Green Day spoke with The USA Today about their forthcoming album. Regarding the album, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong explained:

[After American Idiot] we asked how much more ambitious can we be? We could take a sideways step or go back to our roots. We chose to move forward. It’s about reflecting what’s been happening the past three years and putting it to melody with some bold statements.

Though there aren’t too many details, the article named one song, “March of the Dogs,” which apparently criticizes against religious hypocrisy..

The band has also unveiled the artwork for the album.
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The San Diego House of Blues is hosting a benefit show tonight for Unwritten Law singer Scott Russo, who lost his house and posessions in a fire last Thursday. Due to the tough economy, the singer was uninsured:

I am at a complete loss for words. My entire family is now homeless, all our pets are gone and our earthly possessions have been lost. In these tough times, my family had been out of work and the financial burden was too heavy for me to afford fire insurance. The support from my friends has been overwhelming.

The just-announced benefit features Unwritten Law, Jason Mraz, Switchfoot, and Timmy Curran. Tickets ranging from $45 to $100, with all proceeds going to the Russo family. Tickets can be purchased here.
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Welland, Ontario’s Attack in Black and Sackville, New Brunswick’s Shotgun Jimmie will head out for tour together this March. The “Old Magic Red Eye” tour will see the Canadian bands travel through the United States for three weeks, hitting various cities across the east coast and midwest including a multi-day stop at SXSW / Flatstock Festival in Austin, TX. Buffalo, New York print studio Pedal Printing will showcase new artwork on the tour as well. Some posters can be viewed here.

This will be Attack In Black’s first major tour of the US in support of their upcoming third full length. Dine Alone Records will release the album, titled Years (By One Thousand Fingertips), on March 10th. The same day Shotgun Jimmie’s Still Jimmie will see a release on You’ve Changed Records. Attack In Black is following up 2007’s The Curve of the Earth.
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And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead have launched a full album stream of their new album. The record is titled The Century of Self and is due out February 17, 2009.

Check it out here.
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“Carwars” by Funeral Party is available as a free MP3 download at the band’s myspace.

The song appears on their digital release, the Bootleg EP.
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Bomb the Music Industry! are finishing up their first tour of the UK this week and are back for their fifth episode of Dispatches. For the last two dates of the tour, click here.

You can click Read More for the Dispatch.
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Fake Problems are the latest band to join us for a series of Dispatches as they tour with Murder By Death through the United States. The band is also praparing 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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Brooklyn, NY’s A Place To Bury Strangers have posted the video for the song “My Weakness” off their self-titled debut on Pitchfork.tv. The video was directed by Dylan Mulick and was filmed partly in Vasquez Rocks, where Star Trek was frequently filmed.

You can watch the video here.
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Our stream today comes from Tom’s River, NJ-based One Win Choice. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new 7-inch/EP, Define-Redefine. It is the follow up to 2007’s Never Suspend Disbelief.

You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Riverboat Gamblers have posted a new song from their forthcoming full-length. Underneath The Owl is set to be released on March 10, 2009 and will follow up 2006’s To the Confusion of Our Enemies.

Check out “Victory Lap” at the band’s myspace page.
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Propagandhi is offering two songs from their forthcoming full length Supporting Caste. In return, they are asking that you provide a donation to one of three charities: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Partners in Health or PETA2.

All donations will go straight to the specific charity (less the fees charged by PayPal). The songs in question are “Supporting Caste” and “Human(e) Meat”.

Go donate here.
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Green Day have announced that their 8th studio album is to be titled “21st Century Breakdown” and is set for release in May. The album will be the band’s first under the Green Day monkier since 2004’s critically acclaimed American Idiot.

The album can be pre-ordered here.
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Many, many, many of you wrote in with the news that Blink-182 is reunited. The band made this statement:

This past week there’ve been a lot of questions about the current status of the band, and we wanted you to hear it straight from us. To put it simply, We’re back. We mean, really back. Picking up where we left off and then some. In the studio writing and recording a new album. Preparing to tour the world yet again. Friendships reformed. 17 years deep in our legacy.

The band split up after 2003’s Blink 182.
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