the Appreciation Post have announced their second annual tribute night to the late, great Rocket From the Crypt. The band performed a similar set last year, in RFTC-style costumes with a full horn section.

This year, the band will be repeating the effort and have enlisted Avail and Smoke or Fire for the event. The show takes place at the Middle East Downstairs in Cambridge, MA and will begin at 9pm sharp.

For a look at the band’s reverent performance of “Dick on a Dog” from RFTC, you can check out the splash page here.
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Japan’s great post-rock/hardcore act Envy has posted a trailer for their upcoming DVD, Transfovista. The DVD includes 2 hours of footage from shows, music videos, and off stage shots. It is due out November 07, 2007 in Japan with a North American release to follow next March via Temporary Residence. The band is also planning to release a new EP. It is titled Abyssal and is also due out November 07, 2007 in Japan.

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With this year’s The Fest 6 starting this Friday in Gainesville, FL, we’re bringing you a special treat for your listening pleasure. Teaming up with the event’s host, No Idea Records, we’ve compiled a special compilation for you to download, free of charge. The album features some of the bands performing at this year’s event, with many of the tracks being new or unreleased. Included are bands such as Radon, Dead to Me, Banner Pilot, Small Brown Bike, The Gaslight Anthem, The Falcon, Sundowner, Fake Problems, No Trigger, The Swellers, Shook Ones, The Menzingers and more. Unreleased cuts have been provided by O Pioneers!!!, The Riot Before, Landmines and Nakatomi Plaza.

Additionally, Mitch Clem, the internet cartoonist responsible for the cult favorite Nothing Nice To Say, has graciously provided us with some artwork for the compilation. Mitch recently finished the edits on his upcoming book containing the Nothing Nice To Say strip collection, more information will be available soon.

We’ll have a full download of the album along with high quality artwork available for you tomorrow afternoon, but in the meantime, you can stream the entire thing here.
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Black Lips have released one of the exclusive remixes from the upcoming single version of Veni Vidi Vici. The original track appears on the band’s studio debut for Vice Records, Good Bad Not Evil.

You can check out the “Diplo Remix” version of the song right here.
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Long Island ska/punk outfit The Fad have posted a new song from their upcoming debut for Bankshot! Records. The album will be titled Kill Punk Rock Stars and the band promises a sound for fans of the Bad Brains, Kid Dynamite, The Specials, Against Me!, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Suicide Machines or Gorilla Biscuits.

You can check out the song here: “Ska-Boom!” as well as some other music on their myspace page.
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Say Anything, HelloGoodbye, Sherwood and Go Audio will be headed to the UK late next month for a tour together that will wrap up in the second week of December.

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Billy Talent has announced plans to release two new live CD+DVD packages. The records are titled 666 [Live] and Live Deluxe Edition and are due out November 26, 2007

Filmed and produced by the award-winning Pierre and Francois Lamoureux of FogoLabs (The Who, Tragically Hip, Alanis Morissette), the DVD portion of 666 includes 6 songs from each of the remarkable shows the band played at the Brixton Academy in London, Philipshalle in Düsseldorf, Germany and the unbelievable Rock Am Ring Festival in Nürburgring, Germany, where the band played in front of an audience estimated in excess of 80,000 people. The second disc is the audio portion of the entire Düsseldorf concert.

A second package, Bis a three disc set that includes DVDs of the complete Düsseldorf and Brixton Academy shows, footage from the Rock Am Ring Festival and audio CD of the complete Düsseldorf show and extra features.

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Addressing rumours that his Plus-44 project had split up, frontman Mark Hoppus has updated his blog with indications that the band will in fact be recording a second album. The band, which also features members of the Mercy Killers, has resigned with Interscope Records and Mark adds:

Here’s a photo from yesterday of me signing on the contract with interscope records for us to record the next +44 album. Now everyone else is signing it, and it’ll be all set and going. Hopefully this will put any “band break up” rumors to rest.

We are all coming back together to do what we all truly love: playing as a band. Right now we’re in the process of writing and recording songs that will develop into an album. We’re not rushing it, and we’re not lagging. We’re making an album.

The band, which includes two-thirds of Blink-182 released When Your Heart Stops Beating last year.
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LaGrecia, the new project featuring Jason Shevchuk of Kid Dynamite and None More Black, has posted a new song from their upcoming debut.

You can check out “SlowerThanManassas” on their myspace page.
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Nerf Herder has posted two new songs from their upcoming new album. The band had been on an extended break until recently. The new record is titled IV and is due out early next year.

You can check out “Golfshirt, Part II” and “Led Zeppelin Rules” on their myspace page.

The band has also posted a new single on iTunes featuring “Led Zeppelin Rules” and b-side “The Backpack Song” and you can purchase or stream the songs from iTunes.

The band released their last full length, American Cheese, in 2002. It was followed with a reissue of their 2000 EP My EP.
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Upon returning to the States from their Australian tour the Bouncing Souls will play a trio of holiday shows at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, NJ. The band has promised to perform 60 different songs over the three nights.

Things kick off on December 27th with the World/Inferno Friendship Society and the Low Budgets, December 28th will feature Tim Barry, the Ergs! and Tommy Burnett, The final gig will take place on the 29th and will feature the Loved Ones and Static Radio NJ.

The Souls released The Gold Record last year.
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Dillinger Escape Plan have posted a new track from their upcoming album, Ire Works. The record is due out November 13, 2007 and is the follow-up to Miss Machine which was released in 2004.

You can find the song here.
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Bloc Party have posted the video from their new single, due out both on CD and 7-inch in the UK, and digitally in North America. The record is titled Flux and is due out November 20, 2007. It is the follow-up to A Weekend in the City which was released in 2007.

According to fansite blocparty.net, the song will be backed by “Emma Kate’s Accident” on the CD and live favourite “The Once And Future King” on the viny versionl. ‘Flux’ was recorded by Jacknife Lee, during the band’s week in the studio after Reading and Leeds.

Update: The link is fixed sorry.
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