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Hello and welcome back to another week in Duane’s Pit Stop. This week, we have a load of Punk News and of bands heading in your direction as well as some great new releases. And since this up and coming week-end is the Fourth, I felt what better way to break in the Summer but with a Cannon Bomb!

I’m off next week to blow my hard earned money in Sin City so I do wish everyone a safe and sane Fourth, be real. Also note that we will not be issuing Pit Stop next week.

With that in tow, here’s the news.

           

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SONIC YOUTH - SONIC NURSE - Sonic Youth's nineteenth long player is now available worldwide and is entitled "Sonic Nurse". Describing the record, the band has asked listeners to imagine "Bare Trees" era Fleetwood Mac jamming with "Jealous Again" era Black Flag.

Geffen Records released this album on the CD format, and Goofin' Records will release the double LP in an attractive gatefold cover on July 12.

The track listing for the album is as follows:

Pattern Recognition
Unmade Bed
Dripping Dream
Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
Stones
Dude Ranch Nurse
New Hampshire
Paper Cup Exit
I Love You Golden Blue
Peace Attack

Samples of every song on the album can be heard here.

The 2 x LP will be available through Revolver.

Both will soon be available on the new sonicyouth.com store.

Sonic Youth have also just released "Corporate Ghost." This is the first official SY DVD; a complete retrospective of the band's music videos from the Geffen era plus bonus material all scoped and roped by filmmaker Lance Bangs and offered to you as an unbeatable value. Twenty-three videos are included with over 3 hours of commentary and interviews by the band and others, with bonus videos, interviews, and more.

The track listing is:

Dirty Boots
Tunic (Song for Karen)
Mary-Christ
Kool Thing
Mote
My Friend Goo
Dissapearer
Mildred Pierce
Cinderella's Big Score
Scooter & Jinx
Titanium Expose
100%
Sugar Kane
Youth Against Fascism
Bull in the Heather
Superstar
Little Trouble Girl
The Diamond Sea
Sunday
Hoarfrost
Nevermind (What Was it Anyway)
The Empty Page
Disconnection Notice

Full audio commentary is included by the directors Spike Jonze, Todd Haynes, Tamra Davis, Mark Romanek, Dave Mark ey, Richard Kern, Tom Surgal and Phil Morrison.

Furthermore, Sonic recollections are offered by Mike Watt, Kathleen Hanna, Jason Lee, Lance Bangs, Todd Haynes, Tamra Davis, Dave Mark ey, and Richard Kern.

Also included are a Sonic photo memory montage entitled "Spikes Eye" by Spike Jonze and a 1990 fan letter film document called "My Sonic Room" by Patty Orsini, plus a few extra nuggets.

All the videos are presented with uncompressed audio so if you blast this thing through the hi-fi you will be able to rock out heartily.

Summer Stereo - Long Island 's Crime in Stereo are getting ready to embark on their summer tour, which starts July 2. The band will be touring with friends Scraps and Heart Attacks and will endeavor throughout the country on various dates through the end of the month. Immediately following their return, the guys will get back on the road with Burning Bridges and The Reform for another two week excursion to the Midwest and south during the second week of August.
As if that isn't enough, CIS will then begin work on their new EP for Walk All Night Records, which will most likely see a summer release date. They've already written new material for the disc and the band is excited about the new stuff, which they call "Off the hook." Their full-length will also be repressed. Check out dates and extended news over at CrimeInStereo.com.

Equal Vision Hits The Streets -The Equal Vision Records street team is looking to add a few members to the force. The label, who boasts band such as Alexisonfire, Coheed & Cambria, Tim e In Malta, Fear Before The March of Flames, The Snake The Cross The Crown and more, wants some dedicated members to help hit the following western cities:

Phoenix, AZ
Fullerton, CA
San Francisco, CA
Las Vegas, NV
Ventura, CA
Sacramento, CA
Seattle, WA
Boise, ID
Portland, OR

The Clash Jumps On The Reissue Bandwagon - Epic Records will be releasing a 25th anniversary edition of The Clash's classic album London Calling. What's different about this edition? Well, aside from being a digipak, the "original album" will be released along with another CD called The Vanilla Tapes, which features demos for London Calling songs that just happened to be lying around in Mick Jones' storage building. Along with London Calling tunes, the demos will also include many songs that have never been heard before. And the coup de grace? It'll include a DVD featuring a 45 minute documentary by Clash Biographer Don Letts. Much of the track lists haven't been divulged by Epic, but you can expect a reissue worth buying on September 21st.

