Episode #698 of the Punknews Podcast is now up! In this episode Em and John freestyle about many different things and cover some news stories. If you want to know which ones, you’ll have to listen to the episode below!

<p>Back in January we raised a glass to Japanese Breakfast’s Melancholy Tour, which excitedly delivered Michelle Zauner’s band across the country for the first time in three years, and included in the run is a stop that finally arrives tonight (May 7) at MGM Music Hall at Fenway. The tour is in support of new album For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), which dropped in March via Dead Oceans, and according to press notes, the record explores “the darker waves that roil within, the moody, […]</p>
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On May 2, Alice Longyu Gao played The Garrison in Toronto, Ontario. Tommy Fleece opened the show. Alice Longyu Gao released Assembling Symbols Into My Own Poetry in 2024. Our photographer Stephen McGill was there to catch the show. Check out his photos below! 

<p>It appears that, sadly, Ethan Coen is still down bad. After trying to steal Rose Glass’s lightning with Drive-Away Dolls last year (Love Lies Bleeding accepts no substitutes), Coen and his co-writer Tricia Cooke are back at the “lesbians in genre situations” motif they’d already strip-mined for HONEY DON’T! (hereafter stylized as in lower-case because that’s fucking annoying). Even worse, they’ve got a third one of these things planned, but hey, that’s what being one-half of the best filmmaking duo […]</p>
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Frankie and the Witch Fingers have released a video for their new song “Dead Silence”. The video was created by Perry Finley. The song is off their upcoming album Trash Classic which will be out on June 6 via The Reverberation Appreciation Society / Greenway Records. Frankie and The Witch Fingers released their live album Live at LEVITATION in 2024 and released their album Data Doom in 2023. Check out the video below.

<p>Venting time: this fall’s one-two punch of Stephen King adaptations are perhaps the most irritatingly similar movies scheduled near each other since… probably The Prestige and The Illusionist. But it’s even worse because of how much DNA they share. Aside from the fact that both are based on King books, they’re also each about televised competitions with life-or-death stakes in dystopian America, and, importantly, have movement-centric titles. This is where we’ll confess that we spent six months thinking Edgar Wright […]</p>
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Age of Apocalypse have released a new song. It is called “Gilded Hatred” and features Demonstration of Power. The song is off their upcoming album In Oblivion which will be out May 23 via Closed Casket Activities. Age of Apocalypse released their album Grim Wisdom in 2022. Check out the song below.

<p>As he has done countless times before, Tom Papa is making his way back to Boston with a brand- new hour of stand-up, and once again, he’s not leaving us with just the crumbs of his creativity — he’s really serving up the whole loaf. As announced earlier this week, Papa will be making his way back to The Wilbur on November 15, as part of his Grateful Bread tour. In addition to his continued work on stage, which most […]</p>
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<p>Are Viruette transforming “soulless” into a good thing? If a critic wants to raze an album, regardless of genre, they can usually label it a “vapid” or “unfeeling” and call it a day. But in the case of the Boston band, crafting rugged rock from the numbness of the void might just be a plus, if not a point of pride. Last week (May 2) the band released “DEADTOOTH,” a new song and music video that follows their 2024 LP […]</p>
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Elway have announced that they will be releasing a new album. It is called Nobody’s Going To Heaven and will be out this fall via Red Scare. The band has also released two new songs “Laugh Track” (which comes with a lyric video) and “Better Whenever (At Ten)”. Elway will be touring to Pouzza with Sam Russo starting later this week and released their album The Best of All Possible Worlds in 2022. Check out the video and song below.