Lostprophets - New Single Details - The Lostprophets have announced the details for the upcoming
UK
single release of their track "Goodbye Tonight", which will arrive in
UK
stores on November 22nd. The outing will be released in the following three flavors:
CD 1:
01 - "Goodbye Tonight"
02 - "Burn Burn" (Remix)
CD 2:
01 - "Goodbye Tonight"
02 - "Last Train Home" (Remix)
03 - "Wake Up (Make A Move)" (Remix)
Plus the video for "Goodbye Tonight"
A 7" vinyl version with the title track on side a and an etching of the bands 'phoenix' logo on side b will also see a release on the same day.
The Unseen Signs To Hellcat Records – The Unseen have officially signed with Hellcat Records! The band will be doing an on air interview this weekend on WFNX 101.7 Boston. They will be discussing, among other things, the recent release of the Give 'Em The Boot IV compilation. They will be playing their track from the Hellcat Records compilation plus a few other songs and officially announce that they've signed to Hellcat.
Tune in because they will also be giving away some free copies of Boot IV on the air.
Tune in to the "First Contact Show" on WFNX 101.7
Boston
this Sunday, Nov 13.
Matchbook Romance - Video Shoot - Matchbook Romance will be working with director Jay Martin (Death Cab For Cutie) for their video for "My Eyes Burn". It will be shot in their hometown of
Poughkeepsie
,
NY
in early December.
At The Drive-In Anthology To Be Released In Spring 2005 - After the re-issue of the entire At the Drive-in collection, Fearless Records will also be releasing an At The Drive-in Anthology in Spring 2005. The Anthology will contain greatest hits, exclusive unreleased tracks, rare b-sides, covers, videos and exclusive live footage from one of indie rock's most influential music groups.
DVD Preview - Something Corporate - Something Corporate have something spankin' new for you: their very first live DVD. Something Corporate: Live at the Ventura Theater brings you the
Ventura
,
California
stop of their recent headlining tour. Hurry and prepare yourself for "Hurricane," "21 & Invincible," "As You Sleep" and more performed live. You can check them out here - www.mtv.com/music/special_features/something_corporate/
The Almost Mute Volta - Mars Volta's upcoming release, Frances The Mute, is slated for a March 2005 release. The band's first single, "The Widow", will hit radio airwaves on January 18th.
James Dean Trio News - The James Dean Trio just released a video for "Smee, Get in the Boo Box",the third track off their album, Getting Scary, which wasreleased earlier this year. The video was produced by Tuffy Williams (whoever that is), and, according to the label, "brings some striking visual content to an already in-your-face song."
Whatever. Don't believe all that label gab. Follow one of the links below and decide for yourself.
[hi-fi] or [low fi]
New School New Records -
New
School
Records will be releasing new titles by Nuclear Saturday, Makeshift3 and Spare Lead in early 2005. For more info on that, visit www.newschoolrecords.com
Twenty2 & Unstable - Twenty's new CDEP Unstable is soon to be released on
New
School
records, an is available for pre-order at a discounted price on Interpunk.com. The EP officially comes out on
November 16, 2004
(
USA
) and on December 7th in
Canada
and
Japan
.
In addition to the low price promotion, Interpunk is offering a free poster to the first 50 people who order the CDEP. Check it out at interpunk.com
For more info on Twenty2, visit the band's website at www.twenty2intl.com where you can download songs, videos and all the other things that go along with a band website.
Comeback Kid Announces New Album - Comeback Kid has announced they will soon begin working on their second full length album. They will be working with Smallman and Victory records for this release.
It will be recorded in the much loved "Blasting Room" by Bill Stevenson (Of the Descendents and Only Cirme) and Jason Livermore.
Expect this album to be released in February next year. Also, they will be doing a major tour of Europe,
Japan
and
Australia
right after their done recording the album.
