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 Punkbands.com - http://www.punkbands.com ========================================= PUNK NEWS (64): *THE ATARIS have signed with Columbia Records despite previously claiming that such a move would be hugely unlikely for them. The surprise decision was made by the quartet after their contract with Kung Fu Records finished. *IGNITE are home for a few weeks, and are taking the opportunity to write some more material for the next Ignite album. They have about 8 songs in the works right now and plan on spending a lot of time in the rehearsal room this summer. *R.E.M.'s "It's The End Of The World As We Know It" has been given a punk-rock makeover by veteran skacore outfit, the SUICIDE MACHINES. The version, described as a speed-rock torrent, is among the 14 tracks to appear on Steal This Record, due from the Detroit group on Hollywood Records September 25. *The ANTI-HEROS broke up the night before the annual beer olympics in Atlanta. Supposedly there was an argument with Condemened 84 and Anti-Heros, so they called it quits. *Burning Heart have recently signed DIVISION OF LAURA LEE. Currently, as this is being written, the band is doing the final mixing to their first EP on Burning Heart. Expect to see it released sometime around September the 20th, with a full length to come out early 2002. *The JULIANA THEORY, have announced that they have signed to Epic/Sony Records. A statement from the band reads "It was a difficult decision, but after all the deliberating, we chose Epic Records and are very excited about our future with them....Everyone at the label seems to have a good grasp on our music and our vision as a band”. *In-depth BAD RELIGION and SOCIAL DISTORTION interview by The Los Angeles Times. Read it here: www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-000061555jul29.story *In a semi-formal memo to MCA Records, BLUE MEANIES told the major label that the release they most recently recorded will be released on Chicago's Thick Records on August 7. Read the “funny” memo here http://thickrecords.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000345.html *The BOUNCING SOULS have confirmed to take Flogging Molly (main support), One Man Army (second of four) and Madcap (opener) for their October/November run. *BOY SETS FIRE will be re-issuing "After The Eulogy" on August 7th. The new version will contain an extra track entitled "Timothy"." The new version of "After The Eulogy" is being released by the bands' new label, Wind Up Records. *After Max left BIGWIG, they have now finally found a new bass player named Tony. The new BigWig album will probably be released a little bit later because of some studio work. *The official TRUSTKILL RECORDS website has been having some host problems as of late, but they are back in full on their very own server. Head over to http://www.trustkill.com to check out the details on upcoming releases and more. *For those of you who have been supporters of THE PILFERS you know they were constantly on the road until recently when mystery surrounded the cancellation of the rest of their shows. Coolie has arrived back in civilization and has taken the time to finally address everyones concerns: www.pilfers.com/news/index.html#Amessage *Our friends over at Fatfreeradio.com have had the opportunity to interview Mr. Brett. Check out the interview: www.fatfreeradio.net/features.php?rec_num=55 *UNTIL THE END plan on entering Studio 13 in Florida to record their Eulogy Recordings debut full length entitled "Blood In The Ink." They will begin work in the first two weeks in August. The CD will be out sometime in September *GIVE 'EM THE BOOT: "Vol. III" (HellCat Records) will be available 09/11 in the U.S. and 09/25 in Europe. There will supposedly be new and unreleased songs on the comp. *Apparently GREEN DAY are getting ready to release their "Greatest Hits" record which will see record shelves near you on November 5th on Reprise Records. The record will feature all of the band's hits along with two brand new tracks. *CHIXDIGGIT have been forced to cancel their upcoming West Coast tour. