11 December 2003
The last 3 interviews we did with bands that appear on the 2nd 'European
Poppunk Virus' compilation CD are online now. It's the Popsters
(Italy),
Grizzly Adams
Band (Germany) and the Boonaraaas
(Germany). Click
here to read all the interviews.
5 December
2003
Hey hey! We've got 3 new interviews online. It's the 20Belows
(Denmark),
The Shoplifters (Yugoslavia) and the Booba
Fett Youth (Germany). Click
here to read them.
3 December
2003
The Manges have
a brand new 7" out on Outsider Records from Italy.
It contains the songs "Barrage Of Hate" and
the Ramones cover "Havana Affair"
and it's limited to 700 copies. Mail Outsider Records for ordering info
at outsiderrec@libero.it!
26 November
2003
Good news for all you European punkrockers! The Queers and the
Manges will
tour Europe together in March 2004. If you're interested in booking them,
please contact their booker Baz at info@blahblahblahtours.com!
23 November
2003
We have a new message board. Enoch who
hooked us up says this one is much better than the old one and who are
we to doubt him?! Check it out over here: www.stardumbrecords.com/board!
22 November
2003
The Groovie
Ghoulies "Til Death Do Us
Party" video - directed by Joe Gillis -
was awarded Best International Musical Motion Picture
at the Canadian Twisted Sinema Underground Movie Festival.
Congratulations Joe and the Groovie
Ghoulies!
21 November
2003
The Popsters
made a great new video for their song 'Thank You' which
appeared on their split CD with Dirt Bike Annie. Go to
www.the-popsters.it
to check it out!
20 November
2003
Four new interviews are online for those who wanna know more about the
European poppunk scene: Snotty
Cheekbones (Switzerland),
The Waukees
(Italy), Spanky Darth Vaders (Spain) and the Backwood
Creatures (Germany). Click
here to read them.
11 November
2003
The Manges have
a cool new t-shirt available at Interpunk.com.
Check it out here!
10 November
2003
We're rolling! Again there's 4 new interviews online: The
Apers (The Netherlands),
Stricklands
(Italy), 3 1/2
Inch Floppy (England) and The Barbecuties (Germany). Click
here to read them.
6 November
2003
Yup yup, we've got four new interviews online: 4Teen
Killers (Spain),
Ritalins
(Scotland), Sonic
Dolls (Germany) and Stinking
Polecats (Italy). Click
here to read them.
30 October
2003
Four new interviews by bands that appeared on the 'European Poppunk
Virus 2' compilation have been added to the magazine
section again. This time it's the Travoltas
(The Netherlands),
Spoonster
(Scotland), The
Dirtshakes (Germany) and Andy's
Donutz (Italy)! Click
here to read them.
29 October
2003
The Apers
are gonna visit their friends Germany and Italy in November again. Check
out the shows
section for the dates!
21 October
2003
Back in February Bobby Manic & the Stardumb crew did
short interviews with all the bands that appeared on the 'European
Poppunk Virus 2' compilation. The idea was to publish them in issue
8 of the Stardumb Zine, but since that issue never saw daylight
the interviews remained unpublished. Until now that is, cause from this
week on we will put a few of those interviews online every week at the
magazine
section of the Stardumb site. The first interviews are by The
Flakes (Sweden),
The Zatopeks
(England), The
Battledykes (Germany) and The
Manges (Italy)! Click
here to read them.
16 October
2003
For the people who speak Dutch we just found an Apers
interview online at Popmuziek.nl.
It's online for quite some time already, but since we never saw it before,
maybe you didn't either!
8 October
2003
The
Groovie Ghoulies,
who came back from a very successful tour in Japan & Australia
only a few days ago, are getting ready for a full US tour (with
the Flipsides) again already. Them crazy Ghoulies can't be stopped!!!
Check out the shows
section for the dates!
7 October
2003
On October 24th the Queers / Manges
split CD (which came out on Stardumb in August) will be released
in Italy by our friends of Ammonia
Records for the Italian market. So all you Italians who have been
waiting and waiting for this release, go ahead and check out their
website for more info now!
