The recently reunited Faith No More have scheduled a number of shows to kick off in Europe in May, which includes stops in the UK, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Finland, Norway and Sweden. This tour mark the band’s first live performance together in eleven years.

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My Chemical Romance, Nine Inch Nails, Paramore, Elvis Costello, Gogol Bordello and other have been confirmed for this year’s Summer Sonic Festival. Testival takes place in Tokyo and Osaka between August 7 and 9.

Other notable bands include Boys Like Girls, Cancer Bats, CSS, Girl Talk, Enter Shikari, Klaxons, Mando Diao, Mastadon, Mew, Mogwai, , Saosin, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, The Flaming Lips, The Specials, Aphex Twin, Mute Math, The Vaselines and others.

Check out the full lineup here.
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Toronto-based punk act The Video Dead have announced a new full length for the summer. The band will be releasing Damn Disco, their first new album since 2006’s Brotherhood of the Dead, this summer. The album was titled by legendary Canadian comedian Eugene Levy.

Along with the new release, the band is promising free rarities compilation titled A Face For Radio But Not The Songs. The record will feature old demos, studio session and reissue rare material via Juice Box Recordings.

In other VIdeo Dead news, the demo version of “Cry Me A Rivers Cuomo” will be a part of the upcoming soundtrack for the Jeff Beckman ( Haymaker, Left For Dead) directed Rabidog Films production Vs. The Dead. The film is slated for a summer release.
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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 community talking this week…

This week we celebrated Record Store Day! We had our firend Stevo from 1-2-3-4 Go! Records give us his thoughts on the event, which is now in its second year. Alternative Press spoke with a number of bands about their favourite stores, including the Lawrence Arms, Bouncing Souls, and Dillinger Four. Green Day unveiled Know Your Enemy, the first single from 21st Century Breakdown, as well as the lyrics and track listing for the full album. The band will celebrate the release with a club show at the Bowery Ballroom on May 18th. NOFX posted a new song from Coaster. “Creeping Out Sara” tells the story of Fat Mike meeting one Sara Quinn from Tegan and Sara backstage at a festival in Germany. iTunes’ recent price increases went under the microscope recently, with Billboard reporting a decrease in sales but an increase in revenue for higher priced tracks.

The Grammy Museum has announced plans for a premiere screening of The Warped Tour documentary. The event will feature a discussion with tour head Kevin Lyman, director Jonathan Rach, and members of Fishbone as well as a live performance by the Phenomenauts. Against Me! has plans to has reissue their first seven-inch via Sabot Productions. This summer Dillinger Four will tour throughout the Midwest beginning on June 4th. The upcoming Chaos In Tejas festival will feature bands like Amebix, Cro-Mags, Cock Sparrer, the Business, Propagandhi, the Thermals, Career Suicide and Brutal Knights among others. This week saw a few interesting interviews come to life. Asian Man Records impresario Mike Park spoke about the recent Lawrence Arms represses and more upcoming projects. Mighty Mighty Bosstones singer Dicky Barrett also spoke with Adam Corolla.

Punknews.org is proud to continue publishing road journals 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 has some tales to tell. Check out Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and now Episode 8 of For Those Still Standing. Our Dispatches series of band tour blogs featured Joey Cape, Jon Snodgrass and Chad Rex (Episode 3), Comeback Kid (Episode 1, Episode 2).

This week we spoke with Gregg Gillis, best known to the music world under his stage name Girl Talk (interview). Our Video of the Week featured a look at post-hardcore act Make Do and Mend. As always we brought you new Streaming Music including Minneapolis, MN based Photo Finish Records act A Verse Unsung, Cincinnati, OH’s Pomegranates, the new full length from Kensington, CT’s My Heart to Joy, Hotel Bible from Toronto’s Junior Battles, and Doylestown, PA’s War Pigs. So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Earth Crisis, the Breeders, and Westbound Train with tours kicking off from Shot Baker / Serf Combat (UK), Franz Nicolay / Moneybrother (US), Outbreak / Smartbomb (UK), the Specials (UK), Russian Circles / Sweet Cobra / Lichens (US), Joe Lally / Gory Tellers (US / Canada), Mad Sin (US), the HorrorPops (US), NOFX (UK), Shook Ones / Red Tape Parade (UK).
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The vinyl fiends at Vinyl Vlog have posted Episode 9, featuring an interview with Asian Man Records impresario Mike Park. They talk about current Lawrence Arms represses, Why Mike has started repressing records in color, what caused him to do repress after repress and some news about Asian Man Calendars.

Check it out here: Vinyl Vlog Season 1, Episode 9: Mike Park or you can see it below .
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Happy Record Store Day! Go out and grab some sweet vinyl and music from all your favorite bands. Tons of bands have special things planned today, including store appearances, special releases and more. Check them out here and then get outside. It’s beautiful out there. 

We asked good friend, label honcho and record store owner Stevo from 1-2-3-4 Go! Records to give us his thoughts on this year’s Second Annual Record Store Day. He reminds us why and how record stores aren’t dead, how the internet hasn’t killed them and how some major labels still "don’t get it."

Check it out below and check the Punknews Twitter for some pictures of some stuff we grabbed today. Make sure you send us a reply with pictures of what you got too.

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Comeback Kid are out on tour in Europe and have sent us in some notes from the road. The band will also appear at Groezrock.

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

Their other episodes are here: Comeback Kid (Episode 1), Comeback Kid (Episode 2).

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Outbreak have posted a new track, “(Work)ing Dead,” The song comes from their band’s forthcoming 7″ single/digital download entitled Work To Death which is set for release on June 9th. The single predates a forthcoming full length.

Vocalist Ryan O’Connor, who also co-owns Think Fast! Records had this to say:

It’s been a couple years since we released anything new, so we’re excited to finally have something for everyone to hear. Basically we’ve been working on a new album, and in the meantime decided to put out a couple of the songs on vinyl. We wanted to get something new out there soon, and rather than wait for the entire process of the album, we figured it would make sense to do something sooner and closer to home.

Check out the song on their myspace page.
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Brand New has contributed their song, “Welcome to Bangkok,” to a new PSA from Greenpeace. The ad targets Kimberly-Clark and their Kleenex™ product for it’s impact on forests. The clip notes that Kimberly-Clark doesn’t use recycled content in their consumer paper products including Kleenex™

You can find more information on the Greenpeace campaign here.
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