Green Day Go Opera - Recently Billie Joe Armstrong, the front man of mainstream pop punk's long time kings, Green Day, announced that the next GD album will be a rock opera about a Jesus-esque character. Here are some quotes from Armstrong that further explain the rather odd idea...

"The record has a story line throughout it that follows a character by the name of Jesus of Suburbia." He also added "It's [about] him coming of age and the growing pains that are involved in it and seeing if he makes the right choices or the wrong choices or whatever choices that come to him."

The album, entitled American Idiot, is set to come out some time in September.

The Snake The Cross The Crown - Brand New Track -  Equal Vision Records has a brand new track called 'Gates of Dis' from The Snake The Cross The Crown's debut full length, Mander Salis, which hits the stores August 24th. Here is the tracklist:
1. An Honest Misappropriation of Funds
2. Empires
3. Gates of Dis
4. A Gathering of Shades
5. On The Threshold of Eternity
6. The Sun Tells The Moon
7. A Brief Intermission
8. The Laughing Man
9. Echolalia
10. The Fields of Iust

Greg Macpherson Enters Studio – Hard-rocking' heart-throb Greg Mac is ready to get back at it with an arsenal of killer songs for his upcoming full-length tentatively titled "47 Minutes." We may have only heard some tracks performed live and some terrible boom-box tapes, but we're already certifying that this one is going to be a genuine rocker. Greg starts what will be a series of studio sessions in Toronto and Winnipeg this week, and recording and mixing is expected to wrap sometime in August. The record will be released either late this fall or early 2005.

Greg will also be appearing - shirtless and mud-covered - at both the Winnipeg and Regina Folk Festivals this summer. He'll be playing a series of workshops and solo concerts July 9th - July 11th at the Winnipeg Festival - the Regina schedule has yet to be confirmed (check http://reginafolkfestival.com for updates.

Free Warped Tour Sampler - Starting tomorrow and the rest of Warped Tour, if you stop by The Bled / and or Juliette And The Licks' tent you can grab a sampler with unreleased and live tracks from the bled, juliette and the licks, the fight, emanuel, poulain, salem and other fiddler, imprint and repossession records artists.

Green Day Push Back New Release – AbsolutePunk.net reports that "the release of Green Day's new album, American Idiot, has been pushed back one week to September 21st, 2004." Here's what KROQ said on the matter: "Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong said when writing their new album, the gloves were off and they just went for it. They wanted to push themselves to be maximum Green Day. They had a completed album a year and a half ago, but the master tapes were stolen, and now that they look back, they feel like the stolen material wasn’t up to maximum Green Day standards. They feel the hard thing now will be outdoing the new disc, American Idiot, which drops September 21st."

Hot Water Music Preps 'Next' - Bilboard reports: Rock outfit Hot Water Music will release its third Epitaph album, "The New What Next," on Sept. 21. The disc was produced by Brian McTernan (Thrice, Cave In), who also manned the boards for HWM's 2002 album "Caution," at his Washington, D.C., studio Salad Days.

"We purposely tried to make each song stand on its own," bassist Jason Black tells Billboard.com. "We kind of got stuck in a mid-tempo rock rut on 'Caution.' I mean, we're all proud of that record -- it's by no means an embarrassment, but we were looking for different tempos and feels. We even experimented with different tunings, which in the past -- if it had been brought to the table -- we would have thought, 'That's never going to work.'"

The 12-track "The New What Next" promises stylistic diversity. Tracks like "Keep It Together" and "End of the Line" are in the roaring-yet-melodic vein Hot Water Music fans have come to love, while "Ebb and Flow" and "All Hands Down" have rhythmic leanings.

"We did a lot more re-writing in the studio," Black explains. "There was no pre-production in Florida . So we'd be like, 'Okay, that chorus doesn't stand up to the rest of that song, so we have to write an entirely different chorus or lose the song.' It might seem like we put a lot more pressure on ourselves to come up with great stuff on the spot, but it all came together easily."

The album news comes just a week after guitarist Chuck Ragan severely injured his hand and underwent reconstructive surgery, forcing the band to prematurely drop off a series of dates on the Dashboard Confessional-fronted Honda Civic Tour. According to Black, "[Ragan] just sort of fell and put his hand through some glass. It's a bad break. We have the summer off so he should be fully rehabilitated by the time we head out on tour."

