It's Sunday September 3rd, 2006. So tomorrow's labour day (or "labor day" if you're south of the 49th and hate the Queen) and that means many of you are soon headed back to school. I can't say I miss it much, but soon enough you'll also learn freedom from the cyclical schedule of student life. The rest of us have the luxury of rocketing forward towards the grave completely unabated. It's awesome. You'll see.
The people must have something good to read on a Sunday Rancid remains atop the newsmakers chart this week. The band's world tour took a hit as guitarist Lars Frederiksen collapsed on stage in Montreal suffering an apparent seizure. Also this week frontman Tim Armstrong launched the first song from his free online solo album to the delight of fans. The Alkaline Trio, who we suspect will be back on this chart in a week or so, released details on an upcoming rarities compilation. Green Day meanwhile is back in the studio working on the follow up to their wildly successful American Idiot. In an odd move a new covers soundtrack for the old Tim Burton movie Nightmare Before Christmas was announced. It will feature popular acts like Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco. Of course the periodic PETA2 publicity stunt is always good for stirring up an argument, particularly when names like Rise Against, Propagandhi and NOFX are involved. Speaking of Propagandhi, they announced that they'd soon tour eastern Canada and the UK (of course, this was just an announcement that tour dates would be announced later… Propagandhi does everything in about 8 more steps than other bands). On the new music front we heard three new songs from the Falcon's Unicornography as well as hotly anticipated new music from Plus 44. Finally this week saw bands like the Misfits, Adicts and UK Subs drop off the pending Riot Fest.
This week Punknews spoke with Chuck Ragan, solo artist and of course member of the sadly shelved Hot Water Music (interview). We also had a chance to chat with Billy Werner of Hot Cross (interview) and Chris Owens of Lords (interview). Our Video Of The Week featured footage of Grey Area live at CBGB in New York.
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Suntans are for Winners Little Steven's Underground Garage - Rolling Rock and Roll Show Little Steven's Underground Garage is throwing a travelling festival this September dubbed the Rolling Rock and Roll Show. The event will feature Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent of pioneering of 60's British Invasion / psychadelia act the Zombies, modern garage rockers the Mooney Suzuki and the Woggles on all dates. We're giving away two pairs of tickets to the Wednesday, September 6th show at the Avalon in Hollywood, CA. There you'll be able to check out the Zombies, Phantom Planet, the Mooney Suzuki, the Woggles and the Holograms.CONTEST ENDS TONIGHT! ENTER NOW! Much The Same contest Much The Same are gearing up for the release of their Nitro debut Survive. To celebrate, the boys have given us some swag to give away. Gunner and the fellows have ponied up a copy of Survive, a poster, 2 stickers and pins and a T-shirt of their choice. Oh, and just in case you're not sure of what to expect from Survive, they've offered up a collection of 10, count 'em ten!, albums that they've been listening to over the past few months. They've included albums from Anti-Flag, Rise Against, A Wilhelm Scream and Ryan's Hope to sweeten the pot.
New Found Glory (Guitar) New Found Glory are set to release their fifth studio album, Coming Home September 19, 2006 on Geffen Records. To commemorate it's release, New Found Glory and Punknews.org have teamed up to bring you a chance to a brand new autographed Fender Squier Stratocaster guitar or an autographed Coming Home poster.
Win an iPod Nano from The Distance The Distance will be soon hitting the road for a tour with Set Your Goals and No Trigger in support of their new record, The Rise, the Fall, and Everything in Between. To celebrate this perfect pairing of melodic hardcore acts, the band is offering one lucky Punknews.org reader an iPod Nano which is all the rage these days and functions using a combination of wind power and ancient voodoo magic.
Against Me!!! Americans Abroad!!! Live in London!!! Contest!!! Against Me! recently released their first live album, the title of which contained an obscene amount of exclamation points. To celebrate and share the love the band and their kind-of-former label Fat Wreck are giving away some copies of the album to some lucky fans. One winner will win a signed copy of Against Me!!! Americans Abroad!!! Live in London!!! along with a poster. Five runners-up will receive an unsigned copy of the album along with a poster and a patch.
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