Red Scare has posted an update on some of their bands including Teenage Bottlerocket who just signed to Fat Wreck Chords:

Teenage Bottlerocket has joined the ranks of Fat Wreck Chords for their next full length! It’s been a life-long dream for those guys to be involved with a label like Fat, and it’s been a life-long dream of mine to get rich off a band’s back catalog,

In other good news, Cobra Skulls “Draw Muhammad” EP and Druglords of the Avenues “Sing Songs” are now available on iTunes and the like. Look for these releases to be available on CD through Interpunk and your favorite mom and pop stores by next week.

The Menzingers have titled their upcoming EP on Red Scare “Hold On, Dodge”. That’ll be out in May and those guys will join Broadway Calls on a full U.S. tour this Spring.

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Streetlight Manifesto has posted an update regarding their previously announced project to release 99 new songs.

Regarding the 99 Songs of Revolution Project: we’re wrapping up recording and mixing in the next few weeks. We’ll have a track list up soon, and more info on its release is on the way. It will definitely be in stores (or somehow available for pirating) by the time Warped rolls around. Scouts honor.

Also, the band announced that they will be making their first TV appearance within the coming weeks.

We will be making our TV debut on FOX sometime in the next few weeks. We recently taped a few songs at the Fearless TV studios for their show. I’m pretty sure it was the first time we ever played without an audience in front of us, but worry not, lyrics were forgotten and stuff was knocked over, just like at a real life Streetlight show. Then we spent a few minutes doing an awkward on camera interview that probably seemed hilarious at the time but will come across as, well, awkward when it airs. Good times. We’ll keep you posted on when it will air so our parents can Tivo it and show everyone come the ’09 holiday season.

The band has also announced European shows to precede the Warped Tour.
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Side One Dummy Records has announced that the Gaslight Anthem will be another participant in record store day, a celebration of independent record stores. According to SideoneDummy’s website:

[The band] will be releasing a limited edition 10″ for this year’s Record Store Day (4/18/2009). The release is titled “Live at Park Ave.” and, as the name hints at, features a live recording of the band’s performance at Park Avenue CDs this past fall, when they were passing through Orlando, FL. T

“Live at Park Ave.” features 6 songs that The Gaslight Anthem rarely plays live (“Film Noir”, “Miles Davis & the Cool”, “Blue Jeans and White T-Shirts”, “The Navesink Banks”, “Here’s Looking at You, Kid” and a cover of “Once Upon a Time”, originally written by Robert Bradley’s Blackwater Surprise).

Other participating acts include The Thermals and Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, Matador Records and many others. Participating stores can be found here.
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Off with Their Heads have released the new video from their 2008 album, From The Bottom. The record was ranked the sixth best of 2008 by Punknews.org readers.

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Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance recently sat down with The Graphic Novel Reporter to talk about his popular comic book, The Umbrella Academy, and his even more popular band. The comic itself picked up an Eisner Award last year, which Way describes as “better than a Grammy.”

Way discusses his involvement with the forthcoming film Watchmen and why they covered Bob Dylan for the soundtrack:

For those that aren’t aware, Bob Dylan plays a huge part in Alan Moore’s Watchmen. It’s not just Dylan; there are all kinds of quotes of lyrics, from Nat King Cole to Jimi Hendrix. There is all kinds of music in there, but Dylan is one of the most important artists that Alan Moore quotes in that series. So Zack wanted to bookend the film by having it open with a Dylan song and end with a Dylan song, and he wanted those feelings to be very different. So he wanted a modern band to cover a second Dylan song that he could use at the end of the film.

Check out the interview here.
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Rolling Stone Magazine scored an exclusive first look at Green Day‘s forthcoming album. The record is titled 21st Century Breakdown and is due out May 20, 2009. They had this to say:

The 16-track album is broken into three acts – Heroes and Cons, Charlatans and Saints, and Horseshoes and Handgrenades. The title track quickly kicks into a familiar Green Day three-chord blast, but morphs into multiple movements like some of the more rock-opera-heavy numbers on American Idiot.

Check out the entire preview here.
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Naples, FL’s Fake Problems have posted a stream of their new full length. Their new album It’s Great to Be Alive, is due out February 17, 2009 through Side One Dummy Records.

Check it out on their myspace page.

The group previously announced a tour with Murder By Death.
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Thursday have launched a stream of their new full length debut for Epitaph Records. The record is titled Common Existence and is due out February 17, 2009. It is their first new studio album since 2006’s A City by the Light Divided.

Check out the album on their myspace page.
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Express, the entertainment magazine owned by the Washington Post, has an extensive interview with Kevin Seconds in their latest issue. Along with looking back at Kevin’s history in 7 Seconds, the article looks at his solo career and motivations which have kept him performing for the past decades.

Check it out here..
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Big Business have announced details for their forthcoming album. The record is titled Mind The Drift and is due out March 31, 2009. It is the follow-up to Here Come the Waterworks which was released in 2007.

Download “Gold and Final” here.

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Brainworms have announced their upcoming album, Swear To Me. The album includes 10 tracks recorded by Steve Roach(Pink Razors, Off Minor , Armalite,ect.), The record will also includes a digital download of the entire album. They released the Split Record(ing) [7 inch] split with Tubers last year.

You can check out the first track off of Swear to Me on Brainworms Myspace here and here
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Fake Problems continue to provide us with a series of Dispatches as they tour with Murder By Death through the United States. The band is also preparing to release their new album It’s Great to be Alive on February 17 through Side One Dummy Records. The video for “The Dream Team,” the album’s first single can be viewed here.

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After the news that Blink-182 was reunited, Tom Delonge has confirmed that his post-Blink project Angels and Airwaves will nonetheless continue:

Angels and Airwaves is never going to go away. Don’t worry, just a little something different for a bit… Stay tuned …. AVA has a lot coming.

Angels and Airwaves released I-Empire in 2007.
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