Duane's Punk Pit -- April 18, 2003

Duane K Leyva

[Editor's Note: MusicTAP has upped the medication for Duane who had been doing quite nicely since his most recent lobotomy.]

Welcome back to another edition of the Pit Stop. Hopefully this posting will be up on Friday 18th but one never knows with that Osmond loving Bastard Editor, Matt Rowe. What might the excuse be this week, Matt? "Oh, my server crashed"; "Oh Mama has the beans cooking and I must watch it"; "Oh there's a Culture Club Special on MTV and I just have to see it"; "Oh geez, I’m monitoring Kasperov's next move". What the hell.. stop the excuses, you bastard and post the Rock and Roll.

This week, a lot of readers have been asking what the themes of the pictures posted above and previous postings represented. Well, if any one can figure it out I will send you the latest "The Exploited" CD, compliments of MusicTAP.net. Please send your answers to my email at dkleyva@musictap.net (you get that Matt, you cheap bastard. We're going to give gifts out) and hopefully in the coming weeks we'll be working along side with PunkDownunder.com in Australia to have some information on the Punk scene in Australia. With that being said, we've got lot of news for the UK and the US. Let's slam.

UK NEWS

Snickers Game On - Snickers are sponsoring a two day event, "Game On" at the Millenium Dome in London on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd June. (We've been reliably informed that the following bands are confirmed).

Bands on Saturday include: Cypress Hill, The Lost Prophets, Reef, The Vandals, Mad Capsule Markets and Sparta and Something Corporate.

Sunday has Electric Six, Sick of it All Ash, Cooper Temple Clause, Hot Hot Heat and The Warlocks appearing. A full lineup will be available very soon. See website at www.snickersgameon.co.uk goes live on the 15th May.

B-Unique, ska-punksters [spunge] - have announced sporadic new dates across the summer. The dates will allow fans to preview the bands new material for the first time and the band to hunt down a new label to take them on.

April 19th - Subculture @ The Academy, Birmingham

20th - Montells, Tewkesbury (charity show fundraiser for children with Cerebral Palsy)

May 28th - Soundhaus, Northampton

29th - Kazbah, Scarborough

30th - Town Hall Crypt, Middlesborough

June 1st - Deconstruction Stage @ Download Festival, Castle Donnington (On stage at 5.00pm)

7th - City Hall, Salisbury (14+) Part of the 'Salisbury Live' festival.

New Download Festival Additions - Violent Delight, Chimaira and Reef have been confirmed to perform at the Download Festival on Saturday 31st May and Sunday 1st June.

More AFI tourdates

May 30thMadrid, Spain Festimad

May 31st Amsterdam, Holland Melkweg Old Room

June 2nd Berlin, Germany Knaack Club

June 3rd Cologne, Germany

June 6th London Forum

June 7th Manchester,Academy

June 10th Glasgow,Barrowland

They will also play the Radio 1 stage at the Reading/Leeds festival (Saturday Reading, Sunday Leeds)

Sick of it All london date- Sick of it All have been confirmed to play London Millenium Dome. They will appear on the bill of "Game On", a music and sports event to be held on June 22nd.

US NEWS

Eighteen Visions - Shows Their Vanity - The new video for "You Broke Like Glass" off of Eighteen Vision's Vanity is finally available for you at the Trustkill Records website. The video is handy on the splash page if you have Windows Media Player, otherwise click further into the site for the lower bandwith streams and the Real Player versions. It's certainly worth your time to catch the video.

Also, as of Tuesday, 18V is out on tour with Lamb of God, Chimaira and Atreyu.

Silverstein's Gettin' - Flashy Victory's Silverstein has just posted a Flashcard for everyone to enjoy. The Flashcard was created for their Victory debut When Broken Is Easily Fixed. Click here for the goodies, and watch for the album, due out May 20th.

Live Transplants - If you want to see photos from The Transplants' show in Oakland, then just click here and feast your eyes on them, courtesy of w-t-h.com.

Death By Stereo - have released an e-card and player in order to promote their upcoming album Into the Valley Of Death. You can see DBS's record release show at the Troubadour in Hollywood if you buy the album at any of the stores listed here: Greene Records in Tustin, Vinyl Solution in Huntington Beach, Head Line Records on Melrose, Bionic Records in Cypress, Fullerton, & Huntington Beach, Rhino Records in Claremont , Mad Platter in Riverside, Sounds Like in Riverside, Arons in Hollywood, Fingerprints in Long Beach, Benway Music in Venice, Salzers in Ventura and Backside in Burbank More.

Marky Ramone Drums For Teenage Head - After spending 5 days in Russia on a spoken word and festival circuit, Marky Ramone will be drumming for Canada's Teenage Head on their newest full album starting Friday. There's no other information on the project though. For that matter, since when did Marky do spoken word?

The Mars Volta Travels On A Drunkship - comprised of ex-members of At The Drive-In, have at last released a studio version of one of their songs off of arguably the most anticipated album of the year, "De-loused in the Comatorium". You can download the new song, entitled "Drunkship of Lanterns" from their website. But, beware, Mozilla users, this may not work with your browser. Be sure to check out their album though, tenatively dated for release on June 17th

Bury Your Old Singers - Bury Your Dead's line-up has once again shifted. This time, Matt Bruso of Changed By Forces will be taking over as the vocalist for BYD. Additionally, BYD is out on tour right now, so hit up the tours page for all of the dates. The band will also show up on the Eulogy/Alveran 2K3 DVD (now available for pre-order) among bands like Unearth, Evergreen Terrace, Unsung Zeros, This Day Forward, Where Fear And Weapons Meet and a billion more. Check it out.

The Judas Cradle - has found a new place to call home. The band is now a member of the ever-growing Eulogy Recordings family. The Alabama band, with an EP previously released on Indianola Records called Where Child Actors go to Die , will begin work on their Eulogy debut to be titled Too Bad They're All Dead shortly. For now, check out the band's site at TheJudasCradle.com and the Eulogy band bio with pictures and more. Catch the guys out on tour this summer with the likes of Undying, Kid Gorgeous, Rifles at Recess, Misery Signals, Scream for Silence, Forever is Forgotten and more.

August Premier Finish New Album - August Premier have just finished their debut Fueled By Ramen CD. It will be in stores sometime in July. If you're a fan of Alkaline Trio or The Stereo then check out the mp3s posted at their mp3.com page.

That’s it for this week in the Pit Stop. Once again, if you have any punk news or music news in general and you would like to share your information you could always drop me a line at dkleyva@musictap.net and as always, be good humans. Late.