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We discuss our favorite shows ever. We each tell the tale of three amazing or weird shows we attended, booked or played in. Also, find out which member of a Fat Wreck Chords band dipped his head in the Fireside Bowl's toilet!

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Happy Friday! This is John G bringing you some new reviews. Related-- the RSD release list looks pretty sweet to me. Where do you stand on it? Is it a fun day with cool, new releases? Is it overpriced and played out? Are flippers just exercising their economic rights or are they bottom feeding dirtbags? Also, what are some of your favorite record stores?

Today's reviews are:

• Rotting Out - Reckoning
• Kind of Like Spitting ./ Warren Franklin - It’s Always Nice to See You
• The Tuts - time to move on
• Swingin' Utters / toyGuitar - live in Glasgow

Baltimore metallers Noisem have announced a new album. It's called Blossoming Decay. The album is nine tracks and will be out in late may via a389 Records.

So-Cal's Strung Out released another song off of their upcoming release titled Transmission.Alpha.Delta.. The song is titled "Spanish Days" and it is streaming over at Redbull. Transmission Alpha Delta and is due out March 24, 2015

You can click here to listen to the track.

CJ Ramone has announced a tour this June with Osaka, Japan's Shonen Knife. They will be co-headlining a tour of the Midwest and Northeast.

Franz Nicolay has released a new music video. It's for the tune "Bright White" which is off To Us, The Beautiful! in 2015. Punknews recently spoke to Nicolay about the album and Mongolian Neo Nazis. You can click Read More for the video.

When I call Roger Miret (vocalist of Agnostic Front, leader of the Disasters, hardcore legend), he’s about to get on a school bus to go on a field trip with his kid’s class. That’s right, Mr. Victim in Pain, Mr. CBGB, Mr. Neck Tattoo is now a chaperone.

But, that’s not to say Miret has lightened up. Just by speaking to him, I can tell that were I to piss him off, he could probably tear off my ass and then hand it back to me. He’s a tough dude. But, as he crosses five decades, it seems that in addition to being one of the most important guys in one of the world’s most important hardcore bands, he’s also become a bit of a philosopher.

You see, on Agnostic Front’s upcoming album, The American Dream Died (out April 4 on Nuclear Blast), Miret contemplates how civil rights have eroded, how the police abuse their privileges and how being a Cuban immigrant has affected his place in this world. With that in mind, I called up Miret to talk about coming to America, his punk rock history and the new LP.

You can click read more to read John Gentile’s interview with Miret.

Adam E. here with four new reviews. Today's one of those days where I feel like I'm better off just switching places with the evil twin who lives in the crawlspace. In fact, I think I'm going to do just that. Let him deal with this crap.

Meanwhile, today's reviews are:

• Don Blake - Pocket Universe
• Venom - From the Very Depths
• Clowns - Bad Blood
• Griever - Our Love is Different

Yulia, the band featuring members of Shinobu, have released a new split EP. The split is with the band Olivas and it's out on Phat n Funky Records. You can order it here and hear the Yulia side of the split after the jump.

On April 3, Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day plans to open a guitar shop in Oakland. It's going to be called Broken Guitars and is co-owned and managed by Bill Schneider, who was in Pinhead Gunpowder with Armstrong.

Schneider stated:

"It’s only been a month since we got the opportunity. It’s now at the moment where I’m getting really excited. It feels real... We want to be a shop for musicians," Schneider said, "The focus is used American guitars: Gretsch, Fender, and not necessarily just vintage ones..."

As you may recall, Death Grips announced that they were breaking up last year, but not before releasing one final album, half of which they released for free. Well, they have now set a date for the release of the whole thing.

The double album will be out March 17 via Harvest Records. Disc one is called Niggas on the Moon and disc two is called Jenny Death. Together, the album is called The Powers That B.