Update: Apparently Smoke 7 (or Puke 'n Vomit) don't have rights to sell the 7" or the merch. Smoke 7 was only entitled to release the songs in 1981, and that's it. Bootleg confirmed!

Completely out of the blue, the songs that Bad Religion provided for the 1981 Public Service compilation have been rereleased on 7" vinyl. Check it out in the Puke 'n Vomit online shop. It's not mentioned there, but apparently only 500 have been made!

Songs on this 7": Bad Religion, Slaves and Drastic Actions.

Notice the odd crossbuster...

Accompanying the 7", a bunch of merch can also be found in the same online shop. They have t-shirts, hoodies, patches, buttons and several stickers.

Because this year there was no new album, 2011 was a less "successful" year in terms of numbers. But for a non-album year still better than 2009.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the BR Page team for all the work they put into this site and making it what it is today! And, of course, a big thanks goes out to all our visitors; both those who speak up and those who remain silent. Without you there wouldn't be a Bad Religion Page.

So what will 2012 bring?

On behalf of our very own Graffinius (in normal life known as Michael) and his family, a merry BR Christmas!

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Extra tidbit - Here are the recaps of 2009 and 2010.

MONDAY 27TH FEBRUARY – MELBOURNE, THE PALACE – 18+
Tickets available www.ticketek.com.au / www.oztix.com.au

WEDNESDAY 29TH FEBRUARY – SYDNEY, BIG TOP LUNA PARK
Tickets available www.ticketek.com.au / www.oztix.com.au / www.bigtopsydney.com 

Tickets will go on sale on Thursday December 22nd.

Update 3: Amnesty International finally posted some more details about the album on their website. The official release date is still unknown, but the album can be pre-ordered starting December 6th.

Update 2: Apparently Jay found out how that Lucinda Williams duet rumor got started. Check it out below. So even the song everyone now thinks BR is doing is incorrect. So what do we know more than we did last June? The title and a release date! Yahey!

Update: We don't know who started this rumor, but it appears that BR is NOT teaming up with Lucinda Williams. A whole lot of other sites are also running this (incorrect) news. Thank God for the intertubes.

Last June Bad Religion recorded a cover song for an upcoming Bob Dylan tribute album 'Chimes of Freedom: Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International'. Not a whole lot was known at that point, but now more details have surfaced.
Bad Religion has covered the song 'Tryin' To Get To Heaven'. The album is expected to be released on November 22. Although several sources mention early next year. Only time and a *real* source will tell.

2/25/2012 - RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane, Australia
2/26/2012 - Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia
3/02/2012 - Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, Australia
3/03/2012 - Bonython Park, Adelaide, Australia
3/05/2012 - Claremont Showgrounds, Perth, Australia

Tickets are available right here.
 

Greg Graffin of Bad Religion’s book ‘Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God‘ is out today on paperback!

Greg’s book ‘Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God’ is now available in paperback

Celebrated punk rock icons Bad Religion continue performing to fans throughout the world in support of their acclaimed new album The Dissent Of Man, while the group’s multitalented singer has his renowned book Anarchy Evolution published in paperback.

Greg Graffin’s book Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God is a timely and provocative look at the collision between religion and science by a founding member of Bad Religion. Most of the world knows Graffin as lead singer of the highly influential Los Angeles punk band Bad Religion. What many don’t know is that Graffin also received a doctorate from Cornell University and has taught evolution at UCLA, and now at Cornell.

In Anarchy Evolution, Graffin, with Steve Olson, weds his experiences in punk culture and the academic world, and explores the deep connection between art, religion, and science – in a book that’s equal parts memoir and manifesto.

As an adolescent growing up when “drugs, sex, and trouble could be had on any given night,” Graffin discovered that science provided a framework through which he could make sense of the world. In this provocative and personal book, Graffin describes his own coming of age as an artist in the early L.A. punk scene, as well as how punk rock helped form his naturalist worldview on questions involving God, science, and human meaning.

