No Idea Records and Distro have released the second installment of their Pretend Record series. The absolutely free downloadable comp features some sneak peaks on future No Idea Records releases from the likes of Gatorface, Assholeparade, FIYA, Tubers, and Worn in Red as well as some of the new and upcoming releases from various labels that No Idea Records exclusively distributes.
No Idea Overlord Var had this to say about Pretend Record #2:
“Welcome away from Volume Two of our SUMMERTIME WATERMELON festival of DOWNLOAD MANIA!! Limited edition and first-come, first served (shoes and shirt optional)... Nothing to trade, nothing to sell, in fact it's all a big PRETEND RECORD!! You can't watch it spin, you can't hand number it, you can't auction it. "Well, heck, what CAN you do with it?" You may LISTEN to it. With your ear bones!” CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD!
V/A - Pretend Record #2 Track Listing:
GATORFACE "The Cleaner" (From "Wasted Monuments" on NO IDEA) ASSHOLEPARADE "Big Death" (From "Welcome Fucking Home" on NO IDEA) THE DOPAMINES "October 24th" (From THE COPYRIGHTS split on IT'S ALIVE) WORN IN RED "Piled Like Bricks" (From "In the Offing" on NO IDEA) FIYA "King" (From "Magic Words" on NO IDEA) THE BANANAS "Radio Action" (From "New Animals" on RECESS) PSYCHED TO DIE "Conditioned to Fail" (From "Year One" on DIRTNAP) DEAR LANDLORD "Heartbroken Handshakes" (From "Dream Homes" first-press LP on NO IDEA) TUBERS "Pale Sunbather" (From "Anachronous" on NO IDEA / BAKERY OUTLET / ECHO CANYON) HELLO SHITTY PEOPLE "The Doppelganger of Chris Elliott" (From "Hello Shitty People" on 1-2-3-4 GO!) SHANG-A-LANG "Best Intentions" (From "Sad Magic" on FAST CROWD) WHISKEY TRENCH "Break Me Down" (From "Television" on KISS OF DEATH) CITY OF SHIPS "March of the Slaves" (From "Look What God Did to Us" on SOUND STUDY) STREET EATERS "Useless Eyes" (From "We See Monsters" on BAKERY OUTLET) P.S. ELIOT "Augustus" (From "Introverted Romance in Our Troubled Minds" on SALINAS)
The folks at No Idea Records and Southern Lovin’ PR have announced the confirmation of Snuff for an exclusive U.S. performance during THE FEST 8, October 30th-November 1st in Gainesville, Florida. Singer/Drummer Duncan Redmonds will also be performing acoustic at some point that weekend.
The current line-up of the band is that of the 1997 'Tweet Tweet My Lovely' era - Duncan Redmonds on drums/vocals, Loz Wong on guitar, Lee Erinmez on bass, Dave Redmonds on trombone and Lee 'The Mod' Murphy on hammond.
THE FEST 8 have also confirmed a few more bands alongside Snuff. Solo performaces from Jon Snodgrass and Chad Price of Drag the River, Ben Lovett (Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves/ Heavens, Laura Stevenson and the Cans, Lauris Vidal, Damion Suomi, Ready the Jet, and Ghost Knife. The latter features Ben Snakepit and Chris Pfeffer from J Church with Mike Wiebe of The Riverboar Gamblers/High Tension Wires.
THE FEST 8 previously announced a diverse lineup of 200+ confirmed bands featuring the likes of 7 Seconds, Less Than Jake, Dillinger Four, Youth Brigade, Samiam, Dead to Me, Strike Anywhere, Fleshies, Torche, Radon, Kylesa, Tim Barry, Bomb the Music Industry, A Wilhelm Scream, Drag the River, Lemuria, Off With Their Heads, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, The Methadones, Iron Lung, Coalesce, Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves, Bridge & Tunnel, and special reunions from Gunmoll, King Friday, The Thumbs, The Ghost, Clairmel, and Hair Beard Combo.
THE FEST 8 promises more confirmations in the weeks to come as they finish up going through band applications. THE FEST 8 have also posted the promotional poster for THE FEST 8 designed by Horsebites/The Black Axe. FEST 8 weekend passes are $60 in advance and $80 weekend of. Passes get you into all the official showcases (9 stages) over the Halloween Weekend (October 30th, October 31st, and November 1st) in Gainesville, Fl.
You can purchase FEST 8 passes on the official FEST 8 website.
You can also steal a web banner to help spread the word of THE FEST 8 here.
Against Me! – The Original Cowboy (Fat Wreck – 2009) First things first, I did lose a lot of faith in this band when I heard New Wave, and even more when I found out they had parted ways with their beloved drummer, Warren Oakes. However I thought maybe, just maybe there was light at the end of the tunnel when I found out Fat Wreck would be releasing the demos from their second full length “The Eternal Cowboy”.