"It's definitely got the potential to be a really serious issue, but its really good timing for such a sucky thing," he continues. "In fact, when it happened we were only an hour from home, and we had played five of the seven nights we had planned. So we were like, screw it. We don't have our guitar player; it's only 20 minutes a night. See ya."

Hot Water Music's next round of live dates is slated to coincide with the new album's release. They will kick off Sept. 21 in Ft. Lauderdale , Fla. , and also visit Sunshine State destinations Orlando (Sept. 22), St. Petersburg (Sept. 23) and Gainesville (Sept. 25).

Less Than Jake ''B-Sides'' Online Player - The player for the new Less Than Jake album B Is For B-Sides is available now here. You can pre-order the CD or the CD and t-shirt from Tower Records. For those of you out of the loop, B is for B-Sides will be available July 20th and is a collection of unused tracks recorded during Less Than Jake's Anthem sessions. The track list is as follows:

B Is For B-Sides track listing:
1. Portrait Of A Cigarette Smoker At 19
2. Sleep It Off
3. Last Rites To Sleepless Nights
4. Bridge And Tunnel Authority
5. Goodbye To Gasoline
6. A.S.A.O.K.
7. Jay Frenzal
8. Showbiz? Science? Who Cares?
9. Sobriety Is A Serious Business And Business Ain't So Good
10. Nine-One-One To Anyone
11. Robots One, Humans Zero
12. National Anthem

Two New Yesterdays Rising Songs On PureVolume - Yesterdays Rising has posted two new songs from their EP When We Speak, We Breath on their PureVolume site.

Mad Caddies Live Album - Mad Caddies recorded the last show of their recent Canadian tour at the Opera House in Toronto for an upcoming live record titled "Live From Toronto: Songs In The Key Of Ehh....". Fat Wreck Chords will be releasing it on September 7th. The recent mailing from Fat Wreck also mentioned that a Peepshow III DVD is in the works for September as well. We'll have more details when they're announced

Leftover Crack Album Rejected by Chain Stores - In an obvious publicity stunt, the upcoming album by Leftover Crack, due out on August 31st on Alternative Tentacles Records, was rejected by three chain stores due to explicit content. Entitled F*ck World Trade, the new CD will not be available in Musicland, Best Buy and Circuit City . Some chain stores however, including Virgin Megastore, will carry the release.

The album cover for the CD is a photo collage depicting the World Trade Center as the second plane was about to hit the South Tower, with President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in various positions implying a cavalier attitude towards the tragedy. The artwork inside includes photos of bombings in Iraq, demonstrators protesting the war in Iraq, etc.

Leftover Crack's previous album "Mediocre Generica" (released coincidentally on 9/11/01) on Hellcat Records went through a change in title and artwork before release due to their perceived inflammatory nature relating to school shootings.

New Boxingwater/Missionshifter 7" - Richmond , VA 's Boxingwater and Salem , MA 's Missionshifter have teamed up with Overlook/Spent Records and released a shredding new 7".

The record is on limited red vinyl and includes a CDROM with bonus tracks and a recorded presentation by Francisco Ruiz... A victim of corporately sponsored attacks against workers rights advocates in his homeland of Columbia.You can catch Missionshifter on tour later this month and pick up your copy of their new CD on Interpunk.com More info at www.spentrecords.com Tour dates below

Friday July 16: Salem, MA. @ Doc Ryans with Zippo Raid.
Saturday July 17: Staten Island . W/ No Trigger
Monday July 19: Washington D.C. radio show (interview / acoustic set)
Wednesday July 21: Richmond , VA. @ Cappola's Deli with Boxingwater
Friday July 23: Baltimore , MD. @ Charm City Artspace. 7 PM W/The Spark, Sleeper Cell (x-Balance of Terror), Bail Out!, Nux Vomica.
Saturday July 24: Albany , NY . @ New Age Cabaret.

The Mishaps Going on National Tour - Baltimore punk rockers The Mishaps will be touring the nation throughout the month of July. For all the venue addresses and show times, visit their website at www.mishapsrock.com. Also, visit www.scissorpress.com for more info about their debut CD, Get Away Volume.

