Paper + Plastick have announced details for Chimborazo, the upcoming release from Foundation, the solo project of Rob Huddleston (Ann Beretta, Inquisition). Chimborazo will be available only on vinyl and digital download formats. The label’s website is currently offering a presale for the record , with three alternate colors of the vinyl. It will be available in Black, Blue, Green and Splatter vinyl, with a die cut cover and artwork by Richard “Horsebites” Minino. The webstore will offer two presale packages; the first includes a copy of the record with a commemorative Foundation T-shirt. The second includes the record, shirt, and a limited edition Foundation print that comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by both Rob Huddleston and Horsebites.

The release hits stores March 24th, and a record release show with support from Dave Hause (The Loved Ones) and Brett Adams (The Riot Before) is planned for Friday, March 27th at the Canal Club in Richmond, VA. . Foundation’s last full-length was 2002’s Foundation. You can check out the artwork and tracklist below by clicking Read More.
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Ted Leo And The Pharmacists and Titus Andronicus will be touring together in June.

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Counting Crows are the latest major act to go label-free. Frontman Adam Duritz explained:

Eighteen years ago, when Counting Crows signed our first record contract, we were an unknown band signed to DGC, the cool indie-flavored boutique label of Geffen Records. Our label mates were Sonic Youth, The Posies, Nirvana, The Sundays, Maria McKee and That Dog, to name a few. Bands knew each other, played on each other’s records, toured together… It was a dream environment to be a musician, even for that time.

But these days, it’s a different world for a band than it is for a label. A lot of people think it’s a tough time to be a band but we don’t feel that way. The internet opens a world of limitless possibility, where the only boundaries are the boundaries of your own imagination. We want a chance to push those boundaries back as far as we can. Unfortunately, the directions we want to go and the opportunities we want to pursue are often things that our label is simply not allowed to do.

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Pennywise has been added to the recently announced West Coast Riot 2009. The band will be performing only this European show and joins a bill which feaures Social Distortion, Alkaline Trio, Bouncing Souls, The Living End, Parkway Drive, Sick Of It All and Raised Fist.

The event takes place in Gothenburg on June 25th. You can find more details on the event website here.
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The Decemberists have opted to release their new full length a week early in digital and vinyl formats. The record is titled Hazards of Love and is due out in retail on March 24, 2009. The deluxe 180-gram gatefold vinyl is out through select indie retailers.

You can find the digital album here.
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Former Sunny Day Real Estate vocalist Jeremy Enigk has announced his next solo album. The record is titled OK Bear and is due out May 12, 2009. It is the follow-up to The Missing Link which was released in 2007.

Enigk promises as “relatively stripped-down rock aesthetic” on the record. You can find the first single from the album, “Mind Idea,” via Pitchfork.
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The new band featuring members of Rise Against, Ignite, Death By Stereo and Reach The Sky have titled their new album and posted some more new music. Dubbed Nations Afire, the band includes by Chris Chasse – who also formed Last of the Believers – and Brett Rasmussen (Ignite), Todd Hennig (ex-Death By Stereo), Nik Hill (Ignite) and vocalist Steve Ludwig.

According to their Myspace page, their first show will be Bamboozle Left (California) followed shortly by the Groezrock Festival in Belgium, and a European tour. The band is currently finishing the song writing process and hitting the studio this month. They plan on releasing an album in March/April.

The record is titled The Uprising and you can find two more songs on their myspace page.
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Chicago’s The Vindictives have announced plans to release a new full length. The record is titled Songs the Bug Doctor Wrote and is due out April 22, 2009.

You can find some music on their label’s myspace page.
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Artist/designers Heather Gabel and Richard “Horsebites” Minino recently joined forces to release a limited edition silkscreened poster, titled “Snake Harmer” It measures 19″ x 25″ so that it can be cut down to the standard 18″ x 24″ traditional poster size and is printed on heavy Duo-tone blue paper with three-color silkscreen.

Only 100 of these were made, and the artists have graciously offered us 2 of them to give away to Punknews faithful. Want one? You can enter below by clicking ,Read More.
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Cheap Girls sent us some updates from the road. The band was just out with Buffalo’s the Failures Union and are about to roll out with Chillerton.

The band released Find Me a Drink Home on Quote Unquote Records in 2008 and will see it remastered in 2009. They’ll also be spending this summer on Warped Tour.

Read More for today’s installment – expect one every day for the rest of the week.

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Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails recently wrote a lengthy post looking at the merger between TicketMaster and LiveNation . Live Nation is a significant concert promoter and Ticket Master remains the dominant ticketing service. Trent explained:

We arrive at the conclusion outdoor amphitheaters are the right venue for this outing, for a variety of reasons we’ve throughly considered*. In the past, NIN would sell the shows in each market to local promoters, who then “buy” the show from us to sell to you. Live Nation happens to own all the amphitheaters and bought most of the local promoters – so if you want to play those venues, you’re being promoted by Live Nation. Live Nation has had an exclusive deal with TicketMaster that has just expired, so Live Nation launched their own ticketing service. Most of the dates on this tour are through Live Nation, some are through TicketMaster – this is determined by the promoter (Live Nation), not us.

My guess as to what will eventually happen if / when Live Nation and TicketMaster merges is that they’ll move to an auction or market-based pricing scheme – which will simply mean it will cost a lot more to get a good seat for a hot show. They will simply BECOME the scalper, eliminating them from the mix.

Check out the posting here.
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