New Jersey pop-punkers Man Overboard have announced they will be doing a couple in-store signings and acoustic performances in support of their new album “Heart Attack.” Fans will be able to attend the events by presenting the receipts they receive upon purchasing the album from one of the record stores the band will be appearing at.
Click here for a full list of dates and locations the band has scheduled.
“Heart Attack” will be released on May 28th through Rise Records.
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According to Yahoo Music, former My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way will be co-writing and directing an upcoming episode of The Aquabats‘ TV show “The Aquabats! Super Show.” The article, which you can check out by clicking here, also reveals Way has been working diligently on new music since MCR’s breakup:
“I’m definitely not taking a break,” he explained. “I’m usually up until a minimum of 2 a.m. writing music and I’m up at about 7 a.m. with my daughter. So I’m sleeping four to five hours a night and I work from the minute I’m up after I drop her at school until I go to bed.”
While Way revealed that he has been tinkering in his home studio with multiple styles of music and playing different arrangements with various instrumentation, he won’t specify whether the songs are rock, punk, pop or something altogether different. “I’m just trying to figure out exactly what I’m supposed to do,” he said. “I take a cue from the universe and I think about that pretty deeply and go with my gut 100 percent.”
He did, however, deny any interest in doing a solo record. “I’ve never seen myself as a solo guy. Some of my favorite artists, like Nick Cave and Tom Waits, are so far beyond me right now and I feel that if I was going to do something like what they do, I’d have to be a lot older and I’d need a lot more life experience. So I don’t feel like doing that. It just doesn’t feel right.”
That puts Way in an uncertain position that will probably be dictated by fate or the right meeting with the right group of people — though he said that right now he’s putting no effort into forming a new band.
“I really haven’t been doing anything concrete except writing tons of stuff,” he said. “I’m just having experiences. I’m playing tons of instruments, constantly writing music, and I guess I’m putting myself out there and not pushing anything away. The only way I can describe it is I don’t know who I was before I started My Chem. I know that answers nothing, but that’s the point. I’m just exploring and seeing what happens.”
We’ll keep you posted as more details on any future projects from Gerard Way surface.
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Fort Collins punk group Arliss Nancy and their label Loose Charm Records have announced that over the next 48 hours, they will be donating 100% of sales in their webstore to the victims of the F-5 Tornado that ripped through Moore, OK earlier this week.
For more information on the benefit, click here.
As an extra bonus, one person who donates within the next 48 hours will be picked to receive a signed copy of the band’s album, or a test press of said album, whichever they prefer.
Arliss Nancy released their last album, Simple Machines, via Suburban Home and Loose Charm Records in 2011.
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Legendary NYC rock club turned rock store turned festival CBGB is celebrating it’s 40th anniversary with their 2013 CBGB Music and Film Festival, taking place October 9-13, 2013. Featured at the festival will be over 40 new film titles, as well as over 700 acts at over 175 venues around Manhattan and Brooklyn. Bands and films are yet to be announced.
More information and tickets are available here.
Black Veil Brides has announced that Exhibit A Gallery in Los Angeles will be housing “Revelation In Black” which will feature an art exhibit dedicated to the band. Artwork by vocalist Andy Biersack will be showcased as well.
You can check out a flyer for the event here.
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Saves the Day have announced that former Every Avenue drummer Dennis Wilson has joined the band. The band has not given any information about the new drummer, but Dennis himself confirmed on his Twitter account that he will be in Saves the Day permanently.
The band recently crowd sourced the funding for the album using PledgeMusic, their eighth release. They released Daybreak prior to that, in 2011 on Razor & Tie.
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Small Axe Films, out of Baltimore, is currently seeking funding to make a documentary about Bad Brains‘ Paul “HR” Hudson. According to the blurb on the funding site:
HR “Finding Joseph I” is a feature documentary currently in production, chronicling the eccentric life and struggles of punk rock reggae singer, Paul “HR” Hudson, a.k.a. Joseph I. The charismatic frontman’s energetic and explosive live performances helped pioneer hardcore punk rock with the Bad Brains, one of the most influential bands to rise out of the 1980′s. HR’s heavy devotion to the Rastafarian faith guided him in a spiritual direction leaving the band several times to explore his love for reggae music as the solo artist, HR Human Rights. Over the years, the Bad Brains have reunited several times only to struggle with the unpredictable singer. HR’s increasingly strange and abnormal behavior has left many convinced that he his suffering from psychological troubles while others believe he is still living out his journey as one of the greatest frontmen in rock and roll history!
Go here for more information.
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Tex-Mex accordion powered punk rockers Piñata Protest have released a new music video, for their track “La Cucaracha.” They will also be heading out on tour in support of Reverend Horton Heat, and you can check out both the video and the tour dates here.
The band’s latest album, El Valiente, is currently streaming online via NPR’s First Listen. Head over here to hear it.
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The Doors may have never been a punk rock band, but their keyboardist and one of the founding members of the band Ray Manzarek died today at the age of 74.