26 September
2003
More news about the super cool STARDUMB STRIKE OUT NIGHTS weekend
added at the
shows section. Plus it's
Jerry Hormone's birthday today. He's turnig 21 so no more ID faking
for him! Happy birthday, homeboy!
11 September
2003
We added some info
about 2 great events you don't wanna miss. Along with a lot of other bands,
the following bands will perform at those events: Wiseguy,
Beyond Lickin',
Peawees,
Darlington,
Zatopeks,
The 20Belows
and the Ragin'
Hormones! Yup, you got that right, the motherfuckin' Ragin'
Hormones will get on stage for one more time!!! Hurry your lazy
ass to the shows
section
for more info!
10 September
2003
There's a super awesome Apers
contest up at Interpunk.com
right now! You can ultra limited Apers Chuck Taylors! Big thanks
to Converse
for making that possible!
4 September
2003
Yesterday
The Apers
did a special guest appearance at VPRO's Club 3voor12 radio show.
Dutch singer/actress Ellen ten Damme performed a 4 song acoustic
live set and after that The
Apers joined her for a few songs. You can hear the show if you
go to the 'shows' section at www.3voor12.nl
and click on 'uur 1' of Club 3voor12. If you only wanna hear the live
set, fast forward the first 25 minutes of the radio show.
27 August
2003
Lots of new shows
by Wiseguy,
The Apers
and the Groovie
Ghoulies are up!
20 August
2003
Dear skateboarding friends, check out Cold
War Skateboards. They sell a really cool coffin shaped Groovie
Ghoulies deck.
19 August
2003
Eventhough the official release date for our Queers / Manges
split CD is August 26th, Interpunk.com
got the exclusive permission to start selling it now already. So if you
wanna be the first to pump this hit record in your stereo, don't hesitate
and go
there now!
11 August
2003
There's a new interview with Kevin of
The Apers
up at the Hardrock
Info e-zine. Fun!
10 August
2003
Coming Friday (August 15th) it's time for the Stardumb Rumble in
Cologne again. The first 50 visitors will get a free Stardumb 7"!
This night our Queers / Manges
split CD will be available already too, eventhough the official release
date is August 26th. Enough reasons to be there, I'd say! More info can
be found at the shows
section!
5 August
2003
If you go to
www.the-apers.com
now you can find two new Apers
videoclips for the songs 'Almost Summer' and 'Only The Grimreaper'.
4 August
2003
Yep, all the rumours are true! On August 26th Stardumb will release
a Queers / Manges
split CD with 6 new recordings by each band. We just added two mp3's taken
from that CD to our mp3 section
for your downloading pleasure!
22 July
2003
The
webstore got updated again.
Great releases by bands like the Travoltas, Briefs, Backwood
Creatures and Nikki Corvette were added.
21 July
2003
Lots of new shows were added in the shows
section for The
Popsters, Manges,
Peawees,
Retarded,
Wiseguy
and The Apers.
16 July
2003
Those crazy Sonic
Dolls guys just released a new 7" limited to only 333 copies!
It's called 'Blitzkreig Bop' and it's a cover 7" of a classic
limited Ramones 7", with 'Havana Affair' as the B-side.
They kept the artwork really simular to the original 7" (the misspelling
of the title was there on the original 7" cover too) and it will
be available soon from only a few mailorders, including Stardumb
and Interpunk.com.
Make sure you'll get your copy before they're gone!
15 July
2003
The second issue of the cool Italian Bam
Magazine is out, including interviews with Danny
Vapid, the Vindictives,
A Radio With
Guts, Alien Snatch Records, Hanson Brothers and
many more. Check out their
website or mail
them to get info on how to order it.
14 July
2003
Some more info about the upcoming Stardumb Rumble is added to the shows
section plus there's alot of t-shirts as well as some other stuff added
to the
webstore.
