Hives New Album "Lex Hives"

Streaming now on their Facebook page.

InstaReview:

Come On - Annoying but mercifully short
Go Right Ahead - Almost as annoying but longer.
1000 Answers - If they write a thousand songs, one's gotta be good; but not this one.
I Want More - I don't, please.
Wait a Minute - Not bad.
Patrolling Days - Almost good.
Take Back the Toys - See song 3.
Without the Money - Coulda been a contender
These Spectacles Reveal the Nostalgics - Best of the bunch.
My Time is Coming - Likeable too.
If I Had a Cent - Pretty good.
Midnight Shifter - Cool title, mediocre song.

--EJ

Fat Wreck Chords wants you to...

Pre-order Teenage Bottlerocket Freak Out! 

Per FWC's press release:

Teenage Bottlerocket’s latest pop-punk masterpiece, Freak Out! comes out on July 3rd, but you can pre-order the album on LP, CD or digital format, straight from the source, right now! And with the new Fat Digital Store, when you order the record on a physical format, you will be e-mailed a link to download a digital copy of the album ONE WEEK before release date. If you order the digital album for only $8, same thing, you’ll get your download a week early. With songs like Headbanger, Cruising for Chicks, Necrocomicon, and Radical, how can you possibly go wrong? This is TBR’s best record yet. Get it now.

Sweet.  "Headbanger", "Cruising for Chicks" !

Call me when they come up with a song that doesn't sound like a Ramones cover.

Teenage Bottlerocket's Fat Wreck Chords band page is here.

Teenage Bottlerocket's web site is here.
Teenage Bottlerocket's web site is here.



Teenage Bottlerocket Tour Dates:

The Menzingers Tour Dates

Tour dates recently released for The Menzingers:


5/22/2012    Gramercy Theater    New York    NY    w/Hot Water Music & Luther


w/ Bouncing Souls  & Luther:               

6/12/2012    Black Cat             Washington    DC   
6/13/2012    Cats Cradle           Carrboro    NC   
6/14/2012    Masquerade             Atlanta    GA   
6/15/2012    State Theater           St. Petersburg    FL   
6/16/2012    Revolution                   Ft. Lauderdale    FL   
6/17/2012    The Social                   Orlando    FL   
6/18/2012    Freebird Live           Jacksonville    FL   
6/19/2012    Vinyl Music Hall        Pensacola    FL   
6/21/2012    The Mohawk           Austin    TX   
6/22/2012    Trees                   Dallas    TX   
6/23/2012    Fitzgeralds           Houston    TX   
7/8/2012      Nile Theatre           Mesa            AZ   
7/11/2012    House of Blues           San Diego    CA   
7/12/2012    Mayan Theatre           Los Angeles    CA   
7/13/2012    House of Blues           Las Vegas    NV   
7/14/2012    SLO Brew                   San Luis Obispo    CA   
7/17/2012    Slim's                   San Francisco    CA   
7/18/2012    Slim's                   San Francisco    CA   
7/20/2012    The Alley-Sparks      Sparks    NV   
7/21/2012    Hawthorne Theater    Portland    OR   
7/22/2012    Chop Suey           Seattle    WA   
7/25/2012    In The Venue           Salt Lake City    UT   
7/26/2012    The Summit Music Hall    Denver    CO   
7/27/2012    Sokol                   Omaha    NE   
7/28/2012    First Avenue           Minneapolis    MN   
7/29/2012    Metro                       Chicago    IL   
7/31/2012    Magic Stick            Detroit    MI   
8/1/2012      Beachland Ballroom    Cleveland    OH   
8/2/2012      Mr. Smalls Theatre    Pittsburgh    PA   
8/4/2012      House of Blues            Boston    MA   

The Menzingers artist page at Epitaph is here.
The Menzingers merch page is here.
Video for The Menzingers' Nice Things is here.
The Menzingers Facebook page is here.
The Menzingers Wikipedia page is here.
The Menzingers Tumblr page is here.

Millencolin Streams Rarities Collection

From Epitaph Records:

Celebrated Swedish punk band, Millencolin invite fans to stream their upcoming May 29th release, The Melancholy Connection. This assemblage of b-sides is a follow up to 1999's The Melancholy Collection and features two brand new songs and twelve rarities spanning from their break-out album, Pennybridge Pioneers, through today. The CD is paired with a ninety minute DVD, The Pennybridge Production that takes fans inside the making of Pennybridge Pioneers with never before seen archival footage, interviews with the band and live performances.

Read more here.

Listen to the stream here.

Well, Bamboozle 2012 has occurred.  Looks like everyone had a grand time.  See links below for various accounts of the proceedings:

NJ .com article here.  As you'd expect, a Bon Jovi-centric review.  They basically wrote it up as a Bon Jovi show, not sure they even mentioned another band by name.

My favorite quote: " And unlike the other artists who drew enormous crowds to the boardwalk and beach this weekend, Bon Jovi does not compete for attention."  I don't even know what that means....

Fuse.TV put out a few pieces on the festival including a photo album and a collection of quotes by the likes of Dave Grohl and Brian Fallon (The Gaslight Anthem).  See all the Fuse articles on the festival here.

A quick sampler here courtesy of Fuse:

Caption: If you're gonna play acoustic, just sit and strum please.

Caption: Uhh, ok Dave, we get it, you rock.

Caption: Nice shirt, you reject.

Iggy Pop Going Digital.....

Industry blog Midem recently published an interview with Iggy Pop's online distributor, Believe Digital regarding Iggy's decision to ditch his traditional label (EMI) and go direct-to-fan to distribute his new venture.

My favorite Iggy quote from the piece: "What has a record company ever done for me but humiliate and torment and drag me down?”

Read more here.

Kurt Cobain Was Recording Solo "White Album" at Death

At least that's the word according to former Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson.  Eric is quoted over at Fuse TV  stating that "Kurt Cobain was recording new songs at the time of his death that transcended anything he’d written so far."

Here's an excerpt:" That’s why I was really sad [when he died]. I was like, ‘Oh man, not only are you cutting off a life, but a message to the world, a musical path is just left with … Bush and all this other stuff."

Hey fuck you Eric, I like Bush.....

Read the rest here.