AWOLNATION, Polar Bear Club, Red Fang, Trash Talk and With the Punches will be appearing at the 2013 Zumiez Couch Tour. Check out the lineup and headliners below after the jump.
Jimmy Stadt of Polar Bear Club will be appearing on A Loss For Words’ new record. Check out a message from the band below after the jump.
POZ Gallery: Bad Religion True North Tour
Features: Bad Religion, The Bronx, Polar Bear Club
Location: Roseland Theater - Portland, OR
Photos By: Randi Newport
Erik “Goose” Henning has left Polar Bear Club and has been replaced by Ty Smith on the band’s current tour. Check out a message from PBC below by clicking “Read More.”
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Polar Bear Club Lose Guitarist Nate Morris
Polar Bear Club have added headlining dates in the UK around the Slam Dunk Festival. Check out the dates below by clicking “Read More.”
Polar Bear Club have announced headlining shows in March and April. Check the dates below by clicking “Read More.”
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blink-182 Start Viking Wizard Eyes Label?
If you peruse blink-182’s Rdio page, you’ll notice that the label listed for the release of dogs eating dogs is Viking Wizard Eyes. Ever heard of that label before? No, of course not. But it does happen to be a reference that diehard blink fans will find humor in from the Enema Of The State days. Do you think the name is just a place holder they told digital services to use, or do you think all of the band’s future releases will be coming out under Viking Wizard eyes as well?
Streetlight Manifesto LP Has No Release Date; Will Be Released Via Victory
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Mars Hill Music Partners With Tooth & Nail Records
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Jona Weinhofen Comments On Bring Me The Horizon Departure
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Tours:
Bad Religion, Against Me!, Polar Bear Club Tour | Parkway Drive North American Tour
Bad Religion, Against Me!, and Polar Bear Club will be touring together this spring. Check out the dates below by clicking “Read More!”
Polar Bear Club have added a string of European dates around festivals in April and May. Check them out below by clicking “Read More.”
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2013 Brotherly Breakdown Fest [January 5th]
PropertyOfZack is back with our seventh day of our Stocking Stuffers feature with our friend Jimmy Stadt of Polar Bear Club. Jimmy gives us our best SS feature yet by far with his love for “There Ain’t No Hole In The Bathtub” by Jim Henson and great memories of X-Men from the holiday seasons of his youth. Check it out below and come back each day until Christmas for more!
From Jimmy Stadt of Polar Bear Club:
It was difficult picking my favorite holiday song but I decided to go with “There Aint No Hole in the Bathtub” from Jim Henson’s version of “Emmett Otter’s Jug-band Christmas”. It was difficult because I’ve never been someone with a lot of holiday spirit, for any holiday really. I haven’t dressed up for Halloween in five years. I don’t know why! I’m not a Grinch or any other sort of misanthropic curmudgeon; my brain just doesn’t work like that. If I wanted to walk around my neighborhood and sing to all my neighbors I’d just do it then and there as opposed to waiting for the designated time of year.
I’m an immediate obsession kind of guy, anything I have to wait and do I eventually lose interest in and never think of doing ever again, hence my lack of holiday spirit and love of podcasts (there’s new ones every week!). Regardless, I did some poking around on the internet and jolted my memory with “Emmett Otter’s Jug-band Christmas.” I used to love this special! Like everyone, I was obsessed with Jim Henson’s work as a kid. And like everyone, upon revisiting it in my adult years I’ve unlocked wonderfully touching insights. Listening now, “There Aint No Hole in the Bathub” brings me back to Christmases of my youth. Where my family couldn’t afford to get me a new mountain bike but at least I didn’t have to share a room with my sister anymore because we moved into a slightly bigger duplex.
Kidding aside, I was raised to look on the bright side and appreciate what you do have as opposed to moping around thinking you deserve things you haven’t worked for. This is somewhat the theme of the song, sung by two Dickensian looking otters, singing to stay warm in the cold winds of the lakeside. Unlike the Muppets or Sesame Street, Emmett Otter’s world was really depressing and not fantastical in the least. But the characters maintain a positive spin on life. They could be all like #FML but instead Emmet Otter is all “Hey guys, at least there’s no hole in my bathtub #PMA.” I could relate to that back then and still do now. Which is why my favorite Christmas memory was when I didn’t get the new Gambit X-MEN action figure I was expecting to and unreservedly lost…my…shit.
I was big into action figures as a kid. I had a huge box full of ‘em. All different kinds too. Some X-MEN, some Batman, some Burger King kid’s meal toys, anything I could get my hands on I would add to the box and cast them in the made up fantasy novel that I was writing and acting out with figurines in my bed room (I also went through a faze of dousing them with cologne and setting them on fire but “almost burning down my house” is a holiday memory that comes out after four beers and not the two I shot gunned to conjure this one up). Anyway, anyone who was my age knows that everyone’s favorite X-Man was Gambit, once Wolverine became soooooo last year of course. And everyone my age also knows that for some reason, it took fucking forever for them to come out with a Gambit action figure. We had had Cyclops and Jean Grey action figures for what seemed like eons but no Gambit. Needless to say, us 9 year olds were chomping at the bit for that Gambit figure.
- New Found Glory are not going on hiatus.
- All Time Low are planning a new DVD and acoustic projects.
- Alexisonfire announced a final EP.
- blink-182 finished up their new EP.
- Panic! At The Disco are finishing their new album up in December.
- The Wonder Years announced Sleeping On Trash.
- Transit began recording their new record.
- Mayday Parade members started a new side-project.
- The Plot In You confirmed their new album title and release date.
- Perma have begun recording their new record.
- The Cinema are preparing to record their second record.
- You Me At Six are writing new music.
- The Rocket Summer are releasing a b-sides single series.
- Silverstein announced a new album.
- Suicide Silence are playing a benefit show in honor of Mitch Lucker.
- Title Fight confirmed shows with Quicksand.
- Sum 41 are recording a new album in 2013.
- Matt Pryor and Into It. Over It. are touring together in January.
- Polar Bear Club parted ways with their bassist.
- The Acacia Strain were in a serious van accident.
- Fireworks announced January tour dates.
- The Dangerous Summer added a member of The Graduate to their lineup.
- Desaparecidos and Joyce Manor are touring together this winter.
- Bled Fest confirmed its 2013 date.
- Anti-Flag are releasing a bacon-shaped picture disc.
- Into It. Over It. started a new power-pop band called Pet Symmetry.
- Tigers Jaw are releasing a new album in 2013.
- Sum 41 To Record New Album In 2013
- Polar Bear Club Lose Guitarist Nate Morris
- Matt Pryor, James Dewees, IIOI Tour
- Brand New Launch Limited To 100 Posters
- The Menzingers Announce ‘On The Possible Past’
- The Acacia Strain In Serious Van Accident; Forced To Leave Tour
- Fireworks Announce January Mini-Tour
- Fearless Records Looking For Spring 2013 Interns
- Kellin Quinn To Have Guest Spot On Breathe Carolina Album
- blink-182 Finishing EP Today
Nate Morris played his last show with Polar Bear Club last night. Check out a tweet from Morris below by clicking “Read More.”
Polar Bear Club performed at Fest 11 last month. Check out a video of part of their performance below by clicking “Read More.”