7/1 Washington, DC at DC 9
7/2 Quincy, MA at Dee Dee's Bar
7/3 New Haven, CT at Rudy's
7/5 New York, NY at The Continental
7/6 South Orange, NJ at Bunny's
7/7 Philadelphia, PA at Millcreek Tavern
7/9 Lemoyne, PA at Championship Records
7/10 Grand Rapids, MI at Community Center
7/11 Cleveland, OH at 10-34 Records
7/12 Cincinnati, OH at Radio Down w/ Ted Leo, The Reputation
7/13 Iowa City, IA at Gabes Oasis
7/14 Omaha, NE at The Ranch Bowl w/ The Icarus Line
7/17 Salt Lake City, UT at Albee Square
7/18 Huntington Beach, CA at Liquid Den
7/22 San Antonio, TX at Sin 13
7/23 Houston, TX at Axiom

Converge / Cave In tour! - According to theprp.com, Converge, Cave In and Between The Buried And Me will be hitting the road together in September as part of the "You Fail Me Tour 24k". A full listing of dates and venues are currently being firmed up for the trek. For now, the following two stops have been announced:

October 02nd St. Petersburg , FL - State Theater
October 06th San Antonio , TX - Sin 13

Strung Out studio journal - Strung Out are currently in the studio with Matt Hyde recording their 6th full length album, presumably for Fat Wreck Chords:

Hey everyone, we're happy to announce that the recording of our new album is well under way. Check out the studio diary here for updates and photos of the process. We will also be playing the Warped 10 year anniversary show in Boston . Hope to see some of you there!

None More Black EP update - None More Black has released some further info on their upcoming EP for Sabot Records. It will be titled Loud About Loathing and should be available in November. The band will be putting video footage of the practice sessions for the EP on their website periodically. The first video of pre-production is up now.


Madcap and Against All Authority touring this summer - Madcap is hitting the road later this summer with Against All Authority. The tour kicks off on July 30th and runs into September. Some (but likely not all considering the gaps) of the dates have been announced by Victory, you can find them below. Prior to that tour Madcap has a headlining gig at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood on July 11th with The Psychotics, The Generators and Bronson. The first 50 people through the door will receive a free bag of Victory Records swag.

3 new Leftover Crack songs online - Alternative Tentacles has posted three new Leftover Crack songs online. You can check out "Gang Control," "Via Sin Dios (Tomb Squatting)," and "Grincos Son Puercos Feos" at the label's website. The songs are from the upcoming record F#ck World Trade.

It seems that national music chains in the United States are already rejecting the album due to its title and artwork. Click below for the label's press release regarding the controversy.

New Big In Japan album this July - Big In Japan's new record Who Really Needs A Heart Anyway? will be released by Insubordination Records on July 13th. You can check out the song "Carbon Dioxide" now. More info on the release, including the cover art and track listing, can be found on the label's website.

The Electric Eye awakens this summer - Portland 's Electric Eye is back from their hiatus and has a new record in production. The band will be releasing a split LP with fellow Portland act Lords Of Light on the Austin based label Little Deputy Records. More info on that album should be on the label's site soon.

Electric Eye has a few shows in their hometown scheduled so far for this summer. The first is on Friday July 17th at the Twilight Bar & Cafe with The Minds and The Mark ed Men. The second takes place on Friday August 27th at Berbati's Pan with The Hunches, The Spits and The Triggers.

Converge show updates / fall tour plans with Cave In - With the recent breakup of Give Up The Ghost, their July 16th show in Allston , MA at ICC 557 was left without a headliner. That show, also featuring The Explosion, Paint It Black and Bars, will now feature Converge instead. The band will also be in town the very next evening for a show at Jackson Mann with Cave In, A Life Once Lost, Mi Amore and Draw Blood.

The press releases have gone out heralding Converge's You Fail Me Tour. The band will be on the road in September with Cave In and Between The Buried And Me. Dates have not yet been announced but we'll have them for you once they are.

Swami News: Sonny Vincent / Testors, Hot Snakes, Crime - Swami Records is reporting that on Sunday June 27th the Testors, featuring guitarist Sonny Vincent backed by members of Rocket From The Crypt, will be making their only US appearance this year at the Casbah in San Diego. Demolition Doll Rods, The Heartaches and Knights Of The New Crusade will join them at the event. After the show the band plans to head into Drag Racist Studios to record a new record. More info on it is expected soon.

In other Swami Records news, Hot Snakes have finished recording their new record Audit In Progress. Expect it on October 5th of this year.