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Department is trying to make them pay a $1000 per band member and $1500 per roadie to get in the US from Canada if you apply for work permits within 35 days of your trip. *AGAINST ALL AUTHORITY are said to be writing new material for a possible release later this year. A tour is scheduled for August/September in support of the awesome "24 Hour Roadside Resistance", as well as the recently issued comp "Nothing New For Trash Like You" *MIDTOWN not only recently signed onto MCA's roster but also redesigned their out of date website. You can check out the new design and their most recent tour dates here www.midtownrock.com *As reported on purerock.de, JIMMY EAT WORLD`s German distributor Motor Music has posted the first single "Bleed American" of the new album for free download. The track you can download changes every two days. Get it here: www.jimmy-eat-world.de/_downloads/jew_bleedamerican.mp3 PUNKBANDS.COM UPDATE *As I informed you on the top of this mail we have moved over to the bcentral.com service. If you have a web site and want to tell your visitors about our service, please put this link on your site: http://lb.bcentral.com/ex/manage/subscriberprefs?customerid=11487 If you want to have a sign-up box, feel free to mail me and I`ll send it over to you. Thanks! *The Drowningman contest will be wrapping up next week. Check out the contest page and win some cool stuff: www.punkbands.com/contest/ *On July 28th Timmy@punkbands.com had the opportunity to visit the lab of JC2000 and Rocket From The Crypt to talk about everything from porn, their new album "Group Sounds", and enemas. You can check out what was said: www.punkbands.com/interviews *Brand new reviews this week. Learn more about the latest releases from The Business, Thumb, Rufio, The Peepshows, Nerf Herder, Nora and many more. Head over to www.punkbands.com/reviews to get it all! ========================================= PUNK NEWS (63): *GREEN DAY is currently throwing together a greatest-hits package for release on Reprise Records this fall. The band is said to be readying a few new tracks for inclusion on the as-yet-untitled album. *According to John Feldman (Goldfinger) MOJO RECORDS is basically dead so REEL BIG FISH FISH and GOLDFINGER are currently looking for a new label. Goldfinger has twenty songs completed in preparation for their new album. The release date has not been announced. *Burning Heart`s “CHEAP SHOTS vol. 5” is almost finished and will be out sometime in September. These bands will be on the compilation: Refused, Bombshell Rocks, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Nine, Millencolin, Division Of Laura Lee, The Business, Randy, The Hives and many more. *The upcoming GRADE album "Headfirst Straight to Hell" will not be carried in the U.S. superstore chain BestBuy due to the provocative nature of the cover artwork! The album will be out August 21st in the U.S. and on the 28th in Canada (punknews.org). *The official ALKALINE TRIO website has gone under a major facelift and has totally been revamped. Check it out at http://www.alkalinetrio.com for more information on their recent lineup change, and tour dates on the upcoming Plea For Peace Tour. *The PILFERS, well known by their core group of supporters have broken up due to artistic and personal differences. Their absence will be me missed in the independent music world. *Filming has begun on KUNG FU RECORDS second feature film entitled "Selwyn's Nuts." It was written by and stars Warren Fitzgerald of the Vandals and will be directed by the Kung Fu’s own Joe Escalante, for a late 2001 release (punkmusic.com). *According to the latest mailing from FAT WRECK CHORDS the whole camp is as busy as a bum diving for a shattered roll of pennies. STRUNG OUT, TILT, LAGWAGON & AVAIL are all in the process of writing new songs while many more bands are either releasing new material, touring or doing both. *The FACE TO FACE website (www.facetofacemusic.com) has just gotten it's biggest update yet which includes a new interview, new pics, 40+ new fan bios, audio clips to the albums and EPs and, most importantly, exclusive downloads. *ONE KING DOWN and ANOTHER VICTIM have decided to call it quits. Some of the guys in Another Victim have started a new band called True Love and they're working on a debut full length now. Possibly expect the album to be released on Equal Vision Records (punknews.org). *To celebrate the release of their new CD entitled "Symptoms of a Leveling Spirit" GOOD RIDDANCE have created a new official website. Check it out at www.good-riddance.com. They ill also have a split CD coming out November 20th with KILL YOUR IDOLS on Jade Tree Records. *STRIFE are going into the studio starting July 15 to record a new album that will come out before the end of 2001 on Victory Records. *BELVEDERE are heading into the studio to record their upcoming third full-length release tentatively titled, "We Don't Dance on Sundays." The CD will be released on Jump Start Records in October. *SAVES THE DAY`S Vagrant Records debut, "Stay What You Are," recently debuted at #100 on the Billboard Top 200. The