Bomb the Music Industry! will be hitting the road later this month for a US tour with Shinobu followed by The Fest 7 and a Canadian run with Mustard Plug in November.

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In honor of the forthcoming World Series, MxPx have posted their version of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” which is sort of the theme song to America’s version of cricket. The track will be available on the bands MySpace page for the duration of the series.

You can check out the song on their myspace page.

The band is in the midst of recording their second covers album. They released Secret Weapon in 2007.
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Hardcore act Furious Styles have posted two new tracks from their forthcoming full length, Menace. The record is set for release on November 25, 2008 via Eulogy.

You can check out “Stillbirth” and “Enemy of the World” on their myspace page.
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Mike Damante of The Daily Cougar recently performed a revealing interview with Tom Delonge of Blink-182 and Angels and Airwaves. In the interview, Tom talks about some of the more ambitious comments he made at the beginning of AvA as well as explaining some of the band’s sound and influences.

Along the way, he addresses being called “the Tom Cruise of punk rock” in a review, and how stoked he was to see Big Drill Car and TSOL at Warped.

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All-American Rejects have announced some upcoming tour dates in support of their forthcoming album. The record is titled When The World Comes Down and was recently pushed back to a December 16, 2008 release.

Along with shows in the US and Canada, the band has one show in the Bahamas and an appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien scheduled.

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On the heels of their recent tour of China and Japan, Israel’s Useless ID are headed to Russia for a run of dates. The trip is the band’s second visit to the country, but the band will be venturing into a number of areas which few punk acts have played.

The band is touring in support of The Lost Broken Bones which is currently streaming on their Punknews.org Profile.

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The Black Atlantic, the new project from Geert van der Velde of Shai Hulud, have announced a US tour set to kick off next month. The band is supporting their 2007 debut, Send This Home.

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This week’s video features another up and coming band from the musical hotbed of New Brunswick, NJ. Let Me Run generate a sound with obvious influences from other New Jersey bands like Saves the Day, Thursday and the anthemic tendencies of the Bouncing Souls.

You can check out a live version of the track “I Don’t Stomp, I Battle” from the band’s debut LP Meet Me At The Bottom, which hits stores in January 2009 via XOXO Records, below by clicking Read More.
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Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba‘s comic book, The Umbrella Academy, has been optioned for a film version. Gerard talked about the prospect with NME:

If we get the right people in place, it could be really amazing but I’m trying not to think about it too much. I’m keeping my head focused on the comics.

He also spoke to the LA Times saying:

I’ve heard 2010 and 2011. I think 2010 is the big Marvel year, right? So maybe 2011. Not that this is going to be like those movies, really. I said going into the meetings that this film has to be really progressive.

Punknews.org has reviewed two sets of the series, The Umbrella Academy: Vol. 4 [comic] and The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite.
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The New Rising Sons, the band formed by Garret Klahn after the dissolution of Texas Is The Reason, have announced plans to formally reunite:

It’s been eight years since we have even attempted to play a lick of music together. So many of the bad music business cliches happened to us back then (some of which we certainly caused), forcing us to go our separate ways. When we were all finally able to get back in the same room (only recently) without all the past hang-ups things kind of naturally fell into place again.

We realized what brought us together in the first place and what continues to still tie us together. In the age of bands reuniting for a variety of reasons, we find we’re just picking up where we left off. We never had enough popularity for this to be our big comeback. It’s just a return to where we left the music eight years ago.

New Rising Sons released two EPs through GrapeOS, the label formed by Texas is the Reason bandmate Scott Winegard.
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Clouds have announced tour dates to round out the rest of 2008. The band will be supporting We Are Above You on dates with Torche, Coliseum, Boris, Growing and Black Cobra.

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The publishers of Skate 2 have unveiled the eclectic soundtrack for the sequel to the popular skateboarding game. The game features tracks from a variety of relevant bands including ASG, Dragonforce, Gaslight Anthem, Louis XIV, One Man Army, Public Enemy, Rage Against The Machine, Riverboat Gamblers, Stiff Little Fingers, Suicidal Tendencies, T.S.O.L., Teenage Bottlerocket, The Clash, The Riptides, The Specials, Wu-Tang Clan and Youth Brigade.

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Adam Pfahler of Jawbreaker and Blackball Records emailed us about one specific part of the upcoming Unfun remastered reissue. Though earlier reports indicated that the album was to be limited to Hot Topic retail at release, this is no longer the case:

Unfun will be released to ALL retail stores at the same time, fair and square. Hot Topic will carry it-they have our other stuff, which is great if you don’t have a mom and pop around and still like to have something in your hand to peruse. Or you can order it through Blackball.

Blackball previously reissued an expanded and remastered version of Jawbreaker’s 1995 major label debut Dear You.
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