The Ataris - Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits(1999)

Blue Skies, Broken Hearts... Next 12 Exits is the second-full length album by The Ataris, released on Kung Fu Records in April 13 1999. "Blue Skies" is considered by many fans to be the strongest album of The Ataris and gave the band a big following. The album marked a change from the more straightforward pop punk of Anywhere but Here in both production and style. With a new band and added guitar, Kris Roe's songs took on more depth, became slightly heavier, yet retained the catchiness and identifiable issues that had given the Ataris their original fanbase. The album also includes the anthem San Dimas High School Football Rules, which was the last song played at The Ataris shows up until the end of the So Long, Astoria tour. The album contains a clip from the movie "A Bronx Tale" at the end of "Your Boyfriend Sucks".

It is interesting to note that although Patrick Riley was credited as a second guitarist, he did not play any guitar on this album. All guitar parts were played by Kris Roe. This was the same for all albums up until So Long, Astoria, when John Collura joined the band and immediately took over second guitar duties both live and in the studio.

Kris Roe took the photograph for the album cover. It's a photograph of the "Blue Skies" trailer park sign along the 101 freeway in Santa Barbara. It also coincides with that fact that driving North on the 101 there are 12 exits to get off in Santa Barbara.

Track List

1. "Losing Streak"
2. "1*15*96" – 3:54
3. "San Dimas high School Football Rules"
4. "Your Boyfriend Sucks"
5. "I Won't Spend Another Night Alone"
6. "Broken Promise Ring"
7. "Angry Nerd Rock"
8. "The Last Song I Will Ever Write About a Girl"
9. "Choices"
10. "Better Way"
11. "My Hotel Year (acoustic)"
12. "Life Makes No Sense"
13. "Answer:"
14. "In Spite of the World"

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Nerfherder, Millencolin, NOFX, Alkaline Trio and American Steel

Nerfherder has released a brand new album on April 29th called 'Nerfherder IV' on Oglio Records. The album has 12 songs and is sure to be awesome. They have some of their new tunes up on Myspace in case you haven't heard them yet.

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Don't forget that Millencolin's new album 'Machine 15' was released yesterday. The album's 14 tracks are bound to be killer. The band is currently on tour overseas but expect a US tour toward the end of summer.

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NOFX have just announced that they will play a short east coast tour in October of this year. Here are the tour dates:

10/13/08 Providence, RI at Lupo’s

10/16/08 New York, NY at Irving Plaza

10/16/08 New York, NY at Irving Plaza

10/17/08 Sayreville, NJ at The Starland Ballroom

10/18/08 Long Island, NY at The Crazy Donkey

10/20/08 Philadelphia, PA at Trocadero Theater

10/21/08 Pittsburgh, PA at Club Zoo

10/23/08 Buffalo, NY at Town Ballroom

10/24/08 Baltimore, MD at Ram’s Head Tavern

10/25/08 Richmond, VA at Toad’s Place

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American Steel will tour with the Alkaline Trio beginning July 8th and will continue until August 3rd. Here is that tour schedule:

07/08/08 Pontiac, MI Clutch Cargo's

07/09/08 Chicago, IL House of Blues

07/10/08 Cleveland, OH House of Blues

07/11/08 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live

07/12/08 New York, NY The Fillmore at Irving Plaza

07/13/08 Providence, RI Lupo's

07/15/08 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore at the Theatre of Living

07/16/08 Norfolk, VA The Norva

07/18/08 Atlanta, GA Center Stage

07/19/08 Orlando, FL House of Blues

07/21/08 Austin, TX La Zona Rosa

07/22/08 Dallas, TX House of Blues

07/25/08 Las Vegas , NV House of Blues

07/26/08 Los Angeles, CA House of Blues

07/27/08 San Diego, CA SOMA

07/28/08 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore

07/29/08 Portland, OR Roseland Theatre

07/30/08 Seattle, WA El Corazon

08/01/08 Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue

08/02/08 Denver, CO Cervantes

08/03/08 Lawrence, KS Granada Theatre

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Motion City Soundtrack Acoustic EP out May 6th

Hello People!

I'm here to let you know that we recently recorded some acoustic versions of songs off of our latest record Even If It Kills Me. We entered the studio with no preconceived ideas of how we wanted the songs to sound. Was it a brilliant plan to encourage spontaneous creativity, was it just plain laziness, or were we just too darn busy doing other things to even think about it? The world will never know... All that we know is that we are really happy with the outcome. We left the session with 5 unique and spontaneous takes on some of our favorite tracks from the record.