Check out the tour dates at these locations.
http://www.comeback-kid.com/main.html
www.smallmanrecords.com
www.victoryrecords.com
Final Gamits Tour Dates - As I am sure everyone knows by now, The Gamits are breaking up. So, I recommend going to see them for one last hurrah because it will be your only and last chance and if you miss out, that's it and you will regret it for the rest of your life.
December 9th – Laramie, WY – TBA
December 10th – Lincoln, NE at Knickerbockers
December 11th – Grand Junction, CO at Mesa Theater w/ Authority Zero
December 15th or 16th – Ft Collins, CO – TBA
December 17th – Colorado Springs, CO – Navajo Hogans w/ Stereotyperider
December 18th – Denver, CO at the Bluebird w/ Stereotyperider and Le Boom LAST SHOW!!!!
Pre-Order MXPX As we all know, MXPX has a new DVD/EP coming out entited B-Movie. If you pre-order this magnifiscant gem, you will also recieve a special t-shirt and poster package for a low price of only $20. Not only that, this hot little package will be gracing your doorstep on
November 23rd, 2004
. So don't wait, buy now!
Click here to Order this sucker up!
For more info, check out
SideOneDummy Records
Bury Your Dead Film Video - Dale Restighini will direct Bury Your Dead's first video, for "The Color of Money" from their brand new album, "Cover Your Tracks". Restighini is known for his previous work with bands like Hatebreed, Most Precious Blood and Fallout Boy. The video shoot will be taking place at the Cricket Club in
Irvington
,
New Jersey
. Bury Your Dead will be on a full National tour in support of their new album, and are joined by label mates and friends Scars of Tomorrow – check out http://www.victoryaccess.com/tours.asp for tour dates.
Oldies deliver goodies at Social Distortion show - Skull jewelry, studded belts, tattoos and heavy black eyeliner were trappings of the American counter-culture when Mike Ness first formed Social Distortion roughly 25 years ago.
Now that look is espoused in ads for the junior section at major department stores. That might be why some people say there really isn't such a thing as punk anymore; that even cultural innovators such as Social D are playing a watered-down version of the angst-driven sound they pioneered in the early 1980s.
But so what if
Ness
is older, kinder and softer around the middle than he was when the band's legendary tour documentary "Another State of Mind" showcased his self-destructive spiral into bad boy rebellion.
Friday night's capacity crowd at the Fillmore Auditorium still relished every honest tome in his matured, rootsy delivery.
This show was a like a family reunion, where the part of the favorite old uncle was played by beefy guys with greasy pompadours who hugged each other and raised their drinks during "Prison Bound," and the part of the mischievous middle school cousins were played by the swirl of teens and college kids fueling the mosh pit and crowd surfing in front of the stage.
Plastic cups full of beer sailed over the room when
Ness
launched perennial alt-rock favorites "Ring of Fire" and "Story of My Life." The band wove those classics into a set that included such new material as "Reach for the Sky," one of several introspective tracks on "Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll," Social D's latest album, and first studio release in eight years.
But it was perhaps The Rolling Stones cover "Under My Thumb" that best showcased the band's pulsating rhythms and country punk jangle, along with
Ness
's gruff, Johnny Cash- inspired vocals.
The Social D front man makes no apologies for the fact that his music, although still aggressive, now broaches fatherhood, faith and friendship instead of the anti-social agenda that once made this one of American punk's seminal acts. Neither do most of
Ness
' fans. The Denver crowd, sprinkled with people who'd traveled from out of state for the show, seemed split down the middle between diehard Social D devotees and newbie’s who discovered Ness and friends through corporate radio or MTV. Both groups were equally supportive, belting out lyrics and responding to
Ness
like the music legend that he is.
Even when the Fillmore lights came up earlier than usual for a Friday night concert and the band left the stage without performing an encore, this blissful sold-out crowd left looking as though they'd just witnessed something special.
By Elana
Ashanti
Jefferson
The Misfits Legacy of Brutality - With the latest re-animation of horror punk legend the Misfits coming to haunt
Hartford
, a look back at three decades of hell.
