Dillinger Four – Full Set (The Fest 7)
Dillinger Four and The FEST are like peanut butter and jelly. D4 even wrote a song about it called “Gainesville” on their long awaited release C I V I L W A R from last year which they play for the first time in Gainesville at The FEST. They will be playing at Fest 8 in three weeks. This is what The FEST is all about. If you don’t have tickets or travel plans yet, you better hurry up. “Let’s go cause we’re not getting any younger.”
Madison Bloodbath – Cosmic Bitchfuck
TCSG documented Madison Bloodbath recording 5 acoustic tracks for an upcoming ep, “On Vacation with Madison Bloodbath”.
Chris Hannah of Propagandhi – Video Interview (Harvest of Hope Fest)
In 1986, Canadian punk rock pioneers Propagandhi started crafting their own blend of (what was known at the time as) metal and skate punk and above all, telling it like it is. At the Harvest of Hope Fest in St. Augustine, FL back in March, we had the opportunity to talk to Chris Hannah, frontman and guitarist, about a list of topics from their new release to who he was interested in seeing play. With an unintentional soundtrack by Bridge & Tunnel, it’s a pretty cool candid conversation…pretty funny that he’s a Bad Brains fan considering that just over an hour after Bad Brains played, Propagandhi played “Haillie Sallasse, Up Your Ass” (listen on last.fm to see why that’s funny).
Vinyl Vlog: Season Two Episode Two w/The Riot Before
The second Episode of the second Season from Vinyl Vlog includes a pretty awesome interview with The Riot Before complete with a test press giveaway. Even a possible Kevin Smith cameo….!?!
The Briggs – Full Set (The Fest 6)
Los Angeles California’s The Briggs started out in 2001 and have been tearing it up on Side One Dummy Records since 2004. Little known fact: Their song This is LA is played as part of the introduction for the Los Angeles Kings at all of their home games. In 2007, they played the main stage (The Venue) at The Fest 6. Check it out here.
Vinyl Vlog: Season Two Episode One w/Ringers & Carry The Torch Giveaways!
Vinyl Vlog returns with a second season, including interviews with Ringers and a review of Carry The Torch; A Tribute To Kid Dynamite as well as new contests and announcing winners of past giveaways.
Hot Water Music – Video Interview
National Underground doesn’t pay the bills, but it has some awesome perks. One of which was to find out about the HWM reunion months before it was announced. The idea had been to record as many of the HWM shows as possible, but HOB wanted tons of money to even let us in…it’s a Disney thing. So, we recorded the unannounced pre-reunion show at Common Grounds in Gainesville the night before the big announced reunion in Orlando.
This also marked the first attempt for NU to do interviews. We had our buddies in Dirty Money (Colin and Ryan) and Cam Taylor (Southern Lovin mainstay but at the time a Clemson student) take a stab at it. They did a pretty good job for their first try at interview work and got the guys to let them in on some old school HWM points of view.
So, to give you some perspective, they hadn’t played together in years and were two hours out from taking the stage at home to a crowd of friends and family (seriously it didn’t even sell out while the announced shows had been soldout for months). They’d kind of gotten over any issues and were remembering why they were friends and bandmates in the first place.
Against Me! – Full Set (The Fest 4)
Against Me! have become one of the largest local bands to come from Gainesville, FL which is quite the statement as local bands include Hot Water Music, Less Than Jake and none other than Tom Petty. Starting off in 1997 as a solo act, Tom Gabel fine tuned the lineup and after years of touring and releasing stellar material on Plan It X Records, Sabot Productions, No Idea Records, and then Fat Wreck Chords came to a high point in their career in the summer/fall of 2005. After releasing their tour DVD “We’re Never Going Home”, playing Warped Tour that year and headlining the Fat Wreck tour, their final show was at home, headlining The FEST 4. A “We’re Never Going Home…Homecoming” if you will. Whether you’re an old Against Me! fan or a new fan you’ll find this is one of the best compilations of their past work, playing it at home to one of the best crowds of their career.
Shook Ones / Paint It Black – Apartment Show (The Fest 6)
Our buddies in Spanish Gamble (at the time Dirty Money and before that the guys that put us up at Fest V and helped us on tour with Less Than Jake…brothers to say the least) planned out a series of house shows for Fest 6 after a surprisingly successful couple at Fest V. The shows were planned out to have only one surprise headliner that never showed, with the rest being smaller acts. Dr. Dan Yemin asked if Paint It Black could play and Ryan, of course, said yeah. Only problem is that their apartment was on the second floor and when you cram 250 kids in, the floor sunk. The ceiling in the apartment downstairs apparently fell. They went on a two month tour before the office opened on Monday and never heard anything about it. Oh, and the best part was that the cops came and just hung out at 3am at a punk show. Only in Gainesville. This was shot by Joe Olmestad who was on tour with Shook Ones…we didn’t have any audio there cause we were breaking down after recording Naked Raygun at the Venue.
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