Chicago übergroup the Falcon has a show booked, apparently. The band posted the following on MySpace:

We’ll be playing a show in Chicago in May. Crazy, huh? It’s part of a 3-day punk rock festival called the Windy City Sound Clash and it’s going to be at Reggie’s Rock Club on Memorial Day Weekend. It’s gonna be awesome, so come on out. We’ll be playing Saturday, May 23rd, with a bunch of great bands, including our friends the Copyrights and the Sidekicks.

The band recently did a 2nd pressing of Unicornography and will be selling it at their show and via InterPunk.

The Falcon’s drummer/guitarist Neil Hennessey recently formed Noise By Numbers.
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Green Day‘s recently announced vinyl reissues will soon encompass the band’s entire catalogue. The band’s first two albums, 39/Smooth, and Kerplunk are due out March 24, 2009 and will be followed by Dookie on April 18, 2009. The remaining albums will be released chronologically throughout 2009.

Insomniac is due out May 12, 2009. Nimrod and is due out June 16, 2009. Warning and is due out July 14, 2009. International Superhits and is due out August 11, 2009. Shenanigans and is due out September 15, 2009. American Idiot and is due out October 13, 2009. Bullet in a Bible and is due out November 10, 2009.

Finally, Reprise will also release a boxed set of Green Day singles culled from the band’s entire career, including those from their alter egos Foxboro Hot Tubs and The Network, as well as B-sides, international tracks, and live tracks, on July 21, 2009.
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The Pixies have announced their first new gig since April of 2007. The highly influential act will appear at the UK’s Isle Of Wight Festival on June 14th. They’ll be sharing the stage with headliner Neil Young. There are no further dates confirmed yet, but Billboard reports that other European festival dates are expected for this year.

The Pixies reunited in 2004, following 11 years apart. The group played shows worldwide until 2007. Frontman Frank Black and his wife Violet Clark are releasing an album together this April on the Cooking Vinyl label under the name Grand Duchy.
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Social Distortion has announced three tour dates in Germany with the Gaslight Anthem and the Black Sheep. Mike Ness and company will be the region for their previously announced European festival appearances this summer.
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Burlington, Ontario’s Silverstein have posted a clip of their new song “Born Dead” on their MySpace page. The track features former Comeback Kid vocalist Scott Wade. You can preview the track at the band’s MySpace page.

The track appears on the band’s upcoming album A Shipwreck in the Sand, due out March 31th. It’s the follow-up to 2007’s Arrivals & Departures.
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Buffalo, New York’s Blowtops have announced their final two shows. On April 16th the band will play the Stork Club in Oakland, CA. This will be followed by an appearance at this year’s Pain in The Big Neck Fest at the end of May.

Pain In The Big Neck, thrown by garage punk label Big Neck Records, will take place from May 28th through the 30th at Mohawk Place in Buffalo, NY. The fest will also feature a reunion of the Baseball Furies. Other bands playing include Red Red Red, Tom Potters’ new band Chrome Spiders, Homostupids, Brown Sugar, Rational Animals, Burndowns, Hollywood, Electricutions, Minus 9 (featuring Andy from Mhz and Flying Bomb Record), AV Murder (Jimmy Hollywood from Tyrades, Furies and White Savage), Terrible Twos, and Miss Alex White‘s new band White Mystery.
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Montreal’s Bad Flirt is currently on the road touring in support of their album Virgin Talk. The band will play shows throughout the US and Canada until mid April.
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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…

Dan Schafer of Screeching Weasel, the Riverdales and the Methadones has joined Neil Hennessy of the Lawrence Arms, the Falcon and the Smoking Popes has formed Noise By Numbers. This week also saw the debut of The Dead Weather, featuring Jack White of the White Stripes and the Raconteurs. Alison Mosshart of the Kills and Discount, Raconteurs bassist Jack Lawrence and Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Dean Fertita. The comic series Satanika by Misfits frontman Glenn Danzig is being adapted into a film by director Thomas Mignone. Radiohead, Billy Bragg and others have come out strongly against the relationship between their record labels and video site YouTube. At a recent gig at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, Anti-Flag frontman Justin Sane broke his collar bone after stage diving into the crowd. The band had to cancel their tour due to the injury. This week saw another unauthorized use of Minor Threat‘s imagery. The band’s logo from Out of Step apperned on a shirt at retailer Forever 21.

Polar Bear Club are set to begin recording their Bridge 9 debut with producer Matt Bayles. The Atticus IV compilation has been announced and will feature bands like Thursday, Unearth, and Cancer Bats. The John Roecker directed Green Day documentary, Heart Like a Hand Grenade, is set to premiere in Los Angeles on March 25th. There were plenty of tours announced this week. Shoegaze stars My Bloody Valentine are headed to the US. The Alkaline Trio and Saves The Day are hitting the road together. Against Me! and Off With Their Heads have a US tour in the works as well. Sing It Loud is heading out on the “Guys Guys Guys” tour with the Friday Night Boys, the Morning Light, Artist vs Poet and the Summer Set. Russian Circles, Sweet Cobra and Lichens will also tour. Sick Of It All are headed to Europe for a festival tour. Brand New will also be in the region touring the UK. The Bamboozle festival has added more bands including Young Love, Haste The Day, Patent Pending, Rookie of the Year, the Sounds and This Providence. This week also saw the debut of New Found Glory‘s video for “Listen To Your Friends.”

This week we said goodbye to Code Of Honor‘s Johnithin Christ (1958-2009).

Punknews.org is proud to present a new feature from Mike Hale (Gunmoll, In The Red). Having packed up his belongings, moved out of his apartment, and committed himself to living as a touring musician, Mike will have some tales to tell. Check out Episode 1 and Episode 2 and new this week Episode 3 of For Those Still Standing.

Our Video of the Week featured footage of the Menzingers performing their new song “They Speak of My Drinking But Never of My Thirst.” Remember to keep hammering on the Punknews.org 5.0 Beta. Let’s work the kinks out now and ensure your best future Org experience (That sounds dirty doesn’t it?). As always we brought you new Streaming Music including So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Coheed and Cambria (Box set), Kylesa, NOFX (DVD), Sum 41 and Ultimate Power Duo with tours kicking off from Gaslight Anthem / Heartless Bastards / Good Old War (Europe, US, Canada), the Thermals (US), the Weakerthans / the Constantines on the Rolling Tundra Revue (Canada), Zolof The Rock and Roll Destroyer / Pink Spiders (USA), Have Heart / Polar Bear Club (USA), and Silverstein / Norma Jean / Bless The Fall / Before Their Eyes (USA).
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