So, I wasn’t originally going to do an entry today, since it’s Thanksgiving and all, but I’m awake and I figured why the hell not?

Not really any theme tonight. Basically going to just hit Shuffle and see what happens =)

Maritime – We are the Renegade. Maritime is a band I came across on my Spoon channel on Pandora; neat little indie band. Some of their songs are vastly different than their others. It’s nice to see bands that aren’t stuck in one genre and one sound.

I’ve been a big fan of The Dismemberment Plan for years. Girl O’Clock is definitely one of my favorites. Kinda weird – yes. You Are Invited is another one I quite enjoy from The Plan.

Anit-Flag is one of my favorite current punk bands that have a ton of politically-fueled lyrics, which is nice to see for a change. Enjoy Underground Network

I’ve been a huge fan of NOFX since I heard them in high school. Seeing Double at the Triple Rock is a great track from Wolves in Wolves Clothing; the whole album is worth a listen. White Trash, Two Heebs, and a Bean is an older album of theirs, but my personal favorite.

Time for me to turn in for some much-needed sleep after staying up ’til 6 AM yesterday.
Adios

Hit the jump to find this week’s more notable releases.

• NOFX – Cokie The Clown
• Artist vs Poet – Damn Rough Night
• Various Artists – Wrecktrospective
• Rookie Of The Year – Since I Left Your World
• Dot Dot Curve – Your Ears Will Beeping Bleed

NOFX

El grupo estadounidense NOFX está de vuelta en México tras de una ausencia relativamente larga, y estará presentándose en una fecha única en diciembre, en el José Cuervo Salón. Además de que sus visitas son muy esporádicas, este salón es un escenario ideal para poder verlos, por lo que esta oportunidad en particular no puede dejarse pasar.

• 10 de diciembre de 2009 – Ciudad de México – José Cuervo Salón – 20:00 Hrs. – $300.00

Boletos disponibles en Ticketmaster.

Creada en el año de 1983, esta banda se ha movido dentro de varias líneas, pero siempre dentro del movimiento punk, experimentando con el skate, melodic, ska o hardcore, lo que los convierte en una banda bastante rica en repertorio y opciones musicales.

Benvolguts amics,

Ja hi tornem a ser! Avui a les 22:00 h podreu escoltar La Pedalera que, com sempre, vindrà carregat de bona música. A continuació teniu les raons per les quals no us podeu perdre el programa d’aquesta nit. Son aquestes:

- Entrevista: aquesta nit tenim el plaer d’entrevistar a Dani Flaco. L’artista de Bellvitge ens parlarà, entre moltes altres coses, del concert que donarà el pròxim divendres al Casino de Vic.

- Do it yourself: amb grups com Nofx, Minor Threat o Fugazi; l’Iris Palou ens farà un recorregut que va del punk al hardcore a més a més de parlar-nos del moviment straight edge.

- Mes enllà del so: avui en Ramón Castro ve ben carregat. Ens parlarà del disc Imperfectos de Manolo Tarancón. Un altre disc serà l’anomenat Cartografias de José Ignacio Lapido. I també ens parlarà de la nova promesa del rock madrileny, Vikxie.

- Eclipsa: avui l’Ester Ferre trencarà un pel amb la tònica a la que ens tenia acostumats i ens portarà una crònica del concert al que va assistir aquest dissabte. I entre els molts concerts que es van fer dissabte… a quin creieu que va anar? Doncs a Depeche Mode.

- A banda: en Zeus Díaz ens portarà també una crònica d’una banda espectacular, els Porcupine Tree. Després d’això ens parlarà de Poncho K.

- Agenda: avui l’actualitat musical, de la mà de Jordi Gonzàlez, passa per El niño de la hipoteca, Maria Rodés, Alex Guideón, Las Furias i El Bicho.

- Top 5: el rànquing format per les maquetes d’artistes i bandes que mica en mica anem rebent a La Pedalera.

Com cada setmana us recordem que també ens podeu escoltar per Internet mitjançant el següent enllaç.

http://kara.fast-serv.com:8700/listen.pls

Sintonitzeu amb nosaltres!

La Pedalera
Miquel Cornellà

Fick idag mail från Peace & Love som gav mig ytterligare en anledning att boka sommarens festival. Jag säger bara ännu mer högstadienostalgi!!!

