Influential hardcore act Coalesce has announced plans for a new recording and a new tour set to kick off in August. Frontman Sean Ingram send us a note about the tour:

Instead of looking at coalesce as a second career or some ego-stroking project to prove something within modern music, it is being held closely and personally by the members as their time to put aside familial duties, work, school, or whatnot, and simply “do it.” In short, we just want to hang out together again and play our shows out of a peculiar love for doing so (in all it’s ugly purity).

Please let us make it very clear that this is not a “reunion” tour in any way shape or form. Since it’s simply the nature of Coalesce to come and go as it pleases, terms like “reunion” make no sense when applied to it.

The band will be releasing a new 7-inch titled Salt and Passage which is their first recording since 1999’s critically acclaimed 0:12 Revolution in Just Listening. Along with the record, the band will be releasing a DVD box, No Business in this Business and re-pressing There is Nothing New Under the Sun. This will coincide with an East Coast/Midwest stint in August. Coalesce will be touring with Daughters (Hydra Head), and See You Next Tuesday (Ferret) on the east coast dates (including Chicago) and This Is My Condition in the Midwest.

Coalesce was formed in 1995 and, along with Botch, proved to be one of the most influential bands in 90s noise, metal and hardcore. Drummer James DeWees went on to join The Get Up Kids and performed with New Found Glory as well as forming Reggie and the Full Effect. Sean Ingram has provided vocals on albums for Blessing The Hogs, The Used, the Ocean and Reggie and the Full Effect. Stacy Hilt and Nate Ellis went on to form The Casket Lottery.
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The track listing for the upcoming soundtrack to Transformers: The Movie has been unveiled. The disc will feature material from Armor for Sleep, The Used, Idiot Pilot, Mute Math, Taking Back Sunday, HIM and more. It is due out July 03, 2007.

It remains doubtful any of the songs will reach the transcendental level of genius of this song.

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Against Me!, their label has posted the second official clip from the DVD which is set to be packaged with the album. The highly anticipated major label debut for the band, New Wave is due out July 10, 2007.

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Our friends at the BBC let us know about the latest episode of the BBC Radio 1 Punk Rock Show. The show airs tonight from 2am to 4am GMT (9pm EST, 6pm PST) tonight and is available for streaming in it’s entirety via this link.

The show tonight will feature a live and acoustic performance from the Aggrolites in support of their recent full-length, Reggae Hit L.A.. These Arms Are Snakes will be taking over the show and playing DJ for some of the show. Finally, the playlist will include new music from Suicidal Tendencies, Against Me!, acoustic Anti-Flag, Negative Approach, Big D & The Kids Table, Tim Armstrong, Gallows, Society’s Parasites, From Autumn to Ashes, Nekromantix, NoFX, The Hoods, Small Arms Dealer, The Street Dogs and many more…

You can check out the show here.
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Our friends at the BBC let us know about the latest episode of the BBC Radio 1 Punk Rock Show. The show airs tonight from 2am to 4am GMT (9pm EST, 6pm PST) tonight and is available for streaming in it’s entirety via this link.

The show tonight will feature a live and acoustic performance from The Aggrolites in anticipation of their upcoming full length. These Arms Are Snakes will be taking over the show and playing DJ for some of the show. Finally, the playlist will include new music from Suicidal Tendencies, Against Me!, acoustic Anti-Flag, Negative Approach, Big D & The Kids Table, Tim Armstrong, Gallows, Society’s Parasites, From Autumn to Ashes, Nekromantix, NoFX, The Hoods, Small Arms Dealer, The Street Dogs and many more…

You can check out the show here.
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Atreyu has announced a release date for their upcoming debut for Hollywood Records. The record is titled Lead Sails Paper Anchor and is due out August 28, 2007. Atreyu will hit the road this summer with Korn and Evanescence on the Family Values tour.

Atreyu‘s last studio record was A Death-Grip on Yesterday. It was followed by a retrospective of their Victory-era career simply titled The Best of Atreyu.
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According to a recent interview with Pitchfork, Sonic Youth is currently assembling a collection of favorites to be sold at Starbucks.

Frontman Thurston Moore explained:

We sort of devised this idea of a Sonic Youth record where we asked all these different people to choose their favorite song, people like artists and actors and other musicians and what have you. So all these people, from Jeff Tweedy to Beck to Marc Jacobs to Portia de Rossi [of Arrested Development] to Michelle Williams [laughs], they all chose their favorite songs and wrote a little thing about it. So it’s a compilation record of artists choosing songs of Sonic Youth. There’s going to be one exclusive song of ours that we’ll record, so that’s something we have to record.

Last week, the band delivered the deluxe edition of their influential full length, Daydream Nation. It is the follow-up to Rather Ripped which was released in 2006.
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AOL Music has posted another new set of full album streams for new and recent releases. Among the streams are new albums from Straylight Run, Art Brut, Mooney Suzuki, Rocky Votolato, Maps, The Polyphonic Spree, and others.

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The Spill Canvas‘ Nick Thomas was nice enough to answer a few of my questions via email recently. We discussed his past past role in Nodes of Ranvier, Superman and caught up about their progress on their next full-length.

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After thirteen years of publishing, Punk Planet is officially closing its doors. The editors sent out this letter to subscribers:

We’ve come to the impossible decision to stop printing, having sounded all the alarms and reenvisioned all the systems we can. Benefit shows are no longer enough to make up for bad distribution deals, disappearing advertisers, and a decreasing audience of subscribers.

As to the latter two points, we could blame the Internet. It makes editorial content-and bands-easy to find, for free. (We’re sure our fellow indie labels, those still standing, can attest to the difficulties created in the last few years). We can blame educational and media systems that value magazines focused on consumerism over engaged dissent. And we can blame the popular but mistaken belief that punk died several years ago.

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The Apers have announced plans to travel through the East Coast as they make their way to Insubordination Fest. The long-running band most recently released their latest album Reanimate My Heart on Insubordination Records. The album was released in Europe by Sonic Rendezvous. Reanimate My Heart is set to be released in the U.S. on April 21st.

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