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First round of Warped confirmations announced
Warped Tour has begun announcing bands that are being confirmed for the tour's 10-year anniversary. Already on the list of bands playing are New Found Glory, Taking Back Sunday, and Coheed and Cambria, with many more to come. The tour plans are  to have a star-studded 10-year reunion show at the end of the summer in New York, with bands from throughout Warped Tour  history. None of these bands have been announced yet, but rumors have been flying around and the second anything is confirmed, we'll let you know.
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Punk Rock Reaches the Masses
I've been noticing lately the term 'punk' is being used by a lot more people than before. What exactly seperates a punk from a poser, anyway?.
Now more than ever there are tons and tons of Hot Topic shoppin' mallrat "punks" around. Now, I'm not saying all HT shoppers are posers, but alot of them seem to be. There's a fine line of punks and posers and it's getting hard to read.
It seems like after the Offspring and Green Day broke out, punk didn't really get any more popular, it just stayed underground. And then, all of the sudden, the Offspring come back with Americana, and Blink 182 release Enema of the State and everyone wants punk rock. Then Sum 41, New Found Glory, American Hi-fi, Simple Plan, and tons of other pop-punk bands hit the charts and all the sudden its popular to be punk. Thus we have posers. People who think since they wear baggy pants, skateboard, and listen to New Found Glory, they're regular anarchists. I don't think so. Don't get me wrong, I love NFG and Simple Plan and Blink 182 and Green Day as much as anyone, but that's not what punk is.
Exposure can also be good, there are a lot more real punk fans out there because of it. I know if it wasn't for the Offspring I wouldn't be listening to punk today.  Believe me, I'm not a purist in any sense of the word, but, somewhere you have to draw the line. But, as Sublime said from the very beginning, "Punk rock changed our lives."
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BLINK DVD CUT TO SIZE!

BLINK 182 are to release a feature documentary DVD 'RIDING IN VANS WITH BOYS' following the exploits of an unknown band thrown onto to their 46-date POP DISASTER TOUR.Blink's Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge developed the concept with Melee Entertainments' Jon Humphrey. The film will detail the ups and downs of San Diego's Cut U Up as they travel on the major US tour with Blink 182, Green Day and Jimmy Eat World.  The DVD will include backstage footage and live performances. Blink 182 release their latest self-titled album on Monday November 17. Hoppus said "I think that the next record will surprise a lot of people, including me. We want to do something really dynamic... we want to try different effects  in the studio, try different instruments, try different sounds, different arrangements on songs. "He also said: "Before, we got one guitar sound that we changed a little bit through the record. This time we want to try a whole different set-up for each song."
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Getting Things Straight...The Defenition of a Sellout
Most of the time these people are not knowledgable of punk music. However, in most cases, any band that is a true sellout will be seen on major networks quite frequently. I think that the defenition of a sellout can besummarized as any band that drops its home record label to join some fresh new major label, to change not only their attitudes and viewpoints, but their style of music and their appearances, and giving up all responsibilities as to the lyrics of their songs. Allowing a network to air your music is simply common sense, and a decision that sometimes...for some reason...loses fans. To me it is simple common sense... If you were in a band.. and you switched record labels, started to let other high prioroty people and record executives write your lyrics, started to dress and act diferently, then, yes this would make you a sellout.. as did popular bands Green Day, Blink 182, and recently and sadly, former punk-rockers AFI.  Next time you think of calling a band a "sellout" for simply seeing their music video on a major network... think beore you say it.
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Brand New Eschew Rocking For Voodoo
Brand New reserve their rocking for the concert stage, not the soundstage. In the video for "Sic Transit Gloria ... Glory Fades," the second single from their second album, Deja Entendu, Brand New pick up where they left off with their previous clip, "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows," and display a similar cinematic slant. Filmed in Los Angeles by director Marc Webb in mid-October, the clip focuses on Lacey as its main character, and, like the video for "The Quiet Things," a bit of the supernatural plays a part.  This time Lacey acts like a human voodoo doll. He discovers that when he moves a particular body part, so does the target of his powers. So much so, it's a bit surprising to know that the idea for the clip came from its director, who had had the idea for some time. Brand New just happened to be the band to take him up on his offer. The clip is expected to appear in a few weeks, while the single has just begun to be played on the radio.
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Billy Talent Go From Bad Jobs To Radio Gold
Not long ago, Billy Talent singer Benjamin Kowalewicz was working for an airport in Toronto, Canada, and his primary responsibility was emptying the tanks of airplanes. He worked the bad job to support his music habit, and didn't even dream of making lots of money by playing rock and roll. "If you're out there just trying to get the big deal, then you're doing music for the wrong reasons," he explained. "The hidden aspiration was always to be able to maybe pay our rent and play music, but even that was never the main goal. "Now, with the single "Try Honesty" building at radio, Billy Talent are not only doing well financially, they're poised to break through to the mainstream alternative market. For a Canadian band that's been playing clubs in a van for a decade, that's a crazy thought.
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