Poison the Well, The Locust and Dance Gavin Dance will be hitting the road together in early 2008.

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Former Frodus member Nathan Burke’s new project The Out Circuit has set a release date for their sophomore record. Titled Pierce The Empire With A Sound, the album is due out February 12, 2008. The band was recommended by Thrice who also lent their frontman to the record.

Along with Dustin Kensrue, the record features guest appearances from Sean Ingram of Coalesce, Rachel Burke of Beauty Pill, as well as members of Roadside Monument, The Epochs, Haram, and more. The members of Thrice add:

Nathan Burke holds to the bracing-yet-beautiful instrumental melodies that Burn Your Scripts was noted for, but builds on those, positioning them opposite a heavier sound actualized by occasionally screamy vocals and a driving rhythm section. Pierce the Empire With A Sound offers you that rare space where darkness and beauty collide.

You can check out some music on their Virb.com profile.
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Hifi Handgrenades have named former Suicide Machines bassist Rich Tschirhart as their new bass player. Rich joins his Suicide Machines bandmate Ryan Vandeberghe who is the drummer of the band.

Besides them, the band features Fags / Hoarse vocalist / guitarist John Speck, Hoarse bassist Robby Graham and vocalist / guitarist Tony Vegas of the Grand Nationals. They promise a sound that harkens back to “Stink”-era Replacements, Decendents, Husker Du and Naked Raygun.

The band will be hitting the road for some upcoming dates with Naked Raygun and has also be tapped to help out on upcoming dates with the Foo Fighters and Against Me!.

You can check out the dates and some music on their myspace page.
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Fred Mascherino recently sat down to discuss his relatively sudden departure from Taking Back Sunday and his new band, The Color Fred.

He explained:

I know that it comes down on me. I wish it didn’t. It was ultimately my decision, but I wish it didn’t seem like my fault. [The MySpace bulletin] was weird. It was kind of cold and not even from the band members. It’s hard because I’m the only one speaking about it, so it’s kind of all on me, and I don’t know what other people want to be said as far as how much of the truth they want to come out.

The idea that I left Taking Back Sunday strictly to do The Color Fred is incorrect, I had been planning to release this record at this time. It was already set up. I was going to release it and do a tour, which I’m on now, and then go back and write the next record with them and record it. But along the line of a few months before and then on the Projekt Revolution tour, things were getting sour. I said, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore.’ It was making me miserable. I felt like I was changing who I was.

Fred shied away from making any disparaging comments about his former band mates, but did cite “writing problems, bickering and proposed changes that couldn’t be agreed upon” as among the problems.

Fred’s solo project, The Color Fred released Bend to Break this year.
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Paulson has announced a new iTunes-only digital single titled Calling On You. The single will include a handful of remixes and cover songs along with the original album track.

In anticipation of the release the band will be streaming the entire EP, rotating one song at a time until it is available for purchase on Christmas day. The first song made available for streaming is Paulson’s cover of “Wonderwall,” originally by Oasis. You can check it out here.

The band reissued All at Once this year.
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Throwdown have begun announcing dates for their upcoming Scum of the Earth headlining tour. The jaunt, in support of Venom & Tears, kicks off on the last day of February.

The bill will be supported by Soilwork, Through The Eyes Of The Dead and War Of Ages.
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The Denver Post recently sat down with Social Distortion‘s Mike Ness to get a status update on the band’s follow up to 2004’s Sex, Love and Rock ’n’ Roll:

We’re writing, and we’re doing a new song in the set. But we have to stop performing live before we can do anything in the studio, but we keep booking work. We might get a rest one of these days. You really do have to stop for a while and get yourself into reflection time and get into writing mode before that can start. I can multitask, but it’s really us having to say, “No more shows, we’ve got to start writing,” and we won’t be at that point until February at the earliest.

The band is embarking on a series of multi-day stops in California cities beginning in January. They are also supporting their new “hits” compilation, Greatest Hits which also debuted the new track, “Far Behind.”
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Red Scare have posted a big update concerning a number of bands on the roster:

First bit of news involves our fearless fellas from WYO, Teenage Bottlerocket. They had to postpone their video shoot because it snows like a motherfucker out there in Brokeback country. But tour plans are coming along and things are going well with their new record, “Warning Device”.

Our next big release will be be from The Copyrights. It’s called “Learn The Hard Way” and we’re going to have to push the release date back to February 26th. Why? Well, you see, that’s my half-birthday and I like to do something special for myself that time of the year. We’re also not done with it. Those weirdos just got back from playing shows in Puerto Rico (of all places!) and are gearing up for touring in early 2008.

Then there’s Cleveland’s favorite sons, The Sidekicks. They’re out on tour right now and they are probably running hog wild and stealing street signs. We’re hoping to have their record, “So Long, Soggy Dog”, available through digital retailers on December 25th. That’s right, we just saved Christmas.

The Falcon are in the process of writing a new record. Should be interesting.

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It may have spent the year steeping in controversy, even before it was released, but Against Me!‘s New Wave is lining up accolades in critic’s “Best Of” lists.

MTV’s resident contrarian James Montgomery put the album as number 2 in his list, saying:

The massive choruses. The even more massive hooks. The major label. The big-name producer. The boy/girl duet. The protest song that made fun of protest songs. There probably wasn’t a more unapologetic record made this year — seriously, New Wave might actually redefine the word “unabashed” — and Against Me! are totally aware of this, and they don’t care what you (or the majority of their old fans) think, which is why Against Me! are awesome, and why this album totally rules. Punk rock is probably dead already, but if it isn’t, well, this is the album that killed it off forever.

The well-respected Onion AV Club had similar accolades:

“Forget for a moment that it was released by a major label, was greeted with cries of “sellout!”, and was glossily produced by Butch Vig: New Wave is a solid, hook-filled rock album that—while it can’t avoid sounding hypocritical to anyone who’s followed the band from its unforgiving DIY days—manages to translate the band’s usual anti-capitalist screeds and industry-related laments into digestible, sing-along packages. If the title track (“We can be the bands we want to hear / We can define our own generation”] didn’t inspire a hundred kids to pick up guitars this year, then there’s no hope left for punk rock.

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Just prior to their lengthy run with Against Me!, the Foo Fighters will be sharing a short run of dates with Jimmy Eat World.

The Foos are supporting their 2007 full length Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace and JEW is touring on Chase This Light

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Danko Jones will release their new album in early 2008. The record is titled Never Too Loud and is due out March 18, 2008. It will be released in Europe via Bad Taste at the end of February.

The band recorded the 11-song disc over two months at Los Angeles’ Studio 606 with Grammy Award-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Marilyn Manson). John Garcia (Kyuss) appears on the album, and Pete Stahl (Scream, Wool) adds vocals to “Forest For The Trees.” A North American single will be selected soon.

You can check out “Code of the Road” right here.

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