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Drink. Sing. Live. Love.

Posted 04 Aug 2012 in Releases
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The punk rock tour de force, now consisting of Mike Davenport (The Ataris), Chris Flippin (Lagwagon), Donald Spence and Bryan Charleson (Crooks and Liars), formed in the back of The Ataris owned record store, Down On Haley, in Santa Barbara and released their debut self-titled album in 2005 on Kung Fu Records. They spent the next few years touring in support of the release with bands like Suicide Machines, Bouncing Souls, The Lawrence Arms, Social Distortion, No Use For A Name, The Vandals, I Am The Avalanche and the Vans Warped Tour building up a worldwide fan base along the way. Versus The World reconvened in 2010 and began writing and recording their long awaited follow-up which they wrapped...

Black Sheep Of The American Dream

Posted 16 May 2012 in Releases
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14 Years strong and still nothing can stop DEATH BY STEREO. Coming back harder, faster, and louder than they ever have, their sixth full-length studio album “Black Sheep Of The American Dream” will be out on April 20th 2012 via Concrete Jungle Records. “Black Sheep Of The American Dream” offers up DEATH BY STEREO’s return to their hardcore punk roots, interlaced with crushing metal breakdowns and blazing solos courtesy of the legendary party shredder, Dan Palmer.With this album, DEATH BY STEREO brought back original bassist and founding member, Paul Miner. In addition to lending his bass skills, Paul co-produced, co-wrote, engineered, mixed and mastered the album with the idea of taking the bands sound into a direction somewhere between...

Less Rhythm More Booze

Posted 21 Jan 2012 in Releases
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It’s been a long time coming for this release. We had so much fun doing the first one we figured why not do a second one and film it this time around, said Authority Zero’s Jason DeVore. A lot of work and a lot of play went into putting this together. We’re just fired up to finally get it out there and let people experience what we all did that night. This record was all about having fun and doing something for the fans.

Stories of Survival

Posted 22 Jun 2010 in Releases
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Stories Of Survival is the fourth studio album released by American punk band Authority Zero. It was released on June 22, 2010 through the Suburban Noize Records subsidiary, Viking Funeral Records. Stories Of Survival peaked at number 5 on Billboard’s Top Heatseekers chart, and at number 43 on Billboard’s Independent Albums chart. When the Clash, the Sex Pistols, the Dead Boys, the Ramones, and the Germs were raising hell back in the late ’70s, “longevity” wasn’t exactly the first word that came to mind when one thought of punk bands. Punk, after all, was so combustible, so raw, and so darn volatile that few of the angry youths who were blasting “Anarchy in the U.K.” or “Sheena Is a...