May 2013
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These Talking Puppets Would Like To Tell You About...
It’s been almost 5 minutes since The Clash remastered their albums so they went ahead and announced a box set they’re working on. Here, let them tell you about it in the form of talking puppets… [[MORE]]
Ok, most of that was pretty indiscernible but the one quote we did make out was that they would never try to replace Joe. Thank god they are exercising some good sense,...
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Song of the Day
That new Daft Punk album is out...
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Review: The Front Bottoms / 'Talon of the Hawk'
The Front Bottoms / Talon of the Hawk / Bar/None Records [[MORE]]
Despite its totally badass title, Talon of the Hawk is an album that doesn’t take itself very seriously. That’s pretty obvious right from the opening song when the chorus belts out “Au revoir!” with the linguistic grace of Brad Pitt’s character in the “Gorlami” scene of Inglourious Basterds. It goes on, “Awe rev wah! You probably...
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Rappin' Ronnie Radke Walks Out On Falling In...
Just when we had discovered the musical majesty that is Rappin’ Ronnie Radke and Falling In Reverse, we get word that he is walking out on the band to devote himself to acting like a clown penis fulltime.[[MORE]]
PupFresh.com, our daily source of news about bands we’ve never heard of, have posted this note from an exclusive source…
I’ve been texting one of the members all...
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Shit You Missed This Week
Is everyone having a good time at Pouzza Fest and Surf & Skate Fest and getting ready for Riot Fest and Carls Jr. Fest and Too Many Fests Fest? Here’s all your non-fest news for the week…[[MORE]]
Henry Rollins explained why he’s not playing in either Black Flag reunion. It’s because he’s…over music. Or music is over him. Or something. It’s...
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Henry Rollins Explains Why He's Not Playing In...
In his latest muscular navel gazing column for LA Weekly, Henry Rollins explained, or at least hinted at, why he’s not playing in the reunited Black Flag(s) or playing music anymore in general…[[MORE]]
I got asked by someone if I was going to go on tour this summer and play what at this point is old music. I told the person that I wasn’t because that currently, my future is...
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Hey Bands, Stop Giving Websites "Exclusives" →
Some real insidery nerd shit that you should read if you have a music blog or are in a band or have ears or like puppies.
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Song of the Day, Part Deux
Since people are...
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Records Revisited: Saves The Day / 'Through Being...
Record Revisited: Saves The Day / Through Being Cool (1999)
Revisited by: Joshua Amses [Joshua is a writer of books (whatever those are). He is the author of Raven or Crow and the forthcoming The Moment Before an Injury.]
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Even though we grew up in a small town in rural New England, my friends and I managed to figure out emo sucked before we were old enough to...
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Song of the Day
47 years ago today, Brian Wilson...
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Watch Titus Andronicus And The So So Glos Cover...
Here are The So So Glos and Titus Andronicus covering the Beastie Boys’ “No Sleep Till Brooklyn.” It’s always weird seeing a bunch of drunken white guys cover a rap song. Then you remember that the Beastie Boys are the whitest dudes ever anyway so it’s all good. Yo, MCA, we miss you.
Click Read More for the video taken at a bar in New Orleans, which is not...
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Meet The Jerks Playing Our Brooklyn Show
We are putting on a show on Sunday, June 30 at the motherfucker of all venues, Saint Vitus. (We once tricked the Descendents into playing there. It was so awesome that some girl fainted before they even played. Hope you are ok wherever you are!) If you live anywhere in the NYC area, get thine ass there and we will party, aging punk-style. Tickets available HERE. Here’s who we got on...
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Someone Managed To Make Bane Sound Even Worse
Frankly, we didn’t think it was possible for Bane to sound any worse, but this band I See Stars managed to do it with their cover of “Can We Start Again.” Congratulations, scene, you are Human Centipeding yourself.
Click Read More to hear it.[[MORE]]
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Song of the Day
Wasn’t gonna post this song...
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Song of the Day
We’re not just posting this...
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Song of the Day
Danzig seems like the obvious...
