It's Sunday August 27th, 2006. Now if you think about it, the whole Gimme Gimmes controversy this week can be summed up by this image. See, Sam Neill represents Spike Slawson, and the island of Isla Sorna is sort of like PNC Park. Now, the velociraptors are, well velociraptors, but… The important point…
I really need to write these things away from the TV.
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
There's nothing like an out of context quote to get people riled up, and one from Bob Dylan just set the place ablaze this week. The legend rails against the sound of modern recordings and studio technology, but many of you felt he was calling out well, all music in general written in the past twenty years. Oh well, it was sort of our fault for the summary, but how does that abbreviation go? RTFA? There's probably more than a few Dylan fans in Against Me!, who just announced they had roped in Butch Vig to produce their sire debut. Vig's of course worked on classic albums by Nirvana and Sonic Youth. There was lots of news from Me First & the Gimme Gimmes this week, as the band posted the artwork and track listing for their new record and managed to enrage baseball fans in Pittsburgh. Once again we can't talk about Fat Mike without having to check in on his buddies in Underoath. That band dismissed rumours that they were breaking up this week. Three album updates had you talking this week, as we took peaks at the Falcon's Unicornography, My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade and the Offspring's next. Finally this week saw an amazing line up announced for the Fest V, featuring bands like Dillinger Four, Lifetime, Minus the Bear, Toys That Kill and so many others.
This week Punknews spoke with up and coming Fueled By Ramen act Paramore. Check the interview out.
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Radio Free Punknews
Check the Punknews Music page for to check out new music from site favorites Latterman and Much The Same, Agnostic Front sideproject Roger Miret and the Disasters, street punks the Casualties and popular act Over It. Our Video Of The Week featured part two of our chat with Lagwagon.
Suntans are for Winners Much The Same contest Much The Same are gearing up for the release of their Nitro debut Survive. To celebrate, the boys have given us some swag to give away. Gunner and the fellows have ponied up a copy of Survive, a poster, 2 stickers and pins and a T-shirt of their choice. Oh, and just in case you're not sure of what to expect from Survive, they've offered up a collection of 10, count 'em ten!, albums that they've been listening to over the past few months. They've included albums from Anti-Flag, Rise Against, A Wilhelm Scream and Ryan's Hope to sweeten the pot.
New Found Glory (Guitar) New Found Glory are set to release their fifth studio album, Coming Home September 19, 2006 on Geffen Records. To commemorate it's release, New Found Glory and Punknews.org have teamed up to bring you a chance to a brand new autographed Fender Squier Stratocaster guitar or an autographed Coming Home poster.
Raised Fist vs Quebec
In September Sweden's Raised Fist are heading to Canada for a tour of Ontario and Quebec with support from Montreal's Closedown. To celebrate the invasion we're giving away a pair of tickets to each show on the tour. We're doing this in two parts, so pay attention folks. This first contest is for the Quebec leg of the tour, so if you can get to a show in la belle province check below for details. A similar contest for the Ontario dates is coming soon.
Fuck Yeah Fest
Next week, Los Angeles will play host to the third annual Fuck Yeah Fest. The event was curated by Keith Morris (Black Flag, Circle Jerks) and will take place in August 19th and 20th. In addition to musical performances, the fest will also feature a stand up comedy show organized by Jonah Ray and an art show with the work of fifty artists and photographers. The lineup runs the gamut from bands like Envy and Darker My Love to Chuck Ragan from Hot Water Music and the Bronx. To celebrate this impressive assembly of bands, Fuck Yeah Fest has, under some duress, agreed to give away some tickets and other miscellaneous Swag (tm) to a few lucky Punknews.org readers.
Win an iPod Nano from The Distance The Distance will be soon hitting the road for a tour with Set Your Goals and No Trigger in support of their new record, The Rise, the Fall, and Everything in Between. To celebrate this perfect pairing of melodic hardcore acts, the band is offering one lucky Punknews.org reader an iPod Nano which is all the rage these days and functions using a combination of wind power and ancient voodoo magic.
Against Me!!! Americans Abroad!!! Live in London!!! Contest!!! Against Me! recently released their first live album, the title of which contained an obscene amount of exclamation points. To celebrate and share the love the band and their kind-of-former label Fat Wreck are giving away some copies of the album to some lucky fans. One winner will win a signed copy of Against Me!!! Americans Abroad!!! Live in London!!! along with a poster. Five runners-up will receive an unsigned copy of the album along with a poster and a patch. Read More to see how you can enter (and win!!!).
Life at Disconnect
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The Call Up
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