Colorado’s Grace Gale have posted two new tracks to their MySpace page. Head there to check out the unmastered tracks, which are set to arrive on the band’s upcoming 2008 release Stronger Faster Science.

Montreal’s The Discord of a Forgotten Sketch are getting set to play the entire upcoming Exclaim Aggressive Tendencies Tour 2007 across Canada with the the Locust, Despised Icon and Child Abuse. The band is working on a new EP to be released in early November on New Romance For Kids Records, described as “lounge jazz meets Black Flag’s Process of Weeding Out meets Albert Ayler’s Spiritual Unity.” You can preview the band’s music over at MySpace.

Warsaw, Indiana hardcore act AXP have unveiled the new song “Hoosier Boys” via MySpace. The song appears on the band’s upcoming full length for Harvest Earth Records, titled Dead Ends & Dead Friends. It’s due on September 25th.
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We managed to get a hold of Less Than Jake‘s touring schedule for the remainder of the year. Besides their upcoming full-album shows in the UK, the veteran ska/punk act will be headed to Japan for a series of dates.

Finally, at the end of the year, they will meet up with previous tourmates Streetlight Manifesto and Reel Big Fish for an exciting tour of Australia.

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Circa Survive recently dropped by AOL for a performance on that website’s Sessions series. The band earned the spot through 500,000 fans who voted for the appearance. The band performed Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” and two originals, “Kicking Your Crosses Down” off of On Letting Go, and “In Fear and Faith” from Juturna.

You can check it out here.
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Dates have been announced for the first MySpace tour. The bill will feature Hellogoodbye, Say Anything and Polysics.

The entire proceedings is being sponsored by “Extreme Style” by VO5, which had this amusing explanation for their participation:

Extreme Style by VO5 is all about individuality and self-expression, making MySpace a great partner and the MySpace Music Tour an ideal venue. Music and style are the main vehicles for self-expression, and we’re helping provide both with amazing music and styling stations for men and women to achieve their personal looks

Extreme!

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Protest the Hero have announced the release of their next full length. The record is titled Fortress and is due out November 13, 2007. It is the follow-up to Kezia which was released in 2005.

The 10-song set was produced by Julius “Juice” Butty and recorded at Silo Studios in Hamilton, Ontario. Singer Rody Walker offered this:

This album is nothing to be intellectualized. All talk of wonder, pathos and optimism (blindfolded) aside (hink). I feel it’s a very natural progression for us. A natural progression into further obscurity. I am of the belief a lot of the people who work for us were hoping for a stab at a more commercially viable album, however we wrote what we wanted without linear boundaries and created something less commercial than ever. Some fans of the band will hate it. And some people who hate the band will love it. All others can rot.

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The Low Budgets (ex-Dead Milkmen) recently worked on a short film titled The Low Budgets and the Cursed Organ. The film was written and directed by Roger Masciantonio (Cold Hearts) and shot on location in Philadelphia PA. The film does contain some naughty language, so if you work in the kind of place that doesn’t like that, you may want to save it for later.

The band’s album is currently streaming on their Punknews.org Profile well.

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