By Adam Bulger -
November 11, 2004
The current Misfits lineup is like the Ringo Starr All-Starr Band of punk rock, with Marky Ramone on drums and Black Flag's Dez Cadenza on guitar. They're touring behind Project 1950, a collection of '50s-era covers. Bassist and sole remaining original member Jerry only sings lead vocals. Their shows spotlight each member of the trio, including Ramones and Black Flag chestnuts alongside thrashed-out covers of songs like "This Magic Moment" and rehashing of Misfits classics "Die, Die My Darling." The show operates on about three different levels of nostalgia, and is reportedly pretty good.
After three decades, the Misfits have arrived. Any event that's even vaguely punk rock has hosts of Misfit skulls. Their website offers a range of merchandise rivaled perhaps only by Kiss. Fans can buy Misfits pillowcases, dolls, clocks and scented candles. Their music has been featured on Monday Night Football and Pro Wrestling matches.
The Misfits' original output, recorded between '77 and '83, is shockingly great. The music is immediate, sugar-rush punk rock. Songs like "Astro Zombies," "20 Eyes" and "Skulls" have fierce instrumentation and melodies that people sing along to before they know the words.
The Misfits are sort of a genre unto themselves; horror punk. Using schlock horror movies, comic books, Ramones power chords, sing-along harmonies and darkly funny lyrics, they formed a careening pop culture jalopy. Rob Zombie should pay them royalties every time he steps out in public.
But unlike Zombie, Marilyn Manson -- or even the Elvis of Satan Rock himself, former 'fits front man Glenn Danzig -- the Misfits' darkness is visceral fun.
Danzig
's deep-throated crooning about murder and dismemberment is almost cute.
Their look matches the dark pop culture mix of their music. They have one of rock 'n' roll's great haircuts; the devil lock, a hair tendril spike that slithers over the nose. Their custom-built guitars look like weapons out of EC comics.
They come from
Lodi
, a
Jersey
town that my friends used to joke stood for "Lots of Dumb Italians." It was Guido Ground Zero full of IROC-Zs and big hair.
It's a seemingly unlikely breeding ground for one of punk rock's greatest bands. But remember that punk incubates best in an environment of alienation and hostility.
The Misfits' original five-year run was a grim, desperate rock epic. Jerry Only and Glenn Danzig met in March of '77 and formed the Misfits. Despite how Only, then a high school senior, had been playing bass for just over two months, the Misfits played their debut gig at CBGBs that April. They played scattered shows in
New York
and short, disaster-ridden tours of the rest of the
US
. Aside from Only and
Danzig
, they had a Spinal Tap-esque revolving cast of guitar players and drummers.
Their live shows were notorious for their violence, even in the context of '80s punk. They were banned from Max's
Kansas City
after a band member allegedly hit a fan with a glass. A riot occurred at a
San Francisco
show after an audience member threw several beer cans at their guitarist Doyle, who reportedly responded by breaking his guitar over the guy's head.
By '83 tensions within the band had reached the boiling point. During a disastrous Detroit Halloween concert,
Danzig
announced onstage that it would be the last Misfits show.
While Danzig rose from the Misfits' ashes to form gloom-rock band Samhain, (renamed
Danzig
when they signed with Rick Rubin's Def Jam record label) the rest of the Misfits dropped out of music altogether. The Caiafa brothers -- Misfits guitarist Doyle and bass player Jerry Only -- took over their family's precision knife factory, Proedge, which Jerry Only still operates and owns. Former drummer Robo was an early hire.
The Misfits were well-loved among their fans -- called the Fiend Club -- but were mostly unknown when they broke up in 1983. Their slow rise to national recognition began four years later. Metallica covered two of their songs, "Green Hell" and "Last Caress," on their 1987 album Garage Days Re-Revisited, causing an unexpected spike in the band's popularity.
