It's fest week on the Punknews Podcast. Lower case. This week Adam White, Rich Verducci and Kira Wisniewski talk about This Is Hardcore, Pouzza, Bamboozle and Riot Fest, all of which had announcements and features on the Org this past week. We also chat about the punk community's reaction to the Laura Jane Grace news. ...all this and music from Truckasaurus, Red Collar , and Thick Shakes. You can click Read More to stream and/or download the show, or subscribe via RSS or iTunes . You can always send us your feedback in the comments section or via e-mail ...

Når Copenhagen Jazz Festival ruller ind over København er det sidste chance for at høre Kira Skov synge Billie Holiday i hovedstaden

As well as possessing one of our favourite band names, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (pictured) have a selection of fine songs like their ramshackle new single Bloody Ripper. They will be playing this and other scuzz-rock songs at the Judith Wright Centre as part of the Cheap Thrills event on Saturday May 12, alongside Kira Puru & The Bruise , Gung Ho and The Well Alrights .

Directly on the heels of their successful full-length debut album release (Krian Music Group) The Strange Familiar will be making their triumphant return to New York City. Kira Leyden (vocals/piano), Jeff Andrea (guitar), Frank Freeman (bass) and Nicholas Sainato (drums) will be hitting the stage...

Directly on the heels of their successful full-length debut album release (Krian Music Group) *The Strange Familiar* will be making their triumphant return to New York City. Kira Leyden (vocals/piano), Jeff Andrea (guitar), Frank Freeman (bass) and Nicholas Sainato (drums) will be hitting the stage...

On May 12th, the Judith Wright Center in Brisbane launches a totally new, all-ages event called Cheap Thrills ! Featuring some of the best acts the east coast has to offer (including Gung Ho, Kira Puru and the Bruise, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, and local punk outfit The Well-Alrights ), it'd be a damn shame if you missed out on this show. That's where we come in! We have two double-passes to give away! Simply email competitions@theaureview.com with the subject line CHEAP THRILLS, including your full name and contact number. The competition closes at 5PM on ...

For the first time in human history the Punknews Podcast is recorded live! Circumstance has brought Rich Verducci, Kira Wisniewski and John Gentile together in San Jose for a face to face recording session. The group chats about the week's punk news including troubles at Roadrunner Records, the last word on the Brian Fallon controversy, Mark Hoppus getting fit and Joey Shithead of D.O.A running for office in BC. ...all this and music from Terrible Feelings. You can click Read More to stream and/or download the show, or subscribe via RSS or iTunes . You can always ...

Audio Assault's landmark Month Of Menstruators begins when our friend Kira drops by the Funk Bunker to rap about caveman diets, almond butter, and her voice work in the upcoming Spiderman biopic.

Did you hear Brian Fallon once strapped a dog to the roof of his car and drove his family to Canada on vacation? It's true. Learn this and more horrible facts about the Gaslight Anthem on this week's Punknews Podcast with Adam White, Kira Wisniewski and John Gentile. We also talk about our excitement (or lack thereof) for the new Offspring record, the leak of the One Nine Nine Four doc, the debut song from post- Gallows act Pure Love, a new Hot Water Music song, and our personal Record Store Day recaps. ...all this and music from ...

Remembering The Music Rest In Peace, Levon Helm Photos by Kira Doucette Words by Julie Stoller Live from Life is good 2011 Prowse Farm - Canton, MA REMEMBERING LEVON A few words on Levon's passing from Life is Good's James Macdonald : "In the winter, as I sat down with Bert and John Jacobs to discuss talent for that September’s Life is good Festival, there was one name that kept rising to the top of the “must have” list - Levon Helm. You consider booking certain acts for different reasons…some look forward, others reminisce, all hopefully inspire and others ...

The Icelandic audio/visual artist Kira Kira (a.k.a. Kristín Björg Kristjánsdóttir) is getting ready for the release of her third full length album and her first for Morr Music's sub label Sound Of A Handshake . The album title has been announced and it's called Feathermagnetik and it's due on June 1st. Read More

Live Impressions by Ryan Spaulding Photos by Kira Doucette Rock N’ Roll Rumble Night 6 - April 7th, 2012 - at TT the Bear’s Place The End of the Beginning of the 2012 Rumble arrived with the onset of Preliminary Night Six. And this lineup - hosted on the only Saturday night of the Rumble, looked to be the loudest and most raucous of the entire affair. As it turned out this was the only predictable element of the entire night.. Motherboar won - powered by the loudest set of the week RSL STREAMING PHOTO ALBUM On the outside looking in the night ...

Enigmatic singer-songwriter Ben Lee has been announced as one of three keynote speakers for this year’s BIGSOUND. The Sydney-born, LA-based musician will join EMI Chairman Mark Poston and ARIA-winning artist and activist David Bridie (Not Drowning Waving, My Friend The Chocolate Cake) on the podium at this year’s event. The trio are unlikely to create as much of a stir as last year’s keynote, Creation founder Alan McGee, who made international headlines and raised the ire of promoter Michael Chugg after expressing his deep ambivalence towards music. He also described the PIAS warehouse blaze as a “result ...

