It's Sunday May 28th, 2006. So I was enjoying the nice weather this weekend with some good ol mid-90s ska/punk and something struck me as odd. There's a lyric in "As Wicked" that goes "she said she never had a friend before / I said 'hey girl I'll be your friend but who's keepin' score'." I sat in the sun with my beer and pondered this bit of marble mouthed wisdom from my pal Tim, and it struck me: MySpace keeps score. That's who. I'm not sure why, but it bums me out.
Stories you were talking about this week
Gorilla Biscuits are reunited and ready to reclaim the road. The influential act announced dates supported by Comeback Kid this week. List making is pretty much the music nerd's favorite past time, but it's certainly odd to see the Clash and Sex Pistols appear on someone's list of the top conservative rock songs. While they announced details on their new EP, I'm willing to bet it's the new volly in their feud with Avenged Sevenfold that had you talking about the Dillinger Escape Plan this week. What a long, strange publicity campaign it's been, but PETA2's sexiest vegetarian competition has wrapped up and from its punk-heavy nominees Davey Havok is one of the winners. We got to hear new music this week from Rise Against, Bad Religion's Greg Graffin and the Bouncing Souls. This week also saw Avail hooking up with the upcoming Rancid tour, Propagandhi running for rights, and the now-usual amount of AFI pre-release details.
Also this week the music community said goodbye to legendary ska and reggae artist Desmond Dekker. Our condolences go out to his family, friends and fans.
Current contests Win a 60GB iPod, more from Taking Back Sunday / Angels and Airwaves Taking Back Sunday and Angels and Airwaves are heading out on tour this summer in support of their respective new albums. To celebrate the bands are giving away a 60 GB iPod, $200 in iTunes Gift Certificates and much more.
MONO Vinyl
Japan's MONO recently released their full length You Are There on Temporary Residence. We're giving a few lucky winners some rare vinyl versions of their album.
The Hope Conspiracy: Hang Your Cross
To celebrate the long-awaited return of the Hope Conspiracy, Punknews.org and Deathwish would like to give one lucky winner all four colour variations of the upcoming 7-inch from the band. The vinyl is extremely limited with only 500 copies of each color pressed.
Less Than Jake
Our contest with Less Than Jake may be the first we've ever thrown that includes explosive as a prize. The band's new record In With The Out Crowd streets on May 23rd.
Streams
We added two new streams this week, one for VCR's Power Destiny and another for Tragedy's Nerve Damage.
Diversions
So, if I didn't already make this clear we've got a heap of Punknews related content polluting the social networks of the internets. Waste some time on the Punknews.org or Punknews Records MySpace pages or contribute your listening stats to our Last.fm group.
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