On July 31st, the Street Dogs and Time Again will be hosting a unique event in Huntington Beach, California. The two bands will be dueling it out in the time-honored tradition of Wiffle Ball in order to raise money for the Twin Towers Orphan Relief Fund. They’ll be doing so at the Electric Chair Clothing Store, located at 410 Main Street in Huntington Beach. The festivities start at 1pm and will be free, but donations will be gathered up during the event. Expect the usual accouterments of burgers, hot dogs, etc, along with some giveaways.

The Twin Towers Orphan Fund was founded on September 12, 2001 for the sole purpose of providing educational and welfare assistance to the children who were orphaned by the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The mission of the Twin Towers Orphan Fund is to provide long-term higher educational assistance and mental and physical healthcare assistance for children who lost parents in the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, or onboard the four downed airliners, and children of victims of future terrorist attacks.
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Kevin Devine has embarked on a two-week U.S. tour with Brand New‘s Jesse Lacey in support of 2006’s Put Your Ghost to Rest. He’ll follow it up with an appearance on The Half Moon Cruise Ship in New York City as part of the Rocks Off concert series, several dates in the UK, a four-day Florida/Texas stint with John Ralston and Manchester Orchestra, and finally an appearance at Austin, TX’s City Limits Music Festival.

Put Your Ghost to Rest was recently released in limited quantities on colored double vinyl via the Brooklyn-based Academy Fight Song label. The double LP features three previously unreleased B-sides: “Wolf’s Mouth,” a cover of Neutral Milk Hotel’s “Holland, 1945,” and Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon.”

Devine was also recently dropped by Capitol Records, the label that released Ghost.
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Now defunct Rivalry Records hardcore act More to Pride have scheduled a reunion show at the Chain Reaction in Anaheim, CA next month. Tickets are currently available for the show here.

The band broke up last year.
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The Lawrence Arms, Sundowner, The Falcon and American Steel have announced a tour together. The tour has been dubbed 8th Annual Unbelievable Self-Indulgence Fest.

The six-week tour is not only unique because it’ll be the first time The Falcon and Sundowner will tour the country, but it also marks the return of East Bay punks American Steel.

Of course, the headliners have made a promise that might be a little exciting for a few of you: The guys have been promising to play the occasional song from their older (and more embarrassing) bands like Slapstick and The Broadways.They’ve been listening to kids yell out requests from their teenage bands for years and they’re thinking that throwing the hecklers a bone might shut them up once and for all. For those at this past weekend’s Asian Man Records 11th Anniversary Shindig, you know what to expect as the boys debuted the old songs there.

Dates are expected soon.
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Though the band is no more, Fifth Hour Hero has been nominated for “Best Punk Album” by the Quebec Independent Music Awards for their final full length, Not Revenge…Just a Vicious Crush. The garage punk and yé-yé influenced Les Breastfeeders are nominated for “Show of the Year” for a gig supporting 2006’s Les Matins de Grands Soirs. Both the Arcade Fire and Malajube are competing for “Artists of the Year”

Other Quebec acts nominated in various categories include Stomp Records act Éric Panic, Vulgaires Machins, Akuma, MAP, Amon Tobin, the Besnard Lakes and the Dears among others. You can vote for your favorites here.
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Ringworm has posted a new song online. The track, “The Key,” will appear on the bands forthcoming release The Venomous Grand Design, which will hit stores August 21.

You can check out “The Key” on MySpace.

The Venomous Grand Design will be the follow-up to Justice Replaced by Revenge.
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