Billy Talent: "Diamond on a Landmine"

Toronto’s Billy Talent have posted the video for “Diamond on a Landmine.” The track comes from their 2009 album, III. In the spring, the band toured with Alexisonfire and Against Me! and in April, they won a Juno Award for best rock album for III.

Operation MD (Sum 41, H2O) plan second album

Operation MD have announced plans to release a new album. The group is the side project from Sum 41 bassist Jason “Cone” McCaslin and H2O’s Todd Morse. According to a Chart Attack report, the album “ is more of a garage record, borrowing heavily from acts like The Hives and Violent Femmes. ”
Along with [...]

Tom Gabel acknowledges ‘White Crosses’ leak, provides lyrics

Posting from a tour stop in Lethbridge, Alberta, Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel acknowledged the leak of the band’s upcoming full length White Crosses. Claiming “No drama” he’s offered up the full lyrics for the album on his blog for those that have heard it. The album is tentatively slated for an early June release. [...]

Tegan and Sara, Metric, Billy Talent, Arkells highlight Juno nominations

Nominations for this year’s Junos have been announced. Notable among them are Billy Talent racking up four nominations (Album of the Year, Group of the Year, Rock Album of the Year, Single of the Year), Tegan And Sara and Alexonfire receiving nods for Alternative Album of the Year and Rock Album of the Year, [...]

Against Me! posts two more studio videos

Against Me! has posted two new videos documenting the recording of their new record, White Crosses. The videos show acoustic versions of songs, as well as the tracking of vocals for some new songs.
The band, who recently unveiled the cover art for White Crosses, will be supporting the record with appearances at Bonnaroo and [...]

Cancer Bats: "Scared to Death"

Toronto, Ontario’s Cancer Bats have posted a song from their forthcoming album, Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones. “Scared to Death” can be streamed on the band’s MySpace page.
The album is set for an April 13 release on Distort Records. Leading up to that the band will release a digital single of their cover of [...]

Billy Talent: "Saint Veronika"

Billy Talent have posted the video for “Saint Veronika” from their album, III.

Cancer Bats new LP arrives April 13th, ‘Sabotage’ EP in March

Distort has released further details on the upcoming full length from Toronto-based hardcore / metal act Cancer Bats. The band’s new record Bears, Mayors, Scraps And Bones will be available in Canada on April 13th. A video for the first single is set to be released at the end of this month. A two song [...]

Gallows to join Billy Talent/Alexisonfire/Against Me! for Canadian Tour in 2010

Gallows has announced that they will be joining the forthcoming Canadian tour with Against Me!, Billy Talent and Alexisonfire. The band said this:

Just announced on stage in Toronto: We will be coming back to Canada next March for the Billy Talent/Alexisonfire/Against Me tour. We’re super stoked to be on this, hope to see a lot [...]

October 18th, 2009

Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I’m Adam White and I’ll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and [...]