Vinyl Collective/Suburban Home have announced their free LP compilation for this year’s FEST. Delicious Vinyl Collective includes unreleased tracks from Jon Snodgrass, Two Cow Garage, Ghost Buffalo, Austin Lucas, Mike Hale, Drag the River and more. It is limited to 1,000 copies and will be given away at the FEST; any extras will be sold online afterwards. The tracklisting is below.
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Halo Fauna are touring with the Gadabout DIY film festival for an extended music and film tour. The band will join the festival of short films by independent filmakers on a nearly two month tour of the continental United States. They’ll be joined by Kristine Virsis of Just Seeds, who will be selling items from the Just Seeds/Visual Resistance Artists’ Collective. The tour will include a stop at (you guessed it), the FEST.

The tour will be joined by some of the IfYouMakeIt crew, making it one of the coolest convergences of DIY film, video, music and art this year. The dates are below. Halo Fauna released Durak this year via Plan-It-X, Salinas and Dead Broke.
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Mike Felumlee (ex-Alkaline Trio, ex-Smoking Popes) has posted some details on an upcoming Split EP. He’ll be heading to record at Chicago Sound Lab. The EP will feature four new songs from Mike and four songs from Travis Brown of Split Habit.

Mike has been posting home-recorded demos on his MySpace page. Felumlee released a split CD with Dan Andriano of the Alkaline Trio in 2002 and the lesser known 64 Hours in 2001.
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The schedule for this year’s FEST has been released. You can check out the schedule, start planning your dates and cursing Tony and the other schedulers by cruising the FEST site.

This year’s lineup includes, but is not limited to: The Bouncing Souls, Less Than Jake, Coalesce, Leatherface, Dillinger Four, Municipal Waste, Strike Anywhere, Ann Beretta (Final Show). A Wilhelm Scream, Rehasher, Paint it Black, None More Black, The Lawrence Arms, Atom & His Package (reunion), Dead To Me, The Ergs, Off With Their Heads, Toys That Kill, The Arrivals, This Bike Is a Pipebomb, The Holy Mountain, Asshole Parade, Valient Thorr, Chris Wollard and the Ship Thieves, Bridge & Tunnel, The Falcon, Drag the River, Japanther, Asshole Parade, Triclopse! and Stressface.
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Teenage Head guitarist and co-founder Gord Lewis has spoken out on the death of his friend and bandmate Frankie Venom. Lewis gave a candid interview to Grant Lawrence of CBC Radio 3 yesterday, and you can stream it at their website. Venom, aka Frank Kerr, died from cancer on October 15. He was 51.

For fans in the Haminton, Ontario area wishing to pay their last respects, visitation times are tonight from 6 to 9 PM and tomorrow from 2 to 4 PM at Swackhamer, Blachford and Wray, located on 1341 Main St W.

Kerr and Lewis helped form the band in 1975 when its members were still in high school, making them one of the earliest punk bands in Canada and winning them the title of “Canada’s Ramones.” The group released their self-titled debut in 1979, breaking through with the album Frantic City in 1980. Teenage Head most recently teamed up with Ramones drummer Marky Ramone to record an album of the band’s classics. It was released this past April.
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Poison The Well have announced a European tour next Spring that will feature support from 36 Crazyfists.

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The Tossers have detailed their forthcoming album. The record is titled On A Fine Spring Evening and is due out October 28, 2008.

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