July 16th, 2009
TV News
The 2009 Emmy nominations were announced!
The Emmy nominations were just announced this morning. The most surprising news of the day is Family Guy being nominated for Best Comedy Series instead of Best animated program! It’s a longshot to win since it’s up against The Office, 30 Rock, Entourage, Flight Of The Conchords and How I Met Your Mother. Lost was nominated for Best Drama, and Michael Emerson got nominated for Best Supporting Actor. But where are the nominations for the Shield!? Anyway, see the complete list courtesy of THRFeed.com.
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DVD Reviews
Leverage: The 1st Season
Starring: Timothy Hutton, Aldis Hodge, Gina Bellman, Beth Riesgraf, Christian Kane
Created by: John Rogers, Chris Downey
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Buy on Amazon.com
It’s been a while since I’ve enjoyed a television show involving a team of would be bad guys turned good. In fact, you’d probably have to go all the way back to the A-Team to find such a good mix of action, humor and trickery. But that is exactly what Leverage is, and it has quickly become one of my favorite shows to watch.
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Music News
Naked Raygun to enter studio for 7″ series
Legendary Chicago punk rockers Naked Raygun recently announced their first trip into a recording studio in over a decade. In two weeks the band is set to enter Transient Sound Studios in Chicago, Illinois to lay down tracks that will eventually be pressed on a series of 7” records. These songs represent the first new material written by the band since 1992 and their first recordings since 1997.
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Music News
Carbon Leaf announce co-headlining tour with Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers
Carbon Leaf is quickly proving that they are one of the hardest working, touring bands in the country right now. The band is currently ending their first leg of their summer tour, which will conclude in Poughkeepsie, NY tomorrow night at the Loft (Come out to celebrate my brother and I’s 31st birthday!), and then in Portland Maine the next night. Then it’s off for another tour, this time being called “The Bear Rhymes With Woman Tour.” The band will be co-headlining with Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers.
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Music News
New Swellers 7″ and tour dates announced
The new 7″ single “Welcome Back Riders” will be out July 28 on Fueled By Ramen/Paper + Plastick. The 7″ will feature two new tracks “Welcome Back Riders” and “Montreal Screwjob.” You can listen to “Welcome Back Riders” on the band’s MySpace.
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Music News
U2 is on Twitter
Bands are slowly realizing how great Twitter can be for their bands, so slowly but surely more bands are joining the most popular Social Network. U2, arguably one of the biggest bands in the world has just joined Twitter. For an even closer look into their 360 Tour, the band is now snapping blurry pictures to post exclusively to their Twitter page. Follow U2 if you like the band.
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July 15th, 2009
Site News
Gone to Warped Tour!
I’m going to cover the Vans Warped Tour today at The Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain in Scranton, PA. I plan on taking a lot of photos today of bands like: NOFX, Less than Jake, Bad Religion, Anti-Flag, Gallows, Flogging Molly and many more. I’ll have a review up either tomorrow or Friday on the site. If you are on Twitter, follow @skapunkphotos for updates throughout the day!
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Music News
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band add 25 new US Dates for 2009
Bruce Springsteen & The Legendary E Street Band have added 25 new US concert dates to their 2009 ‘Workin’ On a Dream’ tour. Springsteen has now sold over 1.5 million concert tickets in 2009 alone, with the new dates expected to push that number over the two million mark.
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July 14th, 2009
Music News
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies to release two albums in September
In celebration of the bands 20th year in the music business, Eugene, Oregon’s horn-heavy, genre-bending, multi-platinum-selling Cherry Poppin’ Daddies are giving store shelves a double shot of musical goodness in September: both “Susquehanna” and “Skaboy JFK: the Skankin’ hits of the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies” are scheduled for release on September 29, 2009, on Rock Ridge Music/Space Age Bachelor Pad Records. “Susquehanna” will finally receive its national release, as it was previously only available on the band’s website, while “Skaboy JFK” is a compilation of new ska tracks with older Cherry Poppin’ Daddies ska songs (some of which have been re-recorded) in a collection that comes off like a classic of the genre.
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Music News
Farewell to release 2nd album on September 1st
North Carolina’s pop-rock group Farewell will release their sophomore album, Run It Up The Flagpole, on Sept. 1 via Epitaph Records. The band has posted the first single, “Devoid (That’s What I Think About It).” You can listen to here.
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