Nightmare Of You have announced their Spring tour dates. The band is supporting their 5-song EP, Bang! which was released late last year. Some music from the EP is streaming on their myspace page.

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According to a report from punkbands, Brand New have formed their own record label: Procrastinate! Music Traitors. The band kicked off the new project by signing Kevin Devine who was dropped from his major label contract last February.

The label will be reissuing Devine’s major label debut, Put Your Ghost To Rest on April 20, 2008.

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Candiria has tapped Dalek, Isis, Dillinger Escape Plan, Pole, Dysryhthmia, Kayo Dot and others to provide remixes for their upcoming album.

Brooklyn-based Candiria released their last album, What Doesn’t Kill You… in 2004.
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Ron “Skip” Greer, former vocalist of Easy Bay pop punk outfit The Wynona Riders has joined the Dead Kennedys as touring vocalist. The news comes just days after the bitter departure of previous vocalist Jeff Penalty last week. You can check out a Wynona Riders performance here. The Riders were previously signed to Lookout!.

Greer will make his official debut on the band’s upcoming tour in support of Milking the Sacred Cow. The band also noted:

The bands previous singer, Jeff Penalty, has been unavailable because of numerous other projects he is working on, and the scheduling conflicts became impossible to work around. Jeff also expressed that he was not interested in working on new material, something the other band members were keen on exploring.

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He Is Legend have announced plans to record their next album:

On the 27th of March we will be embarking on a musical sabbatical deep in the forests that surround Warrior Studios to record these new musical endeavors with the elusive Mitchel Marlow, whom you may remember from such films as Turtle Power, I Hate Myself and the remake of “Hey Man, Nice Shot”. Although you may never hear a finished product from said project, (lets call it Operation Demo NZ) we can assure you of its Bad-Assary and promise that it will only help us to deliver to you a record literally made of solid gold, (figuratively speaking).

The band released Suck Out The Poison in 2006.
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Draven is hosting an exclusive stream of a new track from No Use For A Name‘s upcoming album. The record is titled The Feel Good Record of the Year and is due out April 01, 2008. It is the follow-up to Keep Them Confused which was released in 2005.

You can check out “I Want to Be Wrong” on the Draven home page.

Update: The song can also be downloaded directly from Fat.
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Fuse has assembled a mini-site to promote the upcoming NOFX documentary series, NOFX: Backstage Passport. The site includes more details about the episodes as well as more clips of the show and other details.

You can find it here.

As reported here, the eight episodes cover the band’s recent world tour including their visits to Singapore, Peru, Israel, South Africa, Turkey and South Korea.. Or, as Fat Mike explained it: “Think Titanic meets Spinal Tap. .”
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Be Your Own Pet have seen three tracks from their new album, Get Awkward pulled from the US version due to “violent content.” The three tracks “Blow Yr Mind”, “Black Hole”, and “Becky” were on the original promos released by the label and are widely available in the UK and Europe.

Lyrics in question include “We’ll wait with knives after class!” and “Eating pizza is really great / So is destroying everything you hate.” There are also some songs about zombies which may be offensive to bloodthirsty corpses hungering for brains.

The band is signed to Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace which is distributed through Universal Records. On a completely unrelated note, Universal and its imprints feature family-friendly artists like Eminem, Nirvana, Guns’n’Roses, 50 Cent, Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.
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Leftover Crack have announced a tour set to kick off in late April. The jaunt will include dates in the United States with stops in California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and Hawaii.

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