Mondo Generator Announce US Tour and New Single “Dog Food”
 
Mondo Generator have announced a run of shows through August and September in support of their new single ‘Dog Food’ (available on August 10). Special guests for all shows will be Tweak Bird with Its Casual and Violent Soho also joining for selected shows. Tickets are on sale now at venues and usual outlets…

Wed August 4th - Elbo Room, San Francisco, CA (USA)
Fri August 6th - Dante’s, Portland, OR (USA)
Sat August 7th - Studio 7, Seattle, WA (USA)
Mon August 9th - Club Vegas, Salt Lake City, UT (USA)
Wed August 11th - 3 Kings Tavern, Denver, CO (USA)
Thu August 12th - Riot Room, Kansas City, MO (USA)
Fri August 13th - Triple Rock Social Club, Minneapolis MN (USA)
Sat August 14th - Frequency, Madison WI (USA)
Sun August 15th - Double Door, Chicago, IL (USA)
Mon August 16th - Southgate House, Newport KY (USA)
Tue August 17th - Smalls, Hamtramck MI (USA)
Wed August 18th - Bug Jar, Rochester NY (USA)
Thu August 19th - Santos, New York, NY (USA)
Fri August 20th - Middle East Upstairs, Cambridge, MA (USA)
Sat August 21st - Northn Star Bar, Philadelphia PA (USA)
Sun August 22nd - 37th & Zen, Norfolk VA (USA)
Tue August 24th - Casbah @ Trenton Music Hall, Charlotte NC (USA)
Wed August 25th - Stella Blue, Asheville NC (USA)
Thu August 26th - Hi Tone Cafe, Memphis TN (USA)
Fri Augsut 27th - The Conservatory, Oklahoma City OK (USA)
Sat August 28th - Emo’s, Austin TX (USA)
Sun August 29th - Skillman Street Bar, Dallas, TX (USA)
Tue August 31st - Launch Pad, Albuquerque NM (USA)
Thu September 2nd - Spaceland, Los Angeles, CA (USA)

MONDO GENERATOR - DOG FOOD

What do Nick Oliveri (Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age), Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Them Crooked Vultures), Happy Tom (Turbonegro) and Marc Diamond (The Dwarves) all have in common? Aside from the fact they all play in some of the best bands to ever grace the earth, they all feature on the brand new single from Los Angeles band Mondo Generator. The first taste of the new album from the band which is due for release in July, is the track ‘Dog Food’ which is set to be unleashed in May to coincde with the beginning of the bands upcoming tour.

Over the last year, band founder Nick Oliveri and fellow member Hoss, alongside producer Bradley Cook have been working on Mondo Generator’s fourth full length album ‘Time To Destroy’. During the recording process they have enlisted a number of guests to make an appearance, ‘Dog Food’ is the first taste of who is featured on the album. With Marc Diamond on guitar duties, Happy Tom has laid down some bass tracks, while Dave Grohl provides the drum tracks and Nick Oliveri delivers his trade mark vocals.

With a fresh Mondo Generator line up in place, the band will kick off a world tour in Australia from late May before heading to Europe for shows across June and July which includes both festival and club shows. They’ll hit home territory for a US tour in August and September.

‘Dog Food’ will be released as a limited edition 7″ as well as in an extended cd/digital format.

CD Single: http://www.seeofsound.com/p.php?s=IMP021

Vinyl: http://www.seeofsound.com/p.php?s=IMP021SP

TOUCH AND GO Book Boosts Historic Midwest Hardcore Punk 7″ by the Fix to Record $4,250 Auction Price
 
Riding a wave of rediscovery courtesy of the exhaustive new book TOUCH AND GO: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ‘79-’83, by Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson, the historic 1981 Midwest hardcore punk “Vengeance” 7″ single by TOUCH AND GO book editor Steve Miller’s band The Fix has fetched an unprecedented $4,250 at auction. (The previous high price of $3,220 was set just last week.) Released in 1981 on Touch and Go Records in an edition of 200, the single has come to be seen as a spark that ignited Midwest hardcore punk. See the auction results at this location: http://bit.ly/fixontng

“Hell, 4,250 is way more than the total number of people who ever saw us play,” says Steve Miller. “The influence of this book has no boundaries. Imagine what will happen when TOUCH AND GO books replace Gideon bibles in the nightstands of sleazy motels everywhere!” 

