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After 14 years of brain-frazzling albums and concerts, industrial metal pioneers Godflesh have abruptly broken up. The band was preparing to tour the U.S. with High on Fire and Halo when frontman Justin Broadrick suffered a nervous breakdown just before boarding a flight to San Diego, where Godflesh were scheduled to start their tour April 22, according to a band spokesperson. “Unable to make the trip, never mind perform a two-month tour, Justin has decided to call it quits. Godflesh is done for,” said a brief note on the band’s Web site. Godflesh formed in Birmingham, England, in 1988 and… Read more »

Footwear company Vans Inc. is making one more giant leap into the music business, teaming up with Pennywise punk rocker Jim Lindberg to form Vans Records, a label that will mine the lucrative skateboard, snowboard and surf culture. The Santa Fe Springs, Calif.-based firm is no stranger to the music world, having sponsored the Warped Tour for the past six years. The road show drew more than 450,000 fans in 2001, and has helped Vans capitalize on the synergy between music and the seven “core sports” for which it makes footwear and apparel: skate-, surf-, wake- and snowboarding, as well… Read more »

Veteran punk act Bad Religion is lining up a North American tour in support of its upcoming Epitaph album “The Process of Belief,” due out Jan. 22. Before setting out with Hot Water Music and Less Than Jake for a March 1 opener in Houston, Bad Religion will play four special club shows on Jan. 23 in San Francisco and Jan. 24-26 in Los Angeles. Those gigs will mark only the second live appearance that founding member Brett Gurewitz has made with Bad Religion since leaving the group in 1995. As previously reported, “The Process of Belief” is Bad Religion’s… Read more »

Pennywise will bring its brand of punk rock to the Midwest next month, beginning January 16 in Columbus, Ohio. The Southern California group has a half-dozen dates currently on the itinerary, all to also feature the Deviates and Boy Sets Fire. As well, Pennywise has lined up dates in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada for this weekend (January 4-5). The Deviates and Lars Frederiksen & the Bastards, featuring Rancid’s guitarist, will also appear. Pennywise released its latest album, Land Of The Free?, on Epitaph Records in June. Pennywise Tour Dates (Subject To Change): January 4 – Reno, NV – Reno… Read more »

Bad Religion has lined up a string of tour dates in support of its upcoming release, Process Of Belief, including a trio of Los Angeles shows following the album’s January 22 release. The group, which recently welcomed back into the lineup co-founding member and Epitaph Records boss Brett Gurewitz, will perform at four record release parties, beginning January 23 in San Francisco and then three shows at different clubs on L.A.’s famed Sunset Strip on January 24-26. The punk veterans will then take their music to other parts of the country beginning March 2 in Dallas. The tour also features… Read more »

For certain punks, there was no Bad Religion from 1996 through 2001. During that dark period, co-songwriter Brett Gurewitz split the seminal act he co-created with his pals in high school. He was disenchanted with the band’s major-label deal (at Atlantic), overwhelmed by the sudden hugeness of Epitaph – the label he founded to release Bad Religion records and eventually home to Rancid and the Offspring – and increasingly strung out on smack. The band would release two albums in his absence, both guided solely by the vision of Gurewitz’s estranged collaborator, Greg Graffin. Both records – 1996’s Gray Race… Read more »

musicmusicmusic inc announced today that it will amalgamate signed agreements with 149 independent labels to include portions of or entire catalogues in its impending RadioMOI ‘Jukebox’ site. Since its inception, RadioMOI, the web radio site of musicmusicmusic inc., has continued to forge working agreements with such major independent labels as Beggars Banquet, Rounder Records, KOCH, DKD Records, MudHut/Acid Jazz, Epitaph, Lightyear, Metal Blade, Nettwerk, Del Fi and Neat Records. In addition to the classics and hits provided in the RadioMOI ‘Jukebox’, listeners will also have access to thousands more tracks in such genres as: Soundtracks, Oldies, World, Country/Rockabilly, Punk, Urban/HipHop,… Read more »

CMJ today announced its showcase lineup for CMJ Music Marathon 2001 and the lineup for its annual College Day, a day-long symposium with panel discussions focusing on issues facing the college music community today. Complementing the day’s programming are live performances from My Vitriol (Epic), Beulah (Velocette), and (International) Noise Conspiracy (Epitaph). CMJ New Music Report charts the music activity and evolution of 800 college radio stations 52 weeks every year, ensuring that the annual College Day symposium is the music industry’s premier college radio event and brainstorming session. A intensive day-long workshop, College Day thoroughly examines how to manage… Read more »

If one point was driven convincingly home at this all-day modern rock festival, it’s that southern California has a lot of really great bands treading the boards these days. Six of the best of the bunch (which also includes Stone Temple Pilots, No Doubt, 311 and even Blink-182) headlined this charity gathering, sponsored by L.A.’s KROQ-FM, and Levi’s – and each band’s strong performance lived up to the considerable preshow hype. The post-Sublime reggae-dub bunch Long Beach Dub Allstars kicked off the action on the bigger of two stages around 4 p.m. with 30 minutes of laid-back tracks from their… Read more »

To Lars Frederiksen, his band Rancid, his label-mates on Epitaph and Hell-Cat Records, and his favorite bands are all about being part of a family – a punk rock family. Fresh off a tour playing with tour with two, high-powered Hell-Cat bands, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards and the Dropkick Murphys, Frederiksen is set for Rancid’s stint on this summer’s Vans Warped Tour and readying a new, high-tech Rancid release. There’s no time to rest for this tattooed, mohawk-sporting, family man. Rancid will join the roving punk festival on June 22nd in Phoenix along with Epitaph label-mates Pennywise, the Bouncing… Read more »