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Brendan Kelly of Lawrence Arms Split CD

February 19, 2010 By A. Renteria Leave a Comment

According to a blog post on Red Scare myspace page, Brendan Kelly of Lawrence Arms will be coming out with a split cd with Joe McMahon of Smoke or Fire.  The split cd which is titled, Wasted Potential, will feature 7 songs and is set to be out March 16th.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Brendan Kelly, Joe McMahon, Lawrence Arms, Red Scare, Smoke-or-Fire, Wasted Potential

The Economy Sucks Tour-January 21, Slims in SF

January 24, 2010 By A. Renteria Leave a Comment

After contemplating of hoping on to Bart and heading to San Francisco to catch the Economy Sucks Tour, I decided that very morning that I’ll make a spontaneous trip on my own to catch Anti-Flag and Broadway Calls. Once out on the Bart I turned on my ipod to listen to Anti-Flag, only to be disappointed and sadly finding out that I didn’t have any of their songs on my mp3 player. However, I did have the Bouncing Souls album which they covered 3 songs of Anti-Flag songs. Finally arriving in beautiful, rainy San Francisco, I hoped on the bus headed towards Slim’s arriving about 2 hours before the show started. Standing with my red umbrella and trying to keep warm I witness a tour bus parking right in front of me. Turns out, Anti-Flag we’re running a few hours late and had just arrived in San Francisco. Right at 5:30 pm my friend from Berkeley arrived and we called Neltie, Anti-Flag’s tour manager, to let us in. Once settling onto a bench inside Slim’s, Anti-Flag and their crew started to set up their equipment and performed sound check. That was my first time seeing Anti-Flag live, and in a room of only a handful of people, it was great. They sound check to 3 songs and were off stage. As 7pm hit the clock, the rest of the folks outside Slim’s were let in and greeted with the opening act band Oregon called Broadway Calls. Broadway Calls have an amazing energy live and are a bit more on the poppy-punk sound. There were a few folks in the crowd who sang and fist pumped along,while the rest stood waiting for Aiden or Anti-Flag. While watching Broadway Calls perform, a overheard a young girl tell her friend “They are so generic sounding.” Although they may be, they got the crowd clapping and me tapping along to their songs. Later through out the show, I figured out the young girl was there for this band from Canada called Cancer Bats. Let me just say that Cancer Bats or Aiden aren’t my cup of tea and noticed that all the folks, mostly older, that were there for Anti-Flag stood in the back of the venue or near the bar. There at Slim’s I wondered if I was too old for the kind of music Cancer Bats and Aiden played, I’m only twenty. It was almost 1opm and Aiden were just a few songs into their set when I decided to leave and head back to San Jose. Although I missed Anti-Flag, I was still able to hear them perform 3 songs during their sound check without a huge crowd.

Filed Under: Reviews, Show Tagged With: Anti-Flag, Broadway-Calls, The Economy Sucks Tour

Asian Man Records Haiti Relief Package

January 24, 2010 By A. Renteria Leave a Comment

Mike Park and the great folks over at Asian Man Records are offering a Haiti Relief package for $30. The package will include 5 cd’s from artists Andrew Jackson Jihad, Lemuria, Bomb the Music Industry!, Kepi Ghoulie and O Pioneers. Included with the discs will also be a Plea For Peace t-shirt. 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Partners in Health, an organization that provides medical care in poor communities.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Andrew Jackson Jihad, Asian-Man-Records, Bomb The Music Industry!, Mike-Park

These Arms Are Snakes Call It Quits

January 12, 2010 By A. Renteria Leave a Comment

These Arms Are Snakes, a post-hardcore band from Seattle, have called it quits.

Excerpt from their myspace TAAS RIP note:

“It’s with a heavy heart we tell you that These Arms Are Snakes is no more. It’s been a great run and we’d like to send out a very hearty “Thank You” to everyone that we’ve worked with or anyone that we’ve toured with…

This band could not have been possible without all of you. We sincerely thank you.

