The full track listing for the upcoming Rock Band 2 has been revealed. According to a report from Kotaku, the listing will include 84 songs, all culled from master recordings and feature artists like AFI, Beastie Boys, Dinosaur Jr., Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Paramore, Rage Against The Machine, Rise Against, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Offspring, System of a Down, Social Distortion, Panic at the Disco, Nirvana, Motorhead, Modest Mouse, Mastodon, Metallica, Jane’s Addiction and many more.

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The full track listing for the upcoming Rock Band 2 has been revealed. According to a report from Kotaku, the listing will include 84 songs, all culled from master recordings and feature artists like AFI, Beastie Boys, Dinosaur Jr., Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Paramore, Rage Against The Machine, Rise Against, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Offspring, System of a Down, Social Distortion, Panic at the Disco, Nirvana, Motorhead, Modest Mouse, Mastodon, Metallica, Jane’s Addiction and many more.

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Montreal, Quebec’s Trigger Effect have spent the last year exercising a work ethic as heavy as the rock ‘n’ roll coated punk rock they’ve been playing for the last five years. Their self-released album Dare to Ride the Heliocraft was recently re-released by Signed By Force Records. With an extensive North American tour about to wrap up, the band’s vocalist Nick Babeu talked to Punknews interviewer Michael Dauphin about what they’ve been up to, and what we can expect from them.

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Hatebreed have announced details and a release date for their forthcoming live DVD. It is titled Live Dominance and is due out September 02, 2008. The DVD will include the band’s entire 80 minute show shot in front of a sold-out crowd at Harpo’s in Detroit on the Supremacy tour, plus additional live concert footage shot all over the globe in such cities as Philadelphia, New-Haven, New York and more.

The Harpo’s Detroit show was shot entirely in hi-definition and directed by Kevin Custer with musical production/mixing from Grammy Award winner, Josh Wilbur (Lamb Of God).

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Motion City Soundtrack have announced some headlining dates in September. Kicking off on Thursday, September 4th at MSU Auditorium in East Lansing, MI, the band will embark on this 12 city tour which will be the first part of their last string of tour dates in 2008.

Joining them on the road are eight-piece indie rock orchestra, Margot & The Nuclear So And So’s, who are releasing Animal! (vinyl & digital) and Not Animal (CD and digital) on October 7th on Epic Records, and Equal Vision recording artist Dear and the Headlights, who are releasing the follow up to their 2007 release Small Steps, Heavy Hooves this September.

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In a new interview, Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy provided some updates on the band’s progress towards their next album:

Patrick’s obviously been writing all the music, and the words haven’t even really come in yet. I’ll go over to Patrick’s house and he’ll kind of just sit there and play songs, and I’ll be like, ‘Ah, that one’s awesome!’

As for the tone of the record, given Wentz status as a expectant father and married man?

I think that it’s kind of blown out of control. That people expect us to have a happy fairy tale record or something. We weren’t in the right headspace to write songs before,” he adds. “We tried to before we went to Chile, and it makes a lot more sense now. We became good friends again, which is good.

In related news, another reader pointed us to this article which indicates that Wentz has collaborated on a new track with rapper T.I. Wentz promises a sound like “something from ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ “
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In a recent interview with Alternative Press, Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz discussed the band’s next album, whenever it may arrive:

We put out one record a year between ’87 and ’94–we put out seven records. So that’s what we like to do. When I was a kid growing up and I was a fan of bands, bands used to put out a record every year. It was like writing songs was part of your job as a musician. We were always writing; we would always put out a new record.

I don’t think 13 months is a short time to wait for a person who’s a fan. If I’m a fan of a group, I consume their record greedily and I’m ready for more in six months. So the reason is, I feel that it’s a band’s job to put out records and not wait forever. It’s something you do for the fans, and it’s something you do for yourself as an artist.

Whether we can do it remains to be seen. I’m super busy here at Epitaph and Greg is a professor at UCLA now, and so it’s not as easy as it used to be to find the time to do a good job and write an album a year or so. The goal’s an album for every two years and hopefully we can do it.

You can find the rest of the interview here.
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UK-based Rudimentary Peni have released a new full length, No More Pain. The album is the first collection of new material from the long-running anarchist punk act since 2004’s Archaic EP.

The album promises ’77-era fast punk and the ’80’s-influenced slower, chugging material. The 10th track on the album is “Pachelbel’s Canon In E,” the band’s take on the 1600s-era classic piece by composer Johann Pachelbel.

The band’s label has posted a track from the album and you can find it here.
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A new, six-part documentary about San Francisco, CA based TKO Records has made it’s first appearance online through the video website Vimby. The series will be updated weekly.

You can find the first episode here, or
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Weezer‘s Rivers Cuomo spent some time with Spinner to discuss the genesis of their new record, The Red Album. The whole band jumped in to talk about blood Water-pik, the influence of multiple songwriters within the band, and their plans for the future.

You can check out the interview here.
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In a recent interview, Every Time I Die‘s Keith Buckley confirmed that the band has finished up their contract with Ferret Records and are currently talking to new labels. The band also mentioned the subject of major labels:

Our latest album was the last thing we had to deliver for Ferret so we are in limbo. We are talking to some labels right now, I think people will be very pleased to know that it looks like we will not be signing with a major. Some were interested but I don’t think we even got down to discussing deals, I know I would have signing a Shakira-esque 100 million dollar 360 deal but it never seemed to come up in conversation.

The band released The Big Dirty in 2007.
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Something Awful have taken Warped, Against Me!, Set Your Goals and Katy Perry to task in their latest column by Andrew “Garbage Day” Miller:

Warped Tour 2008 features a band roster that’s so brutally and invasively stupid that the whole event inevitably becomes an eight-hour brain rape. Revisiting the trauma now feels like ripping open a freshly stitched gash, but Warped Tour remains at large for more than a month, and if I can save someone in Elkton, Florida or Shakopee, Minnesota from the horrors of enduring this torture marathon, well, it’s worth the searing agony.

He had some less than kind words for Against Me! as well:

Like Anti-Flag (mercifully not present), Against Me! dodges criticism by being aggressively sincere about its idealistic yet horrible music. It’s like if some wimpy, beige-sweatered guy who’s on the verge of tears plays a wretched Springsteen cover at a coffee shop.

Playing overblown folk-rock to promote noble causes is more laudable than playing eyeliner emo in order to fuck teenagers, I guess, but let’s not mistake Against Me! for a bastion of punk purity. The members of Crass would fucking crucify themselves before playing something like Warped Tour.

His description of the Higher:

The Higher is an emo band with an R&B singer, a combination that’s like reading that you’re fired, then having the termination notice squirt acid in your face.

You can find the rest of the article here.
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