D.O.A.'s new cd "Talk - Action = 0" has been reviewed on The Ripple Effect website. Part of the review follows...
"Has there ever been a better slogan than Talk – Action = 0? D.O.A. mainman Joey Shithead has been doing exactly that for well over 30 years. He’s back with D.O.A.’s 13th album and it’s just as fired up as the classic “Disco Sucks” single was in 1978. Joey Shithead is a true lifer, like Lemmy, Charlie Harper, Willie Nelson, etc. The only thing that’s gonna stop this guy is if this planet runs out of beer. And if they discover beer on another planet I guarantee you that Joey will figure out how to drive his van there and drink them dry, too." read more...
Brand New Joe Shithead Keithley Throbblehead's now on sale!!!
The figure is a Limited Edition of 1000 and stands 7" High. Each one is individually numbered.
Cost is $20.00 plus $10.00 to ship to North America or $20.00 plus $18.00 to ship outside North America.
Get yours here.
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Joe Shithead set to join the LA Kings next year!
Contributed by Greg Hetson (Circle Jerks)
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Check out the flyer for the Open Air, May Day Concert in Zurich Switzerland on May 1st. (Click the photo to view a larger copy.)
Spinner Magazine has posted an article about D.O.A. and the new cd "Kings of Punk, Hockey and Beer". Click here to read the article.
See D.O.A. footage from Force Attack Festival in Rostock Germany, August 2009
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D.O.A. on Tour in Italy! Click on the images for a larger view.
D.O.A.'s new 30th Anniversary DVD is now ready and will be available to purchase very soon. For more info on the DVD, please click on the image below.
We've just posted a page pf photos of D.O.A. Live in the Basque Country, Europe April 4, 2009. Photos by Patxi Uranga
Click on the photo above to check it out.
Joe was interviewed in Germany while on D.O.A.'s European tour this past April, and Part 1 of the Video Interview can be seen here.
Planet S has done a cover story on D.O.A. Click on the image below to go to the website and read the article.
D.O.A.'s "Northern Avenger" was recently reviewed by Boone on The Trouble with Normal website.
To read the review, please click here.
D.O.A.'s "Northern Avenger" was recently awarded "4 out of 5 stars" by Alternative Press!
Please click on the image below to read the review.
Vote For Joe!!!
Click here to vote for Joe: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/spiritofbc/vote_new.html
• It’s B.C.’s 150th Anniversary!
• Joey Keithley of D.O.A. voted in as one of B.C.’s most influential citizens
• Vote Joe into the top 10
As you may or may not be aware, it’s the province of British Columbia’s 150th birthday! The Vancouver Sun newspaper has conducted an online poll and produced a list of B.C.’s 150 most influential people of all time. By reader’s choice, Canada’s punk rock godfather Joey Shithead Keithley has been voted onto the list.
Now we are asking you to kick it up a notch and vote Joe into B.C.’s top 10. The voting is open till December 21st 2008. Imagine the look on the faces of those fat cats like the publisher of the Vancouver Sun if Joe got in there. A punk rocker making history in B.C… the world has changed.
Here’s how to vote:
Click on the link below and select Joey Keithley from the list. Then hit submit. That’s it.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/spiritofbc/vote_new.html
Vote once, vote often… there are many fine candidates (some evil ones too)!
D.O.A. and Slapshot:
For you hockey fans, there is a new movie that has just come out on DVD: Slapshot - The Junior League. The soundtrack features three D.O.A. songs, Donnybrook and Human Bomb from D.O.A.’s new album Northern Avenger as well as Beat’Em, Bust 'Em.
Don’t forget the Sudden Death Records CD sale. Buy one CD for $10.00 and get any second CD for $5.00.
D.O.A. U.S.A. tour dates will be announced soon!!
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D.O.A. - “Smash The State. The Raw Original D.O.A. 1978-81” DVD Review
DVDs tend to bore me shitless, but this release is a welcome change as it kept me interested. This is not some super-sleek Pink Floyd type film! Much of the footage is extremely raw as it is taken from numerous performances during a time when filming shows was not of today’s quality. Many of the songs have a bootleg type of feel, but this actually adds to the feeling as it is as though you are back in 1979. All your early D.O.A. hardcore favorites are here: “America The Beautiful”, “World War 3”, “New Age”, “Disco Sucks” as well as improvised tunes like “Strat Man”. There is a great bonus scene of the band miming in the studio to “World War 3” for some TV show, maybe it was not meant to be funny but it kinda turned out that way. Joe’s voice is as rough as ever and the songs are still relevant to this day. “Smash The State. The Raw Original D.O.A. 1978-81” DVD is an excellent reminder of how things were for these Canadian punk rockers. Amazingly they are one of the few bands that are as good today as they were when they started. Long live D.O.A. (www.suddendeath.com )
Reviewed by Billy Bad Breaks
Order the Smash The State DVD HERE .
