Taking Back Sunday has announced the departure of guitarist and co-vocalist Fred Mascherino. On a recent MySpace post the band said the following:

After four great years and two successful gold albums together, Fred has decided to leave Taking Back Sunday to pursue his solo career. We wish him well and we are working on the next Taking Back Sunday album as we speak.

Taking Back sunday wil be releasing their upcoming DVD/CD compilation, The Louder Now Part Two, on November 20. Fred will release Bend to Break, the debut from his new project The Color Fred, on October 30th.
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The first week of October brings us within 30 days within the romp in the swamp, The Fest 6 in Gainesville, FL. This week we continue our countdown with one of last year’s newcomers, who will also be returning this year. Melodic-hardcore group No Trigger played to a jam-packed club last year in the early afternoon, but continued the party down the street for a few rounds of 50-cent beers that would not be forgotten.

Included in the clip are the last two songs from their set, “Tundra Kids” (from their last LP Canyoneer), and their take on the classic Misfits track “Where Eagles Dare”.
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We don’t really have any context in which to explain what you’re seeing here, but apparently disco/punk act Dirty Dietrich has also set his sights on Against Me!‘s New Wave.

He has posted the first of his covers, “Stop!” and his versions of songs from Reinventing Axl Rose are also available. You can find them all on his myspace page.
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Burlington Ontario’s SYDNEY have launched a full album preview of their new record, When We Were Safe on their myspace page.

The album is due out next Tuesday, October 9th via Black Box Recordings.
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Deathwish Inc. has posted a new track from Shipwreck a.d.‘s forthcoming release Abyss.

You can check out the newest track “Erebos” as well as the previously posted title track on an audio player here.
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Today we’re happy to bring you the official premiere of a new video from Winnipeg’s Sick City. The post-hardcore band recently unveiled their debut full length, Nightlife through Smallman Records and Trustkill.

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Sources are reporting that Carbon/Silicon, the project from Mick Jones (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite) and Tony James (Generation X, Sigue Sigue Sputnik) will finally be releasing their retail debut this month. The record is titled The Last Post and is due out October 23, 2007. The album was produced by Mick and Tony, and mixed by the legendary Bill Price (Clash, Sex Pistols, Pretenders) at Metropolis London.

First announced in 2004, the duo had become known for their open policy towards file sharing, making all recordings available freely online and encouraging bootlegging at live performances. The band has four songs available on their myspace page and countless more on their official website.

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Bloc Party have announced that they have completed work on a 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.

The band will be appearing on Conan O’Brien tonight and are promising to debut the song there.
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Strung Out is apparently the latest band to fall prey to thieves, having suffered the loss of their van and trailer. The band confirmed reports with a post on their official message board from drummer Jordan Burns:

So our van and trailer just got stolen from our hotel here in Philly around 7:30am. We had just checked in and no more then 20 minutes later, Chris happened to look out the window and see our van driving out. Sure enough, it was skidrown mother fucker ripping it off.

So we have lost ALL of our equipment, all of our merch, tons of personal stuff and we are pretty much fucked and stuck in a shitty Days Inn in a fucked up part of town in Philly. There was a double homicide 2 blocks down the road that we were watching about on TV so ya, not a nice part of town at all.

Anyhow, if you live in Philly, please be on the look out for our van and trailer. Its a light blue ford E 350 15 passenger van with a white trailer with white rims. There is a bull skull mounted on the front of the grill. We are trying to think what to do. We will figure out how the show must go on though because we for sure dont want to or are we thinking about canceling the tour. We have a lot to figure out here…..

The band released Blackhawks Over Los Angeles earlier this year. As soon as the band decides on the plans for the remainder of the tour, we’ll let you know.
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Canadian post-hardcore act Silverstein recently recorded an exclusive acoustic performance featuring material from their 2007 album, Arrivals & Departures.

You can check out the interview/performance here.
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