Renegade degenerates The Spits have just divulged the entirety of their latest and most nefarious album to date. Hosted courtesy of the fiendish audio technicians at Punknews.org, the album bares the official title of “The Spits” but is better known by most underground street peddlers and petty criminals as “IV” or the “School’s Out” LP.

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Physical evidence of said recordings is currently available on compact disc from the delinquents at Recess Records and on long-playing phonograph record from the band’s own Thriftstore Records.

At the moment, the band is spending the bulk of their time meditating and preparing improvised homemade pyrotechnics for the coast-to-coast crusade they’ll be taking at the end of the month across the Northern states, from their hometown of Seattle to the shores of the East Coast. You can click “more” below for the dates!

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No Idea Records and Distro have released the second installment of their Pretend Record series. The absolutely free downloadable comp features some sneak peaks on future No Idea Records releases from the likes of Gatorface, Assholeparade, FIYA, Tubers, and Worn in Red as well as some of the new and upcoming releases from various labels that No Idea Records exclusively distributes.

No Idea Overlord Var had this to say about Pretend Record #2:

“Welcome away from Volume Two of our SUMMERTIME WATERMELON festival of DOWNLOAD MANIA!! Limited edition and first-come, first served (shoes and shirt optional)… Nothing to trade, nothing to sell, in fact it’s all a big PRETEND RECORD!! You can’t watch it spin, you can’t hand number it, you can’t auction it. “Well, heck, what CAN you do with it?” You may LISTEN to it. With your ear bones!”

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD!

V/A - Pretend Record #2 Track Listing:
GATORFACE “The Cleaner” (From “Wasted Monuments” on NO IDEA)
ASSHOLEPARADE “Big Death” (From “Welcome Fucking Home” on NO IDEA)
THE DOPAMINES “October 24th” (From THE COPYRIGHTS split on IT’S ALIVE)
WORN IN RED “Piled Like Bricks” (From “In the Offing” on NO IDEA)
FIYA “King” (From “Magic Words” on NO IDEA)
THE BANANAS “Radio Action” (From “New Animals” on RECESS)
PSYCHED TO DIE “Conditioned to Fail” (From “Year One” on DIRTNAP)
DEAR LANDLORD “Heartbroken Handshakes” (From “Dream Homes” first-press LP on NO IDEA)
TUBERS “Pale Sunbather” (From “Anachronous” on NO IDEA / BAKERY OUTLET / ECHO CANYON)
HELLO SHITTY PEOPLE “The Doppelganger of Chris Elliott” (From “Hello Shitty People” on 1-2-3-4 GO!)
SHANG-A-LANG “Best Intentions” (From “Sad Magic” on FAST CROWD)
WHISKEY TRENCH “Break Me Down” (From “Television” on KISS OF DEATH)
CITY OF SHIPS “March of the Slaves” (From “Look What God Did to Us” on SOUND STUDY)
STREET EATERS “Useless Eyes” (From “We See Monsters” on BAKERY OUTLET)
P.S. ELIOT “Augustus” (From “Introverted Romance in Our Troubled Minds” on SALINAS)

Orlando’s power punk all-stars Gatorface have just posted a new song called “The Cleaner” on their MySpace page. “The Cleaner” will be featured on the band’s debut album for No Idea Records, entitled “Wasted Monuments.” No release date or artwork has been announced yet.

Gatorface features ex-New Mexican Disaster Squad members Richard Minino (Horsebites) and Alex Goldfarb (Alex Goldfarb). Both are also pulling double duty in the No Idea super-group No Friends. The band has been described as having a wide range of influences, drawing on the simplicity of The Ramones, the darkness of The Adolescents and the quirky, technical hooks of Descendents.

Gatorface will be performing this weekend at Best Friends Day in Richmond, VA as well as at The Fest 8 this Halloween weekend in Gainesville, FL.

They released a 10” entitled “Sick and Stupid” on Paper + Plastick Records earlier this year.

Memphis’s overlords of the garage rock resurgence, Goner Records, have just re-issued Eddy Current Suppression Ring’s self-titled debut album for the first time in the United States.

Tracked in only four hours on a Saturday afternoon in 2006, the album was originally released on Australia’s Dropkick Records, with very few imports making their way across the pond. After the infectious success of 2008’s “Primary Colors,” Goner saw fit to give the self-titled album a proper release stateside.

The band is currently hosting two songs from the album, “Get Up Morning” and “Precious Rose,” over on their MySpace page.

A full track listing can be seen below.

1. Get Up Morning
2. Cool Ice Cream
3. Pitch A Tent
4. Having a Hard Time
5. Yo-yo Man
6. Do My Thing
7. Precious Rose
8. Insufficient Funds
9. Winter’s Warm
10. It’s All Square
11. Turn Your Page

The band draws their name from the small copper rings found on electrical transformers, including those used at the vinyl pressing plant where two of the members are employed. Their lo-fi recordings and stripped-down song structures paired with animated live sets have earned them frequent comparisons to The Stooges as well as other garage titans like Wire, Jay Reatard, and The Fall.