Joe Shithead Anarcoustic!
Photo by Bev Davies
Joe has been interviewed twice lately, once by Nardwuar The Human Serviette, and once on The Ruckus show on The Rabble Podcast Network.
To hear the interviews, please check the following links:
Narduar:
http://playlist.citr.ca/podcasting/audio/20080912-153520-to-20080912-170526.mp3
The Ruskus: http://www.rabble.ca/rpn/podcast.php?id=pod
You can also hear an old interview with Joe and Narduar here: http://nardwuar.com/vs/doa/
D.O.A., Canada’s top punk rock band, release their 12th studio album Northern Avenger on Sudden Death Records. Early reviews of Northern Avenger are drawing comparisons to D.O.A.’s incredible first two albums: “Something Better Change” and “Hardcore 81”.
Produced by the legendary Bob Rock (Mettalica, Offspring, Pointed Sticks, Motley Crue, Young Canadians) the band have really put it into high gear in time for their 30th anniversary.
Led by Canada’s godfather of punk, Joe Shithead Keithley on guitar and vocals, Northern Avenger is punk rock the way it was meant to be. D.O.A. also rock the ska beat and nail you with no holds barred intense riffs, that drive you wild and make you think at the same time, a rare feat these days.
The album kicks off with the forceful, threatening and anthemic Human Bomb. Then they nail you with their ode to California: Golden State. They follow that up with Devil’s Speedway, which just might have the power to make Dale Earnhardt rise up from the dead.
With D.O.A. you always expect humor and politics, and there’s no shortage on Northern Avenger. Donnybrook, is a tale of hockey savagery that easily rivals the Hanson Brothers and Olgie Oglethorpe. For politics, listen to the intensity of Police Brutality, Set Them Free and Last Chance. Joe also sings about street life in Vancouver’s notorious and tragic Downtown Eastside on Poor Poor Boy.
Northern Avenger harks back to early classic days of D.O.A. To get the heaviest recording possible, Joe contacted his old pal Bob Rock, who had helped out with recording D.O.A.’s 1st two singles. After all who better to make one of the world’s heaviest bands sound even heavier.
With this album you can hear why D.O.A. has influenced three generations of musicians, from Green Day to Rancid to Red Hot Chilli Peppers to Offspring to Henry Rollins…. The list goes on.
Ya Hey! This is D.O.A.
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http://www.myspace.com/doapunk
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"D. O. A. - Smash the State: The Raw Original D.O.A. 1978-81 DVD (Sudden Death / Music Video Distributors) D.O.A.'s Greatest Shits [1978 - 1998] DVD was good, but it was short, and high on their later more rock material. These guys are Canadian, as well as punk, legends and deserve a lengthier video release. Is that what this is? Well, it's about time. This newest DVD disc is pure punk rock - hardcore '81 (and before)! There are live shows on here filmed in San Francisco from 1980 and two from 1981, an unknown Bay Area show from 1981, and the entire infamous Anarchist Anti-Canada Day outdoor show from 1978 (as seen in pieces on Greatest Shits. There's also a TV appearance from 1980 with the band performing "The Enemy", another TV appearance with a studio version of "World War 3" from 1979, a '79 Canadian news report on punk and D.O.A.. Seventy minutes of three-chord rock fury, snotty attitude, trouble-making, and political activism. Watch, and see if you can spot Circle Jerk's Keith Morris. While I did like Greatest Shits, this is a million times better. Buy this and catch an old favorite of the Kennedy clan (that's Dead Kennedys, Jack), and they'll probably be an old school fave for you too. (March 20, 2008)"
D.O.A. teams up with legendary producer Bob Rock to record their new album "Northern Avenger" for their 30th Anniversary!!!
In mid February, Canada’s legendary punk rock band D.O.A. will start recording a new album in time for their 30th anniversary. The production will be handled by mega producer Bob Rock (Metallica, The Cult, Pointed Sticks, Young Canadians, Motley Crue).
Sudden Death Records is ecstatic about the upcoming release of “Northern Avenger.” The tentative release date for Canada is May 2008 and August 2008 for the rest of the world. D.O.A., led by Canada’s punk godfather Joe Shithead Keithley, has teamed up with co-conspirators bassist Randy Rampage and drummer James Hayden and come up with a ton of great new songs.
