Modern Life Is War has announced the bulk of their fall touring schedule as they support their Equal Vision debut, Midnight in America.

The hardcore band will share the stage with a variety of acts including Young Widows, Every Time I Die, The Explosion, The Bouncing Souls and more. Also in the works are upcoming trips with Ruiner and Hour of the Wolf, and appearances at The Fest, Fun Fun Fun Fest and a jaunt with Sick Of It All.

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Florida’s Fake Problems have two 7 inches on the way. Sabot Productions will release a single for the track “Oh Maria” with three bonus songs. Good Friends Records will release “Viking Wizard Eyes, Wizard Full of Lies” plus three new tracks. There are no set release dates for either record yet.

The band released How Far Our Bodies Go earlier this year via Sabot. They’ll hit the road in September with Nothington.
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After the sudden departure of both their violinist and bassist, Epitaph act I Am Ghost has finally come clean about the reasons for the defections.

Apparently much of the problems stemmed from the violinist and bassists’ deeply held beliefs. They increasingly had a problem with the horror imagery which dominated the band’s songs. Vocalist Steven Juliano commented in a recent interview:

I was raised a Catholic and I believe in God, but we’re not a Christian band, They were devoted Christians, to where they were telling people in interviews that we were a Christian band. It really became a problem when we were recording the record. Kerith would be sitting there with a highlighter, going over the lyrics to highlight things that she didn’t like. It was like the Nazis in World War II, like ‘I’m going to tell you what you can listen to, and what you can’t listen to.’

She didn’t even want me swearing on-stage, It’s not like I have any desire to get up there and be a potty mouth. But I remember one time I said ‘Fuck’ and she cried in the tour van for a half-hour afterwards.

You can find the rest of the interview via straight.com.

The band is currently gearing up to support Lovers’ Requiem on an upcoming tour with Strung Out.
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Here’s some new stuff for you to chew on.

• Minus the Bear‘s hotly anticipated LP3, Planet of Ice
• Will the Dismemberment Plan‘s former frontman Travis Morrison, this time with his Hellfighters, score higher than a 0.0 with their new album, All Y’All? Well, considering our rating system is incapable of zeros, he sort of has to.
• Rage Against the Machine rage in Wisconsin
• Slightly Stoopid have been diagnosed with Chroncitis
• Several more over at the Punknews Review page

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Heavy Heavy Low Low have announced a headlining tour set to kick off in November. For the tour, the band will be bringing along new labelmates Foxy Shazam as well as Tera Melos and Dance Gavin Dance.

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With Millencolin set to hit the studio in November, Nikola Sarcevic has booked a few days before recording begins. The frontman will be touring Europe with Jonas Goldbaum and continuing to support his sophomore solo album, Roll Roll and Flee.

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Montreal’s Les Breastfeeders are hitting the road this fall to support their recent full length Les Matins de Grands Soirs. The francophone act will bring their mix of garage punk, surf and yé-yé to cities across Canada and the US.
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Columbia, South Carolina four piece Baumer has posted the new song “In Your Stead” via their PureVolume site.

Portland, Maine’s Reunion has posted the song “First Things First” from their upcoming self-titled EP. The song was recorded in Amherst, Massachusetts at Dead Air Studios. The release is due out in October on Flight Path Records.

Head Above Water, which features former members of Champion, has posted a rough mix of a recent demo online at their website.
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