In his latest podcast, Ben Weasel has confirmed that he will be once again teaming up with Dan Vapid to record a new record as the Riverdales. The band, formed in the 90s by members of Screeching Weasel released a 1995’s Riverdales and 1997’s Storm The Streets before splitting up. They reunited in 2003 to release Phase Three.
The band has not yet named a drummer for the forthcoming album, but plans are for a release in 2009 with some live shows to follow.
Check out the podcast here.
Posted on November 20th, 2008 by admin
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Buffalo, NY’s Lemuria have posted two new videos from their performance at Common Grounds in Gainesville, FL a couple weeks ago during The Fest 7. The band also has a 7″ split with Off With Their Heads lined up as a part of the Vinyl Collective split 7″ series, along with some other promised 7″ records coming in 2009.
Lemuria released Get Better through Asian Man this year. You can watch the videos on the group’s MySpace page.
Posted on November 14th, 2008 by admin
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O Pioneers!!! have announced a series of tour dates this fall, bookending their appearance at The Fest in Gainesville, FL. The band has posted a new song from their forthcoming Asian Man Records full length, Neon Creeps. You can check out “Dead City Sound” on their myspace page.
Posted on October 16th, 2008 by admin
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Mike Park, Kevin Seconds and Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy/Common Rider will be hitting the road together in December and January to celebrate the launch of the Plea for Peace Foundation venue. Mike explained:
The Plea For Peace Foundation is officially opening their doors next year, but we will do a kickoff show/party on December 12th with myself and Jesse Michaels(OPERATION IVY) to introduce the venue to the world.
Speaking of Jesse Michaels, we are doing a few shows together at the end of the year and next year. He’s toured so little in the last 20 years, I am hoping we can do a bunch of shows together and get him out on the road.
Posted on October 4th, 2008 by admin
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After their art shows in California and New York, Kepi Ghoulie (ex-Groovie Ghoulies) and Stefan Tijs (owner of Stardumb Records) are now in Berlin for yet another art show together.
Together with Dino Girl (Kepi The Band) and Foekje Fleur van Duin they’ll have over 60 pieces of art up. The art show opens Tuesday September 23rd at the Rigaer105 on Rigaerstrasse 105 in Berlin Friedrichschain. On Saturday September 27th there will be acoustic live shows by Kepi Ghoulie, Will DeNiro (Zatopeks) and more.
More info is available here.
Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by admin
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O Pioneers!!! have pushed back their new full length Neon Creeps. The record is now due in January 2009 via Asian Man Records.
So Neon Creeps is finished. Drums, guitars, vocals and bass are recorded. It’s Mixed. It’s mastered. Artwork is being pressed, and Vinyl is about to be pressed. The only thing is we fucked up, missed all the deadlines, and now this record is coming out in January 2009. YES for stoners! we don’t have an exact date, but we do know jan. We will still have copies for sale starting this saturday. We’ll have them for our leg of the gaslight tour, and they’ll be in limited edition, screened, tracklisting out of order digi packs. We have 60 of them. Then when we get home oct. 1st, we’ll have the real cds for bridge and tunnel. We’ll probably make more screened sleeves. They are like 7 colors with glow in the dark ink! its fucking awesome!!!
Posted on September 21st, 2008 by admin
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The Queers are getting ready to head out on tour this September with the Independents. Drummer Matt Drastic won’t join the band on tour as he’ll be busy working in Nashville’s Drastic Sounds studio. For the first two weeks of the tour Lurch Nobody will be drumming for the band, to be followed by Ryan from The Atom Age. Ryan last drummed for the band on their “The Hard Ons” tour.
Joe is also setting up a new recording studio where The Queers plan to record for a 2009 release. Before that the site will launch with Ottawa’s The Riptides.
Ok so the studio… it’s called The Electric Cave and it’s in Portsmouth, NH. Jim Tierney our old pal from out here who worked on Beyond The Valley and More Bounce to the Ounce and the Today ep among other things opened it a few years ago. I bullied him into letting me come in there with all my gear so we’ve joined forces so we can start producing bands again. We used to work together all the time here in Portsmouth on various demos and comp tracks and shit so we go way back to the Hubie/Bface days. It’s a cool room and we’ve added tons of gear as well as 2 tape machines as I am a staunch believer in analog (tape) and am pretty much anti protools (shit). So The Mighty Riptides will kick things off and we already have a bunch of bands coming in so I’s all excited. Just axe me ‘n I’ll tells ya. (I’m using Atlantaspeak here-a largely unintelligible form of the English language.One more thing I won’t miss from Atlanta. God I hated that fucking place.) I love producing so if you wanna cool studio to record in email me here or our website. We’ll be updating a myspace page Jim has going as we start working more. The Bugs-featuring our favorite bassist-(from San Diego that is) Dangerous Dave Swain will be coming in next year for their new album. So if it’s cool enough for The Riptides and Bugs then it’s cool enough for you my friends. We will be recording our next album-I already have the name but I’m not telling any of you guys yet-we’ll be recording the new album early next year. Asian Man tells us May or June is a good release time so yeah about 6 months we’ll have it out. I am going to do more punky stuff this time around by the way.
The band released Munki Brain in 2007.
Posted on August 29th, 2008 by admin
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O Pioneers!!! are heading out in anticipation of their second full-length Neon Creeps - set to be released in later this year by Asian Man Records and Kiss of Death Records. They will be touring the west coast on the way to Awesome Fest 2 and then joining The Gaslight Anthem, American Steel, and Polar Bear Club for a short trek through the southeast.
The band recently released a split 7″ with Austin’s The Anchor on Triumph of Life Records and is about to dropa split 7″ with Mike Park on Suburban Home Records.
Their revolving cast of members recently lost drummer Chris Ryan and replaced him with Aaron Ervin while adding Zack Klaine on bass.
Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by admin
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The seemingly endless tour for Lemuria keeps rolling on. The band has updated it’s October and November schedule, including their stops at the Fest. You can see the dates below.
The band is touring in support of Get Better and The First Collection, a collection of their early releases.
Posted on August 21st, 2008 by admin
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Asian Man act Lemuria will see their LP/CD collection, The First Collection re-released shortly. The record was originally released in Germany on YoYo Records and features 18 tracks from the band’s early singles and releases prior to Get Better.
Punknews.org published a review of The First Collection earlier this year.
Posted on July 13th, 2008 by admin
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Mike Park’s charity, Plea for Peace, has won the recently announced
a MySpace Impact Award. The $10,000 award honors those who make a positive impact on the community at large.
The Plea for Peace Foundation is a non-profit organization that promotes the ideas of peace through the power of music. The group believes that all individuals are created equal and through our efforts we hope to create a scene of positive minded people to help bring forth action and education in the process of sharing ideas of peace and practical uses of peace in everyday life.
Mike Park has not yet announced what he plans to do with the money, although one likely investment is his youth center project which has been on the table for some time now. You can visit the Myspace Impact Award profile to view a video of his acceptance of the prize.
Posted on May 26th, 2008 by admin
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