album sold 15,000 records in the first week. The band is currently headlining the Vagrant America Tour for the rest of the summer. *Marco Pena is out of the THE ATARIS. The Warped Tour Show in LA was his last one and John the guitar tech (Ex-Beefcake) will take his place. Kris Roe posted on The*Ataris message board that Pena has left The*Ataris on good terms. *BANE`S highly anticipated follow up album to "It All Comes Down To This" is scheduled for an October 30th release. It will be titled "Give Blood" and released on Equal Vision Records. *THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY are currently in the studio mixing the new album. The Conspiracy dances to a slightly different beat this time around. The production is larger. The intensity is intact. Most notably, the songwriting has improved. *INITIAL RECORDS have plans to release a couple records in the near future. A brand new Juliana Theory EP is in the works, and new compilation feature bands like Converge, American Nightmare, Burnt By The Sun and more. Check out www.initialrecords.com *The VICTORY Video Collection is now available, containing 35 videos (and extras like live footage) of bands including Snapcase, Warzone, and Strife et al. *JIMMY EAT WORLD have made their new album "Bleed American" available online via streaming audio for free. This was only sent out to members of their street team. Give the new album a listen here www.entertainmentdigital.com/jimmyeatworld/vlp/ PUNKBANDS.COM UPDATE *The Saves the Day contest will be wrapping up this Saturday (21th) and we're hoping to have the new Drowningman contest up and running by Monday at the latest. Check out the contest page for more info: www.punkbands.com/contest/ *From Dashboard Confessional split with The New Amsterdams to The Voo Doo Glow Skulls EP soon to be released, Timmy has the chance to sit down with the two bands to find out what they are really like off stage. These are two of the more exciting interviews punkbands.com has featured so we suggest you all check them out: www.punkbands.com/interviews Send any feedback or questions you have on them to timmy@punkbands.com *The message board broke 500,000 visits this week! Raise your voice and join the board here: www.punkbands.com/bbs/ *Brand new reviews next week! Check out www.punkbands.com/reviews ========================================= PUNK NEWS (63): *For the third and apparently final time SCREECHING WEASEL have called it quits. Head over to www.screechingweasel.com and read the news from Ben himself. *We have gotten an exclusive response from owner/operator of VAGRANT RECORDS, Rich Egan, concerning the well circulated rumor of them being associated with Interscope Records, and the distribution situation surrounding Universal Records as well. Check it out: http://www.punkbands.com/rich.txt *The new PULLEY album is out in early October and is titled "Together Again For The First Time". I`ve heard 2 songs off the album...not including "runaway" from POR 6, and if you like the s/t album you will like this 100 times more. *This fall HOME GROWN will head into the studio to lay down tracks for their Drive-Thru Records debut, tentatively set for release in early April 2002. Be sure to visit the band at their website: homegrownonline.com for news, tour dates, etc. *CONVERGE are gearing up for their highly anticipated new record which will be the first new release in three years by the band. The new album, entitled "Jane Doe" will hit the shelves on September 4th on Equal Vision Records. *Epitaph just posted a brand new mp3 for the OSKER song “The Body.” Now there are two full-length mp3s for these guys here www.epitaph.com/bands/index.html?Id=86604 Osker also appears in the new movie Crazy Beautiful. *The latest from Arizona'a JIMMY EAT WORLD will be out July 24 on Dreamworks. Their new album has led to a redesigning of their website, http://www.jimmyeatworld.net. Check both out. *USELESS ID got a new record out now, called "Bad Story Happy Ending" (kung fu records) and they also made a video for the song "No Time For Me To Be A Teenager" with Joe from the Vandals directing and filming. You can download it at: www.kungfurecords.com/video/Useless.teenager01.mov *Go to www.vagrant.com to watch the new ALKALINE TRIO video. It was finally posted and a lot of people keep asking about it on message boards. Apparently Mike Felumlee, drummer of the Alkaline Trio has officially left the band. *Brand new DROPKICK MURPHYS Video. Check out "The Spicy McHaggis Jig" exclusively on warpedtour.launch.com/videos.asp *The new album from GRADE, rather romantically titled Headfirst, Straight To Hell, will