Bob Rock got his start with his band The Payolas who, along with D.O.A. and others, helped start Vancouver’s gritty underground punk scene back in 1978. Bob produced some of the great early pop punk bands like the Young Canadians and the Pointed Sticks at Vancouver’s famous Little Mountain Sound. D.O.A. also recorded their classic early singles The Prisoner/13 and World War 3/Whatcha Gonna Do? at Little Mountain Sound with the help of Ron Obvious and Bob Rock. Bob later went onto world-wide fame producing bands like Metallica, The Tragically Hip and Bon Jovi.
The songs on "Northern Avenger" cover a lot of fertile and explosive ground, as you would expect from a D.O.A. album. Songs like Human Bomb, Police Brutality and Crossfire are political and on fire. There’s also the humor you would expect from D.O.A. on Devils’ Speedway and Donnybrook. All in all, it will be a blistering collection of songs. Release schedule and D.O.A. tour dates will be announced shortly.
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Scanner Zine has posted 5 cd reviews for D.O.A. cds. Included in the review are:
1 . The Black Spot (ReRelease)
2. Something Better Change
3. War And Peace
4. War on 45
5. Live Free or Die
If you are interested in reading the reviews, please click here .
1995 album from D.O.A. that has been out of print since 2000.
It features:
- Joe Shithead
- Wimpy Roy
- Ford Pier
- and John Wright from No Means No
"Band of Rebels"
D.O.A. and Canada’s godfather of punk, JOE SHITHEAD KEITHLEY. This 14 song album combines punk-a-billy, ska, punk and roots rock. It’s funny, political, upbeat, and incredibly energetic. The songs talk about smokin’ pot, troublemaking, Star Trek, revolution, and fucking with corporations.
Standout tracks are: “Bust Me Loose”, “Record Company Ripoff”, “Rebel Kind” and “Fuck The Corporation”. There’s also a kick ass cover of STEPPENWOLF’s “Born To Be Wild”. The 12 guest musicians are loosely known as the “Dirty Dozen” and include RANDY RAMPAGE (D.O.A., ANNILHILATOR), KEVIN KANE (GRAPES OF WRATH), JESSE ZUBOT (ZUBOT AND DAWSON), THE GREAT BALDINI (D.O.A., DOG EAT DOGMA), JOHN KORSRUD (HARD RUBBER ORCHESTRA) and BILL RUNGE (HARD RUBBER ORCHESTRA).
JOE SHITHEAD KEITHLEY, Canada’s infamous anti-hero, has won over a couple of generations of fans and performers through his work in D.O.A., his writing and his activism. He’s influenced artists like GREEN DAY, THE RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS, NIRVANA, RANCID, NOFX, BAD RELIGION, HENRY ROLLINS, JELLO BIAFRA and IAN MCKAYE.
When asked why he has recorded a solo album when D.O.A. is still going strong, Shithead had this to say; “I got to stretch out and try new things, this is a different way to fight the system. Band of Rebels is like an extension of D.O.A., musically it’s a little different, but it’s still nuts and it’s still meant to cause trouble and stir shit up!” Band of Rebels is out June 19th, so come and join the revolution.
Tracklist
1. Rebel Kind
2. Bust Me Loose
3. When Power Came To Canada
4. Armageddon Time
5. Wake Me Up For The Revolution
6. Born To Be Wild
7. Take What You Can Out Of Life
8. Fuck The Corporation
9. Irene Goodnight
10. Troublemaker
11. Dangerman
12. Record Company Ripoff
13. Men For All Ages
14. People Power
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Devon Clifford will be missed by all his family, friends and fans R.I.P.
A statement from his family:
YSPWSD’s Devon Clifford experienced a massive brain hemorrhage resulting from congenital defects while on stage in Vancouver on Friday night and fell into a coma. A surgery was performed but sadly doctors were unable to save his life. He was 30.
Devon Clifford was an extremely gifted drummer and determined character. He loved his family, loved his band, loved traveling, loved being on stage and loved meeting people around the world. He was smart, witty, passionate, and music meant everything to him. He was also incredibly generous with his love and respected everybody he came into contact with. This was underlined by his work with the under privileged at the Portland Hotel Society.
The Clifford family would like to take this opportunity to remind young people to have the courage to follow their dreams like Devon did.
The family would also like to take this opportunity to thank everybody around the world for their kind words and stories about how Devon impacted their lives.
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We are very sad to announce that Franco, MDC's original bass player, passed away in Mexico in early January, 2010. He was a real talented guy and a gentle soul.
We will all miss him.
D.O.A. and the Sudden Death gang
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Till Von Hofmann, a good friend of D.O.A.'s, and their Euro tour coordinator, passed away October 21st 2009.
We miss you already D.O.A.
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