All pictures by Jason Bergman

Even though The New Lexicon doesn’t hit the streets for another month, Paint It Black brought the party to the City of Brotherly Love to celebrate their third full-length and, of course, Philly’s independent culture. The guys made sure to keep the weekend action-packed with plenty of great bands and Saturday’s matinee was no exception.

Read after the jump for the show review and more photos!

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Philly’s finest hardcore revivalists Paint It Black have divulged some details on their upcoming record release shows.  The shows will take place on January 5 and 6th at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia. Both shows are jam packed with awesome bands, including The Hope Conspiracy, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Dustheads, and Crime In Stereo, among others.

Why is the band throwing the party a good month before The New Lexicon ( Jade Tree) hits the streets? The boys provided some insight into that.

Read on after the jump for the explanation and a full show lineup.

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We can’t stop listening to Paint It Black’s New Lexicon at LNWF home base and this video does a great job of capturing PIB’s live performance .  Shot by Jeremy Silveira, you can see PIB  performing “Pink Slip” and “Atticus Finch.”  The video also catches the band asking the fans for infinity plus 1 stage dives as previously reported.

Check out clips from No Trigger and The Ergs at The Fest 6 after the Jump
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Ladies and gentleman, the wait is over. It’s time now for part two of our Fest VI day-to-day coverage special feature. Onwards my bearded friends!

Saturday was the most action packed day of the weekend in terms of the large volume of bands that were scheduled to play. A full day of music was at hand, with bands playing from 1 p.m. to nearly 2 a.m. There was even an early bird gathering at DIY record shop Wayward Council at 6 a.m. Well, I wasn’t mentally or physically prepared to wake up that early even though I wanted to see just how many people would actually show up. I did, however, get up early enough to hit up the annual No Idea Records yard sale at the label’s headquarters. The event was a little bit different than last year but the hour and a half wait was well worth it. An mindblowing amount of Hot Water Music and Against Me! test pressings and various rare and out-of-print records could be purchased. I could have easily spent all of my money in no more than five minutes but after dropping eighty bucks on some wax, I was ready to see some bands.

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As we reported in the first part of our Fest VI Coverage (speaking of which, be on the lookout tomorrow for parts II and III), Paint It Black‘s Dan Yemin was proclaiming their new album would bring “punk back to year zero.” Some more good news was announce today by the band, with the release date for New Lexicon being set for February 19th, 2008.

The album, the band’s first with guitarist Josh Agran (Affirmative Action Jackson) and drummer Jared Shavelson (Hope Conspiracy), features production from both J.Robbins and Dalek’s Oktopus. Also, Naked Raygun lead singer Jeff Pezzati does some guest vocals on a track.

Pre-order the album here and you’ll receive it February 1st, a good two weeks and change ahead of everyone else. Also, you can check out a new track, “Past Tense. Future Perfect” below. Needless to say, we all just wet our pants.

Tracklist after the jump.

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