Rise Against recently contributed a list of the top five things that non-voter can do on election day. The band is apparently hoping that civic minding individuals younger than voting age could help influence voting age individuals.

The list includes helping voters register and find the appropriate precinct, encouraging people to vote and other ways to help voters make it to the ballot box. You can check out the entire list here.

The band released Appeal to Reason this week.
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Billboard is reporting that Replacements principals Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson got together last month to collaborate in Minneapolis with Soul Asylum / Prince drummer Michael Bland. Stinson told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that the trio didn’t record anything yet since “that’s getting to first base. We’re sort of still in the dugout chewing gum.” On Westerberg he commented they were “good friends, and I’m sure we’re going to work together again.”

Billboard followed up with Westerberg’s manager Darren Hill, who put a damper on any reunion talk by claiming that there are “no plans beyond that right now.”

The Replacements split in 1991. This year Rhino issued expanded reissues of the band’s complete studio catalog.
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Sacramento’s Far has announced a November tour of the UK. The recently reunited group will kick things off in Newport, Wales on the 24th and wrap things up in London on the 28th. The band will also play two Californian dates in October, under their quasi-secret moniker Hot Little Pony. The band recently posted a cover of the song “Pony” by R&B singer Ginuwine on the Hot Little Pony MySpace page. .

Members of Far have been quite prolific since that band’s split in 1999. They last released Water & Solutions in `98. Frontman Jonah Matranga performed with Onelinedrawing, New End Original and Gratitude while guitarist Shaun Lopez went on to form the Revolution Smile.
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Sacramento’s Far has announced a November tour of the UK. The recently reunited group will kick things off in Newport, Wales on the 24th and wrap things up in London on the 28th. The band will also play two Californian dates in October, under their quasi-secret moniker Hot Little Pony. The band recently posted a cover of the song “Pony” by R&B singer Ginuwine on the Hot Little Pony MySpace page. .

Members of Far have been quite prolific since that band’s split in 1999. They last released Water & Solutions in `98. Frontman Jonah Matranga performed with Onelinedrawing, New End Original and Gratitude while guitarist Shaun Lopez went on to form the Revolution Smile.
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