H2O gigs to showcase new album

With H2O coming back alive with their new 10-track album 'Nothing To Prove' (Bridge 9, May 27) - and teaser 2 track 7" on April 8th, here is the list of their upcoming gigs east and west USA to showcase their return.


April 6th: Irvine, CA @ Bamboozle Left

May 30th- NYC @ Blender Theater w/ This Is Hell, Crime In Stereo, Stigma, Jerk City

May 31st- Philadelphia @ Trocadero w/ This Is Hell, Fahrenheit 451, Stigma, Crime In Stereo

June 1st- Boston @ Middle East Downstairs w/ This Is Hell, Crime In Stereo, Stigma, A Loss For Words

spotted: H2O: new 7"

Ahead of their new album "Nothing to prove" - out in May - NYHC legends H2O will release a 2-track 7" in a few days.

Check out one of the new songs called "1995" (also on the 7") on the band's myspace page: www.myspace.com/h2ofamily

spotted: Sound and Fury festival in July

Sound and Fury Festival: July 25th-27th, 2008

(*This is not the final lineup, stay tuned for updates*)
Annihilation Time , Blacklisted, Bracewar, Ceremony, Cold World,
Colin of Arabia, Downpresser, End of a Year, Guns Up!, Have Heart,
I Rise, Let Down, Lie and Wait, Living Hell, Mother of Mercy,
New Lows, No Apologies, No Truce, Pressure, Rad, Reign Supreme,
Robot Whales, Shipwreck, Sinking Ships, Soul Control, Spanish Bombs,
Staring Problem, Striking Distance, The Carrier, The Mongoloids,
Trap Them, Trapped Under Ice, Trash Talk, Underdog,
Violation, Warpriest

For more info go to: www.myspace.com/soundandfuryfestival

spotted: new Have Heart in the making

Have Heart has started recording for their a new album, following their 2006 release
'The Things We Carry'. The band is planning to record and release a double album. 

Three Sheets acoustic set (dload)

download of Boston's Three Sheets' acoustic set on WAAF Bay Skate rock on March 26, 2006:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/x1nz5n

spotted: last Chokehold gig for download

from the soundboard, Chokehold's last gig back in 1996: check out this blog:
http://x43x.blogspot.com/

Slumlords live @ WERS 2005

http://www.sendspace.com/file/9axyue

spotted (Cold As Life, Koro, Breakdown and more)

COLD AS LIFE will be recording a new full length cd in May. It will be produced by Joey Z from Life Of Agony, tentative release is July / Aug 2008.

The ALMIGHTY LUMBERJACKS OF DEATH complete collection will come out on 12 inch vinyl this summer.

Check out this site where you post your demos for other people to listen/dload: www.freebanddemos.com

After their annual St Patrick's Day gigs in and around Boston, the Dropkick Murphys are again hitting worldstages. Check out their site (www.dropkickmurphys.com) for European tourdates.

The Breakdown reunion at the upcoming, annual NY Superbowl of HC is a 1-off. There wont be a European follow up to that Superbowl gig as previously rumoured.

Chris Cornell, Good Charlotte and others were recently in South Africa as part of some large Coca-Cola sponsored festival.

Blast from the past. Tennessee's Koro's early 80s thrashcore has been released on cd by Sorry State Records. The album 'Speed Kills' contains the famous '700 Club' ep and also some unreleased material.

upcoming (anytime now or in few weeks/months)

not in date order unfortunately (that just take stoo much of my time, sorry)

H2O - cd (May 27)
Justice - live and learn ep (April 1)
H2O - live At CBGB cd (part of The Bowery Collection) (May 13)
No Turning Back - stronger cd (April 15)
Merauder - gangsta cd (sometime in the spring of 2008)
The Alligators - s/t cd (April 29)
Street Dogs new cd (July 8)
Trapped Under Ice - stay cold 7" (April 22)
Mark Lind and the Unloved -the truth can be brutal cd (June 24)

and ofcourse.....
Stigma's solo album (“Still crucified”) which was announced 2 years ago is apparently AGAIN planned for an imminent release

The Bowery Collection - live cds

for the few who don't know but BOWERY refers to the street in NYC where the famous CBGBs was located.

MVDA is putting out some live cds from CBGBs' soundboard: Toasters, Queers, H2O, Terror,... under the banner "The Bowery Collection".

spotted:comments

spotted will be a regular feature on this blog.It's stuff I pick up from other sites, blogs, boards and that I wanna draw attention to. I will always mention where I spotted something.

spotted

on http://soundandfuryhardcore.blogspot.com/ there are curently whole bunch of interesting WNYU sets for download


And check out http://www.thorprecords.com/boards/viewthread.php?tid=10559 for an incredible amount of great downloadable HC from way back in history

what I currently have on my expected list

One thing I will try to uphold is mentioning upcoming releases (pls post whatever you know)

The new H2O cd on May 27

H2O Live At CBGB cd (pasrt of The Bowery Collection) on May 13

Merauder “Gangsta” cd sometime in the spring of 2008

The Alligators cd on April 29

new Street Dogs cd on July 8

Mark Lind and the Unloved (“the truth can be brutal”) on June 24

Stigma's solo album (“Still crucified”) which was announced 2 years ago is apparently AGAIN planned for an imminent release

extra note

I will also mention certain downloads if I think it's worth it, or rare, out of print, unique, fantastic,....

collaterallife

I decided to start this blog in an attempt to have a blog that just talks about music (HC, Oi, streetpunk, rock) - what's new, whta's expected, what's happening - without any chat about life, politics, religion, sex, food, cars, sports,... - there's enough of that somewhere else. Just an informative exchange of news on the music we like.
It might work, it might not work. Only the future will tell.
ME - as the blogger creator - might sometimes write some column about the music (and again only about the music).
That's it. Enjoy, join, participate or don't. It's a choice one can make.

pennywise

new Pennywise album "Reason To Believe" is out. It was (still is??) available for a free download via their myspace page.