Weakerthans frontman John K. Samson recently participated in Record Of The Week Club. As the project’s website explains:

The Record Of The Week Club is a weekly recording session featuring musicians from diverse musical backgrounds. Never knowing who their co-creators will be – an incognito and disparate group of musicians meet at MCM Studios in Winnipeg, Canada every Wednesday evening. Over the course of one evening they are charged with the task of getting to know each other, arranging, rehearsing and recording a piece under the guidance of Mike Petkau. The song is immediately mixed and uploaded and made available for download that same night.

Jazz drummers are being paired with punk guitarists and opera singers; classical violinists are being paired with taiko drummers and DJ’s, folksingers are being paired with sound collage artists and trombonists. The combinations are endless. And to top it off, we’ve invited local filmmakers to document the process.

Samson was paired with Inuit throat singer Nikki Komaksiutiksak, and Curtis Walker of electronic act Blunderspublik to write, record and mix a song in one evening. The results are titled “Keewatin Arctic” and you can stream or purchase the song at RecordOfTheWeekClub.com.
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Atlanta’s Black Lips will visit cities in Europe, Mexico, and the US (well, mostly California) in the coming months. Some highlights include a show at famous London nightclub Heaven with the The King Khan and BBQ Show, as well as festival appearances at Ireland’s Electric Picnic and the Connect Festival in Scotland.

The band is supporting their 2007 full length Good Bad Not Evil, which was released by Vice Records.
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Vancouver’s You Say Party! We Say Die! are getting set to hit the road in Canada in support of their upcoming digital-only remix project Remik’s Cube. The band will play shows between Victoria and Halifax from late August through the end of October. The band will be supported by labelmates Winter Gloves, as well as Quebec’s Beast and Toronto’s Lioness on selected dates.

You Say Party! is supporting last year’s full length Lose All Time. The remix album Remix Cube, which features work by Montag, The Octopus Project, Wallpaper, RAC and others, hits online stores on August 26th via Paper Bag Digital.
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This Is My Fist drummer (and member of the Holy Ghost) Craigums has just been crowned the 2008 World Air Guitar champion in Oulu, Finland. This year is “Hot Lixx Hulahan”‘s second US win and his first ever world championship.

The recent US finals were judged by Mr. Jello Biafra.
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According to Brooklyn Vegan Rival Schools are playing a show in New York City on November 6th at the Mercury Lounge. The recently reunited band is also working on a new album and has planned appearances at a few fests, including the Lisk Fest and Fun Fun Fun Fest.

The band released only one LP before calling it quits: United By Fate.
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Straylight Run have lined up some headlining dates in support of their new EP Un Mas Dos, due out September 16th, 2008. The dates are below.

The band recently lost co-singer Michelle Nolan to her own solo project.

Following this the band will roll out with Anberlin, Scary Kids Scaring Kids and There for Tomorrow.
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The Swellers have sent us a list of their upcoming tourdates, starting next week and taking them all the way to das FESTENHÄGEN. The Michigan band will see stretches with Polar Bear Club in Canada and Streetlight Manifesto and The AKA’s in the US. Check it out below by clicking Read More.

The band is still supporting their sophomore album My Everest.
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These Arms Are Snakes have dropped the first song from their upcoming album. You can grab the song “Red Line Season” from Spinner.com or stream it at MySpace. The record is titled Tail Swallower & Dove and is due out October 07, 2008. It is the follow-up to Easter which was released in 2006.

TAAS recently unveiled details of their split with Pelican and tour dates with sBACH.
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We’ve snagged some more details on the upcoming split betwixt Thursday and Envy. The seven song disc with be pressed on 180 gram vinyl and feature artwork by Don Grzeca and will include a CD in the package.

The disc will feature three originals from both bands and a remix of the Thursday track “In Silence” into “Appeared and Was Gone” by Anthony Molina of Mercury Rev. Three limited screen-printed album editions will be available exclusively through Temporary Residence’s and Thursday’s web stores starting September 15.
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Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness has announced dates for a short solo tour to kick off in December. They’re available below.

Ness last released Cheating At Solitaire and Under the Influences both in 1999. He recently announced plans to return to the studio next year with his bandmates in Social Distortion to rework on their followup to 2004’s Sex, Love and Rock ‘n’ Roll.
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Canadian musical legend Neil Young has tapped the younger generation for his most recent outing, picking Wilco and Death Cab For Cutie as his opening bands.

Death Cab will be joining Young during mid-October and November with Wilco coming in mid-November and rounding out the rest of the tour in December.
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NOFX and Rage Against the Machine might be playing beside various political conventions this year, but songwriter Ike Reilly and troublemaker Jello Biafra are actually getting asked on stage. Well, kind of. This election cycle Ralph Nader is back with Matt Gonzalez (who unsuccessfully ran for mayor against Gavin Newsome in San Francisco) as his running mate and they’ll be holding “Super Rallies” outside the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. The purpose of these “Super Rallies” is to serve as “a call for opening the presidential debates.”

Still performing beside the convention, I guess, but at least on stage with candidates will be Biafra, Reilly and other notables such as Nellie McKay, Val Kilmer, Tom Morello, and Cindy Sheehan. Details can be found at VoteNader.org.
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Punknews.org editor Justin recently sat down with Lemuria at the behest of Sound Scene Revolution. The SSR boys have posted the podcast which you can hear here.

As I recall there was a lot of yelling at Jeff from Bomb the Music Industry in the middle of it.
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