Every Time I Die threw up one of the best records of their career with their Epitaph release, New Junk Aesthetic, and are now on the road through August playing every single U.S. city (except Moscow Idaho, where I live) and promise to blow you away.
Here’s the latest video that they released, followed by extended tourdates to get you hyped!
March 10 - Syracuse, NY - Lost Horizon (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 11 - Poughkeepsie, NY - The Chance (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 12 - Burlington, VT - Higher Ground (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 13 - Kinston, ON - Time To Laugh (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 14 - London, ON - Cowboys (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 15 - Kitchener, ON - Elements (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 16 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Intersection (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 17 - Iowa City, IA - Blue Moose (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 19 - Winnipeg, MB - The Garrick (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 20 - Regina, SK - Distrikt (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 21 - Calgary, AB - The Republik (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 22 - Edmonton, AB - The Starlite Room (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 24 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theatre (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 25 - Spokane, WA - The BLVD (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 26 - Boise, ID - The Venue (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 27 - Eugene, OR - WOW Hall (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 28 - Sacramento, CA - The Boardwalk (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 29 - Sparks, NV - New Oasis (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 30 - Las Vegas, NV - Area 702 Skatepark (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
March 31 - Tucson, AZ - The Rock (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
April 1 - Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theatre (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
April 2 - Lubbock, TX -Tequila Jungle (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
April 3 - Oklahoma City, OK - Diamond Ballroom (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
April 5 - Louisville, KY - Headliners (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
April 6 - Erie, PA - The Hangout (w/Four Year Strong, Polar Bear Club, Trapped Under Ice)
July 2 - Houston, TX - The Showgrounds (Warped Tour)
July 3 - Dallas, TX - Superpages.com Center (Warped Tour)
July 5 - St. Louis, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (Warped Tour)
July 6 - Indianapolis, IN - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre (Warped Tour)
July 7 - Burgettstown, PA - Post Gazette Pavillion (Warped Tour)
July 8 - Cleveland, OH - Time Warner Cable Amphitheatre (Warped Tour)
July 9 - Toronto, ON - Arrow Hall (Warped Tour)
July 10 - Montreal, QC - Parc Jean Drapeau (Warped Tour)
July 11 - Hartford, CT - Comcast Theater (Warped Tour)
July 13 - Mansfield, MA - Comcast Center (Warped Tour)
July 14 - Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake P.A.C. (Warped Tour)
July 15 - Scranton, PA - Toyota Pavilion (Warped Tour)
July 16 - Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center (Warped Tour)
July 17 - Uniondale, NY - Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum (Warped Tour)
July 18 - Oceanport, NJ - Monmouth Park Racetrack (Warped Tour)
July 20 - Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Warped Tour)
July 21 - Virginia Beach, VA - Virginia Beach Amphitheatre (Warped Tour)
July 22 - Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Charlotte (Warped Tour)
July 23 - St. Petersburg, FL - Vinoy Park (Warped Tour)
July 24 - West Palm Beach, FL - Cruzan Amphitheater (Warped Tour)
July 25 - Orlando, FL - Central Florida Fairgrounds (Warped Tour)
July 26 - Atlanta, GA - Lakewood Amphitheater (Warped Tour)
July 28 - Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center (Warped Tour)
July 29 - Milwaukee, WI - Marcus Amphitheater (Warped Tour)
July 30 - Detroit, MI - Comerica Park (Warped Tour)
July 31 - Tinley Park, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre (Warped Tour)
Aug 1 - Shakopee, MI - Canterbury Park (Warped Tour)
Aug 2 - Bonner Springs, KS - Sandstone Amphitheatre (Warped Tour)
Aug 5 - Calgary, AB - Race City Speedway (Warped Tour)
Aug 7 - Salt Lake City, UT - Utah State Fairgrounds (Warped Tour)
Aug 8 - Denver, CO - Invesco Field (Warped Tour)
Aug 11 - Pomona, CA - Pomona Fairplex (Warped Tour)
Aug 12 - Marysville, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheatre (Warped Tour)
Aug 13 - Nampa, ID - Idaho Center Amphitheatre (Warped Tour)
Aug 14 - George, WA - Gorge Amphitheater (Warped Tour)
Aug 15 - Hillsboro, OR - Washington County Fairgrounds (Warped Tour)
Ed Templeton and Transworld teamed up for this video featuring his latest art venture. He did a show in Culver City, California, my home town, and I don’t even live there any more. It saddens me a little.
Anyways, here is Ed Templeton and his artwork…don’t know Ed? He’s the guy behind Toy Machine skateboards.
Seth Grahame-Smith creates a lush landscape of fictional…or truthful writing. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is an amazing upcoming book, and to prove it, here’s a trailer! Man…this looks rad…
From the New York Times bestselling author of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES comes the true history of our sixteenth president - Seth Grahame-Smith’s ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER.
I spent several years in Seattle, and there I got to know many dj’s and hip hop music fans that made me a believer in hip hop and many other musical outputs by local Seattle artists and beyond. So when I heard that there was a mash up group consisting of Chad Blinman and Trevor Keith (Face to Face) I was thrilled.
Legion of Doom is the mash up group and they formulate a world of music that you probably wouldn’t expect. The music sonically sounds like your traditional mash up of sounds and noises that create layered hip hop sonic booms while lyrics are spoken, rapped, and sung over it.
I know, I’ve reduced this to the most bare of terms, but these guys put forward a good sense of sounds and you’ll be hard pressed to find other records with the same type of urgency that is presented here.
