Duane's Pit Stop
Welcome back to another week at the Pit Stop. This week we have some Vans Warped news as well as some other tidbits for you. Thanks to reader Pete of Oreo for sending in his band's CD. We'll give it a listen and post a review by next week. With that note, lets slam.
No Motiv To Release EP In June - No Motiv will be releasing a new EP on June 17th titled Lola. It will feature two tracks from their upcoming album "Daylight Breaking" and one unreleased, and one demo track. This will give everyone a taste of what is to come.
Bracket Recording New Full Length - Bracket is currently working on a new album. The band is working on about fourteen new songs at their own Trailer Park Studios in Sebastopal, CA. Fat Wreck will reportedly be putting it out, but not for a while.
Fat Tour Japan - The Fat Tour is heading over to Asia just in time for the SARS epidemic! That's right; Anti-Flag is fed up with the lousy sushi out in Pittsburgh and is off to the land of the rising sun in search of some quality Hamachi.
VANS WARPED TOUR BANDS
Counterfit
The Goodwill
Over It
Park
Don't Look Down
Bottom Line
Vanguard
Under Oath
Gametime
Sonny
Dates and Locations
July 9 Ventura, CA Seaside Park
July 10 San Diego, CA Coors Amphitheatre Lot
July, 11 Long Beach, CA CSULB
July 12 San Francisco, CA Pier 30/32
July 13 Sacramento, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre
July 15 Phoenix, AZ Peoria Sports Complex (Night Show)
July 16 Las Cruces, NM New Mexico State University Practice Field
July 18 San Antonio, TX Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 19 Dallas, TX Smirnoff Music Center Lot
July 20 Houston, TX Reliant Center
July 23 Atlanta, GA Hi Fi Buys Amphitheatre Lot
July 24 Orlando, FL Central Florida Fairgrounds
July 25 St. Pete, FL Vinoy Park
No Time For Sleep Compilation - Atlas Life Media, has just finally finished "No Time For Sleep" Compilation. You will be able to purchase this in 2-3 weeks online at www.interpunk.com or on www.cdbaby.com
Tours, Tours, Tours! - The coming of summer apparently means the coming of tours. A bunch of huge tours are hitting the country, and here are just four of the many you can catch this summer. Anatomy Of A Ghost, This Day Forward, Haste and Bear Vs. Shark have announced their summer endeavor; //radiotakeover Summer Tour. The tour brings the bands all over the East, so click here for details.This Day Forward will also tour with Thursday and Murder by Death following the conclusion of //radiotakeover (TDF also have a brand new website up here.) Evergreen Terrace will be combining forces with On Broken Wings, Remembering Never and Scarlet for the summer playing an extensive amount of dates taking the band all over the US. Lucky you can find dates here.
Finally, Figure Four and Shattered Realm have just announced tour collaboration for the month of June, which will cover the East Coast. Dates can be found here, so make sure to catch a show.
Fueled By Ramen A.K.A. We Sign All The Bands Victory Hasn't - In their latest newsletter, Fueled By Ramen Records, home of Slowreader, Recover, and Punchline among others, has announced their latest signing: The A.K.A.s. You can expect a record from them released in the Fall or Winter of 2003.
Jeremy Ward Dies - Drug Overdose Cited Gold Standard Labs has announced that Jeremy Ward of The Mars Volta and De Facto has died of an apparent drug overdose at his home in Los Angeles on May 25th, 2003 while on rest between legs of the Mars Volta's support tour with Red Hot Chili Peppers. He was 27 years old.
Get 5 Days Ahead Of The Crowd - 5 Days Ahead is gearing up for the summer in more ways than one. The band will be playing various shows all around PA for both June and July including Pop In The Park Fest and Horsham Day Rock Fest. Dates can be found on the band's site. Additionally, the band will be featured on the EmotionalPunk.com/Pumpkineater Records Summer Compilation called Volume One: Envision with "Famous Last Words" and their previously unreleased acoustic version of "Afraid To Say This." Watch for the comp in June. As for 5DA's released stuff, though, PunkHardcore has the review of As Life Passes You By posted right here for your reading enjoyment - check it out, it's a great solid album for an even more solid upcoming band.
Bronxxx Representin' - California's newest hotshots The Bronx have a lot going on. First, the band will be releasing their debut album on their own label, White Drugs Records. The record will drop August 12th. You can download "Heart Attack American" from the album here. The band will also be touring with The Supersuckers in the upcoming months, dates can be found here. Check out The Bronx full-scale over at their site and look for more good things to come.
More Alkaline Trio Dates - SEPTEMBER 2003
13 - Pourtsmouth Pyramid Centre
15 - Bristol Anson Rooms
16 - Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
17 - Sheffield Leadmill
20 - London Astoria
21 - Manchester Academy
23 - Nottingham Rock City
24 - Glasgow Barrowlands
25 - Newcastle University
Meat Puppets DVD – Alive in the nineties, get your copy of this awesome DVD at www.meatpuppets.com
That should wrap up another Pit Stop for this week. If you would like send us some Punk info or just talk smack to me you can e-mail me at dkleyva@musictap.net. Take care and be good.
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