Tegan and Sara have posted the title video from their 2007 full length, The Con.

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Bouncing Souls and Flogging Molly have been confirmed for the second Rock To Roll Charity Event. The event, spearheaded by SideOneDummy Co-Founder Joe Sib, is happening this year at the Avalon Theater in Hollywood, CA on December 11th.

The event benefits Wheels for Humanity, a group that refurbishes donated wheelchairs and hand fits them to children and adults with disabilities in developing nations.

Rounding out the bill will be Dead To Me and Punk Rock Karaoke (NOFX, Bad Religion, Adolescents & Social Distortion) Last year’s event raised $27,000 which helped to refurbish at least 180 chairs.

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As we previously reported, Attack in Black have recorded a follow-up to their recently released debut, Marriage.

Dine Alone Records have offered some more details regarding the release. While we stated that it will be on both CD and LP, it will in fact only be available on vinyl and will come with a coupon to download the album digitally. The release is limited to only 1,000 copies.

Another detail worth noting is that each member of the band wrote and sang their own songs on The Curve of the Earth, with everyone contributing three to four tracks.
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Modest Mouse has posted the latest video from their new album, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank.

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The second webcast dialog hosted by MySpace and MTV has been announced with the seat being occupied by first-term senator and popular candidate Barack Obama. The candidate will be sitting down with Gideon Yago, Sway Calloway and WashingtonPost.com’s Chris Cillizza for the event at Coe College in Iowa to answer questions submitted via MySpaceIM and MTV.com.

The event will take place on October 29 at 1:30pm EST. The entire dialogue will be webcast live through both MTV.com and MySpaceTV.com, and will then be rebroadcast on mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, later in the day.
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Legendary former Smiths guitarist and current Modest Mouse member Johnny Marr has been named “Visiting Professor” at the University of Salford in Manchester, UK. He will be delivering a series of workshops and masterclasses to students on the BA Popular Music and Recording degree at Salford.

Marr performed with the Smiths at the university nearly 21 years ago in one of the band’s last live performances. You can check out the original release here.
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Ruiner has mapped out most of their touring plans for the rest of the year. They’ll be on the road with bands like Modern Life is War and the Banner, making stops at the Fest, hanging out with Hoods, 108, See It Through and more.

Once you look at the dates, it’d be fair to assume the band is looking to make up the dates they canceled this summer. They’re touring in support of Prepare to Be Let Down which seems to (in fact) not let many people down.
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We’d like to congratulate Crystal N of Edgewater, FL on winning the prize package for this year’s Fest Contest! Crystal walks away with a glut of prizes (outlined here) which include (but aren’t limited to) a pass to this year’s Fest, a shirt, poster, pizza and some booze if they’re 21.

We’d like to say thanks for No Idea for providing the prizes and thanks to all the bands for playing this year. For more information, check out the Fest schedule.
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While rumors and sightings have been circulating and happening for a few months months, details on latter-Latterman projects have been fairly scarce. Shortly after driving the official nail in Latterman‘s coffin, Matt Canino spilled the beans on his new project Shorebirds to Punknews.org via email. Simply put, the coastal avian is operating out of Olympia, WA, and has self-released a 7″ which is available via mailorder.

The band also features Chris Bauermeister, perhaps best known for his work in seminal punk act Jawbreaker. The band will not be releasing the songs online yet so (in Matt’s words) “people are actually going to have to wait a bit before they hear the songs.”

As previously reported, the band is currently trying to work out a release with Rat Patrol Records.

Enterprising youths can mail $4 to Mr. Canino for a copy of their self-released 7″ now. You can find the address below. Expect a review soon.
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Coheed and Cambria has launched a full album stream of their new album, Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow. The record is due out October 23, 2007.

You can check it out on their myspace page.
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The Dear Hunter have suffered some lineup changes. Sixty percent of the band have taken off (Luke H Dent, Sammy Dent, Josh Rheault) and left Casey Crescenzo and Erick Serna to find replacements.

For their upcoming tour with Circa Survive they will be replaced by Cliff Sarcona & Julio Tavarez of As Tall As Lions, as well as Andy Wildrick formerly of The Junior Varsity.

The band is on tour in support of Act II: The Meaning of, And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading.
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Salinas Records has one more release up it’s sleeves for this year. It’ll be a split between the Unwelcome Guests from Buffalo, NY and Orphan Choir from Windsor, Ontario. There will be two tracks from the Guests and one from the Choir. You can get more details and preorder it on Salinas’s page.

The release is hoped to be due out by late November.
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No Secrets Between Sailors have posted three pre-production songs from their coming full-length on Rome Plow Records. You can check them out at their MySpace page.

Portland, Oregon band Kill Your Ex have posted a new track from their upcoming album From Words to Motion. “Consent” will be in stores October 23rd and the track is available at their MySpace page.
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