Recent Deep Elm signing Track a Tiger has embarked on a short UK tour.

The band is out in support of We Moved Like Ghosts, released in limited quantities earlier this year.
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Label-free act Thrice have posted a trailer in anticipation of their upcoming full length. The record is titled The Alchemy Index and follows the band’s final Island Records release, Vheissu.

The band is “close” to finding a new label, and has already wrapped up mastering and artwork for the album. Like their previous full length, the artwork will be handled by Dave ” A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” Eggers.

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All That Remains will embark on a week-long, mostly Canadian tour this September along with labelmates the Acacia Strain, as well as the End and Too Pure to Die.

The headliners are supporting 2006’s The Fall of Ideals, while the Acacia Strain last released The Dead Walk the same year. The End is responsible for this year’s Elementary (Relapse), and Too Pure to Die recently released Confidence and Consequence (Sumerian).
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Everyone’s favorite Strung Out/ Anberlin fans, the Fully Down have posted the first demo featuring Justin Camarena as their new vocalist. The Detroit, MI native replaces singer Gab Bouchard, who moved on from the band for personal reasons. The band has also parted ways with Fearless Records, explaining:

We want to inform all of you that us and Fearless Records have decided to part ways. Over the past two years they have done everything you could have ever expected from a record label, and for that we must thank them. So to Bob, Graham, Todd and all the Fearless staff past/present, thank you for the all the opportunities you’ve presented to us, and for believing our band.

You can check out “Never Again” on their myspace page.

The band released Don’t Get Lost in a Moment in 2005 via Fearless Records.
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Garage rockers the Hives recently spoke to Billboard about their long-awaited follow-up to 2004’s Tyrannosaurus Hives. The band is recording The Black and White Album in Oxford, Mississippi., with producer Dennis Herring (Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello).

The band added:

This new album has been recorded all over the world because we thought it was time to have other people involved besides ourselves and our closest friends.

At times it has felt like we are prisoners to our own creativity and that it is taking a long time. At this time we have a lot of songs. In the past we only had what was on each album. We ask you to bear with us as we take the time to wrestle this onto an album.

Besides Herring, the band worked with Pharrell Williams in Miami, Jacknife Lee in London and in Sweden with Bob Hund member Tomas Oberg. Next month, they will hit the road with Maroon 5 for a two month US tour.
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Helmet have posted their contribution to the Tatua soundtrack.

You can check out “Revenge Destroys Everything” on the band’s myspace page.

Later this month, the band will be hitting the road with Burning Brides. They released Monochrome last year.
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Today we bring you the exclusive stream of The Riot Before‘s upcoming EP, So Long, The Lighthouse. The EP will be available via (donation-recommended) free digital download on Quote Unquote Records, and 7″ from Fall Of The West Records. The band will also be selling a limited CD of the EP on their upcominmg tour, with dates to be announced shortly.

You can listen to the So Long, The Lighthouse EP in its entirety over at The Riot Before Punknews profile.
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Pitchfork has produced a fairly thorough interview with hardcore legends, Bad Brains. Unlike some other recent interviews with the band, the interviewer digs into some of the more controversial aspects of the band’s history including the confrontation with the Big Boys that led to the charges of homophobia that dog them to this day. As Daryl Jennifer remembers it:

We were in Texas, staying at this band’s house called the Big Boys, and the Big Boys happened to be gay. Now we were budding Rastafarians, trying to find our way, some black kids from Washington, D.C. trying to seek out ourselves, spiritually. But we were young; we were all in our twenties. The Big Boys, they’re thinking, in a frat boy-ish sort of way, that that’s funny, like, “Let’s tease them or do something to see what type of reactions we could get out of it because they’re probably homophobic.”

Daryl also talks about the increasingly stark racial divide in punk and hardcore:

I don’t endorse shit like Afro-Punk or Black Rock Coalition; they know that I never really was into nothing like that because I’m into the youth, all kids, everybody. I don’t discriminate. When the Beastie Boys came down and saw four black dudes from D.C. shredding this punk, and then when they see Cool C or the early rap days [and] they say they want to rap: “If the Bad Brains played punk, I can rap.

You can check out the interview here.

The band released Build a Nation this year.
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Sick Of It All have announced plans to tour the US in October following a stint overseas in Europe. When the band comes stateside, they will be holdin’ it down with fellow NYHC act Madball. Dates should be announced shortly.

Additionally, the band recently spent some time at the Century Media headquarters in Germany. The group’s guitarist Pete Koller took the opportunity to record a play-along for the song “Uprising Nation”, taken from the band’s latest album, Death to Tyrants.
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Fat Wreck Chords has posted the artwork for the long-awaited new full length from American Steel. The record is titled Destroy Their Future and is due out October 02, 2007. It is the follow-up to Jagged Thoughts which was released in 2001.

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In their latest installment of a media campaign with MTV, teen-hearthrobs Panic! At the Disco have provided some additional information on the status of their upcoming sophmore album. Changing directions, once again, the band is attempting to simplify their new songs, which is in contrast to some prior material the band had been performining at summer festivals. Says bassist Jon Walker:

Things are pretty good for us right now, and we’re pretty happy, and I think that is gonna come out more in these songs. We spent the past year and a half playing a bunch of songs that have weird melodies and weirder phrasings, [and] long words that [frontman] Brendon [Urie] still can’t pronounce all that well. We’re just trying to write songs that we have fun playing.

This news follows announced plans to write/record in a cabin in the mountains of Nevada, a plea to enlist producer Dr. Dre, and the idea to theme the record as a “modern love story”. A release date has not been announced for the band’s follow-up to 2005’s A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out.
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Blaqk Audio, the electronic sideproject of AFI‘s Davey Havok and Jade Puget have announced some tour dates in support of their full length debut.

The duo will release their debut full length CexCells on August 07, 2007 via Interscope Records. The 12 track album was mixed by Dave Bascombe, who fittingly worked several synth-appreciative new wave acts like Depeche Mode and Tears For Fears.

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AFI released Decemberunderground last year.
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