Duane's Punk Pit -- April 11, 2003

Reading Festival 2003 -- The line up for this year's Reading & Leeds Festival have been announced – here they are:

Friday 22nd: Linkin Park and Blink-182

Saturday 23rd: Blur and The White Stripes

Sunday 24th: Metallica and System of a Down

Other bands playing include: Beck, Placebo, Doves, Courtney Love, Hundred Reasons and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, System of a Down, Sum 41, The Doves , The Steets, Elbow, The Music, Good Charlotte, The Polyphoic Spree, The Datsuns, AFI, The Mars Volta, Bowling for Soup and Cooper Temple Clause.

More Dropkicks -- Along with Pistol Grip, Beerzone will also be supporting the Dropkick Murphys at the London Astoria show.

Speaking of Pistol Grip; they are also supporting Youth Brigade at The Camden Underworld on Friday 20th June.

Glowskulls cancel tour -- "The tour with the Voodoo Glow Skulls has been cancelled. They're not coming over because of the war. However, As soon as we have more news we'll let you know."

IATDE signing -- Made up of ex members of The Guillaume Seam, Urotsukidoji and the Canaan drummer, is the band November Coming Fire. They have just been signed to In At The Deep End Records, with their first release ( a 6/7 track MCD) being planned for June. 'Transgression' will appear on this release, and you can hear an unmixed version of this here:

US News:

Alk3 On Conan -- That's right, The Alkaline Trio have announced they will be appearing on Late Night With Conan O'Brien on May 13th, the same day their new album "Good Mourning" will be hitting the shelves.

Chunksaah's Worthless United have released a new e-card in order to promote their new album "A Nation Under". Give a listen here.

The Bouncing Souls -- were recently threatened with a $1000 fine due to all the noise being made by fans and the band while shooting their latest video, for "Kids and Heroes." Apparently, at least 10 complaints related to the video shoot were filed by people within the area. The video will be appearing on this year's Warped Tour Video Compilation.

Fall Out Boy Streaming Song -- Check out the new Fall Out Boy flashcard up at falloutboyrock.com and the songs "Dead on Arrival" streamed on the site. Tour Dates, You can also download "Grenade Jumper", "Saturday", and a special dance remix for "Grand Theft Autumn (Millenium Dance Mix)" from their Fueled By Ramen debut at mp3.com, "Take This To Your Grave" out May 6, 2003.

Eulogy Signs The Judas Cradle -- Eulogy Recordings has announced that the newest band to join their label is Mobile, AL sextet, The Judas Cradle. No word on when the band will be heading into the studio, but their debut EP "Where Child Actors Go To Die" is still available on Indianola Records.

The Goodwill Hits The Road Solo -- The Goodwill is doing a 8 day solo tour starting this Friday. Before hitting the road for a month with Junction 18 and Bayside. Dates can be found at thegoodwill.com.

Jump Start Records Signs Better Off Dead -- Jump Start records welcomes Pittsburgh's very own, Better Off Dead, to the Jump Start family. Better Off Dead play in your face hardcore. Check out some mp3 demos right here and keep your eyes peeled for a full-length record later this year.

Lagwagon/Avoid One Thing tour -- Lagwagon and Avoid One Thing along with Rufio and Yellowcard are heading out on tour for the spring season. They will be hitting most major US and Canada eastern cities. Check out the dates here and here.

Street Dogs -- A new band formed by Mike McColgan (ex-Dropkick Murphys), Jeff Erna (ex-DKM) and Johnny Rioux (ex-Bruisers). According to Street Dogs management "The band just wrapped up recording their debut full-length disc at Q-Division in Somerville, Ma. It was produced by Nate Albert and engineered by Matt Allard. It sounds amazing, with several special guest of the Boston music scene. They are playing at Middle East (Cambridge, MA. Central Square stop on the Red Line) this Saturday with Suspect Device, The Kings of Nuthin and Hudson Falcon."

"Underground Screams" -- out from Asian Man Records is a compilation entitled "Underground Screams." This CD (only #4) features 26 tracks from 26 different underground bands. This is an effort to spread knowledge of bands that haven't yet been signed to labels. They were chosen from a contest held by Asian Man Records last fall.

Digger in need of new band members -- Hopeless Records band Digger is looking for a new lead guitarist and bassist. They will be holding auditions in PA. Check out www.diggerpa.com for more info.

New Silverstein MP3 Available-- Silverstein's upcoming debut on Victory Records is available for download. The track is called "Giving Up" and is available on their MP3.com page along with their previously announced other new track "Smashed Into Pieces". Both songs are taken from "When Broken is Easily Fixed" which hit stores May 20th.

The Last Year Debut Full Length 2003 -- The Last Year haven't recorded any new material since 2001. The band has booked July 21st - August 4th at Love Juice Labs (who recently recorded A Static Lullaby's album). Also on August 14th, the 10 track album will be sent off to West West Side for mastering. Goodlife Records will be releasing the album in Fall 2003.

Boston's Punks vs Lymphoma II -- Fatcityrockers.com writes: The second annual Punks vs. Lymphoma benefit show at The Linwood in Boston on April 12 is shaping up nicely. Confirmed for the event so far are The Outlets, Gang Green, Mung, Avoid One Thing, The Kenmores, The Prime Movers, The Marvels and the always elusive special guests. Last year, the Dropkick Murphys played a surprise set at the tiny club and this year the Street Dogs are rumored to be doing the same. Also, Avoid One Thing's Joe Gittleman will be pulling TRIPLE duty playing with The Outlets and his old mates in Gang Green. Doors are at 8PM and the cover is $10.

Seventh Star -- will be playing some shows down around Florida mid-May (16th-18th) in support of their debut full-length, Dead End on Facedown Records. Fans who go to those shows will be able to pick up the disc two weeks before its official release on June 3rd. Facedown for more.

Give Up The Ghost's 2000 release -- Background Music will be re-released on Equal Vision Records. The disc, currently out of print, will drop on June 3rd. Meanwhile, GUTG is on gearing up to tour with acts such as Glassjaw, Converge and The Promise, so get to Give Up The Ghost for more.

Dying Wish Records has got together their lineup for the forth coming Jawbreaker tribute album. The album features 17 brand new covers by such bands as Sparta, The Ã†ffect, Kill Your Idols, and The Reunion Show. More information and a track list can be found at Dying Wish's Page. Look for it to be released in May 2003.

Matt Skiba of The Alkaline Trio was recently interviewed by Absolutepunk.net. Check out the interview here and while you're there you might as well read the review of Good Mourning posted on the site as well.

Dashboard And Beck This May! -- Dashboard Confessional has confirmed that they will be on tour with Beck this May and June. Stay tuned for more information and dates.

New Slow Coming Day – Another mp3 from Slow Coming Day's debut CD, "Farewell To The Familiar" is now available on mp3.com. Download "A Midsummer's Nightmare" now and then look for "Farewell To The Familiar" in stores on April 22nd. Get geared up for the Slow Coming Day E-Card next week. Check out the good sounds here.

That’s it for this week in Punk. I’m off for the next three days to check out the Toyota Grand Prix here in Los Angeles so I’m going to be guzzling and scrapping at the races, listening to Punk. Remember, you can always reach me at dkleyva@musictap.net. Be good humans! Peace.