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Shit You Missed This Week
We kinda slept on last week’s roundup because last week was pretty boring. But OH MAN, was this a dark week for music…[[MORE]]
Most notably, the Met Gala’s theme this year was punk fashion, so naturally that resulted in rich celebs talking out of their own asses about Sid Vicious and The Ramones. And the Goo Goo Dolls, are they punk?
The Gala also featured a punk exhibit...
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Another New Black Flag Song
The newly reformed Black Flag (that is not the other newly reformed Black Flag) have another new song out called “The Chase,” which was also the name of a movie Henry Rollins was in. But no Henry Rollins is this one.
Click Read More for the song.[[MORE]]
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Is This The Worst Dead Kennedys Cover Of All Time?
Yesterday, we discovered some videos of a bunch of 11-year-olds totally fucking slaying. On the other end of the spectrum, today we have some kids covering Dead Kennedys’ “California Uber Alles.”
We’re not gonna poke fun at them too much, because at some point, we were all high school kids in khakis and flip flops, covering DK at what appears to be a high school talent...
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What Are "Notable" People Saying About The New...
As we made pretty clear, we think that new Black Flag song is a real snoozefest. But not everyone is as much of a cynical asshole. So we did some poking around to see what some semi-“notable” people think about. Except for Mikey Erg (above), the reviews were not real positive…[[MORE]]
Dr. Frank, Mr. T Experience:
Just heard the new Black Flag song that everybody hates so...
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Song of the Day
Ian Mackaye spoke at the Library...
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Jared Leto Would Like To Invite You To Sleep In...
Either a teenage girl has hacked 30 Seconds To Mars’ website or Jared Leto has gone completely fucking insane. A recent post outlines a contest to promote their new album where you can win a chance to…well, just read below…[[MORE]]
Pre-order your copy of LOVE LUST FAITH + DREAMS for a chance to be one of 5 WINNERS who will receive an exclusive invitation to THE LAB for a...
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These 11-Year-Olds Are Metal As Fuck
There is a metal band in Brooklyn called Unlocking The Truth that is made up of three 11-year-olds. They make every band in the nu-metal scene look like total garbage. Not that that was difficult.
These kids have some seriously dope metally riffs and breakdowns. Not sure when they have time to come up with those in between doing homework and…I don’t know, what do 11-year-olds do...
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Pierce The Veil Throw Their Hat In The Ring For...
This week, we learned about the majesty of awfulness that is Falling In Reverse via their new music video. Not to be outdone, a band called Pierce The Veil would also like to submit their below video for worst new video of the week.[[MORE]]
Uh, sorry, Pierce The Veil, your video is pretty shitty and your singer looks and sounds exactly like Sarah Silverman with a nose ring. And on a normal...
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Morons Take To Twitter To Defend As I Lay Dying...
[[MORE]]Unless you are really going out of your way to avoid Christian metalcore (which, good for you), you probably heard about As I Lay Dying frontman, Tim Lambesis, being arrested for hiring a hitman to kill his wife. Well, some people took to Twitter to defend him and sounded like king-sized assholes in the process. As usual, Public Shaming, does due diligence in collecting all these...
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Some Fun Facts About Our New Favorite Person,...
Yesterday, we discovered our new favorite person, lead singer of Falling In Reverse, Ronnie Radke, who we’ve dubbed Rappin’ Ronnie (after the Simpsons bit/real thing that existed.) But that glorious 4 minute video only raised more questions than it answered. We wanted to know more about this character so we did some investigating…[[MORE]]
Well, for starters, his white guy rap...
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Congrats To Crustpunk Band, Tragedy, For Making...
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For whatever reason, we were clicking through this article on Ranker.com called The Complete List of Rappers In Jail. 57 hip hop mainstays are there: DMX, T.I., Lil Kim, etc. But then #48 didn’t seem to fit in. Right between Tony Yayo and Travis McCoy was none other than our favorite crust band, Tragedy.
If you know anything about Tragedy, you know that they maintain little to...
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Can Someone Please Pick Up Kyle Kinane's Show?
Kyle Kinane, the funniest dude in punk rock (or the most punk rock dude in comedy, depending on how you look at it) filmed a pilot last summer called Kyle Kinane’s Going Nowhere. The pilot is great. You can watch it below. Kyle travels the country, talking to “sexperts,” trying on S&M outfits, and hanging with wizards.[[MORE]]
For some unknown reason that will never make...
