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Razorcake Video doc!

So if your deep into your punkrock youl know there is this really ace zine called razorcake which is a bitch to get hold of in the UK but across the pond widely available heres a little ode to them so to speak..

Happy new year! New Shows!

Hello everyone! sorry to the 2 people who check this blog regularly for the lack of updates.. heres some deeets on upcoming shows.. also have your voice heard and join the awesome WWR group on facebook here:

Wrongwayround Promotions Presents...
Wednesday 10th March 2010
Joiners Southampton
Tickets £8 in advance £10 OTD
JOEY CAPE ( LAGWAGON ) / TONY SLY (NO USE FOR A NAME) / JON SNODGRASS ( DRAG THE RIVER) & DUNCAN REDMONDS (SNUFF) + MORE!

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE: http://www.joinerslive.co.uk/product.php?xProd=374&xSec=1
OR IN HAND..
RESKUE Skate shop in southampton city centre
Southampton Guildhall box office

Joey Cape Of Lagwagon
http://www.myspace.com/joeycape
The man himself the legend of punk rock, one below fat mike. The lead vocalist from legends LAGWAGON is coming to town with hair spiked and Gatorade & vodka in tow, expect all the hits as well as solo album material and maybe even some Bad Astronaut for good measure.

After being on tours with the greatest in punk rock history ( NOFX, BAD RELIGION, AFI, PENNYWISE and then some..) and playing in acts such as ME FIRST AND THE GIMMIE GIMMIES, LAGWAGON, AFTERBURNER & BAD ASTRONAUT this is a night not to be missed!
And now After many years of fronting influential punk band LagwagonJoey Capereleased his first full length solo acoustic albumBridgein October 2008. Drawing inspiration from the candle lit emotion of Kill Rock Stars era Elliott Smith and an upbringing steeped in acoustic acts such as Simon & Garfunkel and Cat Stevens; Cape’s acoustic efforts stand up on their own and finally introduce him as a promising addition to the pantheon of great American singer-songwriters.

Tony Sly Of No Use For A Name
http://www.myspace.com/tonyslymusic
If that wasn't enough another of FATWRECKCHORDS greatest exports will be in town! Mr Sly lead vocalist and songwriter from pop punk rock heroes NO USE FOR A NAME, after the historical Split CD with joey cape himself back in 2004 it makes perfect sense for a healthy addition to this night we may even see some duo's?
He is currently tucked away writing his 1st solo full length record so expect great songs from the split CD plus more surprises!

Jon SnodGrass Of Drag The River
http://www.myspace.com/jonsnodgrass
This man needs no introduction always a huge part of the infamous Revival tour in the USA featuring CHUCK RAGAN, MIKE HALE, AUSTIN LUCAS, BEN NICHOLS and more.
He brings he blend of country punk rock to Southampton via Suburban Home records.
Since the premature dissolution of Drag the River in late 2007, Jon Snodgrass has continued to do what he has always done: write and record great music. His full length 10 track (plus the entire album over again as 1 track with alternate versions of nearly every song) album is some of Jon’s greatest work. You might think you know what this album sounds like, but I think it might surprise you a bit. The album incorporates the hard-edged rock you expect from Armchair Martian with the more rootsy sounds you might expect to hear with Drag the River and the resulting album is an album I have no problem calling a masterpiece.

WWR Presents : A St Valentines Massacre!

Featuring Live music from the Amazing...

THE PLIGHT - http://www.myspace.com/theplight
The boys from Leeds bring their heavy screaming punkrock to the south, after opening on this years Reading/Leeds Lock up stage big things are planned for 2010 with new album 'Winds Of Osiris' out now with some exceptional heavy anthems on!
FFO : Cancer Bats, Ghost of a thousand

THE COMPUTERS - http://www.myspace.com/thecomputersfromexeter
'Devon knows how they make it so creamy?' West county lads the computers are easily one of the hardest working UK bands with non stop touring all last year up and down the country and taking Europe by storm! Having shared a stage with the top punk rock acts in the world these are not be missed!
FFO: The bronx, Lower than atlantis, Brides

THE ARTERIES - http://www.myspace.com/thearteries
These welsh punk rockers made heavy waves in 2009 with several vinyl releases and full lenth 'blood, sweat & beers' with some amazing catchy sing a long punk rock songs, with apperances at the legendary FEST in Florida and US tours under their belt be prepared to have your face melted!
FFO: A wilhelm scream, FatWreckChords bands & No Idea alike!

