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| Silver SprocketRecent NewsPillowfights: "Round 1" Our stream today comes from San Jose, CA-based pop-punk outfit Pillowfights. We've got a stream of the band's new full length, Round 1.You can check it out on their Punknews.org…Silver Sprocket details new EP from Vic Ruggiero of The Slackers, Filth re-issue The Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club has released a new 7" EP from Vic Ruggiero, front-man of The Slackers, entitled On The Rag Time. The four-song EP is described as a rag-time piano record with all original songs, and featuring Jimmy Boom of The Phenomenauts on drums. The EP has a limited pressing of 500 on red and purple wax. Silver Sprocket will be releasing a full-length follow-up album by Ruggiero this summer. Silver Sprocket has also re-issued…Greg Attonito / Vic Ruggiero (East Coast) Greg Attonito of Bouncing Souls and Vic Ruggiero of The Slackers have announced a short acoustic tour together on the East…The Phenomenauts anounce member-change, tour dates with Peelander-Z The Phenomenauts have announced a line-up change along with west-coast tour dates with Peelander-Z, The Punk Group, and Maldroid. "JoeBot 2.0" and "Captain Chreehos" are being replaced by "Leftenant AR-7" on guitar and vocals and human "Chief Nick Wayzar" on the stand up…Thorns of Life talks self-released album, colloquialisms The Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club posted an interview with Blake Schwarzenbach of Thorns Of Life (previously of Jawbreaker and Jets To Brazil), where Blake discusses topics such as house shows, the band's upcoming release plans, cocaine addicted indy rockers running the English language, and drunken bike riding. Noteworthy is that the band plans to self-release an album in the near future, and that Blake has to put a dollar into a "cuss jar" every time he says the word…Silver Sprocket plans Ashtray, Hard Girls and The Albert Square The Springman Records posse has announced two new releases this month from their Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club moniker. The first is an untitled full-length split CD between San Jose, CA, bands The Albert Square and Hard Girls, the latter featuring members of Shinobu and Pteradon (Asian Man Records). Both bands cite Neutral Milk Hotel and The Weakerthans as influences,…Ashtray releases "Operation Ivy" covers record Santa Rosa, CA's Ashtray have planned a special live album titled Operation Ashtray. The disc will feature an entire set of Operation Ivy covers recorded at Danny from The Secretions' "Lame Ass Birthday Bash." The entire event was a benefit for The American Cancer Society. The band's label, Silver Sprocket, had the show professionally recorded, and have just released a live album of their entire…The Secretions: "That Kind Of Girl" Sacramento California's Secretions have debuted their latest video for the track That Kind Of Girl, based on classic footage from The Ed Sullivan Show. Directed by Aaron M. Lane, the video features members Danny Secretion and Paul Filthy playing multiple roles, oftentimes in the same shots. The song is from the band's latest album, Faster Than The Speed Of Drunk, released last year on Silver…The Phenomenauts plan "Large Hadron Collider" tour The Phenomenauts have announced the "Large Hadron Collider" tour which will also feature members of the Epoxies, The Slackers, Groovie Ghoulies and the River City Rebels. NASA's favourite new/wave punk band are headlining the tour to celebrate the upcoming launch of the Large Hadron Collider, a massive collider which aims to discover…The Phenomenauts: "Infinite Frontier" The Phenomenauts have launched their new video, "Infinite Frontier." The video was created with Emmy-Award winning animation writer Rich Fogel (Justice League, Batman Beyond, Transformers: Animated) and animator Erica Henderson (Venture Brothers / Astrobase Go). The song “Infinite Frontier” was recently played aboard the International Space Station as the first "wake up call" of NASA’s STS-124 mission. Speaking of… |
