Fall Out Boy have posted a video from their recent DVD/CD release, ****: Live in Phoenix.

In related news, the band recently began casting for a video for their cover of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It.” Apparently the band is looking for “various dancers, jump-roping girls, sumo wrestlers, nerds and “a hot Puerto Rican girl.” According to reports, the band is aiming to put together a tribute to Michael Jackson’s extensive video catalogue.

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Bane, Wake Up Call and I Rise will be hitting the road together next month for a 10-day tour.

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Sailor Jerry has posted a live video featuring Paint It Black‘s recent store performance. Apparently, nearly 2000 Philadelphians attended the show,

You can check out the video here.
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Today we’re bringing you the new album from In The Red. The band features members of Gunmoll and Breathe In and just released their debut album, Volume One on Rat Patrol Records.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile.
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I Need That Record, a new documentary aims to look at the problems facing independent record stores throughout North America. The film focuses on why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the U.S. in the past decade. The film uses found footage, expository voice over, talking head interviews with artists, musicians, retail owners, and animation to tell the story.

The film also features commentary from many notable figures including Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth/ Ecstatic Peace! Label, Ian Mackaye of Dischord Records Fugazi/Minor Threat/Teen Idles, Chris Frantz of the Talking Heads, Pat Carney of the Black Keys, Mike Watt of the Minutemen/reunited Stooges, Patterson Hood of The Drive By Truckers, Noam Chomsky, guitar composer Glenn Branca, punk author Legs McNeil, rock photographer Bob Gruen, Bryan Poole guitarist of Of Montreal, Numero Records, Rhino Records, Bloodshot Records, United Record Press (the largest vinyl plant in the U.S.),

A sample of the film documenting Trash American Style, a Danbury, CT punk record store which has run for 17 years.
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New Pornographers frontman Carl “A.C.” Newman recently spoke to Billboard about the future of the supergroup. The band’s next record is in the works and will take a different direction than their most recent. Newman commented

With Challengers, we moved as far in this direction as we can go, unless we turn into M. Ward or something,” he told Billboard. “The songs I find myself writing these days are a little bit more rock, but that’s as far as I can say.

The band plans to have demos ready by the end of the year, with a new album to be released in 2009. Newman also has a new solo record in the works to follow up his 2004 release The Slow Wonder. In comparing the two projects he stated:

In a lot of ways they’re similar, but in a lot of obvious ways, they’re not similar… The Pornographers have all of these different people in the band and different voices, which makes a big difference. On my own records, I’m kind of left to my own devices. That can be both good and bad.

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Recent Paper & Plastick Records addition, Richmond VA’s hardcore outfit Landmines have posted another two songs from their upcoming self-titled debut.

The two additions bring a total of six of the twelve total tracks from the album. You can find them here.
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Blink-182 and Plus 44 drummer Travis Barker has settled in his lawsuit against Rockstar Beverages and their product, Rockstar Energy Drink.

According to the suit, launched in January, the Rockstar Web site published a photo of Barker “holding a can of one of Rockstar’s beverages, and identifying him and his endorsement by name” without his consent. The lawsuit claims invasion of privacy, unfair competition and misappropriating his likeness to promote the product.

It was not revealed how much the settlement was worth after an agreement was reached on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, and Barker’s lawyer, Gregory Weisman, told the Associated Press that both parties are still working out terms.

Rockstar has been busy with a number of projects including sponsoring events like the Warped Tour and Kevin Lyman’s upcoming Rockstar Mayhem tour.
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Acclaimed New York ska act The Slackers have posted a song from their new record online. You can stream “Every Day Is Sunday” at their MySpace page. The song appears on Self Medication, the band’s first release for the Pietasters founded Indication Records. The album hits stores on April 29.

The band has a number of in-store events planned to support the release. Today the band will play twice in Toronto, first doing a performance of six new songs at Sonic Boom Records, then following with a show at Lee’s Palace. On the eve of the US release date the band will be in New York City, playing at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square.

Self Medication follows up 2006’s Hellcat released Peculiar, a DVD documentary, the Slack In Japan live import and most recently the The Boss Harmony Sessions LP featuring LA DJ Boss Harmony.
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Sub Pop has announced plans to celebrate their 20th anniversary with the appropriately named SP20 festival set to take place July 12th and 13th at King County’s Marymoor Park.

Though more artists are expected in the next few months, the initial lineup includes Green River (members of Pearl Jam), Flight of the Conchords, Iron & Wine, Wolf Parade, No Age, Pissed Jeans, Patton Oswalt (Ratatouille), Eugene Mirman, Todd Barry and others.

On April 1, 1988, the day the founders quit their jobs and rented a tiny office in the Terminal Sales Building in Seattle—was the day Sub Pop Records was born. To celebrate the label’s twentieth birthday, Sub Pop will release a series of re-issues starting with Mudhoney’s Superfuzz Bigmuff: Deluxe Edition (May 22, 2008), launch a limited run of the Sub Pop Singles Club, and throw a series of over-the-top birthday parties for itself this summer.

Sub Pop boasts one of the most notable catalogues in American independent music, with releases from acts like Nirvana, The Postal Service, Afghan Whigs, Chixdiggit, Sunny Day Real Estate, Sonic Youth, The Dwarves, The White Stripes, The Murder City Devils and countless others.
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An Albatross have joined Eyeball Records. The Wilkes-Barre, PA-based band previously released Blessphemy…of the Peace Beast Feastgiver and the Bear Warp Kumite via Ace Fu and GSL.

The band has posted a brand new song to commemorate the signing. You can check out “Now Emerges the Silver Pilgrim” on their myspace page.
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