Month: August 2017

Knuckle Puck on Rock Sound Podcast

Knuckle Puck
Jason Tate

Knuckle Puck are guests on the latest Rock Sound Podcast. Apparently they re-recorded a bunch of the album after not liking the first group of songs:

None of us were really like psyched on it. Usually when you go in to record, it’s one of my favourite parts of being in this band – when you record it’s the real deal and you just get this feeling, man. But for some reason it just wasn’t there this time – the first time around.

It was an odd feeling because the songs were really good but it just didn’t measure up for some reason, none of us were psyched. So we thought about it for two months and then re-did them – we both changed and kept a lot, and now we’re psyched on them! It’s been a rollercoaster of emotion and kind of crazy.

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GoDaddy and Google Boot White Supremacist Site

Jason Tate

TechCrunch:

White supremacist site the Daily Stormer needs to find another domain provider after getting the boot from GoDaddy. In a tweet, the company said “We informed The Daily Stormer that they have 24 hours to move the domain to another provider, as they have violated our terms of service.”

They tried to move to Google, and Google rejected them as well:

Google has canceled the domain registration for The Daily Stormer, a company spokesperson confirmed Monday.

“We are cancelling Daily Stormer’s registration with Google Domains for violating our terms of service,” the spokesperson told Business Insider.

Good.

The Knife to Release New Live Album and Film

The Knife
Jason Tate

The Knife sat down with Pitchfork to talk about their upcoming live album and concert film:

It was the first time for me being in a work process with so many people involved in the actual making of what we were about to do. We strived to have a collective process where everyone’s input mattered. It of course was a very slow way of working. We rehearsed for weeks and weeks, discussed, tried out things over and over. It was a great contrast to the studio work making the music. I think I was more focused on my body performance than the musical performance; I had never danced before so it took a lot of time for me to learn.

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Jawbreaker Return in San Francisco

Jawbreaker
Jason Tate

Nina Corcoran, writing for Sterogum, with a review of Jawbreaker’s San Francisco show:

On paper, Jawbreaker’s show at Rickshaw Stop seemed like a dream. It marked the band’s first headlining show in 21 years in their hometown of San Francisco, no less, at a 400-cap venue. Two local, since-defunct ‘90s punk bands — Monsula and Nuisance — opened. Jawbreaker kept to their DIY roots to a certain extent, opening it up to all ages and selling tickets for $20 with an intense anti-scalper will-call pick-up. For a band that swore it would never reunite, but then announced it would indeed reunite at Riot Fest 2017, performing a proper set in the small-sized venue setting they never broke out of during their career seemed as good as it could get. Yet somehow, Jawbreaker exceeded that.

Billie Joe Armstrong Posts About Charlottesville

Green Day
Jason Tate

Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day has shared a post regarding the events in Charlottesville over the weekend:

Omaha!! what a show! I love the heartland. nothing makes me feel more inspired than hearing an arena singing together.. so many thoughts today.. my heart feels heavy. I feel like what happened in charlottesville goes beyond the point of anger. it makes me sad and desperate. shocked. I fucking hate racism more than anything. music and social justice have always gone hand and hand with me. we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for “the time they are a changing” .. some people don’t agree. the spirit of green day has always been about rising above oppression. and sticking up for what you believe in and singing it at the top of your lungs. we grew up fearing nuclear holocaust because of the cold war. those days are feeling way too relevant these days. these issues are our ugly past.. and now it’s coming to haunt us. always resist these doomsday politicians. and in the words of our punk forefathers .. Nazi punks fuck off.