VerseOne Magazine has recently interviewed Justin Beck of Glassjaw. It’s pretty lengthy and full of information. Get at it here.

Also, copies of this will be given away free at the Give it a Name festival.

Friends @ Absolutepunk.net have posted artwork for Reggie and the Full Effect’s new album is coming out this summer titled “Last Stop: Crappy Town” here. Check it out after the break:

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With the upcoming release of Men Women & Children’s single, “Ultra Hot Volcano” (limited to 500), I’ve put up another “contest” to win a copy from me! Like always, all you have to do is leave a comment with a valid e-mail address. In 3 days, a winner will be chosen randomly based on their comment number and will be notified via e-mail. UKers, feel free to enter!

Also, Your e-mail address will not be solicited or shared in anyway!

All submissions with either the same IP address, or the same e-mail address will only be counted as one entry.

Good luck to all! If you have any questions feel free to contact me.

- James

In a Buzznet exclusive interview, Geoff Rickly (of Thursday) talked about the status of the band United Nations (a long awaited side project band featuring your beloved Daryl Palumbo) here. Here are the key parts in the interview.

Rickly: United Nations has 10 songs recorded. Three of them are still missing bass tracks, and one of the members who has a billion other bands has recorded about half the stuff. So we’re pretty close. I think that band will release the record this summer. I hope, at least. It’s going really well. We’re already … the first record I going to be a full-length on Eyeball [which released Thursday’s 1999 debut, Waiting], and then we’re already doing a 7-inch on Deathwish.

Buzznet: Are you going to try to tour behind it?

Rickly: I don’t think that band will ever tour, just because all the bandmembers have so much going on.

Buzznet: Any one-offs, possibly?

Rickly: I’m hoping there’s a show. That’d be super-fun. We’re trying to figure it out. We actually have some weird stuff in the works. I was actually thinking too, like, that there’s … there’s all these weird themes on the first record, and I was thinking [about making] a United Nations record called United Nations Plays Pretty for a Bunch of F—ing Babies, and do all-children’s versions of the songs, like lullabies, like sing-alongs, like the Kidz Bop version. And this is the thing – everybody keeps saying [United Nations are] grind. It’s not really grind, it’s power-violence. But I think a kids’ power-violence record would be so rad.”

Sounds good!

After The Blood Brothers broke up two new bands appeared from ashes, Past Lives and Jaguar Love. Fortunately they’re both decent but I’m leaning on Jag’s side.

Anywho, Jaguar Love is starting to tour and has recently picked up Craig Bonich (of Head Automatica) to tour with them.

Check em out if you get the chance.

Kinda late on this one…oops!

Nick from MW&C has put out a mixtape complete with artwork and a document describing the motivation behind it. Give it a go here.

Friends at Absolutepunk.net have posted high resolution artwork for Men Women & Children’s upcoming single “Ultra Hot Volcano“. Please click here to check it out.

If you haven’t ordered the vinyl, please do so here. All copies are hand numbered and on red vinyl!

The long awaited Reggie and the Full Effect album is coming out this summer. It is titled “Last Stop: Crappy Town”

Here’s the tracklisting:

Track Listing
01) G
02) Smith & 9th
03) F
04) E
05) 3rd Ave
06) L
07) J
08) V
09) Lorimer St
10) R
11) 36th St
12) N

More info after the break!

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House of Blow has just allowed their two previously posted demos “Ice Bait” (formally named “Banger“) and “Afghani Black” downloadable officially on their Myspace page.

Get at it.

Howdy all!

Men Women and Children has a new single coming out titled “Ultra Hot Volcano” on May 6th, 2008. The B-Side is titled “Back To Life” To Pre-order, please visit here.

Here’s the artwork for this release…