The Lawrence Arms have announced some dates for their 8th Annual Unbelievable Self-Indulgence Fest tour with Sundowner, the Falcon and American Steel. The band has dates scheduled from mid October until mid November so far, including a stop at The Fest in Gainesville, Florida. Now before you throw a fit that this tour isn’t coming to your town, the band has promised “many more” dates to be announced.

Tour marks the first time that Lawrence Arms side projects The Falcon and Sundowner will tour the country, as well as the touring return of East Bay punks American Steel. The headliners have promised to break out the occasional oldie from their past bands like Slapstick and the Broadways as well.
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Attack in Black have announced western Canadian tour dates in late September and early October supporting celebrated Boise, Idaho based indie rock act Built To Spill.

The band is supporting their new Dine Alone released full length Marriage. The’ll play two CD release shows for the record in St. Catharines, Ontario in the immediate future. Tonight the band will appear alongside Raising The Fawn and Jon-Rae and the River, while tomorrow evening they’ll host fellow Welland punk act Ceremonial Snips and Barn Burner.
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Dayton, OH’s The Story Changes have launched a full stream of their new album the Way of the Dinosaur via their PureVolume site. The album was produced by Jamie Woolford (the Stereo, Let Go, Man Alive, the Format) and is available now via Future Destination Records.

The band was recently confirmed as a contributor to the upcoming Seaweed tribute album on Engineer Records.
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Kelowna BC’s Cry of the Afflicted has posted another song from their upcoming Solid State debut. You can check out “A Scar Filled Sky” along with two other tracks via the band’s MySpace page. The group’s new record The Unveiling hits stores in Canada and the US on August 14th.

Buffalo, NY’s Unwelcome Guests have posted two new tracks online via MySpace. “Stumbling Onto The Truth” will be featured on an upcoming split 7″ with Annie Saunders of This Is My Fist, entitled Colonel Mustard Vs. Bluey and will be released on Art of The Underground. “I Wanna Get Drunk Tonight” will also see the light of day in vinyl form on a split with Orphan Choir.

Rochester, NY hardcore band Heavy Hearted, which features ex and current members of Buried Alive, Roses are Read and Polar Bear Club, have posted a new song off there upcoming six song EP. You can check out “Before The Storm” at MySpace. It was recorded at Red Booth Studios in Medina NY and mixed by Scott Crouse of Earth Crisis.
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It’s Sunday August 12th, 2007. Does anyone find it entirely surreal that we’re squabbling over ownership of the the North Pole now? Particularly since it involves rushing to plant flags like it’s the 1500s? If we’re going to be fighting the Battle of Hoth we could at least get some walkers or tauntauns or something…

The people must have something good to read on a Sunday

Given the amount of acclaim they’ve garnered it seemed strange to have Thrice unsigned, and they didn’t remain that way for long. This week we learned that the band signed to Vagrant Records and we saw a teaser video for their upcoming album. Despite what Big D and the Kids Table revealed, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are denying that they’ve planning a series of reunion shows. We’re hoping that’s a lie of course. Bad Brains remain in the media following the release of their new album, tackling the heavy issues of homophobia and race in a recent interview. A debate over censorship arose this week as alt rock act Pearl Jam had lyrics cut from a corporately sponsored webcast.

A ton of new media arrived this week including the new single “The Running Free” from Coheed & Cambria, the video for “Thrash Unreal” from Against Me!, Plus 44‘s pro skater directed video for “155”, Chiodos‘ new song “Is It Progression If A Cannibal Uses A Fork?”, new music from Mustard Plug in the form of “Hit Me Hit Me”, and a streaming full length from Blaqk Audio. Speaking of the AFI side project, Blaqk Audio will take their odd spelling and electro beats on the road in September. Upcoming tours will see Propagandhi visit South America, NOFX, Mad Caddies and the Loves Ones tour Europe and Dropkick Murphys in the US with the Horrorpops. We had news on upcoming releases from A Wilhelm Scream. They’re preparing to release Career Suicide on Oct 9th. Avenged Sevenfold announced details on their new album while Panic! at the Disco mused about their next. Finally that oft delayed reissue of Operation Ivy‘s classic Energy looks set for November.

Our Video of the Week features the second segment of our “On The Road with the Gaslight Anthem” feature. We also had the pleasure of chatting with Casey Royer of long running punk act D.I. (interview). The third edition of Vinyl File arrived, looking at a rare and much sought after Judge 12″ and checking out the upcoming releases. We also streamed new music from Asian Man band The Hot Toddies, The Riot Before‘s upcoming EP, the return full length from 3rd wave ska act Buck-O-Nine, and three songs from celebrated hardcore band Modern Life Is War.

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