Exciting news guys! Generation Records is proud to announce that New Jersey’s favorite punk band, The Bouncing Souls will be playing a special, acoustic in-store on April 18th, in celebration of Record Store Day.

All you need to do to get in is buy a copy of the Souls’ 20th Anniversary Volume 1 7-inch from the store on the day of the show. Generation will have the solid maroon pressing (only 1000 made!) for sale. The 7-inch will be $5. The store will NOT be selling the 7-inch before the 18th, only the day of the show.

The show will start at 2 P.M. Space will be extremely limited so spots will only be available on a first come, first serve basis. Anyone that’s been to the in-stores in the past knows it gets pretty packed in that basement, so I’d recommend getting there early.

For further updates, keep checking Generation Records’ Myspace. This is going to be awesome!

Check out the video below for the new Bouncing Souls song “Airport Security.” Fans looking for “East Coast, Fuck You-Part 2″ need not apply.

THE BOUNCING SOULS “Airport Security”

The new episode of Issue Oriented features interviews with The Bouncing Souls and The Fest mastermind Tony Weinbender. There is also an acoustic performance from Bridge and Tunnel. Check it out over at Issue Oriented or to your right on our player.

A lot of Bouncing Souls fans were surprised when they found out lead singer Greg Attonito was releasing a children’s book with his wife, singer-songwriter/actress Shanti Wintergate. I, however, thought it was a totally logical step. I have a vision of Greg and Shanti on PBS thirty years from now, singing songs and sparking the creativity of children, on a larger stage. Whether that happens or not, the duo’s book I Went For A Walk is an inspirational tale that not only provokes the imagination of youngsters, but also the youthful spirit that exists in everyone. I had a chance to talk with Greg, while he was visiting family on Long Island, about his experience with creating the book.

How did you and Shanti come up with the idea for the book?
Greg: We are both musicians. She does a lot writing, music and all sorts of creative stuff. She had started writing this story when she was at a restaurant, just hungry and I guess that kind of spurred her on. Within about a week or two, it was obviously a children’s story. [Shanti was] not really intenting to ever be a children’s book writer; she is just more of a musician and an actress. We both loved [the story]. We kicked it around for a while and we thought that this would be great [and] how were we going to illustrate it. I thought I would give it a shot. Shanti gave me a little prompting too and said ‘you should do this too.’ I did two or three drawings and thought they looked pretty good. That began the job creating an entire book that was cohesive and that is when it became kind of hard. I had to make it all work as opposed to making one or two drawings that look cool. It was a long process; it took about five years. I would just do it when I had the time. Most of it when I was traveling on tour and I had a minute here and there.

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The Bouncing Souls have announced 3 holiday shows 12/27 to 12/29 at the Stone Pony in Asbury park NJ. Tickets to the shows are on sale now.

From the band:

“A while back we had you the fans vote for your favorite Souls songs. Consequently, we ended up with a sort of “top 40″ list. We will be counting down that list in order, from 40 to 1 (20 songs each night) on the 28th and 29th. For the 27th (first night), we will be playing a mix of 20 other fuckin awesome Souls songs. That’s right, 60 DIFFERENT SONGS IN THREE NIGHTS! Wow. And who knows, maybe we’ll even play more.” See the complete list of songs after the jump.

THU DEC 27, 2007 w/ WORLD/INFERNO F.S. & LOW BUDGETS

FRI DEC 28, 2007 w/ TIM BARRY, ERGS, & TOMMY BRUNETT

SAT DEC 29, 2007 w/ LOVED ONES & STATIC RADIO NJ

This past weekend Late Night Wallflower had a chance to chat with lead singer Greg, not so much about the Souls as it was about new children’s book he illustrated. Look out for that interview on Monday.
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