Crime in Stereo, Fireworks and Title Fight will be touring together in June.

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Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and The Nightwatchman has joined up with controversial hip hop artist, Boots Riley of The Coup to form Street Sweeper Social Club. “It’s revolutionary party jams,” said Morello of Street Sweeper Social Club. “It’s got huge steamroller riffs combined with depth, charge, funk, while Boots unloads clip after clip of incendiary rhymes rich with satire and venom.”

The record is due out June 16, 2009 and the duo will be supporting the record on the forthcoming tour headlined by Nine Inch Nails and Jane’s Addiction. You can check out two songs from the album on their myspace page.
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Revelation has posted a new, freely downloable sampler featuring tracks from recent releases through the label and distro. Participating bands include: Blackened, Down To Nothing, Lewd Acts, Make Do And Mend, Mouthpiece, Narrows, Pulling Teeth, The Wonder Years, Alarmed, Anchor, Bishop, Detournement, Into It. Over It., Monument To Thieves, My Turn To Win, Reign Supreme, Seven Generations, The Year Ends In Arson, Time For Change and Underneath The Gun.

Download the whole thing here.
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Today is Earth Day, and while sites around the web will be posting tips, and events that are taking place. If you have three minutes to spare, take three minutes to watch this short video narrated by one of my heroes.

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Recent Epitaph Records signing, Settle have posted some more new music from their upcoming album. The record is titled At Home We Are Tourists and is due out May 19, 2009. The band promises influences like Elvis Costello to the Liars and was produced by Adam Lasus (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Army Navy, Yo La Tengo) and mixed by Ken Andrews (Jimmy Eat World, Pete Yorn, BRMC)

Check out the song on their Epitaph Profile.
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AOL Spinner currently has a full album stream of Chamberlain‘s album, Fate’s Got a Driver. The album was just released as a deluxe LP on Tuesday.

The LP is currently available for order on limited (to 500 copies) white vinyl and includes rare bonus tracks not included on the original recording or album stream.
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Bloomington, IN’s Good Luck will be heading out on tour to support their debut album, Into Lake Griffy, which was self-relased last year, and recently released on vinyl through No Idea.

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The Serious Geniuses are calling it quits. The band made no statement except to announce their final show at Great Scott in Boston, MA on June 4th, 2009.

The band released You Can Steal the Riffs, But You Can’t Steal the Talent in 2008.
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Comeback Kid are out on tour in Europe and have sent us in some notes from the road. Today’s their last dispatch – we’ve enjoyed having them and hope they get back here safely!

They released Broadcasting… in 2007 and Through The Noise last October.

Their other episodes are here: Episode 1, Episode 2 Episode 3, Episode 4.

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The Futon Critic reports that Green Day will be appearing on Saturday Night Live on May 16th.

The event will be their third appearance on the late night variety show and they will be joined by host Will Ferrell.

(The photo is Green Day with Roseanne from their first appearance in 1994. )
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Electric Owls, the new project from Andy Herod of The Comas have posted a free download of the first single from their Vagrant Records debut. The record is titled Ain’t Too Bright and is due out May 5, 2009.

Download “Magic Show” via zShare.
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Epitaph act Sing It Loud have posted the new video from their debut for the label.

Check out the video here.
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Murder By Death and Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls will be collaborating for MBD’s third 7-inch in their ongoing series. The release is on 7-inch vinyl with cover design by comic book artist Ryan Browne and features the two acts trading covers with one another. Side One showcases Murder by Death’s take on Amanda’s “Another Year”, and Side Two is Amanda’s cover of “Three Men Hanging” (with Zoë Keating on cello and Lyndon Chester on violin).

This split is limited to 1,000 copies and is available for pre-order via the band. After the record ships in May, everyone who purchased a 7″ will be provided with a digital download code and digital copies can be found on their bandcamp page.
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