Providing fresh and nuanced insights into the long-standing debate about atheism and the human condition, Anarchy Evolution is a book for anyone who has ever wondered if God really exists.

Critical Acclaim For Anarchy Evolution:

A worldview eloquently expressed. – Chicago Tribune

[Graffin] explains how evolution can be a guide to life. – Scientific American

Bucking authority and the religious views of his family, Graffin explains how he has developed a personal philosophy that celebrates the power of nature. – Nature

Anarchy Evolution might not encourage obedient confidence in scientists anymore than it discourages such comfort in religious leaders. But if it’s free thought and meta-aware intellectual inquiry that Graffin’s aiming to champion instead, mission accomplished. – Popmatters

What's The Reason Rally, you might ask. Well, here's what the About page on reasonrally.org has to say:

Across  America,  in  every  city,  every town,  and  every  school,  secularism  is  on the  rise.  Whether people call themselves atheists, agnostics, secular Humanists, or any of the other terms used to describe their god-free lifestyle, secularism is coming out of the closet. According to a recent Harris Poll, we are the fastest growing theological segment – in all fifty states.

But as we emerge from hiding, we meet hostility.  Nationwide, secular people are among the most despised in the country.  Our politicians ignore us, our society berates us, and we are blamed for everything from 9/11 to earthquakes.

The Reason Rally is a movement-wide  event sponsored by the country’s major secular organizations.  The intent is to unify, energize, and embolden secular people nationwide, while dispelling the negative opinions held by so much of American Society… and having a damn good time doing it!

On March 24, 2012, from 10:00AM – 4:00PM, nontheists from all corners of the nation will descend on Washington, D.C. en masse to deliver the good news: “We’re huge, we’re everywhere, and we’re growing.”

It will be the largest secular event in world history.  There will be music, comedy, great speakers, and lots of fun…  and it’s free!

So there you have it. A free one-hour performance of Bad Religion... AND, of course, a chance to see speakers such as Richard Dawkins, James Randi and more.

Also, a new South American date has been added to the tour, being Lima, Peru. The exact date is still unknown, but rumors are it's going to be on Friday October 7th.

Extra tidbit: Australian fans seem to have bad luck. This is the second time a Bad Religion tour has been cancelled. The first time was in 2002 during The Process of Belief Tour.

It took almost three years, over 180 magazine scans, numerous sleepless nights and 34 cans of Mountain Dew and it's still far from finished. However, we believe it's finished enough to go live anyway!

So with much pride we present to you the #1 source for Bad Religion interviews, articles and reviews right here on The Bad Religion Page: the new Media section.

Check it out here: http://www.thebrpage.net/media

 
Features:

Our goal is to include as much original sources as possible in the form of audio files, videos and especially downloadable PDF files containing magazine and newspaper scans. Currently our oldest interview is from September 1982 (We Got Power #4), but we're constantly on the lookout for older stuff. Another noteworthy interview is the one from Goldmine #439 (May 1997), which consists of a whopping 13.009 words!

Note: The option to contribute information that you might have (e.g. scans, translations, audio, video) will be enabled soon. For now, please use the forum to share information that you might have.
Next to doing a great job on The Answer, Wrong Planet is now helming the Media section too.

Enjoy a good read!

Here's the exact text that can be found on soundwaverevolution.com:

"It is with great sadness that we announce the cancellation of the Revolution Festival.
Many of the festival bands will still be coming to Australia in that time period and team up to bring some very special shows. There will include multi band/mini festival line-ups in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. We will be announcing these events in the next 7 days.

Tickets purchased online will be refunded automatically as soon as it can be processed. If you purchased from an outlet, refunds will be available from point of purchase."

