June 18th, 2013 
Tyler Osborne AFI Docs, the East Coast’s premiere documentary film festival starts tomorrow in Washington, DC, and here at UTG we’re excited to cover it and give you the scoop on what will be some of the best documentaries that 2013 has to offer. With a few world premieres and exclusive screenings, we’ve collected a list of films that we’re excited to see at this year’s festival that we think you should keep your eye on.
Click through the break to see what made our list!
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June 5th, 2013 Tyler Osborne Band: Kill LIncoln
Album: That’s Cool…in a Totally Negative and Destructive Way
Label: Jump Start Records
Genre: Ska/Pop-Punk
Ska is such a dirty word these days. Asking a friend if they want to go see a ska band is basically opening a door to statements such as “you still like ska??” Yes, ska became a very weird genre, really fast. A lot of bands were doing it really well, and then even more bands were doing it very poorly. Other than the household names of Reel Big Fish and Streetlight Manifesto, ska and ska-punk bands have been relatively dormant …
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June 3rd, 2013 Dan Bogosian Gerard Way, best known as the vocalist for My Chemical Romance, has had work in comic book writing before. He had several of his drawings appear in Apocalypse Suite from Dark Horse Comics in 2007. Little did we know, Way was also working on his own imprint of Batman that DC Comics had officially approved. He never got around to writing it, though obviously fans are clamoring for him to do it now in a post-MCR world.
Way revealed this through his Twitter account, where he also displayed the concept art. You can see his full statements and the …
May 29th, 2013 Tyler Osborne Our friends over at Absolute Punk are exclusively streaming Washington, DC based ska-punk band Kill Lincoln’s new song, “Wait, Wake, Repeat.” The song is really fast, urgent, and has some really infectious horns weaved in.
“Wake, Wait, Repeat” is the first song on Kill Lincoln’s newest album, That’s Cool…In a Totally Negative and Destructive Way, which comes out via Jump Start Records on June 4. You can pre-order the new record here. We have a review of the record coming soon to the site, but we can let you know right now that this is a band you …
May 24th, 2013 Tyler Osborne AFI DOCS (formerly known as AFI Silver Docs), released their schedule for this year’s film festival, and the list is filled with what we’re sure will be an amazing lineup of documentary films. Stationed in Washington, DC, AFI DOCS is the premiere documentary film festival on the East Coast, and is also considered one of the finest in the world. Generally, the Oscar winner for Best Documentary has a showing at this festival, so we think that’s pretty indicitave of the high standard that AFI DOCS holds their films to.
While we’re going to have a more in depth look …
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May 17th, 2013 Tyler Osborne One of the fastest bands out of Washington, DC, hardcore band Coke Bust released a new song today titled “Iron Spiral.” Just under a minute in length, the song has the signature Coke Bust feel: fast and most certainly pissed.
“Iron Spiral” is the first song to come off of Coke Bust’s newest full-length, Confined, which comes out this Summer on Grave Mistake Records.
Coke Bust is also heading out on tour all over the world this Summer, first in the USA, then in Europe. Coke Bust is one of the hardest working bands in the hardcore scene …
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April 22nd, 2013 Tyler Osborne Last night a group of punk kids from the DC area began petitioning for Streetlight Manifesto to drop the venue they booked in Northern Virginia (which for those who don’t know is basically a suburb of DC) known as Empire. For those who remember, a few weeks back The Wonder Years spoke out against Empire’s staff for their usage of homophobic slurs. In light of that incident (and others), fans are now asking Streetlight move their final area performance so that fans can attend the show without supporting an establishment that does not believe in equality.
To be …
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March 14th, 2013 Tyler Osborne DC-based punks Boardroom Heroes recently sat down with Tyler of our UTG TV staff and performed two of their songs acoustically, “Elephant” and “Not Hesitating.” Since being signed to Sinking Ship Records and playing Fest 11 in 2012, Boardroom Heroes have been steadily gaining a substantial following.
Boardroom Heroes are gearing up to go on a short run of dates around the East Coast, which you can check out below. In addition to having a slew of shows coming up, Boardroom Heroes are also working on a brand new EP. Talk about busy!
Click through the break to see these …
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February 22nd, 2013 Tyler Osborne Well hardcore heads, the time has come. Baltimore hardcore group Trapped Under Ice just announced that they will be going on hiatus after This is Hardcore in August. Announcing the hiatus via a lengthy note on their Facebook page, TUI will be playing a slew of shows from now until This is Hardcore, and then after Philadelphia’s premier festival the band will be taking a break for several years. The band projects that they will be coming back to the hardcore scene in 2015.
While that date is a bit specific, I’m definitely bummed out about this. Trapped Under Ice …
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December 19th, 2012 Tyler Osborne Earlier this month I made my way out to the 930 Club in Washington DC to see the very popular rock group The Gaslight Anthem with Laura Stevenson and the Cans. Normally I shy away from the 930 Club (although it’s not a terrible venue) because generally a lot of the acts that play there I do not enjoy. However since the announcement in August that New Jersey’s best was coming to DC, I’ve been counting down the days to visit one of the longest standing music venues in the nation’s capital. I had only heard wonderful things about …
November 20th, 2012 James Shotwell A few weeks ago we talked to you about one of our new favorite hardcore bands from DC, Over & Out. Well today we are excited to announce that we are hosting their new EP Plastic City! The seven track album clocks in at a break neck 14 minutes, and it’s a really aggressive effort that here at UTG we’re really excited about.
What’s also great about this new release is that it’s absolutely free. Yes, free. How do you get a download of it? Go to their Bandcamp here.
If you want to check them out …
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November 5th, 2012 Tyler Osborne This isn’t super surprising, but nevertheless it’s awesome. Texas is the Reason announced today tour dates for 2013, and they’re hitting some places on the East Coast as well as in California. Texas is the Reason is a really important band in punk history, so seeing them tour around again is really welcome. They also included a really sweet tour video, which we have also included below as well.
For those who don’t know, Texas is the Reason recently reunited at Rev 25 in NYC, which was a celebration of old and new bands from the Revelation Records family.
Tour …
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