Straylight Run will be embarking on a Fall tour across the United States. They will be accompanied by The Bravery before fellow ex-Taking Back Sunday member Fred Mascherino’s new project The Color Fred jumps into the opening slot along with Dear and the Headlights and Cassino.

Straylight Run are touring in support of their new album, The Needles The Space
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Straylight Run will be embarking on a Fall tour across the United States. They will be accompanied by The Bled before fellow ex-Taking Back Sunday member Fred Mascherino’s new project The Color Fred jumps into the opening slot along with Dear and the Headlights and Cassino.

Straylight Run are touring in support of their new album, The Needles The Space
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Following their long-awaited return to the world’s smallest continent, Rage Against The Machine will be performing a series of shows in Japan. The reunited band has been playing scattered shows for the past year, venturing through the United States.

In the interim, the band members have also remained busy with guitarist Tom Morello unveiling his folk/punk project, The Nightwatchman and frontman Zach de la Rocha finally wrapping up work on a new solo album.

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The Washington Post has put together an interesting example of the intersection between hyper-nerdy math and the age old question of selling out. The article posits a formula that looks at songs licensed for commercials and evaluates the level of selling out based on factors like the disconnect between the client and the band, the sacredness of the song, the “underground” nature of the band, artistic reputation, the artist’s wealth and the time since the song came out.

Example number one is the Clash’s “London Calling” which was licensed to Jaguar for a car commercial. The combination of the Clash’s integrity, the age of the song, and other details led to a score over 100. Conversely, the chart look’s at Fall Out Boy’s licensing of music to Circuit City and based on the band’s integrity and other factors gives the sell out ranking in the low teens.

Besides those songs, the equation also analyzes the Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop” (Nissan), Bob Dylan’s Victoria Secret commercial and more.

IT even will let you calculate your own or see other people’s ratings. You can check out the story here.
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Hot Water Music‘s new collection, Til The Wheels Fall Off now has some artwork available. The band’s 2nd collection release is set for a January 22, 2008 release. You’ll be able to grab it on LP and well as CD/DVD.

Hot Water Music’s last collective release was 2001’s Never Ender and the band’s last release before their untimely demise was 2004’s The New What Next. Post-HWM projects have seen 3 of the 4 members performing in the Draft while the other quarter, Mr. Chuck Ragan, is focusing on his solo career.

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Mayday Parade and Madina Lake will hit the road tomorrow for a co-headlining U.S. tour.

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Richmond’s the Riot Before and Broadway Calls are selling their new split on tour. The release features two new songs from each band and was released on Say-10 Records, a new label promising more releases in early 2008.

You can see their Fest-bound tourdates here.
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Although they’re promising this is the last one for a while, we doubt it. Public Serpents have posted another new track for all of us in internet-land. “Death of a Revolutionary” is available and is promising “Crack Rock Steadiest beats, old school reggae sounds,and all out of the biggest ghetto blaster in Jersey.” You can hear it at their MySpace page.

The Serpents are the newest project from NYC squatscian Skwert who has spent time in bands such as Choking Victim, INDK and American Distress. A label for their release is still undetermined, but they’re self-releasing their demo via Tent City Records.

The album promises a merger of dancehall reggae, punk and ska akin to “Choking Victim, INDK, Operation Ivy, The Specials, American Distress, The Clash, Misfits, Bucaneer and Buju Banton.”
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The Singularity have posted four songs from their upcoming 2008 release. The album is the followup to 2007’s split with the Excuse and you can hear the songs their MySpace page

Water Towers, who bill themselves a “Kid Dynamite influenced folk project”, have posted a demo track from their upcoming split with Alex and the Imaginary Friends. The split will be released this November via Raise Your Fist Records. You can hear the track at their MySpace page.

The Leap Year‘s new album With a Little Push a Pattern Appears is now streaming until October 20th at Last.FM. The album is due out November 5th.
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Adam is away this week so the entire planet fell to pieces. With the remaining shards, we’ve assembled this latest look back at the week in Punknews.org.

The people must have something good to read on a Sunday

It was hard to miss the news that 10th level Vice President Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, nor was it possible to avoid the jubilant fans of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones who agreed to reunite for five shows. Lots of piss and vinegar was sent in the direction of Green Day courtesy of Johnny Rotten but returning the favour was Blender who took on the Sex Pistols, Tom Waits, Sting and the Beach Boys. Some people had nicer sentiments in mind, like Billie Joe of Green Day who sent fond wishes to Al Gore on his win while encourageing people to contact Congress.

Though not exactly known as a charity, Taco Bell gave Strike Anywhere, Ted Leo, Big D, Panthers, Armor for Sleep free food but Ted didn’t want it. There was still some craziness in the ever increasing music industry shakeup, this time with Nine Inch Nails who celebrated their first time being without a contract in 18 years.

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