Well people, it seems the well has run dry for the year 2009.  You may feel free to start drawing up those best of 09′ lists without fear of missing any significant releases.  Allow me to show you what I mean:

Bon Jovi – The Circle [Too epic for my blood]

Susan Boyle – I Dreamed A Dream [ho-hum]

Lady Gaga – Fame Monster [This album title is truth]

Adam Lambert – For Your Entertainment [Not me specifically]

NOFX – Cokie The Clown EP [I'm sure this will be better than most NOFX albums since it is shorter]

Rihanna – Rated R [QOTSA had that title first]

Shakira – She Wolf [So much dance pop this week. . .]

Timbaland – Shock Value 2 [If only Timbaland the artist were as revered as Timbaland the producer]

Tom Waits – Glitter And Doom (Live) [And the most interesting release of the week award goes to. . .]

Well there you have it.  Perhaps a big week for the Grammy’s but as far as interesting music goes its kind of a one note Tuesday.

NOFX - Punk In Drublic

Seguimos punkeando estos días. Más hardcore melódico, de la mano de otro mito, los irreverentes NOFX. Este “Punk In Drublic” es su quinto álbum de estudio, el LP con el cosecharon un mayor éxito, ya que coincidió con el boom del punk californiano de mediados de los 90, boom que encabezaron junto a The Offspring y Green Day. Si bien NOFX eran más rápidos y mucho más locos.

Un disco feliciano y enérgico, que creó escuela. Un álbum plagado de hits rapidísimos, que marcaron una generación, y que hoy en día, todavía pone la piel de gallina a más de uno al son de “Don’t Call Me White”.

Artista – NOFX
Álbum – Punk In Drublic
Año – 1994
Género – Melodic Hardcore/Punk Rock
Web – Oficial
Procedencia – San Francisco (California), USA

Tracklist
1. Linoleum
2. Leave It Alone
3. Dig
4. The Cause
5. Don’t Call Me White
6. My Heart Is Yearning
7. Perfect Government
8. The Brews
9. The Quass
10. Dying Degree
11. Fleas
12. Lori Meyers
13. Jeff Wears Birkenstocks
14. Punk Guy
15. Happy Guy
16. Reeko
17. Scavenger Type

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-Dako-

NOFX release their new EP Cokie The Clown tomorrow. The EP, named after Fat Mike’s alter ego, can be heard on-line in its entirety now via the band’s My Space page. In the video for “Cokie The Clown”, Fat Mike is up to no good. Watch Tim Mcllrath from Rise Against fall victim to the shenanigans along with a few more unsuspecting spectators.

New reviews have been posted for the following bands:

Agnostic Front
In Defence
Dear Landlord
No Friends
NOFX
Shaking Hands
Manikin

Also, check out a new article I wrote:

Censorship and the FCC

NOFX’s new EP ‘Cokie The Clown’ can streamed on their myspace here.

Ai o novo EP do NOFX, que ja conta inclusive com um video clipe. Vale a muito a pena conferir.

01- Cokie the clown
02- Straight outta massachusetts
03- Fermented and flailing
04- Codependence day
05- My orphan year (acoustic)

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NOFX- Cokie The Clown EP
release date: November 24, 2009 on Fat Wreck Chords

This is an EP of songs that didn’t make it onto NOFX’s last album, Coaster. It includes Codependence Day (which is on the 2009 Vans Warped Tour compilation) along with an acoustic version of the song My Orphan Year. As always, Cokie The Clown shows their hilarious side with an intro similar to a show tune followed by blistering fast drums and aggressive guitars, representing the trademark NOFX sound. Fermented And Flailing has a very old-school NOFX sound. The real standout track here is the acoustic version of My Orphan Year, a song that’s tender and might tug a bit at the heartstrings, especially since the subject matter involves Fat Mike dealing with the death of both of his parents back in 2006. It’s a side of NOFX that has never been revealed until now and it’s a good way to top off an otherwise standard EP. If you like the hilarious side of NOFX, stick with tracks 3 and 4 (the first two have profanity) and if you want to go there, give track 5 a spin. It’s amazing how far NOFX has come but it’s fair to say that they will never lose sight of who they are.

FCC: 1,2
Try: 3,4,5

01. Cokie The Clown
02. Straight Outta Massachusetts
03. Fermented And Flailing
04. Codependence Day
05. My Orphan Year (Acoustic)

3.5/5

Chester Bennington, a Linkin Park frontemberének új bandája, a Dead By Sunrise már második klipjét készítette el a nemrég megjelent ‘Out Of Ashes‘ debütlemezről, a kiválasztott nóta ezúttal a ‘Let Down’ volt. Az NOFX ‘ Cokie the Clown’ címmel egy új EP-t jelentet meg, melynek címadó dalához forgattak egy szimpla videót, amiben többek között a Rise Against énekese, Tim McIlrath is felbukkan. A fent említett zenekarok mellett a The Amity Affliction ‘Fruity Lexia’ című műve már csak egy kellemes plusz, tessék:

y si un evento mas!

