Seattle’s Capitol Hill Block Party will take place on July 27th and 28th. The two day even will bring together over 40 bands with partial proceeds benefitting Home Alive and The Vera Project. Bands announced so far include Blood Brothers, Against Me, the Girls, Kane Hodder, Spoon and the Intelligence.
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It’s Sunday June 10th, 2007. I suppose when tasked with making some quip about the week that passed, most media folk would say something on the trials and tribulations of a certain wealthy socialite heiress… but that’s not the way things work here at the Org, so what do you get from me is FIN FANG FOOM! The most fearful menace of them all! What more could you possibly want?

The people must have something good to read on a Sunday

So I’m looking at the magic mirror which reveals the week’s biggest articles and I see a virtual hype race between Against Me! and Strung Out. First we had Against Me! teasing their video for “White People for Peace” with some streaming music while Strung Out previewed Blackhawks Over Los Angeles with some new music of their own. A few days after the initial hype we had Against Me’s “White People for Peace” video and Strung Out’s “Blackhawks over Los Angeles” album stream. That’s the way to run a railroad, kids. Rage Against The Machine took it a step further, creating a countdown to something mysterious to get people talking. Guitarist Tom Morello took some time out of his busy guerrilla schedule to chat chat with Socialist Worker as well. Around here all Propagandhi needs to do is sneeze and they’ll get grassroots hype. The announcement of a new album in Spring of 2008 takes it a step further.

This week saw Courtney Love claim that Linda Perry would produce the next Green Day record, and the band flat out denying that. We had news that A Wilhelm Scream have finished their next record as well. A set of tour dates were announced for Lifetime and the Bouncing Souls. They’ll share the stage with the Ergs! and Static Radio NJ on select shows. Finally we had a new song posted by Throwdown. Oh, and we took some time to made fun of the “guyliner” thing again. Making fun of emo kids is somewhat of a sport around here.

This week also saw the tragic passing of John Pike, drummer of Syracuse, NY’s Ra Ra Riot and Ben Hutson of Richmond, VA’s Mancub.

Our Video Of The Week featured Brooklyn’s Nakatomi Plaza performing a brand new song live in Richmond, VA.

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Seattle’s annual music and arts festival Bumbershoot will take place from September 1st to the 3rd this year. The event boasts a huge number of acts across several genres, this year featuring bands like the Aggrolites, Gogol Bordello, the Shins, Seaweed, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Wu-Tang Clan, the Bouncing Souls and many more.
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Mississauga, Ontario act Struck By Truth is calling it quits. From the band’s statement:

We have worked very hard for the last 7 years on music that we feel is genuine and that we care about in Struck By Truth. We poured as much blood, sweat, tears, anger, sadness, love, happiness, desire, and any other emotion we could muster for as long as we could, we’ve given up relationships, lost jobs, quit school, fought with family, friends, and each other.

It is time that the members Struck By Truth part ways with one another. This has a bad feeling; like an Old Dog being put down, though we love it and hate to see it go, a member of our families and our lives, it’s time to let it go and say goodbye.

The band has three final shows scheduled this month, with two dates in Brampton, Ontario and one in Toronto.

Punknews reviewed the band’s 2005 release Seeds.
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Former Nerve Agents frontman Eric Ozenne has finally named his new band. Originally announced as the Strange Young Heroes, the group is now going by the name Said Radio. Scene Point Blank‘s cleared up the band’s line up, which seems to have shifted somewhat since earlier announcements. The group now features Gary Gutfeld of Redemption 87, Ryan Mattos and Anthony Anzaldo of Ceremony, and Dante Sigona of the Nerve Agents. The band will play their debut show at West Seattle Legion Hall in Seattle, WA on Monday July 23 with Ceremony, Shipwreck, and Ruiner.
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The Ergs! are planning to make a second contribution to the Art Of The Underground singles series. The band’s currently on tour with Lemuria in support of their recent 7″, but upon returning home they will put together a second release for the series.

Other bands linked to upcoming Art Of The Underground singles include the Potential Johns (members of the Marked Men) and The Copyrights.
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Off with Their Heads have detailed their future release plans. The band will contribute to a split 7″ with New Jersey’s The Measure [SA] via Chunksaah Records in the near future.

Following that the band will release a collection of their 2006-released 7″ material titled All Things Move Toward Their End. It will arrive on July 3rd via 12″ vinyl, CD and digital download services via No Idea Records. There was some mixup on just who would be putting out the disc however, as we previously connected it with 1-2-3-4 Go! Records. The band explained:

There was a little bit of fuckedupedness about labels on this one. Whatever you hear is probably not true. I had told 1234 GO! and Recess that they could both do it. The problem being that I had also told No Idea the same thing. Chalk that one up to me being a dumb, forgetful, drunk idiot baboon. We decided to do it with No Idea based on the fact that we have loved that label since we were wee little shits, and it would be fucking rad to release something on such a cool label run by cool people. The future of our band is in a constant state of “You wanna do this anymore?”….”I dont know, do you”…. “Im Moving”….. “Sweet”…….If that makes any sense. Basically, this may be one of the last chances to do something on a label we loved in an impure way since we were young. I fucked up. I apologize to both Recess and 1234 Go!. Both of the dudes that do those labels are solid and shouldn’t have to deal with a dummy like me.

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The Dropkick Murphys have announced a slate of US tour dates for August. The band will hit the road in Wantagh, NY on August 2nd and will travel to the ICONS “Irish Connections” festival in Canton, MA on August 12th. Furthermore the popular act has a free show scheduled for September 20th in Buffalo, NY’s Lafayette Square.

The Murphys released The Warrior’s Code in 2005 via Hellcat Records.
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FBR+ has posted a full album stream for Paramore‘s forthcoming release Riot!. Riot!, the follow-up to 2005’s All We Know Is Falling, is scheduled for a June 12, 2007 release.

You can check out the stream here.
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