March 05, 2002

New Danko Jones Album In Mid-May
By: ChartAttack.com Staff

Our favourite crotch-rock trio, Danko Jones, have announced that their first "proper" full-length album will be coming out in May on Bad Taste Records.
Although there's no word on things like tracklisting, the album is tentatively titled Born A Lion and will no doubt feature such familiar themes as: stealing your girlfriend, stealing your girlfriend because your shirt is dirty, stealing your girlfriend because you're a sissy and stealing your girlfriend because, well, you're not a guitar-humping rock god.
Not that we're typecasting Danko or anything.
Oh yeah, the Mocha Moses is going to be part of a couple hot compilations as well.
According to bass player JC, the Danko track "Bounce" will be part of a comp that puts together the literal who's who of new garage rock.
Called How We Rock (Burning Heart), the CD and limited-vinyl release will come out in Europe, Japan and Australia with a possible U.S. release. The disc will feature our heroes along with the likes of (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Hives, New Bomb Turks, The Donnas, The Supersuckers, Rocket From The Crypt, Zeke, Electric Frankenstein and a bunch of other face-punch rockers.
And in the how-cool-is-that-category, the band will also be contributing a cover version of "The Return Of Jackie And Judy" for a Ramones tribute album which should come out in April on the White Jazz label. That record will also feature the likes of The Hives, The Backyard Babies, Wayne Kramer, the Hellacopters and Per Gessle of Roxette (!?).
As per the norm, it seems those smelly Euros have been far quicker to show love to Danko, JC and Damon the drummer. The band are currently planning their fourth European tour and expect to hit a number of big festival shows while they're there. They're going to tour non-stop starting in May. They haven't forgotten about us though. The band will be playing four Ontario shows as warm-ups before their European adventure gets going.

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