Posted by Jon E. on Wednesday 8th September, 2010Mike Patton’s orchestral Italian pop project Mondo Cane will make their debut live show at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco, CA on October 03rd.
Posted by Jon E. on Wednesday 1st September, 2010We\'ve been sent the unfortunate news that there will be no Harvest of Hope Fest in 2011. Here\'s an excerpt from the statement from the festival\'s organizers:
"Sadly, we are announcing that the 2011 Harvest of Hope Fest in St. Augustine, Florida has been officially canceled. Organizing the 2009 and 2010 Fests were enormous undertakings and at this time the Harvest of Hope Foundation and St. Johns County do not have the resources and time to put together a 2011 Fest.
On the positive side, as a result of the 2009 and 2010 Fests, the Foundation and other promoters have organized and continue to organize smaller musical benefits to raise needed funds for migrant farmworkers and their families. To all of you, our deep appreciation for sticking by the Harvest of Hope Foundation, attending our events, dedicating your musical craftmanship and talent, and staying true to those who harvest and produce our food.
Thank you for recognizing that Migrant Farmworkers earn our support!"
The festival, which was held near St. Augustine, FL in 2009 and 2010, was organized to raise funds and awareness for migrant farmworkers via the Harvest of Hope Foundation.
Posted by Jon E. on Wednesday 1st September, 2010Social Distortion have announced a rare acoustic performance on September 11, 2010 for Animal Acres, a animal sanctuary and compassionate living center just north of Los Angeles in Acton. The organization helps rescued cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, sheep, goats, and other "country critters and the event itself will be chaired by political humourist Bill Maher and also feature a number of famous faces. All proceeds from the Gala will benefit the organization\'s emergency rescue and shelter programs to provide feed, housing, and veterinary care for suffering farmed animals.
Posted by Jon E. on Tuesday 24th August, 2010The Weakerthans have announced four album-themed performances in their hometown of Winnipeg. The band noted:
We are excited to announce that we are playing 4 shows here in Winnipeg this coming December! Each night, we\'ll be playing at a different venue, performing a different record, plus other favourite songs. All told, we will be performing nearly all of our songs in 4 nights, don\'t miss out on these special shows!"
On December 15th through 18th the band will be performing Fallow, Left and Leaving, Reconstruction Site and Reunion Tour.
Details and venue information can be found here.
Posted by Jon E. on Tuesday 24th August, 2010Florida hardcore band Morning Again, inactive since 1999, will play a reunion show in December. The show will take place on Saturday, December 11th at Churchill\'s Pub in Miami, FL. The band line-up will reportedly consist of Kevin Byers on vocals, John Wylie and Steve Looker on guitar, Jerry Villarroel on bass, and Matt Thomas on drums. The following groups are scheduled to perform:
Morning Again
Kids Like Us
All Hell Breaks Loose
Remembering Never
Knock Em Dead
Homestretch
Harbinger
Posted by Jon E. on Saturday 14th August, 2010Kayo Dot have completed a new album by the name of “Stained Glass” and plan to perform it live at the Bowery Electric in New York City, NY on August 24th. More details on the album are expected in the coming weeks.
Posted by Jon E. on Thursday 12th August, 2010This year\'s FYF Fest will take place on Saturday, September 4th at the Los Angeles State Historic Park in Los Angeles, CA. Tickets are $25 in advance and the following acts are scheduled to perform:
The Rapture
Panda Bear
Sleep
Dead Man\'s Bones
Unbroken
!!!
Man Man
7 Seconds
Thee Oh Sees
The Mountain Goats
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Delorean
Cold Cave
Ariel Pink\'s Haunted Graffiti
Washed Out
Davila 666
School of Seven Bells
AA Bondy
The Blow
Best Coast
Wavves
Titus Andronicus
The Soft Pack
Abe Vigoda
Warpaint
Off!
Vetiver
Ceremony
Big Freedia
Screaming Females
Magic Kids
The Growlers
Lower Dens
Let\'s Wrestle
Cults
Posted by Jon E. on Thursday 5th August, 2010The line-up has been announced for the 5th annual Fun Fun Fun Fest, set to take place on November 5, 6, and 7 at Waterloo Park in Austin, TX. For the first time, a third evening was added to the event. Among the acts you might care about are Mastodon, High On Fire, Snapcase, Floor, Municipal Waste, Ringworm, and Junius.
