April Fools folks. Once again we joined everyone else online who thinks their clever and fabricated a handful of really obvious lies to tell you this morning. So everything from around 8 am EST until noon was completely bogus. We decided not to pull back the curtain until now for the sake of our time–zonally challenged friends on the west coast. Everything posted from noon forward today is legit, Specials reunion included.
A big thank you goes to the Gaslight Anthem, Cancer Bats and Fake Problems for playing along. Thanks in advance to Dillinger Four, Anti–Flag and the Boss for not getting angry. The bands in this mornings New Music Roundup, however, can go fuck themselves.
Past Fools:
2008 - Dillinger Four (finally) outline details for "C I V I L W A R"
2008 - Fake Problems run into Real Problems on Anti-Flag tour
2008 - The Gaslight Anthem to tour as backing band for Bruce Springsteen
2008 - Cancer Bats pressured to change name, conducting poll
2008 - New Music Roundup: Boiling? Blood!, Beard Goggles, Catapult City
2007 - Punknews and Subway launch "Break Up? Eat Fresh!"
2006 - Confusing meta "the joke is that there was no joke but we'll say there was" joke
2005 - Horse The Band signs to East/West
2004 - Tim Armstrong co-writes new Avril Lavigne album
2003 - Fat Mike joins the Foo Fighers
2002 - Columbia Records buys Punknews.org
2001 - Sony buys Epitaph
2000 - We actually didn't post any stories at all, news or otherwise. (That happened a lot back in the early days. I guess it's funny.)