Omnigone, the new band formed by Adam Davis of Link 80, has released a lyric video for “Horizontal Aggression”, ahead of their debut album. No Faith is out on September 13th via Bad Time Records. Pre-orders are up now. Have a listen to the track below.
Omnigone, the new band formed by Adam Davis of Link 80, has released a lyric video for “Horizontal Aggression”, ahead of their debut album. No Faith is out on September 13th via Bad Time Records. Pre-orders are up now.
Have a listen to the track below.
Arizona’s The Darts have released a video for “Breakup Makeup”, the opening track from their recent Alternative Tentacles album I Like You But Not Like That, which came out back in May. Have a watch below.
Arizona’s The Darts have released a video for “Breakup Makeup”, the opening track from their recent Alternative Tentacles album I Like You But Not Like That, which came out back in May.
Have a watch below.
The new album from Minnesota’s Off With Their Heads, Be Good, is out now. The band have released a video for a track from it, “No Love”. Have a watch below.
The new album from Minnesota’s Off With Their Heads, Be Good, is out now. The band have released a video for a track from it, “No Love”.
Have a watch below. [Read more…]
On September 4, 1989, Christopher Joseph Ward would don a black leather jacket and a black-and-white bandana, throw the wide, studded strap of a cream-colored Fender Precision over his left shoulder, and play his very first show under the moniker that would come to endear him to a legion of fans and followers over the […]
On September 4, 1989, Christopher Joseph Ward would don a black leather jacket and a black-and-white bandana, throw the wide, studded strap of a cream-colored Fender Precision over his left shoulder, and play his very first show under the moniker that would come to endear him to a legion of fans and followers over the next three decades: CJ Ramone. It was during the legendary Ramones‘ appearance on that year’s Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon and it was a few days before my tenth birthday, which is a thing I remember because my birthday always brought with it two things that I always tried to find forgettable: the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon and the first day of school. In just a hair over five minutes, the band blazed through “I Believe In Miracles” and “I Wanna Be Sedated” and provided a pretty awesome and unexpected change of pace from the standard pledge pitches and Don Rickles jokes and WWF wrestler appearances.
Fast forward the tape thirty years, and yours truly had the opportunity to sit down with CJ Ramone back stage at Maggy’s Lounge in Quincy, Massachusetts. The venue is essentially a mid-century single-family house with a 125-capacity ballroom jutting out from what probably used to be the living room, and it marks the only New England stop on his US tour supporting his fourth full-length album, The Holy Spell, released last month on Fat Wreck Chords. But what’s more than the fact that it’s the tour for what’s probably his best album to date is that it also marks only local stop on his last North American tour as CJ Ramone. A fairly lengthy Australia tour next month will be followed by stops in South America and Japan next year, and then it’ll be on to what comes next. Sure, there’ll still be music made and the occasional show played, but the years of getting in the van for months at a time will have come to a successful close.
Ramone and I chatted for just about half an hour in the venue’s outdoor green room area (basically a 15×15 pop-up tent and a few food-and-beer filled folding tables on the gravel lot behind the old house) as his band members for this run — Street Dogs/The New Darkbuster colleagues Lenny Lashley and Pete Sosa and jack-of-all-trades Nate Sander — prepared and the sisters of tour-opener Dog Party geared up. In hindsight, it was a remarkably quick half hour that found Ramone perhaps a little tired from a late arrival on this particular night but more realistically from what has been roughly three straight months on the road, but introspective and engaged and thoughtful in his reflections on his own place in rock and roll history, and about what else he wants to do while, at fifty-three years old, he’s still got the opportunity. The appreciation that Ramone shows for the opportunities he’s had over the last three decades is palpable, as is the reverence for both the Ramones as an entity and his bass playing predecessor Dee Dee specifically.
I thought about different ways to format this piece, and different ways to turn it into a story. Who knows, maybe there’ll be a time and a place for a longer career retrospective piece in the future. Maybe this is a bit self-serving, but I decided to just let our conversation be the story. We covered a lot of ground, most of it involving family and music of course. Ramone has stories in spades, and it’s admittedly a bit surreal to know that when he talks about Lemmy or Johnny or Pearl Jam or Soundgarden, he’s talking about HIS experiences with THAT Lemmy and THAT Johnny and THAT Pearl Jam/Soundgarden. But then again, though his thirty-year run on the road is coming to an end and life as Christopher Ward will be resuming, he’ll always be THAT CJ.
