The Ratchets are taking the rest of the year off. The band posted:

Hello all from Ratchet-City. It’s with much dragging of the feet that we must say that The Ratchets are taking a hiatus for the rest of 2007 effective midnight on Monday August 27, 2007. What comes of us in 2008 is up to the maker of the rocknroll universe, and in the meantime we ask you to join us in prayer that our creator may have enough cigarettes, pomade, and tattoo ink to keep happy. With a little bit of luck we’ll be back around again with some new songs of rebellion, because what it comes down to is that we like playing in a band with one other. We would like to thank everyone who’s rocked out with us, kicked it, passed the dutchie, and put money down for us, it’s been appreciated. We’d also like to thank the bands we were lucky, and sometimes not so lucky, to share the stage with and also the venues that took us in. So while we say ta ta for now we’ve got three upcoming shows with The Low Budgets you won’t want to miss this weekend:

The New Jersey act will perform this Friday in Philly, Saturday in Baltimore and Sunday in Brooklyn with the Low Budgets. They’ve been supporting 2006’s Glory Bound. The group made waves recently by enlisting Scott Golley of the influential Lifetime as their new drummer.
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So They Say has posted a new song on MySpace entitled “These Nights Are Long” from their forthcoming release Life In Surveillance. The new album was produced by Matt Hyde (No Doubt, Sum-41, Hatebreed) and hits stores October 9th.

The band is hitting the road this September with Atreyu, Haste The Day and It Dies Today.
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NOFX has fleshed out the lineup and dates for their upcoming visit to Israel. The band will be making its first ever appearance in the country and will be supported by our friends in Useless ID as well as Man Alive, Kill the Drive and a band that is called – I’m not kidding – The Testicles.

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Century Media Records has signed Europe’s the Bones. The band will release their fourth full-length, Burnout Boulevard October 22. The album was produced by the band’s lead guitarist Marcus Petersson and was recorded at MWC Studio in Karlskrona, Sweden.

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Could you turn down a whopping $75 million for to reunite your influential band? Well, whether for love or money, Morrissey has reportedly done just that. Morrissey’s publicist has confirmed the artist refused a $75 million offer to tour under the Smiths name in 2008 and/or 2009, with the only mandate being that Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr would be part of the band. The Smiths also declined a multi-million dollar offer to perform in recent years at the Coachella Valley
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Long running Washington ska stalwarts The Pietasters have released their new record All Day and we’re proud to bring you a full album stream of the new record. The album follows up 2002’s Fueled By Ramen released Turbo and launches the band’s new label Indication Records. The record’s now available from the label’s webstore with an autographed posted and pin thrown in for good measure.

You can head to the band’s Punknews.org Profile to stream all 14 new tracks.

Last week the band taped an interview and performance for Fair Game with Faith Salie on PRI public radio. A podcast featuring the in-studio performance is now available. The band will be musical guests on Phoenix-area television program Good Morning Arizona! on the morning of September 7th as well.

Coming up the band will play a CD release show in Chapel Hill with The Slackers this coming Friday, the Knoxville Ska Weekend on Saturday, and the International Ska Circus in Las Vegas on Sept 8th.
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The Thermals have announced a headlining tour in support of their breakthrough release, The Body, The Blood, The Machine. The tour kicks off October 16th in Vanouver and wraps up on November 3rd in Washington DC.

We spoke with the band earlier this year.

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Genghis Tron have announced plans to enter God City Studios next week to begin recording their Relapse debut and follow-up to Dead Mountain Mouth. The album is expected in early 2008.

The band added:

Time does NOT fly when you’re parked in front of a computer for 8 months making an epic, synth-driven, psychedelic dirge about the end of all time. That’s why we’re elated to get the fuck out of West Philly and finally record the album that has nearly driven us insane on more than thirty-five occasions…each. It’s going to be a beautiful thing once it’s done and we can’t wait for everyone to share in our paralyzing fear of the future!

The first demo track from the upcoming album is currently available on their myspace page.
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Equal Vision has announced the signing of The Color Fred. The group is a side project from former Breaking Pangaea and current Taking Back Sunday guitarist Fred Mascherino.

Mascherino’s previous band released their Phoenix EP through Equal Vision in May of 2003. Fred chose to work with producer Lou Giordano (Sunny Day Real Estate, The Lemonheads) to record Bend To Break, the band’s debut for the label, which is set for release October 30.

The first song from the band, “If I Surrender” is available on their myspace page.
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Jesu has announced a headlining tour set to kick off next month in the United States. The bill will also include Torche, Fog and for a few dates, Sunn0)) and Eluvium.

The band continues to support their latest full length, Conqueror, as well as their recent split with Eluvium and the Sun Down / Sun Rise EP.

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One King Down has resurfaced with two new demos. The band originally split up in 2001 shortly after releasing the Gravity Wins Again EP.

The demos feature the band’s on-again-off-again vocalist Rob Fusco, who went on to join Most Precious Blood. While the demos are previously unreleased, they are dated 2006 so there is no word on whether more recordings are forthcoming.

You can check out “Fuel” and “Professional Insomniac” on their myspace page.
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New Found Glory has posted a new trailer for their upcoming, star-studded movie cover compilation. The record is titled From The Screen To Your Stereo, Part 2 and is due out September 18, 2007.

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