Ted Leo And The Pharmacists have announced more dates in support of their Touch and Go debut Living with the Living. The band will play a number of festivals in the coming months, including Lollapalooza in Chicago, Sonic Muse in Covington, KY, the Athens, GA Popfest, Art & soul in Oakland, bumbershoot in Seattle and Pop Montreal. The band will also share the stage with bands like the Pogues, the Jai-Alai Savant, Birds of Avalon, the Thermals and Georgie James.
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Offspring frontman Dexter Holland has posted another update on the band’s recording process. The band has finished two more songs at Bob Rock’s studio in Hawaii. The band has now returned to Orange County, California for further studio work. The band has reportedly recorded at least 13 songs so far, including one titled “Take Me Nowhere.”

The yet-to-be-titled new record will follow up 2003’s Splinter and is expected in late 2007 or early 2008 via Columbia Records. It will be the band’s first studio album recorded with drummer Atom Willard (Rocket From The Crypt, Angels and Airwaves).

The band plans to play Japan in August, appearing at the Summer Sonic Festival on the 11th and 12th alongside bands like Sum 41, Avenged Sevenfold, Bloc Party and Interpol. They are also scheduled to play at Studio Coast in Tokyo on August 14th. These shows mark the band’s first live shows since the 2005 Warped Tour.
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To help celebrate their interview feature, and more importantly, to help celebrate vinyl, Vinyl Collective is offering one lucky punknews.org reader a chance to spend $100 in their webstore. That’s right, 100 big ones!

Of course, it’s not as simple as just asking for the gift certificate. To win the prize, take some time to look at the picture provided and correctly name every piece of vinyl in the photo. Color counts in determining who is closest to getting them all, so vinyl nerds may have the upper hand in this one. Check out the interview for the photo.

The only hint we’re giving you is that there are more than 10 records in the picture, but less than 15. How much less? 4.

Please send your entries to info@vinylcollective and start figuring out how to spend that cash via their web store.
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Our own vinylophile Ben Conoley recently spoke with Virgil Dickerson, the man behind Suburban Home Records and most recently, Vinyl Collection. Ben and Virgil discuss the importance of vinyl and the resurgence that seems to be taking place.

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Tonight, DJ Rossstar will be hosting MxPx who will be talking about their new album, Secret Weapon. On the same show, Hellcat act Time Again will be dropping by the Rossstar studios. The show runs from 7-8pm PST / 10-11pm EST tonight.

The stream will be available from Idobi Radio and questions and comments for the band can be sent via AIM.
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Misery Signals, The Agony Scene, Emmure, Sky Eats Airplane and Born Of Osiris have booked a fall tour together. The dates will run starting 9/8 in Mt. Clemens, MI and run down the East Coast, across the bottom of the country, up through California and then back across finally ending 10/13 in the band’s home state of Wisconsin

Misery Signals most recently released Mirrors.
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Misery Signals, The Agony Scene, Emmure, Sky Eats Plane and Born Of Osiris have booked a fall tour together. The dates will run starting 9/8 in Mt. Clemens, MI and run down the East Coast, across the bottom of the country, up through California and then back across finally ending 10/13 in the band’s home state of Wisconsin

Misery Signals most recently released Mirrors.

Mirrors
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Punknews.org is once again proud to team with up RecCenter.com to offer an audio exclusive. This time around we bring you two unreleased tracks from none other than Andrew WK. The tracks come from his upcoming limited edition vinyl release (deluxe 2-lp gatefold/orange colored vinyl/complete lyrics/new graphics/5 bonus songs/23 songs total) which is titled Close Calls With Brick Walls.

You can check out the tracks here.
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Rx Bandits have added more dates to their recently announced tour. Besides the US dates, the band has booked shows in the UK and Europe.

They continue to support their latest album, …And the Battle Begun.

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Lest anyone not grasp how big Against Me! is these days, the band recently participated in an interview with Blender Magazine discussing selling out, and even being compared to Nirvana by Butch Vig, who actually knows a few things about Nirvana.

The article notes:

Indeed, Gabel recalls master theorists of old–school thrash like the Minutemen’s D. Boon and Bad Religion’s Greg Graffin, guys as famous for the endless enjambment in their lyrics as for the seriousness of their convictions. When the band played Late Night With Conan O’Brien in 2005, they introduced themselves to America with “Don’t Lose Touch,” a weirdly catchy position paper on the unholy marriage of art and commerce set to a militant disco groove.

For Jimmy Kimmel Live, they went with “From Her Lips to God’s Ears (the Energizer),” in which Gabel scathingly, but also empathetically, gets inside the mind of Condoleezza Rice. He shouts, “The president’s giving a speech in Georgia to remember the voice of a slain civil–rights leader … Oh Condoleezza, do you get the fucking joke?”

You can check out the article here. The band’s new album, New Wave, is available now.
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The lineup for the 2007 edition of Fuck Yeah fest has been announced. As with previous years, the show is curated by Keith Morris and promoter Sean Carlson. The bill is a big one, particularly for fans of bands who rarely play live. Saturday will feature The Explosion’s final West Coast show, Dillinger Four, American Steel, Partyline (ex-Bratmobile), The Fleshies, Busdriver and more. The Sunday will include Deerhunter, Pissed Jeans, Jay Reatard, the Nice Boys and many others.

The event is $12 per day and ticketing/purchasing information will be soon made available on the official website. The show taks place August 25th and 26th in Echo Park, Los Angeles, California.

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Victory has announced two major homecoming releases from some of the label’s earliest success stories. Both Taking Back Sunday and Thursday will be unveiling new CD+DVD packages on October 30th. As previously reported, the Thursday DVD+CD will be a retrospective but details on the Taking Back Sunday release are expected in August.

Both bands released much-loved albums on the label before moving on to major labels.
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80s era East Bay punk band Christ On Parade has expanded their reunion tour past the previously announced shows at 924 Gilman. The band will travel up and down the US west coast later this summer, with several Los Angeles are shows still to be announced for August.

Christ On Parade formed in 1985 by ex members of Teenage Warning and Treason, comprised of vocalist Barrie Evans, guitarists Mike Scott and Noah Landis, bassist Malcolm Sherwood and drummer Todd Kramer. They released their debut Sounds of Nature that year. Members of the group lived in Easy Bay’s storied New Method Warehouse and the group played shows with bands like Social Distortion, Subhumans, Agnostic Front, the Circle Jerks and Conflict. They disbanded in 1989, with Landis going on to join Neurosis and Evans forming psychobilly group the Hellbillys.

Sounds of Nature was recently re-released with bonus material via Neurot Recordings (CD) and Prank Records (LP).
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