“It makes me wonder how much my copy signed by all four Fix members would be worth?” says TOUCH AND GO author (and former Touch and Go label chief) Tesco Vee. “Gotta pluck it from my cold dead sausage fingers to find out!”

Steve Miller recently joined Tesco Vee’s Hate Police onstage in Chicago on July 17 for ripping renditions of several songs by The Fix. This upcoming weekend, we will join authors Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson at a rash of upcoming TOUCH AND GO book release events:

July 30 - Oak Park, MI
READING @ Bookbeat (26010 Greenfield) - 7pm

July 31 - East Lansing, MI
READING @ Flat Black & Circular (541 East Grand River) - 1PM

July 31 - Detroit, MI
BOOK RELEASE SHOW  @ St Andrews Hall (431 East Congress Street)
with NEGATIVE APPROACH, TESCO VEE’S HATE POLICE, VIOLENT APATHY, HELLMOUTH, SORCEN, plus SPECIAL GUEST

Relased on June 30 and available wherever good books are sold, TOUCH AND GO: The Complete Hardcore Punk Zine ‘79-’83 is a large 576-page dossier from the dawn of hardcore punk, complete with introductions by Henry Rollins, Ian MacKaye, and Keith Morris of Black Flag/Circle Jerks. For more information, to order copies, or to arrange interviews with Tesco Vee and Steve Miller, contact Bazillion Points at bazillion@bazillionpoints.com

http://www.touchandgobook.com
 
Thank you - see you in the scramble!

BAZILLION POINTS
http://www.bazillionpoints.com
 
 

VANCOUVER, BC (July 23, 2010) - D.O.A. have released their 13th studio album “Talk - Action = 0″ via Sudden Death Records are are set to tour Canada!

Aug 27 - Kamloops, BC @ Pogue Mahone (843 Desmond)
Sept 15 - Innisfail, AB @ Innisfail Hotel (5120 49th St)
Sept 16 - Calgary @ The Republik (219 17th Ave SW)
Sept 17 - Edmonton @ New City Likwid Lounge (10081 Jasper Ave NW)
Sept 18 - Canmore, AB @ Canmore Hotel (738 8th St.)
Sept 24 - Victoria, BC @ Rifflandia Music Festival - Evolution Nightclub (502 Discovery Street)
Oct 1 - Vancouver @ Biltmore Cabaret (2755 Prince Edward)
Oct 5 - London, ON @ Call The Office (216 York Street)
Oct 6 - Waterloo, ON @ Chainsaw Waterloo (28 King St.)
Oct 7 - Hamilton, ON @ The Casbah (306 King Street West)
Oct 8 - Toronto @ Horseshoe Tavern (370 Queen St. West)
Oct 9 - Ottawa @ Mavericks (221 Rideau St.)
Oct 10 - Montreal @ Café Chaos (1637 St. Denis)
Oct 11 - Kingston, ON @ The Mansion (506 Princess St.)
Oct 13 - Saskatoon, SK @ Amigo’s (632 10th St. E)
Oct 14 - Regina, SK @ Distrikt Nightclub (1326A Hamilton St.)
Oct 15/16 - Winnipeg @ The Zoo (160 Osborne St.)

On this album, the band goes back to its early roots and takes a few notes from their first two classic albums: “Something Better Change” and “Hardcore 81″. “Talk - Action = 0″ was produced by chief punk Joe Shithead Keithley and Chon (Live Free or Die).

Keithley, Canada’s godfather of punk, has teamed with his cronies Floor Tom Jones (drums) and Dirty Dan Sedan (bass) to come up with one of D.O.A.’s hardest hitting albums to date. On this lucky 13th full length, there’s plenty of what one might expect from the boys: power, politics and humor.

