Poison The Well have announced that they will be working with producer J. Robbins on their next full length. Robbins has worked on albums from a variety of bands including Against Me!, Clutch, Paint it Black, Modern Life is War, Murder By Death; he is also a veteran of notable punk acts Jawbox, Burning Airlines and Government Issue.

The album will follow 2007’s Versions. It is set for release in May 2009 on Ferret Music.
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With Rise Against about to drop their new album, comes the release of PS3 game, Baja: Edge of Control which will feature a new song from the band on its soundtrack. To celebrate, the makers of the game have provided us with a copy of the game itself as well as an exclusive new Rise Against 7-inch to give away.

You can find more on the game via the developer diaries here.

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After they wrap up their European tour with These Arms Are Snakes, Russian Circles will be playing five shows with Clutch to wrap up 2008.

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Gogol Bordello have fleshed out their upcoming tour with dates that will keep the band on the road from tonight through December. The band continues to support Super Taranta!.

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Fear Before (formerly Fear Before the March of Flames) have released the first song from their forthcoming, self-titled full length. The record is due out October 28, 2008 and the track, “Fear Before Doesn’t Listen To People Who Don’t Like Them” is available to anyone who signs up for their mailing list.

You can sign up and get the song here.
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Today we’ve got a stream of the new rarities compilation from The Measure [SA]. The collection is titled One Chapter In The Book: A Collection of Standard Waits and Measurements and it collects their previous 7-inches and was released by Kiss of Death and Team Science.

All of the songs have been remastered and include cuts from the Union Pool 7″ on Idiot Box Records, the Old Crow 7″ on Los Diapers Records, the split 7″ with the Modern Machines on Salinas Records, the split 7″ with O Pioneers on Kiss of Death Records, the split 7″ with Off With Their Heads on Chunksaah Records, the Means To An End 7″ on Salinas Records, the Historical Fiction 7″ on Kiss of Death/Team Science Records, and a previously unreleased track. The band has posted two remastered tracks, “Historical Fiction” and “Union Pool,” at their MySpace page.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Anberlin has a stream of their new full length. The record is titled New Surrender and is due out September 30, 2008.

You can check it out on their myspace page.
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Copeland have a new song available for streaming. The song comes from You Are My Sunshine and the record is due out October 14, 2008. It is the follow-up to Dressed Up & in Line which was released in 2007.

You can find the song via Spin.com.
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A number of you wrote in with the news that documentarian/provocateur Michael Moore has released his new 90 minute documentary, Slacker Uprising for free online.

As you might expect, the film presents a more Democratic-friendly perspective, covering Mike’s 62-city tour leading up to the 2004 election. As the title implies, the film focuses primarily on the youth turnout in 2004. Notable figures in the film include Tom Morello who performs, along with Eddie Vedder, R.E.M., Joan Baez, Steve Earle, and Viggo Mortensen.

Since Mr.Moore was also involved with Punk Voter in 2004, it is possible that some footage from that campaign also appear in the film though this editor’s copy is still downloading from iTunes so that remains to be seen.

US and Canada residents can sign up to download the film in multiple formats here. You can also find the film on iTunes here.
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Chicago, IL’s Rise Against have posted the video for their new song “Re-Education (Through Labor)”. The song appears on the band’s upcoming album Appeal to Reason, set for release on October 07, 2008 via Geffen. More details about the album can be found here.

You can check out the video here
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Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness has expanded his December Californian tour plans.

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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Zao is back in the studio working on a follow up to their 2006 Steve Albini produced full length The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here. The band is recording with As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis and Daniel Castleman, with Zao’s Scott Mellinger rounding out the producion team. The lineup for the record will feature Mellinger on guitars, frontman Dan Weyandt, bassist Martin Lunn and drummer Jeff Gretz (From Autumn to Ashes). Scott commented:

We simply can not wait for everyone to hear these new songs. We have not been on the road since the Demon Hunter and Throwdown tours in 2006, which has given us plenty of time to get our wits about us and to really concentrate on creating the best batch of material we possibly can.

The album will be released by Ferret Music in 2009.
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Manic Hispanic has announced that vocalist Ray “Bones” Rodriguez has left the group to pursue other ventures and spend time with his family. The band will be joined at their upcoming show supporting Rancid by Efram Schulz of Death By Stereo. The bands will perform together on October 3rd at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, California.

The band last released The Recline of Mexican Civilization in 2002.
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