Early Bird tickets are limited to 1,000 fans and on sale now at a 10% discount for 3 day passes. That includes the 2 day weekend pass and the Friday night kick off event. You can purchase tickets online at funfunfunfest.com.
Posted by Jon E. on Friday 30th July, 2010Long-running rockabilly/psychobilly act Reverend Horton Heat have announced plans to celebrate their 25th anniversary with a newly recorded live DVD. The band will be filming their August 12 show at the Fillmore in San Fransisco with opening acts Splitlip Rayfield and Hillstomp.
The band previously released the live DVD, Reverend Horton Heat: LIVE! and In Color in 2003 and their previous album, Laughin\' and Cryin\' with the Reverend Horton Heat in September of 2009.
Posted by Jon E. on Friday 30th July, 2010On September 25, Ruiner will be playing one of their final shows at the Party Xpo in Brooklyn, NY to raise money for the Jake Stults Foundation. Also scheduled to appear are Another Breath, Mayflower, Achilles and Such Gold.
Jake Stults played guitar for a number of NYC-area bands including De La Hoya, Dreams Forever Drowning, Rebel Alliance and In First Person before passing away in May at age 31 due to severe brain trauma sustained in a skateboarding accident. The benefit was set up to help his wife and family pay for the extensive medical bills and expenses as a result of his hospital stay prior to his death.
Posted by Jon E. on Thursday 29th July, 2010The Fest 9 website has launched with the full lineup thus far as well as the first availability of tickets. As rumoured, the lineup includes A Wilhelm Scream, Chris Wollard and The Ship Thieves, Frank Turner, Me First and The Gimme Gimmes, Planes Mistaken For Stars, The Arrivals, The Copyrights, The Menzingers, and many more.
Tickets are available here.
Band list after the jump:
Posted by Jon E. on Thursday 29th July, 2010Planes Mistaken For Stars have announced a one-off reunion show in Chicago. The band will be supported by Big Science and The Swan King. It all takes place at the Subterranean. No word on whether any more shows are to be expected other than The Fest.
Tickets are available here.
Posted by Jon E. on Tuesday 27th July, 2010Corrosion Of Conformity have booked more dates for their “Animosity“-era lineup shows with the latest schedule posted below. The group, who feature Woody Weatherman, Mike Dean and Reed Mullin, will have their new 7″ “Your Tomorrow (Parts 1 and 2)” available for purchase at all stops of the tour as well as online.
Posted by Jon E. on Monday 26th July, 2010This year\'s Sound and Fury Festival in Santa Barbara, California apparently ended in a bit of chaos yesterday as day three of the festival was shut down following a small riot.
What really happened isn\'t exactly clear, but according to Santa Barbara Sheriff\'s Department, a "large fight" erupted at roughly 6:20pm. Strangely, it seems that the ruckus was partially precipated by someone riding a motorcycle into the pit area of the Earl Warren Showgrounds during a set by New York hardcore band Backtrack.
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Officers ultimately shut the show down, preventing a handful of bands from taking the stage. Among those that did not get to perform were Earth Crisis, Bane, Bracewar, Foundation, and Defeater.
Several hundred festival attendees did eventually make their way to an impromptu house show in Oxnard, where Foundation, Bracewar, and others played. Unfortunately, that show was shut down by the Ventura County Sheriff\'s Department after neighbors reported noise and loitering. The host was later arrested for violating a noise ordinance.
Posted by Jon E. on Thursday 22nd July, 2010As some of you have noticed, Red Scare has combined its annual Red Oktoberfest label showcase with the recently announced Riot Fest 2010. Label czar Tobias Jeg explained:
First of all, this year we will be combining Red Oktoberfest with Chicago\'s Riot Fest. If ya can\'t beat \'em, join \'em, right? Here\'s what\'s up. First of all, the Riot Fest guys extended a very awesome and gracious invitation and those guys know how to run shit. All the people there and all the volunteers have been nothing short of super cool towards any of my friends and any of the bands I work with, so I\'m honored to be able to work with them this year. The other thing is that I am getting married at the same time that all this crap is going down. And of course, I can\'t just get married like a normal person. No, we decided to do something that is apparently unlawful. Not for some deep "corollary of love" bullshit, or some wild nonsense I came across in "I Wrote Her Name Upon The Strand". No, nothing like that. We\'re just doing it cuz we\'re stupid, so be sure to come visit us in jail.
