The tribute to beloved hardcore act Kid Dynamite is heading for a Spring 2009 release. Originally announced in September 2007, the final lineup is set to feature All Teeth, Broadway Calls, Comadre, Death Is Not Glamorous, Deny Everything, Energy, The Ergs!, Fallen From The Sky, First to Leave, The Geeks, The Golden Age, Hollywood, Hour of the Wolf, Jump The Shark, Lewd Acts, No Harm Done, No Secrets Between Sailors, Soldiers, Static Radio NJ, This Is Hell, To the Lions, 12cent and The Wonder Years

The organizers of the tribute have posted three of the high profile covers, coming from The Ergs! (“Fuckuturn”,) This Is Hell, (“Troy’s Bucket”) and Broadway Calls (“Bookworm”)

You can check out those covers on the tribute’s myspace page.
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Confirming rumors, Dead To Me have cancelled their appearance at this year’s FEST. The band posted a MySpace bulletin addressing it:

I can’t tell you how sad it makes​ us to inform you that we are not able to play THE FEST 7 later​ this month​.​ Jack is about​ to be a father and needs​ to be around for his soon to be born son. I tried​ convincing​ him that Floyd​ kinda​ looks​ like a baby and maybe​ Jack could​ practice chang​ing diapers and holding Floyd​ like a baby in a gigantic baby bjorn​ in Gainesville.​.​.​ but he insisted on staying home for, “The real deal”​.​ Can’t say I blame​ him really.

No word yet on who’ll take their place.

All of this comes as the band is prepared to drop the Little Brother EP and follow it up with their sophomore LP African Elephants next year.​
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Run For Cover has announced the signing of two new acts. The first, Title Fight, hails from Wilkes Barre, PA and previously released material on FlightPlan Records. The second, Transit comes from Stoneham, Massachusetts.

Transit issued This Will Not Define Us this year via Barrett while Title Fight delivered Kingston [7 inch] in 2008.

Stay tuned for information on both upcoming releases.
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Randolph, New Jersey’s Anchors For Arms have posted a new song from their forthcoming album, Remember Why You Came This Far which is due out in December. The band parted ways with their label, Lobster Records in July.

You can find the song on their myspace page.
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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 strange, slow, old people in the community talking…

This past week President Bush has signed a controversial new bill which aims to strengthen anti-piracy efforts in the United States and create greater penalties for copyright infringement. The RIAA / MPAA supported law creates an intellectual property czar who will report directly to the president and allows for asset forfeiture. Bands continue to express concern on the new digital reality, with Sweden’s Millencolin recently making their views known. In a bizarre twist donation-supported digital label Quote Unquote Records were recently shut down by their ISP for providing copyright material for download — material they themselves own. In other news eager Punknews readers have taken to demanding answers directly from Propagandhi about their next record. Look for it this winter. Fans were shocked to hear that the legendary Elvis Costello would appear on the new record from popular act Fall Out Boy. That album has also been delayed from it’s original election day release date until December.

Next January will see a new EP from the Loved Ones. Suburban Home Records has announced a free Delicious Vinyl Collective 12″ to be available at the Fest this Halloween weekend. Dead To Me are gearing up for the release of their new EP Little Brother and have the title track available for download. Rise Against have their Nightmare Revisited track “Making Christmas” available for preview as well. Green Day has new studio footage online. We saw a clip of Fucked Up and Moby performing the Ramones classic “Blitzkrieg Bop.” Tom Gabel of Against Me! has a new video online of his new solo track “Harsh Realms.” Ian Mackaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi will soon embark on a spoken word / q&a tour.

This week the Canadian punk scene lost one if its veterans, as we said goodbye to Teenage Head vocalist Frankie Venom (1957-2008).

This week we ran your votes through the cold, unfeeling Punknews computer-brain and calculated Your Favorite Records from September. The results saw records from Bridge and Tunnel, Young Widows and the Ergs come out on top.

This week we spoke with Kim Helm ad Brian Johnson of Whiskey and Co (interview) as well as Greg Attonito of the Bouncing Souls (interview). This week’s edition of Vinyl File featured a look at upcoming releases. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Dillinger Four‘s long-awaited new record C I V I L W A R, the debut full length debut from Shorebirds, featuring Matt Canino of Latterman and Jawbreaker‘s Chris Bauermeister, Orlando’s How Dare You, featuring former members of As Friends Rust and Hand to Hand, and the sole LP from now-defunct RVA melodic hardcore act Resonance.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Parts and Labor, Of Montreal, Escape The Fate, and And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead with tours kicking off from Fishbone (US), Copeland (US), and The Sword supporting Metallica (US / Canada).
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