Upon first listening to the record, which is little over 20 minutes long, and features 2 songs that have already been released on a 7” single some years ago I began to feel a little ripped off. The thing that lets this “album” down the most is the fact the track order doesn’t work. The demo versions of the songs aren’t as different or alternative as you’d hope or expect from an officially released demo album. The songs that are different (Unsubstantiated Rumors… and Sink Florida Sink) are the 2 alternative takes that have already been released.
Unfortunately all in all, there’s little good to say about this release. It kind of seems a little pointless. So my faith in Against Me! Has not been restored. It’s not a bad album, it’s just an album I’ve already heard before, in better quality, with a better track order.
So finally we have announced the WTFest! this a is kind of a mini festival celebrating punk rock and DIY culture within our little city of Southampton! We have some amazing acts lined up over the 5 days some paid and some free so there is no excuses for not showing up!
It'll be running at various locations around Southampton, with secret free shows in record stores and people's houses alongside a bunch of proper paid gigs at the Joiners Arms. If you want to know where the secret shows are going to be, start following on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/wtfesst. You'll be given about four hours notice, so keep yer iPhone handy, or whatever it is you do with Twitter.
Other tickets for shows are available via the links below: There's a dual ticket offer going on for Polar Bear Club and the A Wilhelm Scream shows, so you get both shows for just a tenner. You can buy them direct from http://www.joinerslive.co.uk
The line-ups thus far are as follows:
September 2nd – The Joiners THE FLATLINERS MIKE TV OK PILOT MASH ATTACK
September 3rd – House show For details keep your eyes on the twitter page..
September 4 – The Joiners POLAR BEAR CLUB BROADWAY CALLS BURN THE FLEET CALVINBALL PLUS MORE TBA
September 5 – House Show & Acoustic acts during the day at a location TBA OUR TIME DOWN HERE PLUS VERY SPECIAL AMAZING GUESTS TBA
September 6 – The Joiners A WILHELM SCREAM YOU ME AND THE ATOM BOMB PLUS MORE TBA
So we recently caught up with dark punk rockers Bayside in London who were over doing a few shows with New Found Glory.. here is a few highlights from our chat with lead vocalist Anthony.
WWR : So you've never done your own headline tour, do you want to?
B: Yea! We want to for sure the UK's always been a place where its taken us a while to gain traction and gain fans and really feeling confident in going to do that, but I definitely feel its getting closer and closer that's for sure
WWR : Why do you think that is?
B: I really don't know, its probably something political and something to do with being from the states and having a label from the states, you we are in a lot more press , magazines and TV and stuff and we are a lot bigger over there, for some reason in Australia we do really well for some reason we just clicked over there, I just don't know what it is over here.. You know when we got big in the states it took a while to get where we are now, it wasn't like a single launched us or anything it feels more real and passionate from the fans. So we are just building up something that's going to be genuine.
WWR : So SHUDDER released last year.. there were some more poppier moments on it I felt?
B: Yea! We wanted to be real simple in a good way, its definitely not a new direction, that's not what we sound like now its something we wanted to try and I feel like to be truly 'punk' doing something simple is almost like taking a stand you know what I mean?
WWR: Do you find that you have a really unique place in punk rock?
B: I mean musically were not the punkest band, we are loped in with NEW FOUND GLORY and ALKALINE TRIO, which is cool because we love those bands, but it think our attitude like lyrically or in interviews is a little more abrasive than bands we are associated with and I think that turns people off a little bit I think people aren't used to it, you know you not going to open Kerrang! And read about somebody in band giving an honest opinion about how something sucks and we do that!
WWR: so there's been some rumours about you guys possibly signing with alkaline trio's new label..?
B: Well we don't really know we have just finished our contract with VICTORY so we are free agents right now which is really exciting we haven't been unsigned for 6 years and it feels really nice, we are starting to write right now for our new record but we don't know who's going to put it out
WWR: Do you have a sound on that record yet?
B: Its going to be kinda like a WALKING WOUNDED sounding album, we want to make the heaviest album we've ever made you know, like with SHUDDER the concept was to make something quick and poppy and catchy and so this one will be more intricate and more solos and more orchestras and heavy!
WWR: Have you felt the impact of the 'digital revolution'?
B: Absolutely, there's good points and band points to it. We have felt the impact of both, the fact that we just played in Paris for the first time ever 2 days ago there were people singing along to our band you just have to thank the internet for that, I know there's not a lot of promotion for our band there , we aren't on TV there we have never been there before so that's the great benefit of it that people are going to hear about your band through the internet So that's one side of it and so the other side is obviously you sell less records and with selling records then there is less money and its not just money in your pocket but its less money to do things! There was a time when bands took an entire year to write a record, because they had the money to live of off or be in the studio for as long as they wanted and the equipment, so there's all those things but now its like you can only write for as long as you cant afford to go on tour, so there's an upside and a downside but I think the upside outweighs the downside. I think that anybody anywhere in the world can find a new band everyday is amazing! Its more important then money..
