It’s Sunday July 29th, 2007. With this week’s revelations I give it a few months until we have a reactionary straight-edge xASTRONAUTx movement emerging from the basements of Houston and Florida’s Space Coast. The real challenge would be to incorporate the generic black hoodie and cargo shorts into the next spacesuit design.

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So in a move that’s sure to make several of our readers spontaneously combust, the Lawrence Arms, American Steel and Larry Arms offshoots the Falcon and Sundowner announced plans for a tour dubbed the 8th Annual Unbelievable Self-Indulgence Fest. There are no dates yet, but that didn’t stop you all from losing it and screaming things like “I’m gonna fucking blow something apart if they dont [sic] make it down south.” On the other hand, we have an announcement that mall-punkers Good Charlotte are touring soon with pop star Jusitin Timberlake. The things you said about this tour were less enthusiastic, all things considered. The Warped Tour is rolling on, and this week head honcho Kevin Lyman spoke with the press a few times, criticizing the supposedly “free” Ozzfest and musing on last year’s feuds and this year’s attendance numbers.

The Offspring have lost drummer Atom Willard, as the former Rocket from the Crypt member is giving all his time to messiah-core act Angels and Airwaves. He’s been replaced by Pete Parada, who has Saves the Day, Alkaline Trio and Face to Face on his resume. Canuck pop-punk act Sum 41 was apparently in some trouble over lyrics, as it’s been reported that Deryck Whibley was threatened with deportation from the US. So was that legit or just some clever PR on the eve of their new album?

A number of bands spoke about their next record this week. Dave Grohl talked about the upcoming Foo Fighters disc, also chatting about his experience in the nascent DC “emo-core” scene. Anti-Flag spoke about their upcoming benefit EP and looked ahead to their next full-length. We had album updates from across the spectrum this week, with everyone from elder statesmen Social Distortion to popsters Fall Out Boy discussing their next release. It’s not just new music in the pipe, as reissues of classic material from both Fat Wreck Chords and punk pioneers the Sex Pistols were announced.

Our Video of the Week featured the Swellers performing music from their new record My Everest. We chatted with Josh Berwanger, formerly of the Anniversary and currently of the Only Children (interview). We also streamed new music from Cobra Skulls‘ new Red Scare full-length Sitting Army.

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Brooklyn NY’s The New Dress will be hitting the road with Portland OR’s Attica! Attica! later this month. Both bands will have copies of their upcoming full lengths for sale on tour before they hit stores. The New Dress is set to release Where Our Failures Are while Attica! Attica! will debut with Dead Skin/Dried Blood. The tour includes shows with Polar Bear Club, Nakatomi Plaza, Regulations, Movement, Jena Berlin, the Measure, Love Or Perish, Young Hearts and a Fire When Ready reunion show.

Attica! Attica! is the brainchild of Marathon and De La Hoya’s Aaron Scott. For this tour the band will include of members of the New Dress, Fire When Ready, and solo artist Chris Antal.
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The lineup for the second annual V-Squat Fest will take place in Ocala, FL from August 10th to the 12th. The event’s line up will include Suburban Legends, Patent Pending, Zolof the Rock and roll Destroyer, Jet Lag Gemini, Arm the Poor, Vincent Valentine!, Early Next Year, Borealis, BTH, Royal Anguish, the Dead Songwriters, Street Justice, Annabel Lee, Cara Del Gato, For Daylight, Along the Sidelines, Brotherhood of the Bomb, Wolfy Lonesome and the Devil’s Band, and Stevie D and the No Shows. The event is comprised of three shows at the Capital venue in Ocala along with acoustic performances at a local coffee emporium.

For more info check the event’s MySpace page.
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The Re-volts have announced plans to release a CD at the upcoming San Francisco Incredibly Strange Wrestling show on August 11th. This will be some of the first material available from the super group, which features Spike Slawson (Swingin Utters, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, Dead to Me) on bass and vocals, Darius Koski (Swinging Utters, Filthy Thieving Bastards) on guitar and vocals, Jack Dalrymple (Dead to Me, One Man Army) on guitar and Paul Scavuzzo (Bottles & Skulls) on drums. The record, for which there are currently few details announced, is also expected to be available through the band’s MySpace page.
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Perth, Australia’s the Leap Year have signed with the Hobbledehoy Record Co. Their debut full-length With A Little Push, A Pattern Appears will be released later this year, followed by tour dates in their home country. You can check out the song “Let it go let it go” via their MySpace page. The album was recorded at Bergerk! Recording Studios by Al Smith, mixed by Simon Struthers (Adam Said Galore/Mukaizake/Umpire) and mastered by Bob Weston (Shellac/Mission of Burma) at Chicago Mastering Service.

The Leap Year features members of Melbourne’s Minor Ache and Perth bands the Stickfigures adn the Tricks. The band references Chavez, …Trail of Dead and Swervedriver when describing their sound.
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Four Staten Island-based bands will reunite for a benefit show this August.

These include the the Cable Car Theory, who existed from 1997 to 2003, with albums released on Immigrant Sun Records and Defiance Records. Quantice Never Crashed formed in 2004, calling it quits in 2006 having released one album on The Death Scene. The Scarlet Letter released a number of records in their five year career, notably 2004’s How Is Your Heart?. Metal act Cattlepress issued a split 12″ with Agoraphobic Nosebleed and released a record on Hydra Head in 2000.

The bands will be joined by the Resolution at Staten Island’s Dock Street Bar and Grill on August 18th. All proceeds from the show will go to the family of a 4 year old girl diagnosed with bacterial meningitis.
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Las Vegas based Epitaph act the Higher will hit the road in August with Victory’s June. They’ll play a leg of the “Make Party Cool Tour” with the Graduate and later with My American Heart.

The Higher released On Fire in March. June is supporting 2005’s If You Speak Any Faster.
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Las Vegas based Epitaph act the Higher will hit the road in August with Victory’s June. They’ll play a leg of the “Make Party Cool Tour” with the Graduate and later with My American Heart.

The Higher released On Fire in March. June is supporting 2005’s If You Speak Any Faster.
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Municipal Waste has posted a previously unreleased song online entitled “Boner City.” You can check out the track on MySpace for the time-being.

The band will release their latest effort Art of Partying July 31.
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The Black Dahlia Murder has posted the track listing for their forthcoming Metal Blade release Nocturnal. .

Nocturnal, the band’s third full-length and follow-up to 2005’s Miasma, is slated for release September 18.
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Bay Area podcast Sound Scene Revolution recently posted a new episode, featuring an interview with Chicago’s Lawrence Arms. Among other topics the boys discuss, The Cornish Gay Men, rumors of Slapstick songs in their set list and their feelings on Coheed and Cambria. Additionally, a contest is being run, with Asian Man Records, in conjunction with the 11th Asian Manniversary . One winner will receive a copy of The Lawrence Arms Cocktails and Dreams, both Dan Potthast albums (Eyeballs and Sweets and Meats), the new re-release of Alkaline Trio’s Goddamnit and other cool Asian Man shwag. Rules and directions to enter are explained in the interview.

As per usual, Rich and the gang touch on music for about ten seconds before devolving into a string of terrible jokes and insinuations about various member’s sexual exploits with each other’s mothers. You can stream or download the episode here or subscribe via iTunes.
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Minus The Bear has posted the dates for their “Planet of Ice” Tour 2007. The tour is scheduled to kick off September 23 and will feature Subtle, the Helio Sequence, Ela and Tiny Vipers as support.

Tickets for the tour are currently available for presale.

The band will release their latest full-length Planet of Ice August 21.
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