Philiadelphia’s The Menzinger’s have announced plans to release their next EP via Red Scare Industries. The label’s CEO; the infamous Tobias Jeg, explains:

Good grief, kids! Yeah, we DO have plans for 2009, okay? Big, big plans too!

It’s like this, yo.

As you know, there will be new releases from Cobra Skulls and Sidekicks. The Copyrights dorks have been schemin’ and Teenage Bottlerocket has some songs too. We shall see! But we’re still compiling songs for our Swingin’ Utters tribute and I am told we are just waiting on the Dropkick Murphys. Them’s just rumors though. What I do know is that bands like Teenage Bottlerocket, Off With Their Heads, La Plebe, Dillinger Four, Useless ID, and many more have done their part.

In regards to new blood, Red Scare is proud to announce that we’ll be working with the Menzingers from Philadelphia! Those little bastards have been playing their hearts out around the country and we’re happy to have them aboard. We’re shooting for a 4-song EP out by May. Stoked! Those guys will be touring all year and whatnot too. Now let’s hear it for the Electric DeSean Jackson!

Any last words? Sure. TBR is going to Europe soon, The Copyrights are gonna be in Alternative Press, and The Falcon is doing “something” in 2009. There’s your fuckin’ news!

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O Pioneers!!! have posted two new songs from their upcoming album. The record is titled Neon Creeps and is due out February 10, 2009.

You can find the new tracks “9 am Everyday” and “Dead City Sound” on their myspace page.
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Tera Melos have released a new, free covers EP. The EP, titled Idioms, Volume 1, features the band’s take on songs from The Beach Boys, The Clash, Pixies, Rivers Cuomo and Polaris. The Polaris track is, in fact, the Pete & Pete theme song.

You can download the whole thing here.
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Duncan Redmonds of Snuff, Toy Dolls and Billy No Mates fame has announced his solo compilation, Bubble & Squeak. Due out February 17, 2009 on World Records, the album features collaborations with NOFX, Leatherface, Hi-Standard, Hardskin, Nomeansno, Guns’n’Wankers and others.

Duncan explains:

The project was started in 2004 by handing out a load of riffs to people met over the years touring and playing with Snuff and asking them to add their ideas to them. Then finished in 2008 when Jools picked up his bass and shouted a few short sharp profanities. Sometimes it was the other way around and riffs were offered, sometimes melodies were suggested and a lyric fitted to it, sometimes old songs were reworked and sometimes new songs jammed out, all topped off with a Donovan cover and a mix by Nick Philpin in Kilburn NW London.

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Full Blown Chaos and See You Next Tuesday will be co-headlining a tour together in March.

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Pennsylvania’s Believer have signed to Metal Blade Records through the label’s Cesspool imprint, run by Howard Jones (Killswitch Engage). The band formed in the mid 80’s and has been on a long hiatus, but is now set to release their fourth full length, Gabriel, through their new label home. Says guitarist/vocalist Kurt Bachman:

It’s been quite a long break for us, but metal stays in your blood and the constant nagging from Daub became overbearing. The opportunity to work with Howard Jones, Brian Slagel and all the amazing talented people at Metal Blade is fantastic and we are looking forward to a long and creative relationship. Needless to say, we’re stoked about Believer’s future.

The group last released Dimensions in 1993 through Roadrunner Records.
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Los Angeles, CA’s Big Business have posted a song from their new album for streaming online. The song features new band member Toshi on guitar, offering a change from the band’s normal bass and drums lineup. The song is titled “Gold and Final” and will be on the band’s new album, Mind the Drift, which is scheduled for an April 2009 release through Hydra Head Records. More details from the album are available here.

You can head over to the band’s MySpace page to take a listen. The band released Here Come the Waterworks in 2007.
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We’ve posted some new reviews. You can check them out below:

• Teenage Bottlerocket / The Ergs! – Under the Influence Vol. 4 [7 inch]
• Evacuate – Evacuate
• Bouncing Souls / Gaslight Anthem – live in Asbury Park
• Nobunny – Love Visions
• mc chris – mc chris is dead
• Attack! Vipers! / Astpai – Split
• The State Lottery – Cities We’re Not From [12 inch]
• Joey Terrifying – The First Demo
• Resistors – Damaged Ugly & Loud
• Dismemberment Plan – Change

You can check out any of our 7958 reviews right here
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My Chemical Romance have launched a pre-order for a forthcoming 12-inch picture disc set to coincide with the release of the highly anticipated film, Watchmen. The disc will feature a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Desolation Row” and the motion picture soundtrack song, “Prison Fight.”

The film itself is hopefully going to be released March 6, 2009 if the various parties can reach an agreement.

You can find the pre-order and a look at the artwork here.
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Though there were promises that the band would continue, it looks like Plus 44 is done. Mark Hoppus spoke MTV about the project:

Since late August of last year, I’ve been in the studio every week writing songs with the intention of putting out a record of my own. As of this week, I’ve got about 10 songs in various stages of completion and another 10 ideas that I still want to work on Travis has played on a bunch of [my] tracks, and he’s working on his own album as well. We totally support each other in whatever we’re doing.

He’s like a brother to me. I see him in our studio every week, and we’ll be in the room of the studio he’s working in, listening to stuff he’s recorded, or he’ll come into the room where I’m working and check out my songs. He’s played on a bunch of them, and he’s asked if I’ll play on some of his songs. We collaborate and give each other ideas and support. That’s what I meant when I said [in the interview at the Woodies], ‘No matter what I work on, Travis will be a part of it.

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Warped Tour has confirmed some more additions to the 2009 edition of the tour. The latest are Forever the Sickest Kids. Madina Lake and In This Moment.

They join the previously confirmed lineup which features Anti-Flag, Less Than Jake, Silverstein, Senses Fail, Streetlight Manifesto, The A.K.A.s, The Ataris, Alexisonfire, Black Tide, Dance Gavin Dance, Escape the Fate, Gallows, Bad Religion, Big D and the Kids Table, Bouncing Souls, Chiodos, Flogging Molly, Lights, NOFX, P.O.S., Shooter Jennings, TAT, The Devil Wears Prada, Thrice, Underoath and Westbound Train.

While specific venues remain unconfirmed, the full routing has been announced, as have some notable changes to the touring festival’s format.
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Atlanta, GA’s Mastodon have made a teaser snippet of their new track “Oblivion” available online over at their newly overhauled website. The track will be on the band’s new album Crack The Skye, which was previously detailed here.

The band released Blood Mountain in 2006.
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The Gaslight Anthem‘s Brian Fallon posted another new solo track. The latest, “Cold Cold Ground,” is available at his MySpace page. The track is a cover of the Tom Waits‘s song from 1987’s Franks Wild Years. That album also featured “Way Down in the Hole,” which was the theme song for The Wire.

The Gaslight Anthem’s 2008 album, The ’59 Sound, was voted the best album of 2008 by Punknews.org readers.
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