Entry only £4!
Cheap drink deals all night!
Host:
WrongWayRound Promotions
Type:
Music/arts - Concert
Network:
Global
Start Time:
Thursday, 11 February 2010 at 22:00
End Time:
Friday, 12 February 2010 at 03:00
Location:
UNIT , Southampton
Street:
St marys road
Town/City:
Southampton, United Kingdom

A LOSS FOR WORDS http://www.myspace.com/alossforwords) - Eight Years after forming in a basement in Boston, Massachusetts, A Loss For Words have enjoyed touring success stateside with Set Your Goals, New Found Glory, Four Year Strong and Energy among many others, along with various stints on the prestigious Vans Warped Tour.
AL4W have also released the album ‘The Kids Can’t Lose’ to critical acclaim and some surprising commercial success in both the United States and Japan. AL4W are now bringing their sound over to the UK for the first time, with a 15 date club tour in March 2010

ALL OR NOTHING http://www.myspace.com/allornothing) - After the departure of founding member Joe Warner at the end of 2008, All or Nothing have gone from strength to strength with former drummer Rich Murphy taking up the mantle of lead guitar and vocals and former Mike TV drummer Nick Reynolds becoming the band's fourth sticksman. 2009 saw UK tours with The Wonder Years, Chaos Days, Out of Sight, Broadway Calls and Not Advised, as well as a ten date headline tour of Russia and the release of 2 new split EP's (w/Chaos Days and The Wonder Years) which were both praised by critics and fans alike and put into rotation on Kerrang Radio. 2010 will see the band record their long awaited debut studio album and continue to tour constantly.

LYU http://www.myspace.com/lyurock - LYU are on 19/20 years old but have already toured the UK countless times, appeared in magazines such as Kerrang!, Rock Sound, and Metal Hammer, and received radio airplay on stations such as Kerrang Radio, and Radio 1.
And to end 2009 nicely, LYU’s song ‘Here in Line’ was a top independent seller on itunes UK in the third quarter of 2009, gaining them a spot on the itunes UK homepage for a day. LYU will be pushing forward in 2010, and will be a great addition to this tour.

Go Vegas http://www.myspace.com/govegas
These local southampton boys bring their own form of southcoast pop punk to the table with fast riffs and heartbreaking vocals, go to their page right now to download the new 5 track EP for free!!

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Host:
WrongWayRound Promotions
Type:
Music/arts - Performance
Network:
Global
Start Time:
Thursday, 04 March 2010 at 20:00
End Time:
Friday, 05 March 2010 at 03:00
Location:
UNIT Club , Southampton
Street:
St marys road
Town/City:
Southampton, United Kingdom

Now! thats what i call new videos 53..

OUR TIME DOWN HERE - SOUTHAMPTON RECORD RELEASE SHOW AT THE JOINERS


THE BRIGGS AT JOINERS

American Steel Exclusive Interview Part 2

WWR: In terms of record labels, do you think they are necessary any more?

Rory: I don't think they are necessary but it all depends on what your trying to do, we've discussed not dealing with labels any more, but we haven't had that time where we want to deal with all the stuff, for us its sort of laziness or convenience you know

John: its sort of just a nice home base for us now, record sales are going down every year, your on a label to make records and to make them available your not always on there to sell records any more some people still do, but it can serve as a nice home base where if someone wants to interview your band they can contact your label, and the label can then contact you its just a nice hub of communications, otherwise we'd have to take many many hours out of our personal lives but some bands do it, like the do-nots from Germany run their own label and do everything themselves, and the band is kind of all they do but we have always valued our sort of other stuff going on.

