The nice folks at No Idea have provided us with the artwork and track listing for the highly anticipated posthumous compilation from Hot Water Music. The record is titled Til The Wheels Fall Off and is due out January 22, 2008.

It features 24 songs and artwork by Scott Sinclair.

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Word has come in that Shook Ones, Sinking Ships and End of a Year have all left Revelation Records and are now free agents.

The bands were all locked to the label in an arguable signing spree that had taken place from December 2005 (an initial burst which brought Sinking Ships, Shook Ones and Down to Nothing to the fold) to this past February with Living Hell.

Another of those bands, Richmond, VA post-hardcore act Memorial, parted ways with the label this past September after signing in December 2006, releasing nothing in the interim.

Much praise has been made on the part of efforts by former label A&R Bob Shedd. George Kirsch of Blacklisted, who contributed a track to the label’s 2005 compilation, Generations, had this to say in a recent blog posting: “It was great to work with [a man] who was really working to make [Revelation] a ‘modern hardcore’ label and in my opinion has done a great job.” In an April 2006 interview, Shook Ones guitarist ‘Funds’ said, “He’s got all his shit together. The man is the real deal, and he is responsible for everything good that [Revelation] is doing right now.”

Shedd, no longer employed by the label for undisclosed reasons, currently has his own personal label, Collapse Records, distributed by Revelation’s distro arm.

Shook Ones, Sinking Ships and End of a Year all released full-lengths on the label in 2006: Facetious Folly Feat, Disconnecting and Sincerely, respectively. Shook Ones will commence writing for their third full-length this winter. As of June, Sinking Ships was planning on self-releasing a new 7″ (presumably in 2008) to follow up this year’s Ten 7″, which was released on Revelation. End of a Year is planning to release multiple, thematically consistent songs across several splits and singles records in 2008. Memorial will soon self-release their first full-length digitally on an optional donation basis, Radiohead-style.

Revelation recently released Capital’s Homefront, while Living Hell will have their label debut, The Lost and the Damned, street on November 13.

Label owner Jordan Cooper participated in a recent interview discussing the label’s 20-year history.
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Taken has announced a one-off reunion performance set to take place March 8th, 2008.

Formed in 1997, the band released a number of records on Goodfellow before splitting up in 2004 and saw members go on to form Mikoto and join Circa Survive. You can check out some music on their myspace page.

The show will take place at Chain Reaction in Anaheim, California and you can buy your tickets here. The band promises that the show will sell out.
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Misery Signals have begun work on their next album. The band posted a progress update saying:

Things are off to a really good start, we have written the music for roughly 5 tracks thus far, they are really rough, but they are good starting points. For those of you who are fans of both of our previous records, I think you can expect another to add to your list. Judging from where we are at right now, you can expect this record to be a little faster and a little heavier at points, but at the same time I don’t think we are writing exactly what you would typically expect from our band. We have been really trying to make a conscience effort to step out of the box a bit, while staying true to the style that we have been crafting for the last 5 years. I think this record will prove to be our best album to date.

They released Mirrors in 2006.
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Genghis Tron has posted the first song from their full length debut for Relapse. The record is titled Board Up the House and is headed for a February 2008 release. The album was produced by Kurt Ballou at his Godcity Studios in Salem, MA. The band’s previous album, Dead Mountain Mouth, was released in 2006 via Crucial Blast.

You can check out “Board up the House,” the title track from the album on their myspace page.
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Australian label Hobbledehoy Records has signed Queensland’s Arrows, The band’s press compares them to Karate, Mineral and the Blacktop Cadence. A full length debut is expected next year, it will follow up a recent split 12 inch vinyl release with These Hands Could Separate The Sky.
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