According to another not-so-cryptic video update on the band’s website, it would appear that original drummer Derrick Frost is once again part of Chiodos.
The announcement comes just a few weeks after it was revealed that original vocalist Craig Owens had rejoined the group. Owens and Frost have both rejoined the band in the wake of their replacements – Brandon Bolmer and Tanner Wayne, respectively – parting ways with Chiodos in March. No plans for touring or recording with the renewed line up have been announced as of yet.
Make Do and Mend have released their video for “Lucky” off their Rise Records debut Everything You Ever Loved, which hits stores on June 19 2012. This is definitely a more rock direction then End Measured Mile but it’s still a good track. We can’t wait to hear what the rest of Everything You Ever Loved has to offer.
Baltimore’s A389 Recordings have released their annual digital mixtape sampler. The A389 Recordings MMXII Digital Mixtape boasts 52 new/unreleased and a few classic tracks to appeal to all fans of aggressive and underground music. Tracks from bands such as Seven Sisters of Sleep, Ringworm, Children of God, ANNE, Pulling Teeth, Rot In Hell, Integrity, Gehenna, Low Places, Trapped Under Ice, and many, many more. And best of all…like all previous mixtapes…it is FREE!!!
Head on over to A389′s Mixtape Page to download and stream. You can also access the 2010 and 2011 samplers. Spread the word. Share with friends. Turn them on to new music.
In a strange turn of events and brimming with 90′s nostalgia, Helmet and The Toadies will be touring together all across the U.S. starting in July.
Time to bust out the Jncos, chain wallets, and Stussy shirts.
7/20 Houston, TX @ House of Blues
7/21 Pensacola, FL @ Cptn Fun Beach Club
7/22 New Orleans, LA @ Tipitinas
7/24 Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits
7/25 Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution
7/26 St Petersbugh, FL @ State Theatre
7/27 Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
7/28 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
7/29 Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore
7/31 Silver Springs, MD @ The Fillmore
8/1 Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero Theatre
8/2 New York, NY @ Webster Hall
8/3 Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
8/4 Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall
8/5 Lansing, MI @ Michigan Rock and Brew Fest
8/7 Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
8/8 Detroit, MI @ The Crofoot
8/9 Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
8/10 Indianapolis, IN @ The Vogue
8/11 St. Louis, MO @ Pop’s
8/12 Kansas City, MO @ The Beaumont Club
8/14 Denver, CO @ The Bluebird Theater
End of a Year Self Defense Family 7″EP “Self Immolation Famly” b/w “World Virgins”.
End of a Year Self Defense Family have released a song from the second installment of their “Island Series” of recordings. Recorded at “Sundlaugin” in Mosfellsbær, Iceland, the studio owned by the band Sigur Ros, the 7″ will be out soon on Deathwish Inc. It’s nice that this band still sounds basically just like this band, and maybe sometimes Lungfish, who also just sound like themselves. Good tune below, give it a few spins.
SELF DEFENSE FAMILY “Self Immolation Family” by deathwishinc
BARONESS have a new album coming out on July 17th via Relapse Records, Yellow & Green. But you already knew that. And probably pre-ordered itw with the quickness too. How about hearing a song off the album? Here’s “Take My Bones Away”. The track, while retaining that typical Baroness sound of sludge swampy metal, it does go in a more melodic and polished direction. If this doesn’t get you psyched for the album, I don’t know what will. Listen to it a few times and you’ll be running around like a madman in your home or work screaming “TAKE MY BONES AWAAAAAAYYYYY!!!”
Outtacontroller
Don’t Play Dumb
P. Trash Records
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Outtacontroller’s debut full length Don’t Play Dumb is heavy on the distortion yet the hooks still shine through nice and vibrantly. They’ve got Johnny Ramone’s buzzsaw guitar approach bred effectively with the stiff lip of The Buzzcocks, yet it still fits right in line with modern renditions like White Wires (particularly in the vocals, I’ll be damned if the title track couldn’t just as easily be a White Wires lost cut). Through all the aforementioned influences, Outtacontroller aren’t derivative enough to be labeled “blank-worship”, yet they do effectively hold their own in the modern power pop scene.
