With Harvest of Hope just over a month away, we would like to spotlight some of the bands participating. We kick things off with an interview between our own Tyler Barrett and Greg Attonito of Bouncing Souls. While the band’s last full-length was 2006’s The Gold Record, they are two songs into their plan to release one new song every month during 2009. “Gasoline” was released on January 1, while “We All Sing Along” was made available yesterday.
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance) on comics on G4
Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance has hosted a segment of G4 Television’s Fresh Ink program and spent his time talking about some of his favorite comicbooks as well as the influence of critically acclaimed comic writer Grant Morrison.
Way, who writes The Umbrella Academy, when not performing with MCR, spoke highly of “The New Frontier” (DC Comics), “Kill Your Boyfriend” (Vertigo), “Zombie World: Champion of the World” (Dark Horse), “No. 5” (Viz Comics), and “The Biologic Show #0” (Fantagraphic Books).
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Ted Leo, Brian Fallon cover Bruce Springsteen and talk about it
Pitchfork is hosting some covers and interviews with Ted Leo of Ted Leo And The Pharmacists and Brian Fallon of Gaslight Anthem. Both artists discuss their relationship with Bruce Springsteen and provide live covers of their selected tracks. Leo tackled “Dancing in the Dark” while Fallon took on “Backstreets.”
Check out the videos and interviews here.
Springsteen himself released some new music just last week, in the form of 2009’s Working on a Dream.
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The Offspring: “Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?”
The Offspring are premiering the new video from their latest album. The record, Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace, was released in 2008. Holland explained the video:
A teenage boy suspects that a female classmate is being sexually abused, but his uncertainty leaves him feeling helpless. “We decided to have just me alone, not a full band performance, in the video so people would focus on the story,” frontman Dexter Holland tells Spinner. “This is a true story for a lot of people so I thought it was something worth talking about. There aren’t many songs dealing with something like this.”
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Kylesa / Skeletonwitch / Black Tusk
Kylesa will hit the road in March for a U.S. tour alongside Skeletonwitch and Black Tusk.
Vagrant signs HORSE the Band
Vagrant Records has signed Horse the Band. The band is currently writing for their fourth full length and will be recording in March for a summer release. Vocalist Nathan Winneke commented:
Finally we can breathe as humans breathe, walk as humans walk. “Vagrant Records has been home to so many of our favorite bands. Now (9, 8, and 7 years after I sent them our first, second, and third demos respectively) the label has renewed their holy vows to ‘excellence’ by signing us.
The band released A Natural Death in 2007.
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O Pioneers!!!: “Neon Creeps”
Our stream today comes from Spring, TX-based O Pioneers!!!. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Neon Creeps.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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TV On the Radio: “Heroes (David Bowie)”
TV On the Radio has recorded a cover of David Bowie’s classic, “Heroes.” The song comes from the 1977 album of the same name. The cover is a contribution to the forthcoming War Child: Heroes compilation. The set is due out February 16, 2009 and will also feature Hot Chip covering Joy Division, The Kooks covering The Kinks and Lily Allen tackling The Clash.
The concept of “Heroes” is that the biggest legends in music, including Sir Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Brian Wilson and The Clash, select one of the classic tracks from their own songwriting canon, and nominate an artist from the next generation to create a modern reworking of that classic song.
In related news, the band will be appearing on Saturday Night Live this Saturday (February 7, 2009).
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P.O.S.: “Never Better”
P.O.S. has released a stream of his forthcoming album. The record is titled Never Better and is due out February 3, 2009. Like previous albums, the record features some notable guests from across the punk and indie spectrum. Kid Dynamite/None More Black vocalist Jason Shevchuk and The Velvet Teen‘s Judah Nagler both contributed vocals.
The record is the follow-up to Audition which was released in 2006. That album included contributions from Craig Finn of The Hold Steady, Greg Attonito of Bouncing Souls and more.
Check out the stream here.
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Cursive set release date for “Mama, I’m Swollen”
Cursive have announced the details and release date for their forthcoming album. The record is titled Mama, I’m Swollen and is due out March 10, 2009.
The band notes that due to the extremely short turnaround between today and the release, vinyl will not be ready for a simultaneous release on March 10th. The band is promising “180 gram vinyl and cool deluxe packaging.” The album was also described like this:
Mama, I’m Swollen finds Kasher at his literate, lyrical best, where references to both Poe (“Going To Hell”) and Pinocchio (“Donkeys”) are intertwined seamlessly within his own tales of characters grappling with the moral quandary of being human, adult, and playing a role in ‘civilized’ society. Musically, Cursive is as smart and sophisticated as ever, the songs’ rousing, cerebral content complemented by moments alternately hushed and exhilarating (the cathartic “From The Hips,” the noisily melodic romp “I Couldn’t Love You”), eerily moody and jaunty (the almost prayer-like “Let Me Up,” “Mama, I’m Swollen”) – moments that often occur within the very same song.
From the charging bass lines of album opener “In The Now” to the quiet first chords of confessional closer “What Have I Done?”, Mama, I’m Swollen is a natural progression that remains distinctively Cursive: a fluid amalgamation of the band’s sound past, present, and future – a band that both your punk kid sister and English lit grad student best friend can call their own.
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Propagandhi: “Dear Coach’s Corner” (from BBC Radio 1)
In a world premier, Canadian heartthrobs Propagandhirolled out the track “Dear Coach’s Corner” on Radio 1’s Punk Show with Mike Davies on BBC Radio. This song will be on their upcoming record entitled Supporting Caste set for release on March 10, 2009.
It can be heard here
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Propagandhi: “Human(e) Meat” (from BBC Radio 1)
In a world premier, Canadian heartthrobs Propagandhirolled out the track ‘Human(e) Meat’ on Radio 1’s Punk Show with Mike Davies on BBC Radio. This song will be on their upcoming record entitled Supporting Caste set for release on March 10, 2009.
It can be heard here
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Bouncing Souls: “We All Sing Along”
Bouncing Souls have posted their new song for February as well as an update for the month:
Just got back from Sundance Film Festival, and 5 chilly-ass days in Minneapolis making a video. (and “seeing double at the Triple Rock” haha) No ordinary video mind you, as this is no ordinary year. Best way to describe it for now is, uh.. well it’s hard to describe, but it’ll be about a half hour long and will encompass (among a variety of other stuff) videos for two of our new songs. There’s a demented drug-addled host! An even more demented ventriloquist! A dancing robot! A juggler! Dancers! Pure cheese, and a comedy of errors in general! You’ll get too see us “acting”, dressed as sleazy big-label record exec’s in the opening scene.
As for the new song, it’s called “We All Sing Along” and it can be found here.
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