So, by now we’ve figured out that Weezer dig colors. Their newest record, The Red Album, was recently released, and the band is giving away some free stuff. We’ve got some CD’s, a vinyl single and some posters to give away to a few lucky winners.

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Grabass Charlestons have posted six new songs on their myspace page. The band explained the origins of each:

The first three we finished a few months ago and will be released as a Razorcake Sister Series 7″ with The Arrivals. Should come out just as soon as The Arrivals finish their recording. The other three we finished a little under a year ago and will be released on Barracuda Sound very very soon. We are just waiting for them to show up in the mail.

Though the band is streaming three songs from each seven inch, a fourth song is exclusive to both vinyl versions so you’ll need the actual seven-inch to hear them. You can find the six on their myspace page.

The band’s last full length was 2005’s Ask Mark Twain.
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The LA Times has a lengthy interview with Dexter Holland of The Offspring.

The piece discusses Holland’s hobbies which include three planes, a hot sauce factory and developing BlackBerry software as well as talking about Green Day‘s American Idiot. Both the Offspring and Green Day hit almost simultaneously a decade ago, so the article suggests that the Offspring need to deliver a “Sgt.Pepper” rebuttal to Green Day’s Pet Sounds.

You can check out the interview here.
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Lock And Key‘s final record is now out on Get A Life Recordings. The record follows the band’s 2004 record Pull Up The Floorboards and includes 14 tracks. The band announced their split last June after five years together.

The label has posted three songs from the album on their MySpace Page.
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Today we’re pretty exciting to bring you the highly anticipated new full length from political hardcore act Verse. One of the most furious records you’re likely to hear in 2008, the record is titled Aggression and was released on June 10, 2008.

You can check out the album on their Punknews.org Profile.

Don’t forget to catch them on one of their upcoming shows with labelmates Have Heart.
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California pop-punk group This Time Next Year have made both of their EP’s available for streaming online at Purevolume page.

The band will release their new record and follow-up to A Place for You, titled The Longest Way Home, via Run for Cover Records on July 22nd. Some music from the album is available on their myspace page.
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Washington DC-based punks Police & Thieves have posted the entirety of their new EP/7-inch Amor Y Guerra. The EP promises “hardcore a la Verbal Assault or Dag Nasty” and the band will be compiling all their material to date on the CD version of the EP to be released this month.

You can check out the EP on their myspace page.
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Fake Problems have posted an update from the studio as they work on the follow up to their full length debut, How Far Our Bodies Go:

We’ve been in Omaha, Nebraska for the past two weeks recording our next full-length @ ARC Studios. AJ Mogis (Cursive, The Faint, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Bright Eyes, The Good Life) is manning production duties and he is a freaking genius.

This past week we tracked a 6-piece horn section, flute, violins, cellos and GANG VOCALS. When we’re not recording, we’re watching 30 Rock (live every week like it’s shark week). We’re still hammering out the details of a release date, but we’ll keep you posted

Earlier this year, the band released the Viking Wizard Eyes Wizard Full of Lies 7-inch.
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Rise Against has posted an update on the continued progress towards their next full length:

We arrived in Fort Collins and immediately got to work on the songs, and in fact, ending up writing a a whole bunch more of them in the first couple weeks. Bill and Jason helped coax the rock out us and, when we were’t trying to cover Motorhead songs, we actually got a lot done. Once we finished the structure of songs, Brandon got to work on the drums while the rest of us entertained ourselves around town.

A Wilhelm Scream even rolled through town on their recent tour and we were all able to take a minute out of our schedules to enjoy a BBQ over at Bill’s house, at which point many trampoline antics ensued

uitars and bass started shortly after, and so far are going great. They sound bigger and better than anything we’ve done yet and everyone has been really impressed. We’re experimenting with a lot of sounds and attempting to tastefully implement them in our songs, so far, so good…

We took the weekend off to play the Weenie Roast with Metallica, Offspring and our friends in Bad Religion, Pennywise and Flogging Molly. The show was incredible, definitely the best radio show we’ve ever been a part of, thanks to our fans who made the trip…

The band does not have an official release date or title for the album, but it is expected to drop in late 2008/early 2009. Produced by Bill Stevenson (of Black Flag, Descendents and ALL fame), the album is the follow-up to their 2006 album The Sufferer & the Witness. The new album will also be their first release with current guitarist Zach Blair, who replaced Chris Chasse on tour last year.
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Against Me! has posted one of the songs from the upcoming deluxe version of their critically acclaimed major label debut, New Wave.

Along with the original album, the album will include five bonus tracks, “Full Sesh”, “You Must Be Willing”, “Gypsy Panther”, “So Much More”, “and “Untitled.” The disc will feature a 24-page booklet including some of the art developed by Steak Mtn.

The album will be only available at retail in France on Fargo Records but plans are in place for the album to be made available via mailorder to the rest of the world. The release is due out June 10, 2008 and mailorder information can be found here.

You can find “So Much More” on their myspace page.
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After recently announcing the completion of their newest album, Toronto hardcore luminaries Fucked Up officially announced their partnership with Matador Records via their blog.

Matador confirmed the deal by disclosing the band’s first release on the label. Fucked Up’s 18 minute long monster Year of The Pig EP will get a re-release/remix treatment on the American label. Both the original 12″ and a series of 7″ remixes will be pressed by What Your Rupture and sold through Matador.

According to a post on labels’s blog, “…there are three edits of the title track and three unreleased tracks. Each edit and each unreleased track will be featured on one of three 7″ singles, each with a different sleeve, to be released in the US, the UK, and Japan respectively.” To keep the vinylphobes happy, Matador also plans to release all of the Year of The Pig related material (original track, remixes, and all b-sides) on a CDEP.

The 12″ re-release, 7″ remixes, and CDEP will all be released Worldwide on July 22, 2008.
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Knowhere Records has announced the final track listing for their tribute to Groovie Ghoulies. The record is titled Let’s Go Ghoulie and is due out June 27, 2008.

It features 27 songs and was mastered by J.Powell at Steinhaus and the cover art was provided by Jake Sauer. It will be officially released at Insubordination Records Festival in Baltimore MD. Speaking of the Ghoulies, we’re still streaming two new albums from former Ghoulies frontman Kepi. You can find them on his Punknews.org Profile.

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Winnipeg’s Making Waves (Sick City, ex-The New Aesthetic) have posted a new track off their upcoming EP Never Come Out Alive The band worked with producer John Paul Peters (Comeback Kid, Means) on the project. A release date and other details are forthcoming via their MySpace page.

Toronto’s The Little Millionaires have posted a new song titled “I really hope Chi Pig dies soon.” We have no comment from the targeted SNFU frontman. You can check the track out over at MySpace.

The members of Virginia Beach’s Rain Over Battle may still be in high school but the band has opened for the likes of Tim Barry, the Gaslight Anthem, and the Loved Ones. The band has shows coming up with the Riot Before and the Sex Slaves and some recordings online at their MySpace page.
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