On May 15 Laura Jane Grace and The Mississippi Medicals played The Axis Club in Toronto, Ontario. Pigeon Pit and Black Guy Fawkes opened the show. Our photographer Stephen McGill was there to capture all the action. Check out his photos below.
The Ergs, Boris the Sprinkler, and Egghead are ganging up for a short run of shows. In July, the crew will be running down the East Coast for four shows. You can see the dates below.
Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza is a three-part documentary about the historic music festival. The series includes interviews with founder Perry Farrell of Janes Addiction and Porno for Pyros, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Ice-T, Metallica and more. That's out May 21 via Paramount Plus. You can see the trailer below.
GWAR has re-released their first album, Hell-O. The new version is out via the band directly and includes remastered sound as well as expanded art, which includes archival photos and drawings. The release is on Vinyl, CD, and digital format. This is the first proper re-release of the album since its 1988 issue (aside from a few CD repressings of the original material in the early 90s.)
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Furnace Fest has added more bands to its lineup for this year. Bane, 156/Silence, Bury Your Dead, Free Throw, Full of Hell, Glitterer, Michael Cera Palin, Oso Oso, Penny Circus, Slow Joy, Saturdays at Your Place, Tiny Moving Parts, Be Well, Catch 22, The Fall of Troy, Five Iron Frenzy, Hail the Sun, Idle Threat, L.S. Dunes, Misery Signals, My Epic, Noise Ratchet Silent Drive, Slick Shoes, Valley of Doves, Norma Jean, All In, The Beautiful Mistake, Codeseven, Eighteen Visions, Ends of Sanity, The Early November, H20, The Juliana Theory, Not Waving But Drowning, One Step Closer, P.O.D., Reggie and the Full Effect, and Static Dress will be playing the festival. These bands join the previously announced lineup that includes August Burns Red, Coheed and Cambria, Underoath, Anxious, Better Lovers, Comeback Kid, Dying Wish, Fiddlehead, Coalesce, No Pressure, and Saosin. This year’s festival is billed as “the end of an era” and will take place on October 4-6 at Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama.
For a few years now, Green Day have been releasing coffee (and a few limited records) through Oakland Coffee Company. Today, they announced their new lines of brew and associated brand, Punk Bunny Coffee. Along with that, Green Day/Oakland Coffee have partnered with coffee manufacturer Keuric to release coffee pods. As per a press release:"Today, Punk Bunny Coffee also announced a new partnership with Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) to join the Keurig K-Cup® Pod System, making Punk Bunny Coffee available to more than 40 million U.S. households with a Keurig brewer. As part of the band and KDP’s shared commitment to sustainability, Punk Bunny K-Cup pods will be the first to launch the full flavor portfolio - Father of All…Dark Roasts, Soundcheck, Last Ride In and Light Club - with easy-peel lids to prepare pods for recycling."
Ben Yoder, Vice President of Coffee Partners, Keurig Dr Pepper, adds “Green Day brings the same legendary passion they bring to their music to their work creating distinctive Fair Trade Certified coffee built on community from source to cup."
The press release also explains how the new Green Day… project… came to be: "Bringing Adam Devine, Rachael Ray and other friends as investors, [Green Day] tapped consumer packaging goods experts Richard and Paul Smucker Wagstaff as investors, advisors and board members. In the fall of 2023, the guys landed on their iconic Bunny as the face of the brand and Punk Bunny Coffee was born. Oakland Coffee products were manufactured by a third-party Bay Area-based roaster, but Mike, Billie Joe, and Tre wanted to have more control over their roasts. After a search spearheaded by Embassy Park Advisors, Oakland Coffee merged with Caruso Foods, an Ohio-based premier specialty family-run coffee roaster."
Paul Smucker Wagstaff, former President of Smucker and 5th Generation Smucker family member also weighed in: “The combination of our CPG Food expertise, the Caruso platform and Green Day’s ability to promote products and make connections in the entertainment industry has the company positioned to grow meaningfully over the next several years. We expect to pursue joint ventures and acquisitions as we venture into new product categories. We believe by bringing incredible fair trade organic coffee and the connectivity of the music industry we can be the coffee for music lovers everywhere.”
