The latest issue of Blender features the magazine’s take on the 100 greatest indie-rock albums of all time. Albums of note include Dead Kennedys‘ 1980 album Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables which finishes at 92. The Misfits‘ 1982 album Walk Among Us comes in at 83. Descendents landed the 68 spot with their 1982 album Milo Goes To College while Green Day‘s Kerplunk! broke the top 50 landing a spot at 47 with the magazine stating that

Billie Joe Armstrong brimmed with goobery brashness as the bristling, attention-deficient tunes gave Sex Pistols riffs a cocky Cali sheen

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You can view the full list here.
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Following a six year hiatus after losing drummer Ben Burton, Austin’s Blunt Force Trauma is back again with Felix Griffin, formerly of D.R.I., on the drums. Griffin began rehearsing with the band in June to prepare for the CD release show for the band’s second disc Good Morning America… which remained unreleased while the band searched for a new drummer.
The new lineup is currently writing and rehearsing material for a CD projected for release in the summer of 2008, possibly with Billy Milano of M.O.D./S.O.D. co-producing.
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The ongoing Joe Lally / Capillary Action tour suffered a blow this weekend. We’ve had reports that the artists’ van was broken into in the early Saturday morning in San Francisco on the corner of Valencia and Clinton Park.
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Exclaim! has posted the fourth edition of their new web TV series. Episode 4 has the them catching up with Bionic and Trigger Effect as the bands make their way across Canada.

The interview has the bands discussing, amongst other things, late 90s teen melodramas.

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Although broken up, Q and not U are looking to put together a DVD. The band’s former members are looking for live footage collected by fans over the years.

Dischord Records is encouraging people to email them if they think they have any footage that may be useful.

The members of Q and not U have been keeping pretty busy since the band broke up. Harris Klahr is doing his own work under the name President and recently released a digital only album. John Davis is playing in Georgia James who recently released an album on Saddle Creek. Finally, Chris Richardson is performing as Ris Paul Ric and released an album through Academy Fight Song Records.
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Graphic designer Rob Dobi has updated his collection of scene caricatures with a familiar face. You can now find Orgcore Punker over at Your Scene Sucks. Click the “Choose a Scenester” drop down box to check him out. This bearded, Fest attending, closet Against Me! superfan joins such new contemporaries as the “popcore dork” and “up the punx,” as well as elder statesmen like “hxc tough guy” and the “sxe mosh warrior.” The character profiles are also collected in the new book also titled Your Scene Sucks. If you ask me, he looks like an eerie hybrid of Org editors Chris and Justin.

Dobi’s sarcastic look at the scene is an outgrowth of his infamous 2001 “How To Dress Emo” site. The artist has gone on to do work for bands like Less Than Jake, Thursday, New Found Glory, Crime In Stereo, A Wilhelm Scream and Fall Out Boy along with a host of labels. He also runs the clothing company Fullbleed.
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Leftover Crack who were set to play a number of Canadian dates this week were turned away turned away by Canadian immigration authorities. Frontman Stza Crack addressed the incident on the band’s website saying

Most of us tried almost as hard as we could to play for you folks up there and after a 20 hour round trip in a van I am writing this to say a big Fuck You to the Canadian Immigration Assholes. I hate them almost .0000000000001% as much as the U.S. Boder Patrol aka La Migra, but as far as I know, I cannot compare the Canadians to the Scum that slimes it’self back and forth across our southern border.

The band hasn’t mentioned what reasons were cited for their denial into the country, although they promise to attempt to play shows there again in the future.

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Pittsburgh’s Once Nothing have posted a song form their upcoming Solid State Records debut First Came the Law. The song is titled “The Dust of a Town” and you can check it out via PureVolume. The record hits stores on January 15th.
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Dine Alone Records has started a blog focusing on their upcoming vinyl releases. The label has two records on the horizon. The first is Attack in Black‘s Curve of the Earth which was released online in digital form this week. Pre-orders for a physical copy of the record are to begin any day now.

Also coming up is a vinyl release of the Moondog demo. Moondog was Walter Schreifels’ project in between his time spent in Gorila Biscuits and Quicksand. While the demo was recorded and traded on bootleg tapes for years, it has never had an official vinyl release. Dine Alone says it should be available in the next few months.

To read the Dine Alone vinyl blog, head on over here.
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A recent Voodoo Glow Skulls performance has been recorded and is now available online. You can check out the live footage and interview over at YeboTV. The show took place at Cleveland’s Agora Ballroom on October 10th, one of the band’s shows supporting their new full length Southern California Street Music. Victory Records released the album this past September.
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On December 11th Underground Operations will be releasing the first in a series of split releases. The first will feature Canuckistanians I Hate Sally and G7 artist GFK contributing three tracks apiece.

I Hate Sally released Don’t Worry Lady in October and last we knew GFK was working on a new album.
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This Is Hell will hit the road in December for a brief tour alongside Soldiers and Reign Supreme.

The band continues to tour in support of 2006’s Sundowning.
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Deathwish Inc. has posted an audio player featuring three new tracks from Life Long Tragedy‘s forthcoming release Runaways. Runaways is slated for release February 5.

You can check out the audio player here.
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