The Misfit's posthumous success was met with legal squabbling among the band's former members. Only and
Danzig
had a long battle over who owned the intellectual property of the Misfits which they settled in 1994. Only and his brother Doyle reformed the Misfits, hiring a Michale Graves as lead singer. They released two albums, American Psycho and Famous Monsters, and played several tours before
Graves
left the band in 2001. The reaction to the reconstituted Misfits was mixed, with much of the criticism directed at
Graves
.
After the Misfits,
Graves
became one of the most visible figures in the Republican punk rock movement. As a columnist for conservativepunk.com, he wrote articles with titles like "Punk Rock Hates America?" A 2001 New York Times article called "A Bush Surprise: Fright-Wing Support," quoted him saying, "I think George Bush is a wonderful, competent leader." Recently, he announced on his personal website, Michalegraves.net that he enlisted in the Marines last August.
Doyle will join
Danzig
onstage at two upcoming West Coast concerts playing a 20-minute set of Misfits songs, sparking questions about a potential original Misfits reunion. For now, the only iteration of the Misfits is the only game in town for
Hartford
area Fiends. abulger@hartfordadvocate.com
Hawthorne
Heights
Release Acoustic Version of “Silver Bullet” -
Hawthorne
Heights
have released an acoustic version of Silver Bullet; exclusively on Pure Volume. Go to http://www.purevolume.com/hawthorneheights/music to hear this great alternative to the version available on their successful debut, “The Silence In Black And White”.
Hawthorne
Heights
are wrapping up their
U.S.
tour with Mest and Bayside, before heading out in November with A Static Lullaby.
Whole Wheat Bread & Bloody Midgets - Urban punk band WHOLE WHEAT BREAD is heading out on tour with the Bloody Midgets! That’s right, the Jacksonville-based ghetto punks are the musical entertainment on the Rok’ Um Sok’ Um Hardcore Midget Wrestling tour. The band plans to film a DVD of their experiences on the road.
WWB recently signed to new label FIGHTING RECORDS who will release their debut album “Minority Rules” nationally on
January 25, 2005
thru an exclusive deal with Lumberjack Distribution. The record will also come out around the same time in
Japan
on Ambience Records/CRJapan. The 11-song debut was produced by Darian Rundall (Yellowcard, Pennywise).
WHOLE WHEAT BREAD on tour w/ Bloody Midgets:
5-Nov
Little Rock
,
AR
Vinos
6-Nov
Memphis
,
TN
Hi-Tone
7-Nov
Louisville
,
KY
Headliners
8-Nov
Columbia
,
MO
Blue Note
9-Nov
Oklahoma City
,
OK
Conservatory
10-Nov
Dallas
,
TX
Gypsy Ballroom
12-Nov
Baton Rouge
,
LA
Spanish Moon
13-Nov
Jacksonville
,
FL
Thee Imperial
14-Nov
Gainesville
,
FL Market Street
15-Nov
Atlanta
, GA The Earl
The Warriors / Day Of Contempt / The Burning Season / Kids Like Us - Lambgoat is reporting that The Warriors, Day Of Contempt, The Burning Season, and Kids Like Us will be doing a handful of west coast dates - with one in
Mexico
- this month and the next. Clicking Read More gets you them.
11/18
South Gate
CA
The
Allen
Theatre
11/19
Lancaster
CA
El Dorado
11/20
Bakersfield
CA
Ben Dovers
11/21
Corona
CA
Showcase Theatre
11/22
Ventura
CA
American Legion Hall
11/23
North Hollywood
CA
Studio S
11/24
Sacramento
CA
Westcoast Worldwide
11/26
San Francisco
CA
The Pound w/ Animosity
11/27
Portland
OR
Davey Jones Locker
11/28
Seattle
WA
Studio Seven
11/29
Yakami
WA
The Zone
11/30
Boise
ID
The Venue
12/01
Twin Falls
ID
TBA
12/02
Salt Lake City
UT
In The Venue
12/03
Las Vegas
NV
Roadhouse Casino [w/ Bury Your Dead, Scars of Tomorrow]
12/04
Tijuana
,
Mexico
The Voodoo House
12/05
San Diego
CA
Che Cafe
