ANTI recording artist William Elliott Whitmore performs four songs on the new Daytrotter session, including a cover of Bad Religion’s “Don’t Prey on Me.” Check it out here.
The LA Rock Awards presented by 98.7 FM are now open for voting and Rancid and Escape the Fate have both been nominated!
Rancid has been nominated for the "Let's Grab a Beer (or Coffee)... Band You'd Most Want To Hang Out With" award, while Escape the Fate is up for the "Most likely to go to the ER during a concert... Best Hardcore Performer" award!
Listen to Rancid’s new album, Let The Dominoes Fall, in its entirety and uninterrupted at www.epitaph.com, www.hell-cat.com, www.rancidrancid.com and www.machetemfg.com.
Click Here to print a coupon for a FREE Rancid collectors patch from Hot Topic and MySpace. Just bring the coupon into Hot Topic and claim your prize starting June 2nd (no purchase necessary, while supplies last).
Get Let The Dominoes Fall and a Rancid t-shirt at Hot Topic for $20!
The BlackoutThe Best In Town is now available online! You can download the album from your favorite digital music store, including iTunes, Amazon MP3 and LaLa!
The Best In Town available online now and in stores everywhere June 9th!
Here’s your chance to hear Rancid’s Let The Dominoes Fall in it’s entirety before it hits stores on June 2nd. Head to the band’s MySpace and enjoy. It’s been a long time coming and the album sounds great.
Pandora cut together a 3 part interview with Bad Religion recently. Check out the final one in the series here.
In our final interview segment, Graffin, Gurewitz, Wackerman and Bentley from Bad Religion talk about politics, and shed some light on their illustrious and varied 30-year career. Here is Bad Religion’s artist page on Pandora.
If you missed parts 1 and 2, check them out here: Part 1 | Part 2
Already stoked beyond belief for the Set Your Goals/Four Year Strong co-headlining tour this summer? Well get even more stoked because pre-sale for this amazing summer shred-fest is available starting today at 3pm local time! Check it out HERE and not only can you secure your ticket for the show of a lifetime in advance, but you can do it for cheaper than the regular price! That's right, if you want to celebrate summer with Set Your Goals, Four Year Strong, Fireworks, Polar Bear Club, The Swellers, Grave Maker, Drive A and A Loss For Words but don't want to break the bank, check out the pre-sale which will actually save you some sweet moolah.
Check out all the dates here and get pumped for "Gig Life!"
At Home We Are Tourists, the debut album from Settle, is in stores today. You can download this incredible record from iTunes or Amazon MP3 and get the physical CD from Amazon.
Set Your Goals and Four Year Strong are hitting the road this summer. On July 21st, SYG's Epitaph debut, This Will Be The Death Of Us drops followed by a full US Tour! Check out the dates below!
Jul-15 Iowa City, IA Picador Jul-16 Chicago, IL Metro Jul-17 Detroit, MI Magic Stick Jul-18 Toronto, ON Reverb Jul-19 Montreal, QC The Underworld Jul-20 Portland, ME The Station Jul-22 Albany, NY Northern Lights Jul-23 Asbury Park, NJ Stone Pony Jul-24 New Haven, CT Toad's Place Jul-25 Worcester, MA Palladium Jul-26 Long Island, NY Crazy Donkey Jul-27 Buffalo, NY Town Ballroom Jul-28 Cleveland, OH Peabody's Jul-29 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls Jul-30 Baltimore, MD The Ottobar Jul-31 Richmond, VA The Canal Club Aug-01 Columbia, SC New Brookland Tavern Aug-02 Charlotte, NC Visulite Theatre Aug-04 Montgomery, AL Off the Wagon Aug-05 Nashville, TN Rocketown Aug-06 Atlanta, GA Vinyl Aug-07 St. Petersburg, FL State Theater Aug-08 W. Palm Beach, FL Culture Room Aug-09 Orlando, FL The Social Aug-11 Metairie, LA The High Ground Aug-12 Houston, TX Java Jazz Aug-13 Austin, TX Emo's Aug-14 Dallas, TX The Max Aug-15 Tulsa, OK The Marquee Aug-16 Albuquerque, NM Launchpad Aug-17 Phoenix, AZ The Clubhouse Aug-19 San Diego, CA SOMA Aug-20 Pomona, CA The Glasshouse Aug-21 San Francisco, CA Slim's Aug-22 Portland, OR Satyricon Aug-23 Seattle, WA El Corazon Aug-24 Boise, ID The Venue Aug-25 St. Lake City, UT Murray Theatre Aug-26 Denver, CO Cervantes
The Sound of Animals Fighting premiered their new video for "I, the Swan" today over at Absolute Punk! Check out the video below and be sure to pick up The Ocean and the Sun in stores everywhere.