The good news is that they will soon be released on our first ever acoustic EP - out May 6th exclusively on iTunes. You can either buy it bundled with Even If It Kills Me for $11.99 or just purchase the songs individually if you already own the album. Check it out and let us know what you think!

- Matt

Tracklisting
1) Fell In Love Without You
2) It Had To Be You
3) Broken Heart
4) Can't Finish What You Started
5) Point Of Extinction

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Punknews Interview : The Loved Ones

Punknews contributor Frank J. Corva III took in a Loved Ones show during their recently wrapped up tour in support of their second album Build & Burn. While at the show Frank had a chance to spend some time talking to The Loved Ones' Dave Hause.

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Dave Hause has an air of calmness and composure to him. It’s surprising considering the amount of roles he plays on a day-to-day basis. From the frontman for Philadelphia’s The Loved Ones to a partner in a contracting firm, to, most importantly, a husband, his plate is full. Nonetheless, he seems to be taking it all in stride and appreciating the small victories along the way.

Dave took some time to sit down with me backstage at a sold out show at The Knitting Factory in New York City to answer a few questions.

The Loved Ones How are things on this tour going?

Things are going great. We’re having a blast. We’re sort of winding out this leg, the East Coast, with The Gaslight Anthem. These are the last three shows. We’ve made quick friends with them.

Good band.

Great band. We’ve had a bunch of our friends regionally open. Like, in Florida we had New Mexican Disaster Squad and in the Midwest we had the Hifi Handgrenades and The Arrivals and last night we met up with The Ergs and Legrecia. So they’ll finish out the last few dates with us. It’s cool because you get a breath of fresh air every couple days. You can sort of spread it around. We feel fortunate enough to be able to headline in the first place, so to be able to invite our friends along for the party is great. It makes it all the sweeter.

Absolutely. Congratulations on tonight by the way. I heard you guys sold out the venue ahead of time.

Thanks! Yeah, man, we got the word last week and we were all high-fives and cheering in the van. It’s a first for sure. We’ve sold out some shows before and even on this tour we sold out some, but not this far in advance and not this big of a club. It was really exciting; definitely one of those dreams you have as a kid that comes true.

In regards to touring, I’ve read that you have to be strategic about your touring schedule due to certain factors such as you being married and having a business back home. How difficult is it and what type of business are you in?

Yeah, I have a partner and he and I run a small contracting company. It’s carpentry and stuff like that. We have subcontractors that work for us as well, so I do a lot the administrative stuff while I’m on tour. Or at least I’m supposed to be doing it. He holds it down while I’m away and then when I’m home I work like crazy to sort of play catch up and help keep things going. So, I have that, fortunately. And I am married and I’ve been married for years. It’s just a juggling act and I have people in my life that are willing to put up with this and are supportive of it and without them I would either lose them entirely or would have to make a choice. I would have to scale back on my availability to do music. My marriage comes first. It’s great. I have supportive people around me and we are fortunate enough to start to have our own little fan base. We [can] plan out and headline so that we can dictate how long we’re out. When we do support, and when we’ve done support, we’ve found it to be great and those opportunities were terrific, but you’re on their time schedule. The Bouncing Souls or NOFX or Alkaline Trio, whoever it is that you’re playing with, those are their shows. You sort of get put into this predicament… you know, we’re older guys, so we do have other lives that are in place. But, yeah, thankfully, we’ve got a couple headlining tours coming up and then we probably won’t do support ‘til the fall. We want to tour, we definitely want to play. We just want to make sure we do it efficiently.

Especially with the cost of gas these days.

Oh my god, yeah! I know.

For a while you weren’t playing in a band, but working on the road with bands like The Bouncing Souls and Lifetime. Was it difficult to be on the sidelines feeling like you had you had all of this creative energy building up inside of you?

It was frustrating at times because of that, but it was a great experience. I got to travel all over the world in a short period of time and I got paid to do it. I luckily got paid to do it with bands that do take pretty good care of their crew, especially The Souls. We made fast friends and they treat you like you’re in the band. It’s just incredible. But yeah, it got frustrating and the more it got frustrating the more certain people in my life were like, “You gotta do this for yourself.” So, luckily I had those people pushing towards that and so it worked out well. I haven’t roadied in years and years now. I’m glad I made the transition. I had some pretty amazing opportunities come up right as I was starting The Loved Ones and I turned ‘em down and I’m glad that I did because I’m here now and able to play and it’s going really well.

