We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• Rise Against – Appeal to Reason
• Jolie Holland – The Living and the Dead
• Tegan and Sara / City and Colour – live in New York [first night]
• I Set My Friends on Fire – You Can’t Spell Slaughter Without Laughter
• King Tuff – Was Dead
• Decades – Numbered
• Street Dogs / Time Again / Flatfoot 56 – live in Chicago
• Coalesce – 012:2
• Smoke or Fire / Far from Finished – live in Philadelphia
• Shuteye Unison – Shuteye Unison

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Georgia’s Ninja Gun are still riding the crest of their latest album, Restless Rubes, released earlier this year on Suburban Home Records. What’s more, the band will be playing The Fest this Halloween weekend in Gainesville, Florida. In our first in a series of interviews with bands playing The Fest, Michael Dauphin chatted with Ninja Gun’s Jonathan Coody.

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Red Scare has announced plans to release a tribute to Swingin’ Utters. The label explained:

Probably one of the most important punk bands to me and Red Scare, and in short, it’s an honor to be involved with this. There’s lotsa great bands offering up a song and you know we’re gonna do right by the legendary SF punk band. We’re thinking it’s going to be called “Untitled 21” and look for it sometime in 2009!

Bands have already begun recording, but no word on who those bands actually are yet.
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Today we’ve got fifteen copies of the latest issue of Define The Meaning Magazine, issue #7. The issue includes features with Matt Skiba, Toby Morse, Descendents, Loved Ones, Doomriders and more.

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Billy Bragg, Radiohead, Gang of Four, The Cribs, Klaxons and others have formed the Featured Artists Coalition. The goal of the group is to push for more control of copyrights and a bigger share of revenue for artists rather than the labels.

The group states their manifesto: No one knows what the structure of the music industry will look like in future. But all artists face the same challenges in today’s digital world, so we need to speak with one voice to help artists strike a new bargain with record companies, digital distributors and others. Together, the Featured Artists’ Coalition will stand up for all artists by engaging with government, music and technology companies, and collection societies, arguing for fair play and, where necessary, exposing unfair practices.

You can find more information here.
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