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Fucked Up continue to do whatever they want, release live album and charity seven-inch

by Nicole Villeneuve

With Fucked Up’s new full-length album, the rock opera David Comes to Life in the can but without a firm release date yet, the band continues to strike that hot iron, confirming two other releases in the meantime.

Exclaim! details the upcoming stuff, which includes a seven-inch of legendary punk GG Allin covers with Ted Leo, the Mountain Goats, and Ben Gibbard. That one will be available for a donation during New Jersey radio station WFMU’s funding drive between February 28-March 3.

The second, a twelve-inch live record taken from a show in Atlanta, GA is available for order from independent Athens, GA zine/label Chunklet, and will ship on March 10. Called Coke Sucks, (a nod to frontman Damian Abraham’s softdrink brand allegiance to Pepsi) the vinyl will be limited to 900 copies and the site warns: “COLLECTOR SCUM ALERT: Buy more than one copy of each color and your order will be voided and you won’t be notified.” Burn on you, eBay sellers!

As for the new album, it is still expected sometime in May through Matador Records, though we do live in a wondrous world of surprises, so who really knows.