Just a few days after the brutal and sometimes awkward post announcing the departure of singer Jonny Craig from Dance Gavin Dance, the vocalist has popped up in another band. Craig confirmed that he has joined Emarosa.

He also addressed his former bandmates accusations and criticisms saying:

I guess there is really only way to confront the issue and that is tell my side of the story. The “drug” abuse was something that I did have to deal with at one point in my life, but not recently within this past year.

I never stole drugs from anyone to try and get by and I never ran away due to my home BEING in Canada….I live there. I have my G.E.D and plan on taking college courses if time from touring allows so. I hold no grudges to any of the guys for kicking me out and leaving me in New Jersey whatsoever and I want everyone to understand that.

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Millencolin, who entered Sound Lab Studios in Örebro, Sweden on November 1st, have posted some updates as they work towards their seventh full length record.

Guitars are done! Mathias and Erik made the time schedule of finishing two songs a day. We’re super happy how the guitars turned out. The guitar sound like the rest of the instruments sounds amazing.

The vocal mic is in position and so is Mr. Singer. They are trying out some vocal stuff right now as I’m writing this. Starting to sound like a record!

The band is working on the follow up to 2005’s Kingwood. Since Kingwood, members of the band have been involved in other projects including Nikola Sarcevic’s solo project and Mathias working on Franky Lee.
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Long-running Canadian pop-punk act Gob have posted the first video from their new album, their first 2003’s Foot In Mouth Disease. The band, which formed in 1994, most recently lent their co-vocalist/guitarist Tom Thacker to Sum 41. The new record is titled Muertos Vivos and is due out October 16, 2007.

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A few days after the release of their artwork and cover of the Circle Jerks’ “Back Against the Wall,” The Mars Volta have revealed the track listing for their upcoming album. The record is titled The Bedlam In Goliath and is due out January 29, 2008. It is the follow-up to Amputechture which was released in 2006.

According to CMJ, the band will be promoting the album in January with an online video game, Goliath The Soothsayer, which will be available exclusively on Amazon.com January 2 through January 29.

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In an interview with BBC Radio 6 personality Steve Lamacq Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke let the world know the band’s grand scheme with their donation-based sale of their recent opus In Rainbows: there was none. Contrary to what seemed to be the case, the band had no plans of turning the industry on it’s head as many analysts and bloggers speculated. It seems it was an idea thought up by their management who were reticent to sign a contract without a finished record. The band kept the plan close to themselves with Yorke keeping even his wife in the dark about it and compares the move to leaking the album themselves, only allowing some profit to be made.

The band decided to release a digital version of In Rainbows, allowing the customer to pay whatever they felt they needed to for it, a move heralded as a sea change in the industry, given the band’s stature. However they then received a fair amount of criticism for then going back to a traditional label for widespread physical distribution.

For the full interview you can listen here.

Our friends at Quote Unquote recently commented on the situation saying: Is this a bummer? Who know.
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Nautical Mile, a new band featuring Rich Jacovina from Sillent Majority and Joey from Capital has posted the entirety of their demo online for streaming.

The band promises a sound inspired by “your favorite Fat Wreck Chords bands from the 90s.”

You can check out the demo on their myspace page.
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In just under two weeks, St. Albans City, UK’s Enter Shikari will be making their first trip to the United States. The band’s independence and combination of hardcore and trance music has proven popular in their home country and they’re hoping to play it for people here in North America.

We’re sponsoring the short run of dates and we shope you’ll check them out. You can preview some music on their myspace page. You can also find a music video here. In the next week or so, we’ll have some additional features to introduce you to the band.

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NOFX has released another new track from their live album, They’ve Actually Gotten Worse Live. The one is a live take on “The Longest Line,” taken from the EP of the same name that helped kick off Fat Mike’s Fat Wreck Chords label in 1992.

You can check out “Cross the Line” right here.
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A Static Lullaby has posted on an update on progress towards their next full length for Fearless.

We are currently in the middle of writing the new record and it’s been going extremely well. We pushed back our recording date a few months, so now we have a little more time to focus on making the best record possible. We’ve also taken this time off to finally begin to shape the band into the best possible form.

As many of you noticed, we have parted ways with our guitarist John. There is no longer any dissention in the band and we are both collectively happier with our current situations. We wish him the best of luck with his future projects. It’s also important to know that we are NOT on the lookout for a new guitarist as we are currently much better off and comfortable as a four piece.

we have a brand new music video coming out soon! It will be premiering next week and should hopefully be able to hold you guys over till we can get some new music out for you. Also be on the lookout for a short run of shows early next year. We’ll be playing some of the new songs, and we expect you guys to come out and tell us what you think.

The album will be the follow up to A Static Lullaby and the band has enlisted producer Steve Evetts to handle the proceedings.
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Today we bring you the premiere of “Infected,” the lead track off This Is Hell‘s new 7″, Cripplers, which is due out tomorrow. The 7″ collects one new song (this very one), two unreleased tracks (one of which is “Double Grave,” an assumed re-recording of a song on the band’s 2004 demo), and three covers (CIV’s “Do Something,” the Movielife’s “I Hope You Die Soon” and Beastie Boys’ “Fight for Your Right”).

This should tide you over while the band prepares to unleash their recently finished full-length, Misfortunes, on February 19, 2008 via Trustkill. They released Sundowning in 2006.

You can check out the song on their Punknews.org Profile.
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The Ataris are planning a short tour in December to play a run of acoustic dates. Frontman Kris Roe is promising to feature a album-length performance of Blue Skies, Broken Hearts – Next 12 Exits… in its entirety.

The band is currently booking the dates and searching for promoters in Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Anaheim, Bakersfield, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Tijuana, Mexico, Phoenix, Albuquerque, El Paso, Denton, TX, Houston, Little Rock, Atlanta and St. Louis for the shows they hope to book.

The band released Welcome the Night earlier this year.
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The Ataris are planning a short tour in December to play a run of acoustic dates. Frontman Kris Roe is promising to feature a album-length performance of Blue Skies, Broken Hearts – Next 12 Exits… in its entirety.

The band is currently booking the dates and searching for promoters in Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Anaheim, Bakersfield, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Tijuana, Mexico, Phoenix, Albuquerque, El Paso, Denton, TX, Houston, Little Rock, Atlanta and St. Louis for the shows they hope to book.

The band released Welcome the Night earlier this year.
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More details have surfaced for the 90s punk documentary first announced on Punknews.org in April of this year. Officially titled One Nine Nine Four: Documenting the Birth, Growth and Explosion of Punk Rock in the 90s, the film does just that, It will feature interviews with bands such as Green Day, NOFX, the Offspring, Blink 182, Rancid, Bad Religion, Lagwagon and many more. It looks at the explosion of punk rock, from the beginning of the Warped Tour, the success of Green Day and Blink-182 and more.

The film makers spent the first few months of 2007 in Los Angeles interviews and collecting archival footage before returning to Australia this month to start editing. The film will be narrated by Tony Hawk and is yet to have distribution or a release date but will hit the festival circuit in 2008.

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