Award winning Canadian act Bedouin Soundclash have announced the details and release data for their upcoming sophomore full length, Street Gospels. Due out August 21, 2007, the album was recorded in in Toronto and New York by producer and Bad Brain, Darryl Jenifer.

The band also brought in Money Mark (The Beastie Boys) on keys, Wade MacNeil (Alexisonfire, Black Lungs) on vocals/guitar and the legendary Vernon Buckley vocalist of The Maytones.

The first two songs from the album are available here and you can find the album artwork on the release page.
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I recently spoke with Nick 13, frontman of long-running Hellcat act Tiger Army. The band recently delivered Music from Regions Beyond, their fourth full length for the label and one with a completely different lineup from their previous album.

Nick and I talked about the record, Warped Tour, speaking Spanish and psychobilly.

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Think Fast! Records has posted a new track from Between the Wars. The song will be featured on the band’s forthcoming release Death and the Sea.

You can download “For Nothing” here.

The band released Less We Believe last year.
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Is anyone else still wondering what happened with that Sopranos finale? Yeah, I get it…Tony’s supposed to always be wondering, blah, blah, blah. Eh, at least the scene where Phil got whacked made up for the lack of ultra-violence we were all expecting. Now, back to the new reviews…

• Punk staples Strung Out released their highly anticipated new album Blackhawks Over Los Angeles
• Former Misfit and dark underlord of all things ghoulish Glen Danzig unleashed The Lost Tracks of Danzig
• Live show reviews of anti-ska pirates Bomb the Music Industry! and shoe-gazer favorite The Fall of Troy
• The punkers from down under Frenzal Rhomb‘s 2006 effort Forever Malcolm Young
• Several more over at the Punknews Review page
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Today Strung Out released their brand new album, Blackhawks Over Los Angeles. To mark this occaison, the band and label have lined up a bunch of unique Strung Out themed stuff to give away to six different people. A grand prize winner will receive a signed drum head, poster and CD and five runner ups will get CDs, a guitar pick and more.

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Former Matchbook Romance drummer Aaron Stern has resurfaced in a new project dubbed God or Julie. He explained:

Today is a big day for me. I am officially announcing that I am joining forces with New York rock band, God or Julie. After Matchbook Romance broke up, it really hit home how difficult it is to find individuals who all share a similar elevated vision of music. When I was introduced to God or Julie, my hopes to continue the artistic progress and musical success that I had with Matchbook Romance were restored.

The new project is inspired by acts like Muse, Weezer, Foo Fighters, The Police, The Clash and others.

Matchbook Romance split up in March after releasing a number of albums on indie powerhouse, Epitaph Records.
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The New York Post has written up an expose on Crush Management, the agency behind emo-pop success stories Fall Out Boy, Panic! At The Disco and The Academy Is… among others.

The article also draws comparisons between Crush and Lou Pearlman, the alleged con man and architect behind the boy band craze of the mid-to-late 90s, as both have “successfully marketed a critically dismissed, yet commercially successful, stable of cute boy bands to timid teenage girls not yet ready for real rebellion.” Much is said about the age and supposed naivety of the bands’ target audience. Whether you agree with their point or not, it’s an interesting read and you can find the full article at the NY Post.
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In anticipation of their sixth studio album, Jimmy Eat World has announced their summer touring plans. The record will be the follow up to 2004’s Futures and 2005’s Stay on My Side Tonight EP.

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Blaqk Audio, the electronic sideproject of AFI‘s Davey Havok and Jade Puget, will release their debut full length CexCells on August 07, 2007 via Interscope Records (part of Universal, if you’re keeping score). The 12 track album was mixed by Dave Bascombe, who fittingly worked several synth-appreciative new wave acts like Depeche Mode and Tears For Fears. A tour is said to be in the works but no details have been announced yet.

AFI released Decemberunderground last year.
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Acclaimed hardcore act Modern Life Is War has wrapped up work on the debut for Equal Vision. The record is titled Midnight in America and is due out August 21, 2007. It was produced by J. Robbins and is the follow-up to Witness which was released in 2005.

The band, which calls Marshalltown, Iowa their home, will be touring this summer with He Is Legend and Maylene & The Sons of Disaster. They will be joined by House of Fools on the first half of the tour, and Paulson on the second.

Expect Modern Life Is War to be carrying a two-song sampler of Midnight In America on the road with them featuring the songs “Stagger Lee” and “The Motorcycle Boy Reigns” from the new album.
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The 1990’s favorite traveling festival, Lollapalooza, has posted the complete three day festival schedule.It will take place August 3-5 in Grant Park, Chicago. Some of the festival’s featured peformers include:

Day 1: AT&T Stage: Jack’s Mannequin (3:30-4:30), Daft Punk (8:30-10:00), Bud Light Stage: The Black Keys (6:30-7:30); MySpace Stage: TedLeo and the Pharmacists (1:30-2:30); Playstation Stage: The Rapture (5:00-6:00); Citibank Stage: Against Me! (3:30-4:30)

Day 2: AT&T Stage: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (6:30-7:30); Bud Light Stage: The Roots (4:30-5:30), Interpol (8:30-10:00); MySpace Stage: Motion City Soundtrack (3:30-4:30), The Hold Steady (5:30-6:30), Spoon (7:30-8:30)

Day 3: AT&T Stage: Lupe Fiasco (2:15-3:15), Pearl Jam (8:00-???); Bud Light Stage: Iggy and the Stooges (4:15-5:15), Modest Mouse (6:15-7:15); MySpace Stage: TV on the Radio (7:15-8:15)

You can check out the full lineups, schedules, and much more here.
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The UK’s Punktastic have confirmed the lineup for the punk-minded Lock-Up stage at this year’s Reading and Leeds festivals. The stage features two groups of bands, with the Saturday lineup from Reading playing Sunday at Leeds and the Friday lineup from Leeds playing Sunday at Reading. Confused yet?

The Saturday Reading stage will feature Jimmy Eat World, the Living End, Thrice, Mad Caddies, the Bronx, Capdown, Big D and The Kids Table, the Draft, Street Dogs, the King Blues, the Riverboat Gamblers and the Grit. The Friday Leeds stage features New Found Glory, Turbonegro, Gallows, From Autumn to Ashes, Cancer Bats, the Casualties, Ignite, Municipal Waste, Sonic Boom Six, and the Ghost Of A Thousand.
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Victory has posted new music from two upcoming releases. The first is the long-awaited album from hardcore pioneers Damnation AD. The record is titled In This Life or The Next and is due out June 12, 2007. You can check out “Jigsaw” and “Knot” on their myspace page.

The second comes from A Perfect Murder. The record is titled War of Aggression and also is due out June 12, 2007. You can check out the title track and “Within” on their myspace page
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