Sex Pistols seem to be celebrating their 30th anniversary by keeping themselves in the press this week. Frontman John Lyndon recently ripped into The Police regarding their recent reunion performance noting:

That really is a reformation isn’t it? But honestly that’s like soggy old dead carcasses. You know listening to Stink try to squeak through ‘Roxanne’ one more time that’s not fun, It’s like letting air out of a balloon.

To coincide with the anniversary, the band will also be reissuing several singles:Anarchy in the UK on October 01, 2007, God Save the Queen on October 08, 2007, Pretty Vacant on October 15, 2007 and Holidays in the Sun on October 22, 2007. The series will wrap up with a reissue of the entirety of Never Mind the Bollocks on October 29, 2007
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Brett Powell from The Human Abstract recently sat down for an interview with Adam from TheEndlessFeed.com to discuss everything from their recent tour with Misery Signals to their plans for their next release. An excerpt from the chat follows:

The second we get home we start working on the album. We’re going to work on the album all fall, and probably be in the studio in January or February. Then probably start touring as soon as we’re done.

It’s going to be completely different than Nocturne, in many ways, a lot more classical, probably a lot more string orchestration with stuff you would see in a symphony.

Read the entire interview here
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MDC have announced a fall tour in the United States. The long-running punk band will be joined by Citizen Fish on the tour which kicks off on Halloween and wraps up at the end of November.
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Alternative Press is currently streaming the audio portion of Made In N.Y.C., the live CD/DVD from the Casualties out September 25, 2007 on SideOneDummy.

You can stream the 22-track record here.
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Alternative Press is currently streaming the audio portion of Made In N.Y.C., the live CD/DVD from the Casualties out September 25, 2007 on SideOneDummy.

You can stream the 22-track record here.
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Business week has put together a detailed profile of our friend and philanthropist, Louis Posen. Posen’s imprint, SubCity recently celebrated the raising of more than $1,000,000 for charity, The label formed in 1993 to release records from 88 Fingers Louie and Guttermouth but has gone on to form a successful charity arm (Subcity Records) and a series of high profile tours (Take Action!).

Importantly, the label promises 5% of gross revenue to charity, not the after-cost revenue, meaning that the label will present 5% of the wholesale sticker price to charity — not a number that has been lowered by accounting tricks.

As we mentioned previously, all this happened as founder Louis Posen was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare disease in which the retina of the eye progressively degenerates.

You can check out the story here.
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With their long-awaited new full length set to drop, Streetlight Manifesto has announced some tour dates this fall prior to their December trip to Australia with Less Than Jake and Reel Big Fish.

The new record is titled Somewhere In The Between and is due out November 13, 2007. It is the follow-up to Keasbey Nights which was released in 2006.

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Bridge and Tunnel have posted a blog on MySpace with the plans for their forthcoming first full-length. The band are currently finishing work on the songs and will enter the Funeral Home studio in Louisville, KY with former Elliott drummer Kevin Ratterman (Gracer, VHS or Beta, the Rise) the first week of February.

The band is also promising to post new demos on their MySpace soon.

The record will presumably be released in the new year by No Idea, who issued their demo onto colored vinyl earlier this year.
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Engineer and the Minor Times will head out on a U.S. tour together next month.

Both bands are supporting recently released sophomore full-lengths: Engineer with The Dregs (Blackmarket Activities) and the Minor Times with Summer of Wolves (Prosthetic).
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Gothenburg, Sweden’s Hathor has posted “Poison” and “Gun Me Down” on their MySpace page. The songs come from their recently released second full-length, I Need This as Much as a Hole in My Head.

High City Records has set a September 18th release date for the digital release of the Wallace Virgil‘s debut, Strung Through de Gaulle. You can check out two new tracks on High City’s MySpace page.

Bright Light Fever has been dropped by Stolen Transmission/Island Records, and has consequently posted three new demos — “Monarch,” “Te Voy a Matar” and “Welcome to Your Doom” — on their MySpace page.
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Next week Propagandhi will bring a little of that Winnipeg charm to South America. Confirmed dates for the tour are now online The only previously hinted at show that wasn’t able to be pulled together was the date in Colombia.

The band is supporting their 2005 full length Potemkin City Limits.
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A benefit show at Philadelphia’s Starlight Ballroom on October 28th for the family of photographer and former Damage vocalist Robby Redcheeks has been announced. Promoter Joe Hardcore commented:

The benefit show was meant to be a special occasion where someone who is loved and cherished has suffered a tragedy or loss that alone he couldn’t recover from. Robby Redcheeks lost his mother to cancer a week after This Is Hardcore Fest this summer. He called me when he was at Sound And Fury to tell me he isn’t moving to California because she is sick and has been diagnosed with Leukemia. For most of us, the time between those two fests is spent on tour, working hard and always in anxious anticipation from one coast and great fest to another. To think that those few short weeks would be her last was inconceivable.

I am happy to be able to be one of the guys Robby can call on for help and to be able to give it to him. We will be holding a show in Philadelphia, a city that would not have a scene like we do today without the work he put into it 12 years ago.

The show will feature a reunion performance by Floorpunch as well as sets by Blacklisted, Cold World, Have Heart, Bitter End and Let Down. You can find more on the show and the cause at Deathwish.

Floorpunch released a compilation and two albums on Equal Vision prior to calling it quits: 1997’s Twin Killing, 2000’s Breed the Killers and 2003’s Fast Times at the Jersey Shore, respectively.
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The Modern Machines‘ status has been has been unclear since the three-piece lost their drummer and relocated from Milwaukee to New York. While the band’s future is still “not at all certain” the group has enlisted a new drummer, one Mikey “Ben” Yannich, and they’re planning to play some shows soon. This includes planned local gigs in the NYC area and a tour down the eastern seaboard to the Fest in Gainesville. Dates should be announced soon.

The band’s most recent full length was 2006’s ’Take It, Somebody!’, which arrived via Dirtnap.
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