In our continuing weekly video countdown to this year’s Fest 6, we bring you a performance from another band making the trip to Gainesville, FL this year in late October.

At last year’s event, the windy city’s favorite bastard sons, The Lawrence Arms, played a blistering set for an extremely raucous crowd.
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After canceling their fall 2007, The Cure have unveiled plans for a 2008 tour to follow the release of their recently announced double album.

The Cure released their self-titled The Cure, their twelfth album, in 2004.

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Richmond, VA melodic hardcore outfit Landmines have posted four new recordings online. The band just wrapped up a studio session with acclaimed producer Brian McTernan (Hot Water Music, Strike Anywhere) at Salad Days Studios. A label for the upcoming release has yet-to-be announced.

You can check out the new songs by visiting the band’s MySpace page.
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A Wilhelm Scream has released the artwork for their next full length and follow up to 2005’s Ruiner. The new record will be titled Career Suicide and will hit stores on October 09, 2007 via Nitro Records.

The 13 track, roughly half hour full length was recorded by Bill Stevenson, Jason Livermore and Andrew Berlin at Colorado’s Blasting Room studio.
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The final list of dates has been announced for the upcoming tour featuring Paramore, The Starting Line, Set Your Goals and The Almost (Underoath).

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Black President, the quintet featuring Greg Hetson of Bad Religion, Jason Christopher, Wade Youman (Unwritten Law), Christian Black (Dee Dee Ramone) and Charlie Paulson (Goldfinger), have announced some tour dates for the end of this month.

Although Hetson is currently involved in touring with Bad Religion, the band is currently in the process of writing and recording their long-awaited debut album that is expected to be released in late 2007/early 2008.

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Hot Hot Heat, Bedouin Soundclash and De Nova Dahl have announced a US tour together set to kick off later this month.

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With the release of their hits package All The Best Songs on July 10, 2007, No Use For A Name has posted another update on the progress towards their next record. Work officially began in July on the record which will follow their last studio record, Keep Them Confused, in 2005.

The band noted:

We just finsihed practicing for the new record. We will practice some more in the next month or so. I have a bunch of songs now but I would still like to write a couple more. Everything is coming together well , just ironing out some kinks, getting the right rythyms down etc…I will blog more an more as we get closer to studio time. Then I will try to blog every day or so from the studio. Keeping checking back for record updates and blogs as we get closer and closer….talk to you soon, Tony

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Okay, some good news, and some better news. The good news: Attica! Attica!, the brainchild of former Marathon frontman Aaron Scott, just released his/their debut, Dead Skin / Dried Blood, on Red Leader Records.

The better news: We’re streaming the entire thing on Attica! Attica!’s Punknews.org Profile Page.
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The Matches have announced a UK tour in continued support of their 2006 full length, Decomposer. The band is currently writing the follow up which is expected sometime next year.

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CBC Radio 3 has broken the news on two high profile additions to Toronto based Arts & Crafts, the indie label co-founded by Broken Social Scene‘s Kevin Drew and Virgin Records alum Jeffrey Remedios.

It was first announced that the label has snatched up Montreal’s the Stills, who were formerly signed to Vice Records. That band’s sophomore album Without Feathers will be recorded in Montreal soon with an expected release date of Spring of 2008.

The label also looks to be the new home of Toronto-via-Guelph post-punk act the Constantines. There’s no word yet if this merely takes over for the previous Canada-only deal they had with the now defunct Three Gut Records, or if this marks a departure with their current US label Sub Pop. A statement is expected next week. The band announced the signing on stage this past weekend at the Virgin Fest in Toronto. The Cons are planning to follow up 2005’s Tournament of Hearts sometime soon.
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Red Scare has posted an update on some of their upcoming releases. First, Smoke Or Fire‘s recently announced collection will not be happening. This is due to “circumstances outside of our control and the band’s control. ”

Teenage Bottlerocket has entered the Blasting Room to begin tracking drums for their next full length. The record is tentatively titled Warning Device and the label is aiming for a January 8th, 2008 release.

The Copyrights have entered Sonic Iguana studios to work on their sophomore full length for Red Scare. They released Make Sound this year and the new record is tentatively titled Learn the Hard Way and expected on January 29th.
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