It's Sunday May 20th, 2007. It's May Two Four up here in Canuckistan. The long weekend basically involves everyone heading to a cottage, drinking and blowing things up in honour of Queen Victoria. It's a grand ol' time, too bad you suckers south of the border hoofed the Monarchy or else you could get in on this. But you did and you can't. So there.
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
This week brought us plenty of updates from some of old favouries. Bad Religion released not one but two very different tracks from their upcoming full length New Maps of Hell. The steady trickle of Tim Armstrong song releases was wrapped up in a full album stream from the Rancid frontman. NOFX talked about their touring plans for `07, confirming that they will not appear at Reading and Leeds. Staying with the Fat Wreck family, the label announced their 1,2,3, Punk tour of Canada featuring the Mad Caddies, the Sainte Catherines, and the Real McKenzies. The label also confirmed that there would be no vinyl issued for the upcoming Strung Out and No Use for a Name releases. Two former Fat bands were in the news, with Rise Against planning a new album and Less Than Jake apparently leaving Warner (more on that next week!).
The post-Blink-182 factions were back in the news. Former Distillers member Ryan Sinn was kicked out of Angels & Airwaves, while Plus 44 promised some Blink covers at their live shows. Details were released on hte upcoming Iggy Pop biopic starring Frodo as the influential Stooges frontman. Finally this week saw recording updates from Jimmy Eat World as well as A Wilhelm Scream while Silverstein detailed their upcoming Arrivals And Departures
Our Video of the Week now, and I suspect for a while after knowing Chris, will feature Inquisition reunion. Check out a two part video-interview with the melodic-hardcore act, Part 1 and Part 2. I suspect we'll see some performance footage soon enough. We brought you streaming music from Clorox Girls and their new album J' aime Les Filles, Trophy Scars' EP Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language, the split between Fox Trotsky and Die Benny, and four songs from recent A-F signing Incommunicado.
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Radio Free Punknews
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including a new track from Sound The Alarm, a full album from Cincinnati's Black Tie Bombers, some psychobilly from Toronto's The Creepshow, the debut from Tomorrow the Gallows, Ringers new album Detention Halls, a new track from My American Heart, Red Scare upstarts The Copyrights, Limbeck, Cardiff UK's The Automatic Automatic, Test Your Reflex, Deathkiller, longstanding ska act the Toasters, J Church's new record The Horror Of Life, the Ergs' Upstairs/Downstairs, some critically acclaimed catalogue material from Autonym, the Mad Caddies latest Keep It Going, ex-Ducky Boy Mark Lind's Compulsive Fuck Up, and Fake Problems new LP How Far Our Bodies Go.
Suntans are for Winners Set Your Goals tickets, meet and greet
Last year, melodic hardcore/pop-punk group Set Your Goals released their breakthrough album, Mutiny! and have been on a touring rampage. On Sunday, May 27th, the group pulls into Richmond, VA, and the fine folks over at the Trigger System are offering an exclusive prize to Punknews readers. We've teamed up to send
The Used - "Lies of the Liars"
On May 22, 2007, The Used will be releasing their third full length. The record is titled Lies For The Liars and is their first since 2004's It is the follow-up to In Love And Death. Since quite a few of you are looking forward to this one, we decided to arrange a little prize package including a $25.00 merch gift certificate, the new record and their live record, Berth. All you need to do to enter is click Read More and fill out a little form. Couldn't be easier, unless we filled it in for you. We aren't going to do that though.
Elvis Costello reissues Elvis Costello, not only the king of America but also the king of reissues. The influential songwriter is again giving his catalogue a spit shine, reissuing deluxe versions of his classics via Universal. We've got four to give away to a lucky Punknews reader, including the new versions of 1979's Armed Forces, `80's Get Happy!!, 81's Almost Blue and the 2007 compilation Rock & Roll Music.
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