You can expect them to hit the continental states sometime in early 2010, so get your lampshades and dancing shoes ready. In the mean time, you can read what a few critics had to say about 2008’s Primary Colors.

“The best fun house since Fun House… Iggy would approve.” – Alternative Press

“Three-plus decades after the initial dispensation, one more punk band out of the blue (Melbourne, but it could be anywhere in the English-speaking world) does the same thing punk bands have always done, only not exactly plus it sounds like they just thought of it last week, three days after they started practicing in the bassist’s basement. Off-key chants, minimal chords, spare arrangements, into confusion rather than rage from ‘long-term memory loss’ to ‘a little bit of kissing and a whole lot of hugging.’ Some are no longer susceptible to this recurrent miracle. Too bad for them.” – MSN

“The Australian quartet works with the basics to produce a simple, hooky garage punk racket, yet delivers a surprisingly multi-layered mixture when everything is said and done.” - DUSTED

Seattle’s notorious garage-punk miscreants The Spits have disgorged two new psalms from their recently released album, officially titled “The Spits” but known amongst nerds as “IV” or the “School’s Out” LP. Wait ‘til your boss is out to lunch and then click over to their MySpace page to check out “Life of Crime” and “Eyesore City.”

A split release care of San Pedro’s Recess Records and their very own Thriftstore Records, their new album draws on the lo-fi simplicity and revolting snot of their previous efforts while moving into more far ominous territory stylistically, due largely in part to the members’ increasingly bleak outlook on modern civilization and a perceived foreshadowing of a looming apocalypse.

They’ll be taking their mayhem to the road next month for a coast-to-coast crusade from their hometown to the shores of the East Coast.

8/27 - Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey
8/29 - Portland, OR @ Dante’s
9/1 - Fargo, ND @ The Aquarium
9/2 - St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
9/3 - Madison, WI @ The Frequency
9/4 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Garibaldi
9/5 - Kazoo, MI @ Papa Pete’s
9/6 - Chicago, IL @ Double Door
9/7 - LaFayette, IN @ Zoolegger’s
9/8 - Cincinnati, OH @ Comet Bar
9/9 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern
9/10 - Rochester, NY @ Bug Jar
9/11 - Brooklyn, NY @ The Knitting Factory
9/12 - New York, NY @ The Cake Shop
9/13 - New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine

Media reports of the bands’ recent activity have varied wildly, some praising the band for their unorthodox mannerisms and others left mired in utter confusion.

“This expectorates GENIUS! If they told me this was from ’78 and was a punk/lo-fi
new wave pioneer band I was supposed to worship I’d not question them for a second and would play along like I had their essential seven inch.” - Roctober Zine

“What’s up with those moustaches? Are they cops? Are they Nazis? Are they dweebs? Are they capable of creating bombs and drugs in a lab? Do they really skate? I’m completely hypnotized by this.” - Scram

Worn In Red have leaked another new track from their debut album for No Idea Records. You can stream “Mise En Abyme” from their forthcoming album “In The Offing” on the band’s MySpace page. The band previously leaked “Piled Like Bricks” and “When People Have Something To Say,” also on their MySpace page.

“In The Offing” will be their first release for No Idea, on the heels of last year’s split 7” with Benard, a split release between Atlanta’s Alaska Records and No Brakes Records. Expect the album to see the light of day in early November 2009.

Worn In Red hail from Richmond, VA and have garnered comparisons to Planes Mistaken for Stars, Four Hundred Years, Frodus, Glass and Ashes, and Sleepytime Trio. The band is planning a tour on their way down to THE FEST 8, dates for which can be seen below. They’re also playing a Saturday night after-show at Richmond’s Best Friends Day.

The band will be touring through the Southern states on their way down to The Fest 8, and you can check out the dates by clicking “more” below.
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Joey Cape (singer of So-Cal punk legends Lagwagon) recently began recording the follow-up to his debut album, “Bridge.” In a recent Myspace blog, Joey wrote:

“Planning to record some of the songs I play live, Bad Astronaut, Lag Wagon. Also some new ones. So far so good. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”

Jon Snodgrass (Drag the River) recently returned to Colorado after spending some time with Cape in the studio, where he lent vocals to 9 new Joey Cape songs.

Both Joey and Jon will continue taking over the world when they hit the West Coast together after playing at Suburban Home’s 14th Anniversary Gathering, just prior to their appearances at THE FEST 8 – Halloween weekend in Gainesville, FL. Dates can be seen by clicking “more” below.
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Seattle’s kings of the garage punk scene and all-around weirdos, The Spits, have just released their latest and greatest album, officially titled “The Spits” but better known as the “School’s Out” LP. A split release care of San Pedro’s hallowed Recess Records and Thriftstore Records, the album is actually their fourth to bear the self-titled moniker, leading to mass confusion on the part of record nerds worldwide.

Well known for their no-frills approach to punk rock, The Spits have been bemusing fans worldwide with their spastic live shows, outlandish garb and stage shenanigans since the late 90’s. Video evidence of their alleged antics can be viewed here, here, and here.

They’ll be taking their hijinks on the road at the end of the month for a two-week cross-country caper. You can click “more” below for the dates.
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