The downside to this record is the fact that it’s a record you have to here in its entirety. Picking and choosing tracks won’t give you that sense of musical genius that Legion of Doom brings out this time around.
Legion of Doom vs The Triune is a great record in terms of mash ups. You’ll like it, if you like that sort of thing, and if not, there’s always the old Face to Face records to keep you company.
Converge have announced a headlining spring tour in support of 2009’s critically heralded masterpiece, Axe To Fall. In a grand kick off, the band has invited Thursday to join them on the road for the first week of the tour. Converge will be joined by supporting acts Coalesce, Harvey Milk, Gaza, Touche Amore, Lewd Acts and Black Breath
Converge Tour Dates:
Apr 30 - Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero (w/Thursday, Touche Amore, Lewd Acts)
May 1 - Worcester, MA - The Palladium (w/Thursday, Touche Amore, Lewd Acts)
May 2 - Poughkeepsie, NY - The Chance (w/Thursday, Touche Amore, Lewd Acts)
May 3 - Williamsville, NY - Club Infinity (w/Thursday, Touche Amore, Lewd Acts)
May 4 - Washington, DC - Black Cat (w/Thursday, Touche Amore, Lewd Acts)
May 5 - Norfolk, VA - Norva (w/Thursday, Touche Amore, Lewd Acts)
May 6 - New York City - Santo’s Party House (w/Touche Amore, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 7 - Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop (w/Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 8 - Detroit, MI - Magic Stick (w/Coalesce, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 9 - Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge (w/Coalesce, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 10 - Lawrence, KS - Bottleneck (w/Coalesce, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 11 - Denver, CO - Marquis Theatre (w/Coalesce, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 13 - Seattle, WA - Nuemo’s (w/Coalesce, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 14 - Portland, OR - Satyricon (w/Coalesce, Gaza, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 15 - San Francisco, CA - Slim’s (w/Coalesce, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 16 - San Luis Obispo, CA - Downtown Brew (w/Coalesce, Gaza, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 17 - Anaheim, CA - Chain Reaction (w/Coalesce, Gaza, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 18 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre (w/Coalesce, Gaza, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 19 - Phoenix, AZ - The Clubhouse Music Venue (w/Coalesce, Gaza, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 21 - Austin, TX - Emo’s Outside (w/Coalesce, Gaza, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 22 - Dallas, TX - Trees (w/Coalesce, Gaza, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 23 - Tulsa, OK - The Marquee (w/Gaza, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 25 - Memphis, TN - Hi Tone Café (w/Gaza, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 26 - Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall (w/Gaza, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 27 - Nashville, TN - Exit/In (w/Harvey Milk, Gaza, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 28 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade (w/Harvey Milk, Gaza, Lewd Acts, Black Breath)
May 20 - Baltimore, MD - Sonar (w/TBA)
If you haven’t picked up the new Converge, you have to check it out, it’s an instant classic.
Bodyjar is one of the bands that people either loved or never heard of. Much like many pop-punk bands before the 1994 explosion of the genre, Bodyjar hit and missed in many different points. However, in the year that saw bands like Greenday, The offspring, and Blink 182 hit big with their records, Bodyjar released one hell of an album of punk rock and pop sensiblity that still has great riffs, fast drumming and quality sing along parts.
Rimshot! came out in 1996 via Revelation Records and made quite a noise for the time. The album got them tours with Nofx, Face to Face and others, and were on their way to making some big moves. It wasn’t until 2000 that they signed with EMI, but they were well on their way with this record.
Rimshot! found its way into my collection via a small record store in Seattle, Washington. The cd was 99 cents and the store clerk wouldn’t sell me a copy of Down By Law’s “Last of the Sharpshooters”. So I ended up getting this one instead and it was well worth it. Bodyjar plays a fast paced punk rock with lots of guitar riffs, that are somewhat rough. While the recording is polished, the style is more aggressive than many other bands that came out in the same year. The sing-a-longs are there, the lyrics are interesting, but it lacks that “it” factor that made their peers rich and famous.
Bodyjar’s 1996 release Rimshot! is one of the better underground punk records I’ve heard in a long time. It is pop punk without whining, but raw, full of energy and classic songs. You won’t get most of these songs stuck in your head, but it’s still a great example of good, quality, new school punk. Check it out today, and support underground punk rock.
When I was in 10th grade this girl named Rachel Peterson said that Quiz Show was a really good movie. So I hated the thought of having to ever watch Quiz Show on dvd because of her.
You see, I didn’t like her snooty, stupid, rich attitude. In fact, I hated 10th grade because I was in a class of all girls and they were all rich white girls that didn’t find me attractive nor spent one second to say hello to me or have a conversation. Those girls turned out to be semi-hot women, and I don’t ever regret not being attracted to them, even though I might have been a little jealous of this one idiot that had them eating out of his hand. Sometimes quite literally, and a few on their knees…eating…nevermind. I eventually got around to watching this film, and thought it wasn’t half bad.
Anyways, in 1994 a movie came out directed by Robert Redford and it was a knockout in many ways. John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, and Paul Scofield played up interesting roles based on the 1950’s quiz show circuit. The tv game scandals that made headlines back then are somewhat boring to read, but made alive in this carefully paced film. The look and feel of the 1950’s really shines through in this film and Robert Redford really captured the nuances of the era.
The movie was “mostly true” and really makes me wonder if anything in life is really what it seems. Maybe Mick Foley was right when he said, “the real world is faker than wrestling”.
