It's Sunday June 24th, 2007. Now I know that in their statement the Punk Planet editors mused that the internet was possibly a factor in their downfall, but as a representative of the internet I have to say that everyone in our organization is going to miss you. Unlike us, you couldn't rush back and re-edit your articles when the snarky comment kids started pointing out your errors. We have nothing but respect for that, as fear would paralyze us from giving up our precious edit button.
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday
This week we bid farewell to Punk Planet, the influential and respected magazine, founded in 1994, ceased production with its 80th issue. More details were unveiled on the Weakerthans upcoming fourth album Reunion Tour. We got a peek at the cover art and track listing for the September-arriving record. Now it was probably just for fun, but we had reports from a few sources that members of the Sex Pistols were in the studio "having a laugh." While we're not expecting a new record don't be surprised to see some shows this December. Speaking of the studio, that's where Saves The Day is, promising new albums this year and next. New music arrived this week from Whole Wheat Bread, who previewed their upcoming record, and Social Distortion, who unleashed the new track from their greatest hits album. Angels and Airwaves is up to something or other, probably promoting an upcoming album, but they that's far less epic than they want it to sound.
The disco before the breakdown? Against Me posted a dance remix of their single "White People for Peace." The band's press machine didn't stop there, as we had news of a limited edition pre-order 7", and a second "making of" video. Andrew WK, having left us here in North America starving for the party, will finally release some new material domestically. White Stripes frontman Jack White spoke about that radio leak and the appropriateness of his response. Finally this week we had news of a tribute to Leatherface featuring music from Hot Water Music and the Sainte Catherines and the soundtrack to Transformers, which will feature Armor For Seep and Taking Back Sunday. Oh, and an MSNBC columnist decided that all your favourite bands are overrated, but we're not really sure what his point is.
Our Video Of The Week featured pop-punk/melodic-hardcore hybrid Set Your Goals. We interviewed South Dakota's The Spill Canvas (interview) We streamed music from Ben Weasel's new solo record, Philadelphia melodic hardcore band Giving Chase, the The Story Changes' upcoming full length, and the new full length from legendary hardcore pioneers Bad Brains.
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Radio Free Punknews
Check the Punknews Music page to stream all sorts of anticipated new music including a full album stream from the Gaslight Anthem, new music from the new Clorox Girls' album J' aime Les Filles, Trophy Scars' EP Hospital Music for the Aesthetics of Language, the split between Fox Trotsky and Die Benny, four songs from recent A-F signing Incommunicado a 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, and music from the Ergs' Upstairs/Downstairs.
Suntans are for Winners Far From Finished July 17, 2007 finally marks the official release date for the upcoming full length effort from Boston punk rocker's, Far From Finished. To celebrate the release of "Living In The Fallout", Far From Finished, Think Fast! Records, Lucky 13 Apparel, and PunkNews.org have teamed up for a contest giveaway that runs from now until the street date. A grand prize winner will receive a prize package valued at $128 including the brand new disc, a poster, a skate deck, and clothing items from the band, Think Fast! and Lucky 13. One runner up will receive the new disc, a poster, some t-shirts, and goodie bags.
L'il Bush
Even though we don't do contests for TV shows very often, between the obvious love of Comedy Central's animated programming I see on our boards, to the lineup of musicians involved, it seems like a pretty easy decision to give this one a go. Comedy Central's new program, L'il Bush features Iggy Pop, Jeff Tweedy, Frank BLack, Colin Meloy, Dave Grohl, The Red Hot Chili Peppers and more. It is a series of cartoons created by Donick Cary, a writer of The Simpsons. The show previously appeared on recently defunct mobile carrier Amp'd Mobile, and has been picked up a six episode run beginning this month. Pop will be playing Lil Rummy, and other characters include Lil' Condi, Lil' Cheney, Lil' Jeb and of course, Lil Bush. To celebrate, Comedy Central has provided a neat little prize pack of DVDs from South Park, Drawn Together.
Win a prize package from Amber Pacific Amber Pacific recently released their highly anticipated new album via Hopeless Records. The record is titled Truth In Sincerity and arrived on May 22, 2007. To celebrate, the band would like to give away a full catalog and merch to one grand prize winner as well as three copies of their new CD+DVD to three runner ups.
Staff Blogs
When not writing about music on the internet, many members of the Punknews staff find time to write about music on the internet. You can check out the depraved musings of Adam White at 2:59, Justin August has some Kinder Words for you, while Chris Moran's all over the place with content rocking both MySpace and Flickr. Reviewer Jesse Raub posts short fiction and web comics to Things That Go Bump In My Head and his zine Bitter Press.
Life at Disconnect
We've theorized that you visit other websites out there, and we know it can be tough to leave the calming blue glow of the `Org, so we'll help by infecting the rest of the web with Punknews content. Waste some time on the Punknews.org and Punknews Records MySpace pages or contribute your listening habits to the weekly charts Last.fm group.
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