Explosions in the Sky and The Bravery have been tapped to support the newly reunited Smashing Pumpkins on their upcoming fall tour.

The Bravery will kick off the tour in late September and continue through till October 9th while Explosions in the Sky will be supporting the band from October 11th through the end of the tour. Explosions most recently released All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone. The Bravery are supporting The Sun and the Moon. The Pumpkins most recently delivered their highly anticipated post-reunion full length, Zeitgeist.
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Battles has embarked on a series of North American and European tours which will take the band through the US, Canada, UK before returning to San Francisco in November.

The unclassifiable band also recently dropped by Vice to record a Practice Space segment. The channel described the proceedings:

We had some beers, had some laughs, and of course played some music. It’s a great behind the scenes peek and what I personally dug was the intimate look at their instruments, knobs, and do-hickeys that make their sound so awesome.

You can check that session out here.

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The UK-model Subhumans will return to the US in late August for a tour that will see the band working the American pavement until the end of September.

Subhumans released their entry in Fat Wreck’s Live In A Dive series in 2004. The band’s alter ego Citizen Fish recently released the Deadline split with New York squat-punks Leftover Crack.
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Marshall, MI’s Small Brown Bike has announced further details on their upcoming reunion. Aside from the previously announced show on September 8th at Chicago’s Subterranean, the band will play a show on the 7th in Michigan. The exact venue and city are still to be announced.

The band is reuniting as a benefit for a friend who has been battling Leukemia since February. After months in the hospital, intensive chemotherapy, and a bone marrow transplant, the friend is ready to get back on his feet and Small Brown Bike’s set out to help.

The band broke-up in 2004, playing their final show in Chicago on January 10, 2004. They last released The River Bed on Lookout. Members of the influential post-hardcore act went on to play in LaSalle, the Great Sea Serpennts, A Love Dog, the Holy Fire and Millions.
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High On Fire has posted the first track from their upcoming album. The record is titled Death is this Communion and is due out September 18, 2007. It is the follow-up to Blessed Black Wings which was released in 2005.

You can check out “Rumours of a War” on their myspace page.
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Sick Of It All‘s recent performance at the Rheinkultur Festival in Bonn, Germany in front of more than 100,000 fans will be webcast today. The band’s set will air on the website Bunch.tv today at 20:00 CET, or 13:00 EST for those in North American. You can watch the show today when it airs, or find it and an accompanying video interview available at an on-demand clip as of September 1st.

Sick Of It All released Death to Tyrants in 2006 via Abacus.
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The Format and Steel Train have embarked on a nearly two-month-long U.S. / somewhat Canadian tour.

The former will be supporting 2006’s Dog Problems (Elektra), which they recently decided to give away. The latter is finishing work on their sophomore LP, which is set for an October release; it’ll follow up 2005’s Twilight Tales from the Prairies of the Sun (Drive-Thru).
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Vocalist Jonathon Newby is leaving Muncie, Indiana’s Brazil. His last show will be in the band’s hometown on August 18th at the Launching Pad with friends This Story. The singer posted a statement to the band’s MySpace blog:

Strange? Yes. Strange for me to type, strange for me to ponder, and probably strange for you to read. I’ve spent an amazing seven years of ups and downs with this group of guys (and a few others) building it from the ground up, so it’s not exactly a checker’s game and a bagga chips to just up and walk away.

“So have you really quit the band to go out and get a real job?”

Well, in a way. I mean, what is a real job? (Yeah, I thought so.) Everything is a means to an end. Sleeping on floors and waking up at 2pm to take my weekly shower wasn’t helping me achieve that end. But don’t get me wrong, I feel extremely proud of having clocked in almost a decade of the lifestyle. So now I must monetize. For what? Not a giant house, nor a matching set of solid gold toilet seats. But so I can move forward, both as an artist and as a human being. This is not the end of me as a creator. Far, far from it. It’s the beginning of something completely different.

Newby goes on to state that the split is amicable and the band will continue on in his absence. Brazil most recently released The Philosophy of Velocity on Immortal Records.
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Thieves and Assassins will head out with labelmates the Agent for a U.S. east coast jaunt this August.

T&A will be supporting their first full-length, Martyr Brigade, which has two songs available at the website of the label, Iron Pier. It’s due to street in early August and follows up 2006’s self-titled 7″. Agent is supporting 2006’s I Wouldn’t Trade That for Anything EP.
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Birds of Avalon will be busy the next few months. The band will head out for a week with Ted Leo and his Pharmacists, then a stint on Volcom’s label package tour, and finally a couple weeks with the Fucking Champs.

A full stream of the album in question being supported, this year’s Bazaar Bazaar, is also available here.
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The Graduate will head overseas to the UK this September for a brief tour in support of this year’s Anhedonia (Icon). There’s also one date in Germany at Rock Am See with acts like Nine Inch Nails and the Sounds.
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Deep Elm has announced the artist listing for the newest volume of their resuscitated Emo Diaries series.

Chapter 11, Taking Back What’s Ours, will feature: My Awesome Compilation (Leicestershire, England), Knockout Kings (Keller, TX), the Decoration (San Francisco, CA), Above Them (Pontefract, England), Young Hearts (Brooklyn, NY), While You Were Gone (Houston, TX), Panel (Cardiff, Wales), the Crash Engine (Portland, OR), This Drama (Tenerife, Spain), the City Beautiful (Rochussenstraat, Switzerland), Andy Tanner & His Grand Piano (Colorado Springs, CO) and I’m Fashion, You’re Victim (Kettering, England).

The comp is scheduled for a fall release and will be offered in a limited release of 1,000 copies per Deep Elm’s digital download encouragement/focus.
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Instrumental trio Russian Circles will head over to the UK in August to support their 2006 debut full-length, Enter (Flameshovel). Mixed in is three dates with the massively huge Tool, and the English vacation will be preceded with a few dates in Illinois.
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