Prior to their tour with Tigers Jaw and Man Overboard, Cleveland’s The Sidekicks will hit the road for a few weeks of shows. During this leg they’ll play with bands like The Menzingers and Bomb The Music Industry.
The band’s 2009 Red Scare full-length Weight of Air was voted the Punknews.org staff’s favourite record of 2009.
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In a move that will surprise absolutely no one, Activision has announced the first details about the upcoming sixth Guitar Hero game. Titled Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, the new game is expected in the fall and promises a “story-driven component” to be narrated by KISS’ Gene Simmons. The game is promising 90 playable songs including tracks by Avenged Sevenfold, Buzzcocks, Dethklok, DragonForce, Foo Fighters, Jane’s Addiction, Metallica Muse, My Chemical Romance, Silversun Pickups, Slayer and The Cure.
Along with the music, the game incorporates the legendary CBGB venue as a playable stage in the game but are removing playable musicians from the game after the controversial placement of Kurt Cobain and No Doubt in the 5th iteration of the series.
Source Continue reading AFI, Buzzcocks, Foo Fighters, The Cure, Silversun Pickups confirmed for Guitar Hero 6
Updates to Half-Life 2 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:
Half-Life 2
If you have a save game that causes you to be stuck in the teleporter with Alyx after this level transition you will need to manually restart this level to continue. To do that enable the developer console and type “map d3_c17_01” to load into this map.
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Fake Problems has posted a studio update from the making of their new record with Ted Hutt (Gaslight Anthem, Lucero, Flogging Molly).
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Though their full length is due out on Fat Possum Records, garage punk outfit Wavves will be releasing their first single via Mountain Dew’s Green Label Sound. The soft drink company’s label previously issued music by Matt and Kim, The Cool Kids and Holy Ghost. The single, “Post Acid,” is due out June 9th.
The record is titled King of the Beach and is due out August 3, 2010 via Fat Possum.
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Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection includes the original Sword of the Stars game and three expansions: Born of Blood, A Murder of Crows, and Argos Naval Yard.
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Didn’t get a chance to stream Nashville, TN-based Blacklist Royals‘s new album last weekend? Well, we’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Semper Liberi.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Our stream today comes from New York, NY’s The Tattle Tales. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new EP, Moon Glasses.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org page.
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Baltimore, MD’s Ruiner have decided to hang it up in October 2010 (as October 5th is the anniversary of their first show). Vocalist Rob Sullivan commented:
This wasn’t an easy choice to make. All of us started playing in bands when we were in middle school and for the first time in 12-13 years, some of us won’t be having band practice on a weekly basis. But we know this is a choice we needed to make. We always ran this band at 100% and some of us now feel like we don’t have the desire to tour anymore. We aren’t the kind of band who wants to release records and rarely play the music, so we decided it is now an appropriate time to hang it up. We got to see the world a few times over and with that met a lot of incredible people. We will all be forever grateful for that, but we know this decision is the right one to make. I’m sure I could give many more reasons as to why, but the gist of it is if this band can’t be done at full speed, we feel it is better to stop.
The band plans to carry out their current European Tour in July, as well as their set at This is Hardcore Festival in August. A final show in October will be announced in the coming months. In their time together Ruiner released three full lengths (most recently 2009’s Hell Is Empty) and played over 700 shows.
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The Thermals have announced the follow up to 2009’s Now We Can See. The record is titled Personal Life and is due out September 7, 2010 via Kill Rock Stars. It is their second for the label.
More Parts Per Million, 2003) and produced their 2nd LP (Fuckin A, 2004). The album was record to 2-inch tape and mixed to ½-inch tape. The record will be mastered directly from tape to vinyl so the vinyl edition of the record will have no digital mastering at all.
The label is promising the first song from the record, “I Don’t Believe You,” in August.
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Coliseum has launched a free download of the song “Everything To Everyone.” It comes from their forthcoming album, House with a Curse. The record will drop on June 22, 2010 and follows their album, No Salvation, which was released in 2007
Download the MP3 via Sendspace here.
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Following a handful of shows this week in California, Guttermouth is set to hit the road in the US this August with St. Cloud, Florida’s The New Threat.
Guttermouth last released Shave the Planet way back in 2006
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Chainsaw Massacre, Loving the Dark, Is Less More, and Last Video on Earth.
New Mutation
Chainsaw Massacre.
4 chainsaws, millions of zombies.
You are armed with the only thing you need to survive a Zombie Apocalypse, a chainsaw. Rip apart thousands of zombies on your way to safety.
This Mutation is available in Campaign Mode.
Loving the Dark
Last week’s poll results for the question; What is your favorite campaign?
360 Results
33% Dark Carnival
21% The Passing
17% The Parish
13% Hard Rain
12% Dead Center
5% Swamp Fever
This compares to what was actually played the most last week on the Xbox 360.
27% Dark Carnival
23% Dead Center
21% The Parish
11% Hard Rain
9% The Passing
9% Swamp Fever
PC Results
27% Dark Carnival
21% The Parish
16% Dead Center
16% Hard Rain
15% The Passing
5% Swamp Fever
This compares to what was actually played the most last week on the PC.
26% Dead Center
21% Dark Carnival
20% The Parish
15% The Passing
8% Hard Rain
7% Swamp Fever
3% Community Maps
Is Less More?
If you could remove one item from the Survivors in Versus, what would it be? Remember to vote in this poll you need to go to the in-game blog and vote there.
Last Video On Earth
With over 700 videos to choose from we had our work cut out for us to pick our top 3.
After careful consideration, numerous votes, recounts, dart throwing, and picking things out of a hat… we have chosen the top three.
1. “This chainsaw runs on adrenaline” brought a tear to our eye and captured the #1 spot.
2. Coach grabs #2 for thinking it would be fun to mess with all the witches. He was almost right.
3. Nicks grabs the #3 spot showing how close you can come to being killed by a tank.
Honorable Mentions.
Rocking out while killing 2 tanks
10 Things I would do if I was the Last Man On Earth
Ellis Escaping No Mercy on the… Hey Wait a Minute!
These are just a small sample of the great submissions. If you have some time, sit back and watch as many as you can on YouTube. You can search by votes or views on YouTube. You can also check these threads (thread #1, thread #2) on the SteamPowered forums for more featured videos.
Thanks to everyone who submitted a video and helped us select the winners.
Next Week’s Mutation: Room For One