January 2012
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SONG OF THE DAY
Defeater - I Don’t Mind
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[AUSTRALIA] New Tour: Let Me Down Jungleman ✈
Let Me Down Jungleman will jump in the van in March to support their debut EP, which drops next month. Check out the dates and details below.
Thursday, March 1 @ The Old Bar, Melbourne. [18+ - 8.00pm] Friday, March 2 @ Loophole, Melbourne. [AA - 6.00pm] Wednesday, March 7 @ Hamilton Station Hotel, Newcastle. [18+ - 8.00pm] Friday, March 9 @ Yours & Owls, Wollongong. [18+ - 8.00pm] ...
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[AUSTRALIA] New Interview: Totally Unicorn ✆
Chucking a Mosh have posted a new video interview with Totally Unicorn. It’s pretty funny.
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[AUSTRALIA] New Music: Let Me Down Jungleman -...
Let Me Down Jungleman have a new song, Riverdances, from their forthcoming EP.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Video: Close Your Eyes -...
Close Your Eyes have a new video for their song Carry You, from their latest full length, Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts, which dropped last year on Victory.
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[AUSTRALIA] New Tour: August Burns Red,...
August Burns Red will be heading over in April for their first ever headline tour. Check out the full details, including supports, below.
When August Burns Red unleashed their 2009 breakout album, Constellations, they became a band that could no longer be ignored. They debuted in the Top 25, co-headlined the AP Tour, headlined Warped Tour and connected fiercely with a colossal legion of fans....
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Music: Across Tundras /...
Check out a new track from both Across Tundras and Hellbender. Both songs appear on the band’s forthcoming split 7”, which will drop on February 25.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Music: Bleeding Through - "The...
Head here to stream Bleeding Through’s new full length, The Great Fire. It drops this week on Rise.
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[INTERNATIONAL] Free Music: Man Overboard -...
Man Overboard have a brand new website and to celebrate, are giving away a 12 song sampler featuring a mix of tracks from all of their previous releases.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Music: Sent By Ravens - "Mean...
Check out Sent By Ravens new song, Mean What You Say, over at Alt. Press. The song is from their forthcoming full length of the same name, which drops February 28 on Tooth & Nail.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Release: I Call Fives -...
I Call Fives will release a new 7” in March. Check out the details below.
ARTIST: I Call Fives TITLE: Someone That’s Not You 7” RELEASE DATE: March 20 LABEL: Pure Noise ABOUT: Containing two new songs, an acoustic track and a cover of Third Eye Blind’s How it’s Going to Be, Someone That’s Not You serves as a teaser to the band’s debut full length, due...
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Video/s: Cheap Girls - Nervous...
Cheap Girls recently performed a Nervous Energies session where they played Ruby, Cored to Empty and Communication Blues.
Their new record Giant Orange drops February 21 on Rise.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Video: Good Old War - "Calling...
Good Old War have a new video for their song, Calling Me Names, from their forthcoming full length, Come Back as Rain, due March 6.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Music: Cut Teeth -...
Cut Teeth, who feature members of Stay Ahead of the Weather and The Felix Culpa among others), have a new EP, Televandalism, which drops tomorrow. Excellently, you can stream it in full a day early, thanks to Absolutepunk.net.
If you like Pilot to Gunner, Knife Party and Red Animal War, you’ll dig these blokes.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Music: The Flaming Lips &...
The Flaming Lips and Erykah Badu have been working on new music for TFL’s upcoming Record Store Day release.
On the weekend, Lips frontman Wayne Coyne posted a clip of the song Now I Understand, which features sampled vocals from Apple’s artificial intelligence bot Siri. Coyne notes that the track also includes “Biz Markie, backwards” and that “music gets you...
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[INTERNATIONAL] Crystal Castles to record new...
Crystal Castles will head to Warsaw next month to begin recording their next full length, the follow up to 2010’s self-titled affair. It will be released “sometime in the summer”.
On the sound, producer Ethan Kath stated “We never do meaningless. Every song we write is bleak. We don’t want anything else.”
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Music: Authority Zero - "Less...
Punknews.org is streaming Authority Zero’s new album, Less Rythym, More Booze.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Video: Red Fang - "Hank is...
Red Fang have a new video for Hank is Dead from their latest full length, last year’s Murder the Mountains; which dropped on Relapse.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Video: Sharks - "Arcane...