In August Swami will reissue San Francisco's Doomed by Crime. The reissue will feature alternative takes of the songs "Hotwire My Heart" and "Baby, You're So Repulsive" from the same session that produced their first 7" in 1976.

Million Dollar Marxists on the road in Ontario - Ottawa 's Million Dollar Marxists, currently on tour in the Maritimes, have a number of dates scheduled in Ontario throughout July. Click below for the remaining East Coast and upcoming Ontario dates. Venues are unfortunately not included so check your local sources for those.

Mad Caddies live album this September - Mad Caddies recorded the last show on their Canadian tour at the Opera House in Toronto for an upcoming live record titled Live From Toronto : Songs In The Key Of Ehh.... Fat Wreck Chords will release it on September 7th. One of our readers was at that show, you can check out a review to get an idea of the material to be included.

The recent mailing from Fat Wreck also mentioned that a Peepshow III DVD is in the works for September as well. We'll have more details when they're announced.

Avenged Sevenfold Join Vans Warped Tour July 20th in Milwaukee , WI - After a short break following their spring headlining tour, Avenged Sevenfold are ready to hit the road again as part of this summer's Vans Warped Tour.

A7X join the tour for a month-long trek, beginning July 20th in Milwaukee , WI and wrapping up in Boston , MA on August 19 (full list of dates below).

Avenged Sevenfold's breakout album Waking the Fallen, is in-stores now on Hopeless Records.

 

 

Avenged Sevenfold on the 2004

Van's Warped Tour:

 

Tue 07/20/04   Milwaukee , WI  

Marcus Amphitheatre  
 
Wed 07/21/04   Maryland Heights, MO  UMB Bank Pavilion  
 
Thu 07/22/04   Noblesville , IN  

Verizon Wireless Music Center   
 
Fri 07/23/04   Cleveland , OH 

Tower City Amphitheater  
 
Sat 07/24/04   Tinley Park , IL  

Tweeter Center   
 
Sun 07/25/04   Minneapolis , MN 

HHH Metrodome  
 
Mon 07/26/04   Bonner Springs , KS  

Verizon Wireless Amphitheater  
 
Wed 07/28/04   Atlanta , GA  

HiFi Buys Amphitheatre  
 
Thu 07/29/04   Orlando , FL  

Central Florida Fairgrounds  
 
Fri 07/30/04   Saint Petersburg , FL 

Vinoy Waterfront Park   
 
Sat 07/31/04   Pompano Beach , FL  

Pompano Beach Amphitheatre  
 
Sun 08/01/04   Jacksonville , FL 

Fairgrounds  
 
Mon 08/02/04   Charlotte , NC 

Verizon Wireless Amp. Charlotte   
 
Tue 08/03/04   Virginia Beach , VA 

Verizon Wireless Virginia Bch. Amp.  
 
Wed 08/04/04   Bristow , VA  

Nissan Pavilion  
 
Thu 08/05/04   Burgettstown , PA  

Post-Gazette Pavilion @ Star Lake   
 
Fri 08/06/04   Camden , NJ 

Tweeter Center At The Waterfront  
 
Sat 08/07/04   New York , NY  

Randalls Island   
 
Sun 08/08/04   Englishtown, NJ 

Raceway Park   
 
Tue 08/10/04   Hershey, PA 

Hersheypark Stadium  
 
Thu 08/12/04   Quebec City , QC  

Colisee Pepsi  
 
Fri 08/13/04   Montreal , QC 

Parc Jean-Drapeau  
 
Sat 08/14/04   Barrie , ON  

Molson Park   
 
Sun 08/15/04   Pontiac , MI    
Mon 08/16/04   Cincinnati , OH 

Riverbend Music Center   
 
Tue 08/17/04   Columbus , OH 

Germain Amphitheater  
 
Wed 08/18/04   Darien Center , NY  

Darien Lake Six Flags P.A.C.  
 
Thu 08/19/04   Foxboro , MA  

Gillette Stadium 

 

Other past/present Earshot Media bands on the Van Warped Tour this year:

 

A Faith Called Chaos  (Volcom Stage)

(June 24-Aug 19)

Amber Pacific (Take Action Stage)

(June 24-July 11, July 28-Aug 8, Aug 17-Aug 19)

Number One Fan (Kevin Says Stage)

(July 18- Aug 18)  

Brazil (Smartpunk Stage)

(July 1-Aug 19)

Break The Silence (Take Action Stage)

(July 16- July 26 and Aug 10- Aug 16)