To that end, the label has confirmed the following bands for their stage/showcase: Propagandhi, Cobra Skulls, The Copyrights, The Brokedowns, Vultures United and Brendan Kelly.
Toby also addressed the obvious question:
Did you say Propagandhi? They\'re not on Red Scare!" I know they\'re not on Red Scare, they\'re smarter than that! I\'ll tell you this much though: Propagandhi are in my opinion the most vital punk band of my generation and their music and words are what motivated me to do good things within underground music and start Red Scare. I can\'t think of a more perfect band to headline a Red Scare showcase and I ain\'t just sayin\' that because they agreed to play it (after a month of serious begging).
Posted by Jon E. on Monday 19th July, 2010With their next album set to drop September 28, 2010, Bad Religion have begun booking the promised US and Canadian headlining run beginning in October 2010. Only a handful of dates have been confirmed so far, but besides the band\'s Riot Fest appearance, the band has booked shows in Cleveland, Montreal and Boston with more to come.
The legendary band will release their 30th anniversary studio album, The Dissent of Man in September.
Posted by Jon E. on Monday 12th July, 2010Queens Of The Stone Age and the Eagles Of Death Metal have scheduled a Los Angeles, CA benefit show for Eagles Of Death Metal bassist Brian O’Connor. The show will take place at Club Nokia on August 12th. O’Connor is currently undergoing treatment for cancer with more info available at www.brianeodm.org.
Posted by Jon E. on Monday 12th July, 2010One Day As a Lion, the project from Zack de la Rocha (Rage Against The Machine) and drummer Jon Theodore (The Mars Volta), have announced their first ever US shows. The duo will be joined by Joey Karam (The Locust) on keyboard for shows in Pomona, CA on July 17 and in Los Angeles, CA on July 18 at undisclosed locations. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, July 14 at 12:00PM PT and will be available via Will Call only. All ticket holders will be emailed the venue information at 8:00AM PT day of the show.
Posted by Jon E. on Thursday 1st July, 2010The otherwise well-recieved Insubordination Fest became the source of conflict between attendees of the 12-hour festival and club owners who were apparently trying to sell high-priced bottles of water while denying any other sources. While venue owner Dan McIntosh said bartenders were "encouraged" to sell water, no one was supposed to be denied tap water if requested.
That account differs from the view of most attendees who said they were denied water. Jacob Bruce, named in the report said this:
A manager had instructed all the bartenders not to hand out free water. I asked him what I was supposed to do and he said he could sell me a bottle for three dollars. said "three dollars!?" and he suggested that I buy a bottle and refill it in the bathroom, which I did all night right up until the of the show. The only time that I couldn\'t was when the men\'s room was closed because all the toilets were backing up.
Fest co-founder Mark Enoch was quite upset with the problems and is looking for alternative locations for next year. He added:
It was hellish. I don\'t think I\'ll ever get some of the customers back because of the venue, and I don\'t blame them.
Other people weighed in on comments noting:
The owner is lying. I was there. At first they had jugs of water out on the bars as they have in previous years but they were removed. The club tried to jack up beer prices and it backfired on them. ($5 for a can of Boh or PBR was the cheapest option). When bar sales fell flat the club doubled down by locking everybody in and removing the free water. I asked for a glass of tap water and was denied. Several of my friends had the same experience. I was told I had to buy a bottle of water. Eventually the bartender relented and gave me a glass of ice, but would not fill it with water.
Check out the report via the Baltimore Sun.
Posted by Jon E. on Thursday 1st July, 2010Guided by Voices will be reunited for the upcoming 21st Anniversary Festival of uber-indie Matador Records. The beloved band will be performing during the festival alongside bands like Pavement, Sonic Youth, Spoon, Yo La Tengo, Cat Power, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The New Pornographers, Superchunk, Ted Leo And The Pharmacists, Fucked Up and many more.
It all goes down October 1st to 3rd in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Palms Casino & Resort In Las Vegas, NV