WWR: sure, also 'normal' people think that a band on fat wreck chords could stand to make a lot of money but don't realise you need to have normal jobs also..

John: Yes, but the only people who understand that are people in other bands or people who do shows, you know we don't just go home and go on vacation in Mexico, we go home and go back to work

Rory: Even the bands who do make a living doing it, the perception is so inflated because the bands who do make a living from it make such a modest living they might as well be school teachers

John: unless your like green day
Rory: yea unless you have a top 40 song your lucky to make a living off of it, so yea we have always worked.

WWR: Some of your lyrics seem very personal, is this the way you feel you can send your message out to other bands and so forth by listening to the records as opposed to bitching on the internet on some forum or blog?

Rory: definitely
John: sure I can see what your getting at, we are one of the more private bands that I can think of. A lot of bands are every other day blog update or video update and all over the internet and reveal every detail of their personal lives and we have a layer of...it sounds hard to say but I think we let our music speak for ourselves and let the music be what we are saying. We reluctantly do the self promotion thing, a lot of bands love it they cant wait to update their Myspace page and that's fine that's great and maybe it would be to our benefit to do that more but none us really enjoy that. We don't set out to be private but we just are a lot more private people than people generally are.

WWR: Are there any songs from the last two albums which have a favourite subject?

Rory: not a favourite subject necessarily but for me its sort of it comes out whether its political or personal I don't really sit and think I am going to write a song about this or this album should be like this I just let it come out, for me my favourite songs on our record are the ones we are playing at the moment because its fun to perform those songs, once they're written they get passed to the venting process before I bring them in to show the band, you know I feel on the newest record that the lyrics are simplistic and sometimes a little too tongue in cheek but im not afraid of being almost silly since I feel we have such a large catalogue that its neither here or there so its never representative of our work in one way we can get away with a little low brow.

WWR: anything in terms of future releases?

Rory: I think FAT are releasing some demo's aren't they?
John: who?
Rory: FAT

John : ow cool, laughs* ha I usually find out what we are doing from the internet, nothing major we haven't done much U.S touring on this record. There might be a few digital releases of old 7 inches that weren't available and maybe an under the influence split with the gaslight anthem where we both cover songs we like.

Huge thanks to American Steel, Ed the Duck & Wiebke at FAT for the interview
American Steel – 'Dear friends and gentle hearts' is Available now on fatwreckchords

Hostage life - Free Album! but yet just broke up.. :(

So the Canadian punk rockers Hostage Life have called it a day but they left a nice free album for download behind you can get that here
and read about why its free below...


CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE
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You can download our new album, Centre of the Universe, for FREE on September 30th at 12am. You can get it right here on our MySpace page.* Why are we giving the album away for free? Several reasons:
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1. I steal music. You steal music. We all steal music. That’s how things work these days. Providing you with a free digital download prevents this from happening.
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2. Pressing CDs hasn’t really helped us financially. We sold quite a few CD copies of Walking Papers but are still in debt to our old record label. The current structure of the music industry is not artist friendly, and we have all but abandoned the notion that we could subsist as a band on album sales alone. Some artists and groups are able to do it, but Hostage Life is not one of them. As a result, it makes more sense to just give the shit away and hope that people will like it enough to come see us live and help us out that way.
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3. Let’s not bullshit ourselves…any CD we press is eventually going to end up in a landfill where it will take decades, if not centuries to biodegrade (if it ever does). The last thing this planet needs is more disposable Hostage Life merchandise that nobody wants.
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Considering the above statements, however, it does seem kind of fucked that we will also be offering Centre of the Universe as a 12 inch record. The vinyl version will NOT be available on September 30th, but on that day you will be able to pre-order it from juiceboxdotcom.com. It can be purchased in November. To sweeten the deal, the vinyl version of the album will contain a bonus 7inch which will include 2 previously unreleased tracks – a song called Armageddon Jane, and our cover of Tappa Zukie’s M.P.L.A.
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Our first scheduled show after the digital release will be in Gainesville, Florida as part of The Fest 8 (Oct.30th – Nov.1st). Stay tuned for our set date, time and venue. Very exciting.
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I’ll be launching a blog when the album is made available which will contain essays pertaining to each song. Those of you that have a distaste for pseudo-intellectual wanking may wish to avoid it. But while we’re on the topic of pretentious lyricists, I’ll explain the concept behind the album. A couple years ago I was reading the 16th issue of Chris Ware’s brilliant comic, The Acme Novelty Library. In it, the semi-autobiographical character of Mr. Ware explains to the story’s protagonist W.K. Brown (loosely based on the sci-fi writer of the same name) that his depression and sense of disconnection is a result of the westerner’s predilection towards viewing himself as the protagonist. In short, we feel so dissatisfied with our lives because we feel that we are the entire reason that everything around is occurring. If life is one big story, we’re supposed to be the heroes. It’s a pretty arrogant worldview, but one that is indicative of our species as a whole. From Ptolemy’s 2000 year-old geocentric model of the universe** to the three most popular and successful religions of our day, we tend to see ourselves as the centre of everything. We think that we are made in the image of gods, and are thus part of some kind of divine lineage; somehow more than just hominids that learned to spell, drive, and write shitty poetry; somehow separate and superior to the rest of the natural world. We believe, or rather, a great deal of us believe that we are immortal and will be whisked off to paradise when our last synapse fires and our bowels empty into our pants. It is the oldest con we know. We have bought into it for as long as we have been asking questions about ourselves and our world and accepting easy answers. But enough about that. I have rambled for too long.
Sept. 30th.
Have our album.
It is our pleasure.
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xo
Colin

The Lawrence Arms - Buttsweat and Tears (Fat Wreck 2009) - Released October 26th

It’s been three years since The Lawrence Arms last fave us some fresh material and after 10 years as a band rumours/fears began to emerge that “Oh! Calcutta!” may well be the bands last release. Thankfully we we’re wrong. Recorded in three says, limited to vinyl and digital download the EP boasts artwork and title that the band original planned for an their debut 7”.
Buttsweat and Tears is probably the release of the year for me. As record it flows perfectly, every song as good as the last, a quality rarely seen in an EP. I had fears that this would sound very similar to The Falcon, and wouldn’t have that certain something that previously Lawrence Arms releases do. Again, I was wrong.

The EP kicks off with “Spin Shining Shit”, a song that more or less defines the band, gruff fast paced punk rock with a clean break down towards the end. Next up is “The Slowest Drink In The Saddest Bar On The Snowiest Day In The Greatest City”, a song sung solely by Chris which came as a nice surprise as the alternating songs formula was abandoned on their last CD for duel vocals throughout. As all of Chris’ songs this track walks you through a story and is probably the best song on the record.
Side two kicks off with “Them Angels Been Talkin’” which is a wonderful example of how both the singers voices work perfectly together awesomely wrote verses strung together with a fists-in-the-air chorus leaves me thinking that this record couldn’t get any better. The vinyl ends with my favourite track. “The Redness in The West” shows us a new style of song writing that the Lawrence Arms hadn’t really approached before. The song starts off as a folky number with a surprise bar of distortion, and ends as a beautiful slice of Punk Rock.

The digital release of Buttsweat and Tears offers a bonus track that plays in-between tracks 3 & 4. “Demons” sounds more or less how I expect the entire EP to sound, like The Falcon, same vocals and guitar style we’re used to but with added ska. Lyrically this EP is perfect, every word flows and every phrase seems crucial. They don’t use words because they rhyme. All in all a very impressive release from what I consider to be one of the most original and exciting punk rock bands around, but what the fuck do I know?

Review by Paul Edwards