Split Fifty sign to Eulogy

Tannersville, Pennsylvania’s Split Fifty has signed to Eulogy Recordings. The band commented:

We had gotten an offer from Eulogy over a year ago but because of situations we were unable to accept the offer. The great news is after a six month vacation, some old contracts running out and John at Eulogy being a stand up business man, we made the choice. The new record, which is still untitled, will be a revisit to Split Fifty’s older heavier style while trying to keep with the pop/punk feel of our last record. Basically we want to kick your ass and make you feel pretty at the same time.

This fall the band will tour with the Ataris and later with Patent Pending.
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Project Aftermath Update Released

Updates to Project Aftermath have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Project Aftermath

  • Fixed possible bug for level 1 failing to complete if the player moved through the first bridge area too quickly
  • Fixed bug for level 1 failing to complete if the player didn’t capture the second obelisk

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October 5th, 2008

Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I’m Adam White and I’ll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here’s what got the strange, slow, old people in the community talking…

The People Must Have Something Good To Read On A Sunday
This week’s most popular stories

There are plenty of notable new records on the way this month, in particular the new full length from celebrated and innovative Toronto hardcore band Fucked Up. The band is celebrating the release of The Chemistry Of Common Life with a marathon 12-hour show for Tuesday. Popular post-hardcore act Thursday has a new home at Epitaph Records. The band is also headed out on tour with Rise Against and Sage Francis. Radio shock jock Howard Stern is planning to remake Rock’n’Roll High School, which famously featured the Ramones in it’s original incarnation. The mainstream media hit a few punk notes this week, with the Village Voice taking a look at Stza of Leftover Crack‘s “Donut Social” and the L.A. Times took a look at Rancid and pushed for an Operation Ivy reunion. More important than all that? Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols is in a new, epic, butter commercial.

On the new release front Fall Out Boy have detailed their new record Folie A Deux. Against Me! and the Offspring will have songs featured in the next Rock Band video game. Electronic artist Moby has also apparently formed a new punk band. Against Me!’s Tom Gabel posted two new videos supporting his solo recordings. You can check out “100 Years of War” and “Random Hearts” now. Drag The River also launched a new video for “Rangement.” Rise Against is streaming their new record Appeal to Reason and Paramore their new track “Decode.” Look for a tour soon featuring Suicidal Tendencies, Whole Wheat Bread and Madball.

We at the Org also think you should register to vote.

I Can’t Control My Fingers I Can’t Control My Brain
New feature content, weekly columns and exclusives

This week we spoke with Justin Sane of Anti-Flag (interview) and Brett Powell of the Human Abstract (interview) Our Video of the Week featured footage of Avail performing live at the Fest 6. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Swedish emotional hardcore band When We Fall, Stza’s new act the Star Fucking Hipsters, a full album stream from California’s Madison Bloodbath, North Carolina’s Auxes, which features Dave Laney of Challenger and Milemarker, and Poughkeepsie, New York’s Paper the Operator.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Fucked Up, Rised Against, These Arms Are Snakes and Jay Reatard and a live album from the Clash with tours kicking off from Comeback Kid / Bane / Misery Signals / Shai Hulud (Canada), The Casualties / Municipal Waste (US), Streetlight Manifesto / the Swellers / the AKAs (US) and Bayside / the Matches / Valencia (US).
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F*cked Up plan marathon 12-hour show for Tuesday

Toronto’s Fucked Up will be celebrating the release of their Matador Records debut, The Chemistry of Common Life, this Tuesday will a 12-hour marathon show.

On October 14th from 2pm until 2am, the band will be playing a twelve-hour show at the Rogan store at the corner of Bowery and Bond. Admission is free. All ages are welcome to attend, though the free alcohol will be limited to those 21 and over. Additionally, a free limited-edition 7″ of “Royal Swan” will be given away to the first batch of attendees, with a second allotment given away at a later time in the show to be announced.

Special guests will be joining the band on stage to help them through this marathon, including the Vivian Girls, John Joseph, Matt Sweeney, Chain Gang, Mobb Deep, Ryan Sawyer from Tall Firs, Jeff Jensen, David Cross, John Cale, K-Taro, Chris Doherty, E.K., DJ Chris, DJ Anarki, Michael Gira, members of the Australian Scapa Flow, Jeanne Bovet, Gods & Queens, Akon, The Edge, Ben Blackwell, Russell Simins, the Boogie and more.
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Pansy Division announce new album due in March, plan 7-inch single

Pansy Division have announced a new 7-inch single to precede their forthcoming album, That’s So Gay, which is due out in March of 2009. The single will feature “Average Men” and the b-side will be a cover of Green Day‘s “Coming Clean” and will include the b-side, “Average Men.” As for the full length, the band is promising 14 songs running 38 minutes.

The band is also working on a new DVD, which will feature a documentary and a live set culled from the best’s favorite recordings of live performances. You can find more of the band’s plans here.
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Against Me!, The Offspring songs to be featured in Rock Band

Against Me! and The Offspring are scheduled to be added to popular video game, Rock Band next week. Against Me! is contributing their single, “Stop!” while the Offspring will be adding “Gone Away,” “Pretty Fly for a White Guy” and “Self Esteem.”

Other additions include songs from Screaming Trees, Harvey Danger, George Thorogood and the Destroyers, Free and Static-X.
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Mike Park / Jesse Michaels / Kevin Seconds

Mike Park, Kevin Seconds and Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy/Common Rider will be hitting the road together in December and January to celebrate the launch of the Plea for Peace Foundation venue. Mike explained:

The Plea For Peace Foundation is officially opening their doors next year, but we will do a kickoff show/party on December 12th with myself and Jesse Michaels(OPERATION IVY) to introduce the venue to the world.

Speaking of Jesse Michaels, we are doing a few shows together at the end of the year and next year. He’s toured so little in the last 20 years, I am hoping we can do a bunch of shows together and get him out on the road.

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Sam Means (ex-Format) forms Destry with Michelle DaRosa (Straylight Run)

Sam Means, formerly of The Format has teamed up with Michelle DaRosa, formerly of Straylight Run, to form Destry.

Sam commented:

The last few months I’ve been recording music with Michelle DaRosa (Formerly of Straylight Run) for her new project, Destry. A handful of demos have been recorded, two of which are now streaming on her myspace page.

You can find some music on the Destry myspace page.
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The SmashUp: “El Paso” and “Epilogue”

The Smashup have posted two new songs from their forthcoming, as-yet untitled album. The new record will follow the band’s 2005 Warcon debut, Being and Becoming. The group is also planning to shoot a new video with director David Brodsky (Black Dhalia Murder, Red Chord, Gwar) in October.

You can find the songs on their myspace page.
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Friday, October 3 2008

We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

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