9 July
2003
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Groovie
Ghoulies contest to win some Kepi Art. Today we picked
the two lucky winners: Giacomo Cesana from Italy and Steve
Legend from England. Congratulations guys! The art is on its
way!
8 July
2003
Christy Brigitte
Darlington is an endorsee for Daisy
Rock guitars from now on. He will be playing the Stardust Series
Elite Violet Burst model. Check out their cool girl guitars at www.daisyrock.com!
18 June
2003
There has been talks about this album for almost a year now, but finally
Groovie Ghoulies's
new album 'Monster Club' is at the pressing plant and will be out
soon! There's two mp3's taken from that album available at the mp3
section now!
17 June
2003
Today is the last day you can win a cool custom leather CD case
for the Methadones
album 'Career Objective'. All you have to do is go to Interpunk.com
and enter your name and email address. They are also giving away t-shirts,
stickers and autographed posters. But like I said, June 17th is the last
day of the contest so you better be fast!
27 May
2003
The Groovie
Ghoulies played live at the Dutch VPRO
radio show last week. You can listen to the whole show online if you go
here
(30 minutes).
26 May
2003
There's a 15 minutes movie about the Rotterdam punkscene online at the
VPRO
site. It's hosted by the one and only Janneke Riplet of The
Riplets and she's visiting a lot of local punkrock people including
Marien Nicotine and Jerry Hormone of The
Apers and Stefan Stardumb. If you speak Dutch, go here
and click on the movie symbol on the right!
9 May
2003
The brand new Manges
video for their song 'Blame Game' is online now! Go to www.manges.it
and check it out!
7 May
2003
We added some shows
and a few new links. We're
cool like that.
6 May
2003
Jerry Hormone just uploaded a whole lotta pics of the USA tour
on the site of The
Apers. Fun!
3 May
2003
Our Sicilian friends The
Popsters made a cool video for 'What If...', their great
song that appears on the 2nd 'European Poppunk Virus' comp. You
can watch the video at www.the-popsters.it!
30 April
2003
If you're from Germany and have your eyes open, you probably already know
this, but our beloved Backwood
Creatures are famous TV heroes now! The band appeared several
times already on the show TV
Total on Pro 7. It's a daily show with almost 2 million
viewers a day. They are in a battle with their hard rockin' friends the
Cellophane
Suckers. If you can watch Pro 7 on your TV it might be
worth checking out the show in the coming days, cause the battle is coming
to an end!
6 April
2003
The Manges made
a kick ass video for their song 'Blame Game'. They used a lotta
footage from their 2002 US tour with Jughead. Soon the
video will be up on www.manges.it
so keep an eye open for that!
11 March
2003
Two new Darlington
mp3's are up at the mp3 section!
And yes, this also means there's a new Darlington
album coming up. The record will be called 'Moron-A-Thon' will
be out late Spring... Keep your eyes open for that one!
8 March
2003
There's a new Darlington
t-shirt available
from Interpunk.com
right now! Click
here for a direct link to all Darlington
stuff available over there.
27 February
2003
There's ome new Wiseguy
shows in The Netherlands added to the shows
section. Don't forget to check out the brand new Wiseguy
site at www.sleazerock.com.
23 February
2003
Some sad news on this cold sunday afternoon: Yesterday morning (Saturday
Feb 22, 2003) former Vindictives
guitarplayer Dr. Bob was found his car dead of a heroin overdose.
He was 49 years old. Our condolences go out to his family and friends.
Dr. Bob R.I.P.
21 February
2003
A lot of news about The
Apers:
-Yesterday their new album 'The Buzz Electric' was released in
a sold out Rotown in Rotterdam.
-The day before they played live on Dutch national radio. You can still
see and hear parts of that show on the 3voor12
site... While I'm writing this it's still on their frontpage, but if you
check it out later you can always search for Apers of course!
-At Interpunk.com
they have new Apers
shirts available. Check em out!
-There's a couple of new shows added to the Groovie
Ghoulies / Apers
tour at our shows section.
