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You heard it right, The Lawrence Arms have announced 2012 touring plans! Check the dates here and read what Brendan Kelly had to say about it below! In 2011, The Lawrence Arms only played two shows, once with the mighty Dead Milkmen and once out in SF for the Asian Man spectacular. It was, all things considered, a pretty slow year. Now, in the opening moments of 2012, in honor of the apocalypse, we’re gonna go ahead and straight up DOUBLE our entire last year’s worth of playing out in January alone. That’s right! We were talking and we realized...
Fat Wreck Chords is thrilled to welcome Useless ID from Tel Aviv to the Fat family! We’ll be releasing their debut Fat album titled Symptoms on February 14th, 2012 and you can read what Fat Mike had to say about them below. After being friends with and touring with Useless ID (terrible name for a band) for many years now, I decided to sign the Jews to Fat Wreck. Not because of those reasons, but because they made a kick ass record with Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore. nuff said
Fat Mike and Melvin performed at Occupy SF yesterday. Check out this video where they played in front of cops: …and at the campsite:
LAGWAGON’s reissues are all out today! Duh, Trashed, Hoss, Double Plaidinum and Let’s Talk About Feelings are available now on deluxe CD digipak, double gatefold LP, and digitally, right here. All last week we doled out tracks from each album as free downloads; get them here. Filter Magazine premiered the demo version of “Know It All” from the Trashed reissue yesterday. Get it here. Last but not least, check out the video below of Joey Cape getting his first glimpse of the reissues and giving a full rundown of everything that’s included.