The random mid-90s alt-rock compilation; is there any better source for oddball rarities and bizarro obscurities? It's thanks to this trend of "let's package as many bands who we think the kids who like Nirvana might like together and see what happens" we have albums like No Alternative , with Soul Aslyum's awesome take on "Sexual Healing" and that crazy Carpenters tribute record with Sonic Youth's cover of "Superstar." Chairman of the Board , a collection of alt-rock groups taking on standards made famous by Frank Sinatra, doesn't have any classic cuts like those records [...]
I remember when Richmond's The Haverchucks first sent me their demo earlier this year, I was completely blown away. Seriously, it's been a while since a demo has had me so hooked. So when I found out that they released a 5 song Self Titled 7 inch, you know I had to check that shit out immediately (as in, immediately after I found out...)Released back in May, the self titled 7" continues
It would be understated saying Ben Weasel and his pop-punk outfit Screeching Weasel had a rough first half of the year. After a physical altercation with some female attendees at their SXSW gig in March, 80% of the band bailed/was canned and the kabosh was put on their Weasel Fest event. Left alone, Weasel took to the "WWW" and promised Screeching Weasel would persevere ; it's not like the band hadn't already seen its share of lineup shuffles (their Wikipedia page lists 23 past members). With another new lineup in tow, [...]
"How To Make Enemies" begins with "Planet Of The Apes", a typical Screeching Weasel sound that yet has intense arrangements all around it. For example, the bass line present on the song is always present, but has a stepped-style sound to it that shows a cognizance of where Danny was in relation to the band. [...]
After a public and Nixon-esque blog entry following the announcement of a new Screeching Weasel show later this month , frontman Ben Weasel has quietly unveiled plans for a new EP to coincide with the performance. The 7-song EP titled Carnival Of Schadenfreude takes its name from that blog entry and is due out October 29, 2011 . Also, despite the criticisms that have dogged Weasel since the SXSW incident , the band's comeback show on October 29th has [...]
2011 has been a rather inauspicious year for Ben Weasel and his prolific group Screeching Weasel . Following an intense altercation at South by Southwest this past March that saw Weasel violently retaliate against two female audience members, one of whom reportedly threw a cup of ice at the frontman, the rest of the band subsequently quit in the fallout, leaving Ben Weasel all by his lonesome. This past Friday, August 12th, however, Weasel took to his website with a massive post to address the [...]
It's been a long time trusty readers, and for that, I apologize. Shit has been insane over here. I wound up buying a new car, the next day shattering both my forearm bones at The Bouncing Souls show, and then being hospitalized for a few days for surgery to put some metal plates in, moving to a new apartment (shoutout to all my family and friends who moved me since I can't lift shit), and
Taking a nostalgic trip back to my salad days with some really old favorites along with some newer jams on this mix. Let go of your pretensions, roll your windows down and turn it up. It's a punk rock summer! NEW FOUND GLORY // BALLAD FOR THE LOST ROMANTICS TRANSIT // THE DOWNSIDES SAVES THE DAY // FREAKISH RELIENT K // THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN BEATING A DEAD HORSE IS BETTING ON ONE AUDIO KARATE // NINTENDO [...]
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Tweet With our A to Z of Music Blogs series having now reached it's predictable finale at 'Z' I thought I'd drag it out a little longer and write a brief summary and highlight some uninteresting stats. Of the 26 blogs we featured 16 were from the USA, 4 were UK based and the remaining 7 were from other European nations including - Finland, Belgium, Sweden, Holland, Slovakia and Switzerland. New York was unsurprisingly the most popular City of residence hosting 5 [...]
Yada yada yada, mandatory introduction about Ben Weasel being a huge asshole and punching a girl who was throwing bottles at him, clocked someone else, etc. We get it, the dude is a complete douche. However, before all of that drama, Screeching Weasel dropped one last album before all of the other members resigned due to Ben's antics.Released in March, Screeching Weasel's "First World
In a surprise twist, Cincinnati, OH's The Dopamines has joined Screeching Weasel and will function as the legendary group's new backing band behind mercurial frontman Ben Weasel . Dopamines guitarist Jon Lewis had this to say about the move: "Even with all the negative hype surrounding Screeching Weasel, we felt this was an opportunity we couldn't pass up. Ben's been cool to us so far, and we're just gonna take it one day at a time and do everything we can to support him and this new album. [...]
It comes to no surprise that after Ben Weasel lost all the members of Screeching Weasel and supporting acts on their upcoming dates, that the punk 'group' has been forced to
You've almost certainly seen—and been disgusted/appalled/outraged by— the video by now. On March 18th, during a SXSW show at the Scoot Inn in Austin, Screeching Weasel frontman Ben Weasel sexually harassed then physically assaulted a woman in the audience. When the club owner immediately came on stage to restrain Weasel, he assaulted her as well. The Internet responded: some condemned Weasel's actions, while others (sadly, but not surprisingly) ignored it, condoned it, and/or applauded it. On Sunday, March 20th, he issued an apology via his website . Yesterday, the other four remembers of Screeching Weasel resigned from [...]
If you haven't been keeping up with the exploits of Screeching Weasel , they go something like this: the band begrudgingly plays $250 gig at South by Southwest, frontman Ben Weasel's frustration boils over after being hit in face by bottle during said performance, Weasel retaliates by jumping into the crowd and confronting the bottle thrower, police are called, and the rest of show is canceled. All this happened on Friday, and by Sunday, Weasel had apologized . However, as BrooklynVegan points out, Weasel's words weren't good enough for the rest of his bandmates, [...]
Filed under: News , Holy Hell Daniel Boczarski, Redferns Following an altercation during SXSW -- that went viral in the way of Fat Mike 's pissing contest last year -- Screeching Weasel have disbanded. Kinda. Everyone in the band, minus leader Ben Weasel , abandoned ship on Wednesday, via an open letter published by PunkNews.org . The statement, which PunkNews posits as a resignation letter and which is [...]
Fun facts you may be surprised to learn about SxSW 2011: 1) There were bands who played that are not named Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, or any acronym or variant therein. 2) Some of those bands also had shady stuff happen during their sets. The SxSW "incident" getting the (second) most attention in the blogosphere centers on Ben Weasel, lead singer of punk-pop notables Screeching Weasel, who allegedly -- if things can still qualify as "alleged" when you can see them unfold before [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Getty Images (2) | Joseph Llanes for AOL | WireImage The music industry has sung a sad song for the past decade or so, but every March the tune changes as musicians, labels, journalists and fans descend upon Austin for the South by Southwest music festival. This year's SXSW, however, was even more celebratory than usual -- in fact, it felt downright triumphant. [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Daniel Boczarski, Redferns Screeching Weasel singer Ben Weasel was involved in an on-stage altercation Friday evening (March 18) at Austin's Scoot Inn as part of SXSW. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times on Saturday (March 19), the singer made repeated comments regretting the band performing in Austin before being hit by an ice cube. Weasel confronted the fan who tossed the [...]
The incident is still just hours old, but the Internet is steaming over Screeching Weasel frontman Ben Weasel hitting a woman and another unidentified person during his band's set at the Scoot Inn... Continue reading "SXSW Last Night: Screeching Weasel's Ben Weasel Hits A Woman At The Scoot Inn" >
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