Quien dice que acercandose cada ves mas fin de año menos eventos?

Esta ves es NOFX, quien se presentara el prox 10 de Diciembre en el Salon Jose Cuervo, el cover de 300, algo elevado siento, pero es NOFX porque no?

Asi que empezar a ahorrar y no salir al pisto entre semana, se vienen algunos eventos buenos.

Nuevo video del 7″ Cokie The Clown de NOFX.

NOFX – Cokie the Clown

Watch NOFX’s new video for “Cokie The Clown” here.

The decline by NOFX is a great song for our generation and other generations to come, it explains a lot of societies ills especially about how stupid some of the population has become and how the government and social causes have destroyed our society and culture.

Make sure you turn your speakers up real loud, and read the lyrics that are posted under the videos. Enjoy, and leave comments on how you perceive the song.

Lyrics:
Where are all the stupid people from?
And how’d they get to be so dumb?
Bred on purple mountain range
Feed amber waves of grains
To lesser human beings, zero feelings

Blame it on
Human nature, mans destiny (mans destiny)
Blame it on the greediocracy (greediocracy)
Fear of God
The fear of change
The fear of truth

Add the Bill of Rights, subtract the wrongs
There’s no answers
Memorize and sing star spangled songs
When the questions
Aren’t ever asked
Is anybody learning from the past?
We’re living in united stagnation

Father what have I done?
I took that 22
A gift to me from you
To bed with me each night
Kept it clean
Polished it well
Cherished every cartridge, every shell

Down, by the creek, under brush, under dirt
There’s a carcass of my second kill
Down, by the park, under stone, under pine
There’s a carcass of my brother William
Brother where, have you gone to?
I swear, I never thought I could
I see so many times
They told me to shoot straight
Don’t pull the trigger, squeeze
That will insure a kill
A kill is what you want
A kill is why we breed

The Christians love their guns
The church and NRA
Pray for their salvations
Prey on the lower faiths

The story book’s been read
And every line believed
Curriculum’s been set
Logic is a threat
Reason searched and seized

Jerry spent some time in Michigan
A twenty year vacation, after all he had a dime
A dime is worth a lot more in Detroit
A dime in California, a twenty dollar fine

Jerry only stayed a couple months
It’s hard to enjoy yourself while bleeding out the ass
Asphyxiation is simple and fast
It beats seventeen fun years of being someones bitch

Don’t think (Stay)
Drink your wine (Home)
Watch the fire burn (Be)
His problems not mine (Safe)
Just be that model citizen

I wish I had a schilling
(For each senseless killing)
For every senseless killing
I’d buy a government
America’s for sale
And you can get a good deal on it
(A good deal on it)
And make a healthy profit
Or maybe, tear it apart
Start with assumption
That a million people are smart
Smarter than one

Serotonin’s gone
She gave up, drifted away
Sara fled, thought process gone
She left her answering machine on
The greeting left spoken sincere
Messages no one will ever hear

Ten thousand messages a day
A million more transmissions lay
Victims of the laissez faire
Ten thousand voices, a hundred guns
A hundred decibels turns to one
One bullet, one empty head
Now with Serotonin gone

The man who used to speak
Performs a cute routine
Feel a little patronized
Don’t feel bad
They found a way inside your head
And you feel a bit misled
It’s not that they don’t care, yeah

The television’s put a thought inside your head
Llike a Barry Manilow, jingle
I’d like, to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
A symphonic blank stare, yeah
It doesn’t make you care (make you care)
Not designed to make you care (make you care)
They’re betting you won’t care (you won’t…)

Place a wager on your greed
A wager on your pride
Why try to beat them when, a million others tried?