Punks in Vegas have posted two new videos of Sharks frontman James Mattock performing Arcane Effigies and What Entails?, boths from their forthcoming full length No Gods, which drops on March 20.
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[INTERNATIONAL] Ben Folds to reunite ✉
Seminal 90’s act Ben Folds Five have reunited to record a new record following a series of tweets by the band’s frontman Ben Folds.
The album will be recorded in March and a third quarter (of 2012) release will follow.
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[AUSTRALIA] New Tour: The Bride ✈
Sydney’s The Bride will head out on a headlining club tour next February and March. Check out the dates after the link. ☞
Thursday, February 2 @ Hot Damn (Spectrum), Sydney. [18+ - 9.00pm] Tickets on the door.
Saturday, February 4 @ Bang (The Royal Hotel), Melbourne. [18+ - 9.00pm] Tickets on the door. Thursday, February 9 @ Snitch (X&Y), Brisbane. [18+ - 9.00pm] Tickets on the...
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[INTERNATIONAL] Deathwish Inc. signs Code Orange...
Deathwish are proud to welcome Code Orange Kids to our affiliated family. Fresh out of high school and with an average age of 18 years old, Pennsylvania’s Code Orange Kids remind us off our own embryonic days in the aggressive music scene. They do things their way, creatively cutting their own path through it all. Unconcerned with the direction of other artists, their brand of gritty...
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Video: This Time Next Year -...
This Time Next Year have a new video for Drop Out of Life, the title track from their most recent full length, released in September.
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[INTERNATIONAL] The Fest 2012 dates announced ✈
Dates for this year’s Fest in Gainesville, Florida have been announced. Now in it’s 11th year, the 3 day weekend of punk, beer and good times will happen October 26 - 28.
See you fuckers there!
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Video: Fake Problems - "Songs...
Fake Problems have a new video for Songs For Teenagers from their 2010 record, Real Ghosts Caught on Tape.
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[INTERNATIONAL] Smoking Popes to enter studio ✉
The Smoking Popes will be entering Atlas Studios in Chicago next week to begin working on new material, which will follow last year’s This is Only a Test.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Video: Cancer Bats - "Old...
Cancer Bats have a new video for their song, Old Blood, from their forthcoming full length, Dead Set on Living, which drops on April 17.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Video: Into it, Over it - "No...
Into it, Over it has a new video for his song, No Good Before Noon, from his latest full length, Proper, which dropped last September on No Sleep.
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[AUSTRALIA] Acid Snake call it quits, post new...
Gold Coast’s Acid Snake have decided to pull the plug. Thankfully, they have released a new track, Skeleton Key.
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[AUSTRALIA] New Video: Zounds - "Kev" ☾
Head here to watch Sydney’s Zounds (Dave Drayton of Milhouse and Between the Devil and the Deep) performing his song, Kev. It was recorded at Blackwire Records in Sydney.
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[AUSTRALIA] Resist the Thought sign with Skull and...
From Killyourstereo.com:
“Western Sydney’s Resist the Thought have signed to Skull and Bones for the release of their upcoming full-length album. Forming in 2007 and releasing 2 well received EP’s in 2008 and 2010 respectively, this band has toured around Australia multiple times. In 2011, they headlined their own tours as well as sharing the stage with acts such as Suicide...
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[AUSTRALIA] Persecution Blues: The Battle for The...
Make sure you tune into ABC2 tonight to watch Persecution Blues: The Battle For The Tote; a documentary about the battle to save Melbourne’s The Tote.
For more info, head here and for a preview, head here.
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[AUSTRALIA] Soundwave Festival launch Pirate Radio...
This Thursday night from 8.00pm Soundwave will kick off Pirate Radio: a 24/7 online radio station that will be loaded with interviews, festival news updates and of course, tracks from the acts appearing on the festival. Former host of The Racket on Triple J, Andrew Haug will host a weekly 2 hour metal show Haugmetal each Thursday night from 8.00 – 10.00.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Video: Wilco - Live on "Conan"...
Head here to watch a video of Wilco performing Whole Love on Conan last night.
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[INTERNATIONAL] Woods of Ypre album to be released...
Official Press Release:
In December, Woods of Ypres frontman David Gold lost his life in a terrible accident just outside Barrie, ON, Canada. Unfortunately, David was unable to see the release of Woods 5: Grey Skies and Electric Light, which was to be the band’s first effort since signing with the mighty Earache. Woods 5 is now scheduled for an April 10 release. Now, fans have a chance...