WWR: What bands can you recommend who we may not have heard of?
B: The Menzingers! They are unbelievable, they are on a label from Chicago called Red Scare Records with a whole bunch of awesome bands of that label.. Cobra Skulls and the Sidekicks , you know I feel like its really exciting, I hope you can tell just from me talking about it! Because this underground music thing this whole punk rock thing emo and hardcore has become so mainstream, I think things like fallout boy is great for what they do and they've opened a lot of doors for bands like us to be on MTV or the radio. But then its all become so mainstream that there is all these copycats like Metro Station and Boys Like Girls so all these really shitty versions of something that was cool, so the whole underground has become so popular that there has to be a new underground developing under it and I think that's happening right now and its so exciting and I am so anxious to keep hearing all these cool bands, there's a lot of great bands about you've just got to look for them. With Punk We all have taken this ride into the mainstream and have forgot about all this other stuff and so its cool there's a lot of good stuff out there!
Check out the audio below for more from Bayside on song writing, the music industry, touring life and more..
Huge thanks to Rey Rolden & Bayside
Interview By Ross Shroff Words By Ricky Bates
Bayside's newest record SHUDDER is available now from Victory records
So we had our 2nd PunkRockFriday brought to you by the Wrongwayround collective/crew at UNIT nightclub here in Southampton , UK. On the bill for the night was A Broken Robot, Dave House & Lemuria from the USA! All were amazing and some amazing tunes were spun until the early hours of the morning! Look out for some exclusive Dave House acoustic videos right here soon, in the meantime heres a few clips from Lemuria's set..
In a practically unfathomable maneuver of selfless generosity and technological wizardry, the No Idea Distro has launched the first in a series of downloadable compilations called the Pretend Record Series. The compilation was launched at approximately 5:07 PM on Friday, June 5, with word spreading faster than a cheetah fleeing from a blazing Kentucky wildfire. By 5:23 PM, the onslaught of bandwidth traffic on the No Idea server forced the entire office to abandon futile attempts at answering emails and proceed directly to Common Grounds’ 2-4-1 Happy Hour.
The compilation features a smorgasbord-sized sampling of new titles distributed proudly and exclusively by the No Idea Distro. Pretend Record features tracks from forthcoming No Idea Records releases such as Dear Landlord’s Dream Homes, No Friends’ S/T, and Speed Is Everything by The Bomb (who count former Naked Raygun singer Jeff Pezzati amongst their ranks), not to mention a handful of formerly vinyl-exclusive tracks from the likes of North Lincoln, Ringers, and Averkiou. The 15-song compilation is rounded out by close friends and closer fiends in the form of Dead Friends, Wormburner, Paul Baribeau & Ginger Alford, Screaming Females, and more, all of whom have piping hot new releases in consumable form available from the No Idea Conglomerate Corporation Empire.
No Idea Distro’s Kaiser Jennifer issued the following dispatch:
“Welcome back to Volume One of our SUMMERTIME WATER MOSH festival of DOWNLOAD MADNESS!! Limited edition and first-come, first served (shoes and shirt optional)... Nothing to trade, nothing to sell, in fact it's all a big PRETEND RECORD!! You can't watch it spin, you can't hand number it, you can't auction it. "Well, heck, what CAN you do with it?" You may LISTEN to it. With your ear bones!”
Track Listing: 1. DEAR LANDLORD "I Live in Hell" (NO IDEA) 2. THE BOMB "Spaceman" (NO IDEA) 3. SOMETHING FIERCE "Teenage Ruins" (DIRTNAP) 4. NORTH LINCOLN "This is Gonna Hurt" (NO IDEA) 5. PINK RAZORS "Geometric Park" (HOUSEPLANT / NO IDEA) 6. RINGERS "Canned Laughter" (1-2-3-4 GO!) 7. AVERKIOU "Wasted and High" (SOUND STUDY) 8. DEAD FRIENDS "Guh Guh" (PLAN-IT-X) 9. WORMBURNER "If Life is a Highway, Then I'm Totally Fucked" (SALINAS) 10. NO FRIENDS "Never Ending Fight" (NO IDEA) 11. HOT NEW MEXICANS "Self Loathing Fool" (FAST CROWD) 12. THE ARRIVALS "I'm Sorry For Saying I'm Sorry" (RECESS) 13. PAUL BARIBEAU and GINGER ALFORD "Thunder Road" (SELF-RELEASE) 14. LANDLORD "Skate Jam" (BAKERY OUTLET / HOUSEPLANT) 15. SCREAMING FEMALES "Buried In The Nude" (DON GIOVANNI)
