
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