Much love,

TAAS”

Filed Under: News Tagged With: These-Arms-Are-Snakes

The Big Damn West Coast Tour

January 10, 2010 By A. Renteria Leave a Comment

The Big Damn, a 3-piece band lead by Reverend Peyton, are currently on tour and are gearing up to tour the West coast. The country-blues band will also be playing some new jams on tour.

January 10, 2010     Aspen, Co                      Belly Up

January 12, 2010     Salt Lake City, UT       The State Room

January 12, 2010     Boise, ID                         Neurolux

January 15, 2010     Seattle, Wa                     El Coraxon

January 16, 2010     Portland, OR                 Dante’s

January 17, 2010     Eugene, OR                    W.O.W Hall

January 19, 2010     Ashland, OR                   Stillwater

January 20, 2010    Mckinleyville, Ca          Six Rivers Brewing, Co

January 21, 2010     San Francisco, Ca         Bottom of the Hill

January 22, 2010     San Jose, Ca                    The Blank Club

January 23, 2010     Fresno, Ca                        Audie’s Olympic Tavern

January 27, 2010     Los Angeles, Ca             The Echo

January 28, 2010      Phoenix, Az                     Rhythm Room

Filed Under: News Tagged With: The Big Damn

Anti-Flag Tour Starts Next Week

January 10, 2010 By A. Renteria Leave a Comment

The political punks, Anti-Flag, will be kicking off their Economy Sucks, Let’s Party tour next week in Detroit, Michigan. The 23-day tour will also include acts such as Aiden, Cancer Bats, Broadway Calls (select dates), and The Menzingers (select dates). Click here for tour dates.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Aiden, Anti-Flag, Broadway-Calls, Cancer-Bats, The Menzingers

Hello Shitty People On Tour

January 8, 2010 By A. Renteria Leave a Comment

Hello Shitty People, a band playing the southern gritty pop-punk before it got to be such a big thing, are going on tour. They have gotten together to tour the east coast and are also recording new songs. Listen to a song on 1-2-3-4 G0! Records myspace page. You can also order their LP off of No Idea Records.

Tour Dates:

8th- Milwaukee – ground zero house
9th – Chicago – relax bar
10th – Bloomington, in – house gone wylie
11th – Athens, oh – smiling skull saloon
12th – Columbus, oh – monster house
13th – Pittsburgh – kopec’s corner
14th – New York City, Brooklyn – tompkins house
15th – New Brunswick – bosnia house
16th – Baltimore – Barkely house
17th – off
18th – Asheville, nc – static age records
19th – recording
20th – Chattanooga – sluggo’s north
21st – Athens – the hanger
22nd- Gainesville – 1982

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Hello Shitty People, No Idea Records

Alkaline Trio-This Addiction

January 5, 2010 By A. Renteria Leave a Comment

The new Alkaline Trio album will be in stores February 23rd, however they are offering their single “This Addiction” for free to listen through twitter or facebook: This Addiction

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Alkaline Trio

The Silence Club Free Digital EP

January 5, 2010 By A. Renteria Leave a Comment

Simple Stereo are offering The Silence Club EP for free as a digital download on their site. You can stream the EP or download it.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Simple Stereo, The Silence Club

Nada Surf Announces New Tour Dates & Album

January 5, 2010 By A. Renteria 1 Comment

If I had Hi-Fi, Nada Surf first album of cover songs will include songs from a wide-range of artist such as Kate Bush, Dwight Twilley, and Spanish band Mercromina. Nada Surf Spring tour will begin March 25 with three “Album Shows” in NYC. On consecutive nights, Nada Surf will perform their three most recent albums: Let Go, The Weight Is A Gift, and Lucky in full, along with songs from if i had a hi-fi, fan favorites and b-sides. The band will then continue on to cover both the East and West coasts.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Nada-Surf

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