The Fire The Flood has announced that they’ve broken up:

After close to two and a half years we have played music on our own terms. We have had the joy of touring all over the country. We have met tons of wonderful people in bands and fans. However it is with great heartache that I write to inform you that we, The Fire The Flood, is dead. To anyone who came to our show at Lunchbox Records last Friday then you saw our last performance.

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VBS.tv recently sat down with legendary Crass drummer and writer Penny Rimbaud. The five part series takes place in Vice Magazine’s Old Blue Last pub and features reflections on Dial House, pop music and the overlooked legacy of Crass in the modern day and age.

As always, the interview was conducted by Soft Focus’ resident host Ian Svenonius who some may remember from notable Dischord act Nation of Ulysses.

You can check out the interview here.
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Flogging Molly has posted the first song from their upcoming album. The record is titled Float and is due out March 04, 2008.

You can check out “Requiem for a Dying Song” on their myspace page.
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Deftones have titled their upcoming follow up to Saturday Night Wrist. The band began work on the album last fall and have been documenting the process throughout.

The record is titled Eros presumably after the mythological greek god of love and/or Freud’s “life instinct.” (Now that you know that, you’ll kill in the New York Times crossword puzzle.) A release in 2008 is expected.

Besides the new record, band members have rejoined members of Hella to work on the next Team Sleep album. The band is also planning several internet releases with more details expected to be revealed soon.
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Recent Epitaph signing Our Last Night have posted a new track from their upcoming debut for the label. The record is titled The Ghosts Among Us and is due out March 04, 2008.

You can check out “Recovery” on their Epitaph page.
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7 Seconds singer Kevin Seconds will be launching a new weekly punk rock/talk internet radio show on KSSU.com beginning on Monday, January 21st from 8 to 10 pm PST.

Kevin will host and produce the show himself, live from KSSU studios, broadcast from the Sacramento State college campus. The show is a spiritual sequel to Kevin’s previous foray into radio, Anarchy Supper which was hosted by KWOD on Sacramento until the end of 2007.

He will also be releasing his next acoustic solo album, Rise Up Insomniacs in May via Asian Man Records.
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Matador has unveiled plans to release three of Mission Of Burma‘s classic 80s era albums in newly expanded and remastered format.

All three records, Signals Calls & Marches, Vs. and The Horrible Truth About Burma will be delivered on March 18, 2007

Signals will include the band’s debut 7″, “Academy Fight Song” b/w “Max Ernst”, along with two previous unreleased outtakes from those sessions, “Execution” and “Devotion”. Bonus DVD includes rare footage from an early gig at Cambridge, MA’s The Space. Vs. will feature 4 additional tracks and a bonus DVD consists of the full matinee performance from their infamous final hometown show at Boston’s Bradford Ballroom, March 12, 1983. Truth , the posthumous live album, will be restored to correct sequence for the first time since initial release, plus one unreleased track. Bonus DVD contains the entire evening set from the Bradford Ballroom show of March 12, 1983.

All three will also be released on gatefold vinyl with the DVDs included as well as a coupon for MP3s of the albums.
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With the company in some amount of turmoil since their purchase by private equity firm Terra Firma, big four major label EMI has announced that they are cutting between 1500 and 2000 jobs. .

Along with that news, is the more bizarre plan to begin corporate sponsorship for bands on the label. Guy Hands, who is running the label for Terra Firma explained:

Football teams have very distinct corporate sponsorship. Why shouldn’t some of the leading bands have the same sort of relationships? EMI could help bands who would not make it on the international stage find local sponsors who want to break into the student market.

So, does this mean that new albums from Beastie Boys, Yellowcard, The Starting Line, Relient K and 30 Seconds to Mars could be brought to you by McDonald’s, Pepsi, Starbucks, Walmart and Coca Cola?
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Thrice‘s video for “Digital Sea” has been premiered via MySpace video.

The track is taken from the Water EP, which makes up half of The Alchemy Index: Volumes I & II, released this past autumn via Vagrant. The next two volumes, Earth and Air, are slotted for release on the label in April.

The band is currently packing for a Canadian vacation with Say Anything and Attack in Black that’ll take place next month.
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Propagandhi have posted another update on their plans for recording this year:

We are absolutely raging up/over here like never before. We’ve got it all on the go! We’ve got our maniacal new tunes as well as some other cover tunes we’ve been recording which are pretty deadly! Sorry for the sparcity of updates. We are busier than a 10 million anted ant hill…busier than a swarm of 800 million mosquitos, busier than a 984 million bee-d bee hive!

Last year, the band delivered Live from Occupied Territory: An Official Bootleg DVD.
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Anti-Flag have released the artwork and an annotated track listing for their upcoming full length and second album for RCA Records. The record is titled The Bright Lights of America and is due out April 01, 2008. The album was recorded with producer Tony Visconti (T Rex, David Bowie, Morrisse

The band explains the subject and sound of most of the tracks on the album.
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Grabass Charlestons and Tim Version will be hitting the road together beginning tomorrow. Tim Version is gearing up for the release of The Decline of Southern Gentlemen. You can find some songs from that album on their myspace page.

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