Arsonists Get All The Girls‘ bassist Pat Mason has passed away on the night of his 21st birthday. The band has posted the following message on MySpace:

We can’t describe the pain and sorrow that we all are feeling right now. Last night/early this morning our bassist, Pat Mason, passed away. Pat was an amazing person and brother to all of us. It was his 21st birthday and we all got to see him at band practice. He then proceeded to go out to the bars. He went to sleep at a friend’s house. We don’t know the full details but when friends tried to wake him up this morning he didn’t wake up. We could never trade him for the world and could never replace him. We will always love him and will always be in our hearts. We are going to continue with the band cause that is what Pat would have wanted. There will be a donation account set up soon for his family and possibly a local benefit show as well. Thanks for everyone for the support that the band has since the beginning. We love you all and Pat loves you all as well.

Punknews.org sends our condolences and best wishes to his bandmates and family.
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Details for the upcoming O Pioneers!!! 7″ on Asian Man Records have been unveiled. The release will feature three tracks on three different colors of vinyl.

The band has released a slew of tracks this year including their splits with the Measure [SA] and By The End of Tonight.
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Naked Raygun has announced a limited capacity Christmas show in the hometown of Chicago on December 22nd. The band will be screening their new DVD What Poor Gods We Do Make: The Story and Music behind Naked Raygun and performing afterwards.

The veteran band is on the road now touring the US west coast with support from Swingin’ Utters and Shot Baker.
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Sub Pop Records has signed the Gutter Twins and has scheduled a March 4th release for their full length Saturnalia. The band features Mark Lanegan, singer for Seattle’s Screaming Trees, and Afghan Whigs frontman Greg Dulli. Both men have been busy as their 90s acts split, with Lanegan releasing solo records, working with Belle & Sebastian singer Isobel Campbell and co-conspiring in several Queens of the Stone Age projects. Dulli has performed with the Twilight Singers, most recently releasing 2006’s Powder Burns.

Pre-release performances of the record are scheduled for New York, Paris, London, Amsterdam and San Francisco.
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Gwen Stacy have posted the first song from their upcoming Ferret debut. The record is titled The Life I Know and is due out February 05, 2008.

You can check out “The Path to Certainty” on their myspace page.
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Celebrated alt-country supergroup Drag The River will be reuniting for several shows in the Colorado area come January 2008, to celebrate the release of their final album, You Can’t Live That Way, which will be released on January 22, 2008.

So far, Suburban Home Records has confirmed a January 25th date at 3 Kings Tavern in Denver, but information on shows in Colorado Springs and Ft. Collins are soon to follow. Supporting Drag The River will be labelmate and Flaming Lips member Scott Reynolds, with his side-project Scott Reynolds & The Steaming Beast.
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Headlights have announced that they will be releasing their next full length in early 2008. The record is titled Some Racing, Some Stopping and is due out February 19, 2008.

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Sudbury, Ontario’s Statues have rescheduled their previously postponed European tour in support of their recent full length New People Make Us Nervous. The three-piece recently released the album worldwide on a number of labels, including Radio 81 in Montreal, P.Trash in Germany and Pelado in the US. The band will kick things off in mind April and will tour until May 10th with Philadelphia’s Dirty Tactics.
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Sudbury, Ontario’s Statues have rescheduled their previously postponed European tour in support of their recent full length New People Make Us Nervous. The three-piece recently released the album worldwide on a number of labels, including Radio 81 in Montreal, P.Trash in Germany and Pelado in the US. The band will kick things off in mind April and will tour until May 10th with Philadelphia’s Dirty Tactics.
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Bury Your Dead has entered Florida’s Audiohammer Studios with producer Jason Suecof (Trivium, God Forbid) to work on a new, currently untitled release, which is slated to hit stores this spring.

The band released Beauty and the Breakdown in 2006.
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Bullet for My Valentine have released the first single fromtheir forthcoming full length. The record is titled Scream Aim Fire and is due out January 29, 2008. It is the follow-up to The Poison: Live at Brixton DVD which was released in 2006 and their last full length, The Poison.

You can check out “Scream Aim Fire” in WindowsMedia (96kbps) right here.
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The latest installment of Exclaim! TV features performance and interview clips from Canada’s Saint Alvia Cartel. The Canadian punk/reggae outfit are currently on a cross-Canada tour in support of their new self-title album, out now on Stomp Records.

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Every Avenue has detailed their February 19 debut full-length Shh, Just Go With It. The album was produced and recorded by Zach Odom and Kenneth Mount (Cartel, Mayday Parade).

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