Don Giovanni has two new records on the horizon. First up will be the debut LP from Cheeky. The band recently joined the Art of the Underground Singles Series and released Choke On A Cheeseburger via Quote Unquote Records last year.
Pregnant will be releasing their debut 7″ – Wanna See My Gun?. You can grab a song from the release here: “You Give It To Me”.
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Of Montreal have released the new video from their forthcoming full length. The record is titled Skeletal Lamping and is due out October 21, 2008. Polyvinyl). The video was directed by Marc Reisbig and Hanne Berkaak of animation team SSSR (the team behind Subtle’s award winning “The Mercury Craze” video).
Los Angeles, CA’s Shiny Toy Guns have posted a new video from their November 4th album, Season of Poison. The band will be out on the road in a run up to the release of the album.
Dead To Me have posted the title track from their forthcoming EP. The record is titled Little Brother and is due out October 28, 2008. It is the follow-up to Cuban Ballerina which was released in 2006.
You can find “Little Brother” via Fat here.
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OC Alternative is reporting that legendary hardcore/punk pioneer Ian MacKaye will be hitting the road later this week for a spoken word/Q&A tour of Southern California. MacKaye was instrumental in the launch of Minor Threat, Embrace, Fugazi, The Evens and Dischord Records.
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Chuck Ragan, Ben Nichols of Chuck Ragan and Tim Barry have collaborated on a new track together titled “Revival Road.” The song was recorded at Adorea Studios on 10/12/08, Engineered and mixed by Travis Bell in Hamden, CT. It features playing and singing by everyone on that leg of the tour which also included Frank Turner, Digger Barnes, Jon Gaunt and Todd Beene.
You can grab the MP3 here: “Revival Road.”
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Toronto’s Constantines are headed south soon. The band will play their first apperance in Mexico at the Manifest Festival in Mexico City. They’ll follow that with southern Ontario dates and a tour of the northeastern United States. The trek will feature apperances on select dates by Tim Fite and later Obits (Rick Froberg of Hot Snakes and Drive Like Jehu). Fite recently sampled the Cons on the song “Sing Along” from his new record Fair Ain’t Fair.
The band will release a new 7″ this fall for the song “Our Age” from Kensington Heights. It will feature a Winnipeg-recorded cover of Neil Young‘s “Fuckin’ Up” as the b-side. A video for the song was recently unveiled, directed by George Vale and Broken Social Scene‘s Kevin Drew.
The Cons were also recently featured in a book of photography by Jeremy R Jansen. CON/LADY/08 features shots of the band’s North American tour with Ladyhawk from this past summer.
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A video for Rise Against‘s contribution to the recently announced Nightmare Revisited compilation is available online. The band, along with Tiger Army, Flyleaf, Korn, Marilyn Manson, Shiny Toy Gun and others are covering tracks from Danny Elfman’s score to 1993’s Nightmare Before Christmas. The compilation is the second set of recordings associated with the film. A previous set of covers coming in 2006 and featuring takes by Fall Out Boy and Panic At the Disco.
You can find the video here.
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Warship, the new project from Francis Mark and Rob Lauritsen of From Autumn To Ashes, have opted to give away the entirety of their debut full length, Supply and Depend, for a limited time. The band draws comparisons to “ Illusion of Safety / Artist in the Ambulance-era Thrice mixed with the raw, dissonant punk attack of a slightly toned-down Dillinger Escape Plan or Don The Reader.”
You can check it out here.
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Manchester, UK’s Buzzcocks will be reissuing their first three full length albums via EMI starting October 27th. The list includes Another Music In A Different Kitchen, Love Bites, and A Different Kind of Tension. Each reissue will have “two discs per reissue full of associated singles, demos, live versions, backing tracks, and Peel sessions, some of which are previously unreleased.”
The band previously released Flat-Pack Philosophy in 2006 through Cooking Vinyl.
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Epitaph has announced plans to release the debut full length from New Jersey’s Leathermouth. The hardcore band features Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance and promises “raw confrontational punk rock”
Some music from the band can be found on their myspace page. The band’s debut is expected in 2009.
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Today’s stream comes from Orlando, FL-based How Dare You. The band includes former members of As Friends Rust and Hand to Hand and will be releasing their new album, Comfort Road on November 4, 2008.
You can check out the album on their Punknews.org Profile.
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Our friend Torsten from UN:ART:IG shot a video of Toronto’s Fucked Up during their recent 12-hour New York City performance. The highlight in question features the members of Fucked Up teaming up with popular electronic artist (and former punk) Moby to perform a cover of the Ramones classic, “Blitzkrieg Bop.”
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