Shadows Fall have posted a new video from their 2007 album, Threads of Life.

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Dance Gavin Dance have posted a new song from their upcoming album. The record is titled Dance Gavin Dance and is due out August 19, 2008.

You can check out the song on their myspace page.
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The Real McKenzies have detailed their upcoming album on Fat Wreck Chords. The record is titled Off the Leash and is due out August 05, 2008.

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Have Heart has posted a new song online. The track comes from their upcoming full length as well as the recently released teaser 7-inch, You Can’t Go Home Again. The full length is titled Songs To Scream At The Sun and is due out July 08, 2008

You can check out “Hard Bark on the Family Tree” on MySpace.
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Canadian punk pioneers Teenage Head are set to hit the road in Ontario later this month. The Hamilton natives will appear at a number of festival dates, including an NXNE show, the S.C.E.N.E. festival in St. Catharines and the Fort Erie Friendship Festival.

The band recently released Teenage Head with Marky Ramone, which is exactly what the title says. For the project the band re-recorded a set of their classics with the Ramones drummer. The band spoke with Exclaim about the album and the future:

We’ve re-released our debut album and now we’ve released this, and those were both things we really wanted to do. Now it’s time to move on. We’re actually going to go both ways: we’ve got recordings from before the first album that no one’s ever heard before and we’ve already started writing for a new record. I mean, an album of completely new songs? That would really freak everyone out.

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Sleepercar, the project from Jim Ward of Sparta and At the Drive-In have announced the bulk of their summer touring plans.

Along with the ongoing Canadian tour announced last month, the band will be performing the US solo as well as suppoting the Old 97’s in late July. The band released their debut, West Texas, this year.

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Useless ID have announced a handful of shows in the UK later this month. The band will be playing with 3 Storeys High.

They also provided an update on the status of their forthcoming full length:

Our new record is not out yet, but we are finishing the artwork and then its ready for release.

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San Francisco’s Setoff have embarked on a East Coast tour.

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Bad Religion‘s Brett Gurewitz and Greg Graffin recently spoke to Rolling Stone about the new reissue of their album, New Maps of Hell, which is due out July 08, 2008.

Brett explains why the band is reissuing the record so soon:

I’ve found that most kids I know don’t want a CD even if you give it to them for free. They love the music, but they just want to get it on their iPod. Really what it’s about is: here is the CD, but here’s some really nice artistic content you can have. It’s not just a cheap piece of plastic. There’s some posters, you got all the lyrics, you’ve got a DVD which is beautifully shot with seven cameras of the set we did when first releasing the album. It’s a new paradigm.

He also comments on the decline of the CD as a format, saying:

I’m not worried in the slightest. I think the music industry is about to enter into a golden age. It’s wonderful. I don’t think record companies need to sell CDs. Major labels need something cheap that they can sell bulk of, or they’re going to go under. Small companies like myself, that kind of evolved to be the cockroaches in the music industry, to survive on meager sustenance? We’re going to be fine. We’re the ones who will be left when the whole thing craters. Music consumption is up. It’s CD sales that are down. My kid doesn’t have a single CD, not one.

You can check out the rest of the interview here.
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Another batch of new reviews posted today as we do every Tuesday and Friday.

• Weezer‘s new one, The Red Album
• Atreyu‘s second release of their major label debut, Lead Sails Paper Anchor 2.0
• A new 7 inch from Trapped Under Ice
• Retrospective comps from Fahrenheit 451 and The Pietasters

You can check out all the reviews here.
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Midland Park, NJ’s Paulson have begun working on a new record with their friend Jesse Cannon. The band plans on fine tuning the fifteen or so songs that they have written and putting the finishing touches on a few more to have a wide selection for the new album.

The band plans to record in August. They last released All at Once in 2005.
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The second part of the Less Than Jake‘s ongoing interview series has been posted. The first edition featured drummer Vinnie Fiorello. This episode features multi-instrumentalist/saxophonist (and Berklee alumni) Peter “JR” Wasilewski.

JR mainly talks about his transition from music student to Less Than Jake member.

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A trailer has been released for the upcoming documentary about Hunter S.Thompson, the father of “Gonzo Journalism,” and author of notable works like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The film is led by director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter and features narration by Johnny Depp. Thompson passed away in 2005.

The film addresses the major touchstones in Thompson’s life-his intense and ill fated relationship with the Hell’s Angels, his near-successful bid for the office of sheriff in Aspen in 1970, the notorious story behind the landmark Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, his deep involvement in Senator George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, and much more.

You can check out the trailer here.
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