-Oh, and Kevin Aper is gonna marry Ellen
ten Damme in Las Vegas soon. Congratulations to both!
15 February
2003
For those who care, a few new links
are added.
14 February
2003
Check out our tiny but lovely photo
section for photos of the Winter Rumble festival in Belgium,
we organized last week together with our good friends of Teenage
Head.
13 February
2003
We have a new Stardumb
Message Board, since were having some problems with the old one.
people who visited that one through a direct link might not find the board
anymore, but if you go to www.stardumbrecords.com/board
all your problems will be solved! Old member do need to register again
though.
11 February
2003
Somebody stop us! Again we have 2 new mp3's for you at our mp3
section! This time it's the songs 'TV World' and 'Ammunition'
both taken from 'Career Objective', the new album of the
Methadones which will be out in March!
6 February
2003
There's an mp3 party at the mp3
section! That's because we have 5 (!) new mp3's for you. The first
3 are taken from the new European Poppunk Virus CD: The Ritalins
from Scotland, the incredible Italians The
Manges and the amazing Zatopeks from England. On top of
that we added 2 mp3's taken from 'The Buzz Electric', the upcoming
album of The Apers.
Enjoy!
5 February
2003
We know a lot of you are dying for some news about the new album of
the Methadones.
Well, here ya go: The record will be called 'Career Objective'
and it will be out in the beginning of March. That means one more month
to go, but we promise you it's definitely worth waiting for, since it's
an amazing album you will love just as much as we do! Check back for more
info soon.
4 February
2003
The cover artwork for the 2nd volume of the European Poppunk Virus
CD and the new album of The
Apers are up at the releases
section. Both releases will be out soon, so keep an eye open for
those!
3 February
2003
The song 'Til Death Do Us Party' by the Groovie
Ghoulies is mp3 of the month at the hardrockinfo.tk
e-zine. Hardrock rules!
29 January
2003
The first bunch of shows of the US coast to coast tour of the Groovie
Ghoulies and The
Apers in March/April are online. More coming soon. Also the UK
dates of the Groovie
Ghoulies are updated. All at the shows
section of course.
19 January
2003
As a lot of you already noticed on February 7th & 8th we're organizing
another Winter Rumble festival in Belgium, together with our good
friends of Teenage
Head. We have a massive line-up feat. the Peawees,
Backwood
Creatures, Dirtshakes,
Wiseguy,
The Apers,
Groovie Ghoulies,
Lulabelles,
PPM and the Hangmen. The Boonaraaas were suppposed
to play too, but unfortunately they can't make it. Thank god for the lovely
Battledykes
who are filling up the empty spot! Check out the shows
section for the flyer and more info.
13 January
2003
Last weekend the debut album 'Burning The Tracks' of Wiseguy
got released. Soon they'll take off for their first European tour, but
before that they will do a live show on Dutch National radio show Club
Lek. All Dutchies make sure you tune in on 3FM on Wednesday
January 22nd between 10 pm and 1 am!
12 January
2003
One misfortune rides on the back of another? I'm not sure about that,
but fact is that after the news about The
Ragin' Hormones split, we have some more break up news... There
were some rumours about it already, but we got it confirmed now: The
Favorats from Germany broke up too. They did their last show in December
on Friday the 13th. In 2000 and 2001 they released two great 7 inches
on Stardumb.
8 January
2003
We updated the shows section
with new gigs by Wiseguy,
The Apers
and the unstoppable touring machine called the Groovie
Ghoulies! Check it out!
7 January
2003
We got some sad news... The
Ragin' Hormones broke up... We don't have much more info than
this either, but we felt like letting you know anyway! The
Ragin' Hormones started in 1999 and released one 7" EP and
1 split 7" with Toys
That Kill on Stardumb.
1 January
2003
Happy new year folks! We got lots of great stuff coming up this year.
Prepare for new albums by Wiseguy
(January 10th), The
Apers (February 20th), the
Methadones (late February), Darlington,
Groovie Ghoulies
and much more coming your way in the following months! We'll keep you
updated!