What was the process of starting the band and getting out there as a frontman like?

It was actually a baptism by fire. Our first show was in Philly at The Trocadero in front of about 1200 people opening for The Souls. So, it was like, “Here you go, here’s a show. Sure you can play, but you have to learn fast or die on the vine.” And then the second one was opening for Alkaline Trio in Jersey in front of like 2500 people. We also plugged in and played some basements in Philly. A couple small shows and then just took everything we could. It was fun and exciting and scary, but being in the environment of roadying or whatever I knew what to do. I had always been in bands; I just couldn’t give it my 100% of my energy when I was doing it because I was always leaving for tours.

In recent interviews you’ve talked about how you’re proud of the fact that your songs are formatted in a very traditional rock ‘n’ roll song structure. Greg Graffin once mentioned that it’s actually a positive thing that the sound of punk rock has become traditional in the sense that it gives bands a platform. Do you agree?

Well, the way I look at is that we’re not a punk band, per se. We’re a band that writes songs and the first and foremost thing for me is whether or not a song works. It’s important that a song works in any different voicing. You can play it on an acoustic guitar, you can play it as a full ramped-up rock band, you can play it as an electronic song because ultimately the three main things that have to be working are the rhythm, the melody and the words, and then I mean, there’s the harmony, so there are four factors. So, if that doesn’t work in certain scenarios then maybe a song doesn’t quite stand up over time anyway. For us, if it’s a good song we just kind of shine it through our prism of what we do. I mean, there are certain things that you can only do with a full rock band. That’s part of the problem with hardcore music that I have. It’s all fine and well if you have a crowd of people who are jumping on top of each other in a crazy pile on situation and all that stuff, but, for me, I just kept walking about from hardcore records because the songs didn’t stick with me. They’re hardcore songs. They’re specifically written within this stifling genre to some degree. As I was starting to write my own songs for The Loved Ones I just felt like I wanted to make sure that the song would stick in your head no matter how you heard the song.

I hear you. In a recent interview I heard with Tom Gabel from Against Me! he spoke about the high of watching your audience grow over time and that being one of the factors that drove him as a musician. Do you relate to that? Is it something that you feed off of?

It’s very addicting to have things grow because typically they’re exponential. We’ve seen a lot of good growth and it is an addicting feeling, but like any other addiction you can get wrapped up in it. I think the downside to being enamored and focused on that kind of success is you can say its pump up for disappointment. If you’re moving forward as an artist and as a band or whatever and if the desired effect is just to have the crowd grow and the crowd freaks, like what do you do then? You have to be prepared to still put on a good show and still mean it and not be let down by that. It’s something that I struggle with and it’s something that anybody that has that addiction to watch things grow struggles with. I can relate to what Tom was saying about it, but I would be very cautious about nurturing that vibe because you want to temper it with contentedness and make sure that your hearts in the right place. That’s something that I’ve struggled with from time to time. Sometimes you can’t get your head on straight when you’re playing a show, even if it’s a really successful show, because there’s other stuff going on in your life. Keeping those moments pure is really the main goal and it’s not necessarily just to see the band grow. Yeah, that’s a big part of it, but having an honest exchange with the audience is definitely the goal.

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Iron Maiden Announce More U.S. Tour Dates

From on stage earlier tonight (Friday, March 14) at a packed Izod Center New Jersey, IRON MAIDEN vocalist Bruce Dickinson announced the second and final U.S. leg of their eagerly anticipated "Somewhere Back In Time - World Tour 08".

Tickets for IRON MAIDEN's current dates at the Los Angeles Forum and New Jersey's Izod Centre having sold out months in advance, the band will return for more major USA concerts this summer which will take them to a number of cities they have not played in many years along with a return to the New York area at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey on June 14 and Madison Square Garden in New York City on June 15.

Tickets for these shows will go on sale to the public soon as listed below.

A special pre-sale will be made available exclusively to members of the IRON MAIDEN fan club.

Newly announced IRON MAIDEN tour dates:

June 11 - Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena* (on sale 3/22/08)
June 12 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center (on sale 3/29/08)
June 14 - Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center (on sale 3/22/08)
June 15 - New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden (on sale 3/22/08)
June 17 - Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Centre (on sale 3/29/08)
June 18 - Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion (on sale 3/29/08)
June 20 - Mansfield, MA @ Tweeter Center for The Peforming Arts (on sale 28/08)


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