Dillinger Escape Plan have made some announcements about their upcoming full length as well as the departure of founding drummer Chris Pennie. As rumoured, Pennie left the band to join Coheed and Cambria. The band confirmed the departure indirectly, by omitting Pennie’s name from the lineup for the record.

The new lineup also confirms the role of drummer Gil Sharone. According to Gil’s biography, he has previously performed live with acts like Fishbone, Dave Wakeling of The English Beat, HR of Bad Brains and others.

The band is continuing work on their next full length which has been titled Ire Works. They will again be working with producer Steve Evetts and a fall release is expected. Both bits of news come in a moment of rare seriousness for the band who explained:

Know that what we are in the process of recording will be everything we have ever been capable of, and now more. This last year, and how we have gotten through it and to the place we are now, will define all of our lives for a long time.

We have overcome everything from multiple member changes in the early years, members suffering physical impairment or injury that has made it impossible to continue playing, and financial, physical, personal, and internal problems that many bands would never make it through. We take forever to put out records, and put everything we have into them. T

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Modest Mouse has posted the dates for another tour beginning in August. The band will see support on all dates from Band of Horses and Love as Laughter and Clipse on the New York and Philadelphia dates.

The band is touring in support of their 2007 release We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.
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Legendary Japanese noise-rock act the Boredoms have announced a number of tour dates this summer and fall that will take them through Canada, the US and Europe. The band most recently delivered five seminal 1990s Boredoms records in the US with four surfacing for the first time ever.

The long-running band released Seadrum/House of Sun via Vice in 2005.
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Oshawa, Ontario’s Cuff the Duke were recently in the studio recording the follow up to their sophomore self titled full length. The band is planning for either a late August or early September release, but those details are still under wraps. The band’s Three Gut released debut album Life Stories For Minimum Wage was reissued earlier this year via Outside Music. The label also released frontman Wayne Petti’s solo debut City Lights Align this past March.

In recent years members of the band have joined members of the Weakerthans and FemBots in the instrumental indie rock collective Hylozoists. That act recently put out the record La Fin du Monde.
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The tracklisting has been announced for the sixth installment of Hellcat Records‘ Give ‘Em The Boot compilation series. The album collects tracks from the label’s entire roster, including bands like Rancid, the Dropkick Murphys, Tiger Army, the Slackers and the Aggrolites. There’s even a classic from Operation Ivy thrown in for good measure.

You have to guess what flavor the cover art will be this time. We’re betting it’s mauve this time. Maybe peach.
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Stereo Killer has posted Wisdom in Chains‘ forthcoming release Class War in its entirety. The album is slated for release June 19.

You can check out the songs here.
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Cartel has posted a new song online entitled “Lose It.” The song is the first single from the band’s July 24 self-titled release. You can check it out on MySpace.

The band has been recording the release in a giant, transparent bubble in New York City.
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Say Anything has posted a progress report on their forthcoming album In Defense of the Genre. Vocalist Max Bemis reported that they’re currently 65-70 percent done tracking the record and have completed drums, bass and guitar work on 95 percent of the songs. Bemis also noted that there are currently a lot of songs on the record, friends from various projects and bands will be involved in singing and playing on the record, and that the album is another concept record but “this time (tentatively) the songs will appear in order of the story they tell, which is far more direct and personal than the last record’s story.“

In Defense of the Genre will be the proper follow-up to 2004’s …Is A Real Boy.
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Some of our friends at Xanga got us involved in a new feature they’ve got called Groupie. The idea is to follow a band on a tour and kind of get a feel for what it’s actually like for a new band to hit the road.

With so many of you in bands, or thinking about it, we thought it’d be a cool feature and so we decided to sponsor the whole thing. You can check out the first set of videos, blogs and music right here, and definitely let us know what you think of the idea.
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I recently exchanged some emails with Epitaph’s flagship hip hop act, Sage Francis. Fiercely political and representing some of the best of underground hip hop, Sage talked about his new album, politics and his work on the film, Pride and Glory. His new album, Human: The Death Dance was released May 08, 2007.

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In anticipation of their upcoming full length, High On Fire has announced a headlining tour. The record is titled Death is this Communion and is due out September 18, 2007. It is the follow-up to Blessed Black Wings which was released in 2005.

Joining the band on the tour will be Mono, Coliseum and Panthers. The jaunt kicks off September 20th, 2007.

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Fall Out Boy has released the latest video from their new full length, Infinity on High.

You can check out the video here.
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Mae has posted a new song on MySpace entitled “Brink of Disaster.” The track is the first posted from their August 14 release Singularity.

The band is currently on tour with the Fray and OK Go.
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