be available in record stores on August 28. Headfirst, Straight To Hell is scheduled to be released on vinyl and CD with cover art by acclaimed fantasy illustrator Kevin Lewelyn. *UNWRITTEN LAW has nixed all the break up rumors and is due out with their new album in September. The disc is titled Elva. *AVAIL are pretty much through with touring on the album One Wrench except for their show on the 27th of July @ Krazyfest in Louisville, KY. They have a back log of unfinished songs and they are going to get back into writing mode. Expect a new album from them sometime next year *The LAWRENCE ARMS cancelled their European tour scheduled for August/ September. There is no official statement up to now, but rumors that they got a new record label and so cancelled the tour. *Revelation Records has gone out and recently signed the band, A18. They are comprised of ex-members of Insted, Chorus and Outspoken. The band plans to hit the studio this fall to record their Revelation debut full length record with Paul Minor of Death By Stereo fame. *BANE are scheduled to record their long awaited follow up to "It All Comes Down To This" sometime later this summer with Brian McTernan at Salad Days Studios. The new record is titled "Give Blood" and will be released in the fall with a full U.S. tour following. *Announced on their official site, the new AGNOSTIC FRONT record will be called "Dead Yuppies" and is due out in late September. *The official THURSDAY website is now finally up and running at www.fullcollapse.com ! It looks fantastic and was definitely well worth the wait. The band is currently gearing up for a tour with Boy Sets Fire, The Movielife and Rise Against for a couple of weeks this month *KILL YOUR IDOLS have recently redesigned their website, which you can. Check it out at: www.killyouridols.net. Kill Your Idols will be on the road for the rest of the summer. Their new CD, 'Funeral For a Feeling' hits stores on July 17. *RIVER CITY HIGH have posted on their website (www.rivercityhigh.com) some details about their upcoming debut album: "The new record is called "River City High Won't Turn Down" and the official release date is September 18. PUNKBANDS.COM UPDATE *We`re hosting a new contest this week. You have the chance to win some really cool prizes from Saves The Day. For more information, please go to www.punkbands.com/contest. If you haven`t noticed, we are featuring the exclusive Saves The Day mp3 “All I`m Losing Is Me” on the front page! *If you are from the Philadelphia area, how would you like to interview Saves The Day and get into their show for free on July 15th at The Trocadero in Philadelphia, Pa? All you have to do is send ten reasons why you would like to meet Saves The Day and interview them to timmy@punkbands.com. The winner will be chosen and notified by the punkbands.com staff on July 12th. *Brand new reviews this week. Expect reviews from Glasseater, Unsung Zeros, martyr AD, The White Octave, Countervail, Piebald, Eighteen Visions, Stretch Armstrong and lots, lots, lots more. *New mp3 is up and running on our “mp3 of the week “ page. Check it out here www.punkbands.com/mp3oftheweek/ Please visit our sponsors Vagrant Records (http://www.vagrant.net) and Emusic.com (http://www.emusic.com) Mail us punk news, positive/negative feedback about this newsletter and punkbands.com. (webmaster@punkbands.com) Feel free to use the info on your web page, zine, whatever, but give us some credits! If you want to give us some space for a banner, please go to this page: http://www.punkbands.com/banners ========================================= PUNK NEWS (62): *BAD RELIGION are set to begin recording their 12th studio album, "The Process of Belief" in early July. The follow-up to last year's The New America is scheduled for an October 23 release. Check out the Brooks Wackerman video interview. See what the new drummer for Bad Religion has to say here www.epitaph.com/news/index.html#769 *RISE AGAINST will be busy little bees this summer. They will embark on an east coast tour with Boy Sets Fire, Thursday, and The Movielife starting July 12th in Philly and then a full US tour with Reach The Sky starting August 9th. Go see em if ya get the chance. *MILLENCOLIN is rehearsing for their new album to be released in March 2002. A rumour says that they were in Fagersta this weekend taking golf lessons! A couple of months ago they played a golf tournament set up by Vans, and they got beaten by other punkrockers including Fat Mike and others *VICTORY are preparing for a bunch of brand new, huge titles to be hitting the shelve |
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