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Tours: The Weakerthans
The Weakerthans have announced their summer tour plans. The band will be spending much of June in Europe and will be hitting festivals in Canada and hitting one stop in Chicago for Lollapalooza.
They released Reunion Tour last year.
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Tours: Butthole Surfers
The Butthole Surfers have begun announcing summer tour dates. The band will be in the US in June, before heading to the UK and Europe in July. Dates for the European tour are expected soon.
The band adds:
For these shows, Jeff Pinkus will be on bass and Teresa Taylor (along with King Coffey) on drums. This is the rhythm section the band had for most of the 80s and marks the first time this line up has played together since 1989. Paul Leary has prior commitments and unfortunately can't play the European dates (he will be on stage for the New York City show and possibly more stateside).
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Moros Eros (2005-2008)
Moros Eros have split up. The band explained:
So, as most of you know, Moros is no longer a band. Since we left everything so ambiguous, I felt really terrible about not explaining the situation. It really had nothing to do with Victory, really. I think it started when our van died this past november. We were in the middle of some Navajo reservation for about eight hours and I thought a lot about things.
Things led to other things, deej quit the band a few weeks later, and we eventually came to the conclusion that we didn't really feel up to the task of playing this kind of music anymore. It's kind of tiring to sing almost every day about things that are always bothering you, without ever coming to any final conclusion. Without getting to philosophical, it was just the band's time, and we have already started moving on to other things, musically and personally, that is.
The band released Jealous Me Was Killed By Curiosity last year.
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May 11th, 2008
Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I'm Adam White and I'll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here's what got the community talking...
The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday
This week's most popular stories
The storm clouds are gathering over Chicago's music scene, with promoters claiming that a proposed law could make DIY shows illegal. One wonders if such a law would have hurt the rise of Chicago's favorite sons the Alkaline Trio. That band detailed their upcoming tour dates this week, adding American Steel, and Bayside to the bill. They also dropped by MTV reality show "The Hills," because that's really the only way for a band to get on MTV these days. Of course one way to get media attention is to commit crimes, just ask Canadian hardcore act Liferuiner. That band surely saw a bump in web traffic following members' arrests in a graffiti sting. Of course not all attention is positive, and this week we saw emo music blamed in the
suicide of a 13-year old. The signup list for bands looking to be named as scapegoats starts over here.
The ongoing slate of Police reunion shows look like they're coming to an conclusion, with the new wave act announcing their "Last Show Ever." Punk veterans NOFX are hitting the US east coast later this year. The Hot Water Music rolling reunion revue will get there first, with the influential act hitting Philly and NYC this summer. Summer will also see newly independent ska-punk veterans Less Than Jake and Goldfinger sharing the stage. There'll be a few weeks of shows from indie rockers Spoon as well. Look for the Gaslight Anthem, Be Your Own Pet and Black President on this year's Warped Tour.
On the new music front we heard a full album stream of Elvis Costello and the Imposters' new full length Momofuku. The Offspring also returned with the new track "Hammerhead." Popular act Paramore discussed their new material, claiming influence by H2O and Set Your Goals. My Chemical Romance are planing a live CD / DVD set titled
The Black Parade Is Dead. The Cure will soon return with lucky number 13 this year and they're planning a
singles series leading up to it. This week Against Me! fans were treated to a video interview and acoustic performance. Gamers can look forward to clicking-out to At the Drive-In's hit "One Armed Scissor"
in Guitar Hero IV.
I Can't Control My Fingers I Can't Control My Brain
New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives
This week we spoke with Adam of punk / metal hybrid The Hottness (interview).
Our Video of the Week featured footage from Ann Beretta performing "Not Invited" at their recent reunion show.
This week's Vinyl File announced contest winners and featured a look at upcoming releases.
This week also brought new Streaming Music from
the solo projects of two punk rock frontmen,
first we helped Kevin Seconds celebrate the release of his new solo album Rise Up, Insomniacs!,
then
we previewed two new full lengths from former Groovie Ghoulies frontman Kepi Ghoulie.
So what's coming up this week? Look for releases from Architects, Death Cab For Cutie and Moneen with tours kicking off from the Hives (US / Can), Leatherface (US) and Hatebreed (US).
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The Briggs detail "Come All You Madmen"
The Briggs have tiled their upcoming record Come All You Madmen. The full length was produced by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones' Joe Gittleman and will hit the streets on June 17. The cover art and track listing for the 12 song record have been unveiled as well.
The Briggs are planning to perform on the entirety of this year's Warped Tour.
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Deathwish signs End of a Year
Deathwish Inc. has signed Cohoes, NY's End of a Year.
The band will release their label debut in the form of an EP this coming fall, with a full-length to eventually follow. However, it will be preceded with a multitude of 7"s on various labels that the band has lined up, including splits with Shook Ones, Scream Hello, Red Tape Parade and others. You can check out the details on a MySpace blog posting.
Their last major release was 2006's Revelation-released Sincerely, though the interim has seen them release splits with Fire Team Charlie (God, There's a Lot of Pawn Shops and Check Cashing Places in This Town) and Kids Explode (That Owl Is Staring at Me), as well as the We Understand Europeans Are a Sexual People 7" under the curious Barf Spectrum moniker.
Additionally, the band has announced some tour dates for Europe.
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Ryan's Hope unveil free Chaos EP
We're thrilled to announce that Ryan's Hope have unveiled their free five song demo EP online. You can download the Chaos EP at the band's MySpace page or nicely tagged from DivShare. The Joliet, IL three piece is following up their 2006 full length Apocalypse in Increments, which we had something or other to do with. The songs include "Madness Ensures," "We Will," "Choose Blasphemy," the power-hoedown "Bloodline," and new fan favorite "Bastard Epidemic." Get stoked.
In the coming weeks and months the band will play shows with bands like Strung Out, Project:Threeville and others.
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The Johnstones: "Sex"
Ajax, Ontario ska-punk act The Johnstones have posted seven songs from their upcoming record Sex online for your previewing pleasure. You can check them out over at MySpace. The new full length hits stores on June 3rd via Stomp Records.
The band will support with a tour of Ontario and Quebec with the New Cities, followed by a stint supporting Hedley and appearances on this summer's Warped Tour.
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Schlong (Operation Ivy) releasing new album
Schlong, which features Operation Ivy's Dave Mello alongside his brother Pat and Gavin MacArthur, will be releasing their new record Singles 1989-1995 soon. The album is already available for digital purchase via their MySpace page.
This is the band's first release since 1996's Fish Booty.
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Trever Keith (Face to Face) acoustic video
Trever Keith (Face To Face, The Legion of Doom, Viva Death) recently joined the Radio 104.5 studio to perform an acoustic session of songs from his debut solo record Melancholics Anonymous. Keith whipped out "Everyone Hates A Know-It-All" from the Face to Face record Ignorance In Bliss.
You can check out the videos of the session here. You can stream the entire record at his website.
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