Take Action! has announced a release date and track listing for their upcoming seventh annual compilation. The record is titled Take Action! Volume 7 and is due out February 14, 2008.

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Modern Machines have renamed themselves The Used Kids. The band has also posted an update on some of their plans for 2008:

We’re recording at the end of the month for a few 7″s. We’re going to have an e.p. in the spring on Salinas, and a split 7″ with the Modern Machines (!) a little later. The MoMacs half will be two songs from our last recording session, the one that produced (for example) our split with the Measure SA.

Looks like there’s a tour in the works to the Upper Midwest and back in April; then, this summer, a bigger one to other places.

The band released ’Take It, Somebody!’ in 2006.
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Two-thirds of influential mod rock group the Jam have announced a 13-city US tour, again touring under the name “From the Jam: Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler.” The band’s original bassist and drummer will be touring with new recruits in the form of singer / guitarist Russell Hastings and guitarist / keyboardist Dave Moore.

These are the first US shows in the United States since the band originally split up in 1981.

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The Distance have posted one of their first new songs since the release of their full length, The Rise, the Fall, and Everything in Between.

You can check out “Lend Me Your Ears” on their myspace page.
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Converge have announced their first tour in some time, in continued support of their latest album, No Heroes. The band will be supported on the run by The Red Chord who are supporting Prey for Eyes and Genghis Tron who will be releasing their Relapse debut, Board Up the House on February 19, 2008. Baroness will also appear for the majority of the tour (3/30-4/20), with Coliseum taking their place the last four dates.

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Banner Pilot have announced some updates on their upcoming full length debut for Go Kart Records:

The big news is that the LP is essentially done! We master on Saturday with Dave Gardner of Selby Tigers fame. He did Lifter Puller and D4’s vs. God and Situationist Comedy – excuse me I dropped something. I’m still laboring over a few vocal takes, but being out of tune in parts in punk rock, right? Right! It helps me gets me to sleep at night.

Anyways, I can’t wait to put this album to bed and re-focus the band on the acoustic soft-rock Hall & Oates-ish tunes Nate’s been writing. We scrapped “Via Northeast” as a title for the LP – Nate tried to get inspiration from a bus schedule, which is hard to do. We’re reverting to the original idea which Danny once said sucked but now says doesn’t suck as much – Resignation Day. Go-Kart tells us they need a few months to disto it and send it out for reviews before it releases, so maybe May?

Vinyl versions of the album are also expected, possibly on Kiss of Death Records who also released the band’s 2007 Split with Monikers. The band released their last album, Pass the Poison, in 2006.
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