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Friday, November 20 2009

We've posted some new reviews. You can check them out below: A Wilhelm Scream - A Wilhelm Scream [12 inch]Kids Like Us - The GameThis Time Next Year - Road Maps and Heart AttacksLion of Judah - (Number-rology) [7 inch]Touché Amoré - ...To the Beat of a Dead Horse [12 inch]Cheap Girls - My Roaring 20's [12 inch]The Marine Electric - Head West [7… (more)

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Harvest of Hope live CD with Bouncing Souls, Propagandhi, Against Me!, Paint It Black, Less Than Jake

Fail Safe Records have announced a special live double CD to benefit Harvest of Hope.

Like the festival that shares it' name, the disc will feature live and studio performances from Against Me!, Bouncing Souls, The Casting Out, Propagandhi, Bridge and Tunnel, Joe McMahon of (Smoke or Fire), Virgins, Strike Anywhere, New Bruises, No More, Flatliners, Austin

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Win a turntable, merch and more from A Wilhelm Scream

We've got a brand new contest featuring A Wilhelm Scream today. The band has hooked us up with a portable turntable, a limited silkscreened poster and a copy of their new EP, A Wilhelm Scream. All you need to do to get that stuff for yourself, is fill out the form below.

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Buck-o-Nine celebrate 18th Anniversary

Buck-O-Nine will celebrate their 18th anniversary with a November 25th performance at the Belly Up Tavern in San Diego, California.

You can find more details here.

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Former Furious Styles members speak out against cop-killer shirt

Former Furious Styles members Miles Freeborn, Tony Reed, and Harris Richardson have spoken out against a t-shirt glorifying the recent killing of a Seattle police officer. All three have blamed vocalist Mike Torres for the shirt's creation, stating that they had no input into the shirt's creation and that if they had, the shirt would never have been released.
It was not
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The Bravery: "Sugar Pill"

The Bravery have posted another new video from their 2009 album, Stir The Blood. It was directed by Mike Hindert.

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Streetlight Manifesto gives update on album status and band happenings.

Streetlight Manifesto have posted an update on their current status and progress on their 99 Songs Of A Revolution project. The first volume is apparently completed, but a CD release is up in the air. The band explained:
We can't announce [the release date] because we don't know when it is. What we can say is this: some record labels (not naming names here, so it can't be
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Alkaline Trio talks about formation of new label

Alkaline Trio followed up the recent announcement of a partnership with Epitaph Records with some discussion about how their label, Heart & Skull, came to be and their thoughts on the deal. Co-vocalist Matt Skiba commented:
We made the decision to form Heart & Skull to put out our own records after having been through every kind of label deal in the industry, big indies, small
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At The Drive-In's "One Armed Scissor" tops AP's "Haircut 100" singles countdown

Featured in the newest issue of Alternative Press is the magazine's "Haircut 100" special, counting down a decade of the comtemporary punk/emo scene's best singles. Topping the list is "One Armed Scissor," the 2000 single by defunct post-hardcore icons At The Drive-In. Other notable entries are the Gaslight Anthem's "The '59 Sound" at No. 13, Piebald's "American Hearts" at No. 23, Against Me!'s… (more)

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My Chemical Romance plan protopunk-influenced album

My Chemical Romance vocalist Gerard Way spoke to Rolling Stone about their forthcoming fourth album and what people can expect from it.
We wanted to harness everything that's great about this band into shorter songs, almost protopunk, like The Stooges or the MC5.

Check out the report here.

The band released The Black Parade in 2006.

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