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Swami and the Bed of Nails, the band made up of Swami John Reis (Rocket From the Crypt, Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu), Jason Koukounis (Hot Snakes, Night Marchers), Richard Larson, Tommy Kitsos (Night Marchers), and Mark Murino (Dirty Sweet), have announced that they will be releasing their debut album. It is called All Of This Awaits You and will be out on August 2 via Swami Records/BMG. The band has also released a video for their new song featuring vocals by Rob Crow and Richard Larson, “Privacy” which was directed by David Da Cruz. Check out the video and tracklist below.
We are just days away from the release of The Anti-Queens’ excellent second album Disenchanted. The Toronto-based punk rockers are at the top of their game as they kick out thirteen tracks that capture their incomparable energy. They open the discussion around the systemic oppression of Indigenous people in Canada, talk about the bittersweet nature of love, tackle toxic relationships, and celebrate badass women with powerful lyrics and infectious harmonies that will have you singing along in no time at all. Disenchanted will be out everywhere on May 17 via Stomp Records. The Anti-Queens will be playing Pouzza Fest on Friday, May 17, and will be touring around Canada this summer.
Punknews editor Em Moore caught up with vocalist and guitarist Emily Bones and guitarist and vocalist Valerie Knox to talk about the new album, the importance of teaching Indigenous history and supporting Indigenous communities, playing Pouzza Fest, tattoos, and so much more. Read the interview below!
This interview between Em Moore, Emily Bones, and Valerie Knox took place over Zoom on April 26, 2024. This transcription documents their conversation and has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
DFL have released a new track. It is called “Fuck It” and is out now via SBAM Records. The song is “age-restricted” on YouTube because it has a swear word in the title and there is a middle finger present in the single artwork. The band will be touring Europe this summer. DFL reissued My Crazy Life in 2023 and released their YRUDFL [EP] in 2021. Check out the song below.
New York-based rockers Family Dinner have announced that they will be releasing their debut album. It is called God Looks Out For Fools and will be out on August 16 via Other People Records. The band has also released a video for their new song “Helianthus” which was directed by Anthony Altamura. Family Dinner will be playing Pouzza Fest on May 19 in Montreal and have a handful of North American dates supporting Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes. The band released a handful of singles in 2023 and their EP You’re So Cool in 2021. Check out the video, tracklist, and dates below.
Sludgeworth have released a video for their new song “Together Not Together”. The song is off their upcoming 7-inch which will also include their song “Foundation” and will be out on May 17 via Red Scare. Check out the video below.
Kathleen Hanna has been featured on Amoeba Records’ ‘What’s In My Bag?’ video series. Kathleen Hanna released her memoir Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk yesterday and is currently on tour in the US to promote the book. Check out the video below.
Okay… we've got a weird one for you today!
Lumberob is one weird dude.He makes psychedelic, dark, trippy music that sounds like it is out of an acid-bathed '60s cartoon. Have you ever said to yourself, "what if the Flaming Lips were more evil sounding and they were mixed with the Residents and Their Satanic Majesty's Request? Well, that's the freaked out "My Goth Acquaintance." It's kind of scary and it rules.
Speaking to Punknews, Lumberob says "It’s a punk thing if it’s an urgent thing — there must be some risk that things will break. Every time I step up to play, I think of that: how can I properly break something such that it’s being rebuilt is absolutely dazzling. Like Townes says, “there ain’t no dark till something shines.”
Lumberob's new album, Hunter Gatherer is out July 12 via the famed Shimmy Disc label. You can pick that up here and you can see the freaky video for "My goth acquaintance" below, right now!
Sprints have released their live session for KEXP. The band played “Heavy”, “Cathedral”, “Up and Comer”, and “Literary Mind” from their album Letter To Self which was released earlier this year. Sprints will be playing a handful of UK shows with IDLES this summer and will be playing Glastonbury in June. Check out the video below.
Static Dress have released a video for their new song “Crying”. The video was directed by the band and co-directed and produced by Zak Minchin and Murry Deaves. The song appears to be a standalone single and is out now via Roadrunner Records. Static Dress will be touring North America with Underoath this fall and released their album Rouge Carpet Disaster in 2022. Check out the video below.
Rise Against have announced North American tour dates for this fall. Tickets go on sale on May 17. Rise Against released their album Nowhere Generation in 2021. Check out the dates below.