Modern Life Is War has announced another new block of dates. The first leg will feature Ruiner and the second will include Hour of the Wolf. The dates come after a previously announced plan which will include shows with the Bouncing Souls, Trash Talk, Trap Them and many more.

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Me First and The Gimme Gimmes have detailed their upcoming seven inch. The record is titled Dolly and is due out October 16, 2007. It is the first new release from the band since Love Their Country which was released in 2006.

As this single will be the first in the “Square Dance” series, the vinyl itself will actually be cut into a square instead of the traditional, uhm, circle shape. There will be 1000 pressed and they will be available only through Fat Mailorder.

As expected, the disc will include two covers, “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You,” both by Dolly Parton. The former appeared on Love Their Country and the latter is previously unreleased. It also has a weird historical context in that in 2002, the Iraqi government held a referendum asking whether Saddam Hussein should remain as president. Pro-Hussein advertising before the election featured the song. That isn’t in the press release, but we thought you should know.

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Thrice has fleshed out their upcoming touring plans in support of their upcoming Vagrant debut, many dates of which will feature Brand New and mewithoutYou. The record is titled The Alchemy Index: Volumes 1 & 2 and is due out October 16, 2007. The band’s previous full length, Vheissu, was their last for major Island Records.

In addition, the band continues to talk about their album online, recently discussing the record – or set of records – with AOL Spinner noting, “It’s not a very guitar-driven record, which is what we came up doing and what we’re used to.””

The band also released the latest in their series of webisodes yesterday.

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Bayside has unveiled the routing for the upcoming Victory Records tour which will also include support from June, A Day To Remember, Driver Side Impact and The Sleeping.

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Motion City Soundtrack has launched a full album stream of their new full length through MTV’s Leak. The record is titled Even If It Kills Me and is due out September 18, 2007. It is the follow-up to Commit This To Memory which was released in 2005.

You can stream it here
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New Found Glory have launched a full album stream of their new covers compilation. The record is titled From The Screen To Your Stereo, Part 2 and is due out September 18, 2007. It is the follow-up to Coming Home as well as the “sequel” to From the Screen to Your Stereo which dropped in 2000.

You can check it out on their myspace page.
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Oh hey. Yes, that’s a midnight update you received earlier today, you’re welcome. I’ll do my best to get back up to speed on them. And thanks for your response regarding the reviews problem — we’re a little more stocked now, and it’s your contributions that help me attempt to keep up the reviews section with some sort of semblance of schedule.

• The former co-frontman of everyone’s favorite beard rock heroes unleashes his proper studio debut, Feast or Famine
• More ska! The Pietasters have a new album entitled All Day
• Who put this indie pop on my major label? Eisley did for LP2, Combinations
• Zombie Apocalyse and Issue Oriented Podcast mouthpiece Ronen Kauffman has a new book on his experiences in the NJ punk/hardcore scene: New Jersey, New Brunswick, Goodbye…
• More at the reviews page

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Against Me! will be hosting a special benefit for Harvest of Hope in Chicago during their upcoming tour. The venue is promising an acoustic performance and the openers, including Sage Francis, Cobra Skulls and World/Inferno Friendship Society will also be performing.

According to the Harvest of Hope website, the charity provides migrant farmworkers and their families with emergency aid, gives grants to families, provides financial aid to migrant students attending college and works with other agencies that benefit migrant workers. This is presumably not the same charity as the Christian missionary, also called Harvest of Hope.

Tickets will go on-sale tomorrow afternoon.
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The Academy Is… has posted the latest video from their full length, Santi.

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Though the band has been fairly quiet in terms of providing information about their upcoming release, The Syndicate recently got a hold of a few of the new tracks from Thursday‘s Kill the House Lights – Live and Unreleased which is due out October 30, 2007.

The blog mentions three new songs, “Ladies and Gentlemen: My Brother, the Failure,” “Dead Songs” and “Voices on a String” and much of the commentary talks about the band’s heavy riffs as well as drawing comparisons to songs like “Jet Black New Year,” “Counting…,” and even a mention of Every Time I Die.

You can check out the details here.
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Canadian punk staple D.O.A. have announced an upcoming DVD titled Smash the State. Included will be raw footage shot at four shows in the San Francisco/Bay Area and the Canada Day Anarchist Picnic in Vancouver.

Featuring the band’s original lineup of Joe Shithead Keithley, Chuck Biscuits, Randy Rampage and Dave Gregg, the DVD includes 21 tracks, interviews, newscasts, footage of the day anarcho punks took over Vancouver’s Stanley Park on July 1st, 1978 and guest appearances by Keith Morris (Circle Jerks), Dirk Dirksen (Mabuhay Gardens/San Francisco punk guru), JB Shayne (legendary Vancouver DJ) and Zippy Pinhead (Los Popularos, The Dils).

Joe Shithead commented on the compilation:

I really wanted people to see the original version of D.O.A. performing. You know, the completely raw band that went out and took on the world. So I gathered together some of the best footage I could find and came up with Smash the State. Most of the footage is taken from shows in San Francisco and the East Bay. This makes a lot of sense, as San Francisco became D.O.A.’s home away from home in the late seventies and into the eighties.

The DVD will be released September 25th, 2007 via Joe Shithead’s Sudden Death Records. There will be a release show Thursday, September 27th at The Plaza Club in Vancouver, where the band will perform along with special guests The Jolts.

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One Dead Three Wounded have called it a day. The band made the announcement:

So we’ve decided that it’s our time to move onto other things. We leave this behind with no regrets or bitterness. ODTW came together with the intention of writing songs and words that meant something to us. We’ll be playing a few last shows as a way of putting this chapter of our lives to rest. We hope to see you there. We can’t thank you all enough for the years of love and support.

The band released Moving Units and reissued their debut Paint the Town last year.
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