Michigan-via-California’s SecondShot have finished their new record Bland Finale with Ryan Greene. It will be out in Japan in late August and elsewhere soon after. The band will tour Japan in September with Nerf Herder and Useless ID. Afterwards they’ll hit Europe with UncommonMenFromMars. The band has two new songs from the record online at MySpace.

Beverly, Massachusetts’ instrumental act Caspian will be in in Europe from September 30th to October 29th in support of the European release of their 2007 release The Four Trees. The band is also getting ready to release a vinyl pressing of their 2005 debut ep You Are The Conductor. More information on that release can be found here.

Cardiff, UK three piece Joy Of Sex will release their debut self titled EP through their Robot Architect label on August 18. It will be accompanied by the free download December, Month Of Plenty released through Sound and Vision Downloads on the same day. The band claims influence from bands like Wire, Public Image Ltd, and fellow Cardiff act the Victorian English Gentlemen’s Club. You can find details at MySpace.
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Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I’m Adam White and I’ll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here’s what got the community talking…

Excitement boiled over this week as the dates were announced for the fall trek featuring Rise Against, Alkaline Trio, Thrice and Gaslight Anthem. This is shaping up to be one of the year’s biggest tours. Three of the four will join acts like NOFX, Flogging Molly and Pennywise at Edgefest 2008. We also saw Riot Fest expand its impressive roster again with the Lawrence Arms, Bouncing Souls, and Jay Reatard. This week had it’s share of break ups, with the demise of the polarizing Be Your Own Pet and Ottawa’s The Fully Down. It wasn’t all losses though, in the gains category we had HORSE The Band recruiting a new drummer, Red Scare Records expanding their roster with Druglords of the Avenues, and Metal Blade doing the same with Lazarus A.D.. Against Me! of course finds it impossible not to be in the news, and this week they brought us both a digital EP of b-sides and the video for the song “New Wave.”

We had a ton of details on upcoming recordings this week. Rise Against unveiled their Appeal To Reason artwork, as did Pully, who just finished up in the studio. Napalm Death have begun recording as well. Unearth detailed their new one while the Vandals announced a rarities collection. Teenage Bottlerocket updated their tour dates and announced a split with the Ergs! to much fanfare and excitement among our readers. The new album from Lagwagon‘s Joey Cape has a North American home, as it’s now set to come out on Suburban Home Records. Finally we had hints of a new band dubbed Reviver from Matt Canino of Latterman and Shorebirds. On an odd note, we also had a little instructional video from H2O teaching mosh pit-style self-defense.

On a sad note we closed out the week with news of the death of Shin “Shinister” Kodachi of The Lucky Stiffs (1979-2008).

So what’s coming up this week? Look for releases from the Real McKenzies, Suicide Note, Black President, Hawthorne Heights, and Norma Jean with tours kicking off from Tiger Army and Said Radio (dates), Matt Pryor (of The Get Up Kids), Chris Conley (of Saves The Day) and Kevin Devine (dates) and Dead Hearts, Know The Score and Energy (dates).
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The Action Design (ex-Tsunami Bomb, Pipedown) have posted an instructional video on D.I.Y. surfboard repair. The clip features the song “Lounge in Formation” from their upcoming full length Never, Say.

The band’s new album will arrive on September 23rd via Popsmear Records.
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Toronto trio Born Ruffians have announced details on their new single for the song “Little Garçon” from their recent full length Red, Yellow & Blue. Warp Records has announced a number of formats (as par the course for UK singles), including a double 7″, two digital bundles (one featuring a White Williams remix and the other with a Four Tet remix), and a tour-only 12″ featuring just the remixes.
The band has a number of tour dates coming up in the US and Canada with bands like the Coast, Plants and Animals and Nurses.
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Omaha, NE’s The Faint are streaming their entire new album Fasciination online at their MySpace page. The album is due out on August 5th via their own label blank.wav. The effort follows up 2004’s Saddle Creek released Wet From Birth.

