Bloc Party have unveiled summer touring plans which includes shows in the United States and in the UK. The band has also confirmed an appearance at the Toronto, Ontario stop of the Virgin Festival in September.

The band released A Weekend in the City last year.

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Dead To Me have announced plans to begin recording their sophomore album:

As of today, it will be released in September on Fat Wreck Chords. It’s written, just need to record the fucker. I personally feel like it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me, I’m so lucky to play with Jack, Nathan, and Ian and I feel like we’ve all written a record to be very proud of. I love them very much and we’re super excited about getting into the studio to make this record happen.

The band released Cuban Ballerina in 2006.
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Frenzal Rhomb‘s Lindsay McDougall was asked to appear in a video which he was told, would represent the lives of working and touring musicians. However, later he discovered the video was part of a propaganda piece developed by the music industry to show to school children to discourage file sharing.

McDougall was outraged by the misrepresentation, saying:

I was lumped in with this witch hunt [and] completely taken out of context and defamed. I have never come out against internet piracy and illegal downloading and I wouldn’t do that – I would never put my name to something that is against downloading and is against piracy and stuff, it’s something that I believe is a personal thing from artist to artist.

I would never be part of this big record industry funded campaign to crush illegal downloads, I’m not like [Metallica drummer] Lars Ulrich. I think it’s bullshit, I think it’s record companies crying poor and I don’t agree with it. I don’t think i’m going to sue anyone but I would say that already this morning people’s opinion of me has been lowered,” McDougall said.

I’m from a punk rock band, it’s all about getting your music out any way you can – you don’t make money from the record, the record companies make the money from the record. If they can’t make money these days because they haven’t come onside with the way the world is going, it’s their own problem.

You can find more details here.
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I Am Ghost have announced plans to hit the studio in June to begin work on the follow up to their Epitaph debut, Lovers’ Requiem.

We are pleased to announce the producer for the new I AM GHOST album. We will be recording in MD all of June with producer Paul Leavitt who produced some kick ass bands like All Time Low, The Bled, Senses Fail, Circa Survive, Darkest Hour, and tons more.

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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are playing this Saturday, May 3 at 9pm at Sunfest in West Palm Beach, FL.

Other acts scheduled to play the 5-day festival include: The Tossers, The Academy Is…, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Good Charlotte, Ozomatli, Matisyahu and Morris Day & the Time.
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Story Of The Year will be releasing a new DVD on May 13, 2008. The DVD begins with the recording of the band’s previous full length, In the Wake of Determination and continues through two years of touring and recording.

You can find the trailer here.

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Toronto, Ontario’s The New Enemy have released their debut Outsourced EP as a free download. In return for the free tunes the band is asking for a donation to Amnesty International. The Simon Head produced EP features five original songs and a Kid Dynamite cover recorded at Toronto’s Brown Room and mastered by Michael Dominici at Music House Mastering in New York City. You can download the EP from their website.

Binghamton, NY based pop-punk band The Serlingtons have released four new songs. Two are from an upcoming 7″ (also to appear on a four-way split 12″) and two are re-recorded versions of previously released songs. The band is currently booking a tour of the US midwest for early August.

Chicago’s Chronic Seizure posted a new song from their upcoming LP titled Over My Shoulder. The record will be released by Fashionable Idiots/No Way at the end of the month.
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