Label: Hellcat Records Released: July 8, 2008 State of Grace is an album of roots: family roots, community roots, ethnic roots…and musical roots. Don’t confuse that with being about the past though. The album doesn’t break out on any new musical paths, but it is every bit about the present and future as it is about the past. That’s quite… Read more »
Label: Flicker Records Released: May 15, 2007 When a band merges punk and Irish folk, the first influence that comes to mind is the Pogues, but Shane McGowan and company were more a folk band with punk attitude. The real origin of the more punk-leaning mixture is the Stiff Little Fingers. While the bands today tend to wear their Irish… Read more »
Head over to Vinyl Collective for the presale for the VINYL version of ALL ABOARD: A TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH! This will be the ONLY PLACE to pick up ALL FOUR COLORS in a COMPLETE SET. Here is the color breakdown 100 on black100 on pink300 half/half pink and black (VINYL COLLECTIVE EXCLUSIVE)500 pink w/black splatter Black is only available… Read more »
Something tells me it’s no accident that they got the guys from the “Rock the Casbah” video…
The Clash are at the top of the list of bands I’d wish I’d seen, so needless to say, I’m excited about this one! The only band that matters!
Label: MVD Released: July 8, 2008 Most documentaries are just visual histories of a band or a scene. The trouble is that they take a scientific approach with a hypothesis that they attempt to prove over the course of the film. But punk is a human story and one that, at its best, has dictated its own future. Punk’s Not… Read more »
LOOK MEXICO – Fall Tour Update / New Digital EP ——————————————————- * U.S. Tour begins today * Shows with Fake Problems, Cobra Skulls, Bear Colony, The Winter Sounds * For song EP, Gasp Asp, now available digitally——————————————————- Look Mexico (Tallahassee, FL) hits the road today for a month-long tour of the U.S. The band’s newly converted veggie oil-powered bus will… Read more »
This is a long time ago, but it still makes me think an interview with Rollins wouldn’t be a walk in the park.
I missed Bedouin Soundclash to see these guys! Here’s Broadway Calls at the Warped Tour, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD on 7/16/2008. See all of my coverage from the Warped Tour in Columbia, MD on July 16, 2008 here.
When you go to a fest like the Warped Tour, there’s so many bands that you have to make choices, but the Gaslight Anthem made it easy, because there wasn’t anything that could trump catching their set. After a listen to their upcoming album, The ’59 Sound, I had high expectations and the band met them. I had a chance… Read more »