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13 Quotes From Ian Mackaye's Library Of Congress...
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Ian Mackaye gave a lecture at the Library of Congress last night. We’re assuming he was invited and didn’t just show up and start telling random people why stagediving is wrong. SPIN has collected the evening’s best 13 quotes (get it? Because that’s the name of the Fugazi album!) and they’re pretty awesome. He covers everything from skateboarding to...
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The People At The Met Would Like You All To Know...
Yesterday, we mentioned that the Met’s recreation of CBGB’s shitter didn’t look like the one many of us remember. In that, it looked nothing like it. Well, someone claiming to have worked on the show at the Met emailed us to let us know why we’re wrong…[[MORE]]
just wanted to let you know we had access to the original bathroom and could have used it however it...
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Are We Dreaming Or Was The Drummer From The...
Our pal Keith just emailed us this photo of what appears to be Benny Horowitz from the Gaslight Anthem on TV show/dick joke gone horribly wrong, Tosh.0, in some bit about guys who chew on toothpicks. The punchline was that those guys are pedophiles. We didn’t see it, but that sounds like a real Tosh joke. That’s so Tosh. But it’s not so Raven.
As far as we know, Benny is NOT a...
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As I Lay Dying Singer Arrested For Hiring A Hitman...
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According to Reuters, As I Lay Dying frontman, Tim Lambesis, was taken into custody in Oceanside, CA today “over accusations he sought the help of an undercover detective to have his estranged wife killed, police said.”
One HUGE thing they forgot to mention is that As I Lay Dying is a CHRISTIAN hardcore band. Seems kinda important in this context. Another thing the...
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Stop Everything. We Found The Most Hilarious Video...
A band called Falling In Reverse has a new video out today and it has EVERYTHING…[[MORE]]
white guy rap
autotuning
awful hardcore screaming
bragging about Gucci sneakers
lyrics about Tweets
a guy who looks like he got his whole body tattooed in one day
stupid haircuts
choreographed mosh moves
This is a must-watch. Also, this band is on Epitaph? Clearly, we have not been keeping up...
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Sorry, But This Isn't What The CBGB Bathroom...
As we mentioned, the Met Gala went with a punk theme for this year which resulted in celebrities hilariously pretending to have a clue what punk is. But the evening wasn’t just for celebrities. There was also a punk exhibit of some sort, featuring a recreation of the CBGB bathroom (above).
Gothamist has a post up about it, calling it “scarily accurate.” Uh, sorry, but as we...
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Poll Results: People Prefer To Be Kicked In The...
We took an informal poll on Facebook last night to see which reformed version of Black Flag people prefer. “Flag” beat out “Black Flag” by a wide margin. But as the clear winning option, people would prefer to be kicked in the junk by Henry Rollins than have to hear either band. So there you have it. Suck it, Nate Silver.
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Here Are Idiot Celebrities Talking Out Of Their...
Last night, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York hosted the 2013 Met Gala. This year’s theme was “Punk: From Chaos To Couture.” For many celebrities, this was the first time they had used the word “punk” in a sentence that wasn’t “Have my assistant get me Daft Punk tickets.” It was also an excuse for them to spend $10,000 to spike their hair up and play punk dress up for a...
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The 10 Manliest Photos On Chuck Ragan's Instagram...
If you have an Instagram account and don’t follow Chuck Ragan, you are blowing it big time. If you don’t have an Instagram account, get one and follow Chuck Ragan immediately. It’s an amazing peek into the daily life of the manliest man in punk. Every single photo looks like something taken from the Boy Scout Handbook. Let’s take a look at what keeps ol’ Chuck so...
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Song of the Day
Happy Cinco de Milo, dudes and...
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Song of the Day
FUCKING DUH.
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Black Flag's Website Is The Saddest Thing Ever
[[MORE]]You know what we could’ve done without forever? Black Flag asking us to follow them on Instagram. But when you go to their website …wait. That sentence sounded weird. Black Flag has a website? Let’s allow for a minute for that little mindfuck to sink in. Ok. So anyway, when you go to their website, it asks you to follow them on Instagram and Facebook and Youtube and...
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