Every Time I Die have posted a new track from their highly anticipated new full length. The record is titled The Big Dirty and is due out September 05, 2007. It is the follow-up to Gutter Phenomenon which was released in 2005.

You can check out “No Son of Mine” on their myspace page.
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Hopesfall vocalist Jay has announced via MySpace that the band recently dealt with line-up changes:

Some of you have been inquiring why we haven’t been touring as of late. For the past few months we’ve made a major lineup change to tour our latest release “Magnetic North”. After recording the new album a lack of desire to be on the road to support “Mag North” became apparent. We are all very proud of our accomplishments with this record. In assembling a new lineup my hopes are that we generate interest in a) the music my former band-mates and I created “Mag North” and b) the new material my current band-mates and I have begun to write. We have some exciting tours lined up including ventures w/ the junior varsity, the receiving end of sirens, and oceansize to name a few.

The band released Magnetic North in May.
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Sparta has posted what they are describing as a “Huge Tour Announcement,” and that announcement is that they have been tapped to support Velvet Revolver. That band includes three former members of Guns N’ Roses: Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum as well as Dave Kushner of hardcore/punk act Wasted Youth and Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots.

The tour kicks off in September.
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Coheed and Cambria‘s Claudio Sanchez has announced the release of the bands next full length for Columbia Records. The record is titled Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow and is due out October 23, 2007. It is the follow-up to Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Vol. 1: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness which was released in 2005.

The album was produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Rush). Though the album marks the debut of drummer Chris Pennie, formerly of the Dillinger Escape Plan, the album reportedly has contributions from Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
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The track-listing for the Casualties‘ forthcoming live CD/DVD, Made In NYC, has been announced. The CD contains over 20 tracks, and the DVD will feature over an hour of live footage and home movies. This live record is a follow-up to last year’s Under Attack.

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Social Distortion‘s Mike Ness recently spoke to Billboard about the band’s next studio record and follow up to 2004’s Sex, Love and Rock ’n’ Roll.

Ness talked a little about the recent Greatest Hits release and the new track, “Far Behind” which closes it out:

We were in between studio albums, we’re writing, and we thought it was a good time to pause and take a retrospective look at the band’s career, And we also wanted to let people know that we weren’t going anywhere and hit ’em with maybe an indication of what the next record might sound like.

He also offered some more details about the next album:

We have a dozen ideas at least — a lot of songs that didn’t make the last record. They didn’t make it not necessarily because they weren’t good enough. I have demos from 1994 that I’m revisiting — great ideas that didn’t get finished. You know, maybe they needed a better chorus or something. Also, I just want to create some new stuff entirely.

The creative vibe is just very charged right now. With every album, I want to outdo the last one. That’s my goal going in: I want to make it better than the last one.

Next year, the band will celebrate their 30th anniversary, having formed in 1978.
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Tom Gabel, frontman of Against Me! recently spoke to The Onion’s serious music faction, The Onion AV Club

The common interview points including selling out and label pressure are touched upon, but the interviewer actually digs a little deeper, discussing some of the differences of being on a major label. To whit, Tom notes:

I think it’s unfortunate that the majority of kids today don’t know any of those bands or don’t realize they were on that label. We have people who have asked us in the past why we signed to Sire, and one of the reasons was definitely because of its history. The Ramones were on Sire, The Replacements were on Sire, The Smiths were on Sire, The Cure was on Sire, Madonna was on Sire.

Tom also addresses the underground v.mainstream mentality, providing this insight:

When bands come from that underground scene and go into the mainstream, people just hate it. And it blows my mind. If you’re saying you don’t like what pop culture is, then change it. And when someone does make an effort to change it, everyone rebels against it and hates it. You can’t win. People just want that division to exist. They don’t want that division to go away.

Against Me! released New Wave this month.
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Though the timing is a little suspect, at least one site is reporting that Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley has been threatened with deportation due to some controversial lyrics on the band’s new album, Underclass Hero.

According to Deryck:

He (the reporter) went to the House minority leader in the States (a Republican), who tried to have me deported, trying to say I’m threatening the president.”

The band’s new record was released today.
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Green Day‘s recently promised “punked up” cover of the Simpsons theme is now available for streaming or purchase from iTunes. The song does not appear on the 21-song soundtrack album but both the band and the song will apparently appear in the finished film.

You can check out “The Simpsons Theme” right here.

The pop-culture phenomenon will hit theatres on July 27th.
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After the positive response to their previous batch of vinyl releases, Victory has unveiled plans for another set of waxy good releases. The second wave of Victory vinyl releases will include two recent albums: Darkest Hour‘s Deliver Us and Silverstein‘s Arrivals & Departures.

The other three will be of particular interest to collectors including three favorites from the label’s catalogue. Blood for Blood’s Revenge on Society will see a new pressing, Earth Crisis’ first two Victory EPs, Firestorm and All Our War will be packaged together on a single 12-inch. Finally, the label will be producing a special vinyl version of Taking Back Sunday‘s beloved 2002 album, Tell All Your Friends.

All five will be available on August 14th in two retail colours and one exclusive mailorder colour.
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Circle Jerks, The Bronx and the Locust have been tapped to helm a benefit for 400 Blows drummer Ferdie. Ferdie came down with Chicken Pox on tour which is a minor illness for children, but can be deadly (and expensive) to adults.

The event will also include Har Mar Superstar, Qui (ex-Jesus Lizard) and will take place at the Echoplex in Los Angeles, California on August 4th 2007.
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Mae has posted a new track entitled “Sic Semper Tyrannis” online. The song will appear on their forthcoming, August 14 release Singularity.

You can stream the song on MySpace.
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