Soundwave Revolution promoter AJ Maddah had this to say on a radio station earlier today:

“We were scheduled to make a second announcement on the first of August – we had our festival co-headliner on that announcement... Their circumstances changed at the last minute and they had to pull out and unfortunately we don’t have enough time to replace them and we didn’t really want to go ahead with an incomplete line-up.
We could have taken the option of linking through with the line-up as we have now – it would have obviously still been a much better financial outcome for us than to go through the road we have – but we just didn’t want to put an inferior product on the market."

If more details start to surface about the replacement shows/mini festival and in particular Bad Religion, we'll let you know right here!
It's already been said that the new shows will be on the same dates or very close to it in all 5 cities.

Celebrated punk rock icons Bad Religion have announced tour dates in the southern hemisphere in support of their acclaimed new album The Dissent Of Man. The influential Southern California band will be taking their thought provoking high energy sound on a twelve city tour beginning in Jakarta Indonesia on September 20th and ending in Rio de Janeiro on October 15th. In between, the group will travel to Australia for the Soundwave Festival.

This will be the first time Bad Religion has toured the Indonesian archipelago and singer (and current Ivy League professor) Greg Graffin is particularly excited to be following the footsteps of renowned explorer, naturalist and fellow evolutionist Alfred Russel Wallace to this remarkable biogeographic province. “Although I’m taking time away from my lectures in evolution this fall, it will be a truly inspirational journey,” Graffin explains. “I’m going to be thinking of A.R. Wallace when I’m looking out at all those Indonesian punk fans.”

In addition, Bad Religion’s supremely talented drummer Brooks Wackerman is currently gracing the cover of the August issue of world leading drum magazine, Modern Drummer. As the magazine describes, “Playing with economy and craft, using his double kick drum to propel the band’s scorching songs, Wackerman turns punk drumming into art.” The issue features a profile on Brooks and an extensive interview with him on topics ranging from his evolving musical tastes, pre-performance yoga and how he plays at such a frantic pace without ever seeming to tire.

Bad Religion Tour Dates:

9/20/11 Jakarta, Indonesia
9/24/11 Brisbane, Australia
9/25/11 Sydney, Australia
9/30/11 Melbourne, Australia
10/1/11 Adelaide, Australia
10/3/11 Perth, Australia
10/8/11 Buenos Aires, Argentina
10/9/11 Santiago, Chile
10/11/11 Curitiba, Brazil
10/13/11 Sao Paulo, Brazil
10/14/11 Brasilia, Brazil
10/15/11 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Bad Religion have announced they will start their upcoming Southern Continents Tour in Jakarta, Indonesia on September 20! The tour continues with 5 Soundwave Festival shows in Australia and 6 club shows in South America. Besides the Jakarta show, a new date has been added to the tour; the band will play a show in Brasilia, Brazil on October 14.

See below all Southern Continents Tour dates:

9/20/11 Jakarta, Indonesia
9/24/11 Brisbane, Australia
9/25/11 Sydney, Australia
9/30/11 Melbourne, Australia
10/1/11 Adelaide, Australia
10/3/11 Perth, Australia
10/8/11 Buenos Aires, Argentina
10/9/11 Santiago, Chile
10/11/11 Curitiba, Brazil
10/13/11 Sao Paulo, Brazil
10/14/11 Brasilia, Brazil
10/15/11 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Check our Tours & Shows section for more details!

Extra tidbit: This will be the very first time for Bad Religion to play a show in Indonesia. Maybe they can play a song called 'American Jesus'...apparently it seems to be a popular song to cover overthere...

Apperently Rise Against also recorded a song - Ballad of Hollis Brown - for this compilation to mark Bob Dylan's 70th birthday and Amnesty International's 50th anniversary.

A similair compilation called Instant Karma has been done in 2007, which featured John Lennon covers, to raise money for Amnesty Internation to help victims of the civil war in Darfur, Sudan.

Currently there are no more details about this compilation or which song Bad Religion is covering. What song do you hope or think they've chosen?

Jay on bass at Sonora (tweeted by Brett)