Epitaph Blog

So this past weekend Little Ryan and I flew to East Rutherford, NJ for Bamboozle East. We had our Ipods blasting, book bags packed, and gang signs flashing. The flight was ridic, long as always, but I slept from the time we took off to the time we landed, fun fun. This started our long, but awesome weekend. Ryan and I met up with our friends Emma and Sarah and they headed to NYC, Ryan and I stayed behind to take a photo shoot at the hotel:

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A bunch of us from the office are going to ride with the Midnight Ridazz tonight, which is about the most grown-up fun one can have that doesn’t involve hard drugs or multiple partners. If you’re not familiar with a MR ride, its kinda like Critical Mass, only drunker. This month’s theme? STAR WARS! Best.Ride.Ever. I’ll be the one with Princess Leia cinnamon rolls under my helmet. Details here.

Relatedly, next week the 14th annual Bike to Work week culminates in Bike to Work Day on Thursday the 15th. All the information riders in LA could possibly need (for example, the time and location of the Blessing of the Bikes ceremony) can be found here.

Today the Telegraph, a newspaper in Great Britain, published a story of a 13 year old girl who committed suicide, claiming that she did so “believing her death would impress fellow followers of the “emo” movement.” The writer describes emo as “a youth movement based around dark music, dark clothing and a dark view of the world. While most fans simply enjoy the music and dress, others take their fascination to a sinister level. They indulge in self-harming and become obsessed with death and suicide.” An inquest suggested that it was emo music that pushed Hannah Bond to hang herself. Specifically, the article names My Chemical Romance as the band leading the charge to the grave.

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Our friends at Absolutepunk have been kind enough to stream the entire Millencolin record for you! Head over to their website and check it out. Millencolin’s new record Machine 15 is in stores now!

Stream the entire record here.
Get more from Millencolin here.

Hey everyone and welcome to the latest edition of Accountant’s Corner…let’s get right to the email question of the week.

Tom from Austin, TX writes “I’m a Freshman at the University of Texas and I want to become an accountant. My parents are really trying to push me to become a pro-athlete or a musician. How do I make them realize that I need to follow my heart and do what I love?” Well Tom, this may shock you but I’m going to agree with your parents on this one. “What?” you say? Believe it or not accounting isn’t always glamorous, sometimes it’s just you and your ten-key pounding out spreadsheets on a lonely summer evening. This may also shock a lot of you long time readers, but if I could give up my decorated accounting career to become a profession baseball player, I would do it in a heartbeat.

As always you can shoot me any math, music, accounting related questions to barry@epitaph.com. But please please no tax questions, I don’t know that much about taxes – are you listening Alice from Boise?!!

And now, here are my music picks for the week in the usual categories:

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Photo by: future-breed.com

This past weekend was Bamboozle East in East Rutherford, NJ. I took a couple fun filled photos of the weekend I’ll blog about them tomorrow, but for now take a look at some cool photo-sets of some Epitaph bands like, Our Last Night - click here to see the set, Motion City Soundtrack - click here to see the set, and the Bouncing Souls - click here to see the set. This guy takes killer photos.

Swedish pop-punk band Millencolin have a brand new record, Machine 15 this past Tuesday. If you haven’t picked it up I suggest you do. It’s in typical Millencolin fashion, catchy pop-punk that will have you singing along.

Buy it on ITUNES.

Check out the video for the single, “Detox” on Youtube.com!

Bad Religion is set to reissue last year’s New Maps of Hell with expanded features and bonus material on July 8th. The deluxe version includes the original 16 song CD, along with seven new acoustic tracks. Three of the acoustic songs are new, written specifically for this release; the other four tracks are new acoustic versions of BR classics such as “Sorrow” and the perennial favorite “Skyscraper.”

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Have you heard the news? Rancid are going on a full U.S tour this summer. Dates after the break…

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Escape the Fate are performing a rare one-off show at Chain Reaction in Anaheim on June 13th. Tickets go on sale this Friday (May 9) at 10am and will sell out quickly, so buy yours here.

Gallows’ Frank Carter, an insane singer and talented tattoo artist, has added something new to his resume: clothing designer. His company The Skulls just launched, check it out here.

Frank writes: “the shirts are all DELUXE FIRST EDITIONS. This means they are hand finished and all signed and numbered by myself. Every last fucking one. Its taken me a while to put together and I am really stoked on the final product.”