Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly sat down with Marvel to discuss how the company’s comic books influenced his songwriting, and his favorite comics/artists and more:

The thing that I love about a comic book is there’s a storyline going, there’s the thoughts going, there’s the narrator, there’s music playing on the street, there’s all these different voices going on at any one given time in a comic book-I think that’s a lot of the way the narrative is in Thursday, you know what I mean? It’s like we never write a song about religion or whatever. It’s about one person talking to another person and having a thought about religion while there’s a war going on TV.

Check out the interview here.
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Our stream today comes from Moncton, New Brunswick’s Varsity Weirdos. The band recently released their second 7″ for It’s Alive Records, four Ramones inspired nuggets to hold fans over for their forthcoming full length this summer.

You can stream High School Teen Party in its entirety at the band’s Punknews.org Profile
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MC Lars has posted a new song from his forthcoming album. The record is titled This Gigantic Robot Kills and is due out February 24, 2009. The song is a retelling of Shakespeake’s Hamlet backed by Therapy?’s “Screamager.”

Stream or download the song here.
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Bad Religion have scheduled a number of upcoming shows before they join this year’s Warped Tour.

The band is currently writing their follow-up to New Maps of Hell although bassist Jay Bentley noted last December that the band may not have a chance to record it until around the end of 2009, with 2010 release date expected. 2010 will also mark the 30th anniversary of Bad Religion’s formation, which occured in 1980.

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Dropkick Murphys have released the latest video from their 2007 album, The Meanest of Times.

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The Bamboozle spinoff Hoodwink have announced much of the line up for the 2009 edition of the festival. The event features bands performing cover sets of bands that influenced them. For example, Bayside will be tackling NOFX, New Found Glory will be covering Green Day, Set Your Goals will cover Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, Nirvana), We the Kings will cover Jimmy Eat World and others.

You can find more details and lineups here.
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Morris Plains, NJ’s Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman recently spoke to Cameron Edney of Australia’s Inside Out magazine about the band’s plans for a new album. He commented:

Unfortunately, there’s absolutely no working titles; Greg might have some floating around but we’re still in the process of me working on the songs by myself and getting together a lot of little demos, which I haven’t even presented to the guys yet! As for the direction… so far it’s really chaotic, it’s really messed up and weird. Let’s put it this way… I’ve gotten many migraines making this stuff [laughs] I’ve turned all the lights off and put my head into the pillow a few times [laughs].

The band released Ire Works in 2007. You can read the rest of the interview here.
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Sasquatch Music Festival has announced the 2009 lineup. Among the bands scheduled to perform are Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Decemberists, Animal Collective, Gaslight Anthem, King Khan and the Shrines, Jane’s Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, TV On The Radio, Of Montreal, The Walkmen, John Vanderslice, Fences, Gogol Bordello, Explosions In the Sky, Monotonix and Bishop Allen.

Check out the day-by-day lineup here.
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Hopeless Records has announced the release of a new EP from Phoenix, AZ’s Anarbor. The band’s new seven song EP will be titled Free Your Mind and will arrive on March 10th. The collection was recorded over four weeks in Los Angeles with producer Mike Green (Paramore, Good Charlotte).

Anarbor is currently performing on the 2009 Sub City Take Action Tour with Cute Is What We Aim For, Breathe Carolina, Meg & Dia, and Every Avenue.
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108 entered the studio to begin working on a new full length on February 13th. The band has originally planned a four-song EP, but ended up recording 10 tracks for a new full length.

the album is extremely raw and intense, ala 108’s Threefold Misery album.“

The band released A New Beat from a Dead Heart in 2007.
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Houston, Texas’ O Pioneers!!! Have put their entire new album Neon Creeps that was released on Feb. 10th up for free download through Quote Unquote Records. The CD version will be released by Asian Man Records and the vinyl by Kiss of Death Records. There will also be a limited run on CD in Australia with an alternate cover released by Poison City Records.

You can download the album here.
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As Sirius XM teetered on the point of bankruptcy, the satellite radio firm was saved by iberty Media, who owns DirecTV. Liberty is investing $530 million in loans, $175 million of which is paying off their immediate debts.

The firm is a product of a merger of two satellite radio firms – Sirius and XM – who joined together last March. The firm then began by cutting niche programming and focusing on a more mainstream audience like the controversial replacement of punk radio with an all-AC/DC show.

For more details on the structure of the deal, visit Sirius‘ investor page.
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The Goodnight Anthem has posted a new song titled “Forgetting How To Feel” on their MySpace. The band will be performing on Warped this summer.

Check out the song on their myspace page.
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