Handsome Dick Manitoba to tour texas
Handsome Dick Manitoba, formerly of The Dictators will tour Texas in May. He'll be with his solo band and the group will be doing Dictators tunes and solo cuts. Dick released Born in the Bronx in 2019.
Handsome Dick Manitoba, formerly of The Dictators will tour Texas in May. He'll be with his solo band and the group will be doing Dictators tunes and solo cuts. Dick released Born in the Bronx in 2019.
A bunch of first and second wave punk bands are on a new Pink Floyd tribute record. Fear, Dead Boys, MDC, Eater, D.I., Queers, Angry Samoans, Vibrators, Jah Wobble, Skids, Anti-Nowhere League, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Uk Subs, Chrome, and a bunch of other bands take a crack a Pink Floyd classics. It's called Punk Floyd: A Tribute To Pink Floyd and it's out Friday via Cleopatra.
Danbert Nobacon of Chumbawamba has released a new album. It's called Kochtopus's Garden—nNow That's What I Call Capitalism—the Musical . The album is set in the future and follows two songwriting bots that are on the run from "Dark Money Anon" who now controls the USA. You can hear the whole album below.
Loud Women Fest has announced its first wave lineup for this year. Baby Said, Bangzz, Berry Galazka, CHERYM, Bridget, Bugeye, Chole Hawes and the Holy Claws, Desert Sharks, Deuxes, I, Doris, Murder Club, Slut Magic, The Amniotics, Venior, Yacko, Zhariah, and Zoe Sky Jordan will be playing the festival. Loud Women Fest will take place at Rich Mix in London, UK on September 7.
In March Kitchener-based screamo band Basque released their excellent debut album Pain Without Hope of Healing. The seven tracks are filled to the brim with incredible riffs, mathy moments, wonderfully created noise, and heartfelt lyrics that are delivered with power, pain, and hope. It is astounding how much meaning and musicianship Basque are able to pack into eighteen minutes. Pain Without Hope of Healing is out everywhere now via No Funeral Records. Basque will be playing New Friends Fest in Toronto in August.
Punknews editor Em Moore caught up with bassist and vocalist Nicolas Couture to talk about the new album, Basque’s origin story, playing New Friends Fest, Nic Cage, and so much more. Read the interview below!
This interview between Em Moore and Nicolas Couture took place on April 16, 2024 over Zoom. This transcription documents their conversation and has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
On April 26, Minneapolis-based indie punks VIAL played the Hard Luck Bar in Toronto, Ontario. Boy Jr opened the show. VIAL released their album burnout earlier this year. Our photographer Stephen McGill was there to capture the show. Check out his photos below.
Hayley and The Crushers have released a video for their new song “Unsubscribe”. The song is off their upcoming EP Unsubscribe from the Underground which will be out on September 10 via Kitten Robot Records. Hayley and The Crushers released Modern Adult Kicks in 2022. Check out the video below.
Umbra Vitae have released a video for their new song “Velvet Black”. The video was directed by John Bradburn. The song is off their upcoming album Light Of Death which will be out on June 7 via Deathwish Inc. Umbra Vitae released their album Shadow of Life in 2020. Check out the video below.
Today we are super stoked to bring you the premiere of the new Muffs cover by Montreal-based bands SUBB and Mudie! The cover is for “Outer Space” which originally appeared on the Muffs’ 1997 album Happy Birthday to Me. Speaking about the decision to cover the Muffs and this track specifically, they said,
"Without The Muffs, there would be no pop punk. Deeply rooted in our DNAs, The Muffs 1997’s pop punk hit song ‘Outer Space’ was an obvious choice for the first electro upbeat single of our unlikely duo.”
Br>SUBB and Mudie’s “Outer Space” cover will be on their upcoming Cat Songs EP which is a tribute to the late Kim Shattuck of The Muffs. The EP will be out on June 21 via Thousand Island Records. Listen to the new track below!
Slipknot have announced the lineup for their Iowa show celebrating their 25th anniversary of Knotfest. Along with Slipknot, Knocked Loose, Hatebreed, Poison The Well, GWAR, Zulu, Dying Wish, Twin Temple, Vended, Holy Wars, Swollen Teeth, Till Lindemann, Spine, and Dose will be playing the show. Knotfest Iowa will take place at Water Works Park in Des Moines on September 21.
Suzie True have released a new song called “Leeches (Play Dead!)”. The song was produced by Jon Siebels of Eve 6 and is appears to be a standalone single. The song is available digitally via Get Better Records and comes with a video that was directed, shot, and edited by Sophie Prettyman-Beaucahmp. Suzie True released their album Sentimental Scum in 2023. Check out the video and song below.