We are the whore
Intellectually spayed
We are the queer
Dysfunctionally raised

One more pill to kill the pain
One more pill to kill the pain
One more pill to kill the pain
Living through conformity

One more prayer to keep me safe
One more prayer to keep us warm
One more prayer to keep us safe
There’s gonna be a better place

Lost the battle, lost the war
Lost the things worth living for
Lost the will to win the fight
One more pill to kill the pain

Na na na na na
La na na na na
Na na na na na
Na na na na na

The going get tough, the tough get debt
Don’t pay attention, pay the rent
Next of kins pay for your sins
A little faith should keep us safe

Save us
The human, existence
Is failing, resistance
Essential, the future
Written off, the odds are
Astronomically against us
Only moron and genius
Would fight a losing battle
Against the super ego
When giving in is so damn comforting

And so we go, on with our lives
We know the truth, but prefer lies
Lies are simple, simple is bliss
Why go against tradition when we can
Admit defeat, live in decline
Be the victim of our own design
The status quo, built on suspect
Why would anyone stick out their neck?

Fellow members
Club “We’ve Got Ours”
I’d like to introduce you to our host
He’s got his, and I’ve got mine
Meet the decline

We are the queer
We are the whore
Ammunition
In the class war
We are worker
We love our queen
We sacrifice
We’re soilent green

We are the queer
We are the whore
Ammunition
In the class war

Acabamos de ler na PUNKnet que o quarteto jundiaiense FISTT assinou com a Blast Records — selo ligado à Sony — e que fará o aguardado lançamento físico de Como Fazer Inimigos….

Até então somente disponível para download, o quinto álbum do FISTT ganhará o formato CD em janeiro, mas já está com pré-venda na Oba! Shop.

Parabéns a F.Nick & seus comparsas, chiveta está mandando boas vibrações a vocês!

Ah, e como já disseram sabiamente os suecos Backyard Babies: Making Enemies is Good!

Álbum: Como Fazer Inimigos… — FISTT
Em seu tão aguardado segundo álbum, o genial Bloco do Eu Sozinho, os cariocas do Los Hermanos decretaram que “todo carnaval tem seu fim”. E não é que a maior manifestação cultural (?) do povo brasileiro veio influenciar no quinto disco do FISTT?!

Não, não pense que F. Nick (voz e baixo), Mirtão (guitarra e voz), Crildo (guitarra) — atualizando: agora substituído por Karacol, ex-Sugar Kane — e Birão (bateria) chegam tocando pandeiro, cuíca e cavaquinho, o som continua com aquela mistura de pop punk com hardcore melódico que os mantém na estrada há 14 anos.

A divisão AC/DC (Antes do Carnaval/Depois do Carnaval) de Como Fazer Inimigos… pode ser feita porque a faixa Carnaval é, na verdade, subdividida em sete. Continuar tem cara de single pra tocar nas rádios (e se tocasse, estouraria!), ela precede e avisa que a epopéia conceitual do FISTT começa ali.

Assim, entram na sequência — separadas, mas juntas, se é que vocês me entendem –, Quando o Carnaval acabar… (e suas indagações), Fábulas de Bilé (reggaezinho ao melhor estilo NOFX), Correndo (e seu desabafo), Zero à Esquerda (ótima instrumental e com a participação do ex-membro Fabrício Martinelli, que depois foi pro Street Bulldogs e atualmente está no Hateen — atualizando: o guitarrista acaba de deixar o grupo), Superficial (com a presença de Rodrigo Lima, do Dead Fish), Muy Amigón (mais uma vez entra o jeitão/deboche NOFX de ser, com direito a portunhol tosco e o trumpete mariachi de Naor Gomes) e Desintegrar (minha predileta, com riff e vocal quase metaleiros). Outra que também me chamou a atenção foi Tanto Faz, com uma levadinha bem interessante, backings marcantes e um refrão convidativo.

O quarteto de Jundiaí (SP) gravou tudo na capital paulista no renomado Midas Studios, com os não menos tarimbados Paulo Anhaia (gravação, produção, mixagem) e Rodrigo Castanho (masterização). Essa turma, reconhecida em trabalhos de nomes como CPM 22, NX Zero, Charlie Brown Jr. etc, soube deixar os “meninos do interior” à vontade e o resultado são canções redondinhas, como Aquecendo (com clipe rolando no MTV Overdrive), Fevereiro, Todo Amor Morre Abandonado e Redentor.

Ah sim, as letras irônicas não foram embora: Pobre F. Nick, Meu Amigo Copo, Sad Rockstar, Mallory e Carta Para Garotinha Ruiva (mais pelo título que remete ao Snoopy). Essa é a Última Vez e Eu Não Faço Ninguém Feliz são as com o pé no acelerador, prontas para formarem as rodas nos shows.

Vale lembrar que o lançamento é da Oba! Records e que está disponível para download gratuito à escolha do ouvinte — via MySpace ou site.
Por Ricardo Tibiu