Hometown Throwdown 12 announced

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have announced Hometown Throwdown #12, their annual series of Holiday shows in Boston, MA. The band is promising shows on December 26, 27, & 28 at the House of Blues in Boston, MA. Tickets are $25 and went on sale this weekend at the Orpheum Theater Box Office (One Hamilton Place, Boston) and through Ticketmaster.

While a full lineup has not yet been announced, Darkbuster has revealed their involvement and Bosstones note:

This year’s Throwdown is shaping up to be something special as we’ll be joined by past Throwdown heroes and hometown zeros alike.

The Bosstones will release Pin Points and Gin Joints and is due out November 30, 2009.
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Propagandhi working on next album

In a recent interview, Propagandhi bassist Todd Kowalski said that they were working on some new songs for their follow up to 2009’s Supporting Caste:

We’ve got twelve songs, pieces of twelve songs going already; like pretty far into them.

He also talked about some hopes for future touring destinations in support of Supporting Caste:

We might go to China, we’re not sure yet. We’ve been wanting to go to Mexico, China, South Africa and Eastern Europe – like Croatia and those places.

Check out the interview here.
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Riverdales to release new album on Recess

Ben Weasel has posted an update on plans for the next album from Riverdales. According to his blog:

We’re doing our final demos next week and recording the album in December for Recess Records. We’ll be heading down the home stretch on the mix by the time of the 1/23 show so we’ll probably play a couple of the new tunes.

As reported earlier, Dan Vapid has resumed bass duties and Simon Lamb is now a full fledged member of the band and second guitarist.
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Krist Novoselic talks to Dale Crover, Chad Channing

With new releases from Nirvana coming out this week, the only living member who participated both in Bleach and Live and Reading has been doing some interviews but as both interviewer and subject. In Seattle Weekly, bassist Krist Novoselic spoke to Dale Crover of Melvins who recorded the first demos for Bleach before Chad Channing recorded the drum tracks which finally appeared on the record.

Krist and Dale talk here and Krist and Chad’s conversation is here.
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Members of Taking Back Sunday, Hot Rod Circuit form Initials

Fred Mascherino (Taking Back Sunday, The Color Fred) and Andy Jackson (Hot Rod Circuit, Death in the Park) have started a new band called Initials. The band came into existence when Mascherino decided he wanted to do a full-band again as opposed to his current solo endeavour in The Color Fred.

Mascherino made the following statement in an AP interview:

We’re just working on those one-by-one and trying to get the record done and out. If we can do a tour before then, we’re going to. We’ve already gotten offers, but we’re looking to go out and open for one of our friends just to get the word out. I’d say we won’t have a record until Spring.”

The band currently has several shows booked, and a demo song on their MySpace.
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Weezer on Yo Gabba Gabba, duet with Gossip Girl, live on Letterman

A handful of visual Weezer updates today. First, the band will be appearing in bug-styled regalia on the beloved children’s program, Yo Gabba Gabba. The show is a project co-developed by Aquabats‘ MC Bat Commander and you can see the performance here.

The band also recently performed their single, “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To” with Gossip Girl star, Leighton Meester. Meester previously collaborated with Cobra Starship. Video of that performance is on YouTube.

Finally, the band hit the Late Show with David Letterman to perform their song, “I’m Your Daddy,” while decked out in full snuggies. Check that one out here.
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Off With Their Heads, Small Brown Bike, Anti-Flag, Dead to Me at Harvest of Hope 2010

The first batch of bands have been confirmed for the 2010 Harvest of Hope Festival. Set to take place March 12th, 13th and 14th at St.Johns County Fairgrounds in St.Augustine, FL, the event will benefit and raise awareness for the Harvest of Hope Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides financial, educational, and medical aid to migrant farmworkers all over the country.

The current lineup includes A Death In The Family, American Cheeseburger, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Anti-Flag, Asshole Parade, Capsule, Cobra Skulls, Dead To Me, Fin Fang Foom, Holopaw, The Itchy Hearts, Leatherface, Lemuria, Mercury Program, Off With Their Heads, Dan Padilla, The Riot Before, Shellshag, Small Brown Bike, Tiltwheel, Torche and Worn In Red.

The organizers promise that more than 100 bands will be performing over the three days.
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Shook Ones post video teaser for “Silverfish”

Bellingham, WA’s Shook Ones have posted a teaser for their new upcoming video for “Silverfish,” a track off their latest album, The Unquotable A.M.H..

The teaser can be viewed here, and depicts slow-motion snippets of the video set to the mellow, baby-makin’ grooves of Barry White’s “I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby.” The submitter adds: “I wish I was kidding.”
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