Head below to read our conversation, and keep on scrolling to see our pictures from the night, featuring CJ and his band of luminaries and Dog Party accompanied by kick-ass local openers Duck & Cover and COB. Ramones forever.
Southern California icons The Muffs have announced their new album, the first in five years, titled No Holiday. Out on October 18th, the album will feature 18 songs, written between 1991 and 2017. That’s a long time to wait to record something! Drummer Roy McDonald adds, “I think No Holiday is the most unique album […]
Southern California icons The Muffs have announced their new album, the first in five years, titled No Holiday. Out on October 18th, the album will feature 18 songs, written between 1991 and 2017. That’s a long time to wait to record something!
Drummer Roy McDonald adds, “I think No Holiday is the most unique album we’ve ever made — 18 songs that run the spectrum from full-blown productions to intimate home recordings. This was a labor of love for us and I think that comes out in the record. We wanted to create something lasting and special. I, for one, couldn’t be happier with the results.”
You can watch a trailer for the album below.
Taken from For The Record‘s new EP, The Mess They Call My 20s, the band shows their fun side in this all-new video . Formed in Visalia, California, For the Recod is a 6-piece ska/punk band, that has an engaging, energetic, and horn-fueled sound – and they’re always up for a party. Check out their […]
Taken from For The Record‘s new EP, The Mess They Call My 20s, the band shows their fun side in this all-new video . Formed in Visalia, California, For the Recod is a 6-piece ska/punk band, that has an engaging, energetic, and horn-fueled sound – and they’re always up for a party.
Check out their new video below.
Perth’s favorite skate punks The Decline have just released a video for their new single, “It Was Always You.” It’s the second single from their upcoming album, Flash Gordon Ramsay Street, which will be released on August 30th. The band has also announced a tour with Nerdlinger. Check out the video and tour dates below.
Perth’s favorite skate punks The Decline have just released a video for their new single, “It Was Always You.” It’s the second single from their upcoming album, Flash Gordon Ramsay Street, which will be released on August 30th. The band has also announced a tour with Nerdlinger.
Check out the video and tour dates below. [Read more…]
The brand-new album from Minnesota’s Off With Their Heads, Be Good, is currently available on all the major platforms and streaming as well. A quick note on this album: it’s certain to end up on a lot of people’s best of 2019 lists – it’s that good. Don’t believe me? Check it out below.
The brand-new album from Minnesota’s Off With Their Heads, Be Good, is currently available on all the major platforms and streaming as well. A quick note on this album: it’s certain to end up on a lot of people’s best of 2019 lists – it’s that good. Don’t believe me? Check it out below.
Avail’s Tim Barry has announced a new solo album, which will be released on October 11th on Chunksaah Records. Titled The Road to Richmond, it will be his first album since 2017. Tim will also be playing some live shows (and hopefully more than these) in support of the album, with the following dates: Aug […]
Avail’s Tim Barry has announced a new solo album, which will be released on October 11th on Chunksaah Records. Titled The Road to Richmond, it will be his first album since 2017.
Tim will also be playing some live shows (and hopefully more than these) in support of the album, with the following dates:
Aug 29 – Muddy Roots Festival – Cookeville, TN
Nov 02 – The Fest – Gainesville, FL
Nov 15 – The Camel / Record Release Show – Richmond, VA
Nov 16 – The Camel / Record Release Show – Richmond, VA
Ahead of the band’s upcoming album, NOFX have released a brand new single titled “Fish In A Gun Barrel.” In an intro to the song Fat Mike explains that the song was written in 2016 but the band held off on releasing it due to it hitting a little too close to home so soon after […]
Ahead of the band’s upcoming album, NOFX have released a brand new single titled “Fish In A Gun Barrel.” In an intro to the song Fat Mike explains that the song was written in 2016 but the band held off on releasing it due to it hitting a little too close to home so soon after the Vegas shootings. Given the recent spate of gun violence in the US earlier this month, the band decided to use the track to help raise funds for Moms Demand Action, a grassroots movement fighting for public safety measures that protect people from gun violence.
Check out the song, along w/ Fat Mike’s introduction below.
NOFX last released Ribbed – Live in a Dive in 2018 via Fat Wreck Chords. Their last studio output was First Ditch Effort in 2016.