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[INTERNATIONAL] Expires to record Bridge Nine...
Official Press Release:
Bridge Nine newcomers and Midwest Hardcore’s finest, Expire, are excited to begin recording their debut full-length for the label on January 30th, 2012. The band will be holed up at Howl Street Recordings in Milwaukee for the following week, laying down the tracks that will be their yet-to-be-titled LP. Also at the helm will be Jay Maas of Getaway Recordings, as he...
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U SHUD CHQ DIZ OUT: Lazerbeak - "Lava Bangers" ♬
Welcome to U SHUD CHQ DIZ OUT. The title is self-explanatory, isn’t it?
Today’s USCDO is Lazerbeak’s new full length, Lava Bangers, which you can stream on Absolutepunk.net.
Lazerbeak writes and records some really dope instrumental hip-hop beats. Perfect for chilling on this rainy (Brisbane) day. He works a lot with Doomtree and P.O.S. among a slew of others.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Video: Mastodon - "Dry Bone...
Mastodon have a new video, Dry Bone Valley, from their latest full length, The Hunter. It was animated and directed by Tim Biskup.
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[INTERNATIONAL] Relapse signs Inverloch ✍
Official Press Release: Relapse is extremely proud to announce the signing of Melbourne, Australia’s doom-dwellers Inverloch. Featuring 2/4 of the legendary diSEMBOWELMENT, Inverloch (Matthew Skarajew – guitars, Paul Mazziotta – drums, Ben James – vocals, Mark Cullen – guitars, Tony Bryant – bass) pick right up where diSEMBOWELMENT left off close to two decades ago, composing crawling,...
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[INTERNATIONAL] Hot Water Music begin recording...
Hot Water Music have begun recording their next full length at The Blasting Room in Colorado with Bill Stevenson (Descendents, ALL) producing. The effort will drop later in the year on Rise and will be their first release since 2004’s The New What Next.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Music: Sleigh Bells -...
Sleigh Bells have a new song, Comeback Kid, from their forthcoming full length, Reign of Terror, which drops Valentine’s Day.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Video: Terror - "The New...
Terror have released a new video for their song, The New Blood, which appears on their 2010 full length, Keepers of the Faith. It features guest vocals by Toby Morse of H2O.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Video: Yale, MA - "Danger...
Yale, MA have posted a new video for their song, Danger City, Population ME, from their Act Like You’ve Been There EP.
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[INTERNATIONAL] Converge recording new album ✉
In what will be a top-10-of-the-year’er for sure, Converge have begun recording their new record, All We Love We Leave Behind, at Kurt Ballou’s (Converge guitarist and producer extraodinaire) studio, Godcity.
AWLWLB will be the band’s first release for Epitaph and once out, will follow 2009’s amazing Axe to Fall.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Music: Hands Like Houses -...
Canberra’s Hands Like Houses have posted a new track, Antarctica, from their forthcoming debut full length, Ground Dweller, which drops March 9 on Rise / Shock.
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SUNDAY / FUNDAY Feature ☼
The first of what will be many new features for Trainwreck in 2012, this is Sunday / Funday. The idea is simple: I provide a bunch of links of whatever-the-fuck-I-want-that-I-find-funny-slash-fun for your entertainment.
Laugh away that hangover my g-funks.
+ You’ve probably scene this, but head here to check out Brisbane’s newest hardcore superstar, Juliette, perform My First...
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Music: Portugal. The Man -...
In response to Etta James passing yesterday, Portugal. The Man have posted a live cover of her song, I’d Rather Go Blind. The song was recorded and broadcast live in Los Angeles on KCRW.com and 89.9 KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic with Jason Bentley on July 19, 2011.
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[INTERNATIONAL] New Music: Lucero - "Sometimes" ♬
Lucero have posted a new song, Sometimes, from their forthcoming full length, Women and Work, which drops March 13.
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[INTERNATIONAL] Comeback Kid guitarist leaves
Official Press Release:
We very unfortunately have to announce that our friend and guitar player Casey Hjelmberg has decided to leave Comeback Kid. The split is completely amicable and we’re thankful to have spent as much time with him over the past few years as we have. He let us know early last year that it was time to move on with his life, and we’re sorry to see him go. ...
