I recently talked with Cobra Skulls, a group fine young men playing rock music from the great and honest state of Nevada. The interview was conducted during a recent tour with Against Me!. The band is supporting this year’s release, their first for Red Scare Industries, titled Sitting Army.

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Hot Water Music kindly confirmed the list of shows and the lineups for each for us. As reported earlier, the band are planning a brief reunion tour in support of their upcoming compilation. The record is titled Til The Wheels Fall Off and is due out January 22, 2008.

The lineups have been fleshed out to include a number of bands including Lucero, The Lawrence Arms, Static Radio NJ, HiFi Handgrenades, Able Baker, Samiam and Cutman.

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36 Crazyfists‘s new album, The Tide and Its Takers, will now be released April 29, instead of the previously announced date March 4 due to a delay in the recording process.

The album, which is the band’s Ferret Records debut, will be produced by the band’s guitarist Steve Holt and mixed by Andy Sneap (As I Lay Dying, Testament, Machine Head) at Backstage Studios in England.

Additionally, the recording setbacks have caused the band to drop off the European tour supporting Bullet For My Valentine.
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Rise Records act At the Throne of Judgment have broken up:

We have come to a point in our musical journey where we have been forced to make a decision. Several unforeseen events have unfolded that have brought us to our current situation. The five of us began touring as 3 students fresh out of high school and two students withdrawing from college. Each member graduating from high school had a significant scholarship to a college that they were turning down to tour. As you may or may not know, you don’t make any money touring when you’re a brand new thrash/death metal band in the scene. In fact, you lose money.(not trying to discourage anyone) We never viewed making money as a priority, but there comes a time where you must realize that it is just not financially possible to continue…

The band signed to Rise last November.
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Circle Jerks have announced some dates in early 2008 accompanied by Black President. The latter quintet includes Greg Hetson of Bad Religion, Jason Christopher, Wade Youman (Unwritten Law), Christian Black (Dee Dee Ramone) and Charlie Paulson (Goldfinger).

Black President is rumored to have been working on their first album. One of the reasons why the band has yet to release an album is their various other activities, most obviously Hetson’s. He has recently been touring with Bad Religion, who released a new album earlier this year, and his former band Circle Jerks, who had not released any new material since 1995, but continue to perform live on scattered dates.

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While fans continue to wait for a new studio album from Social Distortion, plans have been announced to make some of the band’s earlier catalogue available more widely.

According to the band, uber-indie Epitaph, is gearing up to reissue much of the band’s older material and frontman Mike Ness’ solo records, but only in Europe. On December 17th, the label will be reissuing Prison Bound, Mainliner (Wreckage From The Past), Live At The Roxy, Another State Of Mind (DVD), Live In Orange County (DVD), Sex Love and Rock’n’ Roll, Mike N ess: Cheating At Solitaire and Under The Influences.

A reissue of Mommy’s Little Monster, is expected to follow in 2008. In all cases, the track listings will remain the same but packaging will be updated from the original artwork.
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Buzzcocks have posted a song from their new 28 song live album Buzzcocks 30. You can check out “Moving Away From The Pulsebeat” at their MySpace page. The Pete Shelley penned track originated on 1978’s Another Music in a Different Kitchen

The live set was recently released digitally on Cooking Vinyl with a CD release to follow. It follows up 2006’s Flat-Pack Philosophy.
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