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God Equals Genocide
Rattled Minds
Razorcake Records & Dirt Cult
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God Equals Genocide is one of those bands that I’ve heard about for quite some time but never actually took the time to check out. I’m kicking myself about that now. After a number of 7″s, CD-r and cassettes since 2007, the band have finally recorded their debut full length for Razorcake Records entitled Rattled Minds. The band play a slightly familiar blend of power pop and punk rock akin to the Toronto scene in 2005, and by that I mean they sound a lot like Dangerloves. I mean a lot.
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Listen up, pop-punk fans: Transit have just released a new video for “Cutting Corners,” which originally appeared on 2011′s Listen And Forgive. Check it out below:
To celebrate Agnostic Front‘s 30th anniversary, their classic Live At CBGB LP is set to be reissued by Bridge Nine on July 17th. The reissue will feature an embossed cover and be available in premium color variants. Below is the official announcement from B9 and the band. On a sidenote, I can’t express how important this album is to my upbringing in the hardcore scene. Agnostic Front was the first hardcore band that I saw live when living in Louisville, KY way back in the day. At the time I had been to many a local hardcore shows but never been to one of a non-Louisville band. Not to mention a band from the NYHC scene. So yeah…I was hooked after seeing their incendiary live show.
In conjunction with legendary NYHC band Agnostic Front‘s 30th anniversary shows in June and July, where they’ll be playing their classic record Live at CBGB from start to finish, Bridge Nine Records has announced today that the label will be reissuing said record on July 17th. Featuring an embossed LP cover with the original Live at CBGB artwork, the label will also be pressing the music on super limited edition red, white and blue striped vinyl with multiple other colorways available. Agnostic Front vocalist Roger Miret said, “With this year being our 30 year anniversary as a band with myself singing I wanted to play a special show here and there so I came up with the idea of playing our classic Live At CBGB set. This was the set front to back from our legendary live recording released in 1989. That was a magical time for the band and Hardcore was thriving at it’s best in 1988 when it was recorded. As an honorable family member with the Bridge Nine crew, I knew that the label should be home to this special re-release as much as CBGB was home to Agnostic Front. We are making this re-release very special for the record collector in a red, white and blue color and our timeless original cover embossed to add that punch it held back in 1989 as intense today in 2012! Along with this special re-release we are doing a handful of special shows in the U.S. to coordinate with the release. This will be a great release team effort with Agnostic Front and Bridge Nine… here it is – the glory days of 1988 New York City Hardcore as relevant today, tomorrow and forever!”
Originally released in1989, Live at CBGB contains 19 of Agnostic Front‘s most notorious tracks. Allmusic said, “Recorded in the flesh at New York’s punk rock Mecca CBGB in August of 1988, Live at CBGB captures the band in all its ferocious glory. As Miret announces ‘this is the title track from our first album Victim in Pain, the song’s also called ‘Victim in Pain’,” the band is off. ‘Pain’ is quickly followed by ‘Public Assistance’ and later a song that calls for unity between punks and skins, ‘United Blood.’ The recording is highlighted by the band’s hardcore anthem, ‘Crucified’. Beneath all the band’s political lambasting and calls for unity (although many of their shows were anything but), there’s a good musical lesson to be learned from all of this. Because, if you’ve ever been just the slightly bit curious about what NYHC is all about, this release is a solid launching point.” We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
LIVE AT CBGB TRACK LISTING
1) Victim in Pain
2) Public Assistance
3) United Blood
4) Friend or Foe
5) Strength
6) Blind Justic
7) Last Warning
8) Toxic Shock
9) United & Strong
10) Crucified
11) Liberty & Justice
12) Discriminate Me
13) Your Mistake
14) Anthem
15) With Time
16) Genesis
17) The Pain Song
18) Fascist Attitude
19) The Eliminator
AGNOSTIC FRONT 30TH ANNIVERSARY SHOWS
June 22 Clifton, NJ @ Dingbatz
June 23 Frederick, MD @ Cafe 611
June 24 Reading, PA @ Reverb
June 29 Rochester, NY @ Dub Land Underground
June 30 Peekskill, NY @ Popeye’s Pub
July 1 Atlantic City, NJ @ Boneyard
