Picture of the day: September 27, 2012

American punk rock band Alkaline Trio is a band that plays mainly darker tracks. They are also influenced by satanism. Singer of the band Mike Skiba is a member of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan and believes that it's not all about fire, brimstone and threats of eternal damnation.

Here is a part of an his interview for MTV in 2005:

"Really, the faith's simply about theatrics, how to comport yourself when you're out and about (for instance, one of the church's Ten Commandment-like mandates forbids followers from bothering others in open territory, but "if someone bothers you, ask him to stop — if he does not stop, destroy him") and maintaining a cool, sinister image. And, doggonit, it's "really fun."

Anyway, I like their music and I like how they're not afraid to say what they think and what they believe in and most importantly - they are not afraid to express these things in their music.

They have recorded so far 8 studio albums. The last one called Damnesia was little different though. It contained only older tracks, but recorded acoustically. It sounds actually pretty cool. Exciting news is that new album is coming pretty soon because yesterday they posted this picture via their Facebook page with a note "Today we begin making our next record with Bill Stevenson, a long time hero and friend. We couldn't be more excited."

Song of the day: Public Image Ltd. - "Reggie Song"

You all probably know that leader of legendary punk band Sex Pistols (funny thing is that they released only one studio LP - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols) , John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, established Public Image Ltd. right after Sex Pistols broke up. Interesting fact about this band is that 17 studio members and 12 live members have played in this band so far. That's quite a lot. Of course, John Lydon is the only former member of the band.

So far, they have released 9 studio albums. The latest was released only recently - on May 28, 2012. This is Pil is band's first new album in 20 years. "Reggie Song" is also featured on the record. You can now watch the performance of it below.

Watch Green Day's concert at Irvin Plaza

Like I recently said, Green Day is just all over the news and it doesn't seem like it will change in near future. Yesterday, there was released first track from second album of the trilogy ;Dos! and Alanis Morissette covered their classis song "Basket Case" during Jimmy Kimmel Live performance. Three days ago, they revealed new music video for "Stay The Night" and the same day, Billie Joe Armstrong entered rehab for substance abuse treatment.

The band also recently posted first part of their concert at Irvin Plaza. This first part is 22 minutes long and features these tracks: "Welcome to paradise", "Murder city", "Know your enemy", "Nuclear family" and "Stay the night". Check it out below.

!UPDATE!

Below you can watch second (and probably the last) part of this great show. The second part features tracks "Burnout", Hitchin' A Ride", "Letterbomb", "When I Come Around", "She" and "American Idiot".