Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Wire, the Sainte Catherines, Jason Collett, Chad VanGaalen and You Say Party! We Say Die! are among the bands playing this year’s Pop Montreal music festival. The annual event will run from October 1st through the 5th at various venues throughout Montreal, Quebec. For the list of current revealed participating artists, head to popmontreal.com.

This year will also see the return of Puces Pop, a D.I.Y. festival with a marketplace, gear swaps, record sales, a fashion show and numerous workshops and seminars.
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The Rocket Summer and the Morning Light will hit the road together for a U.S. tour this fall.

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Chicago, IL’s Scouts Honor have released a previously unreleased track as a live video on YouTube. Titled “Books of Bokonon,” the news comes tandem with the announcement that the band plans to re-issue their older material digitally through Thinker Thought Records.

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The Bouncing Souls have announced a handful of shows for September. The long running and much loved punk band will perform at a Hot Water Music reunion gig in Portland, OR, to be followed later in the month by three East Coast dates with bands like Sick Of It All and Everybody Out!.

Earlier in the year the Jersey moochers announced plans to release one downloadable song on the first of every month in 2009.
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Paul Westerberg, accomplished solo artist and former frontman of Minneapolis based The Replacements, has released his new album 49:00 as a digital-only download through Amazon for $0.49. The album is a single, undivided track without listed song titles.

The details for the album as well as the artwork and liner notes are available on Paul’s site here.
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Collectors’ Choice Music has announced plans to reissue the second and third albums from Television guitarist Tom Verlaine. The label will put out new versions of 1981’s Dreamtime and 1982’s Words From The Front, both of which were originally released on Warner Bros. Records. The expanded editions of the full lengths will feature new liner notes by Jason Gross, editor of Perfect Sound Forever.

Dreamtime featured a number of artists joining Verlaine, including Television’s Fred Smith on bass, Bruce Brody (Patti Smith Group, Pretenders) on keyboards, Jay Dee Daughtery (Patti Smith Group, The Church) and Rich Teeter (The Dictators, Twisted Sister) drumming, guitarist Ritchie Flieger and bassist Donnie Nossov (John Waite, Pat Benatar, Lita Ford). Words From The Front was the Verlaine’s first collaboration with his now long-time guitarist Jimmy Rip and also featured Mink DeVille members Joe Vasta (bass) and drummer Tommy Price (drums).
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Melbourne, Australia’s Cut Copy have announced a co-headlining tour with Sydney’s Presets. The two electronic duo’s plan to tour North America in mid-September, beginning in Mexico and weaving its way across the States and up into Canada. The band is currently finishing up some summer tour dates and European festival apperances in support of last year’s In Ghost Colours.

Prescott, Arizona based Partners In 818 have released a new song from their upcoming EP A Well Lit Place For Shady People. Expect a release later this year on Satiated Records. Partners In 818 recently released a split 7″ with folk-punk duo Andrew Jackson Jihad. You can check out the music at MySpace.

Rutland, Vermont’s Strike Orange has announced that they will play an upcoming rally for presidential candidate Barak Obama. The band got the campaign’s interest through their preformace at last month’s Peace, Punk and Metal Festival 2008 to raise money for Darfur. More details can be found on their MySpace page. The band, formerly known as Orange Juice, boasts six albums worth of material despite it’s members only having a median age of 20 years old.
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