Richmond's melodic hardcore masters Strike Anywhere released their Fat debut Dead FM this week. To celebrate, Fatty Warbucks and the band have teamed up to give one lucky Punknews.org reader a copy of said album and a patch to attach to your stinky jean jacket and Up the Punxtm or whatever it is that you kids these days do. Ten runners-up will receive a poster of the bonafide hunks in the band along with a similarly rad patch.
We're super stoked to announce the winners of the Much The Same contest we've been running.
Our grand prize winner of Much The Same's newest CD Survive along with 10 CDs from bands like Rise Against, Ryan's Hope, the Flatliners and the Swellers is Bill S. from Stewartsville, NJ. The five runners-up will recieve a copy of Survive and are David K. from Danville, CA, Alli S. from Wentzville, MO, Brecca M. from Henderson, KY, Brian M. from Mt. Prospect, IL and Omar A. from New York, NY.
Thanks to all that entered, as well as Nitro along with Gunner and the boys from Much The Same for the prizes.
This month, Deathwish will be releasing two high profile hardcore albums which have many fans among both the editors and readers of this site. The first is a brand new album from The Hope Conspiracy, their first full length since 2002. Titled Death Knows Your Name, the record is due out September 19th.
The second is the long-awaited reissue of Modern Life Is War's acclaimed out-of-print debut, My Love, My Way which is remastered and features bonus material from the band.
To celebrate both spectacular releases, Punknews.org and Deathwish have teamed up to give away a bunch of cool swag from both bands.
Little Steven's Underground Garage is throwing a travelling festival this September dubbed the Rolling Rock and Roll Show. The event will feature Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent of pioneering of 60's British Invasion / psychadelia act the Zombies, modern garage rockers the Mooney Suzuki and the Woggles on all dates. The west coast will see appearances by Phantom Planet, the midwest features the Gore Gore Girls, the east cost the Fleshtones and the south will include the Forty Fives. The show kicks off on September 5th and runs into October.
The event's been described to Punknews.org as "pretty much a live version of the radio show: Short sets, go-go girls in between bands, psychedelic lights, the whole shebang." If you want part of that that shebang, check below. We're giving away two pairs of tickets to the Wednesday, September 6th show at the Avalon in Hollywood, CA. There you'll be able to check out the Zombies, Phantom Planet, the Mooney Suzuki, the Woggles and the Holograms.
Against Me! recently released their first live album, the title of which contained an obscene amount of exclamation points. To celebrate and share the love the band and their kind-of-former label Fat Wreck are giving away some copies of the album to some lucky fans.
One winner will win a signed copy of Against Me!!! Americans Abroad!!! Live in London!!! along with a poster. Five runners-up will receive an unsigned copy of the album along with a poster and a patch.
Next month, The Distance will be hitting the road for a tour with Set Your Goals and No Trigger in support of their new record, The Rise, the Fall, and Everything in Between.
To celebrate this perfect pairing of melodic hardcore acts, the band is offering one lucky Punknews.org reader an iPod Nano which is all the rage these days and functions using a combination of wind power and ancient voodoo magic. More importantly however, it'll let you carry around a bunch of music including the free records from The Distance that you'll win as well.
With your freshly loaded iPod you can then don a Distance shirt thus completing the sequence of events that will give you access to the Well of Souls.
In September Sweden's Raised Fist are heading to Canada for a tour of Ontario and Quebec with support from Montreal's Closedown. To celebrate the invasion we're giving away a pair of tickets to each show on the tour. We're doing this in two parts, so pay attention folks. This first contest is for the Quebec leg of the tour, so if you can get to a show in la belle province check below for details. A similar contest for the Ontario dates is coming soon.
The hardcore band is currently supporting their 2006 full length Sound of the Republic.
Our Good Riddance contest has ended. Congratulations to our grand prize winner, Gregory S. of Culver City, CA. He'll be taking home a great Good Riddance / Gama-Go prize pack that includes the band's new full length My Republic along with a pair of PJs and slippers from the hip San Francisco clothier. Thanks to everyone who entered and check back soon for more chances to win!
New Found Glory are set to release their fifth studio album, Coming Home September 19, 2006 on Geffen Records. To commemorate it's release, New Found Glory and Punknews.org have teamed up to bring you a chance to a brand new autographed Fender Squier Stratocaster guitar or an autographed Coming Home poster.
In case you're wondering, the Strat features an alder body and bolt-on maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, with two single coil pickups and one humbucking pickup at the bridge position. If you're a musician, that should make perfect sense to you. Since I'm not, it's like reading ancient Somarian.
To check out an (unautographed) picture of the guitar, and to submit your entry you can click Read More.
Much The Same are gearing up for the release of their Nitro debut Survive. To celebrate, the boys have given us some schwag to give away.
Gunner and the fellows have ponied up a copy of Survive, a poster, 2 stickers and pins and a T-shirt of their choice. Oh, and just in case you're not sure of what to expect from Survive, they've offered up a collection of 10, count 'em ten!, albums that they've been listening to over the past few months. They've included albums from Anti-Flag, Rise Against, A Wilhelm Scream and Ryan's Hope to sweeten the pot. Read More to see the full details as well as how to enter. Get going!
Oh, and if you really want to get the know the guys, we talked with them last month so go get the skinny.