You’re the lucky reader of the seventh edition of the Punknews.org Vinyl File. This column aims to keep you informed with upcoming releases as well as spotlighting interesting releases, your favorite band’s own collections and labels with an history of vinyl releases worth talking about. As always, Vinyl File is brought to you by Ben Conoley.

This week’s Vinyl File Spotlight features an interview with Justin Schwier founder of the Underground Communiqué label. Also below you’ll find a list of some great upcoming vinyl releases from bands like the the Bled, This is Hell, Cancer Bats, Liars, Jason Webley and more.

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The recently announced European tour with Dillinger Escape Plan and Messhugah has apparently been cancelled. The former band made the announcement saying:

Due to circumstances not in our control, and I’ll leave it up to the other band on the tour to explain this one, The Dillinger Escape Plan/Meshuggah European tour in November WILL NOT be happening. If you bought tickets, contact whoever you bought them from for a refund. Again, if I started to comment on this right now it would probably not be good, so I’ll leave it up to them to do the explaining.

We were looking forward to this more than any of you can imagine and we are just as disappointed as anyone. HOWEVER, we ARE in the process of confirming a new great tour during the same time period, most likely in the same cities, and will announce it shortly. Stay tuned.

In other words, something is up in the Meshuggah camp.
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Crime in Stereo has posted a brand new song, “But You Are Vast,” at their MySpace page.

At the Bridge 9 page is a clip of another song.

Crime In Stereo Is Dead is due out October 23 via the aforementioned label, and follows up 2006’s The Troubled Stateside.

The band also recently issued their 2005 EP, The Contract, under the name Love on vinyl with a bonus track via Run for Cover.
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Though an explanation is still forthcoming, San Francisco’s The Lucky Stiffs have called it a day. The band most recently released Gold in Peace, Iron in War.

The group has announced the first two of three final shows, all of which are expected to take place in California. The dates are here.
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Young Livers have announced a tour in support of their full length debut. The record is titled The New Drop Era and is due out September 25, 2007. The band includes members of Fiya and Glass And Ashes.

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As NOFX continues their world tour, Fat Mike has a brief update on the whereabouts of the long running band and their massive entourage:

Israel-ly hot here. Bad pun…..so here we are, playing Israel for the first time. So far we haven’t actually played but I did almost get beat up by a huge American skater type dude who called me a faggot because I was carrying a NOFX surfboard that some kid gave to me at a bar. It is Neapolitan colored and on the bottom it says, “NOFX so long and thanks from all the Jews”. I thought it was pretty cool but skater dude didn’t. Would have been pretty cool to get beat up by an American while in the Middle East. That’s trendy right now.

Other weird things here: You can smoke hash in restaurants; lots of people carry machine guns; on Saturdays the elevators in the hotel stop on every floor and you can’t push any buttons because it’s the day of rest; the room service menu has 2 different pages, one for meat and one for dairy and also on Saturdays, the kitchen only prepares cold food. Wacky Jewish stuff. Tomorrow we’re goin’ to the Dead Sea where I’m gonna try out my new board, then we’re gonna play in Jerusalem against the Nine Inch Nails show. They’re gonna kick our ass. Later skater, Fat Mike

As Mike mentioned, the band is currently in Israel and will soon be headed to Turkey, Eastern Europe, the UK, South Africa and Spain.
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The Low Budgets have announced a tour starting at the end of September. The band, which features former Dead Milkmen frontman Joe Jack Talcum, will be sharing the stage with the Bouncing Souls and Lifetime on select dates. You can see the dates below.

The band is supporting Leave Us A Loan, which you can stream at their Punknews.org Band Profile. The band also recently released a short film.
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The Good Life, the other project from Cursive‘s Tim Kasher, has launched a full album stream of their new release. The record is titled Help Wanted Nights and is due out September 11, 2007. It is the follow-up to Album Of The Year which was released in 2004.

The album is available for streaming right here.

As with other Saddle Creek releases, if you pick up the vinyl version, you’ll be able to download the entire album as MP3s. Then, you can take those MP3s and play them on your brand new iPod Touch.
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Thrice recently spoke to the LA Times about their upcoming two albums and four EPs. The record is titled The Alchemy Index: Volumes 1 & 2 and is due out October 16, 2007.

Frontman Dustin Kensrue noted:

I don’t know why anyone would want to listen to a band playing the same thing, album after album, Being in a band is like being in a marriage, you have to work at it to keep it up.

According to the story, the album will include “skittish electronics, bludgeoning rock riffs and acoustic musings similar to Kensrue’s recent solo album.” As to their major label experiences, Thrice notes that they aren’t looking for stardom:

You can see people make that choice. You can either say yes or no. The people that say no are sitting here.

You can find the story here.
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Aiden have announced a tour alongside Still Remains and Drop Dead, Gorgeous.

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Six years since their last proper full length Les Savy Fav is returning with a new album. Let’s Stay Friends will be released on September 18th via the band’s own French Kiss label.

The band will be unveiling new music in their live show on September 21st and 22nd in their hometown of Brooklyn. After this they’ll be headed to the UK and a few European countries for some dates. You can see those below.

Let’s Stay Friends follows up 2004’s Inches compilation of 7″‘s and singles and is the first studio full length since 2001’s Go Forth.

For those starved for LSF material you can check out entrants in the band’s “LSF:LSF” video contest here, a live performance at City Sol here. The band also has two new tracks up: “What Would Wolves Do” and “The Equestrian”.
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More bands have been announced for the sixth annual The Fest which till take place from October 26th through the 28th.

The latest additions to the lineup include Religious as Fuck, Swing Ding Amigos, The Measure, No More, Shark Pants, Shook Ones, Frank Turner, Worn In Red, Die Hoffnung, and The Briggs. Cancellations include Averquioi, The Bomb, Potboiler, Clorox Girls, The Gash, and Strikeforce Diablo (so much for that reunion).

You can get all the details here.

We should add that we are the “official webzine of The Fest.”
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Avenged Sevenfold have a bunch of new media for you today. The new material comes in advance of their upcoming full length. The record is titled Avenged Sevenfold and is due out October 16, 2007.

First, the artwork for the new self-titled album can be found on the album release page. The band has also unveiled a new webisode though it appears to be offline for the moment. Finally, some new video content from the band. A live recording of the band performing NOFX’s “Linoleum.”

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