
HoZac Records has unveiled the full Blackout Fest line-up just as tickets for the three-day punk rager went on sale Wednesday afternoon. As we previously reported , the rowdy punk and garage fest will return to the Empty Bottle this May 17-20. This year's edition will feature headliners Roky Erickson , Davilla 666 , and Redd Kross . Additionally, local acts Bare Mutants and [...]

Blackout Fest 2011 poster Mark your calendars. HoZac Records ' annual Blackout Fest will return to the Empty Bottle May 17-19, 2012. The label made the announcement on its Facebook page along with the news that punk legends Redd Kross (Red Cross) will headline on Sunday, May 19. The group will perform songs from its debut LP Born Innocent plus the Posh Boy EP. In an email to LLP, HoZac confirmed that Canadian synth poppers Teledrome , psych punks [...]

Sydney's an OK place to live! There's the Sydney Opera House, and the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and those are pretty great. The thing is, Sydney can sometimes feel like a gross, soulless tourist town where every band plays electro-rock and wears $600 jeans and works in advertising (which is a valid lifestyle choice! Totally). That's why R.I.P. Society 's recent rise to glory is great for the usual reasons that a great record label is great (this year they released records from Royal Headache, Boomgates and Circle Pit and virtually every other Australian punk band worth listening to), but [...]

Jimi "James" Payne posted this over on Banalization . James "Jimi" Payne For the past three years I have lived in the Monster House, a DIY punk house in Columbus, Ohio. I co-founded the Monster House with Pat Crann, Austin Eilbeck, Ryan Eilbeck, Jeff Love, Kristina Markey, Matt O'Conke, Joe Scarbro, Dylan Taylor-Lehman, and Nick Wong. A few weeks ago the last three original roommates - besides me - left. And, as of this week, I'm moving out as well. A group of our friends [...]
Clockcleaner is a really really really good noise rock act in the scuzzy tradition of The Jesus Lizard and Foetus. 2007's Babylon Rules simultaneously shoots straight from the hip and straight from the gutter, and anyone who actually enjoys reading my crummy column-for-jerks needs to own it before reading any further. After all, [...]
Danish punkrockers Cola Freaks will be on tour in the US for the next month or so: 09/30 - The Mink, Houston, TX 10/01 - tba, New Orleans, LA 10/02 - The Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, GA w/ Carbonas 10/03 - Bull City Headquarters, Durham, NC 10/04 - Nara Sushi, Richmond, VA 10/06 - Urban Bike Project, Wilmington, DE 10/07 - The Catacombs, Providence, RI 10/08 - "Gorilla got time" Radio show, Boston, MA 10/09 - Mr. Roboto [...]
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