by BBG

DOWNLOAD: Star Fucking Hipsters - "3000 Miles Away" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Star Fucking Hipsters - "Severance Pay" (MP3)

Stza of SFH, at Gramercy with Leftover Crack (more by Justina Villanueva)

Star Fucking Hipsters is a ska-punk/crust punk/Indie band that was started by Leftöver Crack's vocalist Stza and [then] drummer Brandon as a side project.. Unfortunately, Brandon died before the band was fully formed. However, Stza continued and... the band started playing shows in the New York City area early in August 2005.... Their debut album was released by Fat Wreck Chords on September 30, 2008, entitled "Until We're Dead". -[Wiki]

Star Fucking Hipsters have a new slab of tunes out on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label. Dig on a pair of tracks from that release, Never Rest in Peace, above.

The NYC band will hit the road for a string of dates with Anti-Flag, Cancer Bats and Aiden as part of "The Economy Sucks, Let's Party" Tour. Look for that to hit NYC at Highline Ballroom on 2/4/10. Tickets are on sale. Prediction: bottle service and the Highline Ballroom kitchen will not do well that night. The tour hits Starland Ballroom one day later. Tickets are on sale for that too.

More info on the SFH album and all dates below...

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Alice Donut, a New York post-punk band that was founded in 1986, just put out their 10th album, Ten Glorious Animals, in September on Alternative Tentacles.

Alice Donut's lyrics take on what they view as the perversities, odd details, and petty humiliations of life. Their lyrical subject matter focuses on topics including depravity, domestic violence, sexuality, and eggs. Add in a trombone-based version of the Pixies "Where Is My Mind" and you've got a brand new Alice Donut classic!

LP is on 180 Gram & limited to 1,000 copies! [AT]

They'll play a show at Brooklyn's Southpaw on Thursday, November 5th with Retada and Free Electric State. Tickets are still on sale. It's one of two upcoming dates for the band. Both of them with their video for the song "Esophagus," off the new album, is posted below...

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by Black Bubblegum

Fugazi @ Gilman 1988 (acrofish)

Alternative Tentacles released a trailer for their upcoming documentary of the legendary punk venue 924 Gilman in Berkeley, CA. Check it out down below. For those of you east-coasters who aren't up on Gilman, here's a little bio courtesy of the world's most accurate encyclopedia:

The 924 Gilman Street project, alternately the Alternative Music Foundation, is the Berkeley, California street address and official business name of the all-ages, non-profit, collectively organized music club usually referred to by its fans simply as "Gilman.".... On December 31, 1986, the club held its first show. Since then, 924 Gilman Street has been one of the longest-running independent music venues in the United States..... 924 Gilman... was started in part because of the lack of punk venues in the San Francisco Bay Area during this era, particularly all-ages venues.

Pretty much every major punk/hardcore act has passed through Gilman and some of it's regulars, like Green Day, Rancid, & AFI, went on to become major arena-filling acts.

Fugazi went on to break up which I'm really only mentioning so I can remind you again that you can catch one of their members live in NYC tonight (May 27).

The documentary trailer, and info on Jello Biafra's 50th birthday party, below.....

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by Black Bubblegum

DOWNLOAD: Amebix - Arise! from "Arise +2" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Amebix - Slave from "Arise +2" (MP3)
DOWNLOAD: Amebix - The Darkest Hour from "Arise +2" (MP3)

The godfathers of Crust punk, Amebix, have announced their reformation. Sprouting from a retrospective DVD in the works for Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles, Rob "The Baron" Miller entered the following myspace blog entry entitled "Oh Dear....eating my words"

"...got the idea to contact Stig about maybe jamming a couple of songs to see how it felt. I also had made contact with Roy Mayorga of Stone Sour, Sepultura, etc... (Spider has tinitus and is no longer able to play)..... It was absolutely fucking MAD! (The songs sounded) ten times better than the original versions, tighter, heavier, stronger."

From the world's most accurate online encyclopedia, a little history:

Amebix, formed in England in 1978 as "The Band with No Name", were a band that many consider to have started the sub genre crust punk. Their music, heavily influenced by Motörhead (and to a lesser extent Lemmy-era Hawkwind), Black Sabbath, Venom, and early Killing Joke, combined with an ethos and worldview akin to Crass, represented their non-traditional lifestyles.

Their music blended hardcore punk and heavy metal into a form of early thrash metal. They were the forerunners of crust punk and a thrash metal pioneer. Such notable bands as Sepultura, Neurosis, Napalm Death, and Deviated Instinct have paid homage to the band.

Amebix have also announced that their 1987 album "Monolith" will be made available via "Sliding Scale Download" (read: In Rainbows/Niggy Tardust style) via Moshpit Tragedy.

Killing Joke also announced their reformation. Check out some Amebix (and Killing Joke-related) videos below...

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