The Mighty Aquabats will be taking their mightiness on the road this fall as they continue to support their mighty upcoming television pilot. The bill will also feature Suburban Legends.

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Easton, Pennsylvania based indie rock act Settle have signed with Epitaph Records. The band is currently in the studio recording with Adam Lasus (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Yo La Tango).

The band was formed in Seattle in 2006 by brothers Nick (vocals, guitar) and Willie Rose (drums). The band’s current line up also features guitarist Dave Goletz and bassist Chris Burcin. To date the group has over 100 songs to their name and have self-released a pair of EPs. In `06 the band won an MTV-sponsored “Best Music on Campus” competition which awarded them a chance to play the network’s annual Spring Break shindig in Cancun, Mexico. Epitaph head Mr. Brett commented in the label’s press release “Settle has everything I admire in a great band: poetry, tunefulness, originality and vision, all pursued recklessly, as if the whole thing might fall apart at any second and you can dance to it.”

The band will release their debut full length on Epitaph in early 2009.
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Anberlin have announced a headlining tour in support of their upcoming full length. The record is titled New Surrender and is due out September 30, 2008. It is the follow-up to Cities which was released in 2007.

The bill will also feature support from Straylight Run, Scary Kids Scaring Kids and There for Tomorrow.

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The Bronx have set a title and release date for their highly anticipated third full length. The record is titled The Bronx III and is due out November 11, 2008. It is the follow-up to The Bronx II which was released in 2006.

You can check out the artwork from the record here and check out a song posted earlier this year on their myspace page.
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These Arms Are Snakes have posted an update about their long-awaited collaboration with Chicago post-rock/metal/hardcore kingpins Pelican:

It looks like this long-rumored project is finally going to see the light of day. Our split/collaboration with Pelican is off to the pressing plant and should be all packaged up in time for our West Coast tour with sBACH in September.

For those not hip to the news, we teamed up with Pelican for their encore at Islington Academy in London back in the spring of 2007. Nine dudes on stage played through Pelican’s Pink Mammoth. We decided to recreate that moment by releasing a version of the song with contributions from both bands.

But the trade off was forcing Pelican to contribute their embellishments to our song Diggers Of Ditches Everywhere. I must say: those nerdy post-rockers really know how to make a song so layered and textured that you can get completely lost in the expansiveness of the sound. They definitely transformed it into something totally new.

Also of note is that their label is planning to release CD versions of the collaboration as well. Original plans called for only a limited 10-inch version, but CDs will be made in a “limited, small batch.”

TAAS will be releasing their new full length, Tail Swallower & Dove on October 07, 2008.
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California melodic punk/hardcore band Radio Suicide released their Lights & Sweat EP in May of this year. The band’s sound contains traces of Set Your Goals, This Is Hell and Comeback Kid. To get people interested, they are offering a full stream of Lights & Sweat over at their Punknews profile.

You can catch the band on tour through the West coast this August and Fall.
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Genghis Tron have announced a headlining tour in support of their recent album, Board Up the House and the corresponding set of remix EPs. The bill will feature support from Yip-Yip.

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Cobra Skulls guitarist Charlie Parker has announced his departure from the Red Scare punk act:

Over the past three years I have had an unbelievable time playing with Cobra Skulls but unfortunately it has come to an end. I have decided to pursue other interests in life and will no longer be rocking with the Cobras.

I would like to thank all the people who supported us, came to our shows, let us stay at their house, bands we played with and everyone else who made this experience so much fun. I wish you guys the best of luck and know your next tour is going to be awesome. A special thanks to Toby for his support and belief in Cobra Skulls. I’ll miss all of you.

The band released Never Be a Machine [7 inch] this year.
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Toronto-based psychobilly act The Creepshow have announced a release date and posted some new music from their forthcoming full length. The record is titled Run for Your Life and is due out August 26, 2008. The record was produced by Steve Rizun (Protest The Hero, The Flatliners, Ill Scarlett) and is the follow up to Sell Your Soul which was released in 2006.

You can check out “Rue Morgue Radio” on their myspace page.
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Nightmare Of You have posted a new demo which could potentially appear on the follow up to their recent 5-song EP, Bang!.

You can find “Hey Sweetheart” right here.
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Jesu, the prolific project from former Godflesh mastermind Justin Broadrick, has announced the release of a new EP. The record is titled Why Are We Not Perfect? and is due out September 09, 2008. The five track EP includes the two tracks that were originally released on a split with Eluvium as well as three new tracks. The album promises less “pounding guitars” and more “texture and melody” than past releases.

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Atlanta’s ambient / garage-punk act Deerhunter posted an update about the leak of their upcoming full length. The record is titled Microcastle and is due out October 28, 2008.

Vocalist Bradford Cox explained:

I have researched it and am not going to make excuses but the fact is that Mediafire has made several upgrades recently when I was taking a break from blogging. In all seriousness, I AM THE ONE WHO FUCKED UP by not realizing that without creating an account, Mediafire has been archiving my uploads “for my convienience” via my “browser chache (!?!)” and that as part of their new “convienient” features they offer automatic “folder sharing” which must be turned off. I don’t blame anyone for, and am not accusing anyone of STEALING things.

Please keep in mind that these records are made possible by our record labels, Kranky and 4AD. Microcastle was released today on iTunes. If you downloaded it in advance through the leak and you can afford it I urge you to support those labels and us by downloading it legally.

The rest of the blog posting is available here and you can “legalize” your copy here.
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Greg Graffin, esteemed and tenured professor life sciences and vocalist for Bad Religion recently participated in a Los Angeles Times feature that looked at the dynamic of musicians who also juggle other careers.

Graffin noted:

I had big questions about where we come from. The things that religion usually satisfies, I was learning from science. The band had started two years before that, and it was really a good synergy because we were talking about Bad Religion, and it’s implicit in evolution that there are no gods

I actually think it’s made us a far more interesting band. And I think it’s possible that if I hadn’t maintained my academic pursuits, the band would have burned out earlier. But in terms of satisfaction, there’s no difference to me between lecturing and performing. It’s all entertainment. You’re just trying to inspire people.

You can check out the rest of the story here.
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