Duane's Punk Pit -- April 5, 2003

Hootie Who and welcome back again for another week of Punk at Duane’s Pit Stop. Unfortunately, the editor of this site, Matt Rowe forgot how to use a keyboard and/or (Editor's Note: Duane, you dumb bastard...get on with it) pay his power bill on time so last week’s Pit Stop was extremely late. But we should always be up on Fridays. If we should have any more problems with the postings please complain to that bastard, Matt Rowe. With that having been said, lets slam.

UK News

Something Corporate Additions –

Dates for the UK. London Astoria - Sat 21 June

Manchester Uni - Sun 22 June

Capdown tour off.... -- Capdown have had to cancel their UK tour which was due to kick off tonight, due to family reasons. However they will be playing 2 dates in April, one of which will be at the Concorde in Brighton, on the 27th. Their planned release of a single on Fierce Panda Records will go ahead and will release on the 28th of April.

Busted for Download -- It has been revealed this morning that Busted will be playing at the Download festival.

DENIED! -- Looks as though both The Juliana Theory and Rocket From The Crypt have cancelled or at least postponed the dates they were going to be playing in the UK

West Coast Punk Invasion Tour -- The West Coast Punk Invasion Tour will start soon. Featuring US Bombs, Agent Orange, One Man Army, and Discontent. The 5-week tour will visit cities in Germany, Benelux, Italy and the UK.

AFI Touring in June... -- AFI will be touring the UK in June - more news on this as we get it!

Atom and his Package -- Atom and his Package will be coming over this May.

12 May.2003 Leeds - Josephs Well
13 May.2003 Newcastle - Head of Steam
15 May.2003 Exeter - Cavern Club
16 May.2003 Folkestone - Stripes Club
17 May 2003 London - The Verge

Guy Picciotto of the Greatest Band of the world, Fugazi talked about the past present and future of the band. Click here for that interview.

The Agony Scence -- have just posted a new track from their upcoming Solid State release online for your listening pleasure. If you want to hear "We Bury Our Dead At Dawn" all you have to do is click on over here for the in. The entire self-titled album will be available in stores come June 10th, 2003.

Fat Mike To Play With The Foos On Tour -- That's right, Fat Mike, mastermind behind Fat Wreck Chords and NOFX, will be playing bass for The Foo Fighters on their next tour while Nate Mendel recovers from surgery. Fat Mike is looking forward to joining the band for a while, as well as promoting PunkVoter.com to a larger audience.

Celebrity signed to Doghouse Records -- Fellow Nashvillians, Celebrity, have been signed to Doghouse Records and will be releasing their next album, entitled "Lovesick", on April 20th. Congratulations to Celebrity, they can be seen in Nashville with Brazil and Hopesfall on April 9th and with My Epiphany and Squarewell on April 27th.

Epoxy Video Banned From MTV -- DC rockers Epoxy made a video to be shown by MTV of the song "Killing Fields". The video's premise is footage commemorating the execution of Karla Faye Tucker under the watchful eye of, then Governor, George Bush Jr in a public outcry against the death penalty. Their video, however, has been banned by MTV, putting it in the ranks of Madonna and Prodigy. MTV representatives say that the video is "too controversial and could alienate some of our advertisers, especially during this period of war." But, the video will be debuted at the Indie Music Video Festival. Once again proving that nothing that's really important will be seen on MTV. But, the video will be shown at the Indie Music Video Festival.

Mack It & Rock It -- The annual Macrock Showcase is right on your tail. The hardcore fest, home to a multitude of bands, labels, magazines, and radio shows will be taking place in none other than Harrisonburg, Virginia this Friday and Saturday (April 4th & 5th). Among the many faces of Macrock will be Stretch Arm Strong, Norma Jean, Underoath, Beloved and mewithoutYou, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Burnt By The Sun.

Ramones Tribute -- Augsburg "Rampe3" This tribute in honor of THE RAMONES, is a mixture of art show, documentation, club entertainment and concert. It will take place from 21st March through 5th April 2003 on the property of the former textile factories into the Riedinger Park at the building F30 "Rampe 3" in Augsburg - Germany.

And that’s going to wrap up this week in Duane’s Pit Stop. I should have some more info on a Subhumans show and a English Dogs show here in Los Angeles, CA which I'll be attending. Hopefully, if things cool off in the UK, we will have some better news about good old UK Punk. I would also like to remind everyone reading this article that if you would like us here at Music Tap to review your disc or would like pass on some information please feel free to drop me a line at dkleyva@musictap.net and...once again, lets be good humans and play more Punk and less Junk!