Today, we’ve got an exclusive stream of the upcoming album from Amarillo, TX-based surf/punk outfit The Mag Seven. At various times, the band has included members of ALL, Black Flag, Descendents, GWAR, Hagfish, Only Crime and others.

The record is titled Knife to a Gunfight and is due out May 13, 2008. You can check out the album on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Rx Bandits and Portugal. The Man have announced tour dates together this summer. On separate legs of the tour the bands will be joined by Facing New York, Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground and Maps & Atlases.

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After their upcoming album’s bizarre album cover surfaced last week, many have speculated if the strange artwork is some sort of elaborate hoax.

According to a report from MTV, it’s not a joke and the album cover with its “suburban cowboy” imagery is actually real. The band’s publicist explained:

Yes, that’s absolutely the cover, t’s what they chose. They looked at a bunch of mockups, and that’s the one they decided to go with. It’s not a joke.

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Former Ramones drummer Richard “Richie Ramone” Reinhardt has lost the lawsuit he filed last September. The suit named estate of Johnny Ramone, Apple itunes, Wal-Mart, Real Rhapsody and others for the digital use of the six songs he wrote while a Ramone.

The suit hinged on whether Richie had relinquished digital rights when he signed his contract with the band. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin said in a ruling Friday that the contract clearly covered digital uses of his songs. She noted that the contract defining phonograph records contained the words “now or hereafter known” when referring to forms of reproduction, making it clear that future technologies are covered by the agreement.

Reinhardt’s six songs for the Ramones were “Smash You,” “Somebody Put Something in My Drink,” “Human Kind,” “I’m Not Jesus,” “I Know Better Now” and “(You) Can’t Say Something Nice.”
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Anti-Flag has kicked off a “tour tournament” in the hopes of finding a tour mate for a future trek. The band has taken nominations from fans and put them into a chart with the hopes that the list will be whittled down by a series of match ups.

Currently, the contest is in the initial phase, with Rise Against vs. Lagwagon, Casualties vs Sum 41, Streetlight Manifesto vs AFI, Against Me! vs. Lawrence Arms and many others.

To vote, you can visit Peacepunk.

Update: We’ve received word from sources close to the band that this is not a band-sponsored contest, but one assembled by fans on peacepunk. The band is helping to spread word about the contest, but is not behind it.
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After their summer touring wraps up, Poison the Well will apparently be headed home to begin work on their next full length and sophomore full length for Ferret.

The band is aiming to hit the studio in the fall with an early 2009 release planned. They released Versions in 2007, with the record prior to that, You Come Before You, released in 2003.
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Set Your Goals have revealed the track listing and artwork for the upcoming “deluxe” reissue of their 2006 album, Mutiny!. The album will feature 16 tracks with five tracks appearing on a second disc along with the video for “Mutiny!.” The entire thing will be released with a revised layout/new packaging. The record is due out May 13, 2008. A vinyl release of the album will precede with a release on April 29, 2008.

The band will also be performing some shows in the days leading up to their Warped Tour run.

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Daughters and Russian Circles will embark on a full U.S. tour together starting this June.

The former released the polarizing Hell Songs in 2006 via Hydra Head and were at work on the followup as of this past January. Russian Circles’ Station is due out May 6 on Suicide Squeeze, following up 2006’s Flameshovel-released Enter.
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Daughters and Russian Circles will embark on a full U.S. tour together starting this June.

The former released the polarizing Hell Songs in 2006 via Hydra Head and were at work on the followup as of this past January. Russian Circles’ Station is due out May 6 on Suicide Squeeze, following up 2006’s Flameshovel-released Enter.
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Canadian Straight Edge band Liferuiner has posted a new song from their upcoming Uprising Records release, Taking Back the Nightlife.

You can find “megaDeath” on their myspace page.
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