English punk turned folk singer-songwriter Frank Turner has signed to Epitaph Records with plans to release his third studio album, Poetry of the Deed, in September. The news comes on the heels of the recent announcement that the punk rock influenced bard will be performing his solo-acoustic act in front of his largest crowds ever when he tours North America in July in support of The Offspring.
Turner's musical odyssey began at an early age and eventually gave rise to the UK hardcore band Million Dead, which disbanded in 2005. Towards the end of the band's run, Turner began playing solo shows which were influenced heavily by his love of country, rock, punk and folk. This turned into a four year jaunt of non-stop touring which took him across Europe several times over and to the US, only stopping briefly to record an EP, Campfire Punkrock (2006) and his first album, Sleep Is For The Week, in 2007.
In 2008 Turner took a deep breath and recorded his second album, Love Ire and Song, released by Xtra Mile in the UK, which received rave reviews around the globe. "Fourteen tracks, 500 emotions, three chords, and the truth" (The Austin Chronicle), Turner's heartfelt vocals and relevant lyrics boil over with fiery passion as he tackles themes of love and life with the honesty and poetry inherited from folk forbearers like Billy Bragg and Bob Dylan and all the angst of a kid reared on punk. After the release Turner stepped up to play European festivals, toured with Gaslight Anthem and packed venues at 2009 SXSW. It was Love Ire and Song which caught the ear of Epitaph Records' founder and Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz and led to the eventual signing.
"Frank Turner's music is a revelation to me," says Gurewitz. "I can't stop listening to it. It's a real privilege to get out there and help Xtra Mile spread the Frank Turner gospel."
In a signing that created a perfect pairing between the punk rock poet and a legendary independent label, the young singer-songwriter announced the news via Twitter and MySpace stating, "I signed with Epitaph for the world. Fuck yes!!"
"It's been a little frustrating, the last year or two, trying to figure out the best way to get my stuff released properly in Europe and the USA," says Turner. "I never imagined that it'd be Epitaph who would be releasing stuff though, as I thought they were out of my league. Now I feel like a nerd who just laid the head cheerleader. Being on Epitaph is the fucking bomb. And to top it all, I've been asked out on tour with one of the bands who introduced a whole generation of kids, myself included, to the illicit joys of punk rock. I have, essentially, peed myself. It's going to be a good year!"
Epitaph Records will re-release Love Ire and Song in the US on July 21st. Stay tuned for more information regarding Frank Turner's forthcoming album, Poetry of the Deed, coming this September.
Frank Turner Tour Dates (w/The Offspring): 6/30 – CMAC – Rochester, NY 7/2 – Molson Amphitheater – Toronto, ON 7/7 – Starland Ballroom – Sayreville, NJ 7/8 – Roseland – New York, NY 7/10 – Tsongas Arena – Boston, MA 7/14 – Charlotte Boutique Amphitheater – Charlotte, NC 7/16 – Hard Rock – Orlando, FL 7/17 – St. Augustine Amphitheater – Jacksonville, FL 7/18 – Pompano Beach Amphitheater – Miami, FL
The Blackout are the stars of this weeks Kerrang! Magazine cover and a fantastic 6 page feature. Pick up your copy, available on newsstands everywhere Friday!
The Best in Town available online 5/26 and in stores everywhere 6/9!
At Home We Are Tourists, the debut album from Settle is now streaming on PureVolume! After you give the album a few spins, you can pick it up for only $5.99 on iTunes!
At Home We Are Tourists in stores everywhere May 19th!
Vans trekked down to the studio where Set Your Goals was recording their new album. They were kind enough to take some video footage and piece it together.
