In a recent interview with Alternative Press promoting his new compilation of demos spanning 1992-2007 due for release this Christmas, Weezer mastermind Rivers Cuomo confirmed that the set will include four songs from the famous “Black Hole” sessions that eventually led to the band’s album, Pinkerton. The songs are “Blast Off,” “Who You Calling Bitch,” “Dude We’re Finally Landing” and “Superfriend.”

Rivers also explained the proceed of establishing solo vs. Weezer tracks:

I’m just–somewhere in the process of making a Weezer record, somebody listened to these songs and said, “No.” And it might have been me.

The record is titled Alone – The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo and is due out December 11, 2007.
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The Briggs have announced plans to release a new acoustic, digital-only EP. The record is titled The Westlake Sessions and is due out November 13, 2007. It features five songs and an Elvis Costello cover. It is the follow-up to Back to Higher Ground which was released in 2006

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Between the Buried and Me, August Burns Red and Behold The Arctopus have announced a tour together kicking off towards the end of November.

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From the “I was a teenage metalhead department” comes two reissues of Testament‘s back catalog. The Bay Area act will see 1997’s Demonic and 1999’s the Gathering both reissued, the former having been remastered and the latter including a previously Japan-only track “Hammer of the Gods.”

Prosthetic will be handling the reissue on January 8, 2008, although both albums were released via Spitfire originally. The band is gearing up for a new full-length via Nuclear Blast.
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The Locust have booked more dates for their upcoming North American tour. Dates will feature a variety of acts from Zs to Melt Banana.

The band continue to tour in support of New Erections.
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The Locust have booked more dates for their upcoming North American tour. Dates will feature a variety of acts from Zs to Melt Banana.

The band continue to tour in support of New Erections.
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Toronto duo FemBots have posted another recording update. The group, which is working on the follow up to 2005’s The City, commented:

Since returning to the city from our session at Cordova Lake we’ve been working away like mad. This generally means getting up at 8, letting the dogs out, making coffee and spending the morning writing lyrics and melodies for the previously recorded songs. By 2 or 3 in the afternoon I realize I haven’t had any breakfast. Some of the songs have been coming together really easily; others need more surgery to make them work. This usually means chopping them up, shuffling the parts around and gluing them back together to accommodate what’s happening with the melody. It’s all going pretty quickly. As of today we’ have about three songs finished as well as a few instrumentals (that will stay instrumental) and a couple of others well on their way to being done. Brian and I have agreed that we should drag the writing stage out as long as possible if it continues to go well. We’re doing another band writing/recording session at Nathan’s place in Sudbury at the end of the month and planning another trip to Cordova Lake in January.

FemBots recordings and live shows frequently expand the band with a number of collaborators. In the past these have featured Jason Tait of the Weakerthans. During the Reconstruction Site tour both members of FemBots toured as members of an expanded Weakerthans lineup.
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The net was abuzz today with word that the long rumored My Bloody Valentine reunion may indeed be happening, and furthermore that the long awaited follow up to the band’s classic 1991 full length, Loveless may arrive sooner than previously thought. Music blog The Daily Swarm broke word on an exclusive interview set to air Monday, November 12th on VBS.tv‘s musician interview series Soft Focus. On the Ian Svenonious hosted program MBV frontman Kevin Shields comments:

We were making a record in the 90s, around when the band broke up in 1995…and I continued with Belinda. We kinda made we made most of an album….It’s going to be this ‘96/‘97 record half-finished record finished, and then a compilation of stuff we did before that in 1993–94, and a little bit of new stuff.

I pretty much know what the one that’s going to come out this year is going to sound like because its already pretty much 3/4’s done already…it sounds like what we sounded like – different but not radically different. People will go, “Yeah, it sounds like My Bloody Valentine.”

The interview was reportedly recorded over the summer, so it’s unclear if the record could arrive this late in the year or will instead be unveiled early next. It adds fuel to the earlier rumor that the band may take the stage again to headline the 2008 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.
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One Percent Press has taken over the release duties for the new Exit Strategy full-length. The album, City of Microphones, is due out on Feb. 19th 2008. It was produced and engineered by J. Robbins of Jawbox fame in Baltimore MD.

You can check out a couple songs at their MySpace page.
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You’re the lucky reader of the 16th edition of the Punknews.org Vinyl File. This column aims to keep you informed with upcoming releases as well as spotlighting interesting releases, your favorite band’s own collections and labels with an history of vinyl releases worth talking about. As always, Vinyl File is brought to you by Ben Conoley.

This week’s Vinyl File is the last in our efforts to spotlight the extensive catalog of NOFX vinyl. While we’re going to get to their 7″ of the month club next week, we are wrapping up with the rest of their catalog now. We’re going to be looking at their vinyl releases from 2000-yesterday. We also have vinyl news from Propagandhi, Coliseum, New Found Glory and more.

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