Say Anything has announced the release of their next full length. It will be titled In Defense of the Genre and is due out October 23, 2007.

The first single from the album is “Baby Girl, I’m a Blur.” The record was produced and mixed by Brad Wood (Smashing Pumpkins, Liz Phair, mewithoutyou), according to the release, it “is a double disc concept album.

The songs recount Max’s experience of being consumed by love, having a mental breakdown, pursuing a career while having your heart crushed, picking up the pieces and becoming a better man for it.”
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Dillinger Escape Plan have released the details for their upcoming new album. The record is titled Ire Works and is due out November 13, 2007. It is the follow-up to Miss Machine which was released in 2004.

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Crime In Stereo has posted the track listing for their October 23 release Is Dead.

The band also recently released a song from the album entitled “But You Are Vast.”

The band’s last proper full-length was 2006’s The Troubled Stateside.
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Angels and Airwaves recently debuted another new song on the BBC Radio 1. The track, “Secret Crowds” comes from I-Empire which is due out October 23, 2007

Sadly, the Beeb is in cahoots with RealPlayer and so that is the only way to check out the song right now (legitimately). If you’ve got the player installed, visit this page
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With their next record not even on the street yet, Dashboard Confessional has apparently written 14 new songs for the follow up. According to a recent Billboard interview, Chris Carraba: ““there’s a moodiness to these songs, not necessarily a somber thing, but there’s a heaviness to these songs.”

He also discusses the band’s new record, saying:

“It’s the ‘just a kid and a guitar kind of thing’ — maybe I’m not a kid anymore, but I can still get to that place when I pick up an acoustic guitar and it’s unadorned,. It’s the most personal record I’ve written in many years,

The new record is titled The Shade of Poison Trees and is due out October 02, 2007
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Goth/punk outfit Schoolyard Heroes have posted the entirety of their new album, Abominations, which is due out September 18, 2007. The band recently confirmed new tour dates with the Birthday Massacre and Sum 41.

You can check out the album right here.

The band has also posted the new video for “Plastic Surgery Hall of Fame.”
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I saw a van today painted with an American flag across its side and “KILL BIN LADEN” in block form. We’ll try and be more tactful with our 9/11 remembrance and just send our best to the families of the victims.

A lot of new releases arrived today as well, so we did our best to cover some.

• Like last week we showcase another long-awaited effort from some ska-punk vets: Mustard Plug and their new album, In Black and White
• Prolific cabaret punk collective World/Inferno Friendship Society is apparently Addicted to Bad Ideas
• Lifetime with some younger melodic hardcore torchbearers, Shook Ones and Sinking Ships, live in Portland
• Another prolific “collective”: Bomb the Music Industry!, who make their compact disc / Asian Man debut with Get Warmer
• Way more at the reviews page, including Cloak/Dagger, Red Handed and even Samhain

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Teddy Duchamp’s Army, the Pittsburgh, PA-based band that saw members go on to form/join Anti-Flag, Don Caballero and Voice in the Wire will be receiving the retrospective treatment from newly formed Lock and Key Collective.

You can check out some music from the band on their myspace page.
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You got folk in my punk! No, you got punk in my folk! You got beards in my mohawk! You got…the point. Andrew Jackson Jihad play some catchy, upbeat folk punk that instantly draws similarities to folk-punk scene steerers Ghost Mice while being perhaps a bit more inventive at times. You can be your own judge, as we have AJJ’s Asian Man debut up for streaming in it’s entirety.

Go listen to People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World at Andrew Jackon Jihad’s Punknews.org Band Profile.
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