Canadian hardcore punk act Comeback Kid have announced the dates for a month-long European tour in April and May. The Euro tour will start shortly after the conclusion of their domestic tour with H2O, Attack, Madball, Cruel Hand, and Sick Of It All. Click here for the full dates.

The band released their last album Symptoms And Cures August 31st, 2010 on Victory Records. (US), Distort Records (Canada). [Read more…]

The Sidekicks have announced the dates for their December tour beginning on December 11th in Richmond, Virginia. Click here to check out the full dates.

“Weight Of Air,” The Sidekicks latest album, was released September 15, 2009, on Red Scare Records. [Read more…]

New Jersey ska group Streelight Manifesto have posted more dates for their “Ship Of Fools” tour, this time in New Zealand and Australia. After finishing the North American part with A Loss For Words in February and March, the guys will be hitting Australia for a week. Click here for the dates.

Streetlight Manifesto released a cover/tribute album called 99 Songs Of A Revolution earlier this year, and A Loss For Words released their debute album The Kids Can’t Lose in Japan last year.

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I can’t believe this is our third session already! For this edition, we bring you an exclusive performance from Southern California punk act Chaser. Totally stoked!

We shot the video at frontman Mike LeDonne’s house, where he was joined by guitarists Cameron and Jesse, as well as Whitney Youde on Piano for the song “More Than You Know.” The band also performed acoustic renditions of the songs “Know Your Way,” and “Numb America.” The shoot was going so well that even Mike’s daughter decided to join in on the fun and makes an appearance on the song “My Promise.” Awesome! Check out the videos here.

The Dying Scene Sessions feature acoustic sets from some of our favorite punk acts.  Check out our last session with Street Dogs here, and our first ever session with Joey Briggs right here.

The video was shot by our friends at PunkVideosRock.com.  Go check them out for tons of live performances from the best bands in punk rock! [Read more…]

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NOFX has been together for over a quarter of a century and they’ve been pretty busy over the last few years. 2009 saw the release of the Coaster album (it was titled Frisbee if you got it on Vinyl) and the Cokie The Clown EP, a live set was recorded for Myspace, and they played on the Warped Tour. In spring 2010 they toured again, then in August they put out The Longest EP, a compilation of a lot of their B-sides, EP’s and rare tracks and now NOFX are back on the road on a tour that will continue into February of 2011. So when I read that they were putting out a split seven inch with the band The Spits I was a bit surprised – where did they find the time to write and record two new songs?

After tracking down a copy of this hard to find record, giving it a quick listen or two (I say quick because the whole thing is less than seven minutes long) and realizing that only one of their songs is actually new, I understand how they pulled this off.

I’ll start out with the NOFX songs. Both tracks are old school punk rock (there are no reggae influences here) and sound like they were recorded in one take in a small studio or possibly even a basement.

“Hold It Back” is a short, fast track that has more in common with their early recordings than it does with the Coaster material. This one was already released on the Myspace Transmissions vol. 11 recording that was put out last year.

“Teenage Existentialist” is the second song and it is really good (the best song on the record). It sounds more like what NOFX sounds like these days and is the only song on here that clocks in over two minutes long.

Now for The Spits side of the vinyl. I’d only heard a couple of tracks from this band before getting this record and the best I can say about them is that they are not horrible. They sound like The Ramones (or possibly The Queers) with a whole bunch of added distortion and that is exactly what their first song “Wait” sounds like. Their second track “Get Our Kicks” follows the same formula but this time the singer sounds like Joey Ramone on a bunch of quaaludes. Neither song is what I would call good, but if you are a fan of the band, you will probably like them.

Even though this is not a bad record, the NOFX songs are good; I wouldn’t recommend it to a casual fan. But if you are a big fan of NOFX or The Spits and don’t already have this, I suggest you head over to E-Bay and put a bid on this out of print seven inch before the price goes up.

A recent Tweet by The Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon simply states “Merry Christmas, alt. version of ‘Boxer'” and links to a free download of the song. Right click here to snag your copy!

The band’s latest album, “American Slang,” came out this past June on SideOneDummy Records.

Ever wonder where some bands come up with their band names?  Well, we do, and we’re sick of sitting around scratching our heads about it.  We’re hitting the streets (aka. “Internet”) to find the origins behind some of the more bizarre, intriguing or just plain random band names in the scene.  Every Wednesday we’ll be pulling the curtain back on a different musician and this week it’s legendary gypsy punk act Gogol Bordello.

According to legend (aka – Wikipedia) the band was originally called Hütz and the Béla Bartóks, but lead singer Eugene Hütz decided to change the name because he didn’t think anybody in the United States would know who Béla Bartóks was (he’s a famous Hungarian composer – and yeah, we ain’t that cultured over here!).  The band then decided to go with Gogol Bordello.  “Gogol” comes from the name Nikolai Gogol who is one of the most influential writers in Russian and Ukrainian literature. He also serves as an ideological influence for the band because he “smuggled” Ukrainian culture into Russian society, which Gogol Bordello intends to do with Gypsy/ East-European music in the English-speaking world. “Bordello”, in Italian, refers to a brothel or a “gentleman’s club” and I’m guessing they added that because it’s cool sounding and kinda funny.

A movie is being made about the legendary New York club CBGB, which helped give acts like The Ramones, Blondie and The Talking Heads their start.

Filmmakers Randall Miller and Jody Savin are working on a bio of the club, which was opened in 1973 by Hilly Kristal, who named it “CBGB and OMFUG” which stood for “Country, BlueGrass, Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gormandizers.” The space closed in 2006 over a rent dispute, and Kristal said he would open another incarnation of the club in the future. He died from lung cancer in 2007 before that could happen. The space that used to house CBGB, at 315 Bowery, is now home to a John Varvatos boutique.

Miller and Savin said the movie will focus on CBGB’s story as well as its place in the history of underground music. We’ll let you know when more details are released.

Tom Gabel of the Florida punk band Against Me! recently talked with Spin about the band’s major label experience, their new drummer and his music release plans for the next decade. Their most recent record, White Crosses, was named one of the magazine’s 40 best of the year, and the band announced last week that they had left Sire/Warner Records.

“It definitely feels like a cliché to call it a clean slate, but it’s true,” Gabel said of their departure from the label. They were with Sire for five years, and Gabel said they’re ready for a new experience. Read the full interview here.

Against Me! is touring through January and February, see the full list of dates here.
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While visiting the Equal Visions Records office Mozart Season performed an acoustic version of their song “Nightmares” and you can check out a video of said performance right here.

The song is off their EP “Nightmares,” which the Sacramento based screamo act released last July on Equal Vision. Five songs from the EP are streaming on their MySpace page.