Along with their upcoming new full length, Big D and the Kid’s Table will be releasing a split with China’s Brain Failure. The 12-song split features six tracks from each band.

The split CD is entitled “Beijing To Boston” and will be available via Bad News Records on February 20th. The vinyl will see a release via Springman Records soon after. Dicky Barrett (Mighty Mighty Bosstones) and Marc Orrell (Dropkick Murphys) make special appearances on the Brain Failure tracks. You can check out Brain Failure’s “City Junk” and Big D’s “Digging In Your Nails” here.

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More additions have been confirmed for this summer’s Warped Tour. The latest include Alkaline Trio, Norma Jean and Hot Rod Circuit.

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Blacklisted have posted some tour dates, mainly for the US East Coast. The mini-tour kicks off February 23rd in Florida and winds up in Pennsylvania.

The band recently finished recording their forthcoming EP Peace on Earth, War on Stage.
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I recently spoke with Benjamin Kowalewicz, frontman of Canada’s own Billy Talent. By all accounts, Billy Talent live an interesting life; in Canada, they are full-fledged rock stars, winning major music awards and fawned over by mainstream news and music outlets like few others. Yet in America, they’re a relatively new band, still building steam on their two full length albums, Billy Talent II and Billy Talent.

Ben and I discussed everything from their “feud” with Fucked Up, to working with legendary Canadian broadcaster Alan Cross.

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Chung Ho Records has posted some videos from the now defunct popular Canadian punk band Belvedere. They were filmed on a Dominican television show in March of 2003.

Belvedere called it a day nearly two years ago after their final release Fast Forward Eats the Tape.

Former Belvedereans Steve Rawles and Graham Churchill recently resurfaced with This Is a Standoff posting their debut tracks.
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Details about The Stooges‘ brand new record, titled The Weirdness have come in. The record will be released March 20 via Virgin Records. The album marks the seminal band’s first proper release in almost 34 years.

This album features three of the four original band members – Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton and drummer Scott Asheton, and the ex-Minutemen and fIREHOSE bassist Mike Watt fills in the final spot.

The band will start touring in support of the album this spring. Along the way are plans to stop for a peformance at this year’s South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX on March 17th.

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Wisam Alshaibi and Billy Joe Bailey, both formerly of The Blackout Pact have announced plans to tour the Middle East – including Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Egypt – to shoot a documentary about punk and skateboarding .

Wisam explained:

A lot of the kids in these country’s have been defined by stuff that doesn’t matter to them, Religion, Ethnicity, Religious Sect, etc – all stuff that isn’t up to them, all things that limit them…

I remember when I was young, I had punk rock and skateboarding to protect, to make me a part of something that was bigger than me, something that didn’t care that I was Iraqi, something that made me friends..

For more information, you can visit Wisam’s myspace page.
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Since everyone loves ordinal rankings, here is another Top 25 Punk Albums list, this time from IGN.

The list includes Punk in Drublic, Milo Goes to College, Big Black, Double Nickels on the Dime, Operation Ivy, Stiff Little Fingers, and more actually fairly represent both some of the earliest bands (Ramones, Clash, Richard Hell) and more recent and American acts who are frequently left off.

You can check it out here.
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Thursday‘s Geoff Rickley recently spoke to a fansite about his long discussed but largely silent project, United Nations.

Besides Geoff, the band features Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw/Head Automatica, Chree from the Number 12 Looks Like You and Kiss It Goodbye’s Eric Cooper. Palumbo described it as a “blast-beat-riddled grindcore band” back in 2005. Geoff had this to say about the current status:

We were supposed to record before we started this tour but my grandmother died on the last few days of the Rise Against tour so I needed to go home and deal with family stuff. We have a solid lineup and we have seven or eight songs written. We’re gonna write a few more and put the record out later this year. It’s going to take a little more planning because everyone is so busy. We lost a big block of time that we could have worked on it and the Glassjaw tour was so last minute and that also took away from time that we could have spent on it.

Thursday most recently released A City by the Light Divided.
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The Good, The Bad and The Queen have announced a number of European, US and Canadian dates in support of their new album, The Good, The Bad and The Queen.

The band is the new project from Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz), Paul Simonon (The Clash), Simon Tong (The Verve), Tony Allen (Fela Kuti) and producer Danger Mouse.

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The tracklisting has been announced for the Leftover Crack/Citizen Fish split CD entitled Deadline. Citizen Fish recorded 5 original songs along with their cover of LoC’s “Clear Channel Fuck Off” and Choking Victim’s “Money”.

Leftover Crack contributed 6 new songs and 2 covers, one being a Subhumans song and the other being a CItizen Fish song. Special guests on the record include Jello Biafra and M.D.C.’s Dave Dictor.

Along with the tracklisting, Fat posted the Leftover Crack song ” …And Out Comes the N-Bomb!” which you can download here
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Sick of It All have announced the dates for a European tour set to begin in late March. The long-running hardcore band is supporting their newest album, Death to Tyrants.

For support on the tour, the band has enlisted new Eulogy Recordings signing Wisdom in Chains. The group previously released records on Gangstyle Records and Spook City Records.

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Warped Tour has added three more bands to this years line-up in the form of the Spill Canvas, Boys Like Girls, and the Vandals. Both the Spill Canvas and Boys Like Girls will be featured on the entire tour, while the Vandals will only play the first four shows.

The dates for the tour were posted earlier this month.
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