According to Washington Post, Ray died in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family, said publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald. Robinson-Fitzgerald said his manager, Tom Vitorino, confirmed Manzarek died after being stricken by bile duct cancer.
Ray is not only famous for being the keyboardist of The Doors, but he is also notable for producing influential albums, such as X‘s 1980 debut album Los Angeles, which contained a cover version of “Soul Kitchen” (the original is taken from The Doors’ 1967 iconic debut self-titled album), and their next three albums, Wild Gift (1981), Under the Big Black Sun (1982) and More Fun in the New World (1983).
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About a month ago, Forever The Sickest Kids singer Jonathan Cook was arrested for selling counterfeit Rolex watches. He is now being sued by the watchmaking company in a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
“Defendant intentionally, maliciously, and willfully sold, offered for sale, distributed, promoted, and advertised watches bearing counterfeits of one or more of the Rolex Registered Trademarks, despite knowledge that such sales were illegal,” the lawsuit reads. “Defendant’s acts were calculated to confuse and to deceive the public, and were performed with full knowledge of Rolex’s rights.”
Rolex asks for $2 million “for each mark counterfeited.”
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As most of you know, As I Lay Dying singer Tim Lambesis was recently arrested for attempting to hire a hit man to kill his wife. Since we last reported on the incident, Lambesis has once again appeared in court for a bail hearing where his lawyer Thomas Warwick, according to recent reports, said the singer’s use of steroids was to blame for his extreme behavior.
During the bail hearing, the judge decided to lower Lambesis’ $3 million bail to $2 million, in spite of Warwick arguing for the amount to be lowered to $250,000, due to his client’s inability to pay, even with the new reduced bail figure.
We’ll keep you posted as more details on this story surface. Click here to read a statement from As I Lay Dying regarding their recent cancellation from Killswitch Engage‘s summer tour of the United States.
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According to recent reports, Phil Chevron of The Pogues, and The Radiators From Space, who suffered from esophageal cancer from 2007 through 2011, has been diagnosed with cancer once again. Here’s a statement from the Pogues:
“Pogues and Radiators from Space guitarist Philip Chevron has revealed that the head & neck cancer for which he received treatment in 2007 and a clean bill of health in April 2012 has in fact returned. In August 2012, Chevron and his doctors noticed a new tumour and this one is in a position whereby treatment is seriously ill-advised and would almost certainly cause Stroke or worse. The cancer is, in short, inoperable and will prove fatal in time, though it is at present impossible to measure life expectancy. Chevron, who was last year part of the releases “The Pogues In Paris” on Polydor and the Radiators’ “Sound City Beat” on Chiswick, is currently taking a break from both bands. The Pogues are on a prolonged time out, emerging only in support of matters relating to their 30th anniversary this year, while the Radiators from Space have formed a splinter group, The Trouble Pilgrims, in which Chevron plays no part. In recent times, Chevron has accepted several theatre music commissions, including the Old Vic Theatre in London and Galway’s Druid Theatre.
Philip thanks his friends, colleagues, family and management team for their enduring support and hopes to make some notable musical contributions before, as he puts it, the cancer becomes “lethal”.”
We at Dying Scene wish Phil the best of luck in hopefully kicking cancer’s ass and we’ll make sure to keep him and his family in our thoughts.
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Randy Blythe, singer of metal band Lamb of God, has released a very long and heartfelt letter reflecting on his manslaughter trial in Prague, Daniel Nosek, and show etiquette.
You can read Blythe’s statement here.
Blythe was acquitted of manslaughter earlier this year and it getting ready to head out on tour with Lamb of God.
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Massachusetts melodic hardcore band A Wilhelm Scream have titled their new album Partycrasher, according to a recent interview with bassist Brian Robinson. No release date has been set on the album yet, but it has been sent to master and is slated to be released via No Idea Records.
Previously, A Wilhelm Scream released a single-sided 7″ for the track “Boat Builders” last year, an a self-titled EP before that.
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The Simple Plan Foundation, the official charity of the band of the same name, donated $20,000 to the Association des centres jeunesse du Québec (The Assosiation of Youth Centers in Quebec) to help create job opportunities for youth in the city.
Sébastien Lefebvre and Jeff Stinco said this to say about the issue:
“The transition to adulthood is not always easy for young people and can even be downright problematic for some of them. Not only young people in youth centers have experienced a particular path, but when they reach the age of 18, they have to take responsibility almost overnight, be self-reliant and take charge of their adult status. To accomplish this transition, which is especially demanding, they need support and, among others, to be given a ‘first opportunity’. We firmly believe that giving them a first job will facilitate their integration into society and especially contribute to value and to restore confidence in themselves and their future.”
Simple Plan released their latest album, Get Your Heart On, in June 2011 via Atlantic Records. Last April, they announced that they were going to work on a follow-up to that album.
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Much The Same bassist Franky Tsoukalas and guitarist Dan O'Gorman, both primary songwriters in their former band, have started a new punk band with Franky taking the lead vocal role as well. They're called Burn Rebuild and you can stream the band's first demo song, "My Therapy Is Failing" right here.