The band is in the midst of an international tour in support of the full length, with upcoming dates in the US, Canada, Australia and throughout Europe.
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Now defunct San Francisco punk rock band The Lucky Stiffs recently announced the death of their former guitarist Shin “Shinister” Kodachi. The band announced:

It sadden us to write this, but our former guitarist and family member Shin took his own life on the night of the 23rd in Japan. He was a great human being, loved music and friends. We are honored to have shared a stage, home and laughs with him. This is a rough time for us all, and we thank you all for the support. Please keep his family in mind as well, this is such a hard thing to go through.You will be missed Shin, hope the pain is gone now.

The band last released Gold in Peace, Iron in War in 2007 and broke up later that year. Our deepest condolences go out to Shin’s family and friends.
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Florida record label Coptercrash Records has returned from a hiatus and has a new release in the works. The label plans to release the new full length from Trinity, Florida’s Reseptors. More details, music, and releases are in the works soon, so keep an eye on the label’s MySpace page. The label has been around since 2001 and has released 17 records from bands like Transistor Transistor, The Saddest Landscape, Acedia, 1956 and Party of Helicopters.

Tromaville, New Jersey’s Four Fingers are out on the road supporting their new album 69 Dudes!, which was released on Pizza War Records this past June. It is the follow up to the 2007 release TK-421. You can stream music from the record at MySpace. The band plans to hit the road in mid-August in the New England area.

Life of Agony frontman Keith Caputo will tour this August with Fairmont. The tour kicks off this Tuesday in Asbury Park, New Jersey and wraps up in Hartford, CT on the 25th. Check Keith’s website for dates and details.
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Following up on our article from a year and a half ago; grindcore supergroup, United Nations have announced the release of their debut album on September 9th via Eyeball Records. The project features Geoff Rickly from Thursday, Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw/Head Automatica, Chree from the Number 12 Looks Like You and Kiss It Goodbye’s Eric Cooper. The included image in this article is rumored to be the cover art, yet we’ve received no confirmation or denial.

The album is available for pre-order via Interpunk.
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Thinker Thought Records have announced plans for the launch of their upcoming digital label on August 26th. The label launch will coincide with new digital releases from Scouts Honor, Empty Orchestra, Hinter, DS Yancey, and Har Meggido! The releases are as follows:

DS Yancey Lonely Riders (9-song full-length)
Hinter Exploding With Favors (4-song EP)
Har Meggido Har Meggido (5-song EP)
Empty Orchestra Get Well Soon (7-song EP)
Scouts Honor Remembrance Of This That I Loved / Six Skeletons” (5-song EP) and A Spirited Conversation Between A Blind Man A Mute (6-song EP)

In other label news, Mayhew The Traitor‘s recent release Deathwish can be streamed in its entirety at the label’s website.

Scout’s Honor vocalist Jared Grabb has released a free downloadable EP of solo, acoustic material. The EP, titled Crude Songs, contains 4 demos songs recorded back in 2003. Grabb plans to record his second full length solo album this winter.

For more information on these releases, and upcoming tourdates for these bands, head over to Thinkerthoughtwrong.com
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Denver, Colorado’s Only Thunder have teamed up with Michigan-based label/collective Bermuda Mohawk Productions to release their debut album, Lower Bounds. The release will be available in vinyl and digital download formats. The first pressing of the record will be available in October and will be limited to 500 LP’s (200 black, 300 limited-edition color) with hand-screened jackets. Additionally, all vinyl copies purchased will include a free digital download of the full album.

In the meantime, you can listen to several finished tracks at the band’s MySpace page.
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Matt Canino of Shorebirds and Latterman has formed a new act dubbed Reviver. The band will play their first show on August 15th with Banner Pilot in Seattle, followed by a show in Olympia on the 16th. At this time there doesn’t appear to be an online presence for the band, but if one of you highly trained MySpace ninjas finds it, let us know.
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Lutherville, MD based pop-punk act All Time Low has announced tour dates for the fall. The (deep breath) “Compromising of Integrity, Morality & Principles in Exchange for Money Tour” will also feature Mayday Parade, the Maine and Every Avenue.

All Time Low is currently out on the Warped Tour and will remain on it through the 18th of August. They’re supporting 2007’s So Wrong, It’s Right.
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Against Me! has debuted the video for for the song “New Wave” from the album of the same name. The clip was directed by Justin Staggs (The Loved Ones, No Use For A Name, Strike Anywhere, NOFX).

The band recently released a digital EP of b-sides from the record.
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