Armor For Sleep fans will go nuts over this:

we got an offer to HEADLINE in NYC at irving plaza july 14th. we are excited to get to play an EXTENDED set.

Tickets for the show are available now.

What’s more punk rock than busking the cost of 14 plane tickets? Playing a few songs while delayed on the tarmac, that’s what! Lemon Bucket Orkestra did just that on their way to Romania.

mewithoutYou – Ten Stories
Release date: May 15, 2012

Artwork by Vasily Kafanov, who has done some of the band’s other stuffs. If you look closely you might find Hayley from Paramore wearing a red and white striped hat.

This one rings a little louder here on Buzzgrinder; Cornerstone Festival will be no more after this year. From the official Cornerstone Festival website:

In 2012, we’ll be celebrating one final Cornerstone Festival together. Based on a range of factors – including changes in the market and a difficult economy – the timing seems right. This was obviously a hard decision, wrestled with over years and particularly over recent months. But with the decision made, we have the opportunity to come together one last time and bring to a happy, grateful – if tearful – close to this chapter of our lives.

Photo: Maylene and The Sons of Disaster, 2006, by Daniel Leininger

Yep, the headline pretty much says it all. Here We Go Magic was driving along and saw none other than John Waters (yes, the John Waters) hitchhiking. So they picked him up.

I would make a joke, but this story is too bizarrely amazing to be sullied by some ridiculous Cry Baby reference.

We found John Waters hitchhiking on the side of the 70 fwy, he bought us lunch. What a guy! @herewegomagic @turnerjen twitter.com/avtark/status/…

— Avtar K (@avtark) May 16, 2012

Who knew I’d be tearfully leaving john waters on the side of the highway today… twitter.com/turnerjen/stat…

— jen turner (@turnerjen) May 16, 2012

Here’s a bit from HWGMer Michael Bloch about the adventure:

There’s a hydro-fracking boom in western Pennsylvania. You can’t get a motel room. We had to drive til 4AM, and finally found a Days Inn in eastern Ohio. Getting back on the highway this morning, there was a man at the side of the on-ramp with a sign that read ‘to the end of Rte 70.’ Jen wanted to pick him up, but we drove past him. As we passed by, our sound guy said ‘John Waters’ Luke said, ‘Yep, definitely John Waters.’ We got off at the next exit and circled back. He was still there. We pulled up, opened the door and asked where he was coming from. ‘Baltimore,’ he said. And we said ‘Get in, sir.’

Time Entertainment answers the question that no one was asking: “How does Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know stack up?” As in, how does is stack up as a breakup anthem? Writes Aylin Zafar:

It’s safe to say Gotye has entered the annals of legendary, inescapable crossover breakup hits. But how does it hold up against some of music’s other recent breakup gems?

Baroness has a new double album, Yellow & Green, due out July 17 on the mighty Relapse Records. The song above, Take My Bones Away, is available for download on iTunes.

The band is currently on tour with Meshuggah and Decapitated.

Andrew Jackson Jihad prove that all you need to make an entertaining music video is a camera, a car, some friends and some fireworks.

Especially fireworks.

Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity
Release date: May 8, 2012

Hopefully some Cattle Decap fans will catch the reference to one of the greatest cinematic releases of our time: the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XII episode.

Against Me! singer Tom Gabel recently revealed his plans to become Laura Jane Grace. On breaking the news to her wife:

For me, the most terrifying thing about this was how she would accept the news. … But she’s been super-amazing and understanding.