This week on the Punknews Podcast, founding caster Adam White returns to survey the wreckage of the Podcast wrought in his absense. From the rubble we rebuild with Chris Moran and Kira Wisniewski joining to discuss news like the Green Day triple album announcement, the Sex Pistols ' Olympic invite, the ex- Bury Your Dead TV-inspired gang warfare, the lineup for the Fest 11 and more. ...all this and music from Tim Barry , Gnarboots and Autochrome. You can click Read More to stream and/or download the show, or subscribe via RSS or iTunes . You can always send us your feedback ...

Live Impressions by Julie Stoller Photos by Kira Doucette Rock N’ Roll Rumble Night 5 - April 6th, 2012 - at TT the Bear’s Place Night Five Rumble Champs: Bow Thayer & the Perfect Trainwreck Ever arrive to a party late? That’s kind of how I felt as I walked into night #5 of The Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble at T.T. the Bear’s Place. There was already a good sized crowd, 100+, just ahead of the first contestant, Pray For Polanski. Anngelle Wood, staunch supporter of so many Boston bands during her tenure at Boston Emissions’ local radio show, was our esteemed hostess. Apart from the sporting competition, the annual Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble provides a diverse evening of some of New England’s best musical talent. Tonight we had some serious grrrl power in the form of two ferocious leading ladies ( Anne Warnock of Pray For Polanski and Elena Siegman of BrownBoot ) some marvelous stage heroics (which sadly isn’t part of the judging criteria), two mad keyboardists, and one mighty slick-looking electric banjo. Pray For Polanski has a great sound. Their strength is lead singer Anne , who belts it out in an unhinged, Baptist revivalist sort of way. She really lets the spirit move her. Aviv Rubinstien adds a fine guitar and haunted backwoods vocal counterpoint to Anne’s keening, and it was during a particularly heady, possessed interlude of wailing human and wailing stringed instrument that Aviv, lost in the moment, toppled backwards over a monitor. Flat on his back with feet in the air, and then sorting himself and the injured equipment, he never stopped playing and didn’t miss a note. In a perfect world, there would have been extra points for that. Personal highlight: “Desperation, CA,” during which I was imagining Ms. Janis Joplin, wherever she is now, tilting her head to have a listen. Pray For Polanski Web / facebook / bandcamp BrownBoot , with strong dual ‘front people’ Rodrigo van Stoli on screaming lead guitar and vocals and Elena Siegman on hard rockin’ soul banshee, got everyone going. Rodrigo and Matt Sullivan , guitars screaching at the front of the stage and playing to a wildly enthusiastic audience (biggest crowd of the night) really have their ‘Rock Star Moves’ down (also not part of the judging criteria). Another strong point: some mighty fine 3-part harmonies. After some inebriated gentleman in the back made some odd comment about… well, I won’t say, as this is a family publication, in a serendipitous moment, Rodrigo announced their next song, “Douchbag” (a.k.a. “D-bag,” as it was written in the setlist), as being “for all the douchbags in the audience.” This was a highlight for me, as I found the combination of ‘70s hard rock and the refrain “what a douchbag, what a douchbag” impossible to resist. BrownBoot facebook / twitter / bandcamp There was a perceptible vibrational shift when Bow Thayer & Perfect Trainwreck kicked into their set of traditional, bluegrass and folk-tinged rock ‘n’ roll. Soulful and deeply rooted in their woodsy Vermont home, there was something in their exceptional musicianship, tightly woven arrangements and cohesiveness that I must say lifted them above the fray. Everyone was outstanding. There was Bow’s rich mountain man vocals and cool-as-hell electric banjo, the sanctifying sounds of Chris McGandy ’s glorious pedal steel, and Jeff Berlin beating mercilessly on his vintage 1960 Gretsch drum kit. Along with a heart-pounding rhythm section and some mind-bending piano and organ flourishes from the aforementioned ‘mad keyboardist’ James Rohr, they seriously raised the bar for the evening. (As it so happened, the judges agreed. Onwards they go to the semifinals). True to their backwoods farmhouse roots, they ended with a delicious full-on jam about “a guy who dug a hole in his backyard because he thought the end of the world was coming. What a crazy fuck, huh?” Awesome. Congratulations, guys. Bow Thayer and Perfect Trainwreck facebook / twitter / web The Bynars closed out the night with a heavy dose of fun in the form of some crazy ‘80s-inspired bouncy synth pop. Between Matt Jatkola ’s super quirky vocals (and equally compelling visual presence) and Ben Mettey ’s analog synths (ok, so one was a digitally-controlled analog synth – it still counts), I was instantly transported. In fact, so completely captivated I was by those pretty beeps, boops and cascading waterfalls, that I found myself drifting over to the other side of the room to plant myself in front of them. The Bynars win my own special award for ‘Best Flashback.’ Personal highlight: a cosmically spacey and totally off-kilter take on Bruce Springsteen’s “ Dancing In The Dark ,” inspiring an audience sing-a-long and impromptu MTV dancers. It was an unexpected surprise which I found marvelously amusing, though I can understand if some purists may have considered this sacrilege. There is certain sacred ground upon which you just don’t tread. But you know what they say; all’s fair in love and war - and The Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble. The Bynars facebook / twitter / bandcamp RSL STREAMING PHOTO ALBUM 2012 Rock 'n Roll Rumble Night Five