CBC Radio 3 has announced several new initiavies related to their live sessions series. The Radio 3 Sessions are now slated to be a podcast, a TV show and a new compilation CD.
The podcast launches September 12th and will be hosted by Tariq Hussain, It will record Canadian artists live off-the-floor as they experiment with alternate arrangements and new songs. The TV show, titled In Session will be a half hour program that premieres on CBC Country Canada on Wednesday October 3rd. .
New Jersey’s Grace Period have posted their new unmastered song “The Shredder” online via The Daily Chorus.The band features ex-members of the Early November.
Immortal Records act the Escape Frame have put the new song “Our Hideout” online via MySpace. The song will appear on their upcoming full length on October 30th.
It’s Sunday September 2nd, 2007. Well this is called Navel Gazing, so let’s talk Punknews. After literally years of debating the issue we finally took the plunge this weekend and disabled anonymous commenting. From here on, only registered users can post comments. You can find the full explanation and initial reaction in our announcement. A lot of you have asked if this was the result of any one single band complaining to us, and it wasn’t. It’s more an effort to pull our staff from the brink of going mad like Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. That’s just bad for productivity.
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Yet another piece of punk history was lost this week, as Hilly Kristal of legendary scene-fostering New York City venue CBGB died at age 75. His club of course helped launch the careers of the Ramones, Television, Patti Smith and many others. To add to the retrospective mood, Time Magazine launched a multimedia feature celebrating the 30th Anniversary Of Punk. Against Me! continues to support the New Wave juggernaut, performing “Stop” live on the Late Show, releasing a digital EP and announcing the rest of their fall tour. Now the Gainesville act has some nutty fans, but hopefully they’re less sensitive than those of Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance. The guyliner was flying when both acts missed out on Kerrang! awards. There was a different type of drama in the I Am Ghost camp, as the band revealed the religious conflicts that lead to their recent lineup shift.
Our Video of the Week featured Dead To Me performing at last year’s edition of The Fest. The sixth edition of Vinyl File featured a chat with No Idea Records head Var Thelin and previewed lots of upcoming wax. We also streamed new music from Arsonists Get All The Girls latest full length The Game of Life, Young Livers, which features members of Glass and Ashes, Fiya and Towers of Hanoi, and half of the new full length from Toronto ska-punks the Flatliners.
Pulling Teeth have announced a fall tour alongside the UK’s Frightener. The band is gearing up for the release of Martyr Immortal this fall. The record is the follow-up 2006’s Vicious Skin.
The Swellers have kicked off a new tour in support of their new album, My Everest. The band will be sharing the stage with a variety of bands including The Ataris, Denslow Cup, The Archers and more.
More dates have been unveiled for The Draft‘s upcoming October US tour with San Francisco’s Dead To Me and New Brunswick, NJ’s Gaslight Anthem.
The Gainesville band has a new 7″ in the works on No Idea. It will feature “We’ll Never Know” and “Hard to be Around It,” two older songs from demo sessions with Brian McTernan. The band’s follow up to 2006’s In a Million Pieces should be wrapped up by the end of the year. You should expect it in early 2008 via Epitaph. SourceContinue reading Tours: The Draft / Dead To Me / Gaslight Anthem→
The full routing has been unveiled for The Draft‘s upcoming October US tour with San Francisco’s Dead To Me and New Brunswick, NJ’s Gaslight Anthem.
The Gainesville band has a new 7″ in the works on No Idea. It will feature “We’ll Never Know” and “Hard to be Around It,” two older songs from demo sessions with Brian McTernan. The band’s follow up to 2006’s In a Million Pieces should be wrapped up by the end of the year. You should expect it in early 2008 via Epitaph. SourceContinue reading The Draft / Dead To Me / Gaslight Anthem→
Belfast punk legends Stiff Little Fingers will see the release of their Don Letts’ directed road movie on September 24th via Fremantle Media. The 90 minute film, titled Still Burning, will be packaged with interviews with the group, a live performance of `79’s Inflammable Material in its entirety from the band’s March 2007 tour, and chats with Mike Peters, Stuart Pearce, Ricky Warwick, Gordon Ogilvie, Alan Parker, Nick Welsh, Shirley Sexton, John Ellis, Steve Diggle, Brian Young and Greg Cowan. The band will celebrate the release by playing an in-store at the Virgin Records on Tottenham Court Rd in London on Wednesday September 25th. Afterwards the group and Don Letts will be on hand to meet fans.
Stiff Little Fingers has UK tour dates scheduled for October with plans to hit the US in November.
The fairly hard to categorize Defiance, Ohio has decided to follow up last year’s The Great Depression with another new album. The band is planning for 10 songs in 24 minutes and will maybe be titled The Fear, The Fear, The Fear. No Idea will be putting out the physical copy in October. There’s no word on whether or not it will be free to download this time around, but we here at the Org expect it to be.
The lot of them will also be touring around in support of it. They’ll be doing a East Coast tour in October to coincide with Fest 6 and then next January will be heading West to jump the Pacific and tour around Australia. We’ll bring those dates to you as they come available.
Dinosaur Jr. returns to the road this week, playing shows on both the US east and west coast alongside bands like Dr. Dog and Band of Horses. Click below for the details.
The influential three piece is supporting their new record Beyond, which was released this past spring via Oxford, MI blues label Fat Possum. SourceContinue reading Tours: Dinosaur Jr.→
Manchester Orchestra have announced a headlining tour this fall with support from The Annuals. The band is touring in support of the upcoming major label reissue of their debut, I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child.
Dante “I’m not inviting anyone from Punknews.org to my wedding” 3000 has done it again. “It” being an intensely long podcast at Sound Scene Revolution that features few real answers from the artist being interviewed. This time around the subject is Bomb The Music Industry! and they talk about “O’ Pioneers!!!, Asian Man Records, selling out, buying in, buying low and selling high and all the general things that have helped make Jeff the multimillionaire spokesman for DIY ska.”
There’s also a chance to win a copy of Bomb the Music Industry!’s Get Warmer on CD and limited edition picture disc.
It’s Sunday September 2nd, 2007. Well this is called Navel Gazing, so let’s talk Punknews. After literally years of debating the issue we finally took the plunge this weekend and disabled anonymous commenting. From here on, only registered users can post comments. You can find the 