The album opens with the blistering track That’s Why I Am An Atheist, followed up by the Eddie Cochran inspired Rebel Kind. If you have ever doubted that D.O.A. has always been a barometer of the times we live in, check out the angry anthem Don’t Bank On A Bank and the all too timely

I Live In A Car…

Music Video: http://www.youtube.com/joekeithley

Canada Single on iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/25sxad6

Further to that point, the track The R.C.M.P. explores the misdeeds of Canada’s national police force. To mix things up, the band includes an ode to Star Trek with the song Captain Kirk, Spock, Scotty and Bones, and there are sizzling covers of The Times They Are A-Changin’ and That’s Amore.

D.O.A. burst onto Vancouver’s music scene in 1978 and have been rocking the world, making people think, and sticking it to the man ever since. After they released their first snarling piece of vinyl, the infamous Disco Sucks 7″ EP, it became an underground hit and opened the doors to international prominence, riots, rip off record companies and legions of fans.

In 1981, D.O.A. made the term “hardcore” their own and pushed it into the common vernacular. With the release of the legendary album Hardcore 81 and subsequent tours by that name, D.O.A. became known as the fathers of hardcore. The band has always worn its politics on its sleeves and done a lot of rabble rousing along the way. D.O.A. has also worked hard at helping out those that really need help over the years. They’ve played benefits for: Rape Relief, anti-racism, anti-globalization, OXFAM, first nation’s rights, anti-censorship, and environmental causes, amongst many others.

D.O.A.’s people power philosophy and sound has been forged by Keithley. His powerful songwriting, singing, guitar playing and stage charisma have always anchored D.O.A. Joe has run for the Green Party three times in Vancouver and his book about D.O.A. entitled I Shithead - A Life In Punk, went on to become a Canadian best seller.

Other Interesting D.O.A. Facts:
- In 2002, Mayor Larry Campbell declares December 21 to be D.O.A. Day in Vancouver
- In 2009, Keithley was voted one of British Columbia’s all time most influential citizens by Vancouver Sun readers
- Keithley ran for the Green Party three times, the third time he received the second most votes of anybody in the party
- Keithley founded Sudden Death Records in 1978, SDR now has 88 releases
- Keithley was made into a throbblehead early this year by punk rock collectible co. Aggronautix
- Keithley was going to do an interview with us but then didn’t respond to emails! D.O.A stil rules though.

Website: http://www.suddendeath.com/

Aggronautix: http://www.aggronautix.com/products.cfm?productid=15

Martial arts action with the real karate kid, Jackie Chan’s son , Jaycee Chan in…  INVISIBLE TARGET 

From the director of New Police Story and Robin B-Hood.

Starring Jaycee Chan; Nicholas Tse (Dragon Tiger Gate; Storm Warriors); and Jacky Wu (Fatal Move; Kill Zone)

Delivering jaw-dropping fight scenes, white-knuckle free-running sequences, and breathtaking stunts, Invisible Target is an unstoppable action-thriller that showcases the formidable talents of the next generation of martial arts superstars. released in UK on double-disc DVD & Blu-ray by CIne Asia on 2 August.

Here’s the UK Trailer: http://onlinemoviepromo.com/newplayer.php?id=3674 

Plot synopsis.  The paths of a renegade cop (Nicholas Tse, The Promise), a rookie police officer (Jaycee Chan, son of Jackie Chan) and a veteran detective (Shawn Yue, Infernal Affairs) converge with explosive results, as they each take on their most deadly assignment to date: the arrest of Hong Kong’s most lethal mercenary gang and their ruthless leader, played by Kung Fu impresario, Wu Jing (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and Kill Zone). The city becomes a battleground, as both sides break all the rules to defy each other in the ultimate fight for survival, justice and revenge!

Invisible Target (15) is released on DVD (£17.99) and Blu-ray (£24.99) by Cine Asia on 2nd August 2010.