Redd Kross have announced that they will be releasing a new album. It is self-titled and is a double album. Redd Kross will be out on June 28 via In The Red Records. The band has also released a video for their new song “Candy Coloured Catastrophe” which was directed by Gilbert Trejo. Redd Kross has also announced North American tour dates for this summer. Tickets for this run go on sale on May 3. A book about the band called Now You’re One Of Us will be out in October. It was written by Jeff and Steven McDonald along with Dan Epstein. Check out the video and dates below.
Froggy have released a new EP. It's four tracks and it's called Froggy. You can check it out below.
Frenzal Rhomb are playing Europe in November. They'll be stopping in Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland. You can see the dates below.
The re-united Blink-182 is playing the right half of USA this summer. The tour kicks off in July and runs just about two weeks. Pierce The Veil and Astronoid open. you can see the dates below.
Today, we are ultra-psyched to debut the new tune by Danbert Nobacon, one of the founding members of Chumbawamba! his new album is out Wednesday!
You all know Danbert- he has been an anarcho-punk icon for years- Chumba had like 117 songs about corporate greed (mostly set to dance beats), Chumba supported the coal miners and fought back against Thatcher, during the massive 1984-5 strike, he dumped water on the head of the deputy Prime minister at an awards ceremony, and he is a nice guy. Well, his brand new, massive, double LP, Kochtopus's Garden—Now that's What I Call Capitalism—The Musical, might be his punkest record yet.
The record is set in the future and is about two robots running around an America, now controlled by “Dark Money Anon,” as they question the basic flawed premises and inherent contradictions of everyday capitalism that is eating the planet. It is also kind of funny. The new single, which is the album's title track, is heavy duty…
Danbert has a lot to say on the tune:"Long time, multi-billionaire Charles ‘dark money’ Koch, the 23rd richest man in the world is neither the first nor the last, in a long line of ‘dirty oil,’ ‘garbage crude,’ robber baron industrial extractivists who have benefitted from the pillage of the planet to the detriment of everyone else. Nor is he the only one who, by hook, or by hydrocarbon crook, to use a relatively tiny part of his exorbitant wealth, to concoct a version of American free market fundamentalism to justify and to protect the business privilege of the industrial scale dumping of greenhouse gases (and a whole host of other toxins) into the atmosphere, free of charge.
He is, however, the most adept at organizing his fellow centi-millionaires and billionaires, to join him in financing such ideologically toxic free malarketry. He is the Wichita dark wizard of dark money. And in so doing, whilst magnifying its reach many times over, he has added layers of libertarian economic extremism, embedding it as the dominant invasive species of narrative, that has become the cancer at the heart of the American condition. The tok-space has dubbed this process the ‘millions-into-billions’ koch-math. Not least, by hosting twice annual war-chest-filling-donor-summits, Koch has been able to redirect the ‘chump change,’ donations of his rich pals—chump change to them being a few hundred thousand dollars, or even a million or two, each—into an unprecedentedly weaponized and aggressive defense of business privilege. And in return, the donors can expect an ongoing war of attrition against taxes on the rich, against costly regulations on business, and against any money being spent by government to help ordinary Americans, generating savings and perks for them that can be measured in the billions of dollars.
The Cato Institute think-tank, one of many, co-founded and heavily sponsored down the years by Charles Koch, hosted what has since been recognized as the first climate denial conference back in 1991. Around this same time, and predating the rhetoric and town hall busting methods of the Tea Party by almost two decades, by deploying groups like Citizens for a Sound Economy, to agitate against taxes and government spending, Koch evolved what Lee Fang called “the cutthroat tactics … anything-goes approach,” that would infect the Republican party and voter base alike. Meanwhile, by pioneering newly vicious attack ads targeted at wavering Republicans and/or primarying them from the right, Koch would begin to exert a grip on the Republican party and seed the thru lines to the Trump MAGA extremism which dominates the GOP today. And when necessary the same tactics would be deployed against corporate Democrats. Not least, Koch has overseen the defeat of attempts by Clinton-Gore to tax carbon, and Obama-Biden to ‘cap and trade’ carbon, whilst flipping the entire Republican Party into the party of climate deniers.
Like a corporate Jekyll and Hyde, on the one invisible hand, Koch has outwardly projected a libertarian belief in the unadulterated free market as the natural and best mechanism for a healthy and free society. On the other invisible hand, the really invisible one, he has deployed his vast wherewithal to working away in the dark, to manipulate the market every which way and mold it to best serve the bottom line of Koch Industries, the well-being of everyone else, and the planet itself, be damned."
Danbert's new album is out on Wednesday. It's a masterpiece. You'll be able to pick it up here and you can check out the new single below, right now!