After originally suggesting plans for a new EP, Sum 41 has announced that they will be releasing a new full length in 2009:

There was talk about doing an ep and then that turned into other things. Next thing you know we’re sitting here with a whole bunch of songs that we really like. So instead of doing anything else we’ve just decided to go and make a full album. As to when it will come out, I don’t know. I would say it’s safe to say it will be out this year. unless for some reason we need to keep going and it pushes it back further.

The band released Underclass Hero in 2007.
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MxPx has announced the track listing and guests for their upcoming covers album. The record is titled On The Cover II and is due out March 10, 2009.

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Recent Epitaph signing, The Color of Violence, have posted their cover of the Pixies classic, “Rock Music.” The original song come from 1990’s Bossanova.

Color of Violence includes From First to Last guitarist Travis Richter and drummer Derek Bloom on vocals and instruments respectively, though they have listed themselves under pseudonyms. Their record, Youthanize, is due out April 7, 2009.

Check out “Rock Music” here.
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Gaslight Anthem were robbed and forced to cancel a show on their European tour. They explained:

So, we were robbed the night after our Gothenburg show at a local hotel. Gunnar and I woke up to 3 windows smashed out and the back door shredded from prying. Luckily, nothing very valuable was taken, but, we had to get reports from Swedish police (slow as fuck), and missed our ferry by MINUTES! We literally raced down the highways, freezing cold, for 5 hours and parked to watch it pull away.

We’re super bummed. We were all really looking forward to this show and pissed that this happened. We’re sincerely sorry this happened. But, I guess this one was out of our reach. We’ll keep you posted on any happening/reschedules involved with the show.

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Decades has posted the demo of f new song titled “Shelter from the Swarm” online. The track will be featured on the bands forthcoming 7″ which should be finished early this summer.

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Youth Group have posted a song and set a release date from the US release of their forthcoming album. The record is titled The Night Is Ours and is due out April 7, 2009. It is the follow up to Casino Twilight Dogs which was released on Anti- Records in 2006.

Check out the song on their myspace page.
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The Human Abstract, Vanna, Iwrestledabear once and Oh, Sleeper will be touring together.

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Japan’s FACT have unveiled plans to release their upcoming full length via Vagrant Records/Maximum on April 14, 2009. The 16-track set was recorded with producer Michael “Elvis” Baskette (Incubus, Story of the Year) and was mixed by Chris Lord Alge (Green Day, My Chemical Romance).

The band will be embarking on a US tour beginning March 14th. A song from the album and the tour dates can be found on their myspace page.
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In The Red have posted another song from their upcoming album. The record is titled Volume 2 and is due out March 31, 2009.

Check out “Overlooked” on their myspace page.
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Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I’m Adam White and I’ll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here’s what got the strange, slow, old people in the community talking…

Our attention turned to the mainstream pop punk world this week. The long coming reunion of Blink-182 is most certainly happening. The band is planning a summer album and will doubtlessly be back on the road soon. Tom Delonge has also confirmed that his post-Blink act Angels and Airwaves will continue as well. Green Day broke the news that their new record would be titled 21st Century Breakdown. The band unveiled the art and began discussing the record, making several bold statements to Rolling Stone on the album’s ambitious direction. Outside the spotlight but no less newsworthy `round here, Punknews favourites Teenage Bottlerocket announced that they had signed to Fat Wreck.

This week also the Lower Class Brats comment on a shooting at a recent show in San Antonio, TX. Propagandhi has offered two advance songs from their new record in exchange for charitable donations. Revelaton Records is working on an anniversary compilation featurin bands like Sick of It All, Terror, Ignite, and Death By Stereo. Mirroring a recent April Fools joke we made, the Gaslight Anthem will be opening for their hero Bruce Springsteen at the UK’s Hard Rock Calling 2009. Pennywise and Pepper will also hit the road together. This busy week also saw the breakup of Verse, the pending bankruptcy of Sirius XM satellite radio, and our buddy Fat Mike of NOFX visit Pancake Mountain.

Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Fake Problems (Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3), Bomb The Music Industry (Episode 5, Episode 6), and the Bouncing Souls (Episode 1). This week we spoke with Chris Hannah of Propagandhi (interview). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including the new full length from Chris Wollard and The Ship Thieves (Chris of course having played in Hot Water Music and the Draft), and the new EP from Tom’s River, NJ-based One Win Choice. So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, the Appleseed Cast, Chris Wollard and The Ship Thieves, Fake Problems, Morrissey, and Thursday with tours kicking off from Dropkick Murphys / H2O (US), These Arms Are Snakes (US), and Pennywise (US).
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Sonic Youth have detailed their next full length. The record is titled The Eternal and is due out June 9, 2009. It is the follow-up to Rather Ripped which was released in 2006.

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Impose Records has announced the digital release of LiveFastDie‘s entire digital catalog, including their debut LP Bandana Thrash Record and their nine 7″ singles, Dawn Of The VHS: The Singles 2005-2007.

The set is due out digitally on March 11th. Check out some music from the band on their myspace page.
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Dave Garwacke (If You Make It, Pink Couch Sessions, Halo Fauna), Jeff Rosenstock (Bomb the Music Industry!, Kudrow, Quote Unquote Records) and Pat Schramm (Bridge and Tunnel, Latterman) have recently started a new design collective called Twin Cuts. The three freelance designers are aiming to bring cheap and unique designs to fellow